Patents by Inventor Robert A. Paul
Robert A. Paul 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).
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Patent number: 11865243Abstract: A blood treatment system with pressure sensors may be configured to control blood flow to and from the patient and use readings of the pressure sensors to determine a change in a pressure drop across a flow restriction in the blood circuit to estimate a condition of the machine or the patient, or outputting data responsive to the estimation. Further embodiments employ measurement of pressure drop to detect abnormal viscosity or viscosity variations in order to detect possible infection.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NxStage Medical, Inc.Inventors: Mark T. Wyeth, Robert Paul McCarty, Gregory Yantz, James Ian Johnson, Joseph E. Turk, Jr., James M. Brugger, Jeffrey H. Burbank
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Publication number: 20240004836Abstract: Files can be located using a durable and universal file identifier. A content URI includes a file protocol URI specifying a path to a file. The file protocol URI includes a query string specifying properties of the file that can be utilized to locate the file, such as an object ID property specifying a GUID for the file and a volume ID property specifying a GUID for a storage volume storing the file. The content URI can be utilized to locate the file using the file protocol URI and its associated query string even if the file has been moved, renamed, or is accessed on a different computing device. Operations can then be performed using the file, such as resuming a previously performed activity that used the file.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael John NOVAK, Raju JAIN, John Heinrich LUEDERS, Robert Paul ST. PIERRE, Calvin TONINI
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Patent number: 11863645Abstract: A system includes a first computing device client associated with a first user in a community of users operable to send content to publish to a data aggregation server. The data aggregation server is operable to receive the content to publish from the first computing device client, host a first user profile associated with the first user of the first computing device client, the first user profile identifying a targeted recipient in the community of users, and disseminate automatically the content received from the first computing device client to a second computing device client associated with the targeted recipient, without receiving input from the first computing device client explicitly specifying the targeted recipient to whom the content is disseminated.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Seven Networks, LLCInventors: Robert Paul van Gent, Ido Ariel
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Patent number: 11861525Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating access to multiple data stores substantially in real-time are disclosed. The system may include a server coupled to a network, a client device in communication with the server via the network and a plurality of data stores. The server may authenticate access to the data stores and forward information from those stores to the client device. An exemplary authentication method may include receipt of a request for access to data. Information concerning access to that data is stored and associated with an identifier assigned to a client device. If the identifier is found to correspond to the stored information during a future request for access to the store, access to that store is granted.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Seven Networks, LLCInventors: Jay Sutaria, Brian Daniel Gustafson, Robert Paul van Gent, Ruth Lin, David Merriwether, Parvinder Sawhney
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Patent number: 11851900Abstract: A temporary upright post includes rail supports for holding temporary lateral guardrails and a mounting system for mounting to a permanent upright stanchion of a permanent railing system for an elevated surface. The mounting system includes a longitudinal bore in the lower portion of the upright post that removably receives the stanchion with a loose fit, and the mechanical securement tightens the post to the stanchion to secure them together for use and loosens to release the post for installation and removal. Example embodiments also include a support bearing that is repositionable to contact and support the post in an elevated position on the stanchion, up and away from the elevated surface, or to disengage from mechanical interference with the stanchion so the post can be lowered to the use position.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventors: James Croswell Brim, III, Robert Paul Hanes, Jr., Hunter Moore, Brian Keaton, David A. Nance
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Publication number: 20230408830Abstract: A head mounted display assembly is provided. The head mounted display assembly comprises a head supported structural frame to support a display viewable by a user of the assembly, the structural frame including upper and lower surfaces. The assembly comprises a mounting interface on the lower surface of the structural frame, the mounting interface for releasably coupling an accessory device to the assembly. The mounting interface comprises a magnetic portion for attracting an opposing magnetic portion of the accessory device upon alignment of the accessory device with the mounting interface, and for repelling the magnetic portion of the accessory device upon misalignment of the accessory device with the mounting interface, and a communication interface for communicating data with the accessory device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Mark Allen Lessman, Joseph Nouri, Owen Thomas Richard
