Patents by Inventor Robert A. Charles

Robert A. Charles has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11884899
    Abstract: A method of laundering a soiled stitchbonded nonwoven towel, to provide hygienically-clean, odor-free towels having non-durable soil release polymer agents on the fabrics and stitching is described. The method has a step of washing soiled stitchbonded nonwoven towels in a first aqueous wash solution formed from a first wash composition comprising a surfactant, a builder, an alkalinity source, and a soil release polymer, at a first alkaline pH, and at a first wash temperature sufficient to remove soil on the towels without redeposition of the soil back onto the towels or into the laundry machine once the residual wash solution is drained. The method also has a step of treating the washed towels in a treatment solution formed from a post-wash composition comprising a soil release polymer agent, at a temperature and pH sufficient to aid in exhausting soil release polymer from the treatment solution and onto the towels or fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AMTEX INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Robert Charles Busch, Maxwell James Lee
  • Patent number: 11883853
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods of integrated on-demand labeling of item containers. In particular, this disclosure relates systems and methods for automatically creating and using placards to label, track, and organize item containers and items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Robert Charles Moran, Marlon Guy Wells
  • Publication number: 20240026324
    Abstract: The disclosure provides, e.g., compositions, systems, and methods for targeting, editing, modifying, or manipulating a host cell's genome at one or more locations in a DNA sequence in a cell, tissue, or subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Charles Altshuler, Anne Helen Bothmer, Cecilia Giovanna Silvia Cotta-Ramusino, Randi Michelle Kotlar, Ananya Ray, Nathaniel Roquet, Carlos Sanchez, Barrett Ethan Steinberg
  • Publication number: 20240027717
    Abstract: A power and optical fiber interface system includes a housing having an interior. A cable inlet is configured to receive a hybrid cable having an electrical conductor and an optical fiber. An insulation displacement connector (IDC) is situated in the interior of the housing configured to electrically terminate the conductor, and a cable outlet is configured to receive an output cable that is connectable to the IDC and configured to output signals received via the optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Thomas P. HUEGERICH, Wayne M. KACHMAR, Robert Charles FLAIG, Dwight A. BRETZ
  • Patent number: 11882235
    Abstract: A protection circuit for use with an electronic DSL component having a tip connection and a ring connection, the protection circuit including: a first unidirectional transient-voltage-suppression (TVS) diode, having a negative TVS breakdown voltage BDV and diode forward voltage DV clamp, connected between Vcc and the tip connection of the DSL component; a second unidirectional TVS diode, having a diode forward voltage DV, connected between the tip connection of the DSL component and a negative ground clamp node; a third unidirectional TVS diode, having a negative TVS breakdown voltage BDV and diode forward voltage DV clamp, connected between Vcc and the ring connection of the DSL component; and a fourth unidirectional TVS diode, having a diode forward voltage DV, connected between the ring connection of the DSL component and the negative ground clamp node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Christopher John Choulos, Robert Charles Burk, Viswanath Bhagavatula Rao, Andrew Carl Brost
  • Publication number: 20240016154
    Abstract: Surface treatment articles, systems for making/loading surface treatment articles, and methods of making surface treatment articles are described. In embodiments the surface treatment articles are configured to be impregnated or otherwise loaded with a surface treatment liquid that includes a carrier and an active agent. The carrier may be or include water, and the active agent may be or include dissolved ozone, ozone degradation products, and/or ozone reaction products. The surface treatment liquid may contain a threshold concentration of active agent for a residence time that is sufficient for desired cleaning, disinfecting, and/or polishing applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Dean MARCARELLI, Robert WILKINS, Robert A. CHARLES
  • Patent number: 11873195
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generating landing solutions for containers onto landing surfaces using multiple measurement points generated by a measuring device or multiple measuring devices are described. In particular, methods of analyzing the plurality of measurement and from the analysis of the data, determining the location and orientation, in the container handling equipment's frame of reference, of where to place a shipping container onto a landing surface present within the equipment's workspace are described. This location can then be used by the equipment's automation system to automatically place the shipping container onto the landing surface without the need for human input, or relatively little human interaction or input. The systems and methods are applicable to operating in a landside transfer zone as well as outside such zone, and as such would be applicable to install on any container handling equipment which can land containers on equipment from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TMEIC Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Charles Kriener
  • Patent number: 11873110
    Abstract: Hybrid electric propulsion systems includes a combustion engine and an electric motor. The hybrid electric propulsion systems may include or utilize a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a processor associated with the hybrid electric propulsion system, cause the processor to perform a method that includes determining an occurrence of a thrust asymmetry in the hybrid electric propulsion system, and controlling the electric motor to decrease an efficiency of the electric motor for a transient time period sufficient to reduce a torque output of the combustion engine to match an electrical load on the combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Charles Hon, Paul Robert Gemin
  • Patent number: 11865927
    Abstract: Techniques control a utility vehicle. Such techniques involve storing electric power in a lithium battery of the utility vehicle. Such techniques further involve operating a motor controller of the utility vehicle in a normal mode in which the motor controller provides electric power from a lithium battery of the utility vehicle to an electric motor of the utility vehicle to turn one or more ground engaging members of the utility vehicle. Such techniques further involve, after operating the motor controller in the normal operating mode, operating the motor controller in a walkaway mode in which the motor controller configures the electric motor to provide braking torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur James Harvey, Norman R. Padgett, John Ledden, Robert Charles Bradley, Patrick Dwaine Warden
  • Publication number: 20240002822
    Abstract: The disclosure provides, e.g., compositions, systems, and methods for targeting, editing, modifying, or manipulating a host cell's genome at one or more locations in a DNA sequence in a cell, tissue, or subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Charles Altshuler, Anne Helen Bothmer, Cecilia Giovanna Silvia Cotta-Ramusino, Randi Michelle Kotlar, Ananya Ray, Nathaniel Roquet, Carlos Sanchez, Barrett Ethan Steinberg
  • Publication number: 20240000606
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for heating and/or cooling a fluid that includes a temperature forcing device having a bottom plate and a top plate hingedly coupled to the bottom plate. At least one of the bottom plate and the top plate has a recess or other area for receiving at least one flexible fluid holder (e.g., a polymer bag). The bottom plate and/or top plate also has at least one protrusion and/or recession in its interior wall(s) such that a fluid passageway in the flexible fluid holder is defined when the fluid holder is placed between the top and bottom plates, and the plates are closed together. The fluid holder then has a fluid inlet for receiving the fluid to be heated and/or cooled and a fluid outlet for delivering the fluid. The fluid, upon being heated and/or cooled by the temperature forcing device, may then be delivered to a patient or may be delivered to another system component, e.g., for additional heating/cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: John Joseph Landy, III, Alexander Rick, Tristan Dion, Skylar Nesheim, David Dumais, Yeu Wen Tseng, Chuong Vu, Robert Charles Shea
  • Publication number: 20240002886
    Abstract: The disclosure provides, e.g., compositions, systems, and methods for targeting, editing, modifying, or manipulating a host cell's genome at one or more locations in a DNA sequence in a cell, tissue, or subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Charles Altshuler, Anne Helen Bothmer, Cecilia Giovanna Silvia Cotta-Ramusino, Randi Michelle Kotlar, Ananya Ray, Nathaniel Roquet, Carlos Sanchez, Barrett Ethan Steinberg
  • Patent number: 11860423
    Abstract: A system for connecting a fiber optic connector to a fiber optic adapter includes various alternative improvements, including improvements to the shutter, the alignment device, and the adapter in general.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Michael Aaron Kadar-Kallen, Michael Ward Zitsch, Dwight Andrew Bretz, Michael James Ott, Robert Charles Flaig
  • Publication number: 20230416186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid wherein the docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid may be preferentially esterified at the sn-2 position of triacylglycerol, and processes for producing and using the lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine, Xue-Rong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11852449
    Abstract: Bismuth-based firearm projectiles, optionally firearm cartridges containing the same, and methods for forming bismuth-tin-copper alloys or bismuth-nickel alloys and bismuth-based firearm projectiles are disclosed herein. The bismuth-based firearm projectiles include a projectile body comprising a bismuth-tin-copper alloy or bismuth-nickel alloy that forms at least 90 wt % of the projectile body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Federal Cartridge Company
    Inventors: Robert Charles Nichols, Zachary Hugh Smith, Ralph Nauman
  • Publication number: 20230406222
    Abstract: A device holder assembly that includes a body and a housing coupled to the body. A drive assembly is rotatably coupled to the housing. A leg assembly that includes a first leg and a second leg is coupled to the housing. A first rack gear is coupled to the first leg and the drive assembly. A second rack gear is coupled to the second leg and the drive assembly. The drive assembly permits instantaneous movement of the first leg and the second leg. A first finger is rotatably coupled to the first leg and a second finger is coupled to the second leg. The first finger has a first finger outer surface and the second finger has a second finger outer surface that are generally coplanar with the body outer surface when the first finger and the second finger are in a retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rafael Rego, Tuan Quoc Nguyen, Bradley Berner, Michael Arbaugh, Gary Vincent Morales, Robert Charles Shipley
  • Publication number: 20230399928
    Abstract: A downhole electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The downhole ESP assembly comprises a hybrid permanent magnet motor (PMM) comprising a first drive shaft, a stator, and a rotor comprising a first permanent magnet element, a second permanent magnet element, and an induction squirrel cage, wherein the rotor is mechanically coupled to the first drive shaft and disposed within the stator; a seal section having a second drive shaft coupled to the first drive shaft; and a pump assembly having a third drive shaft coupled to the second drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hassan MANSIR, Jeffrey FREY, Robert CHARLES DE LONG, Dezhi ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20230400106
    Abstract: An illustrative valve block includes a plate, a fluid transfer block, and a diaphragm. The plate includes a channel configured to receive a first fluid and a recess connected to the channel. The fluid transfer block includes an inlet connection configured to receive a second fluid and an outlet connection. The fluid transfer block also includes a plurality of valve inlet bores connected to the inlet connection. The plurality of valve inlet bores are distributed along at least part of a first curved shape. The fluid transfer block further includes a plurality of valve outlet bores each fluidly connected to the outlet connection. The plurality of valve outlet bores are distributed along at least part of a second curved shape. The diaphragm is between the pressure plate and the fluid transfer block. The plurality of valve inlet bores and the plurality of valve outlet bores adjoin the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Tosoh Bioscience LLC
    Inventors: Brian A. Harbrecht, Robert Charles Mierendorf, Scott G. Manke
  • Publication number: 20230400029
    Abstract: A downhole electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The downhole ESP assembly comprises a permanent magnet motor (PMM) comprising a first drive shaft, a stator, and a rotor disposed within the stator and comprising a core coupled to the first drive shaft, wherein the core retains a first permanent magnet element within a first magnet pocket defined by the core that extends axially parallel to the first drive shaft and retains a second permanent magnet element within a second magnet pocket defined by the core that extends axially parallel to the first drive shaft; a seal section having a second drive shaft coupled to the first drive shaft; and a pump assembly having a third drive shaft coupled to the second drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hassan MANSIR, Jeffrey FREY, Robert CHARLES DE LONG, Dezhi ZHENG
  • Patent number: D1010091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SOCLEAN, INC.
    Inventors: Kurt Michael Maw, Robert A. Charles