Patents by Inventor Robert A. Howard

Robert A. Howard 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).

  • Publication number: 20200249685
    Abstract: A processor coupled to memory is configured to receive image data based on an image captured by a camera of a vehicle. The image data is used as a basis of an input to a trained machine learning model trained to predict a three-dimensional trajectory of a machine learning feature. The three-dimensional trajectory of the machine learning feature is provided for automatically controlling the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Ashok Kumar Elluswamy, Matthew Bauch, Christopher Payne, Andrej Karpathy, Dhaval Shroff, Arvind Ramanandan, James Robert Howard Hakewill
  • Publication number: 20200217157
    Abstract: A downhole tool includes a hydraulically operated actuation device to actuate the downhole tool and a control system that regulates flow of hydraulic fluid to the actuation device. The control system includes a pilot module and a power module. The power module has a first solenoid valve and a second solenoid valve fluidly coupled to a pressure source and a fluid return. The power module is fluidly coupled to the actuation device at an output line and a power line. A first power module check valve is arranged in the power line, a second power module check valve is arranged in a control pressure return line fluidly coupled to the fluid return, a first input communicates with the first solenoid valve, and a second input communicates with the second solenoid valve. A pilot-operated check valve is actuatable in response to a pilot signal to drain hydraulic fluid from the power module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Oser, Robert Howard, Desmond Jones
  • Patent number: 10682731
    Abstract: The invention described herein pertains generally to a process for making boric acid free flux compositions in which boric acid and/or borax is substituted with a molar equivalent amount of potassium tetraborate tetrahydrate. In some embodiments, a phthalocyanine pigment is used to affect a color change at activation temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Howard
  • Patent number: 10668576
    Abstract: The invention described herein pertains generally to boric acid free flux composition in which boric acid and/or borax is substituted with a molar equivalent amount of potassium tetraborate tetrahydrate. In some embodiments, a phthalocyanine pigment is used to effect a color change at activation temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Howard
  • Patent number: 10655914
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for a portable modular drying device that includes a distributing manifold for receiving a blower device that distributes air through the device, and at least one drying manifold having a first end, a second end, and at least one opening between the first end and the second end for distributing the drying air selectively secured to the distributing manifold. The device further includes at least one drying hose or glove tube selectively secured to the at least one opening of the at least one drying manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Howard Seehausen, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20200122566
    Abstract: This disclosure details electrified vehicle drive systems equipped with electric machine integrated axle assemblies. An exemplary electrified vehicle drive system includes a leaf spring assembly and an axle assembly mounted to the leaf spring assembly. The axle assembly may include a cradle and an electric machine mounted within the cradle. Shocks and stabilizer bar assemblies may extend between the cradle and a vehicle frame of the electrified vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Sahil NAGPAL, Steven Michael Cyr, Robert Howard Saunders, JR.
  • Patent number: 10620129
    Abstract: In one embodiment, determining carbon system parameters of water includes measuring the pH of a first subsample of the water using a spectrophotometer, adding nitric acid as a titrant to a second subsample of the water to obtain a titrated subsample, measuring a concentration of added nitric acid in the titrated subsample using a spectrophotometer, measuring the pH of the titrated subsample using a spectrophotometer, and calculating one or more unknown carbon system parameters using the pH of the first subsample, the pH of the titrated subsample, and the concentration of added nitric acid of the titrated subsample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventor: Robert Howard Byrne
  • Patent number: 10614030
    Abstract: A digital assistant supported on a local device and/or a remote digital assistant service is disclosed herein. The device may interact with a user and perform various functions or tasks based on the user's input (e.g., web search, set calendar appointments, capture images or video). The digital assistant may identify and store artifacts associated with each action or function. Artifacts may include, for example, people in an image, search results from a web search, participants in a meeting, etc. Subsequently, the user may query the digital assistant for information about one of the artifacts, such as who the participants were in a meeting conducted the prior Thursday. The digital assistant can sift through the various artifacts and provide the user with the relevant information. Additionally, the digital assistant can suggest actions for the user based on the retrieved artifacts, such as to message one of the identified participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Reza Ferrydiansyah, Gurpreet Virdi, Richa Prasad, Steve Seixeiro, Robert Howard, III
  • Patent number: 10574750
    Abstract: Network services may include data associated with one or more entities. An aggregator service may host respective application programming interfaces (APIs) of the services at a single endpoint of the network such that the entities, including associations and relationships between entities, may be federated. For example, the services may register the entities of which the data of each of the services is associated with through a declarative entity model to establish an API schema for each of the services, which may be published at the aggregator service. In response to receipt of a request for entity related data from a client, the aggregator service may employ the declarative entity model to determine which of the services are associated with the entity related data such that a query may be submitted to the services, and how to aggregate responses to the query received from the services for transmission to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yina Arenas, Dmitry Pugachev, Robert Howard, Sriram Dhanasekaran, Marek Rycharski, Vijaya Manohararaj, Daniel Kershaw, James Kleewein, Anthony Bloesch, Titus Miron, Vikrant Arora, Murli Satagopan, Jon Rosenberg, Yordan Rouskov
  • Patent number: 10518627
    Abstract: This disclosure details electrified vehicle drive systems equipped with electric machine integrated axle assemblies. An exemplary electrified vehicle drive system includes a leaf spring assembly and an axle assembly mounted to the leaf spring assembly. The axle assembly may include a cradle and an electric machine mounted within the cradle. Shocks and stabilizer bar assemblies may extend between the cradle and a vehicle frame of the electrified vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Sahil Nagpal, Steven Michael Cyr, Robert Howard Saunders, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190366834
