Patents by Inventor Robert Stefan
Robert Stefan 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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Patent number: 11925991Abstract: A milling device for machining a slot into an inner surface of a casing for a gas turbine engine. The milling device includes a frame assembly including multiple structural guides configured to engage structural features on the inner surface of the casing to maintain an axial position of the milling device relative to a longitudinal axis of the casing. The milling device also includes a milling cutter coupled to the frame assembly. The milling device is configured to be displaced in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis to machine the slot, via the milling cutter, along the inner surface of the casing in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Fabian Gubelmann, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Thomas Gloor, Roman Stefan Peter
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Patent number: 11116306Abstract: A pump assembly for a dental cleaning appliance includes a fluid chamber, a piston, and a drive. Magnets, connected respectively to the piston and the drive, enable the drive to couple to the piston and move it within the fluid chamber to draw fluid into the fluid chamber. A stop prevents the piston from being pulled beyond a stop position so that through continued actuation of the drive the magnets separate to allow a spring to push the piston away from the stop position to urge a burst of fluid from the fluid chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Christopher Graham Vincent, Robert Lawrence Tweedie, Jason Godfrey Jones, Robert Stefan Wronski, Philip Stephen Darling, Edward Michael Waugh
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Patent number: 10915915Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying financial transaction opportunities for individualized offers are disclosed. In one embodiment a method for offering rewards to a customer of a financial institution may include (1) a server comprising at least one computer processor identifying a customer spending opportunity for a customer to use a financial instrument issued by a financial institution to conduct a transaction involving the customer spending opportunity; (2) the server determining an incentive to offer the customer for using the financial instrument issued by the financial institution to conduct the transaction involving the customer spending opportunity; and (3) the server communicating the incentive to an electronic device associated with the customer.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.Inventors: Alex Lieberman, Nitin Bhargava, Ryan Andrew Schlosser, Robert A. Stefan
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Patent number: 10588399Abstract: A fluid delivery system of a dental cleaning appliance includes a pump for drawing a working fluid through a fluid inlet, a hydraulic actuator for receiving working fluid from the pump, a drive for actuating the pump, and a nozzle having a fluid outlet for ejecting working fluid from the appliance. The drive includes a motor and a control circuit for operating the motor. The control circuit is configured to detect stalling of the motor in response to the load applied to the pump by the pressurized working fluid stored in the accumulator, and to deactivate the motor when stalling of the motor has been detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Robert Stefan Wronski, Martin Szymon Gutkowski, Alexander David May
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Patent number: 10455783Abstract: The present invention relates to breeding methods to enhance the germplasm of a plant. The methods describe the identification and accumulation of preferred haplotype genomic regions in the germplasm of breeding populations of maize (Zea mays) and soybean (Glycine max). The invention also relates to maize and soybean plants comprising preferred haplotypes.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Jason Bull, David Butruille, Sam Eathington, Marlin Edwards, Anju Gupta, G. Richard Johnson, Robert Stefan Reiter
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Publication number: 20180125221Abstract: A fluid delivery system of a dental cleaning appliance includes a pump for drawing a working fluid through a fluid inlet, a hydraulic actuator for receiving working fluid from the pump, a drive for actuating the pump, and a nozzle having a fluid outlet for ejecting working fluid from the appliance. The drive includes a motor and a control circuit for operating the motor. The control circuit is configured to detect stalling of the motor in response to the load applied to the pump by the pressurized working fluid stored in the accumulator, and to deactivate the motor when stalling of the motor has been detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Robert Stefan WRONSKI, Martin Szymon GUTKOWSKI, Alexander David MAY
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Publication number: 20180084898Abstract: A pump assembly for a dental cleaning appliance includes a fluid chamber, a piston, and a drive. Magnets, connected respectively to the piston and the drive, enable the drive to couple to the piston and move it within the fluid chamber to draw fluid into the fluid chamber. A stop prevents the piston from being pulled beyond a stop position so that through continued actuation of the drive the magnets separate to allow a spring to push the piston away from the stop position to urge a burst of fluid from the fluid chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Christopher Graham VINCENT, Robert Lawrence TWEEDIE, Jason Godfrey JONES, Robert Stefan WRONSKI, Philip Stephen DARLING, Edward Michael WAUGH
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Patent number: 7456336Abstract: The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments encoding fatty acid desaturase enzymes are described. The invention permits alteration of plant lipid composition. Chimeric genes incorporating such nucleic acid fragments with suitable regulatory sequences may be used to create transgenic plants with altered levels of unsaturated fatty acids.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2006Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Cargill, IncorporatedInventors: Richard Martin Broglie, Lorin Roger Debonte, William Dean Hitz, Guo-Hua Miao, Robert Stefan Reiter
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Patent number: 7109392Abstract: The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments encoding fatty acid desaturase enzymes are described. The invention permits alteration of plant lipid composition. Chimeric genes incorporating mutant delta-12 fatty acid desaturase nucleic acid fragments with suitable regulatory sequences may be used to create transgenic plants with altered levels of unsaturated fatty acids.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2000Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Cargill, IncorporatedInventors: Richard Martin Broglie, Lorin Roger DeBonte, William Dean Hitz, Guo-Hua Miao, Robert Stefan Reiter
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Patent number: 6832448Abstract: A greenhouse on a support structure on posts with a hanging foil roof that can be opened, wherein the foil covering that forms the roof remains completely below the support structure formed by lattice girders in every position by being suspended form the rails on the underside of, and longitudinally to, the lattice girders is movable between the open and the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2002Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Inventor: Robert Stefan
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Publication number: 20040003536Abstract: A greenhouse on a support structure on posts with a hanging foil roof that can be opened, wherein the foil covering that forms the roof remains completely below the support structure formed by lattice girders in every position by being suspended form the rails on the underside of, and longitudinally to, the lattice girders is movable between the open and the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2002Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventor: Robert Stefan
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Patent number: 6219964Abstract: A method for identification of trait loci using genetic marker loci and the use of genetic marker loci as a selection method in a plant breeding program is disclosed. The method comprises comparing genotypic survey data to phenotypic data collected from the same entries used to create the genotypic survey and identifying genetic marker loci that are associated with traits. The method allows new and superior plants to be identified and selected for in a plant breeding program by genotyping with identified genetic marker loci.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1997Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Asgrow Seed Co.Inventors: Joseph Richard Byrum, Robert Stefan Reiter