Patents by Inventor Robert A. Sullivan

Robert A. Sullivan 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: 20200102147
    Abstract: A configurable modular robotic autonomous guided vehicle having an engine module and multiple different ones of selectably interchangeable logistic or material handling accessory modules. The engine module has motors, sensors and a control system integrated with each other for autonomous navigation freely throughout a travel area forming a logistic space. A module interface is located at one end of the engine module for modular coupling of the engine module with a handling accessory module of the vehicle. Each of the handling accessory modules has a different predetermined logistic or material handling characteristic that on integral coupling with the engine module define a different logistic or material handling autonomous guided vehicle type. Selectable coupling of the handling accessory module with the engine module configures the vehicle so as to change the vehicle type from a first vehicle type to a second vehicle type different than the first vehicle type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell, Paul Perry, William Fannin
  • Publication number: 20200103882
    Abstract: A collaborative logistic facility management system for a logistic facility includes multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles and a system controller. The vehicles transport logistics goods or pallets between truck portals and storage locations and are configured for autonomous guidance travel, in autonomous mode and include a collaborating operator input for collaborative autonomous guided vehicle navigation and guidance. The system controller commands each vehicle to transfer the logistic goods or pallets between the truck portals and the storage locations, identifies a predetermined truck portal of a corresponding truck to be loaded or to be unloaded, and generates a collaborative zone. The controller generates a queue of robot autonomous guided vehicles on a side of the collaborative zone and commands the multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles disposed to load or unload the corresponding truck to move in autonomous mode into the queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
  • Patent number: 10584133
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that modulate protein function and/or restore protein homeostasis. The disclosure provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other therapeutic agents, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle W. H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Imelda Lam, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan, Eduardo Torres
  • Patent number: 10570147
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that modulate protein function, specifically phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4). The invention provides methods of treating, ameliorating, and/or preventing diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with PDE4. Compositions, including in combination with other inflammatory mediators, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Paul E. Erdman, Eduardo Torres, Leah Fung, Kyle W. H. Chan, Frank Mercurio
  • Patent number: 10562917
    Abstract: The present invention provides chimeric compounds that modulate protein function, to restore protein homeostasis, including cytokine, aiolos, and/or ikaros activity, TNF-alpha activity, CK1-alpha activity and cell-cell adhesion. The invention provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other cytokine and inflammatory mediators, are provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of protein-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, including inflammation, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, uveitis, inflammatory lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer's disease, organ transplant rejection, and cancer, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: BioTheryX, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle W. H. Chan, Leah Fung, Robert Sullivan, Paul E. Erdman, Frank Mercurio, Eduardo Torres
  • Publication number: 20200048277
    Abstract: The present application provides compounds that modulate CDK protein function. Methods of making the compounds, compositions containing the compounds, and uses of the compounds for treating or ameliorating of diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with CDK proteins, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, David Aaron Hecht, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan, Joseph P. Vacca
  • Publication number: 20200047635
    Abstract: A charging system for autonomous transport vehicles including at least one charging contact disposed on each pick floor level of a storage and retrieval system, each of the at least one charging contact being located at a transfer station, at least one power supply configured to supply power to the at least one charging contact, and a controller in communication with the transfer station and being configured to communicate information relating to a transfer of items between the transfer station and a predetermined one of the autonomous transport vehicles and to apply power from the power supply to the at least one charging contact for charging the predetermined autonomous transport vehicle corresponding to the transfer and located at the transfer station, wherein the controller is configured to supply power to the charging contacts simultaneously with the predetermined autonomous transport vehicle exchanging items related to the transfer at the transfer station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Robert SULLIVAN, Dmitry VASILYEV
  • Patent number: 10556743
    Abstract: A storage and retrieval system including a vertical array of storage levels, each storage level having storage locations, a multilevel vertical conveyor system configured to transport the uncontained case units to and from the vertical array of storage levels, each storage level being configured to receive uncontained case units from the multilevel vertical conveyor system, at least one autonomous transport confined to each storage level, the at least one autonomous transport being configured to transport the uncontained case units between respective storage locations and the multilevel vertical conveyor system, and a controller configured to effect operation of the multilevel vertical conveyor system and at least one autonomous transport for assembling orders of uncontained case units of different types without moving bundles of the same uncontained case unit type throughout the storage and retrieval system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, John Lert, Stephen C. Toebes
  • Publication number: 20200039744
    Abstract: A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: John Lert, Stephen Toebes, Robert Sullivan, Foster D. Hinshaw, Nathan Ulrich, Eric Peters
  • Publication number: 20200009120
