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).

  • Publication number: 20240059509
    Abstract: A bucket wheel chute assembly comprising a frame and a bucket wheel chute. The bucket wheel chute comprising a plurality of wear plates. The bucket wheel chute comprising a first chute section and a second chute section and is detachably attached to the frame. At least one of the first chute section and second chute section is detachably attached to the frame by a first movable attachment means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Hubert Pfandl, Alexanda Damion Bozward, Rudolf Pletz, Christopher Robert Muller, Georg Leitner
  • Patent number: 11906199
    Abstract: A heat and humidity exchanger comprises panels made up of membrane sheets attached on either side of a separator. Channels extend across each panel between the separator and the membrane sheets. The panels are much stiffer than the membrane sheets. Panels are stacked in a spaced apart relationship to provide an ERV core. Spacing between adjacent panels may be smaller than a thickness of the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CORE ENERGY RECOVERY SOLULTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Curtis Warren Mullen, David Erwin Kadylak, Christopher Robert Barr, James Franklin Dean, Guy Timothy Pearson
  • Publication number: 20240050176
    Abstract: A control system for a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a remote surgeon console and an articulated surgical robot arm comprising a series of joints extending from a base to a terminal end for attaching to an articulated surgical instrument. The control system comprises a central controller communicatively coupled to and remotely located from an arm controller of the surgical robot arm, the central controller also communicatively coupled to a surgeon input device of the surgeon console.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Luke David Ronald Hares, Paul Christopher Roberts, Graham John Veitch, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Publication number: 20240050192
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosures made herein are directed to devices, apparatuses, systems and methods for facilitating cleaning of an imaging element of imaging devices used with robotic systems. Devices, apparatuses, systems and methods in accordance with the disclosures made herein provide a lens cleaning device configured to perform one or more cleaning events to remove contaminating matter from an imaging element (e.g., lens) of an imaging device (e.g., a laparoscope). In preferred embodiments, such devices, apparatuses, systems and methods are adapted specifically for facilitating in-vivo cleaning of an imaging element of imaging devices that are used with robotic surgical systems. Advantageously, embodiments of such robotic surgical system implementations enable a surgeon to readily resolve sub-optimal visualization of the surgical field during robotic (e.g., laparoscopic) surgical procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: ClearCam Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Ross Cohen, Christopher Robert Idelson, Mitchell Ross Gilkey
  • Publication number: 20240053861
    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: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Rebecca A. Little, Christopher Robert Galante
  • Patent number: 11896692
    Abstract: A beauty care product comprising a sealable plastic container, a sealing means and a beauty care component is provided, wherein the container of which is resistant to random, uncontrolled deformation under a substantial pressure differential between the environment and inside the container, yet having an affordable cost of manufacture and/or being appealing to the consumer. A kit comprising said product thereof, a method of manufacturing said product, and a method of using said product for application onto skin and/or hair are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Victor Akinbobola, Alton Lloyd Finley, III, Matthew David Joseph, Christopher Robert Kopulos, Nicholas Arthur Ruebusch
  • Publication number: 20240049310
    Abstract: A computing system can facilitate continuously monitoring a patient having a wireless wearable device. The computing system can receive, via an in-room display device, a request to transfer wireless monitoring of the patient from the in-room display device to a mobile monitoring hub. The request can comprise identification data associated with a user requesting to transfer the wireless monitoring. The computing system can determine whether the user has permission to transfer the wireless monitoring based on at least the identification data. Responsive to determining that user has permission to transfer the wireless monitoring, the computing system can access wireless configuration data associated with the wireless wearable and received from the in-room display device. The computing system can wirelessly transmit said wireless configuration data to the mobile monitoring hub to cause the mobile monitoring hub to establish a wireless communication with the wearable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Austin Kretz Pike, Richard Priddell, Christopher Robert Magers, Omar Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20240047061
    Abstract: A monitoring hub can monitor a health status of a subject having a wireless wearable device. The monitoring hub can access wireless configuration data received from a remote server. The monitoring can establish wireless communication with the wearable device, based on the wireless configuration data, to wirelessly receive real-time physiological data from the wearable device. The monitoring hub can receive historical physiological data from the remote server. The historical physiological data comprising physiological data collected by the wearable device and/or communicated from the wearable device to another monitoring hub before establishing the wireless communication between the monitoring hub and the wearable device. The monitoring hub can generate user interface data for rendering a user interface including the real-time physiological data in combination with the historical physiological data to reduce a gap in monitoring between the historical physiological data and the real-time physiological data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Austin Kretz Pike, Richard Priddell, Christopher Robert Magers, Omar Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20240037808
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to system architectures for real-time processing and displaying of medical imaging data with no or reduced latency. An exemplary system for generating a video of a surgery can comprise: a processor configured to execute a plurality of instructions for a machine-learning model stored on a memory and a programmable circuit communicatively coupled with the processor. The programmable circuit is programmed to: receive surgical video data comprising a current frame; provide data related to the current frame to the processor; receive overlay data generated by the machine-learning model based on a previous frame captured before the current frame; generate, by a mixer of the programmable circuit, a composite frame based on the current frame and the overlay data; and output the composite frame for display as a part of the video of the surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Brian FOUTS, Marc ANDRÉ, Christopher Robert MILLER
  • Publication number: 20240039920
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In embodiments, a method of using a diabetes management partner interface to configure an analyte sensor system for wireless communication with a plurality of partner devices is provided. The method includes the analyte sensor system receiving authorization to provide one of the partner devices with access to a set of configuration parameters via the diabetes management partner interface. The set of configuration parameters is stored in a memory of the analyte sensor system. The method also includes, responsive to input received from the one partner device via the diabetes management partner interface, the analyte sensor system setting or causing a modification to the set of configuration parameters, according to a system requirement of the one partner device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Gary A. MORRIS, Alexandra Elena CONSTANTIN, Douglas William BURNETTE, Mario REMON, Jorge R. BARRERAS, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN
