Patents by Inventor Robert A. Lucius

Robert A. Lucius 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: 8688436
    Abstract: A memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language through methods and apparatus is disclosed. The primary components of this memory system include syntactic processes, function word processes, ellipsis processes, morphology processes, meaning word sense number processes, purpose identification processes, plausibility and expectedness processes, communication processes, context storage processes, and text generation processes. The function word processes select and evaluate functions associated with function words. A word sense number is an address to the meaning of a word. Word sense numbers are selected to be consistent with the context and stored experience and knowledge. Experience and knowledge are stored as nodes with access conditions and with associated clause implying word sense numbers organized into paths in a directed graph. A path has an associated purpose relation which is any concept that labels the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Lucius Budzinski
  • Publication number: 20050084363
    Abstract: A decorative fastener assembly including a nut insert and a decorative cap. The cap includes a flatted portion sleeved over a flatted portion of the nut insert and further includes a flange portion proximate its open lower end. An O-ring seal is compressed between the flange of the cap and the circular enlargement of the nut insert to preclude the entry of moisture between the cap and the nut insert. A top end wall portion of the cap is welded to an annular weld projection on the top end of the nut insert in surrounding relation to the central bore of the nut insert. As the weld projection is melted to perform the welding operation, the cap moves further downwardly on the nut insert to further compress the O-ring seal between the cap flange and the circular enlargement of the nut insert. The cap flange portion proximate its open lower end is then crimped over a circular enlargement of the nut insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Applicant: HTG Corp., Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Somers, Robert Lucius
  • Patent number: 6827539
    Abstract: A decorative fastener assembly including a nut insert and a decorative cap. The cap includes a flatted portion sleeved over a flatted portion of the nut insert and further includes a flange portion proximate its open lower end. An O-ring seal is compressed between the flange of the cap and the circular enlargement of the nut insert to preclude the entry of moisture between the cap and the nut insert. A top end wall portion of the cap is welded to an annular weld projection on the top end of the nut insert in surrounding relation to the central bore of the nut insert. As the weld projection is melted to perform the welding operation, the cap moves further downwardly on the nut insert to further compress the O-ring seal between the cap flange and the circular enlargement of the nut insert. The cap flange portion proximate its open lower end is then crimped over a circular enlargement of the nut insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: HTG Corp., Inc.
    Inventors: Steven D. Somers, Robert A. Lucius
  • Publication number: 20040126202
    Abstract: A decorative fastener assembly including a nut insert and a decorative cap. The cap includes a flatted portion sleeved over a flatted portion of the nut insert and further includes a flange portion proximate its open lower end. An O-ring seal is compressed between the flange of the cap and the circular enlargement of the nut insert to preclude the entry of moisture between the cap and the nut insert. A top end wall portion of the cap is welded to an annular weld projection on the top end of the nut insert in surrounding relation to the central bore of the nut insert. As the weld projection is melted to perform the welding operation, the cap moves further downwardly on the nut insert to further compress the O-ring seal between the cap flange and the circular enlargement of the nut insert. The cap flange portion proximate its open lower end is then crimped over a circular enlargement of the nut insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Steven D. Somers, Robert A. Lucius
  • Patent number: 5715468
    Abstract: A memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language. The primary components of this memory system include syntactic processes, function word processes, morphology processes, ellipsis processes, concrete and abstract noun word sense number processes, verb word sense number processes, adjective word sense number processes, purpose identification processes, plausibility and expectedness processes, communication processes, context storage processes, and text generation processes. The syntactic processes include word isolation, dictionary look up, and parsing. The function word processes select and evaluate functions associated with function words which are certain: adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Morphology processes replace morphological words with phrases or clauses composed of function words arid state representation words. Certain nouns, verbs, and adjectives are state representation words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Inventor: Robert Lucius Budzinski