Patents by Inventor Robert Foster
Robert Foster 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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Method for measuring imbalance forces of a tire/hub assembly of vehicle during motion of the vehicle
Patent number: 11982586Abstract: A method is provided for collecting measurement parameters related to imbalance forces of a tire/hub assembly of a vehicle during motion of the vehicle. An apparatus is removably attached to the tire/hub assembly of the vehicle via lug nuts of the tire/hub assembly. The apparatus includes a disk, a plurality of cup-shaped objects, and one or more inertial measurement units (IMU's) mounted to the disk. Each of the cup-shaped objects are rigidly fixed at one end to the disk and extend perpendicularly outward from the disk. The plurality of cup-shaped objects are arranged a fixed radial distance from a radial center of the disk in a pattern that matches the lug nuts of the tire/hub assembly. The one or more inertial measurement units (IMU's) are mounted to the disk and configured to measure parameters that are used for calculating the imbalance forces during motion of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NVH TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Eric L. Canfield, David M. Scribner, Scott J. Soma, Robert P. Alston, David A. Fenimore, Zoe Kane, Rachel Foster, Meer Gujral, Joseph H. Cottingham, Saahas S. Yechuri, Aron Sun, Ethan Reiland, Anish Sudini, Amish Saini, William Liao, Rohan Epur, Ryan M. Larue, Brandon T. Fanti -
Patent number: 11980430Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical robot system may include an end-effector element configured for controlled movement and positioning and tracking of surgical instruments and objects relative to an image of a patient's anatomical structure. In some embodiments the end-effector may be tracked by surgical robot system and displayed to a user. In some embodiments the end-effector element may be configured to restrict the movement of an instrument assembly in a guide tube. In some embodiments, the end-effector may contain structures to allow for magnetic coupling to a robot arm and/or wireless powering of the end-effector element. In some embodiments, tracking of a target anatomical structure and objects, both in a navigation space and an image space, may be provided by a dynamic reference base located at a position away from the target anatomical structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Nicholas A. Theodore, Mitchell Foster, Nobert Johnson, Timothy Moulton, Kevin Zhang, Jeffrey Forsyth, Chris Major, Robert LeBoeuf, David Cleary
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Patent number: 11930267Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry, wireless transceiver circuitry, and a display. The electronic device may be used to provide information to a user in response to being pointed at a particular object. The control circuitry may determine when the electronic device is pointed at a particular object using wireless control circuitry and/or motion sensor circuitry. In response to determining that the electronic device is pointed at a particular object, the control circuitry may take suitable action. This may include, for example, displaying information about an object when the electronic device is pointed at the object, displaying control icons for electronic equipment when the electronic device is pointed at the electronic equipment, and/or displaying a virtual object when the electronic device is pointed at real world object.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adam S. Meyer, Peter C. Tsoi, Duncan Robert Kerr, Martha Evans Hankey, John B. Morrell, James H. Foster
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Patent number: 11517114Abstract: An adjustable bench comprises a seat, a skirt extending from the seat, and a plurality of height adjustable leg assemblies coupled to the skirt. The seat is shaped to be selectively mated with the skirt to provide the bench with either a flat top surface or a sloped top surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Inventors: Allan Peter Leia, Lisa Ann Pedscalny, Craig Michael Drummond, Herbert Walter Bentz, Christopher Pond, Michael Robert Foster
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Publication number: 20220346952Abstract: A delivery device usable to deliver an inverting implant is provided that includes a positioning mechanism that automatically initiates the inversion process once a predetermined length of the implant has exited a delivery catheter. The positioning mechanism allows the implant to be safely and accurately deployed with reduced operator experience and in a greater variety of target locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Dale K. Nelson, John P. Gainor, Evan M. Leingang, Robert Foster Wilson, Cassandra Ann Piipo Svendsen
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Patent number: 11413143Abstract: A delivery device usable to deliver an inverting implant is provided that includes a positioning mechanism that automatically initiates the inversion process once a predetermined length of the implant has exited a delivery catheter. The positioning mechanism allows the implant to be safely and accurately deployed with reduced operator experience and in a greater variety of target locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Dale K. Nelson, John P. Gainor, Evan M. Leingang, Robert Foster Wilson, Cassandra Ann Piipo Svendsen
