Patents by Inventor Robert Christopher Brown
Robert Christopher Brown 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: 11988520Abstract: The present disclosure relates to monitoring data in and around a vehicle to predict anomalous, e.g., unsafe, road conditions, and using the data to suggest a corrective action to avoid the unsafe road conditions. A computing device receives information indicative of imagery, sound, or vehicle operation via sensors and/or cameras mounted in or near a vehicle. The information may be received via the vehicle itself or via a device. The computing device then determines whether there is an indication of an anomalous road condition. The computing device also receives vehicle operation data extracted from one or more vehicle sensors. The computing device then determines whether there is an indication of unsafe road conditions, and if there is, the computing device may output a notice or alert via a notification system to alert the driver.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian Francisco Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick
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Patent number: 11968595Abstract: A method of determining a physical location for an address. The method includes receiving from a first global positioning system on a vehicle a first set of global positioning data indicative of a vehicle location. The method may also receive from a second global positioning system on a portable electronic device a second set of global positioning data indicative of a portable electronic device location. The method may also receive a set of location metadata associated with a picture. The method determines a residence location from the first set of global positioning data, the second set of global positioning data, or the set of location metadata. The method then associates the physical location to the address.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F. Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick
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Patent number: 11953429Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure include at least one building component detection sensor device configured to be deployed within (or proximate to) a building comprised of a plurality of building components. The at least one building component detection sensor device is configured to detect data relating to at least one building component of the plurality of building components. In addition, a building component property determination system includes a processor configured to execute instructions stored in memory to determine one or more properties of the at least one building component based at least in part on the data detected by the at least one building component detection sensor device.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F. Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
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Patent number: 11928741Abstract: A system may include a router that may receive a plurality of data packets from one or more devices that communicatively couples to the router. The system may also include at least one processor that identifies an identity of a device based on a data packet received by the router from the device, generate an insurance policy that includes the device in response to identifying the identity of the device, and sends a notification indicative of the insurance policy to a computing device in response to generating the insurance policy.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F. Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick
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Patent number: 11916451Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Patent number: 11916450Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Patent number: 9758810Abstract: Provided herein are methods for identifying centromeres and centromeres identified by such methods. Centromeres of organisms such as algae, fungi, and protists can be used, for example, for constructing artificial chromosomes and cells containing such artificial chromosomes.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Synthetic Genomics, Inc.Inventors: Helge Zieler, Robert Christopher Brown, Toby Howard Richardson, Douglas Gillette Smith
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Patent number: 9181568Abstract: The invention relates to methods for producing lipids such as fatty acid products in recombinant host cells engineered to express a non-native gene encoding a dehydrogenase. The recombinant microorganisms are able to proliferate at a higher rate as compared with microorganisms that do not express a non-native dehydrogenase gene, and cultures of microorganisms that are engineered for lipid production and that express a non-native dehydrogenase produce more lipid than cultures of control microorganisms that do not include a non-native dehydrogenase gene.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Robert Christopher Brown, Jennifer Coppersmith, Prachee Prakash, Srividya Akella, Rekha Seshadri
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Patent number: 9175256Abstract: The invention provides transgenic photosynthetic microorganisms that include non-native genes encoding polypeptides having lipolytic activity for production of free fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives, and methods of producing free fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives using the transgenic microorganisms disclosed herein. The invention also provides transgenic microorganisms that include non-native genes encoding polypeptides having lipolytic activity, and novel genes encoding polypeptides demonstrating lipolytic activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: You Chen, Thomas E. Wall, Stanley Bower, Robert Christopher Brown, Jennifer Coppersmith
