Patents by Inventor Kevin Roberts

Kevin 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).

  • Patent number: 9348646
    Abstract: A method for migrating a virtual machine instance within a service provider environment may include determining to migrate an instance running on a source server computer, the source server computer associated with a plurality of hardware resource settings. A target server computer may be identified based at least in part on the plurality of hardware resource settings. A local data volume of the target server computer may be synchronized with a local data volume of the source server computer. A notification may be sent to the user, indicating migration of the instance can be initiated. Upon receiving a reboot request, disconnecting at least one network interface attached to the instance. The instance may be terminated from running on the source server computer, and may be launched on the target server computer using the synchronized local data volume and instance state data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Nevin Daya, Diwakar Gupta, Kevin Robert Scaife
  • Patent number: 9350682
    Abstract: A provider network may implement compute instance migrations across availability zones. Compute instances may be located in a particular availability zone of provider network that is implemented across multiple availability zones. A request may be received, from a client of the provider network or other component of the provider network, to migrate a compute instance that is currently operating for a client and located in one availability zone to another availability zone. A destination compute instance may be provisioned in the other availability zone based on a configuration of the currently operating compute instance. In some embodiments, other computing resources utilized by the currently operating compute instance, such as data storage resources, may be moved to the other availability zone. Migration may be completed such that the destination compute instance is currently operating for the client and the compute instance is not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Diwakar Gupta, Jean-Paul Bauer, Kevin Robert Scaife, Marc Nevin Daya
  • Publication number: 20160138408
    Abstract: A high pressure BLISK includes at least one circular row of airfoils circumferentially disposed about, integral with, and extending radially outwardly from an annular rim having an annular flat aft facing face with coplanar radially outer and inner face portions radially separated by an annular undercut extending into the rim from the aft facing face. Airfoil roots including root fillets extend around the airfoil between the rim and pressure and suction sides of the airfoils. An axially aftwardly extending annular cylindrical section extends aftwardly from the flat face. The BLISK being a first of axially adjacent first and second rotor sections connected by a rabbet joint. A forward arm of the second rotor section includes an outer forward facing annular face spaced apart from the aft facing face radially outwardly of the annular undercut and a radially inner forward facing annular face contacting the aft facing face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Mark BORDNE, Jason Francis Pepi, Kevin Robert SHANNON
  • Publication number: 20160139331
    Abstract: An optical fiber coating composition is provided. The optical fiber coating composition includes a radiation-curable component, a photoinitiator, and an acrylic polymer having at least one benzophenone group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Kevin Robert McCarthy, Weijun Niu, David Neal Schissel, Arthur Lawrence Wallace
  • Publication number: 20160134286
    Abstract: Systems and methods for level-shifting multiplexing are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for level-shifting multiplexing comprises selecting one of a plurality of inputs based on one or more select signals, and pulling down one of first and second nodes based on a logic state of the selected one of the plurality of inputs. The method also comprises pulling up the first node if the second node is pulled down, and pulling up the second node if the first node is pulled down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin Robert Bowles, Jose Gabriel Corona, Venugopal Boynapalli
  • Publication number: 20160118277
    Abstract: A heater system is provided that includes a base functional layer having at least one functional zone. A substrate is secured to the functional member, and a tuning layer is secured to the substrate opposite the base functional layer. The tuning layer includes a plurality of zones that is greater in number than the zones of the base functional layer, and the tuning layer provides lower power than the base functional layer. A component is secured to the tuning layer opposite the substrate, and the substrate defines a thermal conductivity to absorb and dissipate a requisite amount of power from the base functional layer. A control system is also provided that has a plurality of addressable control elements in electrical communication with power lines and with the tuning layer, the control elements providing selective control of the tuning layer zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Kevin Ptasienski, Kevin Robert Smith, Cal Thomas Swanson, Philip Steven Schmidt, Mohammad Nosrati, Jacob Lindley, Allen Norman Boldt, Sanhong Zhang, Louis P. Steinhauser, Dennis Stanley Grimard
  • Publication number: 20160118276
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided, by way of example, a heater for use in semiconductor processing equipment, that includes a base functional layer having at least one functional zone. A substrate is secured to the base functional layer, and a tuning layer is secured to the substrate opposite the base functional layer. The tuning layer includes a plurality of zones that is greater in number than the zones of the base functional layer, and the tuning layer has lower power than the base functional layer. Further, a component, such as a chuck by way of example, is secured to the tuning layer opposite the substrate. The substrate defines a thermal conductivity to dissipate a requisite amount of power from the base functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Kevin Ptasienski, Kevin Robert Smith, Cal Thomas Swanson, Philip Steven Schmidt, Mohammad Nosrati, Jacob Lindley, Allen Norman Boldt, Sanhong Zhang, Louis P. Steinhauser, Dennis Stanley Grimard
