Patents by Inventor Carl Roberts
Carl Roberts 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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Patent number: 11972360Abstract: A device may receive input data associated with a legal regulation, and may process the input data to generate a record that includes: the input data in a knowledge representation format and a semantic representation format, data identifying a feature, data identifying an industry classification, or data identifying an entity of interest. The device may process the record, with machine learning models, to determine output data that includes: data indicating that the legal regulation is inconsistent, data indicating that the legal regulation is outdated, data indicating a sentiment for the legal regulation, data indicating a prescriptive nature of the legal regulation, data indicating a complexity of the legal regulation, data indicating a misrepresentation in the legal regulation, data indicating a compliance burden associated with the legal regulation, or data indicating an industry performance impact of the legal regulation. The device may perform actions based on the output data.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Thomas Kim, Sungwon Youn, Hesoo Heo, Alex Robert Wong, Lisa Dickson, Christopher Snow, Carl Sharpe, Jodie K. Wallis, Natalie Heisler
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Publication number: 20240123240Abstract: A biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, including a fixation element to engage tissue and one or more backstop elements to resist back-out from the tissue, is described. The fixation element can be mounted on a housing of the biostimulator such that a helix of the fixation element extends distally to a leading point. The leading point can be located on a distal face of the helix at a position that is proximal from a center of the distal face. The backstop elements can include non-metallic filaments, such as sutures, or can include a pinch point of the biostimulator. The backstop features can grip the tissue to prevent unscrewing of the fixation element. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Craig E. Mar, Thomas B. Eby, Paul Paspa, Sondra Orts, Matthew G. Fishler, Stephen Lee, Carl Lance Boling, Thomas Robert Luhrs
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Patent number: 11951410Abstract: A ride-on vehicle for children comprising a main body that includes one or more built-in toy vehicle tracks that allow a toy vehicle to travel on the main body. A wheel assembly comprising a plurality of wheels is coupled to the main body. A drive assembly is operatively coupled to the wheel assembly and is configured to drive two or more wheels of the wheel assembly. A steering assembly is also operatively coupled to the wheel assembly and is configured to steer the vehicle based on a received user input.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Robert Favorito, Morgan Siebold, Jon Paul Castiglione, Carl J. Kamph, Patrick Schaefer
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Publication number: 20240103092Abstract: A method of determining ageing of a mixed electrode of a full cell lithium ion battery is presented. The method includes obtaining a voltage hysteresis of the full cell lithium ion battery by comparison of a charging voltage to a discharging voltage at a specific state of charge, SOC. The specific SOC is in a range from 0% to 20% of a maximum SOC. The method further includes determining ageing of a volume expanding component of the mixed electrode based on the obtained voltage hysteresis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventors: Niladri ROY CHOWDHURY, Gustav GISKE, Istaq AHMED, Martin PETISME, Carl-Robert FLORÉN, Alice HAMRIN, Masood TAMADONDAR, Praveen Raju HASBAVI
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Publication number: 20230363575Abstract: A beverage system and methods for preparing flavored beverages are provided. In one embodiment, the beverage system includes a housing, a flavorant system, and a processor. The housing includes a mixing chamber configured to operably couple to a fluid reservoir and pressurized gas source. The processor is disposed in the housing and can be configured to cause, in response to at least one input, the separate dispensing of a fluid and a flavorant into a receptacle. The processor can also cause the delivery of gas from the pressurized gas source to the mixing chamber, where it can be used to form a carbonated fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Joshua David Anthony, John Kevin Clay, Gregory Allan Fish, Thomas James Launders, Stuart Mark Leslie, Luis Ramiro Gutierrez Montenegro, Joyce Chien Tu, Evan James White, Carl Robert Wrigglesworth, Andrew David Zdeblick
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Publication number: 20230363574Abstract: A flavorant container for use in a beverage system is provided. The flavorant container can be retained by a beverage system to dispense flavorant, which can be mixed with carbonated and/or uncarbonated water. In one embodiment, the flavorant container includes a container, a cap, and one or more features located on the cap. The features can include an inlet that is able to receive pressurized air, and an outlet that is able to dispense a flavorant when the inlet receives the pressurized air. The features can also include at least one raised protrusion that is capable of being retained by a complimentary pattern located on a beverage system in order to properly seat the flavorant container in the beverage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Joshua David Anthony, John Kevin Clay, Daniel Taek Kim, Thomas James Launders, Stuart Mark Leslie, Luis Ramiro Gutierrez Montenegro, Joyce Chien Tu, Carl Robert Wrigglesworth, Andrew David Zdeblick
