Patents by Inventor Peter Roberts

Peter 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: 20230112915
    Abstract: A computer keyboard is refurbished by applying to its keys stickers each bearing a character designating the action of a respective key. For application of the stickers to the keys, the stickers are configured and arranged on an application tape in a layout congruent with the layout of the keys by a digital scan of the keyboard. The stickers are temporarily attached to the application tape by a peelable adhesive and then permanently attached to the keys by a pressure-sensitive permanent adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Leon Peter Robert Lindblad, Sacha James Bascombe
  • Patent number: 11625826
    Abstract: A method of method of processing optical coherence tomography, OCT, image data representing an OCT image of a retina of an eye, to generate mapping data which maps out a predetermined band of a plurality of distinct bands which extend across the OCT image and correspond to respective anatomical layers of the retina. The method comprises: receiving the OCT image data; processing A-scan data of the received OCT image data to generate data indicative of sequences of A-scan elements corresponding to the predetermined band of the plurality of distinct bands and having respective A-scan element values that vary in accordance with a predetermined pattern; and generating the mapping data by applying a line-finding algorithm to determine a line passing through the sequences of A-scan elements indicated by the generated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: OPTOS PLC
    Inventor: Peter Robert Wakeford
  • Patent number: 11619323
    Abstract: A method of determining a minimum wall thickness for a pipe joint for use in a subsea pipeline comprises the steps of: i) determining an internal diameter of the pipe joint; ii) determining a minimum allowable hydrostatic pressure at the depth at which the pipe joint is to be used; iii) determining a target wall thickness for the pipe joint, the target wall thickness corresponding to the internal diameter and the minimum allowable hydrostatic pressure; iv) manufacturing a plurality of preliminary pipe joints having the internal diameter and the target wall thickness; v) carrying out external pressure collapse tests resulting in data representative of the hydrostatic collapse pressures at which the plurality of preliminary pipe joints collapse; vi) determining a probability distribution corresponding to the data based on a statistical tail model derived from Extreme Value Theory; vii) determining from the probability distribution a hydrostatic collapse pressure occurring with a probability of 10?5 or lower; an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: VERDERG PIPE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Roberts, Alastair Walker, Janet Heffernan
  • Patent number: 11610844
    Abstract: High performance modules for use in System-in-Package (SIP) devices, and methods of manufacture for such modules and SIPs. The modules employ one or more interposer substrates on which high performance components and/or devices are operatively mounted and interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Octavo Systems LLC
    Inventors: Gene Alan Frantz, Masood Murtuza, Erik James Welsh, Peter Robert Linder
  • Patent number: 11592836
    Abstract: A system includes at least partially autonomous vehicles, at least partially separated interconnected roadways, and a management system. Each of the vehicles is configured to cooperate with another vehicle or an area controller. The management system is configured to receive requests to transport, which may have respective start points and respective destinations. Additionally, the management system is configured, responsive to receiving the request, to assign a vehicle to fulfill the request. The assigned vehicle is configured to transport a person from the respective start point, at least in part via the interconnected roadways, to the respective destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Glydways Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Robert Williams, Patrick Kessler, Lars Herold
  • Publication number: 20230055459
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a striking tool for use in a high velocity, high impact energy comminution mill. The tool comprises an elongate body attachable at a first end to the comminution mill, and further comprises a wear resistant element for improving the wear resistance of the striking tool. The wear resistant element comprises a plurality of individual units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: ELEMENT SIX (UK) LIMITED, ELEMENT SIX GMBH
    Inventors: PETER ROBERT BUSH, JONEE CHRISTINE PAREDES ZUNEGA, BERND HEINRICH RIES, HABIB SARIDIKMEN
  • Patent number: 11577284
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a surface, the apparatus including a body defining a chamber, an inlet for liquid flow into the chamber, an outlet for liquid flow from the chamber, a nozzle connected to the outlet for generating an output flow of liquid for cleaning a surface, an acoustic transducer associated with the body to introduce acoustic energy into the liquid within the chamber whereby the acoustic energy is present in the liquid flowing out of the nozzle, and a gas bubble generator for generating gas bubbles within the liquid flowing out of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SLOAN WATER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Timothy Grant Leighton, Christopher James Bradshaw Vian, Peter Robert Birkin
