Patents by Inventor Norman Roberts

Norman 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: 9865362
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for testing the memory components of an integrated Circuit (IC) using a routing logic and a built-in design for test (DFT) hardware processing device. Based on input provided from an interface controller to the IC, the IC is tested according to one of at least two modes. In a first mode, the built-in DFT hardware processing device executes a test that checks for faults in the physical memory of the IC. In a second mode, the built-in DFT hardware processing device executes a test that checks for faults in the error correction logic of the IC. By using the same routing logic and built-in DFT hardware processing device, tests of the memory components according to the first and second mode can be executed on an automatic and serial basis, even after the manufacture of the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Arora, Steven Lee Gregor, Norman Robert Card, Navneet Kaushik
  • Publication number: 20160021159
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for aggregating data from numerous data sources related to events (such as expositions, trade shows, conventions and meetings) and integrating such data into a comprehensive data store. The data can be analyzed, searched and filtered to provide targeted communications and customized reports regarding various aspects of an exposition or other event. The targeted communications and customized reports may be based on data from multiple (e.g., two or more) discrete data sources. Examples of the targeted communications include text messages, emails, invitations, previews, and follow-up messages designed to facilitate in-person meetings between event participants (e.g., attendees and exhibitors at expositions). Examples of the customized reports include hotel utilization reports to determine the economic impact of an exposition on a host city, commissions due to third-party vendors, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventor: Norman Robert Gritsch
  • Patent number: 9232766
    Abstract: A toilet seat and training system specifically designed for cats. The instant seat includes a circular sitting member having a center orifice therethrough, a wide platform formed on opposite sides thereof so a cat can be well balanced thereon, and a series of concentric annular tray members attached to an inner rim of the sitting member and formed having progressively smaller sizes, and which can be successively removed to vary the size of the center orifice, and is designed to releasably attach to an existing toilet and fit underneath a human toilet seat, so people can still have use of their toilet seat without interference from the cat's seat. This seat can be used in conjunction with specialized dissolving litter, a pet urine odor eliminator, and a urine detector light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Inventors: Viktoria Veronika Strohdach, Sr., Norman Robert Strohdach
  • Publication number: 20150251148
    Abstract: A container system for mixing and dispensing a drink comprising water and one or more additional substance, comprising a lower substance compartment with an upper opening connectable to an upper dispensing compartment, and an upper dispensing compartment comprising a vessel with a bottom opening connectable to the opening of the lower compartment to form a drinking vessel, with a mixing means between the bottom opening and upper opening of the upper compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Jamie Trafford Stone
  • Patent number: 8677196
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods, systems, devices, and/or machine readable storage medium for memory built-in self testing (memory BIST) that may not require JTAG. Embodiments may provide less chip overhead through the use of one or more direct access pins. Embodiments may provide simple checks to determine if the memories on a chip are good or bad with minimal cost, for example. In some cases, the memory BIST may determine whether or not memories are good when the chip powers on. Some embodiments may also perform stress testing on the memories to force early life failures of the memories. Embodiments do not necessarily have to diagnose failures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Lee Gregor, Norman Robert Card, Hanumantha Raya, Puneet Arora
  • Publication number: 20120102742
    Abstract: A hair removal device with a handle and a cartridge mounted to one end of the handle. A personal care bottle is removably secured to the handle. The personal care bottle has a first end wall disposed within the handle, a second end wall defining an aperture opposite the first end wall, and a pair of opposing walls wherein one of the opposing walls is disposed within the handle and the other opposing wall is spaced apart from the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Michael Jessemey, Lee Burrowes, Guohua Pan, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Edward Neill Forsdike
  • Publication number: 20120103928
    Abstract: A personal care bottle with a first end wall and a second end wall opposite the first end wall. The second end wall defines an aperture. The personal care bottle has a top surface and an opposing bottom surface connecting the first and second end walls. The bottom surface has a wall thickness that is less than a wall thickness of the top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Michael Jessemey, Lee Burrowes, Guohua Pan, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges
  • Patent number: 8147592
    Abstract: A filter includes a metallocene for removing oxygen from a gas stream. The filter further includes a support for the metallocene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Norman Robert Byrd, Charles A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20090230248
