Patents by Inventor Robert Andrew

Robert Andrew 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: 20240096562
    Abstract: Provided herein is an improved capacitor. The capacitor comprises a capacitor body comprising an anode, a dielectric on the anode and a cathode on the dielectric. At least two anode wires are in electrical contact with the anode and extending from the capacitor body. At least one anode node, or an anode node remnant, wherein each anode wire of the anode wires is in electrical contact with at least one anode node or anode remnant. An encapsulant encases the capacitor body. At least a portion of the anode node, or anode node remnant, is in electrical connection with an external termination. A cathode external termination is in electrical contact with the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon K. Summey, Jeffrey Poltorak, Robert Andrew Ramsbottom, Kevin A. Agosto
  • Publication number: 20240090966
    Abstract: A surgical draping system includes an under-draping, an over-draping, and a connecting draping connected by the under-draping and the over-draping. The surgical draping system is used to establish and maintain a surgical corridor to a surgical site or sites on a patient supported by a surgical table. The surgical draping system can accommodate rotation of the patient on the surgical table, such that the sterile surgical corridor is maintained even during such rotation. The sterile surgical corridor extends through an aperture formed in the over-draping, through an enclosed passageway formed through the connecting draping, and through an aperture formed in the under-draping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Beale, Robert Andrew Fields, Richard Hynes, Matthew Morrison
  • Patent number: 11932438
    Abstract: A rotatable bag rack to support a plurality of bag types. The bag rack includes a stand and a rack. The rack is pivotally mounted to the stand so as to be rotatable about a pivot axis relative to the stand between a first position to hold a first bag type and a second position to hold a second bag type. The rack includes a pair of spaced apart arms to hold the first bag type that, in the first position, extends forward relative to the pivot axis. The rack, in the second position, extends downward relative to the pivot axis. The rack also includes a hanger fixed relative to the arms to hold a second bag type that, in the first position, extends backward relative to the pivot axis. The rack, in the second position, extends upward relative to the pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Myers, Kevin Gierl
  • Publication number: 20240083049
    Abstract: A personal care product is provided including an applicator head with a flat treatment sheet. The personal care product also includes a cover configured to surround the applicator head and to cover the treatment sheet. The cover includes a base with a planar outer surface. The cover also includes an outer rim around a perimeter of the planar outer surface and an inner rim configured to engage a portion of the applicator head. The planar outer surface of the base defines a plane. The personal care product includes a center of gravity with a projection in the plane, where the length of the one or more tabs along the plane exceeds a length between the projection and the inner rim along the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Duncan McEwen, Robert Andrew Kearney, Mark Peterson
  • Publication number: 20240083048
    Abstract: A personal care product is provided including an applicator head with a flat treatment sheet. The personal care product also includes a cover configured to surround the applicator head and to cover the treatment sheet. The cover includes a base with a planar outer surface. The cover also includes an outer rim around a perimeter of the planar outer surface and an inner rim configured to engage a portion of the applicator head. The planar outer surface of the base defines a plane. The personal care product includes a center of gravity with a projection in the plane, where the length of the one or more tabs along the plane exceeds a length between the projection and the inner rim along the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Duncan McEwen, Robert Andrew Kearney, Mark Peterson
  • Publication number: 20240081510
    Abstract: A personal care product is provided including an applicator head with a flat treatment sheet. The personal care product also includes a cover configured to surround the applicator head and to cover the treatment sheet. The cover includes a base with a planar outer surface. The cover also includes an outer rim around a perimeter of the planar outer surface and an inner rim configured to engage a portion of the applicator head. The planar outer surface of the base defines a plane. The personal care product includes a center of gravity with a projection in the plane, where the length of the one or more tabs along the plane exceeds a length between the projection and the inner rim along the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Duncan McEwen, Robert Andrew Keamey, Mark Peterson
  • Patent number: 11917954
