Patents by Inventor Ian Roberts

Ian 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: 20230110835
    Abstract: A method for forming a transparent ceramic, in accordance with one embodiment, includes forming a green body by material jetting an ink, and processing the green body to form the ceramic to transparency. A product, in accordance with one embodiment, includes an ink for forming a transparent ceramic. The ink is physically characterized as having a density, surface tension, and viscosity configured to enable material jetting of the ink in contained, sequential droplets having a volume in the range of about 1 picoliter to about 1 nanoliter when jetted from a nozzle having an inner diameter in the range of about 10 microns to about 300 microns. A product, in accordance with another embodiment, includes a transparent ceramic, at least a portion of the transparent ceramic having layers of less than 50 microns per layer with physical characteristics of formation by material jetting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary Seeley, Nerine Cherepy, Alexander Drobshoff, Stephen Anthony Payne, Ian Robert Phillips, Thomas John Rudzik
  • Patent number: 11603044
    Abstract: A multi-function rearview device for use with a vehicle includes a housing configured to be attached to the vehicle and to be moveable relative to the vehicle, a rearview element including at least one of a reflective element, a camera and a display element, a bezel formed at an outer portion of the multi-function rearview device surrounding the rearview element, with the rearview element being attached to at least one of the bezel and the housing, one or more light assemblies providing at least one or more light function indications, including a Human Machine Interface (HMI), and at least one sensor, the sensor controlling the one or more light assemblies or the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Andreas Herrmann, Andrew Lettis, Callum Scott-Collins, Gary Smith, Graham Rehill, Andrew Brian Little, Ian Robert Toone
  • Patent number: 11598831
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system includes a transmit radio frequency (RF) coil assembly comprising multiple capacitor banks each coupled to at least one diode that is characterized by a high breakdown voltage such that when the transmit RF coil assembly applies at least one slice-selecting RF pulse to a portion of a subject placed in the magnet to select a particular slice for MR imaging, the capacitor banks are selectively adjusted to improve an RF transmission characteristics of the RF coil assembly in transmitting the at least one slice-selecting RF pulse. The MR imaging system may further include a receive radio frequency (RF) coil assembly configured to, in response to at least the slice-selecting RF pulse, receive at least one response radio frequency (RF) pulse emitted from the selected slice of the portion of the subject; a housing; a main magnet; gradient coils; and a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Ian Robert Oliphant Connell
  • Patent number: 11591729
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are nonwoven webs comprising a nonwoven substrate and a binder comprising a polysaccharide. In one embodiment, the polysaccharide can comprise poly alpha-1,3-glucan, a poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compound as disclosed herein, a poly alpha-1,3-glucan ester compound as disclosed herein, a graft copolymer comprising a backbone comprising dextran and poly alpha-1,3-glucan side chains, a crosslinked graft copolymer comprising a backbone comprising dextran and poly alpha-1,3-glucan chains, or a mixture thereof. Also disclosed are articles comprising the nonwoven webs, and methods of making the nonwoven webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4, INC.
    Inventors: Natnael Behabtu, Monica Harvey, Christian Peter Lenges, Ian Robert Beardsall
  • Publication number: 20230055669
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower. The call tower extends upwardly from the gaming device, such as above the display. The call tower includes a call tower video display and may include one or more plates, such as light or image plates. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display and causes the plates and/or call tower video display to display information, such as images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Patent number: 11578120
    Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies that specifically bind Tau and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd., UCL Business LTD
    Inventors: Malcolm Ian Roberts, James Martin Staddon, Hettihewage Alfred Rohan De Silva, Jared Spidel, Hirofumi Aoyagi, Shigeru Akasofu, Yutaka Hashizume, Kishan Agarwala
  • Patent number: 11581685
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of wire termination contacts for terminating wires to the jack. The jack further includes a circuit board that electrically connects the contact springs to the wire termination contacts. The circuit board includes a multi-zone crosstalk compensation arrangement for reducing crosstalk at the jack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Harold Hammond, Jr., David Patrick Murray, Ian Robert George
  • Patent number: 11579124
    Abstract: Disclosed sensors can include at least one resonator (in some embodiments, at least two resonators) and various other structures that may be formed in association with the resonators. The at least one resonator in embodiments can include a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a top electrode, wherein the piezoelectric layer is positioned between the bottom electrode and the top electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Qorvo Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Russell Webster, Peter J. Schiller, Richard Allan Van Deusen, Ian Robert Harmon
  • Patent number: 11567152
    Abstract: A head coil assembly includes a housing with a lower portion, an upper portion, a left portion, and a right portion, wherein each portion includes two or more radio-frequency (RF) coils, wherein the portions are sized and shaped to adjustably conform to a curvature of the subject's head for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the subject's head placed inside the housing, wherein the portions are operable to transition from an open position where the portions are sufficiently apart from each other to a closed position where the portions are adjusted to tighten a wrap around the subject's head along the curvature, and wherein the two or more RF coils in each portion are disposed in such manner that when the portions are operated to transition from the open position to the closed position, the RF coils of each portion remain decoupled to each other even along edges of each portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Ian Robert Oliphant Connell, Gilbert Thevathasan, William Wai-Leung Lau, Alexander Gyles Panther
  • Patent number: 11529653
    Abstract: Produce sorting systems and methods that utilize a conveyor system to move produce through stages such as singulation, camera inspection, weight, and sorting. The sorting systems and methods may utilize conveyor systems having carrier segments that provide for increased speed, efficiency, accuracy, reliability, durability, and lower maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: DURAND-WAYLAND, INC.