  • Publication number: 20240039921
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In embodiments, a method of using a diabetes management partner interface to configure an analyte sensor system for wireless communication with a plurality of partner devices is provided. The method includes the analyte sensor system receiving authorization to provide one of the partner devices with access to a set of configuration parameters via the diabetes management partner interface. The set of configuration parameters is stored in a memory of the analyte sensor system. The method also includes, responsive to input received from the one partner device via the diabetes management partner interface, the analyte sensor system setting or causing a modification to the set of configuration parameters, according to a system requirement of the one partner device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Gary A. MORRIS, Alexandra Elena CONSTANTIN, Douglas William BURNETTE, Mario REMON, Jorge R. BARRERAS, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN
  • Patent number: 11882989
    Abstract: An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal and output one or more activation signals; an output port connectable to the electrosurgical instrument, the output port configured to output the driving electrosurgical signal received on the input port; one or more activation switch units, wherein activation of an activation switch unit causes an activation signal to be output from the input port indicating a driving electrosurgical signal with a desired waveform is to be activated; and a control unit configured to selectively activate one of the one or more activation switch units in response to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Schofield, Paul Christopher Roberts, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Publication number: 20240025500
    Abstract: A robotic device (300) for inspecting structures, comprising: a body (302) extending in a longitudinal direction of the robotic device (300), the body (302) having a front end (304), a rear end (306), and opposing sides (312), (314) extending between the front end (304) and the rear end (306); a plurality of legs (316) arranged on each of the opposed sides (312), (314) of the body (302), each leg (316) comprising one or more joints; and a plurality of carriages (315), each carriage (315) connecting a leg (316) to the body (302) and being configured to allow each leg (316) to translate in a longitudinal direction relative to the sides of the body, and wherein each of the carriages (315) is configured to move independently of each of the other carriages such that a leg separation may be varied, the leg separation being the distance between any two adjacent legs on one side of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER ROBERT CIESLAK, MATTHEW JAMES COCKING, HASAN AMIN, AKSAT SHAH, BRODIE CLARK
  • Patent number: 11879052
    Abstract: The host compound in a clathrate is an amino or hydroxyl containing aromatic phosphorous compound, clathrates containing a resin curative and their use in curable resin compositions to produce moulded articles particularly fibre reinforced articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HEXCEL COMPOSITES LIMITED
    Inventor: Christopher Robert Mason
  • Publication number: 20240012825
    Abstract: An electronic data analysis method including at least one server, comprising the steps of: a) Receiving, from an electronic device associated with a user to an electronic data analysis system, a search query including one or more search query terms; b) Maintaining an electronic search term database comprising a plurality of search terms; c) Identifying one or more relevant search terms from the plurality of search terms in the electronic search term; d) Sending, using the electronic data analysis system, a search request related to the one or more relevant search terms to a plurality of data sources external to the electronic data system; e) Receiving data associated with the one or more relevant search terms from the plurality of data sources; f) Assigning the data retrieved from the plurality of data sources into a plurality of data visualisation categories; and g) Displaying the plurality of data visualisation categories on the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Roberts, Daniel Petrie, Heidi Cuthbert
  • Publication number: 20240013017
    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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Allen, Michael Vincent Miraglia
  • Publication number: 20240004625
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology include an improved system for measuring the impacts of feature rollouts on machine utilization and service performance. More specifically, embodiments of the present technology include an exposure control system based on randomized machine assignments and a corresponding score card for comparing machine utilization metrics. In an embodiment, a computing apparatus identifies a new feature in a codebase, wherein the codebase has been updated with the new feature across multiple resources, enables the new feature for a target group of the multiple resources while keeping the new feature dormant for a control group of the multiple resources, collects performance information for the target group and the control group for a time period, and generates a visualization of one or more differences between the performance information for the target group and the performance information for the control group for the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Prerana Dharmesh GAMBHIR, Sharena Meena PARI-MONASCH, Yongchang DONG, Thanh Trung NGUYEN, Shmuel NAVON, Qiong ZHOU, Yiming SHI, Linh Phuong NGUYEN, Xiao LIANG, Christopher Robert HAYWORTH, Daniel Ming-Wei CHEUNG
  • Patent number: 11861137
    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: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Rebecca A. Little, Christopher Robert Galante
  • Patent number: 11857382
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosures made herein are directed to devices, apparatuses, systems and methods for facilitating cleaning of an imaging element of imaging devices used with robotic systems. Devices, apparatuses, systems and methods in accordance with the disclosures made herein provide a lens cleaning device configured to perform one or more cleaning events to remove contaminating matter from an imaging element (e.g., lens) of an imaging device (e.g., a laparoscope). In preferred embodiments, such devices, apparatuses, systems and methods are adapted specifically for facilitating in-vivo cleaning of an imaging element of imaging devices that are used with robotic surgical systems. Advantageously, embodiments of such robotic surgical system implementations enable a surgeon to readily resolve sub-optimal visualization of the surgical field during robotic (e.g., laparoscopic) surgical procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ClearCam, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Ross Cohen, Christopher Robert Idelson, Mitchell Ross Gilkey
  • Patent number: 11857147
    Abstract: An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal and output one or more activation signals; an output port connectable to the electrosurgical instrument, the output port configured to output the driving electrosurgical signal received on the input port; one or more activation switch units, wherein activation of an activation switch unit causes an activation signal to be output from the input port indicating a driving electrosurgical signal with a desired waveform is to be activated; and a control unit configured to selectively activate one of the one or more activation switch units in response to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Schofield, Paul Christopher Roberts, Gordon Thomas Deane