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: 20210219493
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system and a method indirectly detect the operational state of a machine among a plurality of operational states and track the movement of a material through a plurality of machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Ian Robert Meier, Michael David Lockerbie
  • Publication number: 20210224678
    Abstract: A process is provided for the high-yield heterogeneous integration of ‘quantum micro-chiplets’ (QMCs, diamond waveguide arrays containing highly coherent color centers) with an aluminum nitride (AlN) photonic integrated circuit (PIC). As an example, the process is useful for the development of a 72-channel defect-free array of germanium-vacancy (GeV) and silicon-vacancy (SiV) color centers in a PIC. Photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals long-term stable and narrow average optical linewidths of 54 MHz (146 MHz) for GeV (SiV) emitters, close to the lifetime-limited linewidth of 32 MHz (93 MHz). Additionally, inhomogeneities in the individual qubits can be compensated in situ with integrated tuning of the optical frequencies over 100 GHz. The ability to assemble large numbers of nearly indistinguishable artificial atoms into phase-stable PICs is useful for development of multiplexed quantum repeaters and general-purpose quantum computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Noel WAN, Jacques Johannes CAROLAN, Tsung-Ju Lu, Ian Robert Christen, Dirk Robert ENGLUND
  • Patent number: 11064697
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds I wherein the variables are defined as given in the description and claims. The invention further relates to uses, processes and intermediates for compounds I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wassilios Grammenos, Christian Winter, Bernd Mueller, Antje Wolf, Ana Escribano Cuesta, Erica Cambeis, Jan Klaas Lohmann, Thomas Grote, Manuel Kretschmer, Nadine Riediger, Ian Robert Craig, Christine Wiebe, Violeta Terterya-Seiser, Andreas Koch, Marcus Fehr
  • Patent number: 11054590
    Abstract: A process is provided for the high-yield heterogeneous integration of ‘quantum micro-chiplets’ (QMCs, diamond waveguide arrays containing highly coherent color centers) with an aluminum nitride (AlN) photonic integrated circuit (PIC). As an example, the process is useful for the development of a 72-channel defect-free array of germanium-vacancy (GeV) and silicon-vacancy (SiV) color centers in a PIC. Photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals long-term stable and narrow average optical linewidths of 54 MHz (146 MHz) for GeV (SiV) emitters, close to the lifetime-limited linewidth of 32 MHz (93 MHz). Additionally, inhomogeneities in the individual qubits can be compensated in situ with integrated tuning of the optical frequencies over 100 GHz. The ability to assemble large numbers of nearly indistinguishable artificial atoms into phase-stable PICs is useful for development of multiplexed quantum repeaters and general-purpose quantum computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Noel Wan, Jacques Johannes Carolan, Tsung-Ju Lu, Ian Robert Christen, Dirk Robert Englund
  • Patent number: 11049355
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the electronic gaming device. The plurality of external lights forming au-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom where each of the left side, the right side, and the bottom includes a first light column, a second light column, and a third light column. The gaming device including a processor that initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Wei Gu, Daniel Kendall Harden, Ariel David Turgel
  • Publication number: 20210194181
    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: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Bernard Harold Hammond, JR., David Patrick Murray, Ian Robert George
  • Publication number: 20210192832
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for rendering multi-dimensional data in a polyhedron, such as a cube, in a 3D environment that allows for ease of visualization of, and interaction with, the underlying data. The approaches disclosed herein allow for 3D manipulation of records within the underlying data by filtering the records across elements of a particular dimension. These records may be filtered by physically grabbing a ‘drawer’—a slice of data within the polyhedron—and removing the drawer to a separate space. That drawer then represents all of the underlying records filtered by that slice, and can be further manipulated by additional filtering, or by merging multiple drawers together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Christian GRAIL, Joachim FIESS, Tatjana BOROVIKOV, Judith SCHNEIDER, Manfred Johann PAULI, Gisbert LOFF, Hanswerner DREISSIGACKER, Klaus HERTER, Hans-Juergen RICHSTEIN, Ian Robert TAYLOR
  • Publication number: 20210137115
    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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    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: 10999971
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system and a method indirectly detect the operational state of a machine among a plurality of operational states and track the movement of a material through a plurality of machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Bitstrata Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Robert Meier, Michael David Lockerbie
  • Patent number: 10986839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel trifluoromethyloxadiazoles of the formula I, or an N-oxide and/or their agriculturally useful salts and to their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi; to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi or 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; to a process for preparing compounds of the formula I; to intermediate compounds of the formula II.a for the preparation of compounds of the formula I; to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one compound of the formula I; and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Violeta Terteryan-Seiser, Wassilios Grammenos, Christine Wiebe, Manuel Kretschmer, Ian Robert Craig, Ana Escribano Cuesta, Marcus Fehr, Tobias Mentzel, Maria Angelica Quintero Palomar, Thomas Grote, Erica Cambeis, Bernd Mueller, Jan Klaas Lohmann, Christian Harald Winter
