Patents by Inventor Ross A. Freeman

Ross A. Freeman 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: 20240119521
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic detection of security features based on self-supervised natural language extraction from unstructured data sets are disclosed. The system may receive an unstructured data array including a full text of financial narrative. The system may serialize the unstructured data array to form one or more first data arrays including portions of the full text as discrete financial risk narratives. The system may build a tokenization dictionary and determine condensed summaries for each portion of the full text. The system may determine a relevancy score and a sentiment score for each condensed summary and calculate an overall relevancy score as a weighted average of the relevancy score and the sentiment score. When the overall risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold, the system may execute one or more security actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Minnie Virk, Rohan Mehta, Alberto Silva, Anthony Shewnarain, Steven Freeman, Stephen Jurcsek, Leah Lewy, Ross Arkin
  • Publication number: 20230368787
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated digital assistant on an electronic device are provided. In particular, this paper describes the automatic registration of voice-activated shortcuts for a particular application at a vocabulary engine associated with the intelligent automated digital assistant. In some embodiments the automatic registration can be performed during installation or update of an application. Automatic registration can also be initiated after entry of particular types of data into the application or a determination that a particular feature of the application is being commonly used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Michael R. SUMNER, Cameron BURGESS, Ari R. WEINSTEIN, Ross A. FREEMAN, Michael A. GORBACH, Lynn I. STREJA
  • Publication number: 20060245870
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for positioning a plurality of cassettes within an automated printing plate handler. In a plate handler, a plurality of cassettes each contain a supply of printing plates for delivery to an automatic plate-recording device. The apparatus includes a separate support table for supporting each of the plurality of cassettes within the plate handler and an elevator device for moving each of the support tables along a vertical axis of the automated plate handler. The automated plate handler is configured to automatically position a selected cassette in a first position to facilitate removal of the cassette from the handler. The plate handler further includes a platform, which substantially forms an extension of the support table supporting the selected cassette in the first position. The platform provides a second position, at which the selected cassette is to be one of, loaded or unloaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: AGFA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Laurence Blake, Philip Rombult, Libor Krupica, David Larsen, James Folsom, Ross Freeman, Roger Jacques, Robert Ring, Gerald Smith
  • Patent number: 7055431
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for positioning a plurality of cassettes within an automated printing plate handler. In a plate handler, a plurality of cassettes each contain a supply of printing plates for delivery to an automatic plate-recording device. The apparatus includes a separate support table for supporting each of the plurality of cassettes within the plate handler and an elevator device for moving each of the support tables along a vertical axis of the automated plate handler. The automated plate handler is configured to automatically position a selected cassette in a first position to facilitate removal of the cassette from the handler. The plate handler further includes a platform, which substantially forms an extension of the support table supporting the selected cassette in the first position. The platform provides a second position, at which the selected cassette is to be one of, loaded or unloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: AGFA Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, Philip A. Rombult, Libor Krupica, David B. Larsen, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Publication number: 20040179922
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for positioning a plurality of cassettes within an automated printing plate handler. In a plate handler, a plurality of cassettes each contain a supply of printing plates for delivery to an automatic plate-recording device. The apparatus includes a separate support table for supporting each of the plurality of cassettes within the plate handler and an elevator device for moving each of the support tables along a vertical axis of the automated plate handler. The automated plate handler is configured to automatically position a selected cassette in a first position to facilitate removal of the cassette from the handler. The plate handler further includes a platform, which substantially forms an extension of the support table supporting the selected cassette in the first position. The platform provides a second position, at which the selected cassette is to be one of, loaded or unloaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: AGFA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, Philip A. Rombult, Libor Krupica, David B. Larsen, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Patent number: 6726433
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for positioning a plurality of cassettes within an automated printing plate handler. In a plate handler, a plurality of cassettes each contain a supply of printing plates for delivery to an automatic plate-recording device. The apparatus includes a separate support table for supporting each of the plurality of cassettes within the plate handler and an elevator device for moving each of the support tables along a vertical axis of the automated plate handler. The automated plate handler is configured to automatically position a selected cassette in a first position to facilitate removal of the cassette from the handler. The plate handler further includes a platform, which substantially forms an extension of the support table supporting the selected cassette in the first position. The platform provides a second position, at which the selected cassette is to be one of, loaded or unloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Agfa Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, Philip A. Rombult, Libor Krupica, David B. Larsen, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Publication number: 20020189978
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing cut trim and dust from a paper handling machine, comprising an inlet port for carrying the cut trim and dust from the paper handling machine, a perforated conveyor located in a first chamber of the apparatus and operatively arranged to transport the cut trim from the inlet port to a waste container, and to transport the dust through the perforations to an ancillary chamber, and, means for creating a vacuum within the inlet port and the first and ancillary chambers to cause the dust to be transported from the inlet port, through the perforated conveyor in the first chamber, to the ancillary chamber. The method includes steps to separate cut trim from dust under vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: Moore North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Ross A. Freeman
  • Patent number: 6113346
    Abstract: The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the handler. Inside a cassette there may be a protective interleaf sheet, sometimes called a slip sheet, between each plate which is removed by the handler and discarded. The handler receives commands from the engine control sequencer which provides instructions as to what cassette needs to be accessed to make a plate available to the picker mechanism so the plate may be conveyed to the imaging engine. Conversely the handler provides status information to the engine to make full interaction with the system possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, Philip A. Rombult, Libor Krupica, David B. Larsen, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Patent number: 6000337
