Patents by Inventor David W Roberts
David W 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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Publication number: 20240099734Abstract: Apparatuses, capacitor arrays, and methods for generating therapeutic compressed acoustic waves (e.g., shock waves). In the apparatuses and at least some of the methods, a plurality of electrodes can disposed in a chamber that is defined by a housing and configured to be filled with liquid, and a plurality of capacitors can be electrically connected to the electrodes and can be carried by (e.g., physically coupled to) the housing. Voltage pulses can be applied simultaneously to the plurality of electrodes (e.g., to begin to vaporize and ionize portions of the liquid to provide at least one inter-electrode conductive path between the plurality of electrodes) and to the capacitors to charge the plurality of capacitors). The plurality of capacitors can be configured to, upon reaching a threshold charge, discharge to the plurality of electrodes (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Christopher C. Capelli, Michael Kishnevsky, Daniel Masse, John Summerson, David W. Robert, Walter Klemp, Robert Crowley
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Patent number: 11914849Abstract: A method for enhancing interaction between a customer and a customer service representative of a company is provided. A graphical user interface (GUI) of a windows control tool is displayed. A type of an interaction between the customer and the customer service representative at a computer operated by the company is determined. One or more applications associated with the type of interaction are launched based on a predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. One or more application windows corresponding to the launched applications are arranged on a screen based on the predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. The windows control tool is configured to control the one or more application windows based on customer service representative's input. The GUI of the windows control tool displays a plurality of window objects corresponding to the one or more launched applications.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: David W. Roberts, Aaron Quade, Steven D. Sternitzke
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Systems and methods for integrating, aggregating and utilizing data from a plurality of data sources
Patent number: 11893629Abstract: A method of integrating electronic data including integrating a desktop such that the desktop includes information received from various sources. The information displayed may be analyzed by a business rule to prioritize what information is included in the desktop, and the information may include data from databases, recent member activities, planned future actions, and recommended future actions. The method also includes the ability to integrate and/or aggregate various data sources, such as databases. The combination of the data sources may be performed according to one or more business rules.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, Jr., Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts -
Patent number: 11857317Abstract: An imaging system, such as a surgical microscope, laparoscope, or endoscope or integrated with these devices, includes an illuminator providing patterned white light and/or fluorescent stimulus light. The system receives and images light hyperspectrally, in embodiments using a hyperspectral imaging array, and/or using narrowband tunable filters for passing filtered received light to an imager. Embodiments may construct a 3-D surface model from stereo images, and will estimate optical properties of the target using images taken in patterned light or using other approximations obtained from white light exposures. Hyperspectral images taken under stimulus light are displayed as fluorescent images, and corrected for optical properties of tissue to provide quantitative maps of fluorophore concentration. Spectral information from hyperspectral images is processed to provide depth of fluorophore below the tissue surface. Quantitative images of fluorescence at depth are also prepared.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKInventors: Pablo Valdes, Frederic Leblond, Keith D. Paulsen, Brian Campbell Wilson, David W. Roberts, Michael Jermyn
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Patent number: 11798006Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for automating electronic content delivery of predictive information to a customer service representative of a company. A first customer data set is entered in the computer system for identifying a customer. Displayed on a first desktop on a representative's computer system is information related to the customer which may include purchased company products and services of the customer based on the first data set. A second data set is entered in the computer system by the representative contingent upon interaction between the representative and the customer. Perform predictive analytics upon at least a portion of the first and second data sets to determine predictive information relevant to the customer. Display on a second desktop on the representative's computer system the predictive information for review by the representative during an interaction with the customer.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, Jr., Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts
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Publication number: 20230324301Abstract: A method and device for determining the depth and fluorophore concentration of a fluorophore concentration below the surface of an optically absorbing and scattering medium suitable for use in fluorescence-based surgical guidance such as in tumor resection is described. Long-wavelength stimulus light us used to obtain deep tissue penetration. Recovery of depth is performed by fitting measured modulation amplitudes for each spatial frequency to precomputed modulation amplitudes in a table of modulation amplitudes indexed by optical parameters and depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Keith D. Paulsen, David W. Roberts, Dennis Wirth, Brian C. Wilson, Mira Sibai
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Publication number: 20230320649Abstract: A surgical guidance system has two cameras to provide stereo image stream of a surgical field; and a stereo viewer. The system has a 3D surface extraction module that generates a first 3D model of the surgical field from the stereo image streams; a registration module for co-registering annotating data with the first 3D model; and a stereo image enhancer for graphically overlaying at least part of the annotating data onto the stereo image stream to form an enhanced stereo image stream for display, where the enhanced stereo stream enhances a surgeon’s perception of the surgical field. The registration module has an alignment refiner to adjust registration of the annotating data with the 3D model based upon matching of features within the 3D model and features within the annotating data; and in an embodiment, a deformation modeler to deform the annotating data based upon a determined tissue deformation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: The Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: David W. ROBERTS, Keith D. PAULSEN, Alexander HARTOV, Songbai JI, Xiaoyao FAN