    Abstract: A filter includes a metallocene for removing oxygen from a gas stream. The filter further includes a support for the metallocene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman Robert Byrd, Charles A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20090152281
    Abstract: For a container (1) with a reservoir (2) to collect a product (3) and a dispensing device (4), which is equipped with an opening (5) to dispense a flowable agent, particularly a powdery or granular product (3) dissolved and/or dispersed in a liquid (8), wherein said dispensing device is connected to the reservoir (2), a device (7) with passages (10) is used to hold back excessively large particles of the product (3), so that wholly undissolved product (3) and/or excessively large particles and/or poorly dispersed particles cannot reach the opening (5) of the dispensing device (4) and thereby cannot block the opening (5). To achieve secure protection of the opening against a blockage, it is proposed that the diameter (1) or the minimum width (12) of the passages (10) is from 0.5 mm to 5 mm and is less than or equal to the diameter (13) or the minimum width of the opening (5) (FIG. 7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Mark Richard Bowes, Arne Benjamin Colman, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Gemma Amelia Louise Salkeld
  • Publication number: 20080196734
    Abstract: A hand-held device (2) for applying a barrier material (4, 6) to a lock of hair to be treated with a highlighting composition (32) is disclosed. The device may comprise one or two rolls (8, 10) of a tape of barrier material (4, 6) that is dispensed to the lock of hair as the same time as the roll or rolls (8, 10) are unrolled. The device may also contain the highlighting composition (32), either applied on the rolled tape or via a reservoir contained in the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Peter Antony Husband, Paul Leslie Barrass, Paul Laurence Brennan, Jon Norman Robert Hodges, Delyth Angharad James
  • Patent number: 7357137
    Abstract: A hand-held device (2) for applying a barrier material (4, 6) to a lock of hair to be treated with a highlighting composition (32) is disclosed. The device may comprise one or two rolls (8, 10) of a tape of barrier material (4, 6) that is dispensed to the lock of hair as the same time as the roll or rolls (8, 10) are unrolled. The device may also contain the highlighting composition (32), either applied on the rolled tape or via a reservoir contained in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Peter Antony Husband, Paul Leslie Barrass, Paul Laurence Brennan, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Delyth Angharad James
  • Patent number: 7340790
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, devices and kits for dispensing laundry additive materials into the drum of an automatic washing machine as that machine is used to carry out a fabric laundering operation. To bring about such dispensing of additives, a lidded housing structure is placed within the drum of an automatic washing machine, an insert, containing one or more laundry additives in each compartment, is placed within the lidded housing structure, the lid is closed and the machine is run through the several stages of its laundering cycle. Selectively actuatable puncturing element are provided to optionally open at least one compartment of the insert upon closing of the housing structure lid, thereby dispensing the contents of that opened compartment into the washing machine drum as wash additive materials and/or to open one or more compartments of the insert later in the laundering cycle to dispense contents of those compartments into the washing machine drum as rinse additive materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yousef Georges Aouad, Liben Hailu, Terence Graham Curtis, Lawrence Joseph Kelly, William Wayne Wichman, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges
  • Publication number: 20080029916
    Abstract: A system (100) for controlling the operation of a mechanical press (10) having a side link (60) for applying squeeze to a mold (80) includes a dial indicator (120) mounted to the side link. An actuator member (170) has a first end (172) connected to the side link (60) and an opposite second end (200) engaging the dial indicator (120). The actuator member (170) is configured to move relative to the side link (60) and actuate the dial indicator (200) in response to elongation of the side link. The dial indicator (200) indicates the magnitude of the squeeze applied by the side link (60). A strain transducer (150) is mounted to the side link (60). The strain transducer (150) includes a sensor (152) that is operative to provide a signal responsive to movement of the actuator member (170) relative to the side link (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: John R. Cole, Norman Robert Knoedler
  • Patent number: D644532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Guohua Pan
  • Patent number: D650680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Guohua Pan
  • Patent number: D665943
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Armand Aram Dedeyan, Gillian Margaret Hardy, Ian Robert Wardle, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges
  • Patent number: D673327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Armand Aram Dedeyan, Gillian Margaret Hardy, Ian Robert Wardle, Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges
  • Patent number: D684060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges
  • Patent number: D713253
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Norman Robert Hodges, Guohua Pan