Patents by Inventor Robert A. Richter

Robert A. Richter 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: 11964138
    Abstract: In one aspect the present disclosure refers to a supplementary device for a manually operable injection device, the supplementary device comprising: a body attachable to an elongated housing of the injection device, at least one connector connected to the body and connectable to the housing, wherein the body is attachable to the housing via the at least one connector, a sensor arrangement coupled to at least one of the body and the at least one connector and configured to measure a longitudinal force component acting between the at least one connector and the body in a direction parallel to the elongation of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther
  • Publication number: 20240121214
    Abstract: A method performed by a computing device for implementing a dynamic outbound firewall. The method includes creating a localhost virtual private network (VPN) service, intercepting, using the localhost VPN service, outbound network traffic originated by the computing device, and responsive to detecting a first domain name service (DNS) query in the intercepted outbound network traffic, converting the DNS query to a first secure DNS query and sending the first secure DNS query to a trusted external DNS recursive resolver using a secure DNS protocol, receiving a first secure DNS response that includes a first DNS resolution result, adding an entry for the first DNS resolution result to a cache, and dropping a first outbound packet detected in the intercepted outbound network traffic based on a determination that the destination of the first outbound packet does not match an entry in the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: AppCensus, Inc.
    Inventors: Daren CHILDERS, Narseo VALLINA-RODRIGUEZ, Abhinav SAXENA, Joel REARDON, Robert RICHTER, Pietro Francesco TIRENNA, Nathaniel GOOD, Serge EGELMAN
  • Patent number: 10977288
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing content by one or more processors are described. Usage of a plurality of first content portion translations by at least one user is monitored. The plurality of first content portion translations is stored on at least one database. Each of the plurality of first content portion translations is analyzed. A value of maintaining a selected one of the plurality of first content portion translations or a second content portion translation on the at least one database is calculated based on the monitoring of the usage of the plurality of first content portion translations and the analyzing of each of the plurality of first content portions translations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Keen, Todd Kelsey, Robert Richter, Michael Iantosca
  • Patent number: 10889238
    Abstract: A method for providing a spatially perceptible acoustic signal for a rider of a two-wheeled vehicle, including: providing an acoustic signal by a two-wheeled vehicle; determining the position of a helmet worn by the rider of the two-wheeled vehicle relative to the two-wheeled vehicle; processing the acoustic signal depending on the determined position to provide a three-dimensional output signal which constitutes a binaural projection of the acoustic signal; and outputting the output signal via a stereo headset of the helmet, wherein the output signal spatially positions a sound source contained in the acoustic signal depending on the determined position, whereby the sound source is spatially locatable by the rider of the two-wheeled vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Ehrmann, Robert Richter, Kerstin Schenk
  • Publication number: 20200250214
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing content by one or more processors are described. Usage of a plurality of first content portion translations by at least one user is monitored. The plurality of first content portion translations is stored on at least one database. Each of the plurality of first content portion translations is analyzed. A value of maintaining a selected one of the plurality of first content portion translations or a second content portion translation on the at least one database is calculated based on the monitoring of the usage of the plurality of first content portion translations and the analyzing of each of the plurality of first content portions translations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin KEEN, Todd KELSEY, Robert RICHTER, Michael IANTOSCA
  • Publication number: 20200148230
    Abstract: A system for automated maneuvering of an ego vehicle includes: a recognition device configured to recognize a moving object in the surroundings of the ego vehicle and to assign the object to a specific object classification; a control device coupled to the recognition device, the control device being configured to retrieve behavior parameters for the recognized object classification from a behavior database, the behavior parameters having been determined by a method in which moving objects are classified using machine learning and are tagged on the basis of specific behavior patterns; and a maneuver planning unit coupled to the control device, the planning unit being configured to plan and execute a driving maneuver of the ego vehicle on the basis of the retrieved behavior parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Michael EHRMANN, Robert RICHTER
  • Publication number: 20200055443
