Patents by Inventor Chad Roberts

Chad 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).

  • Publication number: 20250129213
    Abstract: A method comprises providing a substrate, coating onto the substrate a composition comprising 3-30 weight percent based on total weight of the composition of a polyimide; a solvent comprising cyclopentanone in an amount of at least 70, preferably at least 80, more preferably at least 90 weight percent based on total weight of the solvent; and 0-15 weight % of one or more pigments, wherein the polyimide is soluble in the cyclopentanone at room temperature in the range of 5 to 30 weight percent, drying form a solid film on the substrate having a thickness of 1 to 5 micrometers. A composition useful in such method and an article made from such method are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: C. Chad ROBERTS, John Donald SUMMERS, Wei LI
  • Publication number: 20250122339
    Abstract: A composition comprising 5-30 weight percent of a polyimide and a solvent having boiling point of less than 150° C., and optionally further comprising a pigment, where the polyimide is soluble in the solvent and is the dehydrated reaction product of a dianhydride component and a diamine component. A method of coating the composition on a substrate comprising a flexible polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: C. Chad ROBERTS, John Donald SUMMERS, Wei LI
  • Patent number: 11804413
    Abstract: A semiconductor stack, including a carrier and a semiconductor device arranged above the carrier; non-releasable interconnections electrically and mechanically connecting the semiconductor device and the carrier; a first contact on at least one of the carrier or the semiconductor device: a second contact on at least one of the carrier or the semiconductor device; an electrical connection structure electrically conductively coupling the first contact and the second contact with each other via at least one non-releasable interconnection of the non-releasable interconnections; and wherein the electrical connection structure comprises a plurality of test diode circuits integrated in at least one of the carrier and the semiconductor device, wherein each of the test diode circuits comprises one or more diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chad Roberts, George J. Morales, Oscar Mendoza, Kartik Ramanujachar, Michael S. Chun, Anthony Zisko
  • Patent number: 11597850
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ink fluid set containing an aqueous pretreatment composition and an aqueous inkjet ink. This ink fluid set is particularly suitable for printing on offset coated media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: DUPONT ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Li, Christian Jackson, C Chad Roberts
  • Patent number: 11511898
    Abstract: An article feeder assembly having a pocketed separator and a discharge tube configured to deliver articles to the pocketed separator. Some embodiments include an initial feeder assembly in overlying relation with a track extending from the initial feeder assembly to the discharge tube. Articles are oriented in end-to-end orientation in the initial feeder assembly and delivered to the pocketed separator in vertical end-to-end orientation. As pocketed separator rotates with respect to discharge tube, vertical retention members pass through a tunnel in the discharge tube and rotate articles out of the discharge tube. The discharged articles are secured in pockets delineated by the retention members. Some embodiments use one or more cam mechanisms to properly orient the discharged articles as the pocketed separator rotates. Properly oriented articles are then delivered to an advancing mechanism, such as a conveyor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Performance Feeders, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Roberts, Gregory Pflum
  • Patent number: 11021286
    Abstract: An article feeder assembly having a pocketed separator and a discharge tube configured to deliver articles to the pocketed separator. Some embodiments include an initial feeder assembly in overlying relation with a track extending from the initial feeder assembly to the discharge tube. Articles are oriented in end-to-end orientation in the initial feeder assembly and delivered to the pocketed separator in vertical end-to-end orientation. As pocketed separator rotates with respect to discharge tube, vertical retention members pass through a tunnel in the discharge tube and rotate articles out of the discharge tube. The discharged articles are secured in pockets delineated by the retention members. Some embodiments use one or more cam mechanisms to properly orient the discharged articles as the pocketed separator rotates. Properly oriented articles are then delivered to an advancing mechanism, such as a conveyor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Performance Feeders, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Roberts, Gregory Pflum
  • Publication number: 20210079245
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ink fluid set containing an aqueous pretreatment composition and an aqueous inkjet ink. This ink fluid set is particularly suitable for printing on offset coated media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Li, Christian Jackson, C Chad Roberts
  • Patent number: 10389543
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, which may include an input device configured to receive natural user input, and an application program executed by a processor of the computing device, the application program configured to: retrieve an electronic calendar including calendar data for one or more meeting events, each meeting event including a meeting time and meeting data, receive a generic meeting invocation request via a natural user input detected by the input device, based on at least receiving the generic meeting invocation request at a point in time, search the electronic calendar for a meeting event having a meeting time that is within a threshold time period of the point in time that the natural user input was received, and start the meeting event including processing the meeting data for the meeting event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Isaiah Ng, Reza Ferrydiansyah, Christopher M. Becker, Chad Roberts, Roberto Sonnino, Lisa Stifelman
  • Patent number: 10250390
    Abstract: A method of securing a network including parsing a first data packet into at least one portion using a first device, such that the at least one portion includes a portion designated as an index identifier. The method includes hashing the at least one portion of the first data packet using the first device and the index identifier, and hashing, using the first device and the index identifier, at least one portion of a second data packet. The method includes combining, using the first device and the index identifier, the hashed portions of the first data packet and the second data packet, and hashing, using the first device and the index identifier, at least one portion of the combined hashed portions of the first data packet and the second data packet into a first combined data packet hash. The method can provide an indication of network security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.
