Patents by Inventor Nick Roberts
Nick 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).
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Patent number: 12215796Abstract: A tire inflation valve having anti-rotation features has an external valve seat, and includes a valve body, a valve stem extending through the length of the valve body, and anti-rotation features disposed interior to the valve body. The valve stem is configured to move relative to the valve body, such that a resilient seating surface disposed at a proximal end of the valve stem is displaced relative to a valve seat formed by an exterior surface of a proximal end of the valve body. The anti-rotation features may include a complementary slot and protrusion, a keyway and complementary protruding ridge, and/or complementary channels and lateral protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Santa Cruz Bicycles, LLCInventors: Brett Robert Courtney, James Mathew Amaral, Nick Anderson, Jon Wood
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Publication number: 20250036643Abstract: At least one aspect of this disclosure is directed to method of scraping, by a first computing system, one or more first data sources of the first computing system, and one or more second data sources of one or more external computing systems, to compile a first dataset, standardizing, by the first computing system, the first dataset to generate a standardized dataset, applying, by the first computing system, a first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to assign labels to data entries of the standardized dataset, compiling, by the first computing system, the standardized dataset having the labels assigned to the respective data entries in a database, receiving, by an AI interface of the first computing system, a query from a computing device, and generating, by the first computing system, a response to the query for delivering via the AI interface to the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Shobha Duggirala, Ashish B. Kurani, Amruth Kumar, Antonio Iniguez, Nick Heim, Justin Robert Wolf
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Patent number: 12197579Abstract: Systems and methods for machine learning-informed response and augmentation of incomplete queries and query artifacts that include executing parallel search engines in a machine learning pipeline based on an input of a query to retrieve one or more corpora of candidate digital artifacts, constructing a merged corpus of candidate digital artifacts based on the retrieved corpora of digital artifacts, ranking each candidate digital artifact of the merged corpus of candidate digital artifacts based on a computed relevance to the input query, and returning, via a user interface, a response to the input query based on a subset of prioritized candidate digital artifacts most relevant to the input query.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Secureframe, IncInventors: Shrav Mehta, Chintan Parikh, Nicholas Hu, Apostolos Delis, Nick Roberts
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Publication number: 20240265106Abstract: Systems and methods for machine learning-informed response and augmentation of incomplete queries and query artifacts that include executing parallel search engines in a machine learning pipeline based on an input of a query to retrieve one or more corpora of candidate digital artifacts, constructing a merged corpus of candidate digital artifacts based on the retrieved corpora of digital artifacts, ranking each candidate digital artifact of the merged corpus of candidate digital artifacts based on a computed relevance to the input query, and returning, via a user interface, a response to the input query based on a subset of prioritized candidate digital artifacts most relevant to the input query.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: Secureframe, Inc.Inventors: Shrav Mehta, Chintan Parikh, Nicholas Hu, Apostolos Delis, Nick Roberts
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Publication number: 20240004965Abstract: A disclosed method includes a data distribution computer receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of data values in response to an interaction between a resource provider and a user. The data distribution computer can then determine a data item for each data value of the plurality of data values and associate each data value to a processing computer using the data item for each data value. It can generate a plurality of authorization request messages comprising at least one data value. It can then transmit the plurality of authorization request messages to a plurality of processing computers adapted to process the data values in the respective authorization request messages, where the plurality of processing computers process the data values in the respective authorization request messages. The plurality of authorization request messages are subsequently forwarded to the authorization computer. The authorization computer then analyzes each authorization request message.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Visa International Service AssociationInventor: Nick Roberts
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Patent number: 11797650Abstract: A disclosed method includes a data distribution computer receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of data values in response to an interaction between a resource provider and a user. The data distribution computer can then determine a data item for each data value of the plurality of data values and associate each data value to a processing computer using the data item for each data value. The data distribution computer can generate a plurality of authorization request messages comprising at least one data value. The data distribution computer can then transmit the plurality of authorization request messages to a plurality of processing computers adapted to process the data values in the respective authorization request messages, wherein the plurality of processing computers process the data values in the respective authorization request messages. The plurality of authorization request messages are subsequently forwarded to the authorization computer.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventor: Nick Roberts