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Publication number: 20230280577Abstract: An imaging system includes an illumination device for illuminating a target. A surgical microscope receives light from the target, the surgical microscope comprising at least one optical output port at which at least a portion of the received light is provided as an output from the surgical microscope. A tunable filter receives the portion of the received light provided as the output from the surgical microscope, the tunable filter being tunable to pass a filtered portion of the received light, the filtered portion of the received light having a plurality of wavelengths selected by the tunable filter and provided as output from the tunable filter. A high-resolution, broad-bandwidth electronic camera receives the light of a plurality of wavelengths selected by the tunable filter, the electronic camera converting the light of a plurality of wavelengths selected by the tunable filter to a plurality of electrical signals. A processor processes the plurality of electrical signals to form an image of the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Pablo A. Valdes, David W. Roberts, Keith D. Paulsen, Frederic Leblond
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Methods for simultaneous interaction on a web page by a customer and customer service representative
Patent number: 11716420Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enhancing interaction between a customer using a client computer and a customer service representative of a company using a workstation. A Web session is commenced on a Web site for the client computer of the customer, wherein the Web session includes displaying a first Web page to the customer. A telephonic interaction is commenced between the customer and the customer service representative and a split screen is displayed on the workstation. The split screen including the first Web page and a second Web page, wherein the second Web page is only viewable by the customer service representative. An application is caused to be moved from the second Web page to the first Web page for review and interaction by the customer via the client computer.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (“USAA”)Inventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, Jr., Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts -
Publication number: 20230233157Abstract: A method of generating corrected fluorescence data of concentrations of a targeted fluorophore in tissue of a subject includes administering first and second fluorescent contrast agents to the subject, the first contrast agent targeted to tissue of interest, the second agent untargeted. The tissue is illuminated with light of a first stimulus wavelength and first data is acquired at an appropriate emissions wavelength; the tissue is illuminated at a second stimulus wavelength and second data is acquired at a second emissions wavelength associated with the second agent, the first and second emissions wavelength differ. Difference data is generated by subtracting the second data from the first data. A system provides for stimulus and capture at multiple wavelengths, with image storage memory and subtraction code, to perform the method. Corrected data may form an fluorescence image, or is used to generate fluorescence tomographic images.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Kenneth Tichauer, Robert W. Holt, Frederic Leblond, Pablo Valdes, Brian W. Pogue, Keith D. Paulsen, David W. Roberts
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Patent number: 11690558Abstract: A surgical guidance system has two cameras to provide stereo image stream of a surgical field; and a stereo viewer. The system has a 3D surface extraction module that generates a first 3D model of the surgical field from the stereo image streams; a registration module for co-registering annotating data with the first 3D model; and a stereo image enhancer for graphically overlaying at least part of the annotating data onto the stereo image stream to form an enhanced stereo image stream for display, where the enhanced stereo stream enhances a surgeon's perception of the surgical field. The registration module has an alignment refiner to adjust registration of the annotating data with the 3D model based upon matching of features within the 3D model and features within the annotating data; and in an embodiment, a deformation modeler to deform the annotating data based upon a determined tissue deformation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: The Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: David W. Roberts, Keith D. Paulsen, Alexander Hartov, Songbai Ji, Xiaoyao Fan
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Patent number: 11662315Abstract: A method and device for determining the depth and fluorophore concentration of a fluorophore concentration below the surface of an optically absorbing and scattering medium suitable for use in fluorescence-based surgical guidance such as in tumor resection is described. Long-wavelength stimulus light us used to obtain deep tissue penetration. Recovery of depth is performed by fitting measured modulation amplitudes for each spatial frequency to precomputed modulation amplitudes in a table of modulation amplitudes indexed by optical parameters and depth.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKInventors: Keith D. Paulsen, David W. Roberts, Dennis Wirth, Brian C. Wilson, Mira Sibai
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Patent number: 11663608Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing performance information related to a customer service representative. A processor aggregates statistical data related to customer service representatives performance. A menu is then caused to be generated and displayed indicating a plurality of menu items. Each of the plurality of menu items corresponds to one of a plurality of the work-related types of data. Additionally, displayed and processed are one or more work-related alerts in response to receiving the one or more work-related alerts.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, Jr., Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts
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Patent number: 11656448Abstract: An imaging system includes an illumination device for illuminating a target. A surgical microscope receives light from the target, the surgical microscope comprising at least one optical output port at which at least a portion of the received light is provided as an output from the surgical microscope. A tunable filter receives the portion of the received light provided as the output from the surgical microscope, the tunable filter being tunable to pass a filtered portion of the received light, the filtered portion of the received light having a plurality of wavelengths selected by the tunable filter and provided as output from the tunable filter. A high-resolution, broad-bandwidth electronic camera receives the light of a plurality of wavelengths selected by the tunable filter, the electronic camera converting the light of a plurality of wavelengths selected by the tunable filter to a plurality of electrical signals. A processor processes the plurality of electrical signals to form an image of the target.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Pablo A. Valdes, David W. Roberts, Keith D. Paulsen, Frederic Leblond
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Publication number: 20230075997Abstract: An imaging system, such as a surgical microscope, laparoscope, or endoscope or integrated with these devices, includes an illuminator providing patterned white light and/or fluorescent stimulus light. The system receives and images light hyperspectrally, in embodiments using a hyperspectral imaging array, and/or using narrowband tunable filters for passing filtered received light to an imager. Embodiments may construct a 3-D surface model from stereo images, and will estimate optical properties of the target using images taken in patterned light or using other approximations obtained from white light exposures. Hyperspectral images taken under stimulus light are displayed as fluorescent images, and corrected for optical properties of tissue to provide quantitative maps of fluorophore concentration. Spectral information from hyperspectral images is processed to provide depth of fluorophore below the tissue surface. Quantitative images of fluorescence at depth are also prepared.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Pablo Valdes, Frederic Leblond, Keith D. Paulsen, Brian Campbell Wilson, David W. Roberts, Michael Jermyn
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Patent number: 11564639Abstract: A method of generating corrected fluorescence data of concentrations of a targeted fluorophore in tissue of a subject includes administering first and second fluorescent contrast agents to the subject, the first contrast agent targeted to tissue of interest, the second agent untargeted. The tissue is illuminated with light of a first stimulus wavelength and first data is acquired at an appropriate emissions wavelength; the tissue is illuminated at a second stimulus wavelength and second data is acquired at a second emissions wavelength associated with the second agent, the first and second emissions wavelength differ. Difference data is generated by subtracting the second data from the first data. A system provides for stimulus and capture at multiple wavelengths, with image storage memory and subtraction code, to perform the method. Corrected data may form an fluorescence image, or is used to generate fluorescence tomographic images.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Kenneth Tichauer, Robert W. Holt, Frederic Leblond, Pablo Valdes, Brian W. Pogue, Keith D. Paulsen, David W. Roberts
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Patent number: 11553086Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for streamlining interactions between a customer and a company representative. Information related to a customer is received by a company representative. A predicted future action by the customer is then calculated by a computer process wherein the calculation is based on the received information. The predicted future action is then caused to be displayed on a computer operated by a representative of the company. A conversation plan may be generated according to the information and a business rule which may be displayed on the representative's computer.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, Jr., Steven R. Wilson, Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts
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Patent number: 11521215Abstract: A computer method and system for disseminating computerized content via an scratchpad application in which data is received at a computing device, preferably via user input. The data is displayed on the computing device, via the scratchpad application, and a subset of the data is identified which is to be copied and disseminated. A second application is identified that will receive the data subset such that at least a portion of the data will be imported to the second application.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, Jr., Steven R. Wilson, Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts
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Patent number: 11510600Abstract: An imaging system, such as a surgical microscope, laparoscope, or endoscope or integrated with these devices, includes an illuminator providing patterned white light and/or fluorescent stimulus light. The system receives and images light hyperspectrally, in embodiments using a hyperspectral imaging array, and/or using narrowband tunable filters for passing filtered received light to an imager. Embodiments may construct a 3-D surface model from stereo images, and will estimate optical properties of the target using images taken in patterned light or using other approximations obtained from white light exposures. Hyperspectral images taken under stimulus light are displayed as fluorescent images, and corrected for optical properties of tissue to provide quantitative maps of fluorophore concentration. Spectral information from hyperspectral images is processed to provide depth of fluorophore below the tissue surface. Quantitative images of fluorescence at depth are also prepared.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Pablo Valdes, Frederic Leblond, Keith D. Paulsen, Brian Campbell Wilson, David W. Roberts, Michael Jermyn
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METHODS FOR SIMULTANEOUS INTERACTION ON A WEB PAGE BY A CUSTOMER AND CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE
Publication number: 20220329696Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enhancing interaction between a customer using a client computer and a customer service representative of a company using a workstation. A Web session is commenced on a Web site for the client computer of the customer, wherein the Web session includes displaying a first Web page to the customer. A telephonic interaction is commenced between the customer and the customer service representative and a split screen is displayed on the workstation. The split screen including the first Web page and a second Web page, wherein the second Web page is only viewable by the customer service representative. An application is caused to be moved from the second Web page to the first Web page for review and interaction by the customer via the client computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: United Services Automobile Association ("USAA")Inventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, JR., Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts