Patents by Inventor Richard Watkins

Richard Watkins 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: 12276896
    Abstract: This system and method of for providing a tunable orbital angular momentum system for providing higher order Bessel beams comprising: an acousto-optical deflector configured to receive an input beam, deflect a first portion of the input beam a first deflection angle relative to an axis of propagation and along an optical axis and deflect a second portion of the input beam a second deflection angle relative to the optical axis; a line generator disposed along the optical angle for receiving the first portion and the second portion of the input beam and provide an elliptical Gaussian mean; a log-polar optics assembly disposed along the optical angle for receiving the elliptical Gaussian beam and wrapping the elliptical Gaussian beam with an asymmetric ring; and, a Fourier lens configured to receive the wrapped elliptical Gaussian beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Clemson University
    Inventors: Eric G. Johnson, Jerome Keith Miller, Richard Watkins, Kaitlyn Morgan, Wenzhe Li, Yuan Li
  • Patent number: 11673743
    Abstract: An object handling coordination system includes a plurality of transporting vessels arranged as a three-dimensional cluster of transporting vessels. The plurality of transporting vessels is addressable and the cluster has a self-reconfigurable physical topology. A relocatable transporting vessel is configured to be relocatable within the. A motion control system is configured to determine a path from a start location of the relocatable transporting vessel within the cluster to a destination location within the cluster and arranged to execute movement of the relocatable transporting vessel within the cluster using the determined path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: David Sharp, Joseph Zammit, Richard Watkins, Michael Campbell
  • Patent number: 11657248
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure include a financial services card including a card substrate, and multiple rows of braille-encoded characters formed on the card substrate, at least a portion of the braille-encoded characters encoding an account number that is associated with the financial services card being distributed between a first row and a second row of the multiple rows, and additional information associated with the financial services card being braille-encoded in a third row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Publication number: 20220390810
    Abstract: This system and method of for providing a tunable orbital angular momentum system for providing higher order Bessel beams comprising: an acousto-optical deflector configured to receive an input beam, deflect a first portion of the input beam a first deflection angle relative to an axis of propagation and along an optical axis and deflect a second portion of the input beam a second deflection angle relative to the optical axis; a line generator disposed along the optical angle for receiving the first portion and the second portion of the input beam and provide an elliptical Gaussian mean; a log-polar optics assembly disposed along the optical angle for receiving the elliptical Gaussian beam and wrapping the elliptical Gaussian beam with an asymmetric ring; and, a Fourier lens configured to receive the wrapped elliptical Gaussian beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Clemson University
    Inventors: Eric G. Johnson, Jerome Keith Miller, Richard Watkins, Kaitlyn Morgan, Wenzhe Li, Yuan Li
  • Patent number: 11402722
    Abstract: This system and method of for providing a tunable orbital angular momentum system for providing higher order Bessel beams comprising: an acousto-optical deflector configured to receive an input beam, deflect a first portion of the input beam a first deflection angle relative to an axis of propagation and along an optical axis and deflect a second portion of the input beam a second deflection angle relative to the optical axis; a line generator disposed along the optical angle for receiving the first portion and the second portion of the input beam and provide an elliptical Gaussian mean; a log-polar optics assembly disposed along the optical angle for receiving the elliptical Gaussian beam and wrapping the elliptical Gaussian beam with an asymmetric ring; and, a Fourier lens configured to receive the wrapped elliptical Gaussian beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Clemson Univeristy Research Foundation
    Inventors: Eric Johnson, Jerome Keith Miller, Richard Watkins, Kaitlyn Morgan, Wenzhe Li, Yuan Li
  • Patent number: 11222034
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for rolling long-term data storage. Optimized or enhanced rolling long-term data storage may, for example, increase processing performance and reduce operational burdens on memory resources associated with execution of analytical models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Gamesys Ltd.
    Inventors: Joshua Richard Watkins, Juan Fernando Cervera Parrilla
  • Patent number: 11199048
    Abstract: A pivotable handle for an architectural covering is provided. The handle (400) includes first and second members (408,410) pivotably connected together at a hinge assembly (460). The first member (408) may be operable to connect the handle (400) to a movable rail (512). The second member (410) pivots between stored and use positions. In a stored position, the second member (410) may extend adjacent the first member (408). In a use position, the second member (410) may be pivoted away from the first member (408) to extend the movable rail (512) across an architectural structure. The handle includes a biasing member (470) operable to bias the second member (410) towards the first member (408).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Watkins, Kenneth W. Witherell, Stephen P. Smith, Michael True, Galen B. Rhodes, Tim Daviau, Kent Smith, Paula Cerna
  • Patent number: 10970608
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure include a financial services card including a card substrate, and multiple rows of braille-encoded characters formed on the card substrate, at least a portion of the braille-encoded characters encoding an account number that is associated with the financial services card being distributed between a first row and a second row of the multiple rows, and additional information associated with the financial services card being braille-encoded in a third row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: 10755159
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure include a financial services card including a card substrate, and multiple rows of braille-encoded characters formed on the card substrate, at least a portion of the braille-encoded characters encoding an account number that is associated with the financial services card being distributed between a first row and a second row of the multiple rows, and additional information associated with the financial services card being braille-encoded in a third row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Publication number: 20200201136
    Abstract: This system and method of for providing a tunable orbital angular momentum system for providing higher order Bessel beams comprising: an acousto-optical deflector configured to receive an input beam, deflect a first portion of the input beam a first deflection angle relative to an axis of propagation and along an optical axis and deflect a second portion of the input beam a second deflection angle relative to the optical axis; a line generator disposed along the optical angle for receiving the first portion and the second portion of the input beam and provide an elliptical Gaussian mean; a log-polar optics assembly disposed along the optical angle for receiving the elliptical Gaussian beam and wrapping the elliptical Gaussian beam with an asymmetric ring; and, a Fourier lens configured to receive the wrapped elliptical Gaussian beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Clemson University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Eric G. Johnson, Jerome Keith Miller, Richard Watkins, Kaitlyn Morgan, Wenzhe Li, Yuan Li
  • Patent number: 10531705
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to articles and components thereof, including outsoles, which can be used in conditions normally conducive to the accumulation of soil. In particular, the articles have substrate body, a tie layer secured to the substrate body, and a material including a hydrogel secured to the tie layer. The material can prevent or reduce the accumulation of soil during use. The presence of the tie layer can minimize or prevent delamination of the hydrogel containing material during normal use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nike, Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein A. Baghdadi, Jay Constantinou, Caleb W. Dyer, Myron Maurer, Denis Schiller, Jeremy D. Walker, Richard Watkins, Zachary C. Wright
  • Patent number: D889539
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D889540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D889541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D899518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D906418
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D938515
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D938516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D939627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Marco Antonio Gamboa, Ronald Richard Watkins, Patrick Sturdivant, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn, Stephen Adam Cone, Rhealyn Nicole Yanta
  • Patent number: D972030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Stephen Adam Cone, Ronald Richard Watkins, Martha Rodriguez Hathorn