Patents by Inventor Robert Payton

Robert Payton 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).

  • Patent number: 10478381
    Abstract: A medical solution packaging assembly comprising a medical solution container that houses a medical solution comprising a semi-permeable material including one or more surface that is at least partially permeable to air molecules and has low permeability to vapor molecules of the medical solution, wherein the medical solution container is configured to inflate beyond its original volume. The assembly further comprising a packaging comprising one or more surface within which the solution container resides; a compressing mechanism configured to apply external force onto at least one surface of the medical solution container or limit the volume to which the medical solution container inflates, wherein a volume of air ingress from an external environment of the medical solution container is less than that which would occur without the compressing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Fenwal, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Sandford, Daryl Calhoun, Robert Payton
  • Publication number: 20190279291
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing multiple funding sources for health insurance and other approved healthcare expenses to full-time, hourly, part-time, seasonal, and temporary employees. Healthcare contributions for a single employee or for multiple workers in a family from more than one employer are placed in trust accounts established under separate Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) by each employer for use in paying qualified medical expenses of the employee and/or the employees' family. Each employer agrees to create HRAs for eligible employees and sends eligible employee data to a financial administrator. A trust account is created to hold the employer contributed HRA funds for the eligible employees. The eligible employees select a healthcare insurance policy, the premiums for which are paid out of each employee's HRA. The employee retains the HRA even if the employee's employment with the funding employer is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Randall E. RAY, Robert A. PAYTON, Lee BRILLHART
  • Patent number: 10254428
    Abstract: This invention relates to devices and processes for geophysical prospecting, subsurface fluid monitoring and, more particular, to the use of interferometric techniques using Control Source Electromagnetic (“CSEM”) and Magnetoturelic (“MT”) signals to create images of sub-surface structures and fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Deep Imaging Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Sokolowsky, Robert Payton, Trevor Pugh, Alexander Kalish, Mark Hickey
  • Publication number: 20170212267
    Abstract: This invention relates to devices and processes for geophysical prospecting, subsurface fluid monitoring and, more particular, to the use of interferometric techniques using Control Source Electromagnetic (“CSEM”) and Magnetoturelic (“MT”) signals to create images of sub-surface structures and fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: James Sokolowsky, Robert Payton, Trevor Pugh, Alexander Kalish, Mark Hickey
  • Patent number: 9638826
    Abstract: This invention relates to devices and processes for geophysical prospecting, subsurface fluid monitoring and, more particular, to the use of interferometric techniques using Control Source Electromagnetic (“CSEM”) and Magnetoturelic (“MT”) signals to create images of sub-surface structures and fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Deep Imaging Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: James Sokolowsky, Robert Payton, Trevor Pugh, Alexander Kalish, Mark Hickey
  • Publication number: 20160008223
    Abstract: A medical solution packaging assembly comprising a medical solution container that houses a medical solution comprising a semi-permeable material including one or more surface that is at least partially permeable to air molecules and has low permeability to vapor molecules of the medical solution, wherein the medical solution container is configured to inflate beyond its original volume. The assembly further comprising a packaging comprising one or more surface within which the solution container resides; a compressing mechanism configured to apply external force onto at least one surface of the medical solution container or limit the volume to which the medical solution container inflates, wherein a volume of air ingress from an external environment of the medical solution container is less than that which would occur without the compressing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Craig Sandford, Daryl Calhoun, Robert Payton
  • Publication number: 20150123835
    Abstract: This invention relates to devices and processes for geophysical prospecting, subsurface fluid monitoring and, more particular, to the use of interferometric techniques using Control Source Electromagnetic (“CSEM”) and Magnetoturelic (“MT”) signals to create images of sub-surface structures and fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: James Sokolowsky, Robert Payton, Trevor Pugh, Alexander Kalish, Mark Hickey
  • Publication number: 20080040155
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing multiple funding sources for health insurance and other approved healthcare expenses to full-time, hourly, part-time, seasonal, and temporary employees. Healthcare contributions for a single employee or for multiple workers in a family from more than one employer are placed in trust accounts established under separate Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) by each employer for use in paying qualified medical expenses of the employee and/or the employees' family. Each employer agrees to create HRAs for eligible employees and sends eligible employee data to a financial administrator. A trust account is created to hold the employer contributed HRA funds for the eligible employees. The eligible employees select a healthcare insurance policy, the premiums for which are paid out of each employee's HRA. The employee retains the HRA even if the employee's employment with the funding employer is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Randall Ray, Robert Payton
  • Publication number: 20070171400
    Abstract: A CW lightwave modulated by a continuously reiterated autocorrelated spectrum-spreading signal is launched into an end of a span of ordinary optical fiber cable. Portions of this lightwave back propagate to the launch end from a continuum of span locations because of innate fiber properties including Rayleigh effects. This is picked off the launch end and heterodyned producing an r.f. beat signal. The beat signal is processed by a plurality (can be thousands) of multifunction despreader, autocorrelator and de-multiplexer units respectively operated in different time delayed relationships to the timing base of launch signal reiteration. This provides r.f. time-domain reflectometry outputs representative of acoustic, or other signals incident upon virtual sensors at positions along the fiber corresponding to the various delay relationships. Material attenuation of undesired noises (e.g., reflections due to presence of couplers in the fiber cable line) is effected by the spectrum spreading and de-spreading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Robert Payton
  • Publication number: 20060066839
    Abstract: A CW lightwave modulated by a continuously reiterated binary pseudorandom code sequence is launched into an end of a span of ordinary optical fiber cable. Portions of the launched lightwave back propagate to the launch end from a continuum of locations along the span because of innate fiber properties including Rayleigh scattering. This is picked off the launch end and heterodyned to produce a r.f. beat signal. The r.f. beat signal is processed by a plurality (which can be thousands) of correlator type binary pseudonoise code sequence demodulators respectively operated in different delay time relationships to the timing base of the reiterated modulation sequences. The outputs of the demodulators provide r.f. time-domain reflectometry outputs representative of signals (e.g., acoustic pressure waves) incident to virtual sensors along the fiber at positions corresponding to the various time delay relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Payton
  • Publication number: 20060028636
    Abstract: A CW lightwave modulated by a continuously reiterated psuedorandom code sequence is launched into an end of a span of ordinary optical fiber cable. Portions of the launched lightwave back propagate to the launch end from a continuum of locations along the span because of innate fiber properties including Rayleigh scattering. This is picked off the launch end and heterodyned producing a r.f. beat signal. The r.f. beat signal is processed by a plurality (which can be thousands) of correlator type pseudonoise code sequence demodulation and phase demodulator units, operated in different time delay relationships to the timing base of the reiterated modulation sequences. These units provide outputs representative of phase variations in respective unique spectral components in the r.f. beat signal caused by acoustic, or other forms of, signals incident to virtual sensors at fiber positions corresponding to the various time delay relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Payton
  • Publication number: 20060028637
    Abstract: A CW lightwave modulated by a continuously reiterated pseudorandom (PN) code sequence is launched into an end of a span of ordinary optical fiber cable. Portions of the launched lightwave back propagate to the launch end from a continuum of locations along the span because of innate fiber properties including Rayleigh scattering. This is picked off the launch end and heterodyned producing a r.f. beat signal. The r.f. beat signal is processed by a plurality (which can be thousands) of correlator pseudonoise code sequence demodulation and phase demodulator units operated in different delay time relationships to the timing base of the reiterated modulation sequences. Pairs of outputs of the units are connected to respective substractor circuits, each providing a signal representative of a differential signal between acoustic, or other forms of, signals incident the bounds of virtual increments of the span.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Payton