Patents by Inventor Jacob Robinson

Jacob Robinson 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: 20260137948
    Abstract: The disclosure describes new apparatus, systems and methods utilizing magnetoelectric neural stimulators with tunable amplitude and waveform. Specific embodiments of the present disclosure include a magnetoelectric film, a magnetic field generator and an electrical circuit coupled to the magnetoelectric film. In particular embodiments, the electrical circuit comprises components configured modify an electrical output signal produced by the magnetoelectric film. In certain embodiments, the electrical circuit is configured to modify the electric signal to charge a charge storage element, to transmit data to an implantable wireless neural stimulator, and to provide a stimulation output to electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Jacob ROBINSON, Kaiyuan YANG, Zhanghao YU, Joshua CHEN, Amanda SINGER, Benjamin AVANTS, Nishant VERMA
  • Publication number: 20260071564
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler includes a hollow body that at least partially houses an exhaust pipe. The exhaust pipe is adapted to allow a flow of exhaust gases therethrough. Further, the exhaust pipe defines a plurality of orifices on the exhaust pipe such that the exhaust gases flowing through the exhaust pipe can flow out of the exhaust pipe within the hollow body and/or flow back into the exhaust pipe from the hollow body through the plurality of orifices. A secondary pipe is disposed within the hollow body and filled with a sound absorbing material. At least one baffle is engaged with the exhaust pipe and the secondary pipe to allow at least one of the exhaust pipe and the secondary pipe to pass therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Jacob ROBINSON, Pawel PALISZEWSKI, Dawid SIWEK
  • Patent number: 12527963
    Abstract: The disclosure describes new apparatus, systems and methods utilizing magnetoelectric neural stimulators with tunable amplitude and waveform. Specific embodiments of the present disclosure include a magnetoelectric film, a magnetic field generator and an electrical circuit coupled to the magnetoelectric film, in particular embodiments, the electrical circuit comprises components configured modify an electrical output signal produced by the magnetoelectric film. In certain embodiments, the electrical circuit is configured to modify the electric signal to charge a charge storage element, to transmit data to an implantable wireless neural stimulator, and to provide a stimulation output to electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Jacob Robinson, Kaiyuan Yang, Zhanghao Yu, Joshua Chen, Amanda Singer, Benjamin Avants, Nishant Verma
  • Patent number: 12507895
    Abstract: A system for imaging a target embedded in a scattering media includes: one or more light sources that are pulsed lights at one or more wavelengths in a range of visible to near-infrared; a detector, including a photodetector array with a time-gating function, configured to collect a scattered light after a gate start time; and a processor configured to determine an image of the target based on the scattered light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Yongyi Zhao, Ankit Raghuram, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson
  • Publication number: 20250377536
    Abstract: A method for designing and optimizing a lensless imaging device includes: (a) a method for optimizing the point spread function for various imaging, computer vision and artificial intelligence tasks, (b) a method for computing the optimal phase mask that can realize the desired point spread function, (c) using the optimal phase mask in a lensless camera and (d) a method for calibrating the lensless imaging device using a single captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Applicant: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Vivek Boominathan, Jesse Adams, Richard Baraniuk
  • Publication number: 20250367371
    Abstract: A hybrid bioelectronic implantable device containing engineered cells for delivery of therapeutic agents to a subject to treat a medical condition of the subject. The device comprises an implantable device implantable inside the subject's body, wherein the implantable device comprises at least one cell housing containing the engineered cells; and an optical stimulating system within the at least one cell housing, wherein the optical stimulating system is configured to control production of at least one type of therapeutic agents by the engineered cells; wherein the medical condition of the subject comprises one of a sleep disorder, a circadian rhythm disorder, neuro disorders, infertilities, diabetes, obesity, eating disorders, cancers, bone marrow disorders, autoimmune disorders, addictive disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Rivnay, Omid Veiseh, Jacob Robinson, Martha Hotz Vitaterna, Fred W. Turek, David E. Moller, Susan Drapeau
  • Publication number: 20250339695