  • Publication number: 20230020118
    Abstract: A reaction vessel comprises a lower chamber with a first volume, and an upper chamber with a second volume greater than the first volume. A thermocycling system for heating the reaction vessel includes a lower heating zone to heat the lower chamber, an upper heating zone to heat the upper chamber, and a lid heater to heat an opening of the upper chamber. A method comprises loading a sample into a lower chamber of a reaction vessel, thermocycling the lower chamber using a lower heating zone of the thermo cycler, combining an additive into the sample to produce a combination filling the lower chamber and at least partially filling an upper chamber of the reaction vessel, and incubating the upper and lower chambers using the lower heating zone and an upper heating zone. The lower and upper chambers can have different wall thicknesses to facilitate heat transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Davis, Kristina K. Lu, Rachel Ellen Moschell, Peter Robert Nei, Mark F. Sauerburger, Zachary M. Smith, John S. Snider, Jason L. Springston
  • Patent number: 11550984
    Abstract: A method for analyzing an analog circuit controlled by a plurality of digital inputs is presented. The circuit is represented with a data structure with nodes connected via edges, which represent a circuit component. The data structure can be traversed across all connected nodes; and said digital inputs can be toggled between two or more input states. The method steps include identifying a set of boundary nodes in the data structure which are at a digital-analog boundary of the data structure; for each digital input, identifying associated boundary nodes which are coupled with the digital input; grouping digital inputs into input sets, where each of the different input sets are associated with mutually exclusive sets of associated boundary nodes, and analyzing the circuit by successively analyzing one or more of the input sets for all possible combinations of inputs states within that set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Indrajit Manna, Russell Christopher Giles, Peter Robert Bell
  • Patent number: 11528233
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to facilitate user purpose in a computing architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Henry Shear, Peter Robert Williams, Jaisook Rho, Timothy St. John Redmond, James Jay Horning
  • Publication number: 20220390970
    Abstract: A power management device and microprocessor within a System-in-Package (SiP) are provided with communication signals externally available as outputs from the SiP so that they can be reconfigured by an external device. Methods for the configuration of SiPs and Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs) packaged within a SiP are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Octavo Systems LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Troy, Peter Robert Linder
  • Patent number: 11514164
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a secure computing resource set identification, evaluation, and management arrangement, employing in various embodiments some or all of the following highly reliable identity related means to establish, register, publish and securely employ user computing arrangement resources in satisfaction of user set target contextual purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Henry Shear, Peter Robert Williams, Jaisook Rho, Timothy St. John Redmond
  • Publication number: 20220373569
    Abstract: Systems and methods of identifying reagents loaded into a fluid handling system can comprise programming a protocol for preparing a sample into a controller of the fluid handling system, loading multiple reagent vessels into a carousel of the fluid handling system, imaging individual labels of the multiple reagent vessels with an imaging device to produce label images, comparing information in the label images to identification information located in a database in communication with the controller, and determining if appropriate reagents have been loaded into the carousel to perform the protocol. A fluid handling system can include a deck, a tube holder, an imaging device, a pipettor, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a processor configured to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Davis, Ronald D. Johnson, Yilin Liu-Leitke, Rachel Ellen Moschell, Peter Robert Nei, John S. Snider, Kerry J. Weaver, Robert J. Zigon
  • Patent number: 11507665
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a secure computing resource set identification, evaluation, and management arrangement, employing in various embodiments some or all of the following highly reliable identity related means to establish, register, publish and securely employ user computing arrangement resources in satisfaction of user set target contextual purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Henry Shear, Peter Robert Williams, Jaisook Rho, Timothy St. John Redmond
  • Publication number: 20220362396
    Abstract: Amino-pyrazinecarboxamide compounds, conjugates, and pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of disease, such as cancer, are disclosed herein. The disclosed compounds are useful, among other things, in the treating of cancer and fibrosis and modulating TGF?R2. Additionally, compounds incorporated into a conjugate with an antibody construct are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sean Wesley Smith, Craig Alan Coburn, Peter Robert Baum, Robert Finley Dubose
  • Publication number: 20220340373
    Abstract: The present invention provides an article inverting and displacing apparatus and a machine for making sandwiches comprising the apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises an engagement member (12) adapted to engage a lateral edge portion of a sandwich element; a drive unit (14) configured to drive the engagement member (12) to lift and turn the sandwich element engaged thereby about is opposite lateral edge to invert it; and a control unit configured to control the drive unit (14); wherein the control unit is configured to control the drive unit (14) to drive the engagement member (12) so that the opposite lateral edge of the sandwich element is caused to be raised to approximately at or above the level or height of the engaged lateral edge portion during the inverting step, and, optionally subsequently the sandwich element is caused to lie in a generally horizontal plane. The present invention also provides a process of automatically inverting and displacing articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Herbert Wilkinson, Thomas Peter Roberts
  • Publication number: 20220341954
    Abstract: A server stores a set of laboratory applications to process batches of samples. The server receives, from a first lab administrator, a selection of a subset of the laboratory applications to process the batches of samples and an admin configuration for a laboratory application in the subset. The server receives configuration(s) of batch(es) to be used for running at least a portion of the subset of laboratory applications configured according to the admin configuration. The server receives, from a first scientific device, a request to run a laboratory application form the first subset to process a batch. The server provides the laboratory application(s) that are capable of being executed using the first scientific device. The server receives, from the first scientific device, a selected laboratory application. The server transmits, to the first scientific device, a signal for executing a first part of the selected laboratory application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Davis, Rachel Ellen Moschell, Peter Robert Nei, John S. Snider
  • Publication number: 20220342993
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a secure computing resource set identification, evaluation, and management arrangement, employing in various embodiments some or all of the following highly reliable identity related means to establish, register, publish and securely employ user computing arrangement resources in satisfaction of user set target contextual purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Henry SHEAR, Peter Robert WILLIAMS, Jaisook RHO, Timothy St. John REDMOND
  • Publication number: 20220276274
    Abstract: A laboratory workstation for preparing a sample according to a programmed protocol. The laboratory workstation may include a display device configured to display an instruction for loading a first item of labware onto a deck of the laboratory workstation at a position on the deck specified by the programmed protocol; an imaging device configured to monitor the deck of the laboratory workstation by creating one or more images of the deck; and a processor configured to recognize, in the one or more images created by the imaging device, an item of labware loaded onto the deck by an operator. In some embodiments, the processor may be configured to indicate on the display device whether the recognized item of labware loaded by the operator is arranged on the deck in accordance with the programmed protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Davis, Yilin Liu-Leitke, Rachel Ellen Moschell, Peter Robert Nei, John S. Snider, Robert J. Zigon
  • Patent number: 11426772
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a surface includes a body defining a cavity and terminating in a distal end that is adapted, in use, to be in the vicinity of a surface to be cleaned such that the surface forms an end wall of a chamber including the cavity; at least one cleaning liquid inlet for flow of a cleaning liquid into the chamber; a divider located in or at the end of the cavity that divides the chamber into first and second portions, the second portion, in use, being in fluid communication with the surface to be cleaned; and an acoustic transducer associated with the first portion to introduce acoustic energy into the chamber; wherein the divider is adapted to permit the passage of acoustic energy therethrough from the first portion to the second portion of the chamber to thereby allow pressure fluctuations to be generated at the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SLOAN WATER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Robert Birkin, Timothy Grant Leighton, Douglas G. Offin