Patents by Inventor Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan 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).

  • Publication number: 20240151344
    Abstract: A system includes a navigation apparatus and controller. The navigation apparatus includes a body assembly that includes a plurality of pneumatic or artificial muscles that are configured to interact with a sidewall of the conduit and move the body assembly through the conduit. The plurality of pneumatic or artificial muscles are independently actuated to steer the body assembly. The navigation apparatus also includes a sensor array coupled to the body assembly. The sensor array is positioned to interact with the sidewall of the conduit and provide signals as the body assembly moves through the interior cavity. The controller is communicatively coupled to the sensor array and configured to determine a characteristic of the conduit based on the signals provided by the sensor array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yew Teck Tan, Deepak Trivedi, Steven Robert Gray, Pei-Hsin Kuo, Alexander Kyle Duncan
  • Publication number: 20240150462
    Abstract: The invention provides novel anti-LILR antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies, and therapeutic methods of using such antibodies and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disease, or allergic inflammation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Richard BROKX, Jacqueline M. MASON, Mark Robert BRAY, Gordon S. DUNCAN
  • Patent number: 11974679
    Abstract: Food orders are divided into components or tasks. Systems and methods of food order preparation communicate instructions for automated actions to devices to carry out the automated actions. A toaster operates to toast a bun according to toaster settings. A bun magazine operates to deliver a bun into the toaster. A condiment dispenser receives the bun from the toaster and operates to dispense at least one portion of at least one condiment onto the bun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Veltrop, Arshad Baxamusa, Robert Duncan, Jacob Kane, Collin Psenka, Jonathan Sammon, Sathvik Sanagala, Nicole Szewczyk, Andrew Thompson
  • Publication number: 20240138086
    Abstract: A modular information technology component includes: an information handling system; a floor, in which the floor includes a floor track apparatus and the information handling system is located on the floor; and a rack mounting component, in which the rack mounting component affixes the information handling system to the floor track apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Ty Robert Schmitt, Jeffery Todd Sayles
  • Publication number: 20240138126
    Abstract: Multiple systems for providing liquid and air cooling for IT components is disclosed. The system includes a first module with at least one dry cooler that supplies liquid cooling to at least one liquid heat exchange device. The system also includes a second module with a first chamber that has a filter that accepts air from an outside source, a second chamber with at least one fan that moves the filtered air to cool one or more IT units resulting in heated air; and a third chamber that exhausts the heated air to the outside. A liquid heat exchange device provides liquid cooling to the one or more IT units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Ty Robert Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20240134347
    Abstract: A modular information technology component (MITC) includes: a floor, in which the floor comprises a first floor plate (FP) and a second FP, in which the first FP and the second FP are oriented in a first plane; and a first hydraulic pump (HP) and a second HP, in which the first HP is located underneath the first FP, in which the second HP is located underneath the second FP, in which the first HP and the second HP are deactivated, in which, when an information handling system (IHS) is loaded on the second FP, the second FP becomes oriented in a second plane, in which the second plane is lower than the first plane, and in which, when the second FP becomes oriented in the second plane, the second HP is activated to raise the second FP to the first plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Ty Robert Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20240138119
    Abstract: A system including a first section and a second section. The first section includes a first plurality of chassis associated with a first tenant and the second section comprising a second plurality of chassis associated with a second tenant. The system further includes a first pair of cooling units and a first pair of manifolds fluidly connecting the first plurality of chassis to the first pair of cooling units. The system further includes a second pair of cooling units and a second pair of manifolds fluidly connecting the first plurality of chassis to the first pair of cooling units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Ty Robert Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20240138115
    Abstract: Multiple systems and devices for providing liquid and air cooling for IT components is disclosed. The system includes a module comprising at least one dry cooler and at least one liquid heat exchange device. The module includes a primary cooling loop with the at least one dry cooler and the at least one liquid heat exchange device. The system also includes a secondary loop that includes the at least one liquid heat exchange device and one or more IT units in a facility. The system includes a path for air cooling the one or more IT units in the facility that includes at least one air intake from outside the facility that supplies air for cooling the one or more IT units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Ty Robert Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20240138084
    Abstract: A modular data center includes: a modular information technology component (MITC), in which the MITC includes an information handling system (IHS) and a utility control component (UCC), in which the IHS and the UCC are affixed to a bottom side of the MITC; and a front access component and a rear access component, in which the front access component is connected to a front side of the MITC, in which an area of the front access component is equal to an area of the front side of the MITC, in which the rear access component is connected to a rear side of the MITC, and in which an area of the rear access component is equal to an area of the rear side of the MITC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Jeffery Todd Sayles, Ty Robert Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20240138123
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a chassis that includes a chassis inlet and a chassis outlet and a liquid cooling system that includes a first manifold. The first manifold includes a first chassis outlet configured to provide a first inlet coolant flow to the chassis inlet and a first chassis inlet configured to receive a first outlet coolant flow from the chassis outlet. The liquid cooling system also includes a second manifold that includes a second chassis outlet configured to provide the first inlet coolant flow to the chassis inlet, and a second chassis inlet configured to receive the first outlet coolant flow from the chassis outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Ty Robert Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20240138125
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for providing liquid and air cooling for IT components in a facility is disclosed. The system includes a module comprising at least one dry cooler and at least one liquid heat exchange device. The module includes a primary cooling loop with the at least one dry cooler and the at least one liquid heat exchange device. The system also includes a secondary loop that includes the at least one liquid heat exchange device and one or more IT units in the facility. The system includes a path for air cooling the one or more IT units in the facility that includes an air intake from outside the facility that supplies air for cooling the one or more IT units. The method includes adjusting a first valve controlling liquid flow in a primary loop and adjusting a second valve controlling liquid flow in a secondary loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Ty Robert Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11960601
