Patents by Inventor Robert Powell
Robert Powell 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: 20210022691Abstract: An imaging system includes a first portion and a second portion that translates and/or rotates with respect to the first portion. A first locking mechanism may prevent the second portion from translating with respect to the first portion, such as during transport of the system. A second locking mechanism may prevent the second portion from rotating with respect to the first portion, such as during transport and/or during an imaging scan. Further embodiments include a cable management system between the first and second portions, a spherically-shaped surface of a support gimbal and a user interface device for an imaging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: Mobius Imaging, LLCInventors: Eugene Gregerson, Russell Stanton, Paul Sebring, Michael Connor, Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10878088Abstract: Examples relate to identifying randomly generated character strings. In one example, a computing device may: receive a character string that includes two or more characters; identify a number of character transitions included in the character string, each character transition being a change in character type within an n-gram of the character string, where n is a positive integer; and determine, based on the number of character transitions, whether the character string was randomly generated.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Trend Micro IncorporatedInventors: Richard Andrew Lawshae, Josiah Dede Hagen, Mathew Robert Powell, Elvis Collado, Jonathan Edward Andersson, Stephen David Povolny
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Patent number: 10835190Abstract: An imaging system includes a first portion and a second portion that translates and/or rotates with respect to the first portion. A first locking mechanism may prevent the second portion from translating with respect to the first portion, such as during transport of the system. A second locking mechanism may prevent the second portion from rotating with respect to the first portion, such as during transport and/or during an imaging scan. Further embodiments include a cable management system between the first and second portions, a spherically-shaped surface of a support gimbal and a user interface device for an imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: MOBIUS IMAGING, LLCInventors: Eugene Gregerson, Russell Stanton, Paul Sebring, Michael Connor, Robert Powell
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Publication number: 20200307436Abstract: A mobile salon vehicle is configured to contain a plurality of spa chairs with an integrated massaging foot spa tub. The mobile salon vehicle includes a generator, a water tank, a water heater, water pump and associated plumbing to service the massaging foot spa tubs. The salon chair may include a full service reclining massaging chair to provide salon services on the go.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventor: Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10762523Abstract: A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction using a computing device is provided. The computing device includes a promotion application in communication with a server. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes providing, by the promotion application, promotion data to the computing device, wherein the promotion data includes a merchant participating in the payment card network, a promotion program offered by the merchant, and promotion codes associated with the promotion program. The method further includes displaying the at least one promotion program on the computing device, receiving a selection of the at least one promotion program from the cardholder using the computing device, and sending the promotion codes associated with the selected promotion program to the server for a payment transaction that corresponds to the selected promotion program.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventor: Jonathan Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10673683Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed of providing a user application with a notification message. One example method may include receiving a script to setup a message queue, the script may include a database schema and the script may be executed by a processor to apply the database schema to a database that includes the message queue. The method may also include receiving one or more notifications messages having specific notification content that is applied to notification messages. The notifications may be received from a remote device. The message queue may include notification content used to generate notification messages destined for end user devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: KASEYA LIMITEDInventors: Chad Gniffke, Robert Wendell Davis, Mark Thomas Lingen, Ryan Smith, Mark James Sutherland, Scott Robert Powell
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Publication number: 20200151691Abstract: A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction is provided. The method uses at least one input device in communication with a database. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data within the database including at least one merchant participating in the payment card network, each promotional program offered by the at least one merchant to the cardholder, and promotion codes associated with each promotional program offered to the cardholder. The method further includes accessing the promotion data using the at least one input device, receiving a selected promotional program from the cardholder using the at least one input device, and automatically applying the promotion codes associated with the selected promotional program to the payment transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventor: Jonathan Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10565574Abstract: A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction is provided. The method uses at least one input device in communication with a database. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data within the database including at least one merchant participating in the payment card network, each promotional program offered by the at least one merchant to the cardholder, and promotion codes associated with each promotional program offered to the cardholder. The method further includes accessing the promotion data using the at least one input device, receiving a selected promotional program from the cardholder using the at least one input device, and automatically applying the promotion codes associated with the selected promotional program to the payment transaction.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Jonathan Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10328993Abstract: A bicycle steerer tube is adapted to reside in a plane of travel of the bicycle. A thickness at a point on the wall of the steerer tube body in a lower section thereof varies as a function of the cross-sectional angle of the point to the plane of travel, with the wall thickness being at a maximum in the plane of travel. An inner wall of the lower section may be elliptical, with a minor axis aligned with the plane of travel and a major axis orthogonal to the plane of travel.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: SRAM, LLCInventors: Jonathan Blair Watt, Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10262303Abstract: A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction using an input device in communication with a database is provided. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data within the database including at least one promotional program having a qualifying number of rewards points for a rewards program, and storing rewards data within the database including a current number of rewards points accumulated by the cardholder. The method further includes providing access to the promotion data through the at least one input device including each promotional program having a qualifying number of rewards points that is less than the current number of rewards points for the cardholder, receiving a selected promotional program from the cardholder, and automatically applying the promotion codes associated with the selected promotional program to the payment transaction.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Jonathan Robert Powell
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Publication number: 20190066074Abstract: A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction is provided. The method uses at least one input device in communication with a database. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data within the database including at least one merchant participating in the payment card network, each promotional program offered by the at least one merchant to the cardholder, and promotion codes associated with each promotional program offered to the cardholder. The method further includes accessing the promotion data using the at least one input device, receiving a selected promotional program from the cardholder using the at least one input device, and automatically applying the promotion codes associated with the selected promotional program to the payment transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventor: Jonathan Robert Powell
