Patents by Inventor Robert A. Ross
Robert A. Ross 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).
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Patent number: 12121827Abstract: A toy construction system comprising a plurality of toy construction elements including a plurality of function construction elements. The toy construction elements and the function construction elements are detachably interconnected with each other forming a toy construction model. The toy construction model comprising at least a subset of the plurality of toy construction elements; each function construction element comprising a function device adapted to perform a user-perceptible function. The toy construction system further comprises a tag construction element detachably connectable to one or more of the toy construction elements. The tag construction element and the function construction elements are configured for communication of configuration data from the tag construction element to each of the subset of function construction elements when the tag construction element is connected to a toy construction element.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: LEGO A/SInventors: Thomas Alan Donaldson, Mark Ross Champkins, Robert George Milner, Andrew James Knights
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Publication number: 20240347418Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to a memory device with a thermal barrier are described. The thermal barrier (e.g., a low density thermal barrier) may be positioned between an access line (e.g., a digit line or a word line) and a cell component. The thermal barrier may be formed on the surface of a barrier material by applying a plasma treatment to the barrier material. The thermal barrier may have a lower density than the barrier material and may be configured to thermally insulate the cell component from thermal energy generated in the memory device, among other benefits.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Pengyuan Zheng, David Ross Economy, Yongjun J. Hu, Kent H. Zhuang, Robert K. Grubbs
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Patent number: 12109234Abstract: The invention provides improved anti-BCMA CAR T cell compositions for adoptive T cell therapy for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: 2seventy bio, Inc.Inventors: Travis Quigley, Robert Ross
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Publication number: 20240328252Abstract: A motor drive unit for a system for raising and lowering a covering material (e.g., a window treatment system) may be configured to execute a test procedure for determining if the system is spring-balanced properly. The motor drive unit may be powered from at least one battery. The system may comprise one or more lift assistance springs configured to provide variable lift assistance to the motor drive unit for raising and lowering the covering material. During the test procedure, the motor drive unit may be configured to control the covering material between a lowered position and a raised position and determine a magnitude of an input power of the motor drive unit during the movement. The motor drive unit may determine that the system requires more or less lift assistance springs based on the input power, and communicate an indication that the system requires more or less lift assistance springs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Jonathan Edward Ely, David A. Leymeister, Ben Matzke, Maxwell Ross Naar, Sheng Qu, Robert J. Thompson
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Publication number: 20240332963Abstract: A power management apparatus 20 comprises a first energy harvesting input channel 21; a first energy storage element connection 25; an inductor connection 27; and a switching circuit 28. A controller 30 is configured to operate the switching circuit 28 to transfer energy between the first energy harvesting input channel 21 and the first energy storage element connection 25 by a sequence of energy transfer cycles. Each of the energy transfer cycles comprises an energise phase in which energy is transferred from the first energy harvesting input channel 21 to the inductor connection 25 for an energise time (tE) and a de-energise phase. The first energy harvesting input channel 21 is capable of receiving an AC electrical signal and a DC electrical signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Trameto LimitedInventors: Mark Ross, Laurence Alan Strong, Robert Robertson
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Patent number: 12090419Abstract: A modular toy system comprising a plurality of separate electronic toy modules, each electronic toy module comprising a function device operable to perform a user-perceptible function and a control circuit for controlling the function device; wherein at least a first electronic toy module of the plurality of electronic toy modules comprises a first control circuit, a first function device and a sensor system configured for contactless detection of respective coordinate values of at least two coordinates, each coordinate being indicative of a position or an orientation of at least a second electronic toy module of the plurality of electronic toy modules relative to the first electronic toy module; and wherein the first control circuit is configured to control operation of the first function device based on one or more of the detected coordinate values.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: LEGO A/SInventors: Thomas Alan Donaldson, Mark Ross Champkins, Silviu Toma, Robert George Milner, Simon Mark Jordan, Simon John Turner, Mark Craig Brannan, Martin Edward Brock
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Publication number: 20240291848Abstract: A system for autonomous cybersecurity probing includes a scanning module adapted to convert a target computing device or network scan to machine readable form. The scanning module includes an ingest module which processes the scan to create nodes representing the target ports, port status, and vulnerabilities. A command module includes a plurality of nodes representing facts, rules, actions, and verifiers associated with one or more vulnerabilities identified by the scanning module. The command module is configured to determine whether to launch an attack. An attack module is configured to, on receipt of instructions from the command module, assign an attack based on a one of the one or more vulnerabilities. A verifier module is configured to determine success or failure of the assigned attack and to return an indicator of the determined success or failure to the command module. Methods for cybersecurity probing using the described system are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Jeremy Straub, Jack Hance, Noah Ross, Jordan Milbrath, Noah Ritter, Robert Fedor
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Publication number: 20240273779Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a video of a user-defined virtual reality scene are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a scene definition; obtain camera information for multiple virtual cameras to be used in generating a two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene; execute a simulation of the virtual reality scene from the scene definition for at least a portion of the scene duration; obtain camera timing instructions specifying which of the virtual cameras should be used to generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene as a function of progress through the scene duration; generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene in accordance with the camera timing instructions and the camera information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Gil Baron, Daniel Andrew Bellezza, Jeffrey Scott Dixon, William Stuart Farquhar, Jason Zesheng Hwang, John Henry Kanikula Peters, Nhan Van Khong, Christopher Robert Laubach, Gregory Scott Pease, Jonathan Michael Ross
