Patents Assigned to Dynamics Inc.
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Publication number: 20250091220Abstract: A perception mast for mobile robot is provided. The mobile robot comprises a mobile base, a turntable operatively coupled to the mobile base, the turntable configured to rotate about a first axis, an arm operatively coupled to a first location on the turntable, and the perception mast operatively coupled to a second location on the turntable, the perception mast configured to rotate about a second axis parallel to the first axis, wherein the perception mast includes disposed thereon, a first perception module and a second perception module arranged between the first imaging module and the turntable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Turpin, Benjamin Zelnick, Michael Murphy, Alex Perkins
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Patent number: 12251837Abstract: Systems and methods related to intelligent grippers with individual cup control are disclosed. One aspect of the disclosure provides a method of determining grip quality between a robotic gripper and an object. The method comprises applying a vacuum to two or more cup assemblies of the robotic gripper in contact with the object, moving the object with the robotic gripper after applying the vacuum to the two or more cup assemblies, and determining, using at least one pressure sensor associated with each of the two or more cup assemblies, a grip quality between the robotic gripper and the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: John Aaron Saunders, Christopher Everett Thorne, Matthew Paul Meduna, Joshua Timothy Geating
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Patent number: 12254364Abstract: Programming fixtures are provided that program cards, such as payment cards, with data, such as personal data, using light transmitters and receivers. For example, an infrared transmitter may be provided to program personal data (e.g., a customer's credit card number) into a card wirelessly. In doing so, the card may be, for example, completely laminated such that there are no exposed electronic components on the exterior surface of the card and be programmed via light.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Bruce S. Cloutier, Jeffrey D. Mullen
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Patent number: 12245972Abstract: A method and system for correcting vision in an eye that uses a wavefront-customized phakic or pseudophakic Intraocular Lens (IOL), the method comprising: (1) measuring wavefront aberrations of the eye; (2) designing a wavefront-customized correction profile for an IOL; (3) creating a customized IOL with the customized correction profile; and (4) implanting the customized IOL in the eye, without having to remove the natural lens. Alternatively, an uncorrected IOL is implanted first, followed by scanning a femtosecond laser spot across the implanted IOL to locally change the Index of Refraction of the IOL material and create an in-situ customized IOL.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: WaveFront Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, R. James Copland, Xifeng Xiao, Alan Blair
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Patent number: 12240122Abstract: A method for palletizing by a robot includes positioning an object at an initial position adjacent to a target object location, tilting the object at an angle relative to a ground plane, shifting the object in a first direction from the initial position toward a first alignment position, shifting the object in a second direction from the first alignment position toward a second alignment position, and releasing the object from the robot to pivot the object toward the target object location.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Neil Neville, Kevin Blankespoor, Jennifer Barry, Alexander Douglas Perkins
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Patent number: 12241083Abstract: Provided herein are methods of enriching a retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell population derived from stem cells. Such a method may comprise removing contaminating cells through the depletion of CD24 positive cells, CD56 positive cells, and/or CD90 positive cells from a starting population of RPE cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Nathan Meyer, Lucas Chase, Casey Stankewicz
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Patent number: 12242908Abstract: A card exhibiting multiple linear arrays of sensors are provided to detect a presence and movement of an external object (e.g., a read-head of a magnetic stripe reader). Each sensor of each array of sensors may be independently connected to a dual port of a processor so that the processor may determine a direction in which the card is swiped through a magnetic stripe reader. A portion of sensors of each array of sensors may be shared by a portion of inputs and/or outputs of a single port of a processor. Sensors may be cross-coupled to a single processor port so that forward and reverse directions of a card swipe may nevertheless be detected by a single-port processor of a card.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Randy L. Rhoades, James H. Workley, Jeffrey D. Mullen
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Patent number: 12236447Abstract: A system may include a payment card that includes one or more chips that are operable to utilize information in a payment transaction to enact different functions. For example, a payment applet in a contact chip transaction (e.g., contact EMV transaction) or contactless chip transaction (e.g., contactless EMV transaction) may utilize information that flows through the chip (e.g., country, time, date, transaction amount, approval status) to trigger pre-stored messages or functions (e.g., switch to a payment option or account). Information may be introduced into the chip during a transaction as a result of manual input from the cardholder on the cardholder's phone or other device. Thus, transaction scripting (e.g., EMV scripting) may be utilized to let a card (e.g., static or powered) know that a function (e.g., change of account) is desired by a cardholder and the chip may, if not in the proper account, reset and restart the chip in a mode associated with the desired function (e.g., in the desired account).Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen, Keith Huthmacher
