Patents by Inventor Robert John Anderson
Robert John Anderson 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: 20240087010Abstract: An automated teller machine comprises a communications module; an image module; a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive a first cheque for deposit; engage the image module to capture an image of the first cheque; send, via the communications module and to a server computer system, a signal that includes the image of the first cheque for acceptance; send, via the communications module and to an automated teller machine switch, a signal that includes a request for transaction authorization approval based on the first cheque; receive, via the communications module and from the server computer system, a signal that includes an indication of acceptance of the image of the first cheque; receive, via the communications module and from the automated teller machine switch, a signal that includes an indication of approval of the request for the transaction authorization based on the first cheque; and responsive to rType: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: A. Warren PRATTEN, Anthony Wayne MILES, Graham Allan ANDERSON, Tristan RODZEN, David H. SCHLEICHER, Robert John FARMER, Giovanni FAVRETTO, Chico Chi-Kuo LAM
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Patent number: 11627941Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a medical imaging system. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring a series of medical images of a lung, identifying a pleural line in each medical image of the series, evaluating the pleural line for irregularities in each medical image of the series, and outputting an annotated version of each medical image of the series, the annotated version including visual markers for healthy pleura and irregular pleura. In this way, an operator of the medical imaging system may be alerted to pleural irregularities during a scan.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Menachem Halmann, Dani Pinkovich, Carmit Shiran, Robert John Anderson, Antonio Fabian Fermoso, Cynthia Owen
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Patent number: 11369274Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems to non-invasively determine intra-luminal placement and patency of a vascular access device. In one form, our device itself remains non-invasive, connecting at the vascular access device's hub outside the patient's body. Patency and/or placement are estimated indirectly by measuring a physiological parameter which is indicative of proper patency and/or placement of the vascular access device in a patient. The measurement is compared to a reference value or calibration. If the comparison indicates indication of proper patency and/or placement, a signal is generated. The signal can be used in a number of ways. One example is to give a user-perceivable alarm or indication of proper patency and/or placement. Non-limiting examples include activating a light, an audible buzzer, a vibration, readable displayed text or graphics, or some combination of the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Robert John Anderson, Eric Michael Dinges, Han Jun Kim
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Publication number: 20220061813Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a medical imaging system. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring a series of medical images of a lung, identifying a pleural line in each medical image of the series, evaluating the pleural line for irregularities in each medical image of the series, and outputting an annotated version of each medical image of the series, the annotated version including visual markers for healthy pleura and irregular pleura. In this way, an operator of the medical imaging system may be alerted to pleural irregularities during a scan.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Menachem Halmann, Dani Pinkovich, Carmit Shiran, Robert John Anderson, Antonio Fabian Fermoso, Cynthia Owen
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Publication number: 20200390340Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems to non-invasively determine intra-luminal placement and patency of a vascular access device. In one form, our device itself remains non-invasive, connecting at the vascular access device's hub outside the patient's body. Patency and/or placement are estimated indirectly by measuring a physiological parameter which is indicative of proper patency and/or placement of the vascular access device in a patient. The measurement is compared to a reference value or calibration. If the comparison indicates indication of proper patency and/or placement, a signal is generated. The signal can be used in a number of ways. One example is to give a user-perceivable alarm or indication of proper patency and/or placement. Non-limiting examples include activating a light, an audible buzzer, a vibration, readable displayed text or graphics, or some combination of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Robert John Anderson, Eric Michael Dinges, Han Jun Kim
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Publication number: 20200390375Abstract: The invention is a device and method for measuring, inter alia, blood oxygenation, arterial/venous blood gas, and/or hemoglobin values in an already-inserted arterial or venous catheter in a patient. It allows the measurement of a meaningful and commonly understood metrics of blood oxygenation and gas exchange in hypo-perfused patients while avoiding the additional discomfort and risk of infection posed by inserting a standalone device with its own catheter. Analogous uses of the apparatus for other measurements is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: PULSION MEDICAL SYSTEMS SEInventor: Robert John ANDERSON
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Patent number: 10762797Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Amir Navot, Gur Kimchi, Brian C. Beckman, Frederik Schaffalitzky, Daniel Buchmueller, Robert John Anderson
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Publication number: 20200155118Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for guiding maneuvering of a needle with automatic ultrasound beam steering. As one example, the ultrasound beam transmitted from a probe is steered automatically in response to a location of a tissue motion detected from ultrasound images acquired by the probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Robert John Anderson, Menachem Halmann, Cynthia Owen
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Publication number: 20180040251Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Amir Navot, Gur Kimchi, Brian C. Beckman, Frederik Schaffalitzky, Daniel Buchmueller, Robert John Anderson
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Patent number: 9812021Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Amir Navot, Gur Kimchi, Brian C. Beckman, Frederik Schaffalitzky, Daniel Buchmueller, Robert John Anderson
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Publication number: 20170196486Abstract: The invention is a device and method for measuring, inter alia, blood oxygenation, arterial/venous blood gas, and/or hemoglobin values in an already-inserted arterial or venous catheter in a patient. It allows the measurement of a meaningful and commonly understood metrics of blood oxygenation and gas exchange in hypo-perfused patients while avoiding the additional discomfort and risk of infection posed by inserting a standalone device with its own catheter. Analogous uses of the apparatus for other measurements is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventor: Robert John Anderson
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Publication number: 20150379876Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Amir Navot, Gur Kimchi, Brian C. Beckman, Frederik Schaffalitzky, Daniel Buchmueller, Robert John Anderson
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Patent number: 7716570Abstract: XPS documents are created and accessed via a collection of interfaces of various classes of an application programming interface. The application programming interface includes a document sequence class for reading and writing the document sequence of the XPS document, a fixed document class for reading and writing the fixed documents of the document sequence, a page class for reading and writing the pages of the fixed documents, and a resource class for accessing the resources of each page. Applications seeking to create or read XPS documents may utilize the application programming interface such that the complexities of creating and accessing the XPS document are abstracted away.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brian Scott Adelberg, Khaled Sedky, Donny Amalo, Mahmood A. Dhalla, Robert John Anderson
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Patent number: 4082259Abstract: In a cylinder folder for zig-zag folding a flexible web, air moves through openings in the walls of both cylinders to equalize and relieve pressure in the region between the web and the cylinders where the web is separated from the cylinders and laid down on the zig-zag stack. The air moves through the cylinder wall openings from the hollow cylinder interiors, which communicate with the ambient atmosphere through openings in the end walls of the cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1976Date of Patent: April 4, 1978Assignee: Harris CorporationInventor: Robert John Anderson