Patents by Inventor Matthew Jacobs

Matthew Jacobs 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: 12263597
    Abstract: A method of localizing a robot includes receiving odometry information plotting locations of the robot and sensor data of the environment about the robot. The method also includes obtaining a series of odometry information members, each including a respective odometry measurement at a respective time. The method also includes obtaining a series of sensor data members, each including a respective sensor measurement at the respective time. The method also includes, for each sensor data member of the series of sensor data members, (i) determining a localization of the robot at the respective time based on the respective sensor data, and (ii) determining an offset of the localization relative to the odometry measurement at the respective time. The method also includes determining whether a variance of the offsets determined for the localizations exceeds a threshold variance. When the variance among the offsets exceeds the threshold variance, a signal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Jacob Klingensmith
  • Patent number: 12263610
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to safety blades for use in utility knives, related assemblies and methods of manufacturing. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to safety blades for use in utility knives, related assemblies and methods of manufacture which limit user exposure to associated cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew Jacobs, Jeffrey Kempker, Orville Crain
  • Publication number: 20250099201
    Abstract: A clamp assembly for use with a surgical attachment system for fixing a navigation tracker to a portion of bone. The clamp assembly includes a first clamp jaw with a first engagement surface and a second clamp jaw with a second engagement surface. The clamp assembly includes a linear driver with a shaft. The second clamp jaw is coupled to the first clamp jaw at a fixed pivot and coupled to the shaft at a moving pivot. The linear driver translates the shaft in a first direction to pivot the second engagement surface towards the first engagement surface. The linear driver translates the shaft in a second direction opposite to the first direction to pivot the second engagement surface away from the first engagement surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Matthew Joseph Guthart, Mark Ellsworth Nadzadi, Andrew Jacob Nelson
  • Publication number: 20250103052
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for instructing performance of an action by a mobile robot based on transformed data. A system may obtain a site model in a first data format and sensor data in a second data format. The site model and/or the sensor data may be annotated. The system may transform the site model and the sensor data to generate transformed data in a third data format. The system may provide the transformed data to a computing system. For example, the system may provide the transformed data to a machine learning model. Based on the output of the computing system, the system may identify an action and instruct performance of the action by a mobile robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew Jacob Klingensmith, Michael James McDonald, Radhika Agrawal, Christopher Peter Allum, Rosalind Fish Blais Shinkle
  • Publication number: 20250092877
    Abstract: An air-moving device may include an aerodynamic rotor in the form of a bladed disk. The aerodynamic rotor may include a physical geometry that constrains a noise level of the air-moving device during operation. The air-moving device may be a leaf blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Douglass Moore, Ian Andreas Villa, Devon Jedamski, Xiaofan Fei, Andrew George Terajewicz, Jonathan Jeffrey Paravano, Andrew Michael Marschner, Matthew Alan Dempsey, Timothy Jacob Mitchell
  • Patent number: 12239164
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices and cartridges for aerosol delivery devices. The cartridge comprises a mouthpiece having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the mouthpiece having an exit portal defined therethrough, a tank defining a proximal end and a closed distal end, the tank being configured to contain a liquid composition that includes a distinctive characteristic, and a heater configured to heat the liquid composition. The distal end of the mouthpiece is configured to engage the proximal end of the tank, and when the cartridge is coupled with the aerosol delivery device at least one feature of the cartridge, or at least one feature of the control device, or at least one feature of both the cartridge and the control device, provides a visual indication of a color associated with the distinctive characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Jared Aller, Charles Jacob Novak, III, Sean A. Daugherty, Michael Ryan Galloway, Matthew Joel Nettenstrom, Thomas Michael McKeon
  • Publication number: 20250066128
    Abstract: A conveyor system comprising a sorting conveyor sorting articles off one or both sides to a chute system that includes an upper chute and a lower slide. Articles slide down the chute system to a discharge conveyor. The upper chute and the lower slide are separated by a gap. And the upper chute has a topography that prevents articles from tipping over onto another side. The chute system provides a large drop in elevation in a small footprint to conserve floor space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Costanzo, Christopher Alan Brupbacher, Joseph L. Eustis, Destin Jacob Bailey, Matthew Kesler Richards
  • Publication number: 20250065742
