Patents by Inventor Robert A. Stanley

Robert A. Stanley 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: 20240044595
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an adjustable gas block are described. Systems may include an adjustment subassembly. The adjustment subassembly may include a valve stem end with a front-most portion larger in diameter than the rear-most portion and a boss extending from the forward portion of the valve stem end; a valve ring surrounding the boss of the valve stem end; a valve threaded portion for receiving the boss of the valve stem end and having a threaded portion; and a valve rotator coupled to the valve threaded portion for adjusting the flow of gas. Systems may include a gas block assembly. The gas block assembly may include a gas block through hole; a first duct to direct pressurized gas from a barrel to a plenum; a second duct to direct a regulated volume of gas to a gas operating system; a seat valve to control the regulated volume of gas to the gas operating system; and a gas block threaded portion for coupling to the valve threaded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Schilling, Jason Lee Miller, Michael R. Llewellyn
  • Patent number: 11887407
    Abstract: A vehicle repair control system includes a sensor generating data signals relating to a vehicle, a communication system, and one or more processors that determine a repair to be performed on the vehicle based on the sensor data signals received over the communication system. The processors examine historic repair data indicative of outlays for previous repairs of other vehicles, and examine the historic repair data to determine fluctuations in the outlays for the previous repairs to determine a projected outlay for the repair to be performed on the vehicle based on the fluctuations. The processors determine a quantity-based reduction in the projected outlay based on a number of repairs performed at a repair facility and communicate a control signal to the repair facility to autonomously direct the repair to be performed on the vehicle responsive to determining the quantity-based reduction to change a state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Robert Stanley Wojciechowski
  • Publication number: 20240008505
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of reducing acrylamide in an aqueous coffee extract, the method comprising: contacting an acrylamide-containing aqueous coffee extract with spent coffee grounds at a temperature of 70 to 120° C. for at least 30 minutes to form an acrylamide-depleted coffee extract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ian Brown, Robert Stanley Farr, Thomas Imison
  • Patent number: 11866678
    Abstract: Fabric care compositions that include perfume encapsulates and a quaternary ammonium ester compound, where the shell of the encapsulates include an acrylate or methacrylate material. Related methods of using and making such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Conny Erna Alice Joos, Johan Smets, Marc Johan Declercq, Pierre Daniel Verstraete, Linsheng Feng, Fadi Selim Chakar, Robert Stanley Bobnock
  • Publication number: 20240002745
    Abstract: A biodegradable delivery particle having a benefit agent containing core and a shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Encapsys, LLC
    Inventors: Susana FERNÁNDEZ PRIETO, Valerie Francine Hans EYKENS, Rita DEL PEZZO, Johan SMETS, Linsheng FENG, Fadi Selim CHAKAR, Travis Ian BARDSLEY, Robert Stanley BOBNOCK
  • Publication number: 20230419141
    Abstract: In a general aspect, user requests for access distributed quantum computing resources in a distributed quantum computing system are managed. In a general aspect, a job request for accessing a quantum computing resource is received. The job request includes a user id and a program. On authentication of a user associated with the job request, a job identifier is assigned to the job request, and a particular quantum computing resource is selected for the job request. The job request is individualized based on user permissions and pushed onto a queue to be processed for execution by the quantum computing resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Rigetti & Co, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Smith, William J. Zeng
  • Patent number: 11850028
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring biometric information blood of a user that contains a housing that includes an electropermanent magnet, a battery, a processor, and a radio transmitter. A cap is magnetically coupled to the housing when a current is passed through a coil of the electropermanent magnet thereby compressing a portion of tissue of the user between the housing and the cap. By varying the compressive force applied to the tissue, the apparatus monitors at least one of blood pressure and heart rate from the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: 42 Health Sensor Holdings LTD
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Sheldon, Daniel Edward Roach
  • Patent number: 11839955
    Abstract: A ratchet wrench comprises a handle defining a cavity including a plurality of teeth on an inner periphery thereof, a wheel, a biasing spring ring, and at least one tooth pawl mounted in recesses formed on the outer periphery of the wheel. The wheel is rotatably mounted inside the cavity and the pawls are biased by the spring ring to engage the plurality of teeth on the inner periphery of the cavity when rotated in a first direction, and to slide over the teeth engage the plurality of teeth on the inner periphery of the cavity when rotated in a direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Great Star Tools USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Brenton Michael Solar, Mark Robert Stanley
  • Patent number: 11829753
    Abstract: Interactions between a classical computing system and a quantum computing system can be structured to increase the effective memory available to hold instructions for a quantum processor. The system stores a schedule of compiled quantum processing instructions in a memory storage location on a classical computing system. A small program memory is included in close proximity to a control system for the quantum processor on the quantum computing system. The classical computing system sends a subset of instructions from the schedule of quantum instructions to the program memory. The control system manages execution of the instructions by accessing them at the program memory and configuring the quantum processor accordingly. While the quantum processor executes the instructions, additional instructions are transferred from the classical computing system to the program memory to await execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: RIGETTI & CO, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Stanley Smith
  • Publication number: 20230368061
    Abstract: In a general aspect, a quantum streaming kernel processes a data stream. In some aspects, an input stream of data is converted to an output stream of data by repeatedly receiving new portions of the input stream; encoding each new portion into an internal quantum state of a quantum processor; measuring a first part of the internal quantum state while maintaining coherence of a second part of the internal quantum state; and producing the output stream of data based on the measurements. In some cases, a history of the input stream is preserved by the coherence of the internal quantum state, and the measurements contain information based on the history of the input stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Rigetti & Co, LLC
    Inventors: Nikolas Anton Tezak, Marcus Palmer da Silva, Robert Stanley Smith, Christopher Mogan Wilson