  • Patent number: 9322991
    Abstract: Coating compositions that include acrylic polymers as reinforcing agents. The coating compositions are radiation-curable and include a multifunctional acrylate component, an acrylic monomer diluent, an acrylic polymer, and a photoinitiator. The acrylic polymer is not radiation-curable and lacks hydrogen-donor groups, urea groups, and urethane groups. The acrylic polymer is non-reactive and does not chemically bond to the crosslinked network formed by curing the acrylate components. Instead, the acrylic polymer reinforces the cured network through physical interactions. Representative acrylic polymers include (meth)acrylates that lack substituents with hydrogen-donor, urea, and urethane groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Kevin Robert McCarthy, Weijun Niu, David Neal Schissel
  • Publication number: 20160108427
    Abstract: Nucleotide sequences are disclosed encoding novel, insecticidal TIC2160 and TIC3244 proteins, and variants thereof, and related proteins exhibiting Lepidopteran inhibitory activity, as well as fragments thereof. Particular embodiments provide compositions and transformed plants, plant parts, and seeds containing a polynucleotide construct encoding one or more of the toxin proteins within the TIC2160-related protein toxin class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: James Arthur Baum, David Joseph Bowen, Catherine Alice Chay, Artem G. Evdokimov, Stanislaw Flasinski, Uma Rao Kesanapalli, Jeffrey R. Nageotte, James Kevin Roberts, Brian Edward Weiner
  • Patent number: 9316112
    Abstract: A nacelle for a turbofan engine includes a variable area fan nozzle (VAFN) and a proximity sensor that is attached to a nacelle forward portion to sense the presence of the VAFN when stowed. The proximity sensor is not attached to the VAFN, thereby enabling the use of a proximity sensor such as linear variable displacement transformer having a relatively compact operational stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Robert Scanlon, Geoffrey Pinto
  • Patent number: 9306617
    Abstract: A FET-based RF switch architecture and method that provides for independent control of FETs within component branches of a switching circuit. With independent control of branch FETs, every RF FET in an inactive branch that is in an “open” (capacitive) state can be shunted to RF ground and thus mitigate impedance mismatch effects. Providing a sufficiently low impedance to RF ground diminishes such negative effects and reduces the sensitivity of the switch circuit to non-matched impedances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Conry, Kevin Roberts, Edward Nicholas Comfoltey
  • Patent number: 9283249
    Abstract: Provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods for determining the total non-volatile organic carbon in a sodium nitrite-containing sample. Further provided herein are methods for producing pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite. Still further provided herein are methods of treatment comprising the administration of pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Sherman, Anthony James Lepine, Catherine Marie Smith, Kevin Robert Wirtz, Erich Schulze
  • Publication number: 20160045337
    Abstract: A blade-type prosthesis assembly includes a blade body extending between a blade bottom and a blade top. The blade top is securable to a socket for a limb and the blade bottom defines a convex surface formed by at least one edge of the blade bottom curving toward the blade top. The prosthesis assembly further includes a base plate. The base plate includes a base plate top surface securable to the blade bottom, a base plate bottom surface opposing the base plate top surface, and a plurality of ground-engaging elements extending from the base plate bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: CRAIG MACKIEWICZ, MICHAEL JAMES PREWITT, KEVIN ROBERT SHINN, JUSTIN ROBERT SHINN, ERICK SHINICHI IKEDA, JACQUES MAGLOIRE PERRAULT, BENJAMIN DOUGLAS HEFNER, LARRY JAMES PARKER, III, BRADLEY JAMES HASSBERGER, EDWARD FREDERICK WETTLAUFER, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160045339
    Abstract: A garment for retaining a prosthesis assembly includes a sleeve configured to encase at least a portion of a limb and at least a portion of a prosthesis for the limb. The garment further includes tension bands extending along the sleeve and configured to secure the prosthesis to the limb. Another exemplary garment is a body suit including a pant leg configured to encase at least a portion of a leg and at least a portion of a leg prosthesis. The body suit further includes tension bands integrally extending from the pant leg along a torso portion of the body suit and around a shoulder portion of the body suit and configured to secure the leg prosthesis to the leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: CRAIG MACKIEWICZ, MICHAEL JAMES PREWITT, KEVIN ROBERT SHINN, JUSTIN ROBERT SHINN, ERICK SHINICHI IKEDA, JACQUES MAGLOIRE PERRAULT, BENJAMIN DOUGLAS HEFNER, LARRY JAMES PARKER, III, BRADLEY JAMES HASSBERGER, EDWARD FREDERICK WETTLAUFER, JR., BRITTANY NICOLE LEEK
  • Publication number: 20160045338
    Abstract: Blade-type prosthesis assemblies include a socket securable to a wearer of the prosthesis assembly and a blade securable to the socket. The blade has a blade body extending between a blade bottom and a blade top. The assembly further includes a base plate securable to the blade bottom. The base plate includes a shroud retainer element. The assembly further comprises a blade shroud covering at least a portion of the blade body and securable to the shroud retainer element and at least one of the socket and the blade body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: CRAIG MACKIEWICZ, MICHAEL JAMES PREWITT, KEVIN ROBERT SHINN, JUSTIN ROBERT SHINN, ERICK SHINICHI IKEDA, JACQUES MAGLOIRE PERRAULT, BENJAMIN DOUGLAS HEFNER, LARRY JAMES PARKER, III, BRADLEY JAMES HASSBERGER, EDWARD FREDERICK WETTLAUFER, JR.