    Inventors: Chad Roberts Gray, Peder Muller, Corey Petty, Lucian Stroie
  • Patent number: 10196531
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ink for inkjet printing. The ink contains an aqueous vehicle, a dispersed pigment colorant, a dispersed polyurethane polymer, and a dispersed olefin ionic copolymer. The ink exhibits improved short-term durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Christian Jackson, C. Chad Roberts
  • Patent number: 9815994
    Abstract: Aqueous pigment dispersions having monomers in the polymeric dispersant capable of interacting with cellulose are described. These monomers include the ones having a structure of Formula (I): wherein W is O or NH; R1 is C1-C8 alkyl; and R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently H or C1-C5 alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: C. Chad Roberts, Christian Jackson
  • Publication number: 20170195128
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, which may include an input device configured to receive natural user input, and an application program executed by a processor of the computing device, the application program configured to: retrieve an electronic calendar including calendar data for one or more meeting events, each meeting event including a meeting time and meeting data, receive a generic meeting invocation request via a natural user input detected by the input device, based on at least receiving the generic meeting invocation request at a point in time, search the electronic calendar for a meeting event having a meeting time that is within a threshold time period of the point in time that the natural user input was received, and start the meeting event including processing the meeting data for the meeting event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Isaiah Ng, Reza Ferrydiansyah, Christopher M. Becker, Chad Roberts, Roberto Sonnino, Lisa Stifelman
  • Publication number: 20160333206
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ink for inkjet printing. The ink contains an aqueous vehicle, a dispersed pigment colorant, a dispersed polyurethane polymer, and a dispersed olefin ionic copolymer. The ink exhibits improved short-term durability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Christian JACKSON, C. Chad Roberts
  • Patent number: 9410010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to urea-terminated polyurethanes dispersants based on diols and polyether diols, aqueous dispersions of such polyurethanes, the manufacture of the urea terminated polyurethane dispersions and inks containing pigments and/or disperse dyes dispersed with these urea terminated polyurethane dispersants. The urea termination can have nonionic hydrophilic substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: C. Chad Roberts, Patrick F. McIntyre, Michael Stephen Wolfe, Xiaoqing Li, Hari Babu Sunkara
  • Publication number: 20160168400
    Abstract: Aqueous pigment dispersions having monomers in the polymeric dispersant capable of interacting with cellulose are described. These monomers include the ones having a structure of Formula (I): wherein W is O or NH; R1 is C1-C8 alkyl; and R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently H or C1-C5 alkyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: C. Chad Roberts, Christian Jackson
  • Publication number: 20160168401
    Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous inkjet inks containing a polymeric ink additive as a binder. The binder contains a component capable of interacting with cellulose. Certain acrylate monomers having similar Hansen solubility parameters as cellulose were incorporated into the polymeric binders. Prints from these inks have better durability than similar additives that do not have the components capable of interacting with cellulose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: C. Chad Roberts, Christian Jackson
  • Patent number: 9315690
    Abstract: Aqueous pigment dispersions based on polyurethane dispersants having components capable of interacting with cellulose are described. These components include a heterocycle pendent and or terminal to the polymer chain. The heterocycle is selected based on its Hansen solubility parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: C. Chad Roberts, Christian Jackson, Patrick F. McIntyre
  • Patent number: 9303170
    Abstract: Aqueous pigment dispersions having components in the dispersant capable of interacting with cellulose are described. These components include a heterocycle substituted to the oxygen atom of an acrylate ester. The heterocycle is selected based on its Hansen solubility parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: C. Chad Roberts, Christian Jackson, Patrick F. McIntyre
  • Publication number: 20160054491
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a liquid coating composition includes a blend of a polymer matrix resin and a photochromic dye. The polymer matrix resin includes silane groups, and at least 50% of the silane groups in the polymer matrix resin are at terminal positions. In a second aspect, a film includes a photochromic dye in a polymer matrix. The polymer matrix includes at least one allophanate or biuret group, and the at least one allophanate or biuret group includes a silane moiety. In a third aspect, an ophthalmic lens includes a film, and the film includes a photochromic dye in a polymer matrix. The polymer matrix includes at least one allophanate or biuret group, and the at least one allophanate or biuret group includes a silane moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: CHARLES T. BERGE, C. CHAD ROBERTS
  • Patent number: 9221984
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aqueous dispersion containing a colorant and a polyurethane dispersant, wherein the polyurethane dispersant is a polymer having a cross-linkable moiety, wherein the cross-linkable moiety is cross-linked, with a cross-linking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Li, Charles T Berge, Christian Jackson, C Chad Roberts, Tristan Williams