Patents by Inventor Robert A. Jones

Robert A. Jones 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).

  • DYNAMIC TIME-BASED SEQUENCING
    Publication number: 20160321100
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques include identifying a plurality of tasks associated with an identifier corresponding to an electronic device. A task series is generated so as to include the plurality of tasks, where each task in the series is associated with a performance time. When it is determined that the task has not been completed by the performance time, the task series is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Jones, Russell LeWinter
  • ROTATING DISK ELECTRODE CELL
    Publication number: 20160313274
    Abstract: A rotating disk electrode cell has a housing with a reservoir configured to receive a sample for an electrochemical experiment. A shaft is positioned in the housing such that the shaft is free to rotate around the longitudinal axis of the shaft and such that both ends of the shaft are located inside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Charles McCrory, Suho Jung, Ryan John-Robert Jones
  • Handheld devices and methods for acquiring object data
    Patent number: 9476758
    Abstract: A handheld apparatus includes a weight sensor configured to weigh an object, a display configured to display the weight of the object, and a wireless transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit the object weight data from the weight sensor to one or more remote devices. The apparatus also includes a user interface that allows a user to control operation of the weight sensor, and to control transmission of object weight data to a remote device via the wireless transmitter. The user interface may also allow a user to enter and display descriptive information about an object that can be transmitted with the object weight data to a remote device. A second handheld apparatus is used to capture an image of the object and display object weight data within the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Inventor: Robert A. Jones
  • IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES WITH FLELXIBLE INTERCONNECT HAVING STRAIN RELIEF
    Publication number: 20160287880
    Abstract: Implantable medical devices including interconnections having strain-relief structure. The interconnections can take the form of flexible circuits. Strain relief gaps and shapes are integrated in the interconnections to relieve forces in each of three dimensions. In some examples, the region of an interconnection which couples with a component of the implantable medical device is separated by a strain relief gap from a connection to a second component and/or a location where the flex bends around a corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Jean M. Bobgan, Moira B. Sweeney, James E. Blood, Robert A. Jones, John E. Hansen, Keith R. Maile
  • Drill bit package assembly
    Patent number: 9439658
    Abstract: A kit system for use in surgery that includes a disposable drill bit, a disposable battery, a reusable adjustable drill guide, and at least one of a battery powered driver and a manual driver that are reusable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SpineDriver, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Ford, Robert Jones
  • Impact mitigation by intelligent vehicle positioning
    Patent number: 9440649
    Abstract: A method and system for mitigating the impact of a vehicle collision senses location, speed, orientation, and direction of movement data of a host vehicle and an interfering vehicle that has moved or is moving into the path of the host vehicle. A control unit analyzes the data and determines whether a collision is unavoidable. If so, the control unit determines a vehicle path for the host vehicle that will minimize the effects of the collision. By changing the vehicle path, the impact of the collision is less direct and the effect on both of the vehicles is mitigated to some degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Iulian Ciotlos, Shuvo Bhattacharjee, Anson Abraham, Robert Jones, Thomas Voorheis, Kevin Lill, Xavier Zhu, Michel Sittner
  • Forensic Feature For Secure Documents
    Publication number: 20160236460
    Abstract: A forensic feature for a secure document comprises a base document layer and a covert material applied to the base document layer. The covert material includes a carrier and forensic material within the carrier. The forensic material includes a ratio of salts or oxides of metals, such as rare earth metals. The ratio is selected to correspond with a source of the document. The forensic material may be mixed into a coating or ink that is applied at predetermined locations on a secure document. The ratio is then measurable from metal ion signals of the salts or oxides. This ratio, or some metric derived from it, may be linked with information embedded elsewhere in the document to enable verification of the document. Another forensic document feature has a forensic metric that is measurable from a covert material in the document, and this forensic metric corresponds to a source of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Daoshen Bi, Tung-Feng Yeh, Robert Jones, J. Scott Carr
  • DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT CEMENT TESTING
    Publication number: 20160238586
    Abstract: A cement testing apparatus has a pressure vessel system defining a first interior volume sealed from a second interior volume. The pressure vessel system has a confining pressure port in fluid communication with the first interior volume and a rebalance pressure port in fluid communication with the second interior volume. A cement sample container is provided within the first interior volume. A displacement indicator is coupled to move with deformation of a cement sample supported by the sample container. The displacement indicator has a first portion inside the first interior volume, a second portion inside the second interior volume, and a third portion traversing a space between the first and second interior volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Kenneth Heidt MATTHEWS, James Robert JONES, Ketan Chimanlal BHAIDASNA
  • IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH RADIOPAQUE ID TAG
    Publication number: 20160228716
    Abstract: An implantable medical device includes a housing. A first ID tag is secured relative to the housing at a first position and defines a first radiopaque manufacturer code section that visually identifies a manufacturer of the implantable medical device. A second ID tag is secured relative to the housing at a second position that is offset from the first position in at least one dimension. The second ID tag defines a second radiopaque manufacturer code section that also visually identifies the manufacturer of the implantable medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian L. Schmidt, Bryan J. Swackhamer, Robert A. Jones, Steven A. Kubow
  • Walkway assembly
    Patent number: 9376820
    Abstract: A walkway assembly (10) for attachment to a support structure such as a roof of a building includes a primary support (13) for on-site attachment to the support structure, a plurality of tread modules (41) each attached relative to the primary support and moveable between a first position and a second position at which a part of each tread module is spaced further from the primary support than when at the first position, and at least one riser unit (48) for supporting the tread modules relative to the primary support in at least the second of the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: KEE SAFETY LIMITED
    Inventors: John Greaves, Martin Roberts-Jones
  • OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20160153766
    Abstract: An optical apparatus measures characteristics of a measurement target including an illumination portion, detection portion and processing portion. The illumination portion produces at least one pair of spatially separated areas of illumination for illuminating a measurement target to produce an associated light field. The light field produced by illumination of the measurement target includes a component corresponding to interference between the areas of illumination, illuminates a first site on the measurement target and illuminates a second site on the measurement target. The detection portion receives light from the measurement target, directs the received light onto a detector, and outputs signals from the detector dependent on the intensity of the detected light. The processing portion analyses the signals output by the detector to measure the characteristics of the measurement target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Robert JONES, Alfred NEWMAN, Martin BROCK, Dean Stuart GRIFFITHS
  • METHODS OF DETECTING EBOLA
    Publication number: 20160122834
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for detecting Ebola are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Jones
  • IMPACT MITIGATION BY INTELLIGENT VEHICLE POSITIONING
    Publication number: 20160121884
    Abstract: A method and system for mitigating the impact of a vehicle collision senses location, speed, orientation, and direction of movement data of a host vehicle and an interfering vehicle that has moved or is moving into the path of the host vehicle. A control unit analyzes the data and determines whether a collision is unavoidable. If so, the control unit determines a vehicle path for the host vehicle that will minimize the effects of the collision. By changing the vehicle path, the impact of the collision is less direct and the effect on both of the vehicles is mitigated to some degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Iulian Ciotlos, Shuvo Bhattacharjee, Anson Abraham, Robert Jones, Thomas Voorheis, Kevin Lill, Xavier Zhu, Michel Sittner
  • System and Method for Laser Writing
    Publication number: 20160096395