    Abstract: A method for providing a spatially perceptible acoustic signal for a rider of a two-wheeled vehicle, including: providing an acoustic signal by a two-wheeled vehicle; determining the position of a helmet worn by the rider of the two-wheeled vehicle relative to the two-wheeled vehicle; processing the acoustic signal depending on the determined position to provide a three-dimensional output signal which constitutes a binaural projection of the acoustic signal; and outputting the output signal via a stereo headset of the helmet, wherein the output signal spatially positions a sound source contained in the acoustic signal depending on the determined position, whereby the sound source is spatially locatable by the rider of the two-wheeled vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Michael EHRMANN, Robert RICHTER, Kerstin SCHENK
  • Publication number: 20180270548
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensing device that has a hardware application program interface (API) that is manipulated by a cloud service to measure certain parameters using a variety of attached sensors. The hardware API creates a communication interface between the sensing device and the cloud service that permits the cloud service to manipulate how the device's hardware components acquire raw data from one or more attached wired or wireless sensors. In certain embodiments data acquisition with the sensing device may be entirely cloud initiated permitting sensing device to be controlled to collect data using any type of sensor without the sensing device requiring any sensor-specific hardware or locally-stored programming specific to a particular type of sensor coupled to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Richter, Robert Gustave Richter, JR., Edgar Alejandro Duarte Ortega
  • Patent number: 9576184
    Abstract: A method of defining a region of interest in a floor plan document including identifying a point within the region of interest, identifying notations in the floor plan document potentially indicative of walls near the identified point, and identifying notations in the floor plan document potentially indicative of protrusions from the walls near the identified point. The method also includes determining whether the notations potentially indicative of protrusions from the walls are part of the perimeter of the region of interest based on at least one criteria selected from a group consisting of size, shape, and location of the notation potentially indicative of a protrusion, defining the perimeter of the region of interest based on the notations determined to be part of the perimeter of the region of interest, and calculating a quantity associated with the region of interest based on the defined perimeter of the region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TEXTURA PLANSWIFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heber Allred, Robert Richter
  • Publication number: 20160063722
    Abstract: A method of defining a region of interest in a floor plan document including identifying a point within the region of interest, identifying notations in the floor plan document potentially indicative of walls near the identified point, and identifying notations in the floor plan document potentially indicative of protrusions from the walls near the identified point. The method also includes determining whether the notations potentially indicative of protrusions from the walls are part of the perimeter of the region of interest based on at least one criteria selected from a group consisting of size, shape, and location of the notation potentially indicative of a protrusion, defining the perimeter of the region of interest based on the notations determined to be part of the perimeter of the region of interest, and calculating a quantity associated with the region of interest based on the defined perimeter of the region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Heber Allred, Robert Richter
  • Patent number: 8072295
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) cavity resonator having a resonator chamber and one or more RF coupling loop assemblies is presented. The RF coupling loop assembly has a connector with a first connector interface coupled to an inner conductor and a second connector interface coupled to an outer conductor, the first and second connector interfaces forming a pair when mated, the second connector interface rotatable about a collinear axis of the connector and the first connector interface not rotatable about the collinear axis of the connector; a wire loop coupler; and a bandwidth selection element at least partially coupled to the coupling loop assembly. In response to changing the bandwidth selection setting while the RF cavity resonator is operational, the wire loop changes orientation about the collinear axis of the connector and causes the RF resonator chamber to output an RF carrier signal having a bandwidth of the new bandwidth setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Richter, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20100156555
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) cavity resonator having a resonator chamber and one or more RF coupling loop assemblies is presented. The RF coupling loop assembly has a connector with a first connector interface coupled to an inner conductor and a second connector interface coupled to an outer conductor, the first and second connector interfaces forming a pair when mated, the second connector interface rotatable about a collinear axis of the connector and the first connector interface not rotatable about the collinear axis of the connector; a wire loop coupler; and a bandwidth selection element at least partially coupled to the coupling loop assembly. In response to changing the bandwidth selection setting while the RF cavity resonator is operational, the wire loop changes orientation about the collinear axis of the connector and causes the RF resonator chamber to output an RF carrier signal having a bandwidth of the new bandwidth setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventor: ROBERT A. RICHTER, JR.