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware of a legged robot causes the data processing hardware to perform operations including receiving sensor data corresponding to an area including at least a portion of a docking station. The operations include determining an estimated pose for the docking station based on an initial pose of the legged robot relative to the docking station. The operations include identifying one or more docking station features from the received sensor data. The operations include matching the one or more identified docking station features to one or more known docking station features. The operations include adjusting the estimated pose for the docking station to a corrected pose for the docking station based on an orientation of the one or more identified docking station features that match the one or more known docking station features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Dion Gonano, Eric Cary Whitman, Christopher Stathis, Matthew Jacob Klingensmith
  • Patent number: 12234626
    Abstract: A maintenance-service system and method for controlling a machine that includes a plurality of operational modes is disclosed. The plurality of operational modes including a normal mode and a hazard detected mode. The maintenance-service system may comprise a controller configured to receive authorization data when machine is in the hazard detected mode, and enable movement of the machine at a reduced machine speed based on the authorization data, wherein the reduced machine speed is less than 50% of a normal machine speed available to the machine when the operational mode is the normal mode, wherein, the hazard detected mode precludes movement of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Matthew Jacob Behmlander, Jacob Charles Maley
  • Patent number: 12232526
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery devices comprise a control device that includes a battery, a control component, and an outer housing that defines receiving chamber, and a cartridge that includes a mouthpiece portion, a tank that contains a liquid composition, and a heater configured to heat the liquid composition. The cartridge and the control device each include at least one connector configured to provide a magnetic and an electrical connection between the cartridge and the control device such that the cartridge can be removably and operatively received into the cartridge receiving chamber of the control body, wherein the at least one connector of the cartridge is located on the mouthpiece portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Jacob Novak, III, Matthew Joel Nettenstrom, Steven Michael Schennum, Thomas Michael Mckeon, Zachary Hy Burchman
  • Patent number: 12228607
    Abstract: A receiver comprising a magnitude correction circuit to receive an electrical signal defined by a phase. The electrical signal is a combined electrical signal comprising a first signal and a second signal. The magnitude correction circuit comprising a detector to generate a control signal proportional to received power of the second signal and an error amplifier coupled to the detector to compare a reference voltage against an output of the detector to determine an amplification or attenuation of the second signal based on a drift of the electrical signal. The receiver further comprising a variable gain amplifier coupled to the magnitude correction circuit to generate a compensated electrical signal based on the amplification or attenuation of the second signal determined by the magnitude correction circuit and a de-modulating mixer coupled to the magnitude correction circuit, the de-modulating mixer to mix a phase compensated signal and the compensated electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TELEDYNE LECROY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Weinstein, Francois Lamarche, Lawrence Jacobs
  • Patent number: 12227855
    Abstract: An electrolyzer or unitized regenerative fuel cell has a flow field with at least one channel, wherein the cross-sectional area of the channel varies along at least a portion of the channel length. In some embodiments the channel width decreases along at least a portion of the length of the channel according to a natural exponential function. The use of this type of improved flow field channel can improve performance and efficiency of operation of the electrolyzer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Loop Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael MacKinnon, Matthew Paul Paone, Raoul Jacob Kingma, Greg John Montie
  • Publication number: 20250045618
    Abstract: In a general aspect, calibration is performed in a quantum computing system. In some cases, domains of a quantum computing system are identified, where the domains include respective domain control subsystems and respective subsets of quantum circuit devices in a quantum processor of the quantum computing system. Sets of measurements are obtained from one of the domains and stored in memory. Device characteristics of the quantum circuit devices of the domain are obtained based on the set of measurements, and the device characteristics are stored in a memory of the control system. Quantum logic control parameters for the subset of quantum circuit devices of the domain are obtained based on the set of measurements and stored in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Rigetti & Co, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Jacob BLOOM, Shane Arthur CALDWELL, Michael James CURTIS, Matthew J. REAGOR, Chad Tyler RIGETTI, Eyob A. SETE, William J. ZENG, Peter Jonathan KARALEKAS, Nikolas Anton TEZAK, Nasser ALIDOUST
  • Publication number: 20250017666
