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).
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Publication number: 20240119521Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Minnie Virk, Rohan Mehta, Alberto Silva, Anthony Shewnarain, Steven Freeman, Stephen Jurcsek, Leah Lewy, Ross Arkin
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Publication number: 20230368787Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Michael R. SUMNER, Cameron BURGESS, Ari R. WEINSTEIN, Ross A. FREEMAN, Michael A. GORBACH, Lynn I. STREJA
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Publication number: 20060245870Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Applicant: AGFA CORPORATIONInventors: Laurence Blake, Philip Rombult, Libor Krupica, David Larsen, James Folsom, Ross Freeman, Roger Jacques, Robert Ring, Gerald Smith
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Patent number: 7055431Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: AGFA CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20040179922Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: AGFA CORPORATIONInventors: 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
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Patent number: 6726433Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2000Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Agfa CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20020189978Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2001Publication date: December 19, 2002Applicant: Moore North America, Inc.Inventor: Ross A. Freeman
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Patent number: 6113346Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Agfa CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 6000337Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: Agfa CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 5971691Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 19, 1998Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Moore U.S.A., Inc.Inventors: Thomas Patrick Munson, Jr., Wilbur Drew, Daniel James Nicols, Ross A. Freeman
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Patent number: 5809360Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Agfa Division - Bayer CorporationInventors: Laurence S. Blake, David L. Cooper, Pedro Beildeck, James C. Folsom, Ross A. Freeman, Roger A. Jacques, Robert S. Ring, Gerald L. Smith
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Patent number: 5791250Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Agfa Division, Bayer CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 5655452Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 5409207Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 1993Date of Patent: April 25, 1995Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.Inventor: Ross A. Freeman
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Patent number: 5322232Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 1992Date of Patent: June 21, 1994Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.Inventors: Ross A. Freeman, Kenneth E. McDonald
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Patent number: 5253972Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 30, 1992Date of Patent: October 19, 1993Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.Inventors: Wilbur Drew, Ross A. Freeman
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Patent number: 5238164Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 1992Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.Inventor: Ross A. Freeman