Patents by Inventor Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan 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: 20200231391
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Robert SULLIVAN, Gregory THRONSON, Christopher KILEY, Todd E. KEPPLE, Jared PLOSS
  • Publication number: 20200231582
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that modulate protein function, to restore protein homeostasis and/or cell-cell adhesion. The invention provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions of these compounds are also provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of protein-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Frank Mercurio, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Leah Fung, Robert Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10717599
    Abstract: A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Symbotic, LLC
    Inventors: John Lert, Stephen Toebes, Robert Sullivan, Foster D. Hinshaw, Nathan Ulrich, Eric Peters
  • Patent number: 10710804
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including a storage structure with storage racks having a seating surface configured to support case units where a position of each case unit is non-deterministic for each storage location on the storage racks, each case unit has a predetermined storage position and a controller is configured to determine the predetermined storage position, a picking aisle configured to provide access to the case units within the storage structure, and a seismic disturbance restorative system including seismic disturbance motions sensors disposed on the storage racks, a seismic disturbance control module in communication with the seismic disturbance sensors and configured to identify a seismic disturbance, and an automated case mapper configured to traverse the picking aisle, the automated case mapper being in communication with and initialized by the seismic disturbance control module to identify a seated position of at least one case unit within the storage structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Symbotic, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Stephen C. Toebes
  • Patent number: 10696479
    Abstract: A storage and retrieval system including a storage structure having storage shelves, each storage shelf having slats for supporting stored items where the slats are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, an autonomous transport vehicle including at least one sensor configured to sense each of the slats and output a signal indicating when a slat is sensed, and a controller for verifying a location of the autonomous transport vehicle within the storage structure based on at least the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Michael Cyrulik, Stephen C. Toebes
  • Patent number: 10683169
    Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle including a transfer arm including at least one finger and a movable finger support member, at least one sensor configured to detect movement of the at least one finger, the at least one sensor having a registration member and a detection member where one of the registration member and detection member is mounted to each of the at least one finger so as to be movable with a respective one of the at least one finger and the other one of the registration member and detection member is stationary relative to the at least one finger, and a controller in communication with the at least one sensor, the controller being configured to determine a position of the at least one finger along the second direction based on a proximity of the registration member relative to the detection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Symbotic, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Stephen C. Toebes
  • Publication number: 20200172336
    Abstract: A storage and retrieval system including a vertical array of storage levels, each storage level having storage locations, a multilevel vertical conveyor system configured to transport the uncontained case units to and from the vertical array of storage levels, each storage level being configured to receive uncontained case units from the multilevel vertical conveyor system, at least one autonomous transport confined to each storage level, the at least one autonomous transport being configured to transport the uncontained case units between respective storage locations and the multilevel vertical conveyor system, and a controller configured to effect operation of the multilevel vertical conveyor system and at least one autonomous transport for assembling orders of uncontained case units of different types without moving bundles of the same uncontained case unit type throughout the storage and retrieval system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Robert SULLIVAN, John LERT, Stephen C. TOEBES
  • Publication number: 20200172551
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that modulate protein function, specifically phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4). The invention provides methods of treating, ameliorating, and/or preventing diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with PDE4. Compositions, including in combination with other inflammatory mediators, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Paul E. Erdman, Eduardo Torres, Leah Fung, Kyle W.H. Chan, Frank Mercurio
  • Patent number: 10669260
    Abstract: The present invention provides modulators of protein function, to restore protein homeostasis, including cytokine, aiolos, and/or ikaros activity, and cell-cell adhesion. The invention provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other cytokine and inflammatory mediators, are provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of protein-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, including inflammation, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, uveitis, inflammatory lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle W. H. Chan, Leah Fung, Robert Sullivan, Paul E. Erdman, Frank Mercurio
  • Patent number: 10654805
    Abstract: Provided herein are pyridinethiones, for example, a compound of Formula I, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods of their use for treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a proliferative, inflammatory, neurodegenerative, or immune-mediated disease (e.g., multiple sclerosis).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Leah Fung, Robert Sullivan, Kyle W. H. Chan, Frank Mercurio, Armen Manoukian, Sam Scanga, Fabrizio Mastronardi
  • Publication number: 20200148663
    Abstract: Substituted isoindolinones of Formula (I), methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat or ameliorate diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with protein malfunction, such as cancer, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Imelda Lam, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan, Eduardo Torres
  • Publication number: 20200149767
    Abstract: A system cools a space toward target conditions using an air conditioning process based on a bank of different cooling device types. Some device types consume relatively less energy and are suitable for mild environmental conditions, others consume more energy and are needed for extreme conditions, while others may fill a middle ground. To help save energy, the system alters the air conditioning process by selecting one or a mix of cooling device types expected to be sufficient for current conditions. Current conditions corresponds to a supply air position on a psychrometric chart. Selection of the appropriate cooling device type(s) is made according to the location of the supply air position relative to a dew point, which is determined from the target conditions set by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Mohamed Farouk SALEM, Michael Robert SULLIVAN
  • Patent number: 10625956
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Gregory Thronson, Christopher Kiley, Todd E. Kepple, Jared Ploss
  • Publication number: 20200115172
    Abstract: A maintenance access system for a storage and retrieval system having a storage and retrieval space and automated transport vehicles disposed in the space. The system includes at least one maintenance access control unit associated with a portion of the space, at least one barrier in the space and defining a boundary of the portion of the space and configured to substantially prevent the passage of the vehicles past the at least one barrier, and a controller connected to the control unit, the controller being configured to receive a signal from the at least one control unit for isolating the portion of the space associated with the at least one control unit, where the controller in response to the signal closes the at least one barrier isolating the portion of the space and effects the removal from or shutting down of vehicles within the portion of the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Michael CYRULIK, Robert SULLIVAN
  • Publication number: 20200103882
    Abstract: A collaborative logistic facility management system for a logistic facility includes multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles and a system controller. The vehicles transport logistics goods or pallets between truck portals and storage locations and are configured for autonomous guidance travel, in autonomous mode and include a collaborating operator input for collaborative autonomous guided vehicle navigation and guidance. The system controller commands each vehicle to transfer the logistic goods or pallets between the truck portals and the storage locations, identifies a predetermined truck portal of a corresponding truck to be loaded or to be unloaded, and generates a collaborative zone. The controller generates a queue of robot autonomous guided vehicles on a side of the collaborative zone and commands the multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles disposed to load or unload the corresponding truck to move in autonomous mode into the queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
  • Publication number: 20200102147
    Abstract: A configurable modular robotic autonomous guided vehicle having an engine module and multiple different ones of selectably interchangeable logistic or material handling accessory modules. The engine module has motors, sensors and a control system integrated with each other for autonomous navigation freely throughout a travel area forming a logistic space. A module interface is located at one end of the engine module for modular coupling of the engine module with a handling accessory module of the vehicle. Each of the handling accessory modules has a different predetermined logistic or material handling characteristic that on integral coupling with the engine module define a different logistic or material handling autonomous guided vehicle type. Selectable coupling of the handling accessory module with the engine module configures the vehicle so as to change the vehicle type from a first vehicle type to a second vehicle type different than the first vehicle type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell, Paul Perry, William Fannin
  • Patent number: 10584133
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that modulate protein function and/or restore protein homeostasis. The disclosure provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other therapeutic agents, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle W. H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Imelda Lam, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan, Eduardo Torres
  • Patent number: 10570147
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that modulate protein function, specifically phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4). The invention provides methods of treating, ameliorating, and/or preventing diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with PDE4. Compositions, including in combination with other inflammatory mediators, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Paul E. Erdman, Eduardo Torres, Leah Fung, Kyle W. H. Chan, Frank Mercurio
  • Patent number: 10562917
    Abstract: The present invention provides chimeric compounds that modulate protein function, to restore protein homeostasis, including cytokine, aiolos, and/or ikaros activity, TNF-alpha activity, CK1-alpha activity and cell-cell adhesion. The invention provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other cytokine and inflammatory mediators, are provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of protein-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, including inflammation, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, uveitis, inflammatory lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer's disease, organ transplant rejection, and cancer, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle W. H. Chan, Leah Fung, Robert Sullivan, Paul E. Erdman, Frank Mercurio, Eduardo Torres
  • Publication number: 20200048277
    Abstract: The present application provides compounds that modulate CDK protein function. Methods of making the compounds, compositions containing the compounds, and uses of the compounds for treating or ameliorating of diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with CDK proteins, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, David Aaron Hecht, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan, Joseph P. Vacca