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Patent number: 11395456Abstract: A rake device for cleaning rain gutters and roof valleys which includes a rake which is pivotally secured to an elongated support pole to enable the rake to be positioned in multiple positions with respect to the support pole to reach multiple portions of the rain gutter or the roof valley.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Inventors: Mark C. Ramsey, Robert A. Foster
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Patent number: 11283690Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media to orchestrate process-performing resources are disclosed. Collected data items may correspond to assignments of process-performing resources, and device interactions or data changes that correspond to process or operation performances, conditions of loads. Data items may be processed to identify and map data portions to process-performing resources. Content nodes may be created and linked in a network of content nodes configured according to a computational model that comprises hierarchical orderings of the content nodes using a network data structure. A graphical representation may be formatted to represent the network data structure of the content nodes linked in the network. Metrics of resource performance corresponding to content nodes may be determined. The computational model may be trained using the metrics to create an adapted computational model. Adapted content nodes may be created according to the adapted computational model.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: C/HCA, Inc.Inventors: Sammie Mosier, Bryan Sisk, Todd Shafer, Clarence Robert Foster, Aaron Montlary, Jonathan Perlin, Edmund Jackson, David Wedemeyer, Stephanie Fulbright, Jeffrey Scott Smith, Jane Englebright, Robert Rochford
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Publication number: 20210346530Abstract: A sterilization apparatus may include a cavity defined by walls of the apparatus. The sterilization apparatus may further include at least one internal compartment within the cavity. The internal compartment may include at least one reflective surface. The sterilization apparatus may also include one or more ultraviolet lights on a surface of at least one of the walls of the apparatus and directed toward the at least one internal compartment. The one or more ultraviolet lights may be configured to produce ultraviolet light in one or more of the UVB and UVC spectrums.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Jean-Philippe Debray, Chantal Arena, Robert Foster
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Publication number: 20210322157Abstract: A stentless support structure capable of being at least partly assembled in situ. The support structure comprises a braided tube that is very flexible and, when elongated, becomes very long and very small in diameter, thereby being capable of placement within a small diameter catheter. The support structure is preferably constructed of one or more thin strands of a super-elastic or shape memory material such as Nitinol. When released from the catheter, the support structure folds itself into a longitudinally compact configuration. The support structure thus gains significant strength as the number of folds increase. This radial strength obviates the need for a support stent. The support structure may include attachment points for a prosthetic valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Gary A. Thill, Robert Foster Wilson, John P. Gainor, Christopher M. Banick
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Patent number: 11073902Abstract: An artificial reality system includes a head mounted display (HMD) and a hand-held device. A virtual boundary can provide for user safety during an artificial reality session. For example, the virtual boundary may be defined to protect the user from collisions with physical objects, such as walls, furniture, or the like, while the user is immersed in the artificial reality session. The artificial reality system can constrain the predicted motion path of a portion of a user's body based on body configuration parameters and range of motion of the joints associated with the body portion. The artificial reality system can then use the constrained motion paths to determine whether or not the virtual boundary warning should be activated.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahdi Salmani Rahimi, Benjamin Antoine Georges Lefaudeux, Robert Foster, Weiguang Si, Samuel Alan Johnson
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Patent number: 11026784Abstract: A stentless support structure capable of being at least partly assembled in situ. The support structure comprises a braided tube that is very flexible and, when elongated, becomes very long and very small in diameter, thereby being capable of placement within a small diameter catheter. The support structure is preferably constructed of one or more thin strands of a super-elastic or shape memory material such as Nitinol. When released from the catheter, the support structure folds itself into a longitudinally compact configuration. The support structure thus gains significant strength as the number of folds increase. This radial strength obviates the need for a support stent. The support structure may include attachment points for a prosthetic valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Gary A. Thill, Robert Foster Wilson, John P. Gainor, Christopher M. Banick
