Patents by Inventor Robert A. Lang

Robert A. Lang 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: 20230316743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for facilitating access to recorded data. The system comprises an interface and a processing device. The interface is arranged to receive data and the processing device is arranged to separate the received data in data subsets, compress each data subset and assign an identifier to each compressed data subset, thereby creating data units each comprising a compressed data subset and an associated identifier, the processing device further being arranged to establish an index on the basis of the assigned identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Max PRAKOSO, Andi HAKIM, Robert LANG
  • Patent number: 11745570
    Abstract: The present invention is a retractable sunshade assembly that can be connected to an open-top of a vehicle that has roll bars. The sunshade assembly includes one or more clamps, a pair of parallel support beams, and a sunshade panel. The one or more clamps fasten to roll bars on a driver side and on a passenger side, The pair of parallel support beams connect onto the clamps, such that the supports panels are horizontally aligned to the respective roll bars and parallel to each other. The sunshade panel is configured to connect to and span between the pair of support beams which serve as a guide for the sunshade panel to retract and extend within. A latch mechanism connected to a handle can be actuated to hold the sunshade panel in a desired location along the pair of support beams, enabling customized levels of sun shading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Lang, Jed L. Firebaugh
  • Patent number: 11699285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for facilitating access to recorded data. The system comprises an interface and a processing device. The interface is arranged to receive data and the processing device is arranged to separate the received data in data subsets, compress each data subset and assign an identifier to each compressed data subset, thereby creating data units each comprising a compressed data subset and an associated identifier, the processing device further being arranged to establish an index on the basis of the assigned identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NASDAQ TECHNOLOGY AB
    Inventors: Max Prakoso, Andi Hakim, Robert Lang
  • Publication number: 20230174349
    Abstract: A method for controlling a movement of a load in a workspace by a control device, including a) acquiring target coordinates to be set of a target point in the workspace towards which a load pick-up apparatus is to be moved, b) determining a load measured value by measuring the weight of the load using a load measuring device, c) determining actual cable lengths of positioning cables, d) determining desired cable lengths to be set by the respective positioning cable winch, for the positioning cables for the target coordinates of the target point to be set and for the current load measured value, and for each of the positioning cables, the control device searches a database for a data set that matches the target coordinates of the target point that are to be set and the current load measured value, and determines the desired cable length to be set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Hans Künz GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Karl EBERHARTER, Robert LANG, Georg KLAPPER
  • Publication number: 20230086011
    Abstract: The present invention is a retractable sunshade assembly that can be connected to an open-top of a vehicle that has roll bars. The sunshade assembly includes one or more clamps, a pair of parallel support beams, and a sunshade panel. The one or more clamps fasten to roll bars on a driver side and on a passenger side, The pair of parallel support beams connect onto the clamps, such that the supports panels are horizontally aligned to the respective roll bars and parallel to each other. The sunshade panel is configured to connect to and span between the pair of support beams which serve as a guide for the sunshade panel to retract and extend within. A latch mechanism connected to a handle can be actuated to hold the sunshade panel in a desired location along the pair of support beams, enabling customized levels of sun shading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Lang, Jed L. Firebaugh
  • Publication number: 20230080347
    Abstract: A computing system for securely managing access to resources of a computing device receives an input at a secure login of a user interface. The computing system compares the input to a plurality of stored security measures and activates one of an operating system or a configuration of a false desktop system. A user interface of the false desktop system shares characteristics with a user interface of an operating system and restricts access to specified files, data stores, applications, networking functions, and/or ports associated with the computing system. When configured, the false desktop system or the operating system is enabled based on the location of the computing system. When configured, the false desktop system deletes files, data stores, and applications of the operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Horne, George Albero, Robert A. Lang
  • Patent number: 11585811
    Abstract: A method for detecting an analyte involving a) contacting the analyte, a capture agent and a solid surface to form a capture complex attached to a solid surface, b) cleaving at least one covalent bond within the analyte and/or within said capture agent in the capture complex and, thereby, releasing the analyte or a fragment thereof from the capture complex, and c) detecting at least one fragment of the analyte and, thereby, detecting the analyte is disclosed herein. A kit having i) a capture agent binding to an analyte; and ii) an agent cleaving at least one covalent bond within the analyte and/or within the capture agent; and to the use of a protease for releasing fragments of an analyte for detecting the analyte, wherein the analyte is bound to a solid surface via a capture agent is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Uwe Kobold, Robert Lang, Andreas Leinenbach
  • Patent number: 11581178
    Abstract: A mass spectrometry (MS) apparatus is provided. The MS apparatus includes a mass spectrometer, an ionization source coupled to the mass spectrometer, and a flow injection system (FIS) coupled to the ionization source. The ionization source is configured to provide an ionized gas flow of an analyte towards an entrance of the mass spectrometer. The ionization source is further configured to provide a second gas flow of a second gas. The MS apparatus is configured to measure a mass spectrometer (MS) signal of the analyte. The MS apparatus is further configured to analyze a dependency of the MS signal of the analyte versus a parameter of the second gas flow or a state of the second gas flow and to determine a condition of the apparatus based on the analyzed dependency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lang, Stefan Quint, Gabriele Punzmann
