Patents by Inventor Robert Smith

Robert Smith 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).

  • Publication number: 20230030649
    Abstract: A conveyor system that includes a sprocket, a conveyor element, a sensor, a tensioning system, and an electronic processor. The conveyor element is coupled to the sprocket to move around the sprocket. The sensor is positioned adjacent to the sprocket and configured to generate an output signal indicative of a detection of the conveyor element. The electronic processor is coupled to the sensor and to the tensioning system. The electronic processor is configured to receive the output signal from the sensor, estimate a trajectory of the conveyor element based on the output signal, determine a value for slack distance based on the estimated trajectory of the conveyor element, and control the tensioning system based on the value for slack distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Smith
  • Publication number: 20230024774
    Abstract: A document architecture system includes an intelligent document processing engine that can receive raw data streamed from external data source(s), analyze the raw data to identify triggering events, apply rules to the triggering events identified, break down the raw data accordingly, and generating messages in an internal format to represent the pieces of data without any formatting or layout information. The messages can be augmented with custom metadata and stored as fragments that reference, but that do not physically incorporate, the messages. The stored fragments can be used by the document process engine to intelligently render documents and versions thereof. The messages and fragments are in internal formats under control of the document architecture system. The renditions are in final formats that can be delivered, for instance, via an output connector to various output delivery channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Smith, Johan Lorensson, Christian Wessman, Sverker Wendelov
  • Patent number: 11562769
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to tape assembly implementations for magnetic recording devices, such as tape embedded drives (TEDs). In one or more embodiments, one or more of a first reel and/or a second reel is laterally movable relative to a side wall of a casing of the tape assembly. In one or more embodiments, a drive assembly laterally moves the first reel and the second reel substantially simultaneously such that a spindle distance between a first spindle and a second spindle is substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Erhard Schreck, Robert Smith
  • Publication number: 20230017637
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention include substituted riluzole prodrugs useful for the treatment of cancers including melanoma, breast cancer, brain cancer, and prostate cancer through the release of riluzole. Prodrugs of riluzole have enhanced stability to hepatic metabolism and are delivered into systemic circulation by oral administration, and then cleaved to release riluzole in the plasma via either an enzymatic or general biophysical release process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jay Edward Wrobel, Allen B. Reitz, Jeffery Claude Pelletier, Garry Robert Smith, Haiyan Bian
  • Publication number: 20230002911
    Abstract: A bi-layer protective coating for a metal component, the bi-layer protective coating comprising a bond coating that is metallurgically fused to a substrate of the metal component, wherein the bond coating comprises one or more rare metals and a top coating that is mechanically bonded to the bond coating, wherein the top coating comprises one or more metal oxides, or one or more metal carbides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Duncan Bews, Robert Smith, Evelyn Ng, III
  • Publication number: 20230003291
    Abstract: Anti-backlash gears and anti-backlash gear systems. A gear includes a plurality of compliant members extending outward to form at least a portion of the gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Optisys, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Smith, Daniel Ricks, Jacob Morrise
  • Patent number: 11545263
    Abstract: A physiological sensor has light emitting sources, each activated by addressing at least one row and at least one column of an electrical grid. The light emitting sources are capable of transmitting light of multiple wavelengths and a detector is responsive to the transmitted light after attenuation by body tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Cercacor Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Smith, David Dalke, Ammar Al-Ali, Mohamed K. Diab, Marcelo M. Lamego
  • Patent number: 11545855
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiver device for facilitating transaction of energy wirelessly received by the receiver device, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the receiver device comprises a receiver transceiver. Further, the energy comprises terahertz electromagnetic wave energy. Further, a receiver enclosure of the receiver transceiver stores the terahertz electromagnetic wave energy and converts the terahertz electromagnetic wave energy into electrical energy. Further, the receiver transceiver transmits a registration request to the transmitter device and transmits the electrical energy associated with an energy asset to an electrical load. Further, the receiver device generates the energy asset, accesses a second distributed block-chain, and creates an entry for a transaction of the energy asset in the second distributed block-chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: VOICE LIFE INC.
    Inventors: Robert Smith, David Lee Lark, Michael Hunter Smith
  • Patent number: 11540615
    Abstract: Disclosed fluid reservoirs include closure mechanisms for sealing an upper opening of the reservoir. The reservoir can have plates adjacent the upper opening. When the upper end of the reservoir is folded, the plates can be positioned on opposite sides, and a closure frame can be slid over the plates to pressure them together. The plates can have pins that engage with slots in the closure frame, and a separate closure lock can be slid over the end of the closure frame to prevent the pins from exiting the slots. The plates can also bias the opening open when the closure is not engaged. Also disclosed are flexible fluid reservoirs that include structural elements, such as baffles, that help retain a desired shape of the reservoir when filled or empty. Some baffles can be elastically deformable to allow flattening and expansion of the bladder while biasing toward a neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TSI Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Hoskins, Robert Smith
  • Publication number: 20220416437
    Abstract: A combiner network is provided. A combiner network may include a corporate combiner. The corporate combiner may include a first plurality of radiation elements. The corporate combiner may include a first H-plane combiner connected to the first plurality of radiation elements and connected by a U-bend to a first E-plane combiner. The corporate combiner may include a second H-plane combiner connected to the first E-plane combiner. The corporate combiner may further include a first port. A plurality of corporate combiners may be assembled together as a combiner network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: OPTISYS, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Hollenbeck, Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 11533360
    Abstract: A local delivery service (LDS) operates in an enterprise computer network as a proxy for a communications server (CS) computer operating in a cloud computing environment. The LDS pulls a queue repository maintained by the CS and retrieves an output item flagged by the CS for local delivery. The output item has a document and associated configuration information specifying an application domain in the cloud computing environment and delivery settings specific to the application domain maintained by the CS. The LDS translates the delivery settings and routes the document to the connectors of communications channels of the enterprise computer network. In this way, documents produced by the CS in the cloud can be delivered locally to disparate destinations on the enterprise computer network without having to open individual ports in a firewall of the enterprise computer network to connect the CS with communications channels of the enterprise computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Christian Askland, Robert Smith, Christian Wessman
  • Patent number: 11529746
    Abstract: The present disclosed subject matter provides a razor blade head with finger slots, depressions (indentations) which extend into the razor blade head, for receiving human fingers, allowing for the razor blade head, typically attached to the handle of a razor, and therefore, the razor, to be manipulated with more precision, control, and force, than by using the handle alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Jerome Robert Smith
  • Publication number: 20220396555
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention include substituted riluzole prodrugs useful for the treatment of cancers including melanoma, breast cancer, brain cancer, and prostate cancer through the release of riluzole. Prodrugs of riluzole have enhanced stability to hepatic metabolism and are delivered into systemic circulation by oral administration, and then cleaved to release riluzole in the plasma via either an enzymatic or general biophysical release process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Biohaven Therapeutics Ltd.
