Patents by Inventor Robert A. Gordon

Robert A. Gordon 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).

  • System and method for automated pipe handling
    Patent number: 10151156
    Abstract: A pipe handling apparatus and method for using the pipe handling apparatus is described. The pipe handling apparatus can be used by putting a boom of the pipe handling apparatus in a nesting position. The boom of the pipe handling apparatus is pivotally mounted to a base and at least one arm. In the nesting position, a pivot point between the at least one arms and the boom is moved within an elongated slot of the boom and the length of the at least one arm is simultaneously adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Gordon Bros. Supply, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Gordon, Bobby Fisk, Ronald Gillespie, Charles Harjo, David Williams
  • Adaptive location sharing based on proximity
    Patent number: 10142783
    Abstract: A method for providing adaptive location sharing based on proximity includes identifying a group of entities (people and/or places) associated with a target person, and setting a location sharing mode to one of a plurality of sharing modes including first sharing mode in which current geographic locations of the target person can be shared regardless of proximity between the target person and any group member, and a second sharing mode in which current geographic locations of the target person are conditionally shared based on proximity between the target person and group members. Based on the location sharing mode and, when in the second sharing mode, the proximity of the target person to one or more entities of the group, either current geographic locations, or a location-based status that does not specify any geographic location, is/are shared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: David Robert Gordon, Michael Hintze
  • Casting assembly and method to provide magnetic retention for over-molded inserts in die cast tooling
    Patent number: 10125720
    Abstract: An exemplary casting assembly for an engine block includes, among other things, an insert and at least one magnet configured to retain the insert in a predefined position within an engine block mold cavity. An exemplary engine block casting method includes, among other things, positioning at least one insert in a mold cavity, retaining the insert in position with at least one magnet, introducing material into the mold cavity to form an engine block, and solidifying the material to secure the insert within the engine block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: FORD MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Burns, Bryan McKeough, Jacob Wesley Zindel, Robert Gordon Rentschler
  • Precursors and Flowable CVD Methods for Making Low-K Films to Fill Surface Features
    Publication number: 20180315598
    Abstract: A method for depositing a silicon-containing film, the method comprising: placing a substrate comprising at least one surface feature into a flowable CVD reactor which is at a temperature of from about ?20° C. to about 100° C.; increasing pressure in the reactor to at least 10 torr; and introducing into the reactor at least one silicon-containing compound having at least one acetoxy group to at least partially react the at least one silicon-containing compound to form a flowable liquid oligomer wherein the flowable liquid oligomer forms a silicon oxide coating on the substrate and at least partially fills at least a portion of the at least one surface feature. Once cured, the silicon oxide coating has a low k and excellent mechanical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Jianheng Li, Raymond Nicholas Vrtis, Robert Gordon Ridgeway, Manchao Xiao, Xinjian Lei
  • Compositions and methods using same for deposition of silicon-containing film
    Patent number: 10106890
    Abstract: Compositions and methods using same for forming a silicon-containing film such as without limitation a silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, a carbon-doped silicon nitride, or a carbon-doped silicon oxide film on at least a surface of a substrate having a surface feature. In one aspect, the composition comprises at least one compound is selected from the group consisting of a siloxane, an trisilylamine-based compound, an organoaminodisilane compound, and a cyclic trisilazane compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Jianheng Li, John Francis Lehmann, Xinjian Lei, Raymond Nicholas Vrtis, Robert Gordon Ridgeway, William Robert Entley
  • COULOMB FRICTION DAMPED COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME
    Publication number: 20180298964
    Abstract: A friction damping cast component and method of production are disclosed. The components may be rotary, such as a cast brake rotor, or may be non-rotary, such as a cast suspension part or a cast engine block. Regardless of the type of component, a two-part vibration-damping insert having a thin metal core and a thin metal sheath is provided. The sheath fully encompasses the core in such a way that a dry sliding friction contact develops at their interfaces. The outer surface of the sheath with the metal core inside is rigidly bonded to the cast material that surrounds it during the casting process. The sheath surfaces may have a number of openings that allow a limited infiltration of molten cast iron material just inside the immediate vicinity of the sheath openings for spot rigid bonding between the surrounding cast material and the insert surfaces during casting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Yuri A. Karpenko, David Allen, James Maurice Boileau, J. Chris Oakwood, Peter Kowalow, Laura Dammeyer, Steven Swisher, Robert Gordon Rentsschler