  • Patent number: 11788808
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an adjustable gas block are described. Systems may include an adjustment subassembly. The adjustment subassembly may include a valve stem end with a front-most portion larger in diameter than the rear-most portion and a boss extending from the forward portion of the valve stem end; a valve ring surrounding the boss of the valve stem end; a valve threaded portion for receiving the boss of the valve stem end and having a threaded portion; and a valve rotator coupled to the valve threaded portion for adjusting the flow of gas. Systems may include a gas block assembly. The gas block assembly may include a gas block through hole; a first duct to direct pressurized gas from a barrel to a plenum; a second duct to direct a regulated volume of gas to a gas operating system; a seat valve to control the regulated volume of gas to the gas operating system; and a gas block threaded portion for coupling to the valve threaded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LWRC International LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Schilling, Jason Lee Miller, Michael R. Llewellyn
  • Publication number: 20230313084
    Abstract: Benefit agent containing delivery particles that can be supplied as slurries, compositions comprising such particles, and processes for making and using such particles and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Johan SMETS, Corey James KENNEALLY, Ariel LEBRON, Pascale Claire Annick VANSTEENWINCKEL, Robert Stanley BOBNOCK, Peggy Dorothy SANDS, Todd Arlin SCHWANTES, Chad Alexander HLADILEK
  • Patent number: 11775753
    Abstract: A method for processing natural language sentences and a computer understanding state machine with computer understanding state machine states are disclosed. The computer understanding state machine receives as inputs the parsed sentence including abstractions of the parsed sentence including weights of the abstractions. These inputs are used to find the best fitting state to process the input sentence. Subsequent sentences also are parsed and these are input to the state machine to allow processing of sequences of sentences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Stanley Grondalski
  • Patent number: 11727299
    Abstract: In a general aspect, user requests for access distributed quantum computing resources in a distributed quantum computing system are managed. In a general aspect, a job request for accessing a quantum computing resource is received. The job request includes a user id and a program. On authentication of a user associated with the job request, a job identifier is assigned to the job request, and a particular quantum computing resource is selected for the job request. The job request is individualized based on user permissions and pushed onto a queue to be processed for execution by the quantum computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Rigetti & Co, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Smith, William J. Zeng
  • Patent number: 11713437
    Abstract: Slurries that include benefit agent containing delivery particles, compositions that include such particles, and processes for making and using the particles and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Corey James Kenneally, Ariel Lebron, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel, Robert Stanley Bobnock, Peggy Dorothy Sands, Todd Arlin Schwantes, Chad Alexander Hladilek
  • Patent number: 11708546
    Abstract: Benefit agent containing delivery particles that can be supplied as slurries, compositions comprising such particles, and processes for making and using such particles and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Corey James Kenneally, Ariel Lebron, Pascale Claire Annick Vansteenwinckel, Robert Stanley Bobnock, Peggy Dorothy Sands, Todd Arlin Schwantes, Chad Alexander Hladilek
  • Patent number: 11694108
    Abstract: In a general aspect, a quantum streaming kernel processes a data stream. In some aspects, an input stream of data is converted to an output stream of data by repeatedly receiving new portions of the input stream; encoding each new portion into an internal quantum state of a quantum processor; measuring a first part of the internal quantum state while maintaining coherence of a second part of the internal quantum state; and producing the output stream of data based on the measurements. In some cases, a history of the input stream is preserved by the coherence of the internal quantum state, and the measurements contain information based on the history of the input stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Rigetti & Co, LLC
    Inventors: Nikolas Anton Tezak, Marcus Palmer da Silva, Robert Stanley Smith, Christopher Mogan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20230204312
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an adjustable gas block are described. Systems may include an adjustment subassembly. The adjustment subassembly may include a valve stem end with a front-most portion larger in diameter than the rear-most portion and a boss extending from the forward portion of the valve stem end; a valve ring surrounding the boss of the valve stem end; a valve threaded portion for receiving the boss of the valve stem end and having a threaded portion; and a valve rotator coupled to the valve threaded portion for adjusting the flow of gas. Systems may include a gas block assembly. The gas block assembly may include a gas block through hole; a first duct to direct pressurized gas from a barrel to a plenum; a second duct to direct a regulated volume of gas to a gas operating system; a seat valve to control the regulated volume of gas to the gas operating system; and a gas block threaded portion for coupling to the valve threaded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Schilling, Jason Lee Miller, Michael R. Llewellyn
  • Publication number: 20230159863
    Abstract: Populations of benefit agent delivery particles are disclosed, the particles having a core and a shell encapsulating the core, the shell comprising certain multifunctional (meth)acrylate-based polymers, along with processes for making and uses of such compositions. The delivery particle has a core to polymer wall ratio by weight from about 96:4 to about 99.5 to 0.5 and a volume-weighted particle size from about 30 to about 50 microns. The compositions deliver core content with a desired delivery profile, such as fragrance delivery at desired touchpoints with higher efficiency. The delivery particle has high pay load, yet exhibits decreased benefit agent leakage, and provides a desired delivery profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Fadi Selim Chakar, Linsheng Feng, Presley Genevie Neuman, Robert Stanley Bobnock, Johan Smets, An Pintens, Joana Andreia Lameiras Domingues
  • Patent number: 11656947
    Abstract: A host system communicates to a production system that performs point-in-time copy operations to a backup system to generate a logical corruption protection (LCP) copy of a production copy that comprises a data set, wherein the point-in-time copy operations perform copying at a media level in which physical tracks are copied from the production system to the backup system, and wherein the point-in-time copy operations avoid using information on the data set or file structure that is included in a media on which the data set is stored. In response to a detection of a logical corruption in the data set, a recovery application executing in the host system recovers the data set from the LCP copy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Glenn Randle Wilcock, Robert Stanley Gensler, Jr., Shannon Lyn Gallaher