Patents by Inventor Christopher Roberts

Christopher 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).

  • Patent number: 12245561
    Abstract: A control system for controlling humidity in an indoor growing environment is provided, which includes software to control the removal of moisture by using current Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) as measured in the indoor air space of a grow room in comparison to a target Vapor Pressure Deficit. The temperature and relative humidity in various areas of the grow room are monitored and used by the software to calculate the current VPD and determine a preferred profile for the target VPD. The control system is configured to maintain consistent VPD with moisture removal by a dehumidifier in response to temperature variations throughout a night/day cycle and through successive growth stages to ensure optimal plant growth and transpiration rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Christopher Robert Mihelich
  • Patent number: 12246325
    Abstract: A column tube holder includes: a first side rail extending vertically; a second side rail extending vertically; a first shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail; a second shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail, the second shelf disposed below the first shelf; and a third shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail, the third shelf disposed below the second shelf. The column tube holder is composed of a conductive material, an anti-static material, and/or a static dissipative material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Sedlak, Joseph Charles Sedlak, Laura Teresa Bortolin, Daniel Parker Salem
  • Publication number: 20250065997
    Abstract: An LED navigation light comprising a flexible electrical circuit with LEDs wrapped around a core, wherein at least one LED faces inward, and light output is shaped by the core's openings and/or portions of the flexible electrical circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Steven Marc Rotolante, Britain Andrews Fisher, Michael Albion Kestner, Christopher Robert Fulmer
  • Publication number: 20250065810
    Abstract: A vehicle storage system includes a base that is configured to be disposed on seating assemblies within a rear seating space. A first partition is coupled to the base, and the first partition extends along a first edge of the base. A second partition is spaced from the first partition. The second partition is coupled to the base and extends along a second opposing edge of the base. A cross member is coupled to a top edge of each of the first partition and the second partition. The cross member extends adjacent to a headliner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Westfall, John Granger Opfer, Adam C. Carlson, Matthew Williams, Samuel Martin Hoff
  • Publication number: 20250069391
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an insurance claim include receiving pupil data from an electronic device. The pupil data indicates a gaze direction of a user. Environment information is received from the electronic device, including point cloud data representing an environment in which the electronic device is currently disposed and a plurality of objects located within the environment. The techniques include determining an identity of an object of the plurality of objects based at least in part on the gaze direction and the environment information. The techniques include receiving, from the electronic device and via the network, information indicative of an input provided by the user, the input corresponding to the object, and comprising at least one of a first user utterance or a hand gesture. The techniques include generating an insurance claim based at least in part on the information and on the identity of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Rebecca A. Little, Christopher Robert Galante
  • Publication number: 20250059876
    Abstract: A system and method for stall recovery of mud motors may be implemented in a steering control system. The stall recovery system and method may involve automatic detection of a stall of a mud motor during drilling controlled by the steering control system, and may respond to the stall in a rapid and controlled manner to avoid or minimize damage to the mud motor, such as by immediately reducing mud pressure and stopping rotary drilling, if used, faster than a typical human operator could perform. The stall recovery system and method may further take actions to automatically restart drilling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Fergus HOPWOOD, Christopher Robert NOVOSAD
  • Patent number: 12229383
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques to facilitate vehicular incident reenactment using three-dimensional (3D) representations. The techniques include presenting an image including 3D representations of one vehicle and one non-vehicular object related to a vehicular incident. The operations further include providing a message that requests manipulation of the 3D representations to reenact the vehicular incident. The operations further include receiving input and generating a 3D reenactment of the vehicular incident that includes the 3D representations of the at least one vehicle and at least one non-vehicular object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Rebecca A. Little, Christopher Robert Galante
  • Publication number: 20250016010
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing authentication and secure cryptographic communication between a client and server are described. The client includes an addressable array of PUF devices. The client receives or generates a set of instructions usable to determine a range of PUF addresses. The client measures the PUF addresses and generates a first set of responses. The responses are used to encrypt a session key, which is stored, along with the instructions and a hash of the responses, at the client. Later, the client may recover the session key by using the instructions to measure the PUF again, resulting in a second set of responses. Using a response-based cryptography search engine, the client may then iteratively modify and hash the second set of responses until a response set is uncovered that matches the first response set. This modified response set may then be used to uncover the session key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Bertrand F. Cambou, Sareh Assiri, Christopher Robert Philabaum, H. Shelton Jacinto
  • Patent number: 12179707
    Abstract: A vehicle storage system includes a base that is configured to be disposed on seating assemblies within a rear seating space. A first partition is coupled to the base, and the first partition extends along a first edge of the base. A second partition is spaced from the first partition. The second partition is coupled to the base and extends along a second opposing edge of the base. A cross member is coupled to a top edge of each of the first partition and the second partition. The cross member extends adjacent to a headliner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Westfall, John Granger Opfer, Adam C. Carlson, Matthew Williams, Samuel Martin Hoff
  • Publication number: 20240423162
    Abstract: A handheld wash tool for bathing an animal includes a housing adapted to receive a water source to permit water to flow from the source into an interior volume of the housing. The tool includes an animal engaging section secured to the housing and in communication with the interior volume of the housing. The animal engaging section has bristles. A cartridge is removably held by the housing. The cartridge holds one or more solutions for applying to the animal. The cartridge is held within the housing such that the one or more solutions is in communication with the animal engaging section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Spectrum Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory van Eyk, Jewel Cary, Christopher Robert Stoll, Lindsay Sumners, William D. Himes
  • Patent number: 12168924
    Abstract: A system and method for stall recovery of mud motors may be implemented in a steering control system. The stall recovery system and method may involve automatic detection of a stall of a mud motor during drilling controlled by the steering control system, and may respond to the stall in a rapid and controlled manner to avoid or minimize damage to the mud motor, such as by immediately reducing mud pressure and stopping rotary drilling, if used, faster than a typical human operator could perform. The stall recovery system and method may further take actions to automatically restart drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HELMERICH & PAYNE, INC.