  • Patent number: 9263305
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided, by way of example, a heater for use in semiconductor processing equipment that includes a base functional layer having at least one functional zone. A substrate is secured to the base functional layer, and a tuning layer is secured to the substrate opposite the base functional layer. The tuning layer includes a plurality of zones that is greater in number than the zones of the base functional layer, and the tuning layer has lower power than the base functional layer. Further, a component, such as a chuck by way of example, is secured to the tuning layer opposite the substrate. The substrate defines a thermal conductivity to dissipate a requisite amount of power from the base functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Kevin Ptasienski, Kevin Robert Smith, Cal Thomas Swanson, Philip Steven Schmidt, Mohammad Nosrati, Jacob Robert Lindley, Allen Norman Boldt, Sanhong Zhang, Louis P. Steinhauser, Dennis Stanley Grimard
  • Publication number: 20160009482
    Abstract: A valve for dispensing a flowable product from a container includes a mounting cup. The mounting cup includes a bottom wall having a central portion defining a seal-mounting opening through which a seal and a stem extend. An external seal bead of the seal overlies an upper end of the central portion. The upper end of the central portion is disposed at or below a plane extending transverse to a central axis of the mounting cup and defined by a juncture of a sidewall and an annular sidewall-bottom transition portion of the mounting cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin Robert Martz, James P. McBroom
  • Patent number: 9224237
    Abstract: Approaches enable image content (e.g., still or video content) to be displayed in such a way that the image content will appear, to a viewer, to include portions with different locations in physical space, with the relative positioning of those portions being determined at least in part upon a current relative position and/or orientation of the viewer with respect to the device, as well as changes in that relative position and/or orientation. For example, image content can be grouped or otherwise contained or assigned to different planes, levels, or other such groupings of content. The planes of content can enable image content included within those planes to be displayed to provide a viewer with an appearance or view of the content that appears to be positioned and/or displayed in 3D space. As that viewing angle changes, the content can be re-rendered or otherwise updated to display the image content from a perspective that reflects the change in viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Robert Costello, Christopher Wayne Lockhart
  • Publication number: 20150338555
    Abstract: An optical fiber coating composition that includes an acrylic copolymer. The acrylic copolymer is a block copolymer that includes two or more acrylic blocks. The two or more acrylic blocks differ in glass transition temperature (Tg). The acrylic copolymer may include an acrylic block with a Tg above 50° C. and an acrylic block with a Tg below 0° C. Representative monomers from which the repeat units of the acrylic blocks are derived include alkyl(meth)acrylates. In one embodiment, the acrylic copolymer includes an acrylic block with repeat units derived from methylmethacrylate and an acrylic block derived from butylacrylate. The acrylic copolymer lacks urethane groups, lacks urea groups, lacks radiation-curable groups, and is otherwise unreactive with other components in the coating composition. The acrylic copolymer features high solubility in common acrylate-based radiation-curable coating compositions and can be provided at high concentrations in acrylate-based coating compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Weijun Niu, Kevin Robert McCarthy, David Neal Schissel, Arthur Lawrence Wallace
  • Patent number: 9189438
    Abstract: Various aspects of dynamic power reduction in a bus communication architecture are described herein as embodied in an XBAR architecture that provides flexible gating of multiple paths and repeater circuitry to allow any of a number of selected clients to communicate with any of the other interconnected clients while reducing dynamic power consumption by disabling unused repeater circuitry in the bus communication architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hari Rao, Venugopal Boynapalli, Kevin Robert Bowles, Vijay Bantval