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).

  • MULTI-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY ANTENNA ASSEMBLY AND RELATED FRONT-END PACKAGE
    Publication number: 20200028253
    Abstract: A multi-radio access technology (RAT) antenna assembly and related front-end package is provided. In one aspect, the multi-RAT antenna assembly includes a radiating structure that radiates/absorbs a first electromagnetic wave corresponding to a first RAT in a first RF spectrum (e.g., below 6 GHz). A number of slot openings are created in the radiating structure to function as a number of slot antennas for radiating/absorbing a second electromagnetic wave corresponding to a second RAT in a second RF spectrum (e.g., above 18 GHz). As such, the multi-RAT antenna assembly can support both the first RAT and the second RAT based on the radiating structure, thus helping to reduce real estate requirements of the multi-RAT antenna assembly. In another aspect, a front-end circuit supporting the second RAT is coupled to the slot openings via shortest possible paths in a front-end package, thus helping to reduce propagation attenuation in the front-end package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Robert Walter Leipold, George Maxim, Baker Scott
  • HAPTIC SURROUND FUNCTIONALITY
    Publication number: 20200023272
    Abstract: A system provides haptic surround functionality. The system determines a location of a virtual event in a virtual environment. The system also determines a location of a first virtual body area of a virtual user in the virtual environment based on a location of a first body area of a user, where the first body area corresponds to the first virtual body area. The system then determines a first haptic effect based on the virtual event, the location of the virtual event in the virtual environment, and the location of the first virtual body area of the virtual user in the virtual environment. The system outputs the first haptic effect by a first haptic output device to the first body area of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Robert W. HEUBEL
  • SHARING REGULATED CONTENT STORED ON NON-REGULATED STORAGE PLATFORMS
    Publication number: 20200026880
    Abstract: Methods and systems of storing and managing regulated content items on a non-regulated storage platform are provided. A representation of a regulated content item representing content of the regulated content item is created. The content of the regulated content item is subject to one or more regulations and the regulated content item is stored on the non-regulated storage platform. The representation of the regulated content item is provided to the non-regulated storage platform for storage. The representation of the regulated content item is configured to be accessible on the non-regulated storage platform. A request to access the regulated content item using the representation of the regulated content item is received. The regulated content item is retrieved from the non-regulated storage platform in response to the received request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin Anthony Barrett, Patrick Michael Pollard, Patrick Roberts, Martin Frid-Nielsen
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS REPORTING
    Publication number: 20200026916
    Abstract: Systems and methods may utilize a predictive analysis model to analyze a contract or other document. A system may parse a document and/or a repository of information associated with the document. The system may identify one or more terms in the document and corresponding terms in the repository. The system may determine a difference parameter between a first term extracted from the document and a second term extracted from the repository. The system may determine whether the difference between the first term and the second term, represented by the difference parameter, is likely to be acceptable to the user using a predictive analysis model. The system may report a validation parameter indicating a level of acceptability associated with the difference. User feedback on the accuracy of the predictive analysis model is used to train, modify, and improve the predictive analysis model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph M. Wood, Robert D. Bailey, Matthew Valley, Stewart A. Sintay, Stephen W. Shillingford, Wacey T. Richards, Damon A. Darais, Michael E. Kiemel, Samuel Z. Shillingford
  • ANTI-DRY FIRE KEYWAY TRIGGER SYSTEM FOR CROSSBOWS
    Publication number: 20200025505
    Abstract: A Keyway Trigger System with a dry fire prevention nock is provided for use in a crossbow. The System ensures proper, full engagement of the dry fire prevention nock with a crossbow string such that the crossbow will only fire when an arrow is loaded correctly. The nock is received in a slotted opening forming a keyway adapted to be engaged by surfaces of the profiled dry fire prevention nock such that only when an arrow is properly loaded into the keyway, aligned with trigger latch members and fully engaged with the crossbow string then the trigger moves from a non-firing position to a firing position allowing the arrow to be fired. The Keyway Trigger System prevents dry fire and partial dry fire, eliminates risk of damage to the crossbow, eliminates potential risk of injury to a user, and improves accuracy and reliability of the flight trajectory of the arrow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Guy H. Rowzie, JR., Robert Morris Mason
  • Method for Blocking miRNA
    Publication number: 20200024652
    Abstract: A method of reducing the abundance of a non-target micro-RNA (miRNA) that is part of a group of miRNAs is provided, including: (a) annealing a complementary region of a blocking nucleic acid to a binding site at a first end of the unwanted miRNA, ligating an adenylated nucleic acid adapter to the group of miRNAs, and performing RT-PCR on group of miRNAs. Kits and compounds for use with the method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Richard M MYERS, Brian S ROBERTS
  • TREATMENT OF RB-NEGATIVE TUMORS USING TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITORS IN COMBINATION WITH CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 4/6 INHIBITORS
    Publication number: 20200022983
