Patents by Inventor Robert A. Francis

Robert A. Francis 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: 11974390
    Abstract: A packaging substrate can include a first surface and a second opposing surface, the first surface including a first mounting region of a first electronic module region and the second opposing surface including a first electrical contacts region of the first electronic module region. The packaging substrate can include a saw street region with at least a portion that surrounds the first electronic module region, and a saw street feature formed on the second opposing surface within at least a portion of the saw street region, the saw street feature being a solder mask layer over a metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhuvaneshwaran Vijayakumar, Lori Ann Deorio, Anthony James Lobianco, Hoang Mong Nguyen, Robert Francis Darveaux
  • Publication number: 20240136372
    Abstract: A pixel for an ambient light and/or color sensor includes a plurality of pinned photodiodes. The pixel also includes a floating diffusion region. A ratio of an active area of the plurality of pinned photodiodes to an area of the floating diffusion region is greater than 150.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Joseph SHEAHAN, Jong Mun PARK, Robert VAN ZEELAND, Kirk David PETERSON, Wern Ming KOE, George Richard KELLY, Mario MANNINGER, Dong-Long LIN, Pascale FRANCIS, Koen RUYTHOOREN
  • Patent number: 11963959
    Abstract: Inhibitors against SARS-COV-1, SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19), MERS-CoV, and variants within each, including methods of treating a subject suffering from such respiratory disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Southwest Research Institute, The Government of the United States, as represented by The Secretary of the Army, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Bohmann, Nadean M. Gutierrez, Joseph A. Mcdonough, Robert Francis Campbell, Michael Gordon Joyce, Rekha Panchal, Rajeshwer Sankhala, Allen Duplantier
  • Patent number: 11960577
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for sharing and publishing files. In one aspect, the database system can maintain a user database, a file database and a library. The database system can receive a first request initiated by a first user to share a first file with one or more second users and, responsive to the first request, enable a second set of one or more permissions for each of the second users. The database system also can receive a second request initiated by the first user to publish the first file to the library and, responsive to the second request, publish the first file to the library. The database system additionally can restrict access to the published file based on permissions associated with the library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Miko Arnab Bose, Robert J. Snell, Mark Francis Movida, Valliappan Annamalai Natarajan, Adam Thielemann Wegel, Matthew Charles Hagenian, Durgesh Singh
  • Patent number: 11961805
    Abstract: A packaged radio-frequency device is disclosed, including a packaging substrate configured to receive one or more components, the packaging substrate including a first side and a second side. A shielded package may be implemented on the first side of the packaging substrate, the shielded package including a first circuit and a first overmold structure, the shielded package configured to provide radio-frequency shielding for at least a portion of the first circuit. A set of through-mold connections may be implemented on the second side of the packaging substrate, the set of through-mold connections defining a mounting volume on the second side of the packaging substrate. The device may include a component implemented within the mounting volume and a second overmold structure substantially encapsulating one or more of the component or the set of through-mold connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard E. Chen, Robert Francis Darveaux
  • Publication number: 20240119824
    Abstract: A voter support system and method for supporting voters who may want to vote for a particular party, slate of candidates, or particular types of candidates is disclosed. The system collects information from various data sources including public, private, candidate, and political party data sources for consolidating into a presentation system comprising a voter mobile smart device running a specialized software voter application. One or more remote servers and/or databases may be provided by the system to consolidate various data, compile the data into useful information, and communicate that data to the voter smart device via the installed voter application. Such a system can inform voters of candidates and issues in upcoming elections and help the voter vote in the election in a proper and efficient manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Francis Bodi
  • Publication number: 20240099594