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Patent number: 12235652Abstract: A method for terrain and constraint planning a step plan includes receiving, at data processing hardware of a robot, image data of an environment about the robot from at least one image sensor. The robot includes a body and legs. The method also includes generating, by the data processing hardware, a body-obstacle map, a ground height map, and a step-obstacle map based on the image data and generating, by the data processing hardware, a body path for movement of the body of the robot while maneuvering in the environment based on the body-obstacle map. The method also includes generating, by the data processing hardware, a step path for the legs of the robot while maneuvering in the environment based on the body path, the body-obstacle map, the ground height map, and the step-obstacle map.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eric Whitman, Gina Christine Fay
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Patent number: 12233543Abstract: A robot includes an input link, an output link, and a wire routing. The output link is coupled to the input link at an inline twist joint where the output link is configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the output link relative to the input link. The wire routing traverses the inline twist joint to couple the input link and the output link. The wire routing includes an input link section, an output link section, and an omega section. A first position of the wire routing coaxially aligns at a start of the omega section on the input link with a second position of the wire routing at an end of the omega section on an output link.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventor: Brian Dellon
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Patent number: 12234440Abstract: An apparatus and method for the delivery and deposition of particles air-liquid-interface (ALI) cell cultures includes a sample inlet coupled to a growth tube having interior walls that are wet. The growth tube is configured to operate at a first temperature along a first length of the tube and a second temperature along a second length positioned between the first length and a growth tube outlet. The apparatus also includes a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles. The exposure chamber adapted to hold cell cultures at an air-liquid interface positioned underneath the plurality of nozzles and a temperature regulator adapted to control a temperature of the exposure chamber. The apparatus also includes a controller including instructions operable to cause the controller to maintain a relative humidity within the exposure chamber by controlling at least the second temperature of the growth tube and the temperature of the exposure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Aerosol Dynamics Inc., University of Florida Research Foundation, IncorporatedInventors: Arantzazu Eiguren Fernandez, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman, Chang-Yu Wu, Trevor Benson Tilly
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Patent number: 12236308Abstract: One or more detection activities of a card may allow calculation of rolling speed in motorized readers. Accordingly, the detection activity may result in a data transmission speed with greater accuracy after a determination of position, velocity and/or acceleration of the faster-moving device in relation to the card. Such detection activities may increase a probability of a successful communication sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Chengliu Li, James H. Workley, Kevin David Bruner, Allen D. Bowers
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Patent number: 12229792Abstract: Advanced payment applications are provided to improve the functionality of cards and devices. For example, a user interface may be placed on a card (e.g., a physical button) or a telephonic device (e.g., a virtual button on a capacitive touch screen). A code may be manually or wirelessly communicated to a card. The code may be presented on a search results page of a web search. The code may then be communicated to a card reader, such as a magnetic stripe reader. In doing so, a merchant may determine what online search results resulted in an in-store sale.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen, Philip W. Yen
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Patent number: 12220170Abstract: This invention relates to methods and devices for designing customized contact lenses, by initially making dynamic wavefront sensor measurements through a trial contact lens that is fitted on an eye, and then calculating a WaveFront Guided (WFG) correction to be applied to the trial contact lens that reduces the RMS level of aberrations as much as practically possible. The output of the wavefront correction program is a customized lathe file that the manufacturer can use to make customized contact lenses on a lathe. The method works best for soft contact lenses and scleral lenses.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: WaveFront Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, James Copland, Xifeng Xiao, Alan Blair, Lyle Kordonowy, Paul Pulaski, Jeff Kolberg