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure include apparatus, systems and methods utilizing a passive, power-efficient backscattering communication system that enables transmitting data wirelessly between implantable magnetoelectric (ME) devices and an external base station. Certain embodiments encode the transmitted data through modulating the resonance frequency of a ME film by digitally tuning its electric loading conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Applicant: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Jacob ROBINSON, Fatima ALRASHDAN, Kaiyuan YANG, Zhanghao YU, Joshua WOODS, Amanda SINGER, Matthew PARKER
  • Publication number: 20250319598
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to robotic control for tool sharpening. The device may determine a first location associated with a first cutting tool of the one or more cutting tools relative to the first container. The device may grip the first cutting tool based on the first location of the first cutting tool relative to the first container. The device may move the robotic device to one more scanning sensors. The device may collect three dimensional data. The device may extract a profile of the first cutting tool. The device may determine a top edge and a bottom edge based on the profile. The device may determine a tip of the first cutting tool. The device may generate a sharpening path based on the tip and the profile of the first cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2025
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Applicant: Omnisharp, LLC
    Inventors: Russell Aldridge, Marc Christenson, Jacob Robinson, Isaac Jones, Joshua Foss, Mathius Jules, Michael Morgan, Austin Christensen, Jason Orr, Nathan Powelson, Sam Grayson
  • Publication number: 20250308002
    Abstract: A system includes a microscope and computer system communicably coupled together. The microscope includes a camera, phase mask, and ultraviolet source. The phase mask is disposed within a view of the camera. The microscope is configured to scatter a light illuminating a tissue by emitting, using the ultraviolet source, an ultraviolet radiation towards the tissue and obtain, using the phase mask and the camera, an image of an illuminated surface of the tissue. The tissue includes at least one diagnostic feature. The image is within a predefined depth of field, inclusive, and includes a manifestation of the at least one diagnostic feature. The computer system is configured to determine a deblurred image from a trained first artificial intelligence model based on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicants: William Marsh Rice University, THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Lingbo Jin, Yubo Tang, Jackson Coole, Melody Tan, Xuan Zhao, Hawraa Badaoui, Jacob Robinson, Michelle Williams, Nadarajah Vigneswaran, Ann Gillenwater, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ashok Veeraraghavan
  • Patent number: 12383748
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure include apparatus, systems and methods utilizing a passive, power-efficient backscattering communication system that enables transmitting data wirelessly between implantable magnetoelectric (ME) devices and an external base station. Certain embodiments encode the transmitted data through modulating the resonance frequency of a ME film by digitally tuning its electric loading conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Jacob Robinson, Fatima Alrashdan, Kaiyuan Yang, Zhanghao Yu, Joshua Woods, Amanda Singer, Matthew Parker
  • Patent number: 12233558
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to robotic control for tool sharpening. The device may determine a first location associated with a first cutting tool of the one or more cutting tools relative to the first container. The device may grip the first cutting tool based on the first location of the first cutting tool relative to the first container. The device may move the robotic device to one more scanning sensors. The device may collect three dimensional data. The device may extract a profile of the first cutting tool. The device may determine a top edge and a bottom edge based on the profile. The device may determine a tip of the first cutting tool. The device may generate a sharpening path based on the tip and the profile of the first cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Omnisharp, LLC
    Inventors: Russell Aldridge, Marc Christenson, Jacob Robinson, Isaac Jones, Joshua Foss, Mathius Jules, Michael Morgan, Austin Christensen, Jason Orr, Nathan Powelson, Sam Grayson
  • Publication number: 20250032804
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure include apparatus, systems and methods utilizing a passive, power-efficient backscattering communication system that enables transmitting data wirelessly between implantable magnetoelectric (ME) devices and an external base station. Certain embodiments encode the transmitted data through modulating the resonance frequency of a ME film by digitally tuning its electric loading conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Jacob ROBINSON, Fatima ALRASHDAN, Kaiyuan YANG, Zhanghao YU, Joshua WOODS, Amanda SINGER, Matthew PARKER
  • Patent number: 12208510