    Abstract: A method of generating a blood pressure estimation for a subject includes receiving real-time PPG data from a PPG sensor attached to the subject, and generating a blood pressure estimation for the subject via an adaptive predictive model using the real time PPG data. The method includes receiving a real-time measurement of blood pressure via a blood pressure monitoring device attached to the subject and, in response to receiving the real-time measurement of blood pressure, updating one or more parameters of the model in real-time to improve blood pressure estimation accuracy of the model. The method may also include detecting whether the generated blood pressure estimation is above or below a threshold and, in response to determining that the generated biometric estimation is above or below the threshold, receiving a real-time measurement of blood pressure and then updating the parameters of the model to improve blood pressure estimation accuracy of the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Namita LOKARE, Tushar Dilip TANK, Steven Francis LEBOEUF, Keith RICHESON, Paul Motoi MATSUMURA, Julian MULLANEY, Robert Lee SWEITZER
  • Publication number: 20240094870
    Abstract: Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a streamlined computer device and a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Various views of digital media content permits users to easily and efficiently access various digital media content. Different views are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to maintain and manage digital media content libraries. According to some embodiments, the libraries comprise user digital media content and references digital media content. Functionality provided to a user can be tailored to the type of content displayed, accessed and/or managed. According to various aspects, methods and systems are provided for accessing and managing digital media libraries on a streamlined computing device with a plurality selectable I/O profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: LiTL LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington, Matthew David Day, Noah Bruce Guyot, Daniel Kuo, Jenea Boshart Hayes, Aaron Tang, David Livingstone Fore, John H. Chuang, Chris Bambacus, Yves Behar, Joshua Morenstein, Christopher Hibmacronan, Naoya Edahiro, Donald Francis Fischer, Christian Marc Schmidt, Lisa Strausfeld, Marc Gallucci, Eric Sutton, Samuel Wallace Webber, Christine Meahan, Phillip Henson
  • Patent number: 11936806
    Abstract: An example method of operation may include one or more of identifying an outbound call placed by a mobile device subscribed to a protected carrier network, determining the outbound call is destined for a destination telephone number that was stored in a call history of the mobile device, determining the destination telephone number is a scam call suspect telephone number based on one or more identified call filter parameters associated with the destination telephone number, and forwarding a scam call notification to the mobile device while the outbound call is dialing the destination telephone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Jefferson D. Stalnaker
  • Publication number: 20240090123
    Abstract: In some embodiments, nested filters can be implemented as a radio-frequency device that includes a substrate, and first and second filter devices mounted on the substrate with respective support structures, such that at least a portion of the second filter device is positioned in a space defined by an underside of the first filter device and the support structures for the first filter device. Such a radio-frequency device can be, for example, a packaged module for use in an electronic device such as a wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Francis DARVEAUX, Ki Wook LEE, Takeshi FURUSAWA, Sundeep Nand NANGALIA, Russ Alan REISNER, John C. BALDWIN
  • Patent number: 11918943
    Abstract: A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft that couples a portion of the turbine section and a portion of the compressor section. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section while bypassing at least the combustion section. At least one particle separator is located in the turbine engine having a separator inlet that receives a bypass stream, a separator outlet that receives a reduced-particle stream flows, and a particle outlet that receives a concentrated-particle stream comprising separated particles. A conduit, fluidly coupled to the particle outlet, extends through an interior of at least one stationary vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Deryck Stone, Gregory Michael Laskowski, Robert Proctor, Curtis Stover, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Jared Peter Buhler, Robert Carl Murray, Corey Bourassa, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff
  • Patent number: 11906426
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and a system for measuring suspended solids in wastewater, including: introducing an aqueous sample into a measurement system, comprising at least one length of tubing; pumping, using a pump, the aqueous sample through the at least one length of tubing; and measuring, using at least one optical sensor, a quantity of suspended solids in the aqueous sample wherein at least one optical sensor is coupled to the length of tubing in a position to measure the quantity of suspended solids while the aqueous sample is located in the at least one length of tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HACH COMPANY
    Inventor: Robert Francis Dabkowski
  • Patent number: 11894323