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Publication number: 20200413261Abstract: Systems and methods which provide reliable and resilient control channels for communicating control information with vehicle onboard systems using a control channel plane supporting migration of a control channel among various networks forming the control channel plane are described. The control channel plane of embodiments includes at least one data delivery network of a data network and at least one out-of-band network of a security network. Embodiments introduce an in-vehicle system into vehicles facilitating secure data communication between a centralized mobility management platform and the vehicles using a data network for data content communication and a security network for security enhancement with respect to the data network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Panayotis Lekkas, Robert Foster
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Patent number: 10843754Abstract: A seat back/trunk extension device having a mechanism for attaching to the frame of a Can-Am Spyder F3®. The device attaches to the frame and creates a platform at the rear of the frame, positioning the trunk in a rear location. The device has primarily three pieces that extends towards the rear and supports the trunk. The device has an attachment that extends the passenger seat cushion, to provide additional room for a passenger.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Inventors: Robert Foster Hendricks, Connie Jean Hendricks
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Patent number: 10827355Abstract: Systems and methods which provide reliable and resilient control channels for communicating control information with vehicle onboard systems using a control channel plane supporting migration of a control channel among various networks forming the control channel plane are described. The control channel plane of embodiments includes at least one data delivery network of a data network and at least one out-of-band network of a security network. Embodiments introduce an in-vehicle system into vehicles facilitating secure data communication between a centralized mobility management platform and the vehicles using a data network for data content communication and a security network for security enhancement with respect to the data network.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Auton, Inc.Inventors: Panayotis Lekkas, Robert Foster
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Publication number: 20200187660Abstract: An adjustable bench comprises a seat, a skirt extending from the seat, and a plurality of height adjustable leg assemblies coupled to the skirt. The seat is shaped to be selectively mated with the skirt to provide the bench with either a flat top surface or a sloped top surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Allan Peter Leia, Lisa Ann Pedscalny, Craig Michael Drummond, Herbert Walter Bentz, Christopher Pond, Michael Robert Foster
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Patent number: 10646337Abstract: A stentless support structure capable of being at least partly assembled in situ. The support structure comprises a braided tube that is very flexible and, when elongated, becomes very long and very small in diameter, thereby being capable of placement within a small diameter catheter. The support structure is preferably constructed of one or more thin strands of a super-elastic or shape memory material such as Nitinol. When released from the catheter, the support structure folds itself into a longitudinally compact configuration. The support structure thus gains significant strength as the number of folds increase. This radial strength obviates the need for a support stent. The support structure may include attachment points for a prosthetic valve.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Gary A. Thill, Robert Foster Wilson, John P. Gainor, Christopher M. Banick
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Publication number: 20190365533Abstract: An intravascular cuff acts as a lining between a native vessel and an intravascular prosthetic device. During deployment, the ends of the cuff curl back upon themselves and are capable of trapping native tissue, such as valve leaflet tissue, between the ends. The cuff creates a seal between the vessel and the prosthetic, thereby preventing leakage around the prosthetic. The cuff also traps any embolic material dislodged from the vessel during expansion of the prosthetic.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Robert Foster Wilson, John P. Gainor
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Publication number: 20190240016Abstract: A delivery device usable to deliver an inverting implant is provided that includes a positioning mechanism that automatically initiates the inversion process once a predetermined length of the implant has exited a delivery catheter. The positioning mechanism allows the implant to be safely and accurately deployed with reduced operator experience and in a greater variety of target locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Dale K. Nelson, John P. Gainor, Evan M. Leingang, Robert Foster Wilson, Cassandra Ann Piipo Svendsen
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Patent number: 10368985Abstract: An intravascular cuff acts as a lining between a native vessel and an intravascular prosthetic device. During deployment, the ends of the cuff curl back upon themselves and are capable of trapping native tissue, such as valve leaflet tissue, between the ends. The cuff creates a seal between the vessel and the prosthetic, thereby preventing leakage around the prosthetic. The cuff also traps any embolic material dislodged from the vessel during expansion of the prosthetic.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: HLT, Inc.Inventors: Robert Foster Wilson, John P. Gainor