Patents by Inventor Robert A. Scott

Robert A. Scott 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).

  • System and method for detecting objects
    Patent number: 11361543
    Abstract: An object detection system may include an imager configured to generate image data indicative of an environment in which a machine is present, and a sensor configured to generate sensor data indicative of the environment in which the machine is present. The object detection system may further include an object detection controller including one or more object detection processors configured to receive an image signal indicative of the image data, identify an object associated with the image data, and determine a first location of the object relative to the position of the imager. The one or more object detection processors may also be configured to receive a sensor signal indicative of the sensor data, and determine, based at least in part on the sensor signal, the presence or absence of the object at the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Charles Maley, Pranay Kumar Reddy Kontham, Robert Scott McFarland, Vamsi Krishna Pannala, Peter Joseph Petrany
  • Robotic sherpa
    Patent number: 11360471
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a mobile locker. The mobile locker can include a mobility unit to enable the locker to relocate from one location to another. The mobile locker is modular which allows the storage compartment to be detached from the mobility unit for storage, transfer via other means. The storage compartment can be coupled either the same or a different mobility unit. The mobile lockers can be recalled by a customer to either the customer's location or to designated locations at the venue. The lockers can include any one of multiple locking mechanisms. The mobile locker can communicate with a monitoring center that oversees the deployment of multiple mobile lockers. Embodiments of the mobile locker can interact with customers through a display, microphone, and speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Asa K. Kalama, Robert Scott Trowbridge, Scott Watson
  • Universal Bus Plug
    Publication number: 20220181095
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide an electrical bus plug on a busway, where the electrical bus plug is universal and configured to fit a plurality of busways. An adapter may fit on the electrical bus plug to allow the bus to properly electrically connect with the specific type of busway. Optional mounting brackets can also be removably attached to the universal electrical bus plug to permit attachment to a specific type of busway. Therefore, a single/universal electrical bus plug can be used to electrically connect to a plurality of busway types through the use of an adapter and mounting hardware that attached to the universal bus plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Garrett Sergio Garcia, Robert Scott Vaughn
  • Nut locking coupling for actuated valve
    Patent number: 11346451
    Abstract: An actuated valve assembly includes a valve, an actuator, and a nut retention sleeve. The nut retention sleeve has a first bore portion sized to closely receive and rotate with a portion of a coupling member extending from the actuator and a second bore portion sized to closely receive and rotate with at least a portion of a stem nut assembled with a valve stem of the valve. The nut retention sleeve is slideable between a nut retaining position in which the second bore portion engages the stem nut to rotationally fix the stem nut with the coupling member, and a nut adjusting position in which the second bore portion is disengaged from the stem nut to permit rotation of the stem nut on the valve stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SWAGELOK COMPANY
    Inventors: Vyatseslav Lozitsky, Robert Scott Headings
  • Systems and method for dynamic content unlock and adaptive controls
    Patent number: 11344815
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic modification of an amusement ride are disclosed herein. The system can include a simulation vehicle including a plurality of controls and at least one interface. The system can include a content presentation system, and a processor. The processor can: provide content to the at least one passenger; identify a user skill level based on a plurality of user inputs received by at least some of the plurality of controls of the simulation vehicle; identify a modification to a difficulty of the ride experience based in part on the identified user skill level; and modify the difficulty of the ride experience according to the identified modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Asa K. Kalama, Robert Scott Trowbridge, Jacqueline E. King, Robert E. Huebner, Peter Stepniewicz
  • FABRIC COVER WITH AIR PERMEABLE PANELS
    Publication number: 20220163231
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe fabric covers, such as those used for air conditioning units, having a first air permeable panel for covering a horizontal top panel of an air conditioner unit; a second air permeable panel extending downward from the first air permeable panel for covering vertical side panels of the air conditioner unit; and an adjustable fastener provided in a bottom portion of the second air permeable panel for securing the cover to a base of the air conditioner unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Scott kelly, Kenneth James Schultz
  • Sheet Music Distribution System
    Publication number: 20220156347