    Abstract: A wheel track monitoring system for an irrigation system monitors the condition of a wheel track and alerts an operator and/or automatically takes corrective action when a wheel track develops ruts or other conditions that may adversely affect operation of the irrigation system. The wheel track monitoring system includes a wheel track condition sensor, a location sensor, and a processing system. The processing system receives and stores wheel track condition data and location data from the sensors as the irrigation system travels across a field and creates a log of wheel track condition data for multiple locations in the field. The processing system also analyzes the wheel track condition data to determine if the condition of the wheel track is unacceptable at any locations in the irrigated field and generates a corrective action signal if the condition is unacceptable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Lindsay Corporation
    Inventors: Mark William Miller, Reece Robert Andrews
  • Publication number: 20240060350
    Abstract: A material-actuated door includes a door housing including a flexible material; and one or more least one Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuators embedded in the door housing. Each SMA actuator is elastically biased in a first actuator physical state and is configured to transition into a second actuator physical state in response to receiving electrical current. The material-actuated door is transitioned into a first door position in response to disconnecting the electrical current to the at least one SMA actuator, and is transitioned into a second door position in response to delivering the electrical current to the at least one SMA actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Collins, Joseph William Post, Timothy M. Quinn, James Joseph Stusse, William B. Coney
  • Patent number: 11906375
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods for low-cost, high-volume production of strain gages having substantially uniform gage-to-gage resistances. Strain gages in accordance with the present disclosure are sculpted from a device layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator wafer using deep reactive ion etching, thereby enabling well-controlled electrical properties and physical dimensions of the strain gages. In some embodiments, groups of fully fabricated strain gages are physically connected to handling frames via sprues to facilitate handling, automated assembly, and/or tracing of individual gages from the beginning of fabrication through final packaging. In some embodiments, sprues are configured to mitigate accidental separation of the gages from their frames while simultaneously enabling their removal in response to specific forces applied by a handling tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Piezo-Metrics Inc
    Inventors: Franklin Curtis Wong, Robert Andrew Mueller, Kimberly Lakea Harrison, Farzad Khademolhosseini, Carolyn D. Bianco
  • Publication number: 20240052707
    Abstract: A drill bit for cutting a hole in a formation can have a longitudinal axis extending along a center of the drill bit. The drill bit can comprise a crown comprising at least one crown portion having a cutting face. A plurality of wear-resistant members can be embedded in the crown of the drill bit, wherein at least one wear-resistant member of the plurality of wear-resistant members extends to within 0.1 inches of the cutting face of the at least one crown portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Corona, Kiana Wright
  • Publication number: 20240042638
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a skin treatment sheet including a substrate with a plurality of apertures wherein the apertures have a first and second inner perimeter and a cutting edge along at least a portion of the first inner perimeter. The skin treatment sheet has a total cutting length which is the total length of all portions of the first perimeter in each aperture that contain a cutting edge and a total aperture area wherein the ratio of total aperture area to total cutting length is in a predefined range from 0.08 to 2.0 mm. Moreover, the present invention also relates to a skin treatment device including this skin treatment sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Bodo Gluche, Ralph Gretzschel, Michael Mertens, Matthias Gester, Robert Andrew Kearney, Hannah Bryony Roberts, Anthony William Shorey
  • Publication number: 20240042639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a skin treatment sheet comprising a substrate with a plurality of apertures wherein the sheet has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The apertures have a first and second inner perimeter and a cutting edge along at least a portion of the first inner perimeter. The skin treatment sheet has a stability ST which is the ratio of the average cross-sectional substrate area Ax and the total aperture area A1. Moreover, the present invention also relates to a skin treatment device comprising this skin treatment sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Bodo Gluche, Ralph Gretzschel, Michael Mertens, Matthias Gester, Robert Andrew Kearney, Hannah Bryony Roberts, Anthony William Shorey
  • Patent number: 11887116
    Abstract: Authentication systems and methods using orientation sensor-enabled payment cards are disclosed herein where a server receives an authorization request from a web server or an electronic terminal. The server then transmits an instruction to the orientation sensor to determine whether the payment card has an orientation that is consistent with a predetermined orientation. When the payment card has an orientation consistent with the predetermined orientation, the server executes a first authentication protocol. However, if the payment card has an orientation that is not consistent with the predetermined orientation, the server executes a second authentication protocol that is more restrictive than the first authentication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Kelly Q. Baker, David M. Jones, Jr., Robert Andrew Massie, Bryan J. Osterkamp, Ryan Thomas Russell
