Patents by Inventor Robert By

Robert By 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).

  • Light-emitting diode display devices with mirror
    Patent number: 11974457
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device includes a substrate, a well structure on the substrate with the well structure having a recess with side walls and a floor, a lower metal layer covering the floor and side-walls of the well, an upper conductive layer on the lower metal layer covering the floor of the well and contacting the lower metal layer, the upper conductive layer having outer edges at about an intersection of the side walls and the floor, a dielectric layer formed of an oxide of the lower metal layer covering the side walls of the well without covering the upper conductive layer, a stack of OLED layers covering at least the floor of the well, the upper conductive layer providing an electrode for the stack of OLED layers, and a light extraction layer (LEL) in the well over the stack of OLED layers and the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Yu, Chung-Chia Chen, Wan-Yu Lin, Hyunsung Bang, Lisong Xu, Byung Sung Kwak, Robert Jan Visser
  • In vivo tissue engineering devices, methods and regenerative and cellular medicine employing scaffolds made of absorbable material
    Patent number: 11969337
    Abstract: Tissue engineering devices and methods employing scaffolds made of absorbable material for use in the human body for tissue genesis and regenerative and cellular medicine including breast reconstruction and cosmetic and aesthetic procedures and supplementing organ function in vivo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Bard Shannon Limited
    Inventor: Robert D. Rehnke
  • Composite materials and method of making composite materials
    Patent number: 11970586
    Abstract: A composite material may be prepared from a solid polymeric binder and a solid filler by feeding into an extruder the solid polymeric binder at a first feed rate and the solid filler at a second feed rate. The extruder extrudes an extrudate of the solid polymeric binder and solid filler to form the composite material. The composite material has a binder to filler ratio determined by the first feed rate and second feed rate. The solid polymeric binder and solid filler have different densities. Feeding the solid polymeric binder at the first feed rate and the solid filler at the second feed rate distributes the solid filler substantially homogeneously throughout the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES, INCORPORATED, United States of America As Represented By The Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Salih Kocak, Christopher L. Holley, II, Nathan Gelino, Tracy Gibson, James Captain, Robert P. Mueller
  • Preload control system
    Patent number: 11973454
    Abstract: A system includes a driver monitor system configured to receive information about driver operation, a relationship table comprising information about an expected relationship between driver operation and a preload force, and a driver controller configured to control a driver in response to the information about driver operation and according to the relationship table. A method of managing a preload force includes providing a first component, providing a second component for compression against the first component, operating a driver to move the first component into contact with the second component, monitoring an operation of the driver, and determining an expected preload force in response to the operation of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Reynolds, Charles Eric Covington, Carlos Alexander Fenny, Brady G. Atkins
  • Universal automatic frequency control for multi-channel receivers
    Patent number: 11973492
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing automatic frequency control are provided. Instead of relying on individual frequency tuners for each channel of a multi-channel receiver system, the present subject matter uses a single frequency tuner for receiving each channel of the multi-channel receiver system. A locked demodulator may be designated as a reference demodulator and frequency offset values associated with the reference demodulator may be applied to other demodulators of the multi-channel receiver. These frequency offset values may be used by individual demodulators of each channel for correcting corresponding frequency offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Scarpa, Robert Joseph Topper
  • Apparatus, system, and method for stepping up high voltages within small form factors via optical couplings including an array of photovoltaic cells optically coupled to parallelly connected light emitting devices via a transfer medium
    Patent number: 11972895
    Abstract: A high-voltage optical transformer may include (1) an array of light-emitting devices that are connected in parallel with one another and are electrically coupled to an electrical input, (2) a transfer medium, and (3) an array of photovoltaic cells that (A) are optically coupled to the array of light-emitting devices via the transfer medium, (B) are connected in series with one another, and (C) produce an electrical output whose voltage is higher than the electrical input. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Goward, Maik Andre Scheller, Anurag Tyagi, Jonathan Robert Peterson, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao
  • Multi-head additive printing device for manufacturing wind turbine tower structure
    Patent number: 11970875
    Abstract: A system for manufacturing a tower structure of a wind turbine includes an additive printing device having a central frame structure with a platform and an arm member. The arm member is generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the tower structure. The additive printing device also includes a plurality of robotic arms secured to the arm member of the central frame structure. Each of the robotic arms includes a printer head for additively printing one or more materials. The additive printing device further includes at least one nozzle configured for dispensing a cementitious material. Moreover, the system includes one or more molds additively printed via the additive printing device of a polymer material. As such, the mold(s) define inner and outer wall limits of the tower structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Norman Arnold Turnquist, James Robert Tobin, Krishna Ramadurai, Krishna Prashanth Anandan
  • Temperature compensated MTJ-based sensing circuit for measuring an external magnetic field
    Patent number: 11971463
    Abstract: Disclosed is a MTJ sensing circuit for measuring an external magnetic field and including a plurality of MTJ sensor elements connected in a bridge configuration, the MTJ sensing circuit having an input for inputting a bias voltage and generating an output voltage proportional to the external magnetic field multiplied by the bias voltage and a gain sensitivity of the MTJ sensing circuit, wherein the gain sensitivity and the output voltage vary with temperature; the MTJ sensing circuit further including a temperature compensation circuit configured to provide a modulated bias voltage that varies as a function of temperature over a temperature range, such that the output voltage is substantially constant as a function of temperature. Also disclosed is a method for compensating the output voltage for temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Anuraag Mohan, Robert Zucker
  • Detection and illumination of dark zones via collaborative lighting
    Patent number: 11974375
    Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may detect at least one dark zone in a vicinity of a user, determine at least one lighting feature for an illumination of the at least one dark zone in accordance with a user profile of the user, identify at least one light source to provide the illumination of the at least one dark area in accordance with the at least one lighting feature that is determined, and transmit an instruction to the at least one light source to provide the illumination of the at least one dark zone in accordance with the at least one lighting feature that is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ginger Chien, Zhi Cui, Eric Zavesky, Robert T. Moton, Jr., Adrianne Binh Luu, Robert Koch
  • Portable stadium chair
    Patent number: 11969103
    Abstract: A portable chair apparatus for assisting the user with comfort, storage, and transportation includes a base, a seat with an opening, a storage compartment between the base and the seat, a back support column, a lumbar support piece, a handle, and a light. The back support column is adjustable relative to the seat between an open and closed position. The lumbar support piece is adjustable along the back support column and is sized to fit within the opening of the seat when the back support column is in the closed position. The light is on the top surface of the back support column. The chair can further include a handle having a light directed towards the space in front of the user when holding the chair. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Ballard
  • Use of hollow fiber filtration in conjunction with precipitant technologies to reclaim water from complex aqueous waste streams
    Patent number: 11970411
    Abstract: A method of treating aqueous, preferably concentrated, waste streams with a unique combination of steps in a way that is easily scalable and able to be used with batch or continuous flows. The method comprises at least the following steps: Adding at least one precipitating agent to the waste water to produce precipitated solids; and removing the precipitated solids from the waste water using a forward flushable membrane to remove the precipitate solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GARRATT-CALLAHAN COMPANY
    Inventors: E. H. Kelle Zeiher, Henri Robert Asbell, James E Gamlen, Daron Gareth Evans
  • Group B adenovirus encoding an anti-TCR-complex antibody or fragment
    Patent number: 11970536
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a replication deficient oncolytic viral vector or replication capable group B oncolytic adenovirus selected from the group consisting of Ad11 and enadenotucirev, wherein the virus encodes an antibody or a binding fragment thereof for expression on the surface of a cancer cell, wherein said antibody or binding fragment is specific to a CD3 protein of a T-cell receptor complex (TCR), wherein the virus does not encode a B7 protein or an active fragment thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and use of any one of the same in treatment, particularly in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: AKAMIS BIO LIMITED
    Inventors: Brian Robert Champion, Alice Claire Noel Brown
  • Method of zeolite synthesis including pH-modified water-soluble oxidized disulfide oil composition
    Patent number: 11970403
    Abstract: Methods for synthesizing zeolites in the presence of a pH-modified WS-ODSO composition are provided. A pH-modified WS-ODSO composition is used as a component in zeolite synthesis along with precursors and reagents for synthesizing zeolites. The methods advantageously reduce the amount of utility water required for synthesizing zeolites. In certain embodiments the methods reduce the amounts of added mineralizer reagent typically required for synthesizing zeolites. The methods advantageously reduce the amount of utility water required for synthesizing a material and reduce the DSO waste from a refinery and discharge into the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert P. Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu
  • Reduction of packaging substrate deformation
    Patent number: 11974390
    Abstract: A packaging substrate can include a first surface and a second opposing surface, the first surface including a first mounting region of a first electronic module region and the second opposing surface including a first electrical contacts region of the first electronic module region. The packaging substrate can include a saw street region with at least a portion that surrounds the first electronic module region, and a saw street feature formed on the second opposing surface within at least a portion of the saw street region, the saw street feature being a solder mask layer over a metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhuvaneshwaran Vijayakumar, Lori Ann Deorio, Anthony James Lobianco, Hoang Mong Nguyen, Robert Francis Darveaux
  • Systems and methods for ablating tissue
    Patent number: 11969206
    Abstract: Intra-cardiac voltage data display systems display a plurality of data sets derived at least from intra-cardiac voltage data sampled by an electrode. In some embodiments, at least some of the data sets are derived from a portion of the intra-cardiac voltage data that excludes an excludable portion of the intra-cardiac voltage data having a relationship with an occurrence of a particular cardiac event to facilitate identification of the existence of a transmural lesion in tissue adjacent the electrode. In some embodiments, the particular cardiac event is the occurrence of an R wave in the cardiac cycle, and the excludable portion is a V wave in the cardiac cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KARDIUM INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Robert Weinkam, Daniel Martin Reinders, Darrell Anthony Harrington, Douglas Wayne Goertzen, Michael Hermann Weber
  • System and method for palletizing
    Patent number: 11970348
    Abstract: A palletizing elevator is provided that lowers gradually a pallet thereon from an upper level as it is filled with products, and by providing an empty pallet infeed system that moves empty pallets towards the palletizing elevator simultaneously to the palletizing of products thereon. The empty pallet infeed system includes an empty pallet elevator for raising empty pallets to the upper level and a conveying system between the empty pallet elevator and the palletizing elevator for moving the empty pallets of from the empty pallet elevator at the upper level to the palletizing elevator while a pallet is moved by the palletizing elevator during its filling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Symbotic Canada, ULC
    Inventors: Marc Ducharme, Jean-Francois Forget, Robert Jodoin, Cédric Kessler, Régis Métivier, Sylvain-Paul Morency
  • Compositions and methods for treating or limiting development of age-related macular degeneration
    Patent number: 11969401
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods for treating or limiting development age-related macular degeneration, comprising (a) a GPR143 receptor agonist, including but not limited to L-DOPA, L-DOPA analogues, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and (b) melatonin, a melatonin analogue, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and related compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    Inventors: Robert Snyder, Brian McKay
  • Case for an electronic device
    Patent number: D1025043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Computing device housing
    Patent number: D1025047
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VEEA INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Mirabella, Robert Migliorino, Shaun Joseph Greaney
  • Cover
    Patent number: D1025084
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer