Patents by Inventor Richard D. Hart
Richard D. Hart 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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Publication number: 20240379033Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, an optical device includes: an optical guiding device configured to guide light to propagate along a first direction within the optical guiding device, the light including multiple colors of light; an in-coupling diffractive structure configured to diffract the light to propagate in the optical guiding device; and a plurality of out-coupling diffractive structures arranged downstream of the in-coupling diffractive structure along the first direction and configured to diffract at least part of the light out of the optical guiding device along a second direction different from the first direction. The optical device can be configured for at least one of: color crosstalk suppression among the multiple colors of light, display zero order light suppression, dispersion compensation, or ambient light blocking.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
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Patent number: 12123353Abstract: An engine assembly includes a combustor, a fuel cell stack integrated with the combustor, and a pre-burner system fluidly connected to the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell stack is configured to direct fuel and air exhaust from the fuel cell stack into the combustor. The pre-burner system is configured to control a temperature of an air flow directed into the fuel cell stack. The combustor is configured to combust the fuel and air exhaust from the fuel cell stack into one or more gaseous combustion products that drive a downstream turbine. The engine assembly can further include a catalytic partial oxidation convertor that is fluidly connected to the fuel cell stack. The catalytic partial oxidation convertor is configured to develop a hydrogen rich fuel stream to be directed into the fuel cell stack.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Narendra D. Joshi, Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock, Honggang Wang, Anil R. Duggal, Richard L. Hart, Seung-Hyuck Hong
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Patent number: 12092334Abstract: An engine assembly includes a combustor, a fuel cell stack integrated with the combustor, the fuel cell stack configured (i) to direct fuel and air exhaust from the fuel cell stack into the combustor and (ii) to generate electrical energy, a catalytic partial oxidation convertor that is fluidly connected to the fuel cell stack, the catalytic partial oxidation convertor being configured to optimize a hydrogen content of a fuel stream to be directed into the fuel cell stack, and one or more subsystems electrically connected with the fuel cell stack, the one or more subsystems being configured to receive the electrical energy generated by the fuel cell stack. The combustor is configured to combust the fuel and air exhaust from the fuel cell stack into one or more gaseous combustion products that drive a downstream turbine.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Narendra D. Joshi, Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock, Richard L. Hart, Anil R. Duggal, Seung-Hyuck Hong
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Patent number: 9054783Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to trigger preemptive maintenance of vectored digital subscriber line (DSL) systems are disclosed. An example method includes generating a trouble ticket for a first subscriber loop based on a result of a diagnostic test, the diagnostic test being performed on the first subscriber loop when a value representing crosstalk coupling between the first subscriber loop and a second subscriber loop exceeds a threshold. The first subscriber loop and the second subscriber loop belong to a vectored group of subscriber loops contained in a same cable binder. The example method includes submitting the trouble ticket.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Gary Tennyson, Richard D. Hart, Jin Wang
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Patent number: 8660138Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to allocate ports to vectored digital subscriber line (DSL) groups are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes obtaining data representative of a statistical distribution of service penetration for a non-vectored DSL service, estimating an expected vectored DSL group size from the data, and configuring a DSL access multiplexer (DSLAM) to reserve a number of ports of the DSLAM for a vectored DSL group based on the expected vectored DSL group size.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jin Wang, Richard D. Hart, Raghvendra Savoor, Gary Tennyson
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Patent number: 8369485Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to trigger preemptive maintenance of vectored digital subscriber line (DSL) systems are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining a value representing crosstalk coupling between a first subscriber loop and a second subscriber loop, the first and second subscriber loops belonging to a vectored DSL group of subscriber loops, determining whether to automatically perform a diagnostic test on the first subscriber loop based on the value, submitting a trouble ticket for the first subscriber loop based on a result of the diagnostic tests, and generating a maintenance report for the vectored DSL group based on the value and the results.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Gary Tennyson, Richard D. Hart, Jin Wang