    Abstract: A system for managing an infrastructure includes extraction engine is in communication with a managed infrastructure that includes physical hardware. A signalizer engine includes one or more of an NMF engine (Non-negative matrix factorization), a k-means clustering engine (a method of vector quantization), and a topology proximity engine. The signalizer engine determines one or more common characteristics of events and produces clusters of events relating to the failure or errors in the infrastructure. The signalizer engine uses graph coordinates and optionally a subset of attributes assigned to each event to generate one or more clusters to bring together events whose characteristics are similar. One or more interactive displays provide a collaborative interface coupled to the extraction and the signalizer engine with a collaborative interface (UI) for decomposing events from the infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Philip Tee, Robert Duncan Harper
  • Patent number: 11960374
    Abstract: A system is provided for managing a managed infrastructure that has physical hardware components. A signalizer engine is coupled to the managed infrastructure. The signalizer engine includes a central processor and a main memory. In response to input from the managed infrastructure, the central processor and the main memory use graph coordinates to determine hop proximity of a source of an event. Clusters of events are then produced relating to one or more failures or errors in the physical elements of the managed infrastructure. Each event being is converted to words to group the events into the clusters that relate to a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware components to produce an output. A compare and merge engine is coupled to the signalizer engine to receive the output. In response to the output, the system executes physical corrections to the physical hardware of the managed infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Philip Tee, Robert Duncan Harper
  • Publication number: 20240086779
    Abstract: A distributed control system (DCS) of an industrial process plant includes a data center storing a plant information model that includes a description of physical components, the control framework, and the control network of the plant using a modeling language. A set of exposed APIs provides DCS applications access to the model, and to an optional generic framework of the data center which stores basic structures and functions from which the DCS may automatically generate other structures and functions to populate the model and to automatically create various applications and routines utilized during run-time operations of the DCS and plant. Upon initialization, the DCS may automatically sense the I/O types of its interface ports, detect communicatively connected physical components within the plant, and automatically populate the plant information model accordingly. The DCS may optionally automatically generate related control routines and/or I/O data delivery mechanisms, HMI routines, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Mark J. Nixon, Claudio Fayad, Robert G. Halgren, III, Anthony Amaro, JR., Peter Hartmann, Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Seshatre Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20240081510
    Abstract: A personal care product is provided including an applicator head with a flat treatment sheet. The personal care product also includes a cover configured to surround the applicator head and to cover the treatment sheet. The cover includes a base with a planar outer surface. The cover also includes an outer rim around a perimeter of the planar outer surface and an inner rim configured to engage a portion of the applicator head. The planar outer surface of the base defines a plane. The personal care product includes a center of gravity with a projection in the plane, where the length of the one or more tabs along the plane exceeds a length between the projection and the inner rim along the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Duncan McEwen, Robert Andrew Keamey, Mark Peterson
  • Publication number: 20240086778
    Abstract: A distributed control system (DCS) of an industrial process plant includes a data center storing a plant information model that includes a description of physical components, the control framework, and the control network of the plant using a modeling language. A set of exposed APIs provides DCS applications access to the model, and to an optional generic framework of the data center which stores basic structures and functions from which the DCS may automatically generate other structures and functions to populate the model and to automatically create various applications and routines utilized during run-time operations of the DCS and plant. Upon initialization, the DCS may automatically sense the I/O types of its interface ports, detect communicatively connected physical components within the plant, and automatically populate the plant information model accordingly. The DCS may optionally automatically generate related control routines and/or I/O data delivery mechanisms, HMI routines, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Mark J. Nixon, Claudio Fayad, Robert G. Halgren, III, Anthony Amaro, JR., Peter Hartmann, Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Seshatre Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20240083048
    Abstract: A personal care product is provided including an applicator head with a flat treatment sheet. The personal care product also includes a cover configured to surround the applicator head and to cover the treatment sheet. The cover includes a base with a planar outer surface. The cover also includes an outer rim around a perimeter of the planar outer surface and an inner rim configured to engage a portion of the applicator head. The planar outer surface of the base defines a plane. The personal care product includes a center of gravity with a projection in the plane, where the length of the one or more tabs along the plane exceeds a length between the projection and the inner rim along the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Duncan McEwen, Robert Andrew Kearney, Mark Peterson
  • Publication number: 20240083049
    Abstract: A personal care product is provided including an applicator head with a flat treatment sheet. The personal care product also includes a cover configured to surround the applicator head and to cover the treatment sheet. The cover includes a base with a planar outer surface. The cover also includes an outer rim around a perimeter of the planar outer surface and an inner rim configured to engage a portion of the applicator head. The planar outer surface of the base defines a plane. The personal care product includes a center of gravity with a projection in the plane, where the length of the one or more tabs along the plane exceeds a length between the projection and the inner rim along the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Duncan McEwen, Robert Andrew Kearney, Mark Peterson
  • Publication number: 20240087473
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure include a method and system for providing an interactive virtual reality simulation for virtual reality training. A headset, controllers, and/or one or more sensors communicate with a processor to display the interactive virtual reality simulation on a user display within the headset. The interactive virtual reality training for use in facilitating virtually reality simulations including a microscope simulation, a bacteria streaking simulation, and/or a visually inspecting containers simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Crystal Mersh, Brian Duncan, Nicole Monachino, Rebecca Brewer, Robert Ferer, Vanessa Figueroa, Tyler DeWitt, Ken Wieber, Katayoun Meyer, Scott Driscoll, Michael Orndorff
  • Patent number: 11927455
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environment for a driver or a passenger including augmented reality elements to mark specific locations within a display of real-world surroundings. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical information to determine placements for augmented reality elements. The systems and methods also enable a user to share an augmented reality or virtual reality environment with another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte MacDonell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Mark David Teater