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Publication number: 20210406344Abstract: A disclosed method includes a data distribution computer receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of data values in response to an interaction between a resource provider and a user. The data distribution computer can then determine a data item for each data value of the plurality of data values and associate each data value to a processing computer using the data item for each data value. The data distribution computer can generate a plurality of authorization request messages comprising at least one data value. The data distribution computer can then transmit the plurality of authorization request messages to a plurality of processing computers adapted to process the data values in the respective authorization request messages, wherein the plurality of processing computers process the data values in the respective authorization request messages. The plurality of authorization request messages are subsequently forwarded to the authorization computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventor: Nick Roberts
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Patent number: 11144617Abstract: A disclosed method includes a data distribution computer receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of data values in response to an interaction between a resource provider and a user. The data distribution computer can then determine a data item for each data value of the plurality of data values and associate each data value to a processing computer using the data item for each data value. The data distribution computer can generate a plurality of authorization request messages comprising at least one data value. The data distribution computer can then transmit the plurality of authorization request messages to a plurality of processing computers adapted to process the data values in the respective authorization request messages, wherein the plurality of processing computers process the data values in the respective authorization request messages. The plurality of authorization request messages are subsequently forwarded to the authorization computer.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventor: Nick Roberts
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Publication number: 20200272706Abstract: A disclosed method includes a data distribution computer receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of data values in response to an interaction between a resource provider and a user. The data distribution computer can then determine a data item for each data value of the plurality of data values and associate each data value to a processing computer using the data item for each data value. The data distribution computer can generate a plurality of authorization request messages comprising at least one data value. The data distribution computer can then transmit the plurality of authorization request messages to a plurality of processing computers adapted to process the data values in the respective authorization request messages, wherein the plurality of processing computers process the data values in the respective authorization request messages. The plurality of authorization request messages are subsequently forwarded to the authorization computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventor: Nick Roberts
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Patent number: 9483615Abstract: Methods and systems of patient treatment are disclosed. The methods and systems include use of medical device informatics to modify and validate therapies and drugs used in those therapies. In certain embodiments, a medical device, such as a medical infusion pump, interfaces with a server to administer the patient treatments. In one aspect, a method of tracking changed parameters in a medical infusion pump is disclosed. The method includes establishing a communication session between a medical infusion pump and a medical device server, and communicating an original parameter value, an updated parameter value, and a final parameter value from the medical infusion pump to the medical device server. The method further includes storing the original parameter value, the updated parameter value, and the final parameter value on the medical device server. Metadata associated with one or more of the parameter values identifies that parameter value to the medical device server and the medical infusion pump.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC.Inventor: Nick Roberts
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Publication number: 20140357962Abstract: An objective non-invasive method for quantifying itch comprising the steps of presenting a visual stimulus to a subject, wherein the visual stimulus comprises focusing the subject on itch; collecting psychophysiological data from subject while presenting the visual stimulus; using the psychophysiological data to objectively assess the therapeutic value of a treatment or a product.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nick Robert HARRINGTON, James Robert SCHWARTZ, James Charles DUNBAR, Haruko MIZOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140098986Abstract: Included are embodiments for performing video analysis. Some embodiments include a system with a memory component that stores logic that, when executed by the system, causes the system to receive video content of a subject, identify a mannerism of the subject at a point in time in the video content, and determine an emotional state associated with the mannerism. In some embodiments, the logic causes the system to receive a file that correlates the mannerism with the point in time and provide a user interface that provides the video content with data from the file, such that the mannerism is provided with the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nick Robert Harrington, Robb Olsen, David Matsumoto, Hyi Sung Hwang
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Publication number: 20110258017Abstract: Methods and systems of interpretation of a trending term to develop a media content channel are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes interpreting a trending term to identify an association parameter when the trending term is received. In addition, the method also includes algorithmically determining a media attribute associated with the trending term using a computer process. The method also includes updating a channel with a related media content comprised of the media attribute. The media attribute may include a metadata, a visual data and/or an audio data. The trending term may be interpreted using an internal capturing and/or an external capturing when the trending term is received. The method may also include displaying the channel to a viewer using a cable transmission, a network, a wireless transmission, and/or a local storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2010Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: FFWD CORPORATIONInventors: Patrick Ratnakanth Koppula, Greg Roberts, Nick Roberts, John Rehling
