Patents by Inventor Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs 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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Publication number: 20240187786Abstract: Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Mathew T. Abraham, David Grant Cason, John Casey Gibbs, Gregory William Lantz, Albert Francis McGovern, Jr., Brent Robert Shumard
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Patent number: 11995771Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for automatically assigning weights to vertices of a skin or mesh that control how said vertices in the 3D model move under the influence of skeletal rotation and translation. A computing device can receive a first model weightings matrix. Next, the computing device can include adjusting the number of rows in the first model weightings matrix to generate an adjusted model weightings matrix with a number of rows that matches an input number of rows for a machine-learning model, each row in the adjusted model weightings matrix representing a vertex of a mesh applied to a three-dimensional model. Then, the computing device can apply the machine learning model to the adjusted model weightings matrix, to generate an output polygonal mesh model weightings matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: John L. Gibbs, Benjamin Robert Flanders, Dylan Scott Pozorski
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Publication number: 20240126038Abstract: A panel system includes a chassis holding one or more tray arrangements, which are each configured to receive one or more cassettes at two or more bays. The tray arrangements and cassettes cooperate to define a cassette sensor arrangement and a port occupancy sensor arrangement having separate interface points. The cassette sensor arrangement may include electronic memory storing physical layer information about the cassette. All active components of the port occupancy sensor arrangement are disposed on the tray while the electronic memories of the cassette sensor arrangement are stored on the cassettes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Ryan Edward ENGE, Paula LOCKHART, Scott Martin KEITH, David Jan Irma VAN BAELEN, Jacob C. ANDERSON, Steven Walter KNOERNSCHILD, Brian J. FITZPATRICK, Pedro MALDONADO, Gary Federico GIBBS, James J. SOLHEID, Matthew J. HOLMBERG, Matthew Robert KIENER
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Patent number: 11015263Abstract: Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density?100 cm?2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: CRYSTAL IS, INC.Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Leo J. Schowalter, Kenneth Morgan, Glen A. Slack, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb
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Publication number: 20200002841Abstract: Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density?100 cm?2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Leo J. Schowalter, Kenneth Morgan, Glen A. Slack, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb
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Patent number: 10392722Abstract: Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density ?100 cm?2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: CRYSTAL IS, INC.Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Leo J. Schowalter, Kenneth Morgan, Glen A. Slack, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb
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Patent number: 10106913Abstract: In various embodiments, non-zero thermal gradients are formed within a growth chamber both substantially parallel and substantially perpendicular to the growth direction during formation of semiconductor crystals, where the ratio of the two thermal gradients (parallel to perpendicular) is less than 10, by, e.g., arrangement of thermal shields outside of the growth chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: CRYSTAL IS, INC.Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb, Leo J. Schowalter
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Patent number: 9879444Abstract: The present invention relates to a post support device (1) for a post (10) adapted to be inserted substantially vertically in the ground. The post (10) has a top end (10A) and a bottom end (10B). The support device comprises a support member (2,3) adapted to engage the post below ground level at a point remote from the post bottom end, and at least two pairs of fins (2A,2B; 3A,3B), each pair of which extend from and form a triangulated structure with the support member and/or post. In use, with the post with the support device attached thereto is inserted substantially vertically in the ground, and the fins provide lateral resistance to prevent the post from displacing the soil and tilting towards the horizontal.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: STEADYPOST LIMITEDInventors: John Robert Gibbs, Andrew John Gibbs
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Publication number: 20170350036Abstract: Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density?100 cm?2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Leo J. Schowalter, Kenneth Morgan, Glen A. Slack, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb
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Patent number: 9771666Abstract: Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density?100 cm?2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: CRYSTAL IS, INC.Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Leo J. Schowalter, Kenneth Morgan, Glen A. Slack, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb
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Patent number: 9740992Abstract: A data warehouse system for managing performance of organizations is provided. The data warehouse system comprises a data model for storing data representing dimensions and measures applicable for multiple organizations, and a configuration unit for setting the placeholders such that the data model represents the particular organization. The data model has placeholders settable such that the data model represents a particular organization.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas Fazal, David Strutt, Robert Gibb, Michael Armstrong, Michael Adendorff, Robert Helal
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Publication number: 20170226661Abstract: In various embodiments, non-zero thermal gradients are formed within a growth chamber both substantially parallel and substantially perpendicular to the growth direction during formation of semiconductor crystals, where the ratio of the two thermal gradients (parallel to perpendicular) is less than 10, by, e.g., arrangement of thermal shields outside of the growth chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Robert T. BONDOKOV, Shailaja P. RAO, Shawn Robert GIBB, Leo J. SCHOWALTER
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Publication number: 20170008374Abstract: There is provided a controller for a heat capture and storage system configured to capture and store energy from heat expelled in engine exhaust. The controller includes a plurality of inputs, a plurality of outputs, and at least one processor coupled to a memory for storing within the memory instructions executable by the at least one processor. The controller is configured by execution of the instructions stored in the memory to: receive signals at one or more of the plurality of inputs, the signals representing at least one operating parameter of the heat capture and storage system; and based on at least one operating parameter, generate signals at one or more of the plurality of outputs for controlling at least one component of the heat capture and storage system to capture and store the energy from the heat expelled in the engine exhaust.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: John Hamilton STANNARD, David Robert GIBBS, Christopher BACHALO
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Patent number: 9476653Abstract: There is provided a controller for a heat capture and storage system configured to capture and store energy from heat expelled in engine exhaust. The controller includes a plurality of inputs, a plurality of outputs, and at least one processor coupled to a memory for storing within the memory instructions executable by the at least one processor. The controller is configured by execution of the instructions stored in the memory to: receive signals at one or more of the plurality of inputs, the signals representing at least one operating parameter of the heat capture and storage system; and based on at least one operating parameter, generate signals at one or more of the plurality of outputs for controlling at least one component of the heat capture and storage system to capture and store the energy from the heat expelled in the engine exhaust.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Enermotion Inc.Inventors: John Hamilton Stannard, David Robert Gibbs, Christopher Bachalo
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Publication number: 20160138297Abstract: The present invention relates to a post support device (1) for a (post 10) adapted to be inserted substantially vertical in the ground. The post (10) has a top end (10A) and a bottom end (10B). The support device comprises a support member (2,3) adapted to engage the post below ground level at a point remote from the post bottom end, and at least two pairs of fins (2A,2B 3A,3B) each pair of which extend from and form a triangulated structure with the support member and/or post. In use, with the post with the support device inserted substantially vertical in the ground, the fins providing lateral resistance against the material in the ground to prevent the post from displacing the soil and tilting towards the horizontal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: STEADYPOST LIMITEDInventors: John Robert Gibbs, Andrew John Gibbs
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Publication number: 20150275393Abstract: Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density?100 cm?2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Leo J. Schowalter, Kenneth Morgan, Glen A. Slack, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb
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Publication number: 20150135740Abstract: There is provided a controller for a heat capture and storage system configured to capture and store energy from heat expelled in engine exhaust. The controller includes a plurality of inputs, a plurality of outputs, and at least one processor coupled to a memory for storing within the memory instructions executable by the at least one processor. The controller is configured by execution of the instructions stored in the memory to: receive signals at one or more of the plurality of inputs, the signals representing at least one operating parameter of the heat capture and storage system; and based on at least one operating parameter, generate signals at one or more of the plurality of outputs for controlling at least one component of the heat capture and storage system to capture and store the energy from the heat expelled in the engine exhaust.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: John Hamilton STANNARD, David Robert GIBBS, Christopher BACHALO
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Patent number: 9028612Abstract: In various embodiments, non-zero thermal gradients are formed within a growth chamber both substantially parallel and substantially perpendicular to the growth direction during formation of semiconductor crystals, where the ratio of the two thermal gradients (parallel to perpendicular) is less than 10, by, e.g., arrangement of thermal shields outside of the growth chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Crystal IS, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Bondokov, Shailaja P. Rao, Shawn Robert Gibb, Leo J. Schowalter
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Patent number: 8966914Abstract: A system is provided for capturing energy from heat expelled in an exhaust of an engine of a motor vehicle and storing the captured energy. The system comprises a generator, a condenser, an evaporator, and an absorber. The generator captures heat from the exhaust of the engine and may be configured for circulating a first solution having a solute that is vaporizable by heat captured by the generator. The condenser may be coupled to the generator for receiving vaporized solute and condensing the vaporized solute to a liquid. The evaporator may be coupled to the condenser and have an orifice between the condenser and the evaporator. The evaporator may have a first fluid passage for circulating the solute and a second fluid passage for circulating a second solution. The first and second fluid passages may be configured such that solute running through the first fluid passage is vaporizable by heat absorbed from the second solution running through the second fluid passage, thereby cooling the second solution.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Enermotion Inc.Inventors: John Hamilton Stannard, David Robert Gibbs, Christopher Bachalo
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Publication number: 20130047639Abstract: A system is provided for capturing energy from heat expelled in an exhaust of an engine of a motor vehicle and storing the captured energy. The system comprises a generator, a condenser, an evaporator, and an absorber. The generator captures heat from the exhaust of the engine and may be configured for circulating a first solution having a solute that is vaporizable by heat captured by the generator. The condenser may be coupled to the generator for receiving vaporized solute and condensing the vaporized solute to a liquid. The evaporator may be coupled to the condenser and have an orifice between the condenser and the evaporator. The evaporator may have a first fluid passage for circulating the solute and a second fluid passage for circulating a second solution. The first and second fluid passages may be configured such that solute running through the first fluid passage is vaporizable by heat absorbed from the second solution running through the second fluid passage, thereby cooling the second solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: ENERMOTION INC.Inventors: John Hamilton Stannard, David Robert Gibbs, Christopher Bachalo