  • Patent number: 7253708
    Abstract: An RF cavity resonator that includes: a resonator chamber for containing an RF field; an RF coupling element coupled to the resonator chamber for introducing the RF field into and extracting the RF field from the resonator chamber; a tuning assembly for causing the RF field to resonate at a desired frequency, wherein at least a portion of the tuning assembly is coupled within the resonator chamber; and a heat transport element included in the tuning assembly for transporting heat from the RF cavity resonator, the heat transport element comprising a phase change material, a housing for enclosing the phase change material, means for circulating the phase change material within the housing, and an electrically conductive surface for isolating the phase change material from the RF field, wherein the phase change material undergoes a phase change during circulation within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Roert R. Kornowski, Robert A. Richter, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20070126535
    Abstract: An RF cavity resonator that includes: a resonator chamber for containing an RF field; an RF coupling element coupled to the resonator chamber for introducing the RF field into and extracting the RF field from the resonator chamber; a tuning assembly for causing the RF field to resonate at a desired frequency, wherein at least a portion of the tuning assembly is coupled within the resonator chamber; and a heat transport element included in the tuning assembly for transporting heat from the RF cavity resonator, the heat transport element comprising a phase change material, a housing for enclosing the phase change material, means for circulating the phase change material within the housing, and an electrically conductive surface for isolating the phase change material from the RF field, wherein the phase change material undergoes a phase change during circulation within the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Roert Kornowski, Robert Richter
  • Publication number: 20070069911
    Abstract: An alarm module is provided that includes a first and second switch, a power source and a signal module for generating an alarm signal. When the first and second switch are both in the closed position, the signal module is activated by power from the power source. The first switch opens when an item associated with the alarm module is placed on or connected to the alarm module, and closes when the item is tampered with or removed. The second switch opens when a key is inserted into the alarm module, and closes when the key is removed from the alarm module. The alarm module may also include a third switch that closes when power flows from the power source to the device, and can only be opened upon insertion of the key into the alarm module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventor: Robert Richter
  • Patent number: 7193489
    Abstract: An RF cavity resonator (400) that includes: a resonator chamber (410) for containing an RF field; an RF coupling element (450, 452) coupled to the resonator chamber for introducing the RF field into and extracting the RF field from the resonator chamber; a tuning assembly (420) for causing the RF field to resonate at a desired frequency, wherein at least a portion of the tuning assembly is coupled within the resonator chamber; and a heat transport element (440) for transporting heat from the RF cavity resonator, wherein at least a portion of the heat transport element is coupled within the resonator chamber, the heat transport element including a phase change material, a housing for enclosing the phase change material, means for circulating the phase change material within the housing, and an electrically conductive surface for isolating the phase change material from the RF field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert R. Kornowski, Robert A. Richter, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20060119454
    Abstract: An RF cavity resonator (400) that includes: a resonator chamber (410) for containing an RF field; an RF coupling element (450, 452) coupled to the resonator chamber for introducing the RF field into and extracting the RF field from the resonator chamber; a tuning assembly (420) for causing the RF field to resonate at a desired frequency, wherein at least a portion of the tuning assembly is coupled within the resonator chamber; and a heat transport element (440) for transporting heat from the RF cavity resonator, wherein at least a portion of the heat transport element is coupled within the resonator chamber, the heat transport element including a phase change material, a housing for enclosing the phase change material, means for circulating the phase change material within the housing, and an electrically conductive surface for isolating the phase change material from the RF field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Kornowski, Robert Richter
  • Patent number: 6449158
    Abstract: An electronic control module 100 is provided wherein a power device 102 is secured to a rigidizer, or heat spreader, 110 such that a thermally conductive path is created for a conduction of heat from the power device to the rigidizer. A thermally conductive and electrically insulated interface 208, preferably anodized aluminum, is disposed between device 102 and rigidizer 110 and is solder bonded to each of the device and the rigidizer, facilitating the creation of a thermal path from the device to the rigidizer. In order to solder bond the device to the interface and the interface to the rigidizer, solderable coatings 206, 210, 214 are respectively applied to the surfaces 207 and 209 of the interface and surface 215 of the rigidizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Clark D. Fischbach, Robert A. Richter, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5707203
    Abstract: A truck having a flat body is fitted with a tram to unload burdened pallets. The tram travels on rails and rollers fastened to the truck body. A burdened pallet on the tram is to be unloaded from the truck. A winch pulls the tram rearward and as the tram and load begin to tilt, one or more fixed restraining cables control the tilt. On contact with the ground a restraining pin holding the pallet from proceeding down the grade, automatically retracts allowing the pallet and burden to move down the tram. A flat adjustable spring bears against the pallet, reducing its velocity. The truck is moved forward and the pallet and burden rests on the ground. The tram is retracted into the truck by the winch. The truck driver closes the tailgate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Inventor: Robert A. Richter
  • Patent number: D503049
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Inventors: Charles Robert Richter, Lydia Thompson Richter