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Patent number: 12040608Abstract: A power management apparatus 20 comprises a first energy harvesting input channel 21; a first energy storage element connection 25; an inductor connection 27; and a switching circuit 28. A controller 30 is configured to operate the switching circuit 28 to transfer energy between the first energy harvesting input channel 21 and the first energy storage element connection 25 by a sequence of energy transfer cycles. Each of the energy transfer cycles comprises an energise phase in which energy is transferred from the first energy harvesting input channel 21 to the inductor connection 25 for an energise time (tE) and a de-energise phase. The first energy harvesting input channel 21 is capable of receiving an AC electrical signal and a DC electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Trameto LimitedInventors: Mark Ross, Laurence Alan Strong, Robert Robertson
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Patent number: 12007517Abstract: The invention apparatus for and a method of creating a localized warning to prevent damage to buried pipeline and other buried infrastructure using a new type of marker tape with the trade name signal tape® [hereinafter referred to as “Signal Tape”]. The disclosed Signal Tape may incorporate tracer wire and RFID technology to aid in the remote location of the Signal Tape and, thus, the buried infrastructure. Signal Tape may also incorporate Litz wire for use as tracer wire within the Signal Tape. The Signal Tape is designed to be buried just below the surface of the ground and directly over a buried infrastructure such as a pipeline. The Signal Tape incorporates a strong core material which permits the Signal Tape to be bodily removed from the soil when it is struck by excavation equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Inventors: Ryan C. Dunn, Bryan D. Wright, Robert A. Ross, Joshua M. Parman, Donald A. Tubbs, Paul A. Bell
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Publication number: 20240025987Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of treating cancer comprising administering to a subject an anti-IL-27 antibody, atezolizumab, and bevacizumab.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Alison O'NEILL, Lauren HARSHMAN, Jonathan HILL, Jou-Ku CHUNG, Kerry WHITE, Robert ROSS
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Publication number: 20240026001Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of treating cancer comprising administering to a subject an anti-IL-27 antibody and pembrolizumab.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Alison O'NEILL, Lauren HARSHMAN, Jonathan HILL, Jou-Ku CHUNG, Kerry WHITE, Robert ROSS
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Publication number: 20230420931Abstract: This application discloses a system that may comprise at least a portion of a supply network. The system may further comprise a load controller that controls current flow with a current level of I1 into a load network that provides power to one or more loads from the at least a portion of the supply network according to a preprogrammed load curve. The system may also comprise a protection system that isolates the at least a portion of the supply network from the load controller in response to detecting a current pattern that is inconsistent with the preprogrammed load curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Block Energy LLCInventors: Robert Ross Bennett, Luis Eduardo Zubieta
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Publication number: 20230347668Abstract: A fixture for supporting an article (e.g., a guitar such as a Stratocaster® guitar body) and controlling the position of the article relative to a print head to allow a contoured portion of a surface of the article to be printed by the print head. The fixture may include a pivot axis about which the article is pivotal. A cam surface may be engaged by the article and/or a bracket of the fixture to which the article is affixed to prescribe the controlled movement of the article based on relative movement between the article and the print head. In turn, both planar and contoured portions of the guitar surface may be printed during a single print operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Stephen SPURGEON, Robert ROSS
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Patent number: 11791623Abstract: This application discloses a system that may comprise at least a portion of a supply network. The system may further comprise a load controller that controls current flow with a current level of I1 into a load network that provides power to one or more loads from the at least a portion of the supply network according to a preprogrammed load curve. The system may also comprise a protection system that isolates the at least a portion of the supply network from the load controller in response to detecting a current pattern that is inconsistent with the preprogrammed load curve.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Block Energy LLCInventors: Robert Ross Bennett, Luis Eduardo Zubieta
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Patent number: 11782181Abstract: A downhole multi-modality inspection system includes a first imaging device operable to generate first imaging data and a second imaging device operable to generate second imaging data. The first imaging device includes a first source operable to emit energy of a first modality, and a first detector operable to detect returning energy induced by the emitted energy of the first modality. The second imaging device includes a second source operable to emit energy of a second modality, and a second detector operable to detect returning energy induced by the emitted energy of the second modality. The system further includes a processor configured to receive the first imaging data and the second imaging data, and integrate the first imaging data with the second imaging data into an enhanced data stream. The processor correlates the first imaging data and the second imaging data to provide enhanced data for detecting potential wellbore anomalies.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: GE Energy Oilfield Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten, Yuri Plotnikov, Sudeep Mandal, Sarah Lillian Katz, Frederick Wheeler, William Robert Ross, John Scott Price
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Patent number: 11701905Abstract: A fixture for supporting an article (e.g., a guitar such as a Stratocaster® guitar body) and controlling the position of the article relative to a print head to allow a contoured portion of a surface of the article to be printed by the print head. The fixture may include a pivot axis about which the article is pivotal. A cam surface may be engaged by the article and/or a bracket of the fixture to which the article is affixed to prescribe the controlled movement of the article based on relative movement between the article and the print head. In turn, both planar and contoured portions of the guitar surface may be printed during a single print operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: PS Business Services, LLCInventors: Stephen Spurgeon, Robert Ross
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Publication number: 20230036592Abstract: The invention provides methods and uses of treating cancer with and IgG4 anti-CD39_229p antibody in combination with pembrolizumab, wherein the IgG4 anti-CD39_229p antibody is provided at particular doses and dosages.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Alison O'NEILL, Jou-Ku CHUNG, Robert ROSS, Andrew LAKE
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Publication number: 20220389115Abstract: The invention provides methods of treating cancer using an anti-CD39 antibody or fragment thereof as monotherapy or in combination with other therapies at particular dosages and frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Surface Oncology, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Lake, Alison M. O'NEILL, Jou-Ku Chung, Robert Ross
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Patent number: D1042185Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Fellow Industries, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Miller, John Robert Stagaman, Andrew Cosgarea, Christopher HibmaCronan, Joshua T. Morenstein, Christian Scott Ross