Patents by Inventor Megan Roberts

Megan 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: 20250079859
    Abstract: A charger for use with a battery pack having a latch. The charger comprises a charging bay defining a battery path and a lock including a member retractably extending into the charging bay transverse to the battery path. The member is positioned to overlap with the latch in the battery path regardless of a position of the latch lateral to the path direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Bhaumik M. Vashi, Matthew J. Herro, Daniel J. Mader, Joshua A. Turner, Megan L. Korbel, Veronica Roberts
  • Publication number: 20250068833
    Abstract: An application may receive a prompt from a user related to an input for a text field of digital content. An application may generate context data about the digital content. An application may provide the prompt and the context data to a generative language model. An application may receive a response generated by the generative language model and provide the response as a suggestion for the input for the text field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Janice An-Lei Wong, Arielle Baio, Juan Bernardo Mejia Reyes, Carlos Eduardo Knippschild, Michael Blair Crouse, Dmitry Titov, Justin Robert DeWitt, Tarun Bansal, Young Bin Yu, Mingpu Hu, Megan Michaux Jablonski, Travis Coe Service
  • Patent number: 12203880
    Abstract: A system for evaluating a battery cell includes an imaging device configured to take an image of at least part of the battery cell, and a processor. The processor is configured to perform: determining a region of interest in the acquired image, reducing a sharpness of the acquired image to generate a reference image, comparing the acquired image and the reference image, and identifying a discontinuity of the battery cell based on a difference between the acquired image and the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sean Robert Wagner, Megan E. McGovern, Dmitriy Bruder, Ratandeep Singh Kukreja, Michael P. Balogh, Ryan Curtis Sekol
  • Patent number: 11254795
    Abstract: A process for producing a melamine-formaldehyde foam by heating and foaming an aqueous mixture M using microwave radiation, said mixture M comprising at least one melamine-formal-dehyde precondensate, at least one curative, at least one surfactant, at least one blowing agent and at least one linear polymer with a number average molecular weight Mn in the range from 500 to 10,000 g/mol and at least two functional groups selected from OH, NH2 or COOH as well as a melamine-formaldehyde foam obtainable by this process and its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Johann Martin Szeifert, Bernhard Vath, Tobias Heinz Steinke, Bettina Wester, Cecile Schneider, Sebastian Alexander Weisse, Peter Wolf, Werner Lenz, Axel Kirste, David John Pung, Megan Roberts
  • Publication number: 20190276623
    Abstract: A process for producing a melamine-formaldehyde foam by heating and foaming an aqueous mixture M using microwave radiation, said mixture M comprising at least one melamine-formal-dehyde precondensate, at least one curative, at least one surfactant, at least one blowing agent and at least one linear polymer with a number average molecular weight Mn in the range from 500 to 10.000 g/mol and at least two functional groups selected from OH, NH2 or COOH as well as a melamine-formaldehyde foam obtainable by this process and its use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Johann Martin SZEIFERT, Bernhard VATH, Tobias Heinz STEINKE, Bettina WESTER, Cecile SCHNEIDER, Sebastian Alexander WEISSE, Peter WOLF, Werner LENZ, Axel KIRSTE, David John PUNG, Megan ROBERTS
  • Publication number: 20110106113
    Abstract: The invention includes a surgical fastener and associated deployment system and method that overcomes the drawbacks of prior art surgical mesh fixation devices. The surgical fastener and deployment system may be used to fixate a surgical mesh material to the abdominal wall for the purpose of hernia repair. In accordance with one embodiment, the fastener may include an anchor head comprising a bi-pyramid framework. The anchor head is preferably made from a highly deformable and biocompatible material that withstands high flexural strain within an oscillatory environment. The anchor head may be provided in an elongate, undeployed configuration, and then expanded during deployment into a second, generally planar configuration. The anchor head may be biased to expand into the generally planar configuration from the undeployed configuration in a variety of manners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicants: THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
    Inventors: Ali Tavakkolizadeh, Michael Eilenberg, Jessica Galie, Megan Roberts, Martin Culpepper