Patents by Inventor Richard A. Kelsey
Richard A. Kelsey 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: 11635749Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing factory scheduling, layout or both which represent active factory elements (human and machine) as computational objects and simulate factory operation to optimize a solution. This enables the efficient assembly of customized products, accommodates variable demand, and mitigates unplanned events (floor blockages, machines/IMRs/workcell/workers downtime, variable quantity, location, and destination of supply parts).Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: VEO ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Patrick Sobalvarro, Clara Vu, Joshua Downer, Paulo Ferreira, Mehmet Ali Guney, Thomas C. Ferree, Alberto Moel, Richard A. Kelsey
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Patent number: 11613017Abstract: Safety systems in distributed factory workcells intercommunicate or communicate with a central controller so that when a person, robot or vehicle passes from one workcell or space into another on the same factory floor, the new workcell or space need not repeat the tasks of analysis and classification and can instead immediately integrate the new entrant into the existing workcell or space-monitoring schema. The workcell or space can also communicate attributes such as occlusions, unsafe areas, movement speed, and object trajectories, enabling rapid reaction by the monitoring system of the new workcell or space.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: VEO ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Scott Denenberg, Patrick Sobalvarro, Clara Vu, Alberto Moel, Richard A. Kelsey
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Publication number: 20220121181Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing factory scheduling, layout or both which represent active factory elements (human and machine) as computational objects and simulate factory operation to optimize a solution. This enables the efficient assembly of customized products, accommodates variable demand, and mitigates unplanned events (floor blockages, machines/IMRs/workcell/workers downtime, variable quantity, location, and destination of supply parts).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2022Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Patrick SOBALVARRO, Clars VU, Joshua DOWNER, Paulo FERREIRA, Mehmet Ali GUNEY, Thomas C. FERREE, Alberto MOEL, Richard A. KELSEY
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Patent number: 11256241Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing factory scheduling, layout or both which represent active factory elements (human and machine) as computational objects and simulate factory operation to optimize a solution. This enables the efficient assembly of customized products, accommodates variable demand, and mitigates unplanned events (floor blockages, machines/IMRs/workcell/workers downtime, variable quantity, location, and destination of supply parts).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: VEO ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Patrick Sobalvarro, Clara Vu, Joshua Downer, Paulo Ferreira, Mehmet Ali Guney, Thomas C. Ferree, Alberto Moel, Richard A. Kelsey
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Publication number: 20210339396Abstract: Safety systems in distributed factory workcells intercommunicate or communicate with a central controller so that when a person, robot or vehicle passes from one workcell or space into another on the same factory floor, the new workcell or space need not repeat the tasks of analysis and classification and can instead immediately integrate the new entrant into the existing workcell or space-monitoring schema. The workcell or space can also communicate attributes such as occlusions, unsafe areas, movement speed, and object trajectories, enabling rapid reaction by the monitoring system of the new workcell or space.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Scott DENENBERG, Patrick SOBALVARRO, Clara VU, Alberto MOEL, Richard A. KELSEY
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Patent number: 11097422Abstract: Safety systems in distributed factory workcells intercommunicate or communicate with a central controller so that when a person, robot or vehicle passes from one workcell or space into another on the same factory floor, the new workcell or space need not repeat the tasks of analysis and classification and can instead immediately integrate the new entrant into the existing workcell or space-monitoring schema. The workcell or space can also communicate attributes such as occlusions, unsafe areas, movement speed, and object trajectories, enabling rapid reaction by the monitoring system of the new workcell or space.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: VEO ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Scott Denenberg, Patrick Sobalvarro, Clara Vu, Alberto Moel, Richard A. Kelsey
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Publication number: 20200206928Abstract: Safety systems in distributed factory workcells intercommunicate or communicate with a central controller so that when a person, robot or vehicle passes from one workcell or space into another on the same factory floor, the new workcell or space need not repeat the tasks of analysis and classification and can instead immediately integrate the new entrant into the existing workcell or space-monitoring schema. The workcell or space can also communicate attributes such as occlusions, unsafe areas, movement speed, and object trajectories, enabling rapid reaction by the monitoring system of the new workcell or space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Scott Denenberg, Patrick Sobalvarro, Clara Vu, Alberto Moel, Richard A. Kelsey