  • Apparel article to pre-cool the body
    Patent number: 10098391
    Abstract: Described are articles of wear having a base layer, a plurality of cooling zones positioned on the base layer so that substantially all of the plurality of cooling zones are positioned adjacent regions of a wearer's body having highly efficient heat transfer properties of a wearer when worn, and cooling material contained within the plurality of cooling zones. The article of wear is configured to reduce a wearer's body heat content through heat transfer from each region having highly efficient heat transfer properties to each cooling zone when the cooling material is pre-cooled prior to wearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Josh Robert Gordon, Trudy Anne Watson, David O'Mahony, Maarten Dominique Wilhelmus Hupperets, Stephen Henry Faulkner
  • Method and Composition for Providing Pore Sealing Layer on Porous Low Dielectric Constant Films
    Publication number: 20180277360
    Abstract: Described herein is a method and composition comprising same for sealing the pores of a porous low dielectric constant (“low k”) layer by providing an additional thin dielectric film, referred to herein as a pore sealing layer, on at least a surface of the porous, low k layer to prevent further loss of dielectric constant of the underlying layer. In one aspect, the method comprises: contacting a porous low dielectric constant film with at least one organosilicon compound to provide an absorbed organosilicon compound and treating the absorbed organosilicon compound with ultraviolet light, plasma, or both, and repeating until a desired thickness of the pore sealing layer is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Jianheng Li, Raymond Nicholas Vrtis, Robert Gordon Ridgeway, Xinjian Lei, Mark Leonard O'Neill, Xuezhong Jiang
  • DOWNHOLE VALVE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USING SAME
    Publication number: 20180258721
    Abstract: Actuatable valve tool including a tubular housing forming an axial flowbore. A slidable flow tube disposed within the housing and a shear sleeve disposed around at least a portion of the slidable flow tube. One or more valves disposed within the housing, each having an open position and a closed position. In the open position the one or more valves permit fluid flow within the axial flowbore, and in the closed position the one or more valves block fluid flow therethrough. The slidable flow tube moveable within the housing to transition the one or more valves between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Bharat B. PAWAR, Desmond W. JONES, Robert Gordon HOWARD
  • Alkyl-Alkoxysilacyclic Compounds And Methods For Depositing Films Using Same
    Publication number: 20180233355
    Abstract: A method and composition for producing a low k dielectric film via chemical vapor deposition is provided. In one aspect, the method comprises the steps of: providing a substrate within a reaction chamber; introducing into the reaction chamber gaseous reagents including at least one structure-forming precursor comprising a silacyclic compound, and a porogen; applying energy to the gaseous reagents in the reaction chamber to induce reaction of the gaseous reagents to deposit a preliminary film on the substrate, wherein the preliminary film contains the porogen, and the preliminary film is deposited; and removing from the preliminary film at least a portion of the porogen contained therein and provide the film with pores and a dielectric constant of 2.7 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Nicholas Vrtis, Robert Gordon Ridgeway, Jianheng Li, William Robert Entley, Jennifer Lynn Anne Achtyl, Xinjian Lei
  • METHOD OF DISPLAYING LOCATION OF A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180234819
    Abstract: A system and method are provided that display search results and user location on a map. A floor selector interface may be displayed with the map. The floor selector interface may include one or more floor selectors, each of which correspond to a floor in a multi-story building. Upon selection of a floor selector, first search result and location indicators may be displayed transparently or semi-transparently to indicate whether the user or the search results are on the selected floor. If the user or the search results are on a non-selected floor, such indicators may be displayed differently, such as with a different transparency. The floor selector interface may also include second search result and location identifiers. Such second identifiers may be displayed at particular floor selectors corresponding to the present elevation of the user and search results, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Zhou Bailiang, Judith Shade, David Robert Gordon
  • System and Method for Automated Pipe Handling
    Publication number: 20180179834
    Abstract: A pipe handling apparatus and method for using the pipe handling apparatus is described. The pipe handling apparatus can be used by putting a boom of the pipe handling apparatus in a nesting position. The boom of the pipe handling apparatus is pivotally mounted to a base and at least one arm. In the nesting position, a pivot point between the at least one arms and the boom is moved within an elongated slot of the boom and the length of the at least one arm is simultaneously adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Robert Gordon, Bobby Fisk, Ronald Gillespie, Charles Harjo, David Williams
  • Method of displaying location of a device
    Patent number: 9973900
