Patents by Inventor Robert Stephens

Robert Stephens 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: 11370324
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle including a motive electrical power path; a power distribution unit including: a current protection circuit disposed in the motive electrical power path, the current protection circuit including a fuse and a contactor in a series arrangement with the fuse; a high voltage power input coupling including a first electrical interface for a high voltage power source; and a high voltage power output coupling including a second electrical interface for a motive power load, where the current protection circuit electrically couples the high voltage power input coupling to the high voltage power output coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Robert Stephen Douglass, Brandon William Fisher, Martin Wayne Mensch, Austin Robert Zurface, Jeff Howard Urian, James David, Bharath Suda, Asheesh Soni
  • Publication number: 20220178327
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cylinder head with an exterior wall including a removable camshaft carrier. In one example, a cylinder head includes a camshaft carrier removably couplable to a mount surface of the cylinder head and adapted to form a portion of an exterior wall of the cylinder head while coupled to the mount surface. The camshaft carrier may include a first section removably couplable to the cylinder head and a second section removably couplable to the first section, with the first section and the second section together shaped to receive a camshaft journal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Jeff Fluharty, Forest Heggie, Chad Ramsby, Robert Stephen Furby
  • Patent number: 11347797
    Abstract: In a search and database system, a graph generator builds a graph, comprising nodes and edges, and stores that graph in a database or other data structure and uses a repeated extending and culling process to build the graph. From that storage, the graph can be used to generate displays for users interested in learning about the graph and/or for performing queries and the like on that graph data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BIT DISCOVERY INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah Jacob Grossman, Robert Stephen Hansen
  • Publication number: 20220158944
    Abstract: A system is provided for delivering network services. The system receives an inventory of network assets and a scope of available network services. For each asset of at least a subset of the assets, the system selects importance-related ranking attributes and scannability-related ranking attributes from the available service characteristics of the asset. Based on the importance-related ranking attributes, the system determines an importance of the asset. Based on the scannability-related ranking attributes or the or a scope of available network services, the system determines a scannability of the asset. Based on the importance and scannability of the asset, the system determines a priority of the asset. Based on the priorities of the assets, the system determines a prioritized asset inventory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Stephen Hansen, Jeremiah Jacob Grossman
  • Publication number: 20220157547
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating a thermal-mechanical fatigue in an electrical conductor in a thermal-mechanical fatigue assessment system include an electrical conductor having a cold resistance and a non-linear resistance when connected to an electrical power system, and a controller receiving temperatures of the conductor as inputs, wherein the controller is operable to estimate a service life of the conductor based on at least the input temperatures of the conductor and the cold resistance of the conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Gopinadh Sirigineedi, Pandarinath R, Ravishankar S, Robert Stephen Douglass, Harold Handcock, Uppu Harish
  • Publication number: 20220123652
    Abstract: There is provided a current control circuit (20) for connection between a first electrical network (42) and a converter, the current control circuit (20) comprising: first and second input terminals (24,26) for connection to the first electrical network (42); first and second output terminals (28,30) for respective connection to converter terminals (46,48) of the converter; first and second switching limbs, the first switching limb interconnecting the first input and output terminals (24,28), the second switching limb interconnecting the second input and output terminals (26,30), each switching limb including a respective switching element (32,34,36,38); a director limb (76) extending between the first and second output terminals (28,30), the director limb (76) including at least one current director element (84) and at least one first resistive element (86), the director limb (76) including an intermediate terminal (82); a second resistive element (88), a first end of the second resistive element (88) ope
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Hassan TAGHIZADEH, Carl David BARKER, Robert Stephen WHITEHOUSE
  • Publication number: 20220096728
    Abstract: Provided herein is a wound drain useful in negative pressure wound treatment therapy. The wound drain advantageously includes structural components that prevent the drain from collapsing under negative pressure and from ingesting foreign materials introduced into a wound cavity, such as gauze and sponges, which con obstruct exudate flow through the drain. The wound drain may further comprise a dual lumen configuration such that it advantageously can be used in for positive pressure applications, or for combined negative and positive pressure treatments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Albert Rodewald, Robert Stephen Porter, John Armacost
  • Publication number: 20220101112
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to use one or more neural networks to generate data labels. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks is trained based, at least in part on, one or more labels, pseudo-labels, training data, and modified training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Abel Karl Brown, Robert Stephen DiPietro, Benedikt Dietmar Schifferer
  • Patent number: 11289298
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating a thermal-mechanical fatigue in an electrical conductor in a thermal-mechanical fatigue assessment system include an electrical conductor having a cold resistance and a non-linear resistance when connected to an electrical power system, and a controller receiving temperatures of the conductor as inputs, wherein the controller is operable to estimate a service life of the conductor based on at least the input temperatures of the conductor and the cold resistance of the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Gopinadh Sirigineedi, Pandarinath R, Ravishankar S, Robert Stephen Douglass, Harold Handcock, Uppu Harish
  • Publication number: 20220094559
    Abstract: A methodology for requesting at least one signed security measurement from at least one module is provided. The methodology includes receiving the at least one signed security measurement from the at least one module; validating the at least one signed security measurement; generating a signed dossier including all validated signed security measurements in a secure enclave, the signed dossier being used by an external network device for remote attestation of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, Jesse Daniel Backman, Robert Stephen Rodgers, Joseph Eryx Malcolm
  • Patent number: 11282666
    Abstract: A circuit protection system including at least one fuse including a fuse element, at least one inductive heating element operable to heat the fuse element, at least one control module in communication with the inductive heating element, and at least one current detection device coupled to said control module. The control module is configured to operate the inductive heating element and cause the fuse element to open in response to a predetermined current condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Zhou, Robert Stephen Douglass
  • Patent number: 11268051
    Abstract: A detergent or cleaning agent, in particular a cleaning agent for hard surfaces, especially an automatic dishwasher detergent, having a water-soluble envelope with a continuously encircling sealing seam and two phases which are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Matthias Sunder, Oliver Kurth, Luca Bellomi, Inga Kerstin Vockenroth, Klaus Dorra, Michael Kreis, Thomas Weber, Robert Stephen Cappleman
  • Patent number: 11263540
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing, to a client system of a user, a user interface for display. The user interface may include a first set of options for selecting an artificial intelligence (AI) task for integrating into a user application, a second set of options for selecting one or more devices on which the user wants to deploy the selected AI task, and a third set of options for selecting one or more performance constraints specific to the selected devices. User specifications may be received based on user selections in the first, second, and third sets of options. A custom AI model may be generated based on the user specifications and sent to the client system of the user for integrating into the user application. The custom AI model once integrated may enable the user application to perform the selected AI task on the selected devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander James Oscar Craver Kirchhoff, Ali Farhadi, Anish Jnyaneshwar Prabhu, Carlo Eduardo Cabanero del Mundo, Daniel Carl Tormoen, Hessam Bagherinezhad, Matthew S. Weaver, Maxwell Christian Horton, Mohammad Rastegari, Robert Stephen Karl, Jr., Sophie Lebrecht
  • Patent number: 11213722
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring a swimmer's speed and conveying the speed to the swimmer in real time includes a plurality of ultrasonic beacons each having a transducer configured to emit ultrasonic signals in a pool or other body of water within which the swimmer is swimming. A wearable, waterproof, ultrasonic receiver worn by the swimmer, receives the ultrasonic signals and generates corresponding signal data. The receiver's microcontroller captures and uses the signal data to calculate the swimmer's position and speed in real time, and conveys this information to a wearable, waterproof, user interface device worn by the swimmer, the user interface device including a near-eye display disposed on the swimmer's goggles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Swimmetric, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Stephen Tucker
  • Patent number: 11212119
    Abstract: A methodology for requesting at least one signed security measurement from at least one module with a corresponding cryptoprocessor is provided. The methodology includes receiving the at least one signed security measurement from the at least one module with the corresponding cryptoprocessor; validating the at least one signed security measurement; generating a signed dossier including all validated signed security measurements in a secure enclave, the signed dossier being used by an external network device for remote attestation of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, Jesse Daniel Backman, Robert Stephen Rodgers, Joseph Eryx Malcolm
  • Publication number: 20210382979
    Abstract: An example computing device includes a memory accessible at startup of the computing device, a buffer, and a set of instructions. The memory stores a configuration setting that is configurable by the application of a change request. The memory also stores a first public key and a second public key. The buffer stores change requests submitted by a remote entity, including a first change request to make a first setting change and a second change request to make a second setting change. The first change request is signed by a first private key corresponding to the first public key, and the second change request is signed by a second private key corresponding to the second public key. The set of instructions retrieves a change request from the buffer, determines whether the change request is authenticated by a public key, and if authenticated, applies the change request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Alden Bramley, Jr., Dallas M. Barlow, Patrick Lee Gibbons, Adrian John Baldwin, Tevin Jaupaul Richards, Robert Stephen Craig, Valiuddin Ali, Jeffrey Kevin Jeansonne
  • Patent number: 11193088
    Abstract: Cleaning agents, preferably dishwashing detergents, in particular the automatic dishwashing detergent, having at least one low-water, preferably substantially anhydrous gel-like phase which contains at least one water-soluble zinc salt, preferably zinc sulfate and/or zinc acetate, particularly preferably zinc acetate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Oliver Kurth, Michael Kreis, Thomas Doering, Robert Stephen Cappleman
  • Publication number: 20210328422
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic valve apparatus for a high voltage direct current, HVDC, power transmission system. The electronic valve apparatus comprises a first device chain (301) including a plurality of first devices (302, 303) connected in series between an input node (330) and an output node (332) of the electronic valve apparatus (300, 400, 500). Each of the plurality of first devices (302, 303) has an asymmetric transfer function configured substantially to block current flow through the device in a first direction, and the plurality of first devices (302, 303) are connected such that they all block current flow in the same direction. The electronic valve apparatus also includes a second device chain (311) including a plurality of second devices (312, 313) connected in series between the input node (330) and the output node (332).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Carl D. BARKER, Colin Charnock DAVIDSON, John Lewis OUTRAM, Timothy James STOTT, Robert Stephen WHITEHOUSE
  • Patent number: 11148225
    Abstract: Forming holes in a material includes focusing a pulsed laser beam into a laser beam focal line oriented along the beam propagation direction and directed into the material, the laser beam focal line generating an induced absorption within the material, the induced absorption producing a defect line along the laser beam focal line within the material, and translating the material and the laser beam relative to each other, thereby forming a plurality of defect lines in the material, and etching the material in an acid solution to produce holes greater than 1 micron in diameter by enlarging the defect lines in the material. A glass article includes a stack of glass substrates with formed holes of 1-100 micron diameter extending through the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Sasha Marjanovic, Garrett Andrew Piech, Shyamala Shanmugam, Carlos Alberto Pons Siepermann, Sergio Tsuda, Zsigmond Varga, Robert Stephen Wagner
  • Patent number: D949859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NorMedix, Inc.
    Inventors: James Foody, Robert Stephen Murdock, Conor Hayes, John Affaki