    Abstract: Personal data may be embedded in a kinegram of an identification document using a suitable low energy laser without compromising the integrity of the kinegram or the identification document. The personal data can be written in a metalized portion of the kinegram in a high definition, high resolution manner such that the personal data may be read by a human without the use of a text-enhancing viewer device (e.g., magnifying glasses). Additional personal data can be written in a reduced text size (e.g., micro-text) in another metalized portion of the kinegram such that a human must use a text-enhancing viewer device to view the micro-text personal data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Jones, Daoshen Bi
  • System and Method for Laser Writing
    Publication number: 20160096392
    Abstract: Personal data may be embedded in a kinegram of an identification document using a suitable low energy laser without compromising the integrity of the kinegram or the identification document. The personal data can be written in a metalized portion of the kinegram in a high definition, high resolution manner such that the personal data may be read by a human without the use of a text-enhancing viewer device (e.g., magnifying glasses). Additional personal data can be written in a reduced text size (e.g., micro-text) in another metalized portion of the kinegram such that a human must use a text-enhancing viewer device to view the micro-text personal data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Jones, Daoshen Bi, William M. O'Connor
  • BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY ROOM
    Publication number: 20160076266
    Abstract: A hotel room with furniture arranged for optimal television viewing from a bed and another location, such as a sofa or second bed. Furniture pieces are connected or closely aligned together and are arranged so that they provide premium viewing for a television, regardless of a location of a person within the hotel room. To this end, embodiments utilize furniture arrangements where the bed and/or sofa are turned at an angle to the walls of the room, and the room is laid out efficiently to account for this different design affect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew James McLoughlin, Sangeetha Ramkumar, Thomas Zachary Lloyd, Sally Kyoko Halls, Luke Neil Pearson, Nick Stanley Borg Carpenter, Jack Charles Cheatle, Timothy Robert Jones
  • Tread module
    Patent number: 9279256
    Abstract: A tread module (10) for a walkway or stairway includes a body of material which defines a load-carrying surface (14), the tread module including at least two sub-module sections (20,21,22) which are formed integrally with one another and inter-connected by at least one severable formation (23) whereby the tread module may be reduced in size by severance of the severable formation(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: KEE SAFETY LIMITED
    Inventors: John Greaves, Martin Roberts-Jones
  • Lighted switch
    Patent number: 9281140
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a switch comprising an LED for indicating when a connected electrical device is activated or not. In certain examples, the electrical device is a water pump. In certain examples, the invention is drawn to a circuit comprising a switch, a logic circuit, an electrical device, and an LED subcircuit, whereby the electrical device is turned on by closing the switch, and whereby the LED functions as an indicator light remaining on while the electrical device remains on, and turning off when the electrical device is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT, INC
    Inventors: Larry K. Acker, Robert Jones
  • Method and apparatus for auxilary seafloor mining
    Patent number: 9260964
    Abstract: A seafloor auxiliary mining tool for use in a seafloor mining system. The seafloor auxiliary mining tool has a seafloor locomotion system enabling traversal of the seafloor. Umbilical connections receive power and control signals from a surface source. A boom mounted auxiliary cutting tool is configured to cut extremities of a seafloor deposit. Cuttings produced by the auxiliary cutting tool are sized by sizing means, to ensure such cuttings are no greater than a desired size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Nautilus Minerals Pacific Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Glen Robert Jones, Antony Eliot Inglis, Anthony Paul O'Sullivan, Michael Howitt, Glen Smith, Roland Gunter Berndt, Daal Hallam Jaffers, Nicholas William Ridley
  • Method and apparatus for bulk seafloor mining
    Patent number: 9243496
    Abstract: A seafloor bulk mining tool for production cutting of a seafloor bench. The tool uses a tracked locomotion system to travel across a seafloor bench. Power and control interfaces receive power and control signals from a surface source. The tool has a drum cutter for cutting the bench, and a sizing grill adjacent the drum cutter for sizing cuttings as they are produced by the drum cutter. A drum shroud may also be provided to help contain cuttings. A suction inlet can be used to capture cuttings as they are produced, for example in conjunction with a spade and augers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Nautilus Minerals Pacific Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Glen Robert Jones, Antony Eliot Inglis, Anthony Paul O'Sullivan, Michael Howitt, Glen Smith, Roland Gunter Berndt, Daal Hallam Jaffers, Nicholas William Ridley, Ian Maskell