  • Patent number: 11550885
    Abstract: A computing system for securely managing access to resources of a computing device receives an input at a secure login of a user interface. The computing system compares the input to a plurality of stored security measures and activates one of an operating system or a configuration of a false desktop system. A user interface of the false desktop system shares characteristics with a user interface of an operating system and restricts access to specified files, data stores, applications, networking functions, and/or ports associated with the computing system. When configured, the false desktop system or the operating system is enabled based on the location of the computing system. When configured, the false desktop system deletes files, data stores, and applications of the operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Horne, George Albero, Robert A. Lang
  • Publication number: 20220242667
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining a task definition for a mobile robot, the task definition including (i) a position on an item support carried by the mobile robot, and (ii) an identifier of an item to be placed at the position to form a unit load with the item support; controlling the mobile robot carrying the item support to travel to a pick location for receiving the item from a picker; controlling an output device to render an indication of the position for the picker at the pick location; responsive to placement of the item at the position by the picker, controlling the mobile robot to travel to a handling location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: David Lin, David Dymesich, Uwe Meister, Mason Cole, Lonai Anthraper, Sarah Elliott, Louis Abastas, Robert Lang, Melonee Wise, Stefan Nusser, David Robson
  • Publication number: 20220194752
    Abstract: A load transport system having a load carrier and at least one load receiving device which for receiving the load is fastened to the load carrier, and at least three positioning cables and at least three suspension devices, each suspension device has at least one positioning cable winch for winding and unwinding one of the positioning cables. The load carrier is suspended from the suspension devices by the positioning cables. The load carrier and the load receiving device fastened thereto are relocatable by activating the positioning cable winches, and the load carrier has at least one multi-cable suspension to which at least two of the positioning cables are connected via cable connectors. Each of the cable connectors is mounted on the multi-cable suspension to be pivotable about at least two pivot axes aligned to be mutually orthogonal, and all pivot axes of the cable connectors intersect in a common intersection point of this multi-cable suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hans Künz GmbH
    Inventors: Georg KLAPPER, Robert LANG, Johannes Karl EBERHARTER, Roman BEER
  • Publication number: 20220165557
    Abstract: A mass spectrometry (MS) apparatus is provided. The MS apparatus includes a mass spectrometer, an ionization source coupled to the mass spectrometer, and a flow injection system (FIS) coupled to the ionization source. The ionization source is configured to provide an ionized gas flow of an analyte towards an entrance of the mass spectrometer. The ionization source is further configured to provide a second gas flow of a second gas. The MS apparatus is configured to measure a mass spectrometer (MS) signal of the analyte. The MS apparatus is further configured to analyze a dependency of the MS signal of the analyte versus a parameter of the second gas flow or a state of the second gas flow and to determine a condition of the apparatus based on the analyzed dependency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lang, Stefan Quint, Gabriele Punzmann
  • Publication number: 20220114669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for facilitating access to recorded data. The system comprises an interface and a processing device. The interface is arranged to receive data and the processing device is arranged to separate the received data in data subsets, compress each data subset and assign an identifier to each compressed data subset, thereby creating data units each comprising a compressed data subset and an associated identifier, the processing device further being arranged to establish an index on the basis of the assigned identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Max Roy PRAKOSO, Andi HAKIM, Robert LANG
  • Patent number: 11241898
    Abstract: A printing system having: a print head arranged with a predetermined nip for printing to a recording medium; a sensor positioned upstream of the print head, and configured to detect possible joints of the recording medium; a spacer arranged in a region of the print head, the spacer being configured to be displaceable to deflect the recording medium and increasing a distance between the print head and recording medium; an actuator to displace the spacer element; and a controller configured to activate the actuator to displace the spacer upon detection of a joint by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Robert Lang
  • Publication number: 20220032442
    Abstract: A hollow rod developable actuator tool including a first link comprising an outer cylinder, a deployment ring including second link comprising a first portion pivotably connected to the first link at a first joint mounted in a first cavity in the wall of the outer cylinder and a third link comprising a second tool portion pivotably connected to the first portion at a second link, and a fourth link comprising an inner cylinder to which the second portion of the deployment ring is also pivotably connected at a third link mounted in a second cavity in the wall of the inner cylinder. When the inner cylinder of the fourth link is rotated in relation to the outer cylinder of the first link the actuator tool transitions from a first state where the deployment ring is stowed within the tool to a second state where the deployment ring is deployed externally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Brigham Young University
    Inventors: Jacob Sheffield, Kendall Hal Seymour, Lance Hyatt, Scott Cunnington, Spencer Magleby, Larry L. Howell, Robert Lang
  • Patent number: D996543
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Travis Downing, Robert Lang, Chad Skelton
  • Patent number: D996546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Travis Downing, Robert Lang, Chad Skelton
  • Patent number: D997274
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Travis Downing, Robert Lang, Chad Skelton
  • Patent number: D997275
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Travis Downing, Robert Lang, Chad Skelton
  • Patent number: D997277
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Travis Downing, Robert Lang, Chad Skelton