    Abstract: A system that enables digital distribution of copyrighted sheet music—and allows musician to view the copyrighted sheet music on personal computing devices—while preventing the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted sheet music. An electronic commerce platform provides functionality to purchase copies of copyrighted sheet music. A network security module provides login credentials for purchasers and musicians (and, in some embodiments, limits the number of simultaneous logins). A graphical user interface provides functionality for each purchaser to distribute each purchased copy to one—and only one—musician. In some embodiments, the system allows purchasers to recall sheet music distributed to a first musician and distribute the recalled sheet music to a second musician (without providing functionality for the first musician to view the recalled sheet music).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Ian Mcloughlin, Jacob Walls, David DiMarino, Kathleen Fernandes, Christopher Fowler, Dawn Fenstermacher, Robert Scott Grady, Danielle Kangas, Brian Dix
  • Wearable Injector
    Publication number: 20220143303
    Abstract: A wearable injector for automated delivery of biologic drugs that solves the problem of high volume and high viscosity drug administration by providing a device that can be worn by the patient through use of an adhesive patch to deliver the medication slowly over extended periods of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Robert Scott RUSSO
  • Caking Resistant Salt Compositions
    Publication number: 20220132904
    Abstract: Salt compositions with reduced caking tendency and improved clean label acceptability comprise a blend of dry ingredients comprising a salt selected from the group consisting of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, iodized sodium chloride, iodized potassium chloride and mixtures thereof; and a dry particulate flow agent selected from the group consisting of flour, corn bran, soy fiber, inulin, whey, casein, starch, sugar, protein, lecithin, citrus fiber and mixtures thereof. The salt compositions are especially useful for use in food preparation, manufacture, and seasoning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Cargill, incorporated
    Inventors: Janice JOHNSON, Robert Scott KOEFOD, Julie R. SCHUETTE
  • Methods and systems for accessing a network
    Patent number: 11323445
    Abstract: A method of accessing a network comprises providing, via a first container establishing a first tunnel between a computing device and a network server, a health-check status of the computing device to the network server, and accessing, via a second container establishing a second tunnel between the computing device and the network server, the network at a level of access based on the health-check status of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Robert Scott Mitchell
  • ALK7:ACTRIIB HETEROMULTIMERS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20220119491
    Abstract: In certain aspects, the disclosure provides soluble heteromeric polypeptide complexes comprising an extracellular domain of an ALK7 receptor and an extracellular domain of ActRIIB In certain aspects, these ALK7:ActRIIB heteromultimers are can be used to improve metabolic parameters in a patient in need thereof. In certain aspects, these ALK7:ActRIIB heteromultimers are can be used to treat or prevent one or more kidney-associated disease or condition in a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ravindra Kumar, Asya Grinberg, Dianne Sako, Robert Scott Pearsall, Roselyne Castonguay, Gang Li, Yossi Dagon, John Knopf
  • Lottery Ticket Dispensing Unit with Brake Roller
    Publication number: 20220114860
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller. A motor is geared to the drive roller and is switchable between a convey mode wherein the drive roller engages and conveys a leading ticket to a separation position and a brake mode wherein the motor provides a reverse retarding force to the drive roller to brake the drive roller against an attempted reeling of the lottery tickets. from the dispensing unit. A controller switches the motor between the convey and brakes modes such that in the brake mode, power to the motor is interrupted and windings in the motor are short-circuited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Ian Robert Scott
  • Lottery Ticket Dispensing System
    Publication number: 20220114842
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing system includes a cabinet housing and a lottery ticket array insertable into the cabinet housing. The array includes a plurality of individual bins in a stacked configuration. A dispensing unit is inserted into each of the bins and includes a ticket compartment in which a continuous strip of lottery tickets is contained and an automatic separation module in which a leading ticket of the continuous strip of lottery tickets is automatically separated and dispensed from the bin. The bins are connected together in the stacked configuration such that the lottery ticket array is insertable into and removable from the cabinet housing as a single unit. The stacked configuration has opposite sides defined by the sides of the bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Mark Andrew Thompson, Ian Robert Scott
  • Lottery Ticket Dispensing Unit with a Shuttle Separator Device
    Publication number: 20220114841
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller, with a motor geared to the drive roller. An automatic separator device is provided, wherein the drive roller conveys a leading lottery ticket to a separation position such that a line between the leading ticket and an adjacent ticket is presented to the separator device. The separator device includes a shuttle that travels in a linear path along the line, the shuttle having a head that engages and separates the leading ticket from the adjacent ticket along the line. A bi-directional drive mechanism moves the shuttle back and forth along the linear path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, William F. Behm, James Jonathan Holbrook, Mark Andrew Thompson, Ian Robert Scott