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Patent number: 7962397Abstract: An online auction process for derivative securities is used to determine a fair market value of an asset or benefit provided to others, such as employee stock options. In one embodiment, the derivative securities track the intrinsic value realized by employees when exercising the employee stock options granted to them by their employers. The derivative securities may include rules for handling modifications to an employee stock option grant and/or rules for handling forfeitures of some or all of the employee stock options.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Zions BancorporationInventors: William David Hemingway, James G. Livingston, Evan Martin Hill, Rick Davis Burtenshaw, Gary Bernard Hansen, Eric John Pehrson, Larry Ross Denham, Ronald C. Hanks, James Reed Cooper, James Brady Palmer, Robert Lynn Bartleson, Jonathan Eric Bacon, Shelene Brown, Richard J. Sullivan, Nick Robert Watne, Henry Conrad Wurts, Doyle L. Arnold, Thomas E. Laursen
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Publication number: 20100174586Abstract: The present invention relates generally to consumer research methods for measuring emotive response to visual stimuli.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: July 8, 2010Inventors: Charles John Berg, JR., David Keith Ewart, Nick Robert Harrington
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Publication number: 20090177249Abstract: Methods and systems of patient treatment are disclosed. The methods and systems include use of medical device informatics to modify and validate therapies and drugs used in those therapies. In certain embodiments, a medical device, such as a medical infusion pump, interfaces with a server to administer the patient treatments. In one aspect, a method of deploying information to a medical device is disclosed. The method includes storing information in a data package on a server, the information intended to be delivered to a medical device. The method also includes receiving a message from the medical device, and in response to receiving the message, indicating to the medical device that information intended for the medical device resides on the server. The method further includes receiving a request for the information, and upon receiving the request, delivering the data package to the medical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: Smiths Medical MDInventors: Nick Roberts, Lee A. Newman
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Publication number: 20090177248Abstract: Methods and systems of patient treatment are disclosed. The methods and systems include use of medical device informatics to modify and validate therapies and drugs used in those therapies. In certain embodiments, a medical device, such as a medical infusion pump, interfaces with a server to administer the patient treatments. In one aspect, a method of synchronizing clocks between a medical device and a medical device server is disclosed. The method includes maintaining a server time value on a medical device server communicatively connected to a medical device, and transmitting the server time value from the medical device server to the medical device, the medical device maintaining a device time value. The method further includes replacing the device time value with the server time value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: Smiths Medical MD, Inc.Inventor: Nick Roberts
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Publication number: 20090177769Abstract: Methods and systems of patient treatment are disclosed. The methods and systems include use of medical device informatics to modify and validate therapies and drugs used in those therapies. In certain embodiments, a medical device, such as a medical infusion pump, interfaces with a server to administer the patient treatments. In one aspect, a method of determining the on-line status of a medical device is disclosed. The method includes expecting communication from the medical device within a predetermined period, and determining whether a message has been received from the medical device within the predetermined period. The method further includes establishing an on-line status for the medical device based on the determining step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: Smiths Medical MDInventor: Nick Roberts
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Patent number: RE43769Abstract: An online auction process for derivative securities is used to determine a fair market value of an asset or benefit provided to others, such as employee stock options. In one embodiment, the derivative securities track the intrinsic value realized by employees when exercising the employee stock options granted to them by their employers. The derivative securities may include rules for handling modifications to an employee stock option grant and/or rules for handling forfeitures of some or all of the employee stock options.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Zions BancorporationInventors: William David Hemingway, James G. Livingston, Evan Martin Hill, Rick Davis Burtenshaw, Gary Bernard Hansen, Eric John Pehrson, Larry Ross Denham, Ronald C. Hanks, James Reed Cooper, James Brady Palmer, Robert Lynn Bartleson, Jonathan Eric Bacon, Shelene Brown, Richard J. Sullivan, Nick Robert Watne, Henry Conrad Wurts, Doyle L. Arnold, Thomas E. Laursen
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Patent number: RE43986Abstract: An online auction process for derivative securities is used to determine a fair market value of an asset or benefit provided to others, such as employee stock options. In one embodiment, the derivative securities track the intrinsic value realized by employees when exercising the employee stock options granted to them by their employers. The derivative securities may include rules for handling modifications to an employee stock option grant and/or rules for handling forfeitures of some or all of the employee stock options.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Zions BancorporationInventors: William David Hemingway, James G. Livingston, Evan Martin Hill, Rick Davis Burtenshaw, Gary Bernard Hansen, Eric John Pehrson, Larry Ross Denham, Ronald C. Hanks, James Reed Cooper, James Brady Palmer, Robert Lynn Bartleson, Jonathan Eric Bacon, Shelene Brown, Richard J. Sullivan, Nick Robert Watne, Henry Conrad Wurts, Doyle L. Arnold, Thomas E. Laursen