Patents by Inventor Quentin Topping

Quentin Topping 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: 20260002373
    Abstract: Methods and Systems provide for a Rapid Deployment Robotic Self-Installing and Self-Leveling Payload Structure (hereinafter, “RDR-PC”) anchors a payload structure to site with no prior site preparation. The RDR-PC is ideal for remote, and/or difficult installations-whether on/off world-where deployment/development speed is critical and prior access to site is impractical, limited, or impossible. Leave-no-trace removal of the same system is achieved by reverse process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicant: SITU-Places, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen W. Jaycox, Quentin Topping
  • Patent number: 12352061
    Abstract: A building apparatus, system, and method are disclosed in which a structural core, with a minimal footprint, provide the backbone for building units that are multiples of the size of the footprint of the structural core with minimal additional support. Such units may be combined repeatedly and in various orientations to create more complex systems. The design, configuration, and assembly process disclosed is for a composite structural system that achieves an occupiable space capture through the use of a small footprint 3-D structural box frame that is strong enough to provide the shear strength for multiples of the depth of the frame base from a foundation anchorage merely equal to the size of the structural box frame base. Thus, each structural box frame solves for its own structural performance, or a combination of structural box frames may combine to solve for the combined structural performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Situ-Places, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen W Jaycox, Quentin Topping
  • Publication number: 20240360643
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods detect and alert to the settlement of building foundations due to, e.g., permafrost, soil or sand subsidence, and provide an actuator-based solution to re-set structures above such foundations in need of correction and/or re-leveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen W Jaycox, Quentin Topping, Michael Goldin
  • Patent number: 11946218
    Abstract: A robotics-assisted foundation installation system is provided in which data reporting the X, Y, and Z positions of foundation column tops are sent from a total surveying station to a grid control system. The grid control system receives the data and associates specific data with specific columns in an array—the “grid.” The grid control system compares the actual positions of the columns in the grid to target positions that were determined based on the requirements of the structure to be supported. After determining differences between the actual positions and the target positions, the grid control system sends instructions to column positioning tools associated with the individual columns. Actuators in a column positioning tool are directed by the grid control system to adjust the position of the associated column. Once the live streamed data confirms that each column is in the proper position, the columns are fixed in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SITU-Places Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen W. Jaycox, Quentin Topping, Michael Goldin, Johnny Lee
  • Patent number: 11859363
    Abstract: A robotics-assisted foundation installation system is provided in which data reporting the X, Y, and Z positions of foundation column tops are sent from a total surveying station to a grid control system. The grid control system receives the data and associates specific data with specific columns in an array—the “grid.” The grid control system compares the actual positions of the columns in the grid to target positions that were determined based on the requirements of the structure to be supported. After determining differences between the actual positions and the target positions, the grid control system sends instructions to column positioning tools associated with the individual columns. Actuators in a column positioning tool are directed by the grid control system to adjust the position of the associated column. Once the live streamed data confirms that each column is in the proper position, the columns are fixed in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Situ-Places, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen W. Jaycox, Quentin Topping, Michael Goldin, Johnny Lee
  • Publication number: 20230125602
    Abstract: A robotics-assisted foundation installation system is provided in which data reporting the X, Y, and Z positions of foundation column tops are sent from a total surveying station to a grid control system. The grid control system receives the data and associates specific data with specific columns in an array - the “grid.” The grid control system compares the actual positions of the columns in the grid to target positions that were determined based on the requirements of the structure to be supported. After determining differences between the actual positions and the target positions, the grid control system sends instructions to column positioning tools associated with the individual columns. Actuators in a column positioning tool are directed by the grid control system to adjust the position of the associated column. Once the live streamed data confirms that each column is in the proper position, the columns are fixed in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Situ-Places, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen W. Jaycox, Quentin Topping, Michael Goldin, Johnny Lee
  • Publication number: 20220381050
    Abstract: A building apparatus, system, and method are disclosed in which a structural core, with a minimal footprint, provide the backbone for building units that are multiples of the size of the footprint of the structural core with minimal additional support. Such units may be combined repeatedly and in various orientations to create more complex systems. The design, configuration, and assembly process disclosed is for a composite structural system that achieves an occupiable space capture through the use of a small footprint 3-D structural box frame that is strong enough to provide the shear strength for multiples of the depth of the frame base from a foundation anchorage merely equal to the size of the structural box frame base. Thus, each structural box frame solves for its own structural performance, or a combination of structural box frames may combine to solve for the combined structural performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen W. Jaycox, Quentin Topping