    Abstract: This invention is in the area of improved therapeutic combinations for and methods of treating selected retinoblastoma (Rb)-negative cancers and Rb-negative abnormal cellular proliferative disorders using particular topoisomerase inhibitors and specific cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors. In one aspect, the improved treatment of select Rb-negative cancers is disclosed using specific compounds disclosed herein in combination with a topoisomerase I inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jay Copeland Strum, John E. Bisi, Patrick Joseph Roberts, Jessica A. Sorrentino
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE DISPLACEMENT
    Publication number: 20200022754
    Abstract: A medical device including a handle; a flexible conduit having a proximal segment and a distal segment, wherein the proximal segment is coupled to the handle; and a substantially contiguous shaping structure coupled to the distal segment of the flexible conduit, wherein the shaping structure is configured to transition from (i) a substantially linear configuration to (ii) a configuration where a portion of the contiguous shaping structure is laterally displaced from remaining portions of the contiguous support structure upon the application of an axial compression force to the shaping structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Robert J. COTTONE
  • COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20200028576
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed. In an embodiment, the communication system includes a user node for receiving data from a remote application program, the data including message data for communication to a central application program operatively associated with the remote application program; plurality of geographically distributed gateway nodes; one or more access nodes for receiving the message data from the user node via a first communications interface, and communicating the message data via a second communications interface to one or more of the plurality of geographically distributed gateway nodes; and a hub for communicating with the one or more of the plurality of geographically distributed gateway nodes to receive the message data for communication to the central application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: David Victor Lawrie Haley, John Lawrence Buetefuer, Alexander James Grant, William George Cowley, Gottfried Lechner, Ingmar Rudiger Land, Robert George McKilliam, Andre Pollok, Linda Mary Davis, Ricky Rocco Luppino, Sorin Adrian Barbulescu
  • DIFFRACTIVE WAVEPLATE LENSES AND APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20200025986
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for diffractive waveplate lens and mirror systems allowing electronically focusing light at different focal planes. The system can be incorporated into a variety of optical schemes for providing electrical control of transmission. In another embodiment, the system comprises diffractive waveplates of different functionality to provide a system for controlling not only focusing but other propagation properties of light including direction, phase profile, and intensity distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Nelson V. Tabirian, Svetlana Serak, Olena Uskova, David E. Roberts, Anna Tabirian, Diane Steeves, Brian Kimball
  • Network Architecture, Methods, and Devices for a Wireless Communications Network
    Publication number: 20200028745
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Janne Peisa, Gunnar Mildh, Robert Baldemair, Stefan Wager, Jonas Kronander, Karl Werner, Richard Abrahamsson, Ismet Aktas, Peter Alriksson, Junaid Ansari, Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Henrik Asplund, Fredrik Athley, Håkan Axelsson, Joakim Axmon, Johan Axnäs, Kumar Balachandran, Gunnar Bark, Jan-Erik Berg, Andreas Bergström, Håkan Björkegren, Nadia Brahmi, Cagatay Capar, Anders Carlsson, Andreas Cedergren, Mikael Coldrey, Icaro L. J. da Silva, Erik Dahlman, Ali El Essaili, Ulrika Engström, Mårten Ericson, Erik Eriksson, Mikael Fallgren, Rui Fan, Gabor Fodor, Pål Frenger, Jonas Fridén, Jonas Fröberg Olsson, Anders Furuskär, Johan Furuskog, Virgile Garcia, Ather Gattami, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ulf Gustavsson, Bo Hagerman, Fredrik Harrysson, Ning He, Martin Hessler, Kimmo Hiltunen, Songnam Hong, Dennis Hui, Jörg Huschke, Tim Irnich, Sven Jacobsson, Niklas Jaldén, Simon Järmyr, Zhiyuan Jiang, Martin Johansson, Niklas Johansson, Du Ho Kang, Eleftherios Karipidis, Patrik Karlsson, Ali S. Khayrallah, Caner Kilinc, Göran N. Klang, Sara Landström, Christina Larsson, Gen Li, Bo Lincoln, Lars Lindbom, Robert Lindgren, Bengt Lindoff, Fredrik Lindqvist, Jinhua Liu, Thorsten Lohmar, Qianxi Lu, Lars Manholm, Ivana Maric, Jonas Medbo, Qingyu Miao, Reza Moosavi, Walter Müller, Elena Myhre, Johan Nilsson, Karl Norrman, Bengt-Erik Olsson, Torgny Palenius, Sven Petersson, Jose Luis Pradas, Mikael Prytz, Olav Queseth, Pradeepa Ramachandra, Edgar Ramos, Andres Reial, Thomas Rimhagen, Emil Ringh, Patrik Rugeland, Johan Rune, Joachim Sachs, Henrik Sahlin, Vidit Saxena, Nima Seifi, Yngve Selén, Eliane Semaan, Sachin Sharma, Cong Shi, Johan Sköld, Magnus Stattin, Anders Stjernman, Dennis Sundman, Lars Sundström, Miurel Isabel Tercero Vargas, Claes Tidestav, Sibel Tombaz, Johan Torsner, Hugo Tullberg, Jari Vikberg, Peter Von Wrycza, Thomas Walldeen, Anders Wallén, Pontus Wallentin, Hai Wang, Ke Wang Helmersson, Jianfeng Wang, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Niclas Wiberg, Emma Wittenmark, Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz, Ali Zaidi, Zhan Zhang, Zhang Zhang, Yanli Zheng
  • Systems and Methods for Tubular Element Handling
    Publication number: 20200024914
    Abstract: A system and method for transferring tubular elements may include a first structure having a first horizontal platform attached to the first structure on a bottom side and a monorail attached to the first structure on a top side, a second structure having a second horizontal platform attached to the second structure. The first structure and the second structure may be located proximate to each other, while the monorail can extend from the first structure to the second structure. The monorail can have a motion controlled assembly to move a tubular element or assembly of tubular elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jerry Ray Prescott, JR., Joel Ferland, Matthew Wyatt MacDaniels, Christopher Alan Major, Patrick L. Gustafson, Robert Lee Stauder, Bernard Cook, DeWayne Speer
  • PASSIVE, PROPORTIONAL MEASUREMENT OF OXYGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE CONSUMPTION FOR ASSESSMENT OF METABOLIC PARAMETERS
    Publication number: 20200022