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Patent number: 9096834Abstract: The present invention provides for the improved production of fatty acid products in a recombinant microorganism or host cell engineered to express a non-native gene encoding a thioesterase and a non-native gene encoding a lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT), in which the LPAAT is overexpressed in the recombinant microorganism compared to an otherwise identical microorganism that does not include the non-native LPAAT gene. The invention also provides methods of producing fatty acid products using such recombinant microorganisms.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Rekha Seshadri, Jennie Lau Kit, Nicholas Bauman, Robert Christopher Brown
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Patent number: 8846370Abstract: The described invention provides genetically engineered microorganisms, including photosynthetic microorganisms, expressing 4-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA thioesterases and methods of using the genetically engineered microorganisms for producing free fatty acids and/or fatty acid derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Robert Christopher Brown, Rekha Seshadri, Carlos Chavez-Torres, Weidong Xu, Toby Richardson
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Publication number: 20130280793Abstract: The invention relates to methods for producing lipids such as fatty acid products in recombinant host cells engineered to express a non-native gene encoding a dehydrogenase. The recombinant microorganisms are able to proliferate at a higher rate as compared with microorganisms that do not express a non-native dehydrogenase gene, and cultures of microorganisms that are engineered for lipid production and that express a non-native dehydrogenase produce more lipid than cultures of control microorganisms that do not include a non-native dehydrogenase gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Robert Christopher Brown, Jennifer Coppersmith, Prachee Prakash, Srividya Akella, Rekha Seshadri
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Publication number: 20130224810Abstract: The present invention provides for the improved production of fatty acid products in a recombinant microorganism or host cell engineered to express a non-native gene encoding a thioesterase and a non-native gene encoding a lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT), in which the LPAAT is overexpressed in the recombinant microorganism compared to an otherwise identical microorganism that does not include the non-native LPAAT gene. The invention also provides methods of producing fatty acid products using such recombinant microorganisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Rekha Seshadri, Jennie Lau Kit, Nicholas Bauman, Robert Christopher Brown
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Publication number: 20120184003Abstract: The invention provides transgenic photosynthetic microorganisms that include non-native genes encoding polypeptides having lipolytic activity for production of free fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives, and methods of producing free fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives using the transgenic microorganisms disclosed herein. The invention also provides transgenic microorganisms that include non-native genes encoding polypeptides having lipolytic activity, and novel genes encoding polypeptides demonstrating lipolytic activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: You Chen, Thomas E. Wall, Stanley Bower, Robert Christopher Brown, Jennifer Coppersmith
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Publication number: 20120164713Abstract: The described invention provides genetically engineered microorganisms, including photosynthetic microorganisms, expressing 4-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA thioesterases and methods of using the genetically engineered microorganisms for producing free fatty acids and/or fatty acid derivatives.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Robert Christopher Brown, Rekha Seshadri, Carlos Chavez-Torres, Weidong Xu, Toby Richardson
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Publication number: 20100041035Abstract: Provided herein are methods for identifying centromeres and centromeres identified by such methods. Centromeres of organisms such as algae, fungi, and protists can be used, for example, for constructing artificial chromosomes and cells containing such artificial chromosomes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Helge Zieler, Robert Christopher Brown, Toby Howard Richardson, Douglas Gillette Smith
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Publication number: 20090288337Abstract: This invention describes genes, metabolic pathways, microbial strains and methods to produce methyl butanol and other compounds of interest from renewable feedstocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Stephen Picataggio, Robert Christopher Brown, Jessica Roxane Kristof, Gena Lee, Prachee Prakash, Stuart Alan Underwood, Kevin Watts
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Patent number: 6423522Abstract: A lactamase enzyme having good stability, capable of hydrolysing an enantiomer of the bicyclic lactam, 2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one, to give (−) lactam and (+) amino acid, has been found in a strain of Comamonas acidivorans. The enzyme has been isolated and cloned, and its structure identified.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Chirotech Technology, Ltd.Inventors: Richard Anthony Wisdom, Caroline Susan Lee, Robert Christopher Brown
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Patent number: 6090616Abstract: A lactamase enzyme having good stability, capable of hydrolysing an enatiomer of the bicyclic lactam, 2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one, to give (-) lactam and (+) amino acid, has been found in a strain of Comamonas acidivorans. The enzyme has been isolated and cloned, and its structure identified.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1997Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Chirotech Technology, Ltd.Inventors: Richard Anthony Wisdom, Caroline Susan Lee, Robert Christopher Brown