    Abstract: Compounds with amino amide linkers and pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds are disclosed. In addition, methods of making such compounds and their uses for treating or ameliorating diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with protein malfunction, such as cancer, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20200000814
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that modulate protein function, to restore protein homeostasis, and cell-cell adhesion. The disclosure provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other cytokine and inflammatory mediators, are provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with a protein, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10513515
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that modulate protein function, to restore protein homeostasis and/or cell-cell adhesion. The invention provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions of these compounds are also provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of protein-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: BioTheryx, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle W. H. Chan, Frank Mercurio, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Leah Fung, Robert Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10507988
    Abstract: A maintenance access system for a storage and retrieval system having a storage and retrieval space and automated transport vehicles disposed in the space. The system includes at least one maintenance access control unit associated with a portion of the space, at least one barrier in the space and defining a boundary of the portion of the space and configured to substantially prevent the passage of the vehicles past the at least one barrier, and a controller connected to the control unit, the controller being configured to receive a signal from the at least one control unit for isolating the portion of the space associated with the at least one control unit, where the controller in response to the signal closes the at least one barrier isolating the portion of the space and effects the removal from or shutting down of vehicles within the portion of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Cyrulik, Robert Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20190365775
    Abstract: The present invention provides modulators of protein function, to restore protein homeostasis, including GSPT1 activity. The invention provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as GSPT1-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions are also provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of protein-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, such as GSPT1-mediated diseases, disorders, and conditions, including cancer and astrogliosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20190333140
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system for aggregating and analyzing financial and other data for creating reports and decisions in real-time is provided. The system includes a first computer for sending an order, a server for receiving the order and sending an order communication, a second computer for receiving the order communication and transmitting account information, and an account server having at least one non-relational database containing transaction data related to a requester. A data relevancy engine operable on the server aggregates, analyzes, and performs calculations using the transaction data to generate reports based on one or more rules or rulesets. Each rule is created via a relational query directed at at least one of the one or more non-relational databases or at other existing rules. The system also provides an approved determination or a denied determination in response to a request for credit, other financing, a new account, insurance, or a lease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: FinancialApps, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Eduardo Gonzalez
  • Publication number: 20190322682
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that modulate protein function and/or restore protein homeostasis. The disclosure provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other therapeutic agents, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Imelda Lam, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan, Eduardo Torres
  • Publication number: 20190322683
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds that modulate protein function, to restore protein homeostasis, including cytokine, CK1?, GSPT1, aiolos, and/or ikaros activity, and cell-cell adhesion. The invention provides methods of modulating protein-mediated diseases, such as cytokine-mediated diseases, disorders, conditions, or responses. Compositions, including in combination with other cytokine and inflammatory mediators, are provided. Methods of treatment, amelioration, or prevention of diseases, disorders, or conditions associated with a protein, such as diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with cytokines, including inflammation, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, uveitis, inflammatory lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kyle W.H. Chan, Paul E. Erdman, Leah Fung, Frank Mercurio, Robert Sullivan, Eduardo Torres
  • Patent number: 10449872
    Abstract: A charging system for autonomous transport vehicles including at least one charging contact disposed on each pick floor level of a storage and retrieval system, each of the at least one charging contact being located at a transfer station, at least one power supply configured to supply power to the at least one charging contact, and a controller in communication with the transfer station and being configured to communicate information relating to a transfer of items between the transfer station and a predetermined one of the autonomous transport vehicles and to apply power from the power supply to the at least one charging contact for charging the predetermined autonomous transport vehicle corresponding to the transfer and located at the transfer station, wherein the controller is configured to supply power to the charging contacts simultaneously with the predetermined autonomous transport vehicle exchanging items related to the transfer at the transfer station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Dmitry Vasilyev
  • Patent number: 10442622
    Abstract: A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Symbotic, LLC
    Inventors: John Lert, Stephen Toebes, Robert Sullivan, Foster D. Hinshaw, Nathan Ulrich, Eric Peters
  • Publication number: 20190309975
    Abstract: There is provided a comfort management system including a networked comfort management control device. The comfort management control device operates an HVAC interface to maintain an environment utilizing a determined comfort zone range for one or more occupants of an area treated by the HVAC system, and utilizes controlled deviations from an initial set point to maintain comfort while maximizing energy efficiency of the HVAC system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Mohamed Farouk SALEM, Michael Robert SULLIVAN