    Abstract: A packaged radio-frequency device can include a packaging substrate configured to receive one or more components, the packaging substrate including a first side and a second side. The packaging substrate may include a first component mounted on the first side and a first overmold structure implemented on the first side, the first overmold structure substantially encapsulating the first component. The packaging substrate may further include a set of through-mold connections implemented on the second side of the packaging substrate, the set of through-mold connections including signal pins and ground pins, a second component mounted on the second side of the packaging substrate, the second component being located in an area of the second side configured to implement a redundant ground pad or a redundant portion of a ground pad, and a second overmold structure substantially encapsulating one or more of the second component or the set of through-mold connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard E. Chen, Robert Francis Darveaux, Anthony James Lobianco
  • Patent number: 11884672
    Abstract: The disclosure provides compounds useful for treating alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), according to formula (I): tautomers thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the tautomers, deuterated derivatives of the compounds, deuterated derivatives of the tautomers, and deuterated derivatives of the salts, solid forms of those compounds and processes for making those compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Upul Keerthi Bandarage, Cavan McKeon Bligh, Diane Boucher, Michael John Boyd, Michael Aaron Brodney, Michael Philip Clark, Veronique Damagnez, Lev Tyler Dewey Fanning, Robert Francis Fimognari, Gabrielle Simone Fleming, Kevin James Gagnon, Pedro Manuel Garcia Barrantes, Robert Daniel Giacometti, Simon Giroux, Ronald Lee Grey, Jr., Samantha Guido, Amy Beth Hall, Sarah Carol Hood, Dennis James Hurley, Mac Arthur Johnson, Jr., Peter Jones, Sarathy Kesavan, Mei-Hsiu Lai, Siying Liu, Adam Looker, Brad Maxwell, John Patrick Maxwell, Ales Medek, Philippe Marcel Nuhant, Kirk Alan Overhoff, Setu Roday, Stefanie Roeper, Steven M. Ronkin, Rupa Sawant, Yi Shi, Muna Shrestha, Marisa Sposato, Kathy Stavropoulos, Rebecca Jane Swett, Timothy Lewis Tapley, Qing Tang, Stephen Thomson, Jinwang Xu, Mariam Zaky, Kevin Michael Cottrell
  • Patent number: 11889021
    Abstract: One example method of operation may include collecting call metric data over a predefined period of time for identified calls, querying the call metric data to identify whether one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes, determining one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes based on a deviation from one or more expected call metric data values included in the call metric data, modifying one or more of the call filtering criteria parameters, and updating an active call scam model stored on a call processing server based on the one or more call filtering parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
  • Patent number: 11879979
    Abstract: A dynamically reconfigurable Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system can generate improved ranging data one or more regions of three-dimensional (3D) images generated by the system. The images can be segmented, and global or local optical characteristics (e.g., power, illumination duration, bandwidth, framerate frequency) of the light can be modified to increase the 3D image quality for the segments of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Pointcloud Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Yukio Piggott, Alexander Alexeevich Gondarenko, Steven Andrew Fortune, Andrew James Compston, Robert Francis Wiser, Remus Nicolaescu
  • Publication number: 20240017965
    Abstract: A modular elevator system has a pit module, one or more shaft modules that are attachable to the pit module and/or to an adjacent shaft module, and a cap module that is attachable to an uppermost shaft module. The pit module, the shaft modules, and the cap module are each pre-fabricated and transported to a site at which a building is under construction for assembly top of the pit module, the remaining shaft modules are secured sequentially on top of each other, and the cap module is secured on top of the uppermost shaft module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Joseph BELLISSIMO, Robert Francis KELSCH, Stanley Clark BEARD, Jr., Jason Daryl HUNSINGER
  • Publication number: 20240011834
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for producing an output photon having a predefined frequency. The system comprises a frequency comb generator for generating a frequency comb. The system further comprises a frequency comb mode selector configured to: receive a heralding signal representative of the detection of a first photon of a frequency-correlated photon pair, the heralding signal indicative of a frequency of the heralded second photon of the frequency-correlated photon pair; and select, based on the received heralding signal, a comb spectral mode of the frequency comb. The system further comprises a non-linear photonic element configured to receive the heralded second photon and the selected comb spectral mode and produce an output photon having the predefined frequency based on the frequency of the heralded second photon and the selected comb spectral mode. Methods, controllers and computer-readable media are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Niall Moroney, Robert Francis-Jones
  • Patent number: D1016196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Selkirk Sport, LLC
    Inventors: Robert James Barnes, James Francis Barnes, Michael James Barnes
  • Patent number: D1020945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Selkirk Sport, LLC
    Inventors: Robert James Barnes, Michael James Barnes, James Francis Barnes