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Patent number: 12222723Abstract: A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include receiving a navigation route for a mobile robot. The navigation route includes a sequence of waypoints connected by edges. Each edge corresponds to movement instructions that navigate the mobile robot between waypoints of the sequence of waypoints. While the mobile robot is traveling along the navigation route, the operations include determining that the mobile robot is unable to execute a respective movement instruction for a respective edge of the navigation route due to an obstacle obstructing the respective edge, generating an alternative path to navigate the mobile robot to an untraveled waypoint in the sequence of waypoints, and resuming travel by the mobile robot along the navigation route. The alternative path avoids the obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventor: Brian Masao Yamauchi
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Patent number: 12217110Abstract: A dynamic code may be validated by comparing the dynamic code to a verification code. The card may generate the dynamic code using a random object and a function. The random object may be generated using a random object generator. The function may be determinable using a function determination object and a look-up-table (LUT), the function determination object associable to exponents and operators, listed in the LUT, that may be combined with base variables to determine the function. The dynamic code may be determined by substituting portions of the random object for the base variables in the function. The card may communicate the dynamic code, the random object and an identifier to a remote processing facility. The remote processing facility may use the identifier to determine the function, use the random object to determine a verification code and compare the verification code to the dynamic code.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Dynamics Inc.Inventor: Gautam Batra
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Patent number: 12215719Abstract: An actuation pressure to actuate one or more hydraulic actuators may be determined based on a load on the one or more hydraulic actuators of a robotic device. Based on the determined actuation pressure, a pressure rail from among a set of pressure rails at respective pressures may be selected. One or more valves may connect the selected pressure rail to a metering valve. The hydraulic drive system may operate in a discrete mode in which the metering valve opens such that hydraulic fluid flows from the selected pressure rail through the metering valve to the one or more hydraulic actuators at approximately the supply pressure. Responsive to a control state of the robotic device, the hydraulic drive system may operate in a continuous mode in which the metering valve throttles the hydraulic fluid such that the supply pressure is reduced to the determined actuation pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Michael Murphy, John Aaron Saunders, Steven Potter
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Patent number: 12214189Abstract: Electroporation-based therapies (EBTs) employ high voltage pulsed electric fields (PEFs) to permeabilize tumor tissue, resulting in changes in passive electrical properties detectable using electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Currently, commercial potentiostats for EIS are limited by impedance spectrum acquisition time (˜10 s); this timeframe is much larger than pulse periods used with EBTs (˜1 s). Fourier Analysis SpecTroscopy (FAST) is introduced as a methodology for monitoring tissue inter-burst impedance (diagnostic FAST) and intra-burst impedance (therapeutic FAST) during EBTs. FAST is a rapid-capture (<<1 s) technique which enables monitoring of inter-burst and intra-burst impedance during EBTs in real-time. FAST identified a frequency which delineates thermal effects from electroporation effects in measured impedance. Significance: FAST demonstrates the potential to perform EIS, in addition to intra-burst impedance spectroscopy, using existing pulse generator topologies.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignees: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Angio Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Melvin F. Lorenzo, Christopher B. Arena, Suyashree Bhonsle, Natalie White, Lucy Epshteyn, Rafael V. Davalos
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Patent number: 12214497Abstract: A method of footstep contact detection includes receiving joint dynamics data for a swing phase of a swing leg of the robot, receiving odometry data indicative of a pose of the robot, determining whether an impact on the swing leg is indicative of a touchdown of the swing leg based on the joint dynamics data and an amount of completion of the swing phase, and determining when the impact on the swing leg is not indicative of the touchdown of the swing leg, a cause of the impact based on the joint dynamics data and the odometry data.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eric Whitman, Alex Khripin
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Patent number: 12210919Abstract: A flexible card may include a dynamic magnetic stripe communications device having multiple layers, such as an electromagnetic generator, a magnet, and a shield. A shield may form a non-flexible layer within the stack and may bend, but the shield may not be able to stretch or compress. Flexible layers may surround and adhere to the shield such that when the card is flexed, the flexible layers may stretch and compress with the movement of the shield. The dynamic magnetic stripe communications device may include one or more coils. Each coil may contain a stepped material, such that a length of a lower layer of the stepped material is longer than a length of a middle layer of the stepped material which is longer than a length of a top layer of the stepped material.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Dynamics Inc.Inventor: James H. Workley