    Inventor: Ian Robert Madden
  • Patent number: 11513178
    Abstract: The invention relates to an MRI apparatus and a method of MRI involving the acquisition of a first and a second MRI image with mutually different orientations between the BO magnetic field and the object to be investigated. For instance, when imaging structures such as a tendon, due to the magic angle effect, this results in a change in image contrast. According to the invention, a coregistration can be performed between the first and the second MRI image. Moreover, the orientation of a structure within the object can be determined on the basis of the different orientations and the image intensity in the first and the second MRI image. The invention further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method and a method of shimming the BO magnetic field of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Inventors: Mihailo Ristic, John Vincent Mario McGinley, Ian Robert Young
  • Publication number: 20220349858
    Abstract: Devices that include a low sensitivity bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator sensor including a surface to which a low recognition component is immobilized, the low recognition component being configured to selectively bind the analyte, an analyte molecule to which a tag is linked, or a tag, or any one of these molecules to which an amplification element-linked second recognition component is bound; a high sensitivity BAW resonator sensor including a surface to which a high recognition component is immobilized, the high recognition component being configured to selectively bind the analyte, an analyte molecule to which a tag is linked, or a tag, or any one of these molecules to which an amplification element-linked second recognition component is bound; one or more containers housing an amplification molecule, the amplification element-linked second recognition component, and optionally one or both of the tag and the analyte molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: James Russell Webster, Ian Robert Harmon
  • Patent number: 11473804
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a solution to monitor, control and share HVAC operation state information and the analysis thereof based on a distributed computing system involving local building automation servers (BAS), a network based (cloud-based) system and client terminals. On the network based system, a client level virtual machine launches a container process for a client, which includes a background sub-process and a foreground sub-process. The background sub-process collects and analyzes HVAC data without client interaction. The foreground sub-process is setup upon the launching of the container process, but is fully activated until suitable client interaction is detected. The foreground sub-process pushes for a more comprehensive set of HVAC operation data through the BAS server and analyzes and presents the data and analysis result in substantially real time to the client through the client terminal with a higher data updating rate than the background sub-process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Optimum Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Peng Chen, Ian Robert Dempster
  • Patent number: 11441603
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement having: a first element having an inner race and a first bearing surface; a second element, pivotable relative to the first element about a first axis, and having an outer race and a second bearing surface that cooperates with the first bearing surface to form a plain bearing. The bearing arrangement also includes a roller element disposed between the inner and outer races to form a rolling bearing. The inner and outer races are arcuate and subtend an angle of less than 360° about the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Ian Robert Bennett
  • Publication number: 20220286836
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method which utilizes the benefits of both advertising and bidirectional connections to allow a client/receiving device to receive data, e.g. sensor measurements, from the source/transmitting device during device discovery and connection, thereby minimizing the amount of time during which data, e.g. measurements, are unavailable. The disclosed embodiments may further allow for reduced power consumption by a source device by minimizing data transmission during advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Bitstrata Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Robert Meier, Michael David Lockerbie
  • Publication number: 20220281589
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear assembly having a reinstating geometry in which a lock link can be moved to assume a first locking condition to inhibit movement of a stay when a main strut is in a deployed condition and a second locking condition to inhibit movement of the main strut when in a stowed condition. An unlock actuator is coupled between a first element of the stay and the lock link such that the actuator can break the lock link from the first locking condition and force it to assume the second locking condition by operational force in a single direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Landing Systems UK LTD
    Inventor: Ian Robert Bennett
  • Patent number: 11436889
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower. The call tower extends upwardly from the gaming device, such as above the display. The call tower includes a call tower video display and may include one or more plates, such as light or image plates. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display and causes the plates and/or call tower video display to display information, such as images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Patent number: 11425910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel trifluoromethyloxadiazoles of the formula I, or the N-oxides, or the agriculturally useful salts thereof; and to their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi; and to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi, the plants, the soil or seeds to be protected against fungal attack, with an effective amount of at least one compound of the formula I, or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one compound of the formula I; and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wassilios Grammenos, Violeta Terteryan-Seiser, Maria Angelica Quintero Palomar, Ian Robert Craig, Christine Wiebe, Tobias Mentzel, Marcus Fehr, Ana Escribano Cuesta, Christian Harald Winter, Jan Klaas Lohmann, Bernd Mueller, Thomas Grote, Erica Cambeis, Michael Seet
  • Patent number: 11423104
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for a transfer model learning for relevance models are described herein. In an example, a system for member relevance prediction is adapted to collect a first data set of member interactions with the online service that occur on a first platform and train a first model using the first data set. The system for member relevance prediction may collect a second data set of member interactions with the online service that occur on a second platform. The system for member relevance prediction may predict a third data set related to member interactions using the first model and aggregate the first data set, the second data set, and the third data set. The system for member relevance prediction may train a second model for the second platform using the aggregated platform data and predict for the second platform, using the second model, online service items for the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Manas Haribhai Somaiya, Mohit Rajkumar Kothari, Ian Robert Ackerman, Yuan Shao
  • Patent number: 11408855
    Abstract: Devices that include a low sensitivity bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator sensor including a surface to which a low recognition component is immobilized, the low recognition component being configured to selectively bind the analyte, an analyte molecule to which a tag is linked, or a tag, or any one of these molecules to which an amplification element-linked second recognition component is bound; a high sensitivity BAW resonator sensor including a surface to which a high recognition component is immobilized, the high recognition component being configured to selectively bind the analyte, an analyte molecule to which a tag is linked, or a tag, or any one of these molecules to which an amplification element-linked second recognition component is bound; one or more containers housing an amplification molecule, the amplification element-linked second recognition component, and optionally one or both of the tag and the analyte molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: James Russell Webster, Ian Robert Harmon