    Abstract: The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the handler. Inside a cassette there may be a protective interleaf sheet, sometimes called a slip sheet, between each plate which is removed by the handler and discarded. The handler receives commands from the engine control sequencer which provides instructions as to what cassette needs to be accessed to make a plate available to the picker mechanism so the plate may be conveyed to the imaging engine. Conversely the handler provides status information to the engine to make full interaction with the system possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Agfa Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, Philip A. Rombult, Libor Krupica, David B. Larsen, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Patent number: 5971691
    Abstract: Business forms are stacked using a cart having first and second portions pivotally movable with respect to each other from a substantially L-shaped configuration to a substantially in-line configuration with each portion having a conveyor associated with it, and a docking station. The cart with the first and second portions in the substantially L-shaped configuration is moved into operative association with the docking station. The cart is lifted and rotated in the docking station so that the second portion is substantially horizontal, and the first portion of the cart is pivoted with respect to the second portion so that the first portion is in the substantially in-line configuration with respect to the second portion. The conveyors are operated so that business forms are moved onto the first portion, and then onto the second portion, with the second conveyor operating at a speed of at least fifty percent greater than the first conveyor (e. g. about ten times as fast).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Moore U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Patrick Munson, Jr., Wilbur Drew, Daniel James Nicols, Ross A. Freeman
  • Patent number: 5809360
    Abstract: The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the handler. Inside a cassette there may be a protective interleaf sheet, sometimes called a slip sheet, between each plate which is removed by the handler and discarded. The handler receives commands from the engine control sequencer which provides instructions as to what cassette needs to be accessed to make a plate available to the picker mechanism so the plate may be conveyed to the imaging engine. Conversely the handler provides status information to the engine to make full interaction with the system possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Agfa Division - Bayer Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, David L. Cooper, Pedro Beildeck, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Patent number: 5791250
    Abstract: The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the handler. Inside a cassette there may be a protective interleaf sheet, sometimes called a slip sheet, between each plate which is removed by the handler and discarded. The handler receives commands from the engine control sequencer which provides instructions as to what cassette needs to be accessed to make a plate available to the picker mechanism so the plate may be conveyed to the imaging engine. Conversely the handler provides status information to the engine to make full interaction with the system possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Agfa Division, Bayer Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, Philip A. Rombult, Libor Krupica, David B. Larsen, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Patent number: 5655452
    Abstract: The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the handler. Inside a cassette there may be a protective interleaf sheet, sometimes called a slip sheet, between each plate which is removed by the handler and discarded. The handler receives commands from the engine control sequencer which provides instructions as to what cassette needs to be accessed to make a plate available to the picker mechanism so the plate may be conveyed to the imaging engine. Conversely the handler provides status information to the engine to make full interaction with the system possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: AGFA Division, Bayer Corp.
    Inventors: Laurence S. Blake, Philip A. Rombult, Libor Krupica, David B. Larsen, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
  • Patent number: 5409207
    Abstract: Short multi-ply business forms, or other flexible planar articles, are stacked with a vertical orientation in a horizontally elongated stack. The forms are conveyed in a first horizontal direction, then deflected by a deflecting roller and conveyor belts to move toward a generally vertical orientation, and driven vertically into contact with a depth stop, so that they have a vertical orientation and the first form in a stack is against a backstop. The backstop is moved intermittently in the horizontal first direction to accommodate further forms in the stack. A conveyor for moving the forms vertically is mounted for pivotal movement about a generally horizontal axis, which movement is sensed by a sensor which in turn, through a controller and motor, effects intermittent movement of the backstop. The depth stop may be adjusted to accommodate forms of different depths, and the position of the horizontal axis about which the second conveyor pivots may also be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Ross A. Freeman
  • Patent number: 5322232
    Abstract: A system for collecting paper trim and dust automates and simplifies the removal and disposal of trim. The system includes a funnel receiving the paper trim from an automatic trimmer, a drum and rewinder for winding the paper trim into a bale, and a dust trap for sucking dust from the drum and funnel into a dust bin. As the trim is baled, the rewinder drags the paper bale against the side of the drum. This drag compacts the bale and increases the load on the rewinder. As the drag load on the rewinder increases, the rewinder is moved radially towards the center of the drum to increase the distance between the rewinder and the drum wall. A current sensing circuit triggers the radial movement of the rewinder when the current load on the rewinder motor exceeds a threshold limit. This radial movement reduces the drag on the rewinder. When the rewinder reaches the center of the drum and the trim bale fills the drum, the rewinder is stopped and the trim bale removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross A. Freeman, Kenneth E. McDonald
  • Patent number: 5253972
    Abstract: A specially constructed pallet jack is used for transporting a heavy roll of paper having a central hollow core. The pallet jack includes a frame with elongated arms having first and second ends, with a first set of wheels mounted at the second end of the arms, and a second set of wheels mounted near the first end of the arms. A jack is provided for jacking up the first ends of the arms so that they are spaced from the wheels. Between the arms is a cradle having first and second ends with three obtuse angle-connected planar surfaces extending between the first and second ends. The first end of the cradle is pivotally mounted to the first ends of the arms, and the cradle is biased to a roll-receiving position by a gas spring. When a roll is rolled into the cradle, it pivots, dampened by shock absorbers to a roll-capture position in which the roll cannot spontaneously roll out of the cradle. A strap passes from the cradle through the core of the roll to positively hold it in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilbur Drew, Ross A. Freeman
  • Patent number: 5238164
    Abstract: Continuous business forms are detached and disposed in offset stacks. Continuous forms being fed into a conventional detacher are sensed by a first optical sensor, and after detachment are conveyed by a roller conveyor away from the detacher in a first direction. A guide rail is elongated in generally the first direction and the detached forms have an edge which engages the guide rail so that all the forms in a particular group are aligned when discharged from the conveyor into a stack. The guide rail is mounted on guide rods, for movement in opposite second and third directions, both generally perpendicular to the first direction, so as to change the position of the edge of detached forms in a subsequent group of forms so that consecutive stacks are offset from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Ross A. Freeman