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Patent number: 10495392Abstract: A cooler, a cooler platform assembly, and a process of adjusting a cooler platform are disclosed. The cooler includes a cooling region, a discharge region, and a cooler platform positioned in the discharge region and proximal to a sloped interior section of the cooler. The cooler platform assembly includes a cooler platform, a sloped interior section of a cooler proximal to a first end of the cooler platform, and a vertical wall proximal to a second end of the cooler platform. The process includes adjusting a cooler platform from a retracted position substantially parallel to a vertical wall of a cooler to a deployed position substantially perpendicular to the vertical wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: E&C Finfan, Inc.Inventors: Michael Garner, Jesse Hines, Charles Bowers, Ben Cole, Richard Kelsey, Michael Shroyer, Tracy Mabes
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Patent number: 9565065Abstract: In some cases, it may be desirable to limit the number of routers in a mesh network. Various techniques to limit the number of routers, without affecting connectivity, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a node enables its router capability if there are less than a predetermined number of routers already in the network. In other embodiments, a node enables its routing capability only is it is necessary to resolve a connectivity issue or a biconnectivity issue. In some cases, a node, which previously enabled its router capability, may no longer be required to be a router. In some embodiments, this node, upon making this determination, disables its routing capability.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventor: Richard Kelsey
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Patent number: 9220050Abstract: Methods of reassembling a mesh network which has been disrupted by the unavailability of a node or a link are disclosed. Nodes continuously receive beacon messages originating from a leader node. These beacon messages may be transmitted directly by the leader node, or may have been retransmitted by an intermediate node. When a node determines that it has not received a beacon message in a certain time period, it concludes that it is now disconnected from that leader node. At this point, it may choose to act as a leader node and form a new network, or may join with another network. The determination of which network to join may be based on some indicia associated with the leader node of that network.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Richard Kelsey, Matteo Paris
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Patent number: 9197510Abstract: A method of efficiently disseminating various types of information throughout a mesh network is disclosed. Information is typically propagated through the network using a variety of protocols and messages. However, in one embodiment, a single message, communicates all of this information at once. The message includes data originating at the leader, which does not change as the messages are propagated through the network, as well as topology and link information that is created by the forwarding nodes. The data originating at the leader includes the identity of the leader node and a sequence number. Additionally, a version number is included by the leader which represents the state of the quasi-static information. Quasi-static information may include, for example, the identity of a node that has access to a central control system or the internet. This compact message format allows improved efficiency and use of the network.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Richard Kelsey, Matteo Paris
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Publication number: 20150256411Abstract: In some cases, it may be desirable to limit the number of routers in a mesh network. Various techniques to limit the number of routers, without affecting connectivity, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a node enables its router capability if there are less than a predetermined number of routers already in the network. In other embodiments, a node enables its routing capability only is it is necessary to resolve a connectivity issue or a biconnectivity issue. In some cases, a node, which previously enabled its router capability, may no longer be required to be a router. In some embodiments, this node, upon making this determination, disables its routing capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventor: Richard Kelsey
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Patent number: 9077652Abstract: In some cases, it may be desirable to limit the number of routers in a mesh network. Various techniques to limit the number of routers, without affecting connectivity, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a node enables its router capability if there are less than a predetermined number of routers already in the network. In other embodiments, a node enables its routing capability only is it is necessary to resolve a connectivity issue or a biconnectivity issue. In some cases, a node, which previously enabled its router capability, may no longer be required to be a router. In some embodiments, this node, upon making this determination, disables its routing capability.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventor: Richard Kelsey