    Inventors: Fergus Hopwood, Christopher Robert Novosad
  • Patent number: 12170438
    Abstract: A conduit body includes a sidewall defining an internal chamber and at least two ports providing access to the internal chamber, and a cover connectable to the sidewall to enclose the internal chamber. The sidewall defines a first surface section adjacent one of the at least two ports, a second surface section adjacent another of the at least two ports, and a radiused transition section connecting the first surface section and the second surface section and configured for reducing frictional drag of a cable pulled though the internal chamber. The first surface section is spaced apart from the second surface section to increase a volume of the internal chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Robroy Industries—Texas, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Henley, Steven A. Voelzke, Tabitha Stricklin
  • Publication number: 20240409928
    Abstract: An alternatively spliced intronic sequence is disclosed, the splicing of which can be induced in the presence of a small molecule, e.g., Compound (I), as described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Anuradha BHATTACHARYYA, Yaofeng CHENG, Kerstin Annemarie EFFENBERGER, Wencheng LI, Jana NARASIMHAN, Christopher Robert TROTTA, Marla L. WEETALL, Matthew G. WOLL
  • Publication number: 20240414284
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing smart in-vehicle conferencing with user tracking and speaker prioritization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Edwin Hanson, Christopher Robert Van Wiemeersch, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Thomas Joseph Hermann
  • Patent number: 12152985
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a range of method for investigating a sample such as obtaining images and/or spectral information are described. The method includes a method for deriving structural information about a sample as a continuous function of the depth below the surface of the sample, a method for evaluating a part of the structure of a sample located between two interfaces within the sample, and a contrast enhancing method and apparatus which has a quick image acquisition time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: QINETIQ LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Lawrence, Euan Hendry, Lauren Emily Barr, Samuel Martyn Hornett, Peter Karlsen
  • Patent number: 12150724
    Abstract: A system for providing assistance to a user of a surgical robot system, the system comprising: a surgical robot system comprising at least one surgical robot having a base, and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument, the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered; and an assistance module comprising a list of steps of a task for which procedural assistance can be provided, the assistance module being configured to: receive, while the surgical robot system is being used to perform the task, status data indicating a status of the surgical robot system; determine, from the status data, whether the surgical robot system is in a procedural assistance state, the surgical robot system being in a procedural assistance state when the surgical robot system is being, or, is about to be, used to perform one of the steps of the task for which procedural assistance can be provided; and in response to determining that the surgical robot system is in a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Luke David Ronald Hares, Paul Christopher Roberts, Rupert Menzies
  • Patent number: 12153997
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing an indicia aimer laser with a preheat bias current for low temperature operation. For example, an indicia reader utilizing a visible laser diode may operate in an environment with temperatures lower than the operational temperature range of the visible light diode. The indicia reader may utilize a preheat current to raise the temperature of the visible light diode into the operational temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Allen, Michael Vincent Miraglia
  • Patent number: 12150809
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe for percutaneous insertion into an incision and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for imaging neural structures at a surgical site of a patient. An exemplary ultrasound probe can be a portable ultrasound probe configured to be passed percutaneously into an incision and can have an imaging region extending distally from a distal tip of the probe. In one embodiment the ultrasound probe can be a navigated portable ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe can be connected to a computing station and configured to transmit images to the computing station for processing. In another embodiment, an ultrasound probe can be part of a network of sensors, including at least one external sensor, where the network of sensors is configured to transmit images to the computing station for processing. The computing station can process and display images to visualize and/or highlight neurological structures in an imaged region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Medos International SĂ rl
    Inventors: Tarik Yardibi, Richard Patrick Courtis, Emir Osmanagic, Leonard Bryant Guffey, Christopher Robert Wagner, Joshua John Gibson, Alireza Mashal
  • Patent number: 12142039
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an insurance claim include receiving pupil data from an electronic device. The pupil data indicates a gaze direction of a user. Environment information is received from the electronic device, including point cloud data representing an environment in which the electronic device is currently disposed and a plurality of objects located within the environment. The techniques include determining an identity of an object of the plurality of objects based at least in part on the gaze direction and the environment information. The techniques include receiving, from the electronic device and via the network, information indicative of an input provided by the user, the input corresponding to the object, and comprising at least one of a first user utterance or a hand gesture. The techniques include generating an insurance claim based at least in part on the information and on the identity of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Rebecca A. Little, Christopher Robert Galante
  • Patent number: D1053171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Person-Aiz AS
    Inventors: Anders Boeen, Kristian Marthinsen, Christopher Robert Willis, Hao Zhao, Donatas Gedvilas, Yafed Saldivar