    Abstract: A surgical tracker assembly includes a tracker body including a first connector. The surgical tracker assembly also includes a mount assembly couplable to the tracker body. The mount assembly includes a second connector engageable with the first connector in at least a first position and a second position different from the first position. One of the first connector and the second connector includes a multipositional receptacle extending between a first receptacle end and a second receptacle end. The first receptacle end defines a first opening, and the second receptacle end defines a second opening. The other of the first connector and the second connector includes a projection disposable in the first opening to couple the tracker body to the mount assembly in the first position and disposable in the second opening to couple to the tracker body to the mount assembly in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Matthew Joseph Guthart, Mark Ellsworth Nadzadi, Koustubh Rao, Andrew Jacob Nelson, Vishal Dilip Jagtap
  • Patent number: 12172537
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware of a legged robot causes the data processing hardware to perform operations including receiving sensor data corresponding to an area including at least a portion of a docking station. The operations include determining an estimated pose for the docking station based on an initial pose of the legged robot relative to the docking station. The operations include identifying one or more docking station features from the received sensor data. The operations include matching the one or more identified docking station features to one or more known docking station features. The operations include adjusting the estimated pose for the docking station to a corrected pose for the docking station based on an orientation of the one or more identified docking station features that match the one or more known docking station features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dion Gonano, Eric Cary Whitman, Christopher Stathis, Matthew Jacob Klingensmith
  • Publication number: 20240407154
    Abstract: A variety of applications can include an apparatus having a memory device including digit lines isolated from each other by filling an area directly under the digit line with a dielectric material. The dielectric material can be any insulating material such as oxides or nitrides. The provision of the area directly under each digit line can be accomplished without etching out an entire layer of epitaxially grown regions for the memory cells vertically stacked in a three-dimensional array. In a three-dimensional DRAM, metal plates for capacitors can be isolated in a manner similar to the isolation of digit lines. Such processing can be scalable, which may allow for a three-dimensional DRAM to have hundreds memory cell tiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Albert Daen Liao, Ting Zhao, Cheng Li, Ruijing Ge, Matthew Jacob Jerry, David A. Daycock, Kolya Yastrebenetsky, Kamal M. Karda
  • Publication number: 20240399786
    Abstract: A decorative panel that may comprise of a magnetic, metal or alloy, support structure and a covering element made with supple materials. The support structure may include a front surface, a back surface, one or more sides, one or more truncated corners, one or more bend guidelines, a central area, and one or more bendable sections. The covering element may include an obverse surface, a rear surface, and one or more edges. The covering element may cover the front surface of the support structure and fold over the sides and onto the back surface of the support structure and may be mechanically fastened to the bendable sections with mechanical fasteners. The covering element may fold over the truncated corners and onto the back surface of the support structure. The bendable sections may be bent along the bend guidelines of the support structure. Other embodiments of a decorative panel are possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventor: Matthew Jacob Lysinger
  • Publication number: 20240401929
    Abstract: An airborne coordinate measuring machine (CMM) includes a noncontact 3D scanner constructed to obtain measurement data of an object under scrutiny and a drone aircraft mechanically coupled to the 3D scanner and constructed to traverse a flight path that is specific to the object under scrutiny.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Jacob BEHMLANDER
  • Patent number: 12158755
    Abstract: An authorization system includes a controller of an external computing device communicatively connected to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The controller obtains a mission kit that includes software for controlling a piece of equipment configured to be assembled on the UAV. The controller receives a license that is associated with a user and determines, based on the license, whether the piece of equipment is authorized for operation on the UAV as controlled by the user. Responsive to determining that the piece of equipment is authorized, the controller initiates transmission of at least some of the software of the mission kit to the UAV for installation by the UAV to allow the user to operate the piece of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Darcy Lynn Davidson, Jr., Matthew Jacob Bartow, David B. Rathbun
  • Patent number: 12150551
    Abstract: Powered chairs, assemblies for use in the powered chairs, and components for use in the assemblies are provided. Electrical systems for use in the powered chairs, and components for use in the electrical systems are provided. Control systems and methods for operating powered chairs are also provided. Any given chair may be locally and/or remotely controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventors: Frederick Jacobs, Matthew Jacobs, Terry Plumert, Steven Hayden