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Patent number: 11751585Abstract: A beverage dispensing device and methods for dispensing beverages are provided. In one embodiment, the beverage dispensing device includes a housing, a carbonation assembly, a carriage assembly, and one or more flavorant containers. The beverage dispensing device can also include a controller with a UI to allow a user to customize aspects of a beverage. These customizable aspects can include fluid volume, carbonation level, flavorant type, and/or flavorant amount. Based on the customized aspects of the beverage, the beverage dispensing device can dispense an amount of carbonated or uncarbonated water, and can dispense a type and amount of flavorant. Illustrative embodiments of flavorant containers are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Joshua David Anthony, Steven Paul Carter, John Kevin Clay, Gregory Allan Fish, Daniel Taek Kim, Thomas James Launders, Stuart Mark Leslie, Luis Ramiro Gutierrez Montenegro, Joyce Chien Tu, Evan James White, Carl Robert Wrigglesworth, Andrew David Zdeblick
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Patent number: 11711205Abstract: Systems and methods for provisioning secure terminals for secure transactions are disclosed herein. A disclosed method includes generating a key using a key generator element on a secure terminal and sending a key validation request for the key from the secure terminal to a provisioning device. The method also includes parsing the key validation request and generating a key validation for the key and a trusted time stamp on the provisioning device. The method also includes sending, from the provisioning device, the key validation and the trusted time stamp to the secure terminal. The method also includes setting a clock on the secure terminal using the trusted time stamp and storing the key validation at the secure terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CLOVER NETWORK, LLC.Inventors: Brian Jeremiah Murray, Jacob Whitaker Abrams, Arvin Carl Robert Haywood
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Publication number: 20230186751Abstract: A system and method for deciphering signals and messages from a control unit, and mapping those signals to the associated sensors to create a map of the sensor status. The map of the sensor status is then used in conjunction with a dongle and software application to interface with the control unit, able to receive messages from the control unit to monitor the status of the sensors, and to send messages to the control unit to manipulate the sensors. The system and method can further be used to interface with the electronic control unit of a vehicle to detect unattended access of the vehicle and ensure no passengers are left abandoned in the vehicle, such as by sending alerts to a mobile device of the user, triggering alarms in the vehicle, or sending alerts to emergency services.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Tracey Carl Roberts, Kuan-Chung Chiu
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Patent number: 11647860Abstract: A beverage dispensing device and methods for dispensing beverages are provided. In one embodiment, the beverage dispensing device includes a housing, a carbonation assembly, a carriage assembly, and one or more flavorant containers. The beverage dispensing device can also include a controller with a UI to allow a user to customize aspects of a beverage. These customizable aspects can include fluid volume, carbonation level, flavorant type, and/or flavorant amount. Based on the customized aspects of the beverage, the beverage dispensing device can dispense an amount of carbonated or uncarbonated water, and can dispense a type and amount of flavorant. Illustrative embodiments of flavorant containers are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Joshua David Anthony, Steven Paul Carter, John Kevin Clay, Thomas James Launders, Stuart Mark Leslie, Luis Ramiro Gutierrez Montenegro, Joyce Chien Tu, Carl Robert Wrigglesworth, Andrew David Zdeblick
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Patent number: 11639867Abstract: An apparatus for determining the identity, location, or level of one or more material phases or the location of an interface between two material phases within a defined volume having, a linear array of units configured to generate and detect electromagnetic radiation; an elongate enclosure containing the array of units, being at least partially transparent to the electromagnetic radiation generated by the units; the apparatus being configured to be at least partially submerged within the one or more material phases within the defined volume, the linear array of units being configured to generate transmission signals through the at least partially transparent elongate enclosure to the one or more material phases surrounding the enclosure at locations along the length of the enclosure, and to receive return signals through the elongate enclosure at locations along the length of the enclosure from the one or more material phases surrounding the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Graham Barker, Carl Robert Tipton, Daniel James Whiting
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Publication number: 20220341768Abstract: A level measurement instrument including: a transmitter configured to transmit an electromagnetic transmission signal, the electromagnetic transmission signal being a microwave signal or a radio wave signal a receiver configured to receive a plurality of electromagnetic return signals; an elongate electromagnetic radiation guide coupled to the transmitter to guide the electromagnetic transmission signal, wherein the elongate electromagnetic radiation guide is provided with a plurality of windows spaced along the elongate electromagnetic radiation guide, the windows being at least partially transmissive to the electromagnetic transmission signal such that in use, when the elongate electromagnetic radiation guide is introduced into a fluid column, the electromagnetic transmission signal interacts with fluid adjacent each window and generates electromagnetic return signals, the return signal from each window being dependent on a parameter of the fluid adjacent each window such that different fluids in the fluidType: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Graham BARKER, Simon LAMBERT, Carl Robert TIPTON