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Patent number: 8363789Abstract: Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture to predict vectored digital subscriber line (DSL) performance gains are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes determining a model coefficient of a noise-to-margin ratio (NMR) model from performance data measured for a DSL subscriber loop prior to provisioning of vectoring for the DSL subscriber loop, computing, using the model coefficient, a first NMR value with disturbers enabled and a second NMR value with disturbers disabled, and estimating an expected vectoring performance gain for the DSL subscriber loop based on the first and second NMR values.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Richard D. Hart, David L. Kimble, Gary Tennyson, Jin Wang
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Patent number: 8280549Abstract: An automated drug dispensing system includes a cabinet adapted to store a variety of prepackaged pharmaceuticals in a plurality of bins for filling patient prescriptions. Each bin stores a particular variety of packaged multiple-dose pharmaceutical. Each variety of pharmaceutical is associated with a particular code. A controller receives request signals and in response generates dispense signals. Each bin includes a dispenser coupled to the controller for dispensing the packaged pharmaceuticals therefrom in response to a dispense signal sent from the controller. After a package is dispensed, a code reader determines the code of the dispensed package and verifies whether the code on the dispensed package matches the code of the requested package.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Telepharmacy Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Harold J. Liff, Brian T. Hart, Robert L. Wallace, Arthur A. Berube, Richard D. Hart, Enea W. Bossi
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Publication number: 20120155618Abstract: Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture to predict vectored digital subscriber line (DSL) performance gains are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes determining a model coefficient of a noise-to-margin ratio (NMR) model from performance data measured for a DSL subscriber loop prior to provisioning of vectoring for the DSL subscriber loop, computing, using the model coefficient, a first NMR value with disturbers enabled and a second NMR value with disturbers disabled, and estimating an expected vectoring performance gain for the DSL subscriber loop based on the first and second NMR values.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Richard D. Hart, David L. Kimble, Gary Tennyson, Jin Wang
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Publication number: 20120140901Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to trigger preemptive maintenance of vectored digital subscriber line (DSL) systems are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining a value representing crosstalk coupling between a first subscriber loop and a second subscriber loop, the first and second subscriber loops belonging to a vectored DSL group of subscriber loops, determining whether to automatically perform a diagnostic test on the first subscriber loop based on the value, submitting a trouble ticket for the first subscriber loop based on a result of the diagnostic tests, and generating a maintenance report for the vectored DSL group based on the value and the results.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Gary Tennyson, Richard D. Hart, Jin Wang
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Publication number: 20120140803Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to allocate ports to vectored digital subscriber line (DSL) groups are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes obtaining data representative of a statistical distribution of service penetration for a non-vectored DSL service, estimating an expected vectored DSL group size from the data, and configuring a DSL access multiplexer (DSLAM) to reserve a number of ports of the DSLAM for a vectored DSL group based on the expected vectored DSL group size.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Jin Wang, Richard D. Hart, Raghvendra Savoor, Gray Tennyson
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Patent number: 8170814Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving data related to a customer premise equipment (CPE) device and determining an impedance mismatch between a transmission line and the CPE device based on the received data. The method further includes initiating removal of a source of the impedance mismatch in response to determining the impedance mismatch.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jin Wang, Kapil Shrikhande, Richard D. Hart, Raghvendra Savoor
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Publication number: 20110251718Abstract: An automated drug dispensing system includes a cabinet adapted to store a variety of prepackaged pharmaceuticals in a plurality of bins for filling patient prescriptions. Each bin stores a particular variety of packaged multiple-dose pharmaceutical. Each variety of pharmaceutical is associated with a particular code. A controller receives request signals and in response generates dispense signals. Each bin includes a dispenser coupled to the controller for dispensing the packaged pharmaceuticals therefrom in response to a dispense signal sent from the controller. After a package is dispensed, a code reader determines the code of the dispensed package and verifies whether the code on the dispensed package matches the code of the requested package.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Inventors: Harold J. Liff, Brian T. Hart, Robert L. Wallace, Arthur A. Berube, Richard D. Hart, Enea W. Bossi