    Inventors: Jay Edward Wrobel, Allen B. Reitz, Jeffery Claude Pelletier, Garry Robert Smith, Haiyan Bian
  • Patent number: 11524217
    Abstract: A three-dimensional throwing game target apparatus includes platforms, bridge members, connectors and stanchions. The platforms include an outer wall and a platform receptacle ring that is adapted to receive a cup. Each of the bridge members include at least one bridge receptacle ring and a plurality of elongated girders extending outwardly from the bridge receptacle ring. The bridge members and the platforms may be detachably connected to one another in a horizontal plane. The stanchions are assembled to the platforms to support the receptacle rings at a plurality of different heights. The platforms, bridge members, connectors and stanchions may be assembled together to support the platform receptacle rings at selected vertically and horizontally spaced locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: WAR PONG, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Robert Smith, Gregory Adam Lauckner
  • Publication number: 20220383306
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for policy-validated transactions using a centralized or distributed ledger. A request to execute a transaction and a transaction signature is received from a user's computing device. The transaction signature is generated with a private key of the user's computing device. The transaction corresponds to a token associated with the user's computing device and the transaction is subject to a first policy of a set of one or more policies. The transaction signature corresponds to the request to execute the transaction is determined using a public key of the user's computing device. In response to the determination, the token associated with the user's computing device is retrieved from the centralized or distributed ledger. The transaction is executed if the token is associated with the first policy and the token is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Civic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Smith, Daniel Kelleher
  • Publication number: 20220385533
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for managing routes of data traffic within a network. The management may be performed via a graphical user interface that interacts with a Web server to update a configuration file. The configuration file can be converted to router management commands by a network management device (e.g., a BGP speaker). The commands can then be sent to border routers for controlling network traffic. Embodiments are also provided for capturing and logging routing updates made in a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Smith, Shawn Marck
  • Publication number: 20220378344
    Abstract: A pulse oximetry system for reducing the risk of electric shock to a medical patient can include physiological sensors, at least one of which has a light emitter that can impinge light on body tissue of a living patient and a detector responsive to the light after attenuation by the body tissue. The detector can generate a signal indicative of a physiological characteristic of the living patient. The pulse oximetry system may also include a splitter cable that can connect the physiological sensors to a physiological monitor. The splitter cable may have a plurality of cable sections each including one or more electrical conductors that can interface with one of the physiological sensors. One or more decoupling circuits may be disposed in the splitter cable, which can be in communication with selected ones of the electrical conductors. The one or more decoupling circuits can electrically decouple the physiological sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Valery G. Telfort, Ammar Al-Ali, Paul Martek, Robert A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20220383305
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for policy-validated transactions using a centralized or distributed ledger. A request to execute a transaction and a transaction signature is received from a user's computing device. The transaction signature is generated with a private key of the user's computing device. The transaction corresponds to a token associated with the user's computing device and the transaction is subject to a first policy of a set of one or more policies. The transaction signature corresponds to the request to execute the transaction is determined using a public key of the user's computing device. In response to the determination, the token associated with the user's computing device is retrieved from the centralized or distributed ledger. The transaction is executed if the token is associated with the first policy and the token is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Smith, Daniel Kelleher
  • Patent number: 11511944
    Abstract: A conveyor system that includes a sprocket, a conveyor element, a sensor, a tensioning system, and an electronic processor. The conveyor element is coupled to the sprocket to move around the sprocket. The sensor is positioned adjacent to the sprocket and configured to generate an output signal indicative of a detection of the conveyor element. The electronic processor is coupled to the sensor and to the tensioning system. The electronic processor is configured to receive the output signal from the sensor, estimate a trajectory of the conveyor element based on the output signal, determine a value for slack distance based on the estimated trajectory of the conveyor element, and control the tensioning system based on the value for slack distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Joy Global Underground Mining LLC
    Inventor: Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 11511943
    Abstract: A conveyor system that includes a sprocket, a conveyor element, a sensor, a tensioning system, and an electronic processor. The conveyor element is coupled to the sprocket to move around the sprocket. The sensor is positioned adjacent to the sprocket and configured to generate an output signal indicative of a detection of the conveyor element. The electronic processor is coupled to the sensor and to the tensioning system. The electronic processor is configured to receive the output signal from the sensor, estimate a trajectory of the conveyor element based on the output signal, determine a value for slack distance based on the estimated trajectory of the conveyor element, and control the tensioning system based on the value for slack distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Joy Global Underground Mining LLC
    Inventor: Robert Smith