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Publication number: 20220334037Abstract: A method of scanning an industrial chemical vessel to monitor a chemical process within the industrial chemical vessel, the method comprising: positioning a first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carrying a gamma radiation source on one side of the vessel, positioning a second UAV carrying a gamma radiation detector on an opposite side of the vessel, moving the first and second UAVs to scan the vessel by passing gamma radiation through the vessel from the radiation source carried by the first UAV to the radiation detector carried by the second UAV thereby measuring a density profile, identifying a location of one or more fluid layers within the industrial chemical vessel, and determining if a chemical process within the industrial chemical vessel is operating correctly based on the location of the one or more fluid layers within the industrial chemical vessel identified using the first and second UAVs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Owen John Lloyd JONES, Carl Robert TIPTON, Victoria WHITTLE
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Publication number: 20220082425Abstract: An apparatus for determining the identity, location, or level of one or more material phases or the location of an interface between two material phases within a defined volume having, a linear array of units configured to generate and detect electromagnetic radiation; an elongate enclosure containing the array of units, being at least partially transparent to the electromagnetic radiation generated by the units; the apparatus being configured to be at least partially submerged within the one or more material phases within the defined volume, the linear array of units being configured to generate transmission signals through the at least partially transparent elongate enclosure to the one or more material phases surrounding the enclosure at locations along the length of the enclosure, and to receive return signals through the elongate enclosure at locations along the length of the enclosure from the one or more material phases surrounding the enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Graham BARKER, Carl Robert TIPTON, Daniel James WHITING
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Patent number: 11125783Abstract: A Rogowski coil in a sensor unit has voltage induced by a conductor surrounded by the Rogowski coil. The voltage is integrated to represent current which is converted to digital data representing current in the conductor and sent wirelessly to a multimeter. The sensor unit may receive control signals from the multimeter and a remote control apparatus. A plurality of sensor units may be networked and controlled by the remote control apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Fluke CorporationInventors: Matthew Carl-Robert Bannister, David Lawrence Epperson, Clark N. Huber
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Publication number: 20210246365Abstract: A method of monitoring a fluid is described comprising: introducing a tracer into the fluid and analysing the fluid to determine if the tracer is present in the fluid; characterised in that the tracer comprises luminescent carbon-based nanoparticles exhibiting a peak luminescence intensity at an emission wavelength of at least 500 nm. The method is in particular a method of monitoring a parameter of a hydrocarbon well, pipeline or formation. A use of a tracer and a tracer composition comprising carbon-based nanoparticles exhibiting a peak luminescence intensity at an emission wavelength of at least 500 nm are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Neil BORRELL, Aidan BRIERLEY, Thomas William BURNS, Kirk BUTLER, Hannah PALMER, Carl Robert TIPTON
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Publication number: 20210236959Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a coalescer cartridge for separating a first fluid from a second fluid includes a pleated filter media portion including a pleated fluid separation layer configured to separate a first fluid from a second fluid, the first fluid forming relatively small droplets of fluid suspended in the second fluid; and a wrap filter media portion downstream of the pleated media portion including a droplet growth layer configured to coalesce the relatively small droplets of the first fluid into relatively larger droplets of the first fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: CARL ROBERT PERKINS, DAVID STANLEY HAWKINS
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Publication number: 20210230618Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of plant molecular biology, more particularly to regulation of gene expression in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: ANDREW CARL CROW, SCOTT HENRY DIEHN, ALBERT LAURENCE LU, CARL ROBERT SIMMONS, LYNNE EILEEN SIMS
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Publication number: 20210129971Abstract: A system includes a robotic arm of a robotic device, an imaging device coupled to the robotic arm, and a processor configured to control movement of the robotic arm to move the imaging device along a preprogrammed measurement path of a transparency while prompting the imaging device to record images of localized portions of the transparency. The processor is configured to determine one or more localized transparency characteristics based on an analysis of the images of the localized portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: James W. Brown, JR., John Joseph Haake, Xue Liu, Anthony Carl Roberts, Nathaniel Philip Roman, Matthew Mark Thomas, Lucian Woods
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Patent number: D953177Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Fluke CorporationInventors: Matthew Carl-Robert Bannister, Ginger M. Woo