    Abstract: This disclosure details electrified vehicle drive systems equipped with electric machine integrated axle assemblies. An exemplary electrified vehicle drive system includes a leaf spring assembly and an axle assembly mounted to the leaf spring assembly. The axle assembly may include a cradle and an electric machine mounted within the cradle. Shocks and stabilizer bar assemblies may extend between the cradle and a vehicle frame of the electrified vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Sahil NAGPAL, Steven Michael Cyr, Robert Howard Saunders, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190276083
    Abstract: A protective cage assembly includes a frame, a bracket assembly mounted to a first tubular member of the frame, a gusset of the bracket assembly extending between the bracket assembly and a second tubular member of the frame, and a third tubular member of the frame removably received by the bracket assembly. The protective cage assembly may be mounted within a cargo space of an electrified vehicle for both protecting the battery pack and establishing a load bearing floor of the cargo space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Howard SAUNDERS, Wayne HAIDER, Catherine BANSEK, Steven Michael CYR, Luke Allen PONTZ, Sahil NAGPAL, Jeffery GILCHRIST
  • Publication number: 20190244257
    Abstract: The present application describes systems, methods and devices for creative asset management, some of which can be utilized in closed/batch supply and/or open real-time bidding (RTB) supply opportunities. The present application further describes systems, methods and devices for omni-channel creative asset management that may have bi-directional features. In particular, in some embodiments, the creative asset management systems, methods, and devices described herein can allow advertisers to consolidate their online advertising efforts into a central platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Aaron Goldman, Daniel Robert Howard Bougourd, Justin Michael Dougherty, Michael John Perreux, Cullinan B. Hartnett, Wilfried A. Schobeiri, Ming Tung-Lun
  • Patent number: 10360522
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a forecast associated with an item may be described. For example, the forecast may be generated based on simulations of supply and demand variables associated with the item over a planning horizon. The forecast may include at least one of: a labor forecast or a capacity forecast associated with inventorying units of the item in an inventory over the planning horizon. Further, real-time data associated with realizations of the supply and demand variables during the planning horizon may be monitored. At least a portion of the real-time data may be available from a management system. The management system may be configured to manage orders for the units of the item from the inventory. The forecast may be updated during the planning horizon based on the real-time data. The update may include changing the at least one of: the labor forecast or the capacity forecast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Michael Leonard, Robert Howard Sawers, Kip Christopher Larson, Devesh Mishra, Eric Mathew Mack, Jeffrey B. Maurer
  • Patent number: 10268826
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that address issues related to data privacy by enabling users to elect various levels of data sharing. A user of a user device is enabled to indicate their comfort level with sharing, transmitting, or otherwise exposing individual activity records (data entities) with respect to various activity categories. The exposure of activity records may be controlled with respect to on-device and off-device components. Furthermore, privacy profiles may be automatically generated for the user, and the privacy profiles may be automatically activated in corresponding situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Colleen Hamilton, Robert Howard, Lee Dicks Clark, John Yovin, Shawn Brown, Sogol Malekzadeh
  • Publication number: 20190022975
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a stretchable graphene-based barrier layer on an elastomeric substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Howard Hurt, Ian Yan Wong, Po-Yen Chen
  • Patent number: 10162618
    Abstract: An install factory creates install packages used to install complex applications onto multiple data processing systems in a reliable and reproducible manner. The install factory takes a variety of inputs to build a custom installation package. The custom install package may be used repeatedly for installs, using the same install package, a full install on a first data processing system, an updated install on a second data processing system, a fix or service pack on a third data processing system, and also configure an application on a fourth data processing system. Thereafter, all data processing systems have the desired level of the application installed. In addition, the install factory may create install packages that are modified in accordance with user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tim Alan Fors, Robert Howard High, Jr., Rohit V. Kapoor, James Lee Van Oosten
  • Publication number: 20180349389
    Abstract: A digital assistant supported on a local device and/or a remote digital assistant service is disclosed herein. The device may interact with a user and perform various functions or tasks based on the user's input (e.g., web search, set calendar appointments, capture images or video). The digital assistant may identify and store artifacts associated with each action or function. Artifacts may include, for example, people in an image, search results from a web search, participants in a meeting, etc. Subsequently, the user may query the digital assistant for information about one of the artifacts, such as who the participants were in a meeting conducted the prior Thursday. The digital assistant can sift through the various artifacts and provide the user with the relevant information. Additionally, the digital assistant can suggest actions for the user based on the retrieved artifacts, such as to message one of the identified participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Reza FERRYDIANSYAH, Gurpreet VIRDI, Richa PRASAD, Steve SEIXEIRO, Robert HOWARD, III
  • Patent number: 10086477
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to flux-cored brazing consumables and preforms which have at least one protrusion which extends from an outer surface of the consumable such that the protrusion engages with a surface of a component to be brazed. The protrusion aids in securing the brazing consumable in position during manufacture, assembly and transport of an assembly to be brazed, prior to a brazing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A Howard
  • Patent number: 10058957
    Abstract: The invention described herein pertains generally to boric acid free flux composition wherein in some embodiments, a phthalocyanine pigment is used to effect a color change at activation temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Robert A Howard