  • Patent number: 10981898
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (I): or tautomer or a solvate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the various substituents are as defined in the claims. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of formula (I), processes for making the compounds and the medical uses of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: ASTEX THERAPEUTICS LIMITED, CANCER RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Gianni Chessari, Steven Howard, Ildiko Maria Buck, Benjamin David Cons, Christopher Norbert Johnson, Rhian Sara Holvey, David Charles Rees, Jeffrey David St. Denis, Emiliano Tamanini, Bernard Thomas Golding, Ian Robert Hardcastle, Celine Florence Cano, Duncan Charles Miller, Martin Edward Mäntylä Noble, Roger John Griffin, James Daniel Osborne, Joanne Peach, Arwel Lewis, Kim Louise Hirst, Benjamin Paul Whittaker, David Wyn Watson, Dale Robert Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20210109814
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for managing data in a distributed data storage system, such as but not limited to a cloud computing environment. In some embodiments, snapshots of a data set are uploaded from a source storage subsystem to a cloud store, along with intervening difference information volumes (DIVs). The DIVs are data structures that identify a set of updated data blocks that have been changed by the source storage subsystem between each successive pair of the snapshots. A reader subsystem requests and uses the latest DIV to request the latest set of changed data blocks from the cloud store, and uses the latest set of changed data blocks to update a previous snapshot to generate a copy of the most recent snapshot. The source and reader subsystems can comprise Internet of Things (IoT) devices, client devices, edge computing devices, etc. from different vendors and which utilize different protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Douglas William Dewey, Ian Robert Davies, Kenneth F. Day, III
  • Patent number: 10976190
    Abstract: A system of detecting loading and unloading of mobile containers such as grain carts utilizes two low pass filters to determine whether the contents of the container are changing by subtracting one filter signal from the other, and using the sign of the difference. Weighing performance is improved by utilizing accelerometers to compensate for measurement dynamics and non-level orientation. Failure and degradation of weight sensors is detected by testing sensor half bridges. Loading and unloading weights can be tied to specific vehicles by utilizing RF beacons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Bitstrata Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Robert Meier, Michael David Lockerbie
  • Publication number: 20210105603
    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: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Ian Robert Meier, Michael David Lockerbie
  • Publication number: 20210104116
    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: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Publication number: 20210084900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 5-(haloalkyl)-5-hydroxy-isoxazoles of the formula I, or the N-oxides, or the agriculturally useful salts thereof, and the use thereof for controlling phytopathogenic fungi; 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, or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof, and further comprising seeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Christian Harald WINTER, Ana ESCRIBANO CUESTA, Ian Robert CRAIG, Wassilios GRAMMENOS, Violeta TERTERYAN-SEISER, Thomas GROTE, Christine WIEBE, Erica CAMBEIS, Jan Klaas LOHMANN, Michael SEET, Bernd MUELLER
  • Patent number: 10954994
    Abstract: An aircraft assembly having a bush mounted within a lug and a recess which extends along a portion of the lug-bush interface to create a relatively wide cavity for receiving sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventor: Ian Robert Bennett
  • Publication number: 20210080528
    Abstract: A coil apparatus and methods for magnetic resonance imaging involving a wire winding, the wire winding having at least one of: a hollow cross-section wire and a solid cross-section wire, the solid cross-section wire having at least one of: a solid small cross-section wire and a solid large cross-section wire, the solid large cross-section wire having a thickness greater than that of the solid small cross-section wire, and the solid small cross-section wire disposed in one of adjacent and proximate at least one of the hollow cross-section wire and the solid large cross-section wire, whereby at least one of current density, winding density, and heat extraction are increasable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Geron André BINDSEIL, Ian Robert Oliphant CONNELL, William Bradfield HANDLER, Chad Tyler HARRIS
  • Publication number: 20210080316
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for measuring moving vehicle information. Moving vehicle information may be measured by a sensor configured to respond to one or more wheels of the moving vehicle, where one or more of the wheels change the characteristic impedance of the sensor at the wheel's contact location. An electrical time domain reflectometry signal processing system which is capable of measuring the change in the impedance of the sensor and converting the impedance change to a signal may be connected operatively to the sensor. A data-processing system receives the signal and extracts the moving vehicle information therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Randy Leroy HANSON, Michael David LOCKERBIE, Ian Robert MEIER, Tyler William HAICHERT
  • Publication number: 20210064682
    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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Manas Haribhai Somaiya, Mohit Rajkumar Kothari, Ian Robert Ackerman, Yuan Shao