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Publication number: 20180370839Abstract: A method of making articles from preformed materials includes placing a preformed material on a mold such that a non-quality region of the preformed material contacts the mold and a quality region of the preformed material is free of contact with the mold. A non-contact support is provided to the quality region to control sagging of the quality region. A reformable area of the preformed material is formed into a select shape by contacting the reformable area with a forming tool while restricting contact between the forming tool and the reformable area to the non-quality region. After the forming of the reformable area, an article is extracted from the quality region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Jean-Luc Dabouineau, Elias Panides, William Robert Powell, Irene Marjorie Slater, Sam Samer Zoubi
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Publication number: 20180353143Abstract: An imaging system and methods including a gantry defining a bore and an imaging axis extending through the bore, and at least one support member that supports the gantry such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, where the gantry is displaceable with respect to the at least one support member in a generally vertical direction. The imaging system may be configured to obtain a vertical imaging scan (e.g., a helical x-ray CT scan), of a patient in a weight-bearing position. The gantry may be rotatable between a first position, in which the gantry is supported such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, and a second position, such that the imaging axis has a generally horizontal orientation. The gantry may be displaceable in a horizontal direction and the system may perform a horizontal scan of a patient or object positioned within the bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Eugene A. Gregerson, Russell Stanton, Michael Connor, Michael Allen, Paul Sebring, Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10151810Abstract: An imaging system and methods including a gantry defining a bore and an imaging axis extending through the bore, and at least one support member that supports the gantry such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, where the gantry is displaceable with respect to the at least one support member in a generally vertical direction. The imaging system may be configured to obtain a vertical imaging scan (e.g., a helical x-ray CT scan), of a patient in a weight-bearing position. The gantry may be rotatable between a first position, in which the gantry is supported such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, and a second position, such that the imaging axis has a generally horizontal orientation. The gantry may be displaceable in a horizontal direction and the system may perform a horizontal scan of a patient or object positioned within the bore.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: MOBIUS IMAGING, LLCInventors: Eugene A. Gregerson, Russell Stanton, Michael Connor, Michael Allen, Paul Sebring, Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10068243Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing a discount is described. The method is implemented using a payment processor computing device associated with a payment network. The method includes receiving, at the payment processor computing device, from a discount module computing device, a notification of an adjusted authorization amount for a transaction, wherein the notification is received by the discount module computing device from an intercept node computing device at the time a cardholder makes a purchase. The method also includes receiving, at the payment processor computing device, an authorization request message including a non-adjusted authorization amount for the transaction, replacing the non-adjusted authorization amount with the adjusted authorization amount in the authorization request message, and transmitting the authorization request message to an issuer computing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventor: Jonathan Robert Powell
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Patent number: 10015826Abstract: A method includes coupling an adapter device to a field instrument in an industrial control system to provide a wireless communication capability to the field instrument. The method also includes converting, by the adapter device, information from a first protocol native to the field instrument into a second protocol native to a wireless network. The method further includes transmitting the information to at least one other device over the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Alexander Chernoguzov, Robert Powell
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Patent number: 9962132Abstract: An imaging system and methods including a gantry defining a bore and an imaging axis extending through the bore, and at least one support member that supports the gantry such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, where the gantry is displaceable with respect to the at least one support member in a generally vertical direction. The imaging system may be configured to obtain a vertical imaging scan (e.g., a helical x-ray CT scan), of a patient in a weight-bearing position. The gantry may be rotatable between a first position, in which the gantry is supported such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, and a second position, such that the imaging axis has a generally horizontal orientation. The gantry may be displaceable in a horizontal direction and the system may perform a horizontal scan of a patient or object positioned within the bore.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: MOBIUS IMAGING, LLCInventors: Eugene A. Gregerson, Russell Stanton, Michael Connor, Michael Allen, Paul Sebring, Robert Powell
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Publication number: 20180007146Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed of providing a user application with a notification message. One example method may include receiving a script to setup a message queue, the script may include a database schema and the script may be executed by a processor to apply the database schema to a database that includes the message queue. The method may also include receiving one or more notifications messages having specific notification content that is applied to notification messages. The notifications may be received from a remote device. The message queue may include notification content used to generate notification messages destined for end user devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Chad Gniffke, Robert Wendell Davis, Mark Thomas Lingen, Ryan Smith, Mark James Sutherland, Scott Robert Powell
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Publication number: 20170360387Abstract: A mobile diagnostic imaging system includes a battery system and charging system. The battery system is located in the rotating portion of the imaging system, and includes one or more battery packs comprising electrochemical cells. Each battery pack includes a control circuit that controls the state of charge of each electrochemical cell, and implements a control scheme that causes the electrochemical cells to have a similar charge state. The battery system communicates with a charging system on the non-rotating portion to terminate charge when one or more of the electrochemical cells reach a full state of charge. The imaging system also includes a docking system that electrically connects the charging system to the battery system during charging and temporarily electrically disconnects the rotating and non-rotating portions during imaging, and a drive mechanism for rotating the rotating portion relative to the non-rotating portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Eugene A. GREGERSON, Michael CONNOR, Michael ALLEN, Paul SEBRING, Robert POWELL, Russell STANTON, Scott COPPEN
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Patent number: 9769264Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed of providing a user application with a notification message. One example method may include receiving a script to setup a message queue, the script may include a database schema and the script may be executed by a processor to apply the database schema to a database that includes the message queue. The method may also include receiving one or more notifications messages having specific notification content that is applied to notification messages. The notifications may be received from a remote device. The message queue may include notification content used to generate notification messages destined for end user devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: KASEYA LIMITEDInventors: Chad Gniffke, Robert Wendell Davis, Mark Thomas Lingen, Ryan Smith, Mark James Sutherland, Scott Robert Powell