  • Print media alignments
    Patent number: 11299363
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to print media stacks. In some examples, a device may include a sheet channel to guide a sheet of print media within the sheet channel above and separated in a vertical direction from a stack of printed media when the sheet of print media exits a print path of a printer. The device may include a plurality of clamps to control alignment of the sheet of print media on the stack of printed media when the sheet channel moves outboard from the sheet of print media to allow the sheet of print media to fall onto the stack of printed media, wherein the plurality of clamps sequentially pin the sheet of print media to the stack of printed media from a middle portion of the sheet of print media outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Scott Beale, Elliott Downing, Robert Yraceburu, Bruce Johnson, Cristopher Royce Jansson, Stuart Scofield, Francisco Javier Gomez, Jonathon Cha Spafford, Catherine Elizabeth Gould, Tom McCue, Matthew Douglas Reier
  • Needle capture retractable needle safety syringes
    Patent number: 11298466
    Abstract: Needle assemblies for retractable needle syringes include a needle, a needle seal, and a needle retainer, wherein the needle includes one or more barbs substantially at its proximal end. The needle retainer engages an optional needle-over-mold component that is fixedly attached to the needle. The needle-over-mold may be connected to the distal surface of the needle seal and may travel, such as by being a couple component, with the needle during the operation of the syringe. A safety syringe includes a barrel having a needle assembly mounted at a distal end and a plunger assembly mounted at a proximal end. A drug may be contained in a drug chamber of barrel, between the plunger assembly and needle assembly, proximally of the needle seal for drug delivery to a user. The plunger assembly includes a plunger seal having a needle-engaging portion to capture the needle at the barb for retraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: UNL HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Robert Scott Russo, Brandon J McKee, John W Carosi, Jyoti Gupta
  • ISOLATED GDF TRAP POLYPEPTIDE
    Publication number: 20220098559
    Abstract: In certain aspects, the present invention provides compositions and methods for increasing red blood cell and/or hemoglobin levels in vertebrates, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Jasbir Seehra, Robert Scott Pearsall, Ravindra Kumar
  • VENTILATION SYSTEM FOR COOKING APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20220090796
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a heating cavity defined therein, wherein a heat source is in thermal communication with the heating cavity. A cooling channel is disposed proximate a sidewall of the housing. A blower selectively operates to move at least cooling air through the cooling channel and to an air outlet. A vent aperture extends through the sidewall between the heating cavity and a ventilation channel. The ventilation channel includes a narrowed portion proximate the vent aperture, wherein during operation of the blower, the narrowed portion defines a low static pressure region of the ventilation channel that draws cavity air from the heating cavity and directs the cavity air into the ventilation channel to be combined with the cooling air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zachary J. Bruin-Slot, Massimiliano Daniele, Robert Scott Donarski, Emilio Fagundes, Gregory Tadeu Gargioni, Vando Sestrem, Yasmim Silvano
  • BI-AND TRI-FUNCTIONAL FUSION PROTEINS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20220089683
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are bi- and tri-functional fusion proteins comprising two or more of an activin antagonist domain, a TOP? antagonist domain, and an immune checkpoint antagonist domain. In addition, the disclosure provides methods of treating cancer, a tumor, a pre-neoplastic disorder, a hyperproliferative disorder, or a dysplastic disorder comprising administering a bi- or tri-functional fusion protein comprising two or more of an activin antagonist domain, a TOP? antagonist domain, and an immune checkpoint antagonist domain. Optionally, such methods further comprise administering an additional active agent or supportive therapy for treating the cancer, a tumor, a pre-neoplastic disorder, a hyperproliferative disorder, or a dysplastic disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ravindra Kumar, Robert Scott Pearsall
  • ALK4:ActRIIB heteromultimers and uses thereof
    Patent number: 11279746
    Abstract: In certain aspects, the disclosure provides soluble heteromeric polypeptide complexes comprising an extracellular domain of an ALK4 receptor and an extracellular domain of ActRIIB. In certain aspects, such soluble ALK4:ActRIIB complexes may be used to regulate (promote or inhibit) growth of tissues or cells including, for example, muscle, bone, cartilage, fat, neural tissue, tumors, and/or cancerous cells. In certain aspects, such ALK4:ActRIIB complexes are can be used to improve muscle formation, bone formation, metabolic parameters, and disorders associated with these tissues, cellular networks, kidney, and endocrine systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ACCELERON PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Ravindra Kumar, Asya Grinberg, Dianne Sako, Robert Scott Pearsall, Roselyne Castonguay