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to robotic drive control device. A robotic device may receive an indication associated with pressing an actuator on a handheld device, wherein the handheld device controls a movement of an end effector of the robotic device. The robotic device may record a home location associated with where the actuator was pressed in space. The robotic device may determine an orientation of the handheld device. The robotic device may detect a movement of the handheld device from the home location to a second location in space. The robotic device may cause the end effector of the robot to move in the same orientation as the handheld device from a stationary position that is associated with the home location while continuing to move the end effector even when the handheld device stops moving at the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SISU DEVICES LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Robinson, Russell Aldridge, Joshua Foss, Marc Christenson
  • Patent number: 12179026
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure include apparatus, systems and methods utilizing a passive, power-efficient backscattering communication system that enables transmitting data wirelessly between implantable magnetoelectric (ME) devices and an external base station. Certain embodiments encode the transmitted data through modulating the resonance frequency of a ME film by digitally tuning its electric loading conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Jacob Robinson, Fatima Alrashdan, Kaiyuan Yang, Zhanghao Yu, Joshua Woods, Amanda Singer, Matthew Parker
  • Publication number: 20240363218
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to treatment evaluation and recommendation using implantable magnetoelectric devices. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method that includes sending, to a user device of a subject, first software code that presents, at a user interface of the user device, requests for input that are informative of an instantaneous user characteristic of the subject. Second software code is sent to a base station that is coupled to implantable devices implanted in regions of the subject. The second software code causes the base station to send a signal to the implantable devices with an instruction to execute implant stimulation protocols. A communication that represents inputs detected at the user interface while or after the implant stimulation protocols were being executed is received. A treatment recommendation for the subject is determined based on the communication and is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Motif Neurotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Robinson, Matthew Kuhn
  • Publication number: 20240254507
    Abstract: An engineered cell expressing a therapeutic agent and a reporter agent, the engineered cell comprising a first transgene containing a light sensing DNA sequence encoding a light sensing protein, and a second transgene containing a calcium activated promoter, a therapeutic agent DNA encoding a therapeutic agent, and a reporter agent DNA encoding a reporter agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Omid Veiseh, Jacob Robinson, Jonathan Rivnay, Isaac Hilton, Samantha T. Fleury, Matthew C. Parker, Jacob H. Goell, Jing Li, Kaiyuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20240207508
    Abstract: A bioelectronic implantable device includes engineered cells and an electronically controlled stimulator that regulates a quantity and timing of therapeutic agent produced by the engineered cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Rivnay, Omid Veiseh, Jacob Robinson, Samantha T. Fleury, Matthew C. Parker, Fatima T. Alrashdan
  • Publication number: 20240189505
    Abstract: A bioelectronic wearable device includes engineered cells and an electronically controlled stimulator that regulates a quantity and timing of therapeutic agent produced by the engineered cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Rivnay, Omid Veiseh, Jacob Robinson
  • Patent number: 11992949
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to robotic point capture and motion control. A robotic device may synchronize one or more first axes of the robotic device with one or more second axes of a handheld device. The device may determine a welding path using the handheld device. The device may perform a weld by the traversing of an end effector of the robotic across the welding path, wherein the end effector comprises a welding tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Sisu Devices LLC
    Inventors: Russell Aldridge, Jacob Robinson, Marc Christenson
  • Publication number: 20230405340
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure include apparatus, systems and methods utilizing a passive, power-efficient backscattering communication system that enables transmitting data wirelessly between implantable magnetoelectric (ME) devices and an external base station. Certain embodiments encode the transmitted data through modulating the resonance frequency of a ME film by digitally tuning its electric loading conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Jacob ROBINSON, Fatima ALRASHDAN, Kaiyuan YANG, Zhanghao YU, Joshua WOODS, Amanda SINGER, Matthew PARKER