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Patent number: 7991507Abstract: An automated drug dispensing system includes a cabinet adapted to store a variety of prepackaged pharmaceuticals in a plurality of bins for filling patient prescriptions. Each bin stores a particular variety of packaged multiple-dose pharmaceutical. Each variety of pharmaceutical is associated with a particular code. A controller receives request signals and in response generates dispense signals. Each bin includes a dispenser coupled to the controller for dispensing the packaged pharmaceuticals therefrom in response to a dispense signal sent from the controller. After a package is dispensed, a code reader determines the code of the dispensed package and verifies whether the code on the dispensed package matches the code of the requested package.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Telepharmacy Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Harold J. Liff, Brian T. Hart, Robert L. Wallace, Arthur A. Berube, Richard D. Hart, Enea W. Bossi, David Bossi, legal representative
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Patent number: 7778192Abstract: A system and method to perform double-ended measurements of a network is provided. The system includes a test device that makes measurements at the customer end and a portable computing device that interfaces with the test device, a customer gateway and database at a network location to analyze the data and determine a performance metric of the network.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2005Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Kapil Shrikhande, Raghvendra G. Savoor, Xidong Wu, Jin Wang, John Van Slyke, Richard D. Hart
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Patent number: 7620154Abstract: An equivalent working length (EWL) determinative system (11) for use in a digital subscriber line (DSL) telecommunication network (10) is provided. The EWL system (11) includes a DSL circuit (32) having a customer site (14) with customer premises equipment (30). The customer premises equipment (30) receives and transmits communication signals and generates a first attenuation signal in response to the communication signals. A remote terminal (20) forms a loop (31) with the customer site (14) and has a loop length. The remote terminal (20) includes a remote terminal transceiver (40) that is in communication with the customer premises equipment (30). A main controller (37) is electrically coupled to the customer premises equipment (30) and determines an EWL of the loop (31) in response to the first attenuation signal. A method of performing the same is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Inventors: G. Keith Cambron, David L. Kimble, Clifford E. Yackle, Richard D. Hart
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Publication number: 20080288190Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving data related to a customer premise equipment (CPE) device and determining an impedance mismatch between a transmission line and the CPE device based on the received data. The method further includes initiating removal of a source of the impedance mismatch in response to determining the impedance mismatch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, LPInventors: Jin Wang, Kapil Shrikhande, Richard D. Hart, Raghvendra Savoor
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Publication number: 20080238065Abstract: A roll cage assembly, for use on a vehicle, includes one or more structural components. At least one roll cage displacement assembly is coupled to the one or more structural components and the vehicle. The at least one roll cage displacement assembly is configured to allow for displacement of the one or more structural components with respect to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Richard D. Hart, Brian T. Hart, Arthur Berube
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Patent number: 7427002Abstract: An automated drug dispensing system includes a cabinet adapted to store a variety of prepackaged pharmaceuticals in a plurality of bins for filling patient prescriptions. Each bin stores a particular variety of packaged multiple-dose pharmaceutical. Each variety of pharmaceutical is associated with a particular code. A controller receives request signals and in response generates dispense signals. Each bin includes a dispenser coupled to the controller for dispensing the packaged pharmaceuticals therefrom in response to a dispense signal sent from the controller. After a package is dispensed, a code reader determines the code of the dispensed package and verifies whether the code on the dispensed package matches the code of the requested package.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: Telepharmacy Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Harold J. Liff, Brian T. Hart, Robert L. Wallace, Arthur A. Berube, Richard D. Hart, Enea W. Bossi, David Bossi, legal representative
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Publication number: 20080175695Abstract: An object grasping assembly for use on a vehicle includes a fixed jaw assembly. A flexible strapping assembly includes a first distal end and a second distal end. The flexible strapping assembly is configured to be positioned about at least a portion of the periphery of an object to be grasped. An actuator assembly is configured to releasably affix the object to the fixed jaw assembly by releasably engaging at least one of the first and second distal ends and tensioning the flexible strapping assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: RICHARD D. HART, Brian T. Hart, Arthur A. Berube