    Abstract: A system and method are provided that display search results and user location on a map. A floor selector interface may be displayed with the map. The floor selector interface may include one or more floor selectors, each of which correspond to a floor in a multi-story building. Upon selection of a floor selector, first search result and location indicators may be displayed transparently or semi-transparently to indicate whether the user or the search results are on the selected floor. If the user or the search results are on a non-selected floor, such indicators may be displayed differently, such as with a different transparency. The floor selector interface may also include second search result and location identifiers. Such second identifiers may be displayed at particular floor selectors corresponding to the present elevation of the user and search results, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zhou Bailiang, Judith Shade, David Robert Gordon
  • Composite cylinder block for an engine
    Patent number: 9970385
    Abstract: A cylinder block for an engine includes a first composite portion having a first surface adjacent to a first recess, a second composite portion having a second surface adjacent to a second recess, and a cylinder liner received by the first and second recesses and positioned between the first and second portions. The first surface is adapted to mate with the second surface along a plane extending through the cylinder liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Clifford E. Maki, Rick L. Williams, Robert Gordon Rentschler, Stefan Quiring
  • Enhanced traffic sign information messaging system
    Patent number: 9965953
    Abstract: An Enhanced Traffic Sign Information Messaging System (ETSIMS) that provides the methodology, functions and support equipment to provide vehicles, which might not be within sight of the traffic message sign, with all or some prioritized parts of the message displayed on the sign, or an enhanced version of the information provided on the sign, including traffic information messages inferred from the message displayed on the traffic message sign. ETSIMS may also provide messages of this type without the need for the physical presence of a sign on the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Robert Gordon
  • RETAINING WALL SYSTEM, METHOD OF SUPPORTING SAME, AND KIT FOR USE IN CONSTRUCTING SAME
    Publication number: 20180119382
    Abstract: A retaining wall can include wall blocks positioned to retain material against a rear side of the wall blocks. A method for supporting such a retaining wall method includes attaching at least one of the wall blocks to at least one ground-stabilizing base body supporting the wall blocks. The ground-stabilizing base body can include a flexible cable attached to the rear side of at least one of the wall blocks and to a portion extending rearward away from the rear side of at least one of the wall blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Robert Gordon McIntosh, Brent Lester Paul Loates, Calum James Buchan
  • USE OF SILYL BRIDGED ALKYL COMPOUNDS FOR DENSE OSG FILMS
    Publication number: 20180122632
    Abstract: Low dielectric materials and films comprising same have been identified for improved performance when used as interlevel dielectrics in integrated circuits as well as methods for making same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Raymond Nicholas Vrtis, Robert Gordon Ridgeway, Jennifer Lynn Anne Achtyl, William Robert Entley, Dino Sinatore, Kathleen Esther Theodorou, Andrew J. Adamczyk
  • Systems and methods for templated, configurable, responsive content items
    Patent number: 9953009
    Abstract: System and methods for displaying one or more assets on a client device based on device characteristics are provided. Code is transmitted to a client device. The code, when executed by the client device, causes a processor of the client device to determine a first device characteristic of the client device. A first layout may be selected based on the first device characteristic. The layout may include one or more cards. Each card may correspond to one or more assets. Each card may be modified based on a corresponding card characteristic. One or more assets may be requested. The assets may be displayed on the first client device. The code may be transmitted to another client device, which may select a different layout based on a different device characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Cameron Henry Behar, Mariam Rahila Shaikh, Brian James Mulford, Jonathan Wolfe, Robert Neale, Wade Davenport Norris, Robert Gordon Kogan
  • Alkyl-alkoxysilacyclic compounds
    Patent number: 9922818
    Abstract: A method and composition for producing a porous low k dielectric film via chemical vapor deposition is provided. In one aspect, the method comprises the steps of: providing a substrate within a reaction chamber; introducing into the reaction chamber gaseous reagents including at least one structure-forming precursor comprising an alkyl-alkoxysilacyclic compound, and a porogen; applying energy to the gaseous reagents in the reaction chamber to induce reaction of the gaseous reagents to deposit a preliminary film on the substrate, wherein the preliminary film contains the porogen, and the preliminary film is deposited; and removing from the preliminary film at least a portion of the porogen contained therein and provide the film with pores and a dielectric constant of 2.7 or less. In certain embodiments, the structure-forming precursor further comprises a hardening additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: VERSUM MATERIALS US, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Nicholas Vrtis, Robert Gordon Ridgeway, Jianheng Li, William Robert Entley, Jennifer Lynn Anne Achtyl, Xinjian Lei
  • Display screen with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D823314
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: David Robert Gordon, Zhou Bailiang