  • Patent number: 11881210
    Abstract: A method for generating a prosodic representation includes receiving a text utterance having one or more words. Each word has at least one syllable having at least one phoneme. The method also includes generating, using a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model, a sequence of wordpiece embeddings and selecting an utterance embedding for the text utterance, the utterance embedding representing an intended prosody. Each wordpiece embedding is associated with one of the one or more words of the text utterance. For each syllable, using the selected utterance embedding and a prosody model that incorporates the BERT model, the method also includes generating a corresponding prosodic syllable embedding for the syllable based on the wordpiece embedding associated with the word that includes the syllable and predicting a duration of the syllable by encoding linguistic features of each phoneme of the syllable with the corresponding prosodic syllable embedding for the syllable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tom Marius Kenter, Manish Kumar Sharma, Robert Andrew James Clark, Aliaksei Severyn
  • Publication number: 20240017034
    Abstract: An expiratory limb is provided that is configured to remove humidified gases from a patient and configured to provide improved drying performance by providing a tailored temperature profile along the limb. Limbs for providing humidified gases to and/or removing humidified gases from a patient are also provided, the limbs having improved gas residence time at constant volumetric flow rate. The improved residence time can be achieved by providing a limb comprising multiple lumens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Andrew David Milne, Timothy Dee Gierke
  • Publication number: 20240021382
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for a switch comprising two or more contacts, where the switch is configured to transition between an open state and a closed state; and a circuit comprising a snubber circuit in communication with the switch, where a snubber circuit or energy limiting isolator circuit is configured to eliminate arcing during the transition between the closed state and the open state by limiting voltage that prevents arcing sufficient to trigger a chemical breakdown of a surrounding atmosphere on at least one of the two or more contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Andrew Guziak
  • Patent number: 11869727
    Abstract: An improved capacitor, and method of making the capacitor, is described. The capacitor comprises an upper reinforced encapsulant layer and a lower reinforced encapsulant layer with a capacitive element between the upper reinforced encapsulant layer and lower reinforced encapsulant layer. The capacitive element comprises an anode, a dielectric on the anode and a cathode on the dielectric. An internal reinforced encapsulant layer is between the upper reinforced encapsulant layer and lower reinforced encapsulant layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KEMET Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Summey, Jeffrey Poltorak, Robert Andrew Ramsbottom, Kevin A. Agosto
  • Patent number: 11870086
    Abstract: A tripod includes a main body having a center column with a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a longitudinal axis extending through the first end and the second end, and a plurality of legs coupled to the center column. The tripod system also includes a battery receptacle supported at the first end of the center column. The battery receptacle has a first interface configured to mechanically and electrically couple to a battery pack. The tripod system further includes a head supported at the second end of the center column. The head has a second interface configured to mechanically and electrically couple to a luminaire. The second interface is complementary to the first interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Brianna E. Williams, J. Luke Jenkins, Robert Andrew Patrick
  • Publication number: 20240003192
    Abstract: A method includes advancing a drill bit into a formation to form core sample pieces. The drill bit has a central axis and includes a crown defining an inner operative circumference. The crown is configured to form a core sample. A core receiving space is configured to receive the core sample as the drill bit is advanced into the formation. A base surface is spaced from the cutting face along the central axis of the drill bit. The base surface is configured to break apart portions of the core sample to form core sample pieces. The method can further include associating the core sample pieces with respective depths at which the core sample pieces were separated from the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher L. Drenth, Robert Andrew Corona
  • Publication number: 20240000783
    Abstract: This invention relates to combination therapies comprising a cyclin dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) inhibitor of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and an antiandrogen, optionally in further combination with an additional anti-cancer agent, and associated methods of treatment, pharmaceutical compositions, and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: Pfizer Inc., Astellas Pharma Inc.
    Inventors: Lars ANDERS, Kimberly Hyunjung KIM, Danan LI, Elizabeth Anne MCMILLAN, Robert Andrew ROLLINS, Brendan Ayers VEENEMAN