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Publication number: 20150092530Abstract: Methods of reassembling a mesh network which has been disrupted by the unavailability of a node or a link are disclosed. Nodes continuously receive beacon messages originating from a leader node. These beacon messages may be transmitted directly by the leader node, or may have been retransmitted by an intermediate node. When a node determines that it has not received a beacon message in a certain time period, it concludes that it is now disconnected from that leader node. At this point, it may choose to act as a leader node and form a new network, or may join with another network. The determination of which network to join may be based on some indicia associated with the leader node of that network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Richard Kelsey, Matteo Paris
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Publication number: 20150092535Abstract: In some cases, it may be desirable to limit the number of routers in a mesh network. Various techniques to limit the number of routers, without affecting connectivity, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a node enables its router capability if there are less than a predetermined number of routers already in the network. In other embodiments, a node enables its routing capability only is it is necessary to resolve a connectivity issue or a biconnectivity issue. In some cases, a node, which previously enabled its router capability, may no longer be required to be a router. In some embodiments, this node, upon making this determination, disables its routing capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventor: Richard Kelsey
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Publication number: 20150092606Abstract: A method of efficiently disseminating various types of information throughout a mesh network is disclosed. Information is typically propagated through the network using a variety of protocols and messages. However, in one embodiment, a single message, communicates all of this information at once. The message includes data originating at the leader, which does not change as the messages are propagated through the network, as well as topology and link information that is created by the forwarding nodes. The data originating at the leader includes the identity of the leader node and a sequence number. Additionally, a version number is included by the leader which represents the state of the quasi-static information. Quasi-static information may include, for example, the identity of a node that has access to a central control system or the internet. This compact message format allows improved efficiency and use of the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Richard Kelsey, Matteo Paris
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Patent number: 8853204Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition which comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent and: (a) an inhibitor of the RSV fusion protein; and (b) a benzodiazepine derivative capable of inhibiting RSV replication is found to be highly active against RSV.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Arrow Therapeutics LimitedInventors: Kenneth Powell, Richard Kelsey, Malcolm Carter, Dagmar Alber, Lara Wilson, Elisa Henderson, Phil Chambers, Debra Taylor, Stan Tyms, Verity Dowdell
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Patent number: 8446057Abstract: A cooling system, a motor handling system, and a method of positioning a motor in a cooling system are disclosed. The motor handling system includes a suspension feature configured to engage a support member, the support member positioned partially below a cooler. The motor handling system permits positioning of a motor in a first position and re-positioning of the motor to a second position. The cooling system includes a cooler, a support member positioned partially below the cooler, and a motor handling system. The method of positioning includes engaging a support member of a cooling system with a suspension feature, positioning the motor at a first position, and re-positioning the motor at a second position.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Harsco CorporationInventors: Richard Kelsey, Micheal Shroyer
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Publication number: 20130012118Abstract: A cooler, a cooler platform assembly, and a process of adjusting a cooler platform are disclosed. The cooler includes a cooling region, a discharge region, and a cooler platform positioned in the discharge region and proximal to a sloped interior section of the cooler. The cooler platform assembly includes a cooler platform, a sloped interior section of a cooler proximal to a first end of the cooler platform, and a vertical wall proximal to a second end of the cooler platform. The process includes adjusting a cooler platform from a retracted position substantially parallel to a vertical wall of a cooler to a deployed position substantially perpendicular to the vertical wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: HARSCO CORPORATIONInventors: Michael GARNER, Jesse HINES, Charles BOWERS, Ben COLE, Richard KELSEY, Michael SHROYER, Tracy MABES
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Publication number: 20120186777Abstract: A cooling system, a motor handling system, and a method of positioning a motor in a cooling system are disclosed. The motor handling system includes a suspension feature configured to engage a support member, the support member positioned partially below a cooler. The motor handling system permits positioning of a motor in a first position and re-positioning of the motor to a second position. The cooling system includes a cooler, a support member positioned partially below the cooler, and a motor handling system. The method of positioning includes engaging a support member of a cooling system with a suspension feature, positioning the motor at a first position, and re-positioning the motor at a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: HARSCO CORPORATIONInventors: Richard KELSEY, Micheal SHROYER