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Publication number: 20230408809Abstract: A wearable apparatus for sensing movement of a wearer's body is disclosed. The wearable apparatus comprises a flexible substrate for conforming about the wearer's body, and a capacitive sensor attached to the flexible substrate, the capacitive sensor comprising a transmitter electrode and a receiver electrode arranged in opposition on opposite sides of the flexible substrate, the transmitter electrode being arranged to capacitively couple to the receiver electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Fred Charles Thomas, III
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Publication number: 20230398847Abstract: A tonneau cover for at least partially covering a cargo area of a vehicle, the cargo area having a pair of opposing side walls, a front wall, and a tailgate, the tonneau cover including: a first panel configured to be arranged adjacent to the front wall; a second panel adjacent to the first panel and rearward of the first panel, the second panel configured to be folded relative to the first panel to move the tonneau cover between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The first panel comprises a first panel section and a second panel section, and the first panel section is arranged at an incline relative to the second panel section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Robert Paul Talbert, Nolin Miller Livingston, David Brian Michaud
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Publication number: 20230397535Abstract: A harvesting system includes at least one modular unit coupled to a harvester includes a drying unit to dry a harvested material introduced into the harvester including at least one rotating drum, a number of appendages extending from the at least one rotating drum, at least one sensor to determine at least one environmental state within the drying unit, and at least one environmental state adjustment device to adjust at least one environmental attribute within the drying unit. The modular unit also includes a collection unit to collect the harvested material into a unit, a first conveyor mechanism to convey the harvested material from the drying unit to the collection unit, and a control system to control at least the harvester, the drying unit, the collection unit, the first conveyor mechanism, the sensor, and the environmental state adjustment device based on a signal received from the at least one sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Square Head Inc.Inventor: Robert Paul Groth
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Patent number: 11821417Abstract: A fluid handling system for a surgical procedure includes a console and a tubing set. The console exhibits a peristaltic pump, a pinch valve, one above the other. Two recessed seats are located to the left and right sides of the pump and valve. The tubing set includes an irrigation tube and an aspiration tube each coupled to a pair of magnetic disks disposable in respective ones of the recessed seats. Upon such disposition, the irrigation tube is disposable in operative engagement with the peristaltic pump and the aspiration tube is insertable into a slot of the pinch valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: MISONIX, INCORPORATEDInventors: Timothy John Payne, Scott LaVoy Conway, Robert Paul Mayercheck
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Publication number: 20230356015Abstract: A fire suppression system may include a fire resistant substrate. The fire resistant substrate may include a rectangular center portion, at least one appendage coupled to the rectangular center portion, and a tether system to couple the fire resistant substrate to a conveyance device. The tether system may include a cable, and a coupling device coupling the cable to the fire resistant substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Square Head Inc.Inventor: Robert Paul Groth
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Publication number: 20230362271Abstract: A system includes a first computing device client associated with a first user in a community of users operable to send content to publish to a data aggregation server. The data aggregation server is operable to receive the content to publish from the first computing device client, host a first user profile associated with the first user of the first computing device client, the first user profile identifying a targeted recipient in the community of users, and disseminate automatically the content received from the first computing device client to a second computing device client associated with the targeted recipient, without receiving input from the first computing device client explicitly specifying the targeted recipient to whom the content is disseminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Robert Paul van Gent, Ido Ariel
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Publication number: 20230339880Abstract: The invention relates to crystalline forms of (6aR,10aR)-1-Hydroxy-6, 6-dimethyl-3-(2-methyl-2-octanyl)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahydro-6H-benzo[c]chromene-9-carboxylic acid (ajulemic acid), including pharmaceutical compositions comprising a crystalline form of ajulemic acid and methods of making a crystalline form of ajulemic acid. The invention also relates to the use of pharmaceutical compositions comprising a crystalline form of ajulemic acid for the treatment of disease, including inflammatory diseases and fibrotic diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: David Richard BOOTH, Chaoyi DENG, Robert Paul DISCORDIA, Feng GUO, Clifton David LEIGH, Kristos Adrian MOSHOS, Hayley Ann REECE, Abdolsamad TADAYON, Tingting XU, Hang ZHANG
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Publication number: 20230338956Abstract: The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating, identifying, analyzing, and quantifying biological materials from fluid samples. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity biological materials from complex fluids such as blood, serum, or plasma.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Rajaram KRISHNAN, Juan Pablo HINESTROSA SALAZAR, Robert Paul TURNER, David Joseph SEARSON, James Gregory MADSEN, Robert KOVELMAN
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Patent number: 11797481Abstract: Files can be located using a durable and universal file identifier. A content URI includes a file protocol URI specifying a path to a file. The file protocol URI includes a query string specifying properties of the file that can be utilized to locate the file, such as an object ID property specifying a GUID for the file and a volume ID property specifying a GUID for a storage volume storing the file. The content URI can be utilized to locate the file using the file protocol URI and its associated query string even if the file has been moved, renamed, or is accessed on a different computing device. Operations can then be performed using the file, such as resuming a previously performed activity that used the file.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Michael John Novak, Raju Jain, John Heinrich Lueders, Robert Paul St. Pierre, Calvin Tonini
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Publication number: 20230329984Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for preparing a personal care composition comprising sulfur, wherein the method comprises a) Providing a composition comprising a surfactant, a stabilizing agent(s) and water, wherein the composition comprises at least about 3.0% surfactant and a stabilizing agent(s) sufficient to build a yield stress of at least 0.06 Pa; b) Mixing the composition in Step (a) wherein an agitation mechanism tip speed (as calculated by {agitator outer circumference [m/revolution]}*{agitator revolution rate [revolutions/s]}) is between about 1.5 m/s and about 2.7 m/s; with a recirculation turnover rate (as calculated by {recirculation pump rate [L/hour]}/{full turnover volume [L/turnover]}) of greater than 1.8 turnovers/hour; c) Adding sulfur to the composition of Step (b)—wherein the conditions of Step (b) are maintained while adding sulfur and until the personal care composition is prepared.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: James Robert-Paul Skallerup, Brandon Scott Lane, Marco Caggioni, Eric Scott Johnson, Geoffrey Marc Wise
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Patent number: 11788495Abstract: A fluid control system for an engine may include an air pathway to carry air to the engine, a fuel pathway to carry a fuel to the engine, and at least one temperature control device to control temperatures of the air and the fuel. The temperature control device maintains the air and the fuel at a temperature based on a target air-fuel ratio and a target volume of the air and the fuel.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Square Head Inc.Inventor: Robert Paul Groth
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Patent number: 11790417Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating access to multiple data stores substantially in real-time are disclosed. The system may include a server coupled to a network, a client device in communication with the server via the network and a plurality of data stores. The server may authenticate access to the data stores and forward information from those stores to the client device. An exemplary authentication method may include receipt of a request for access to data. Information concerning access to that data is stored and associated with an identifier assigned to a client device. If the identifier is found to correspond to the stored information during a future request for access to the store, access to that store is granted.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SEVEN NETWORKS, LLCInventors: Jay Sutaria, Brian Daniel Gustafson, Robert Paul van Gent, Ruth Lin, David Merriwether, Parvinder Sawhney
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Patent number: 11784914Abstract: In various embodiments, an apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable media, and a method are provided, involving a technique to: receive, from at least one other node in a network, a plurality of segment identifiers, utilizing at least one of a link state protocol, a distance vector protocol, or a path vector protocol, store, in a data structure, the plurality of segment identifiers associated with nodes represented in a topology of at least a portion of a network, select, from the plurality of segment identifiers in the data structure and based on a specified policy, a first sequence of segment identifiers that identify a first sequence of at least one of: one or more nodes, one or more network interfaces, or one or more network regions, at least partially in a first path segment that communicatively couples the transmitting node with a receiving node in the network and that includes at least one particular node which is not predetermined by the first sequence of segment identifiers such that the at leasType: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: MORRIS ROUTING TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Robert Paul Morris
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Patent number: 11779015Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel pesticide compounds and compositions. In particular, pesticide compositions comprising one or more pesticide volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are disclosed, wherein the pesticide is for Drosophila spp. and the one or more pesticide VOCs have the molecular formula CaHbOc wherein: a is between 4 and 13; b is 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 or 24; c is 1 or 2. The VOCs are linear, branched or cyclic alkanes or alkenes, and comprise a single ketone, aldehyde, alcohol or ester functionality, and wherein any cyclic alkane or alkene is selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, cyclopentane, cyclopentene and cyclopentadiene. Also disclosed are Drosophila spp. pesticide compositions comprising one or more pesticide VOCs with the molecular formula of (formula I) wherein R1 is OH or absent, and R2 is an aldehyde functional group or a linear or branched alkane or alkene with 1 to 5 carbons and a single ester functional group.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: FUNDACIÓ CENTRE DE REGULACIÓ GENÓMICAInventors: Elie Marina-Lora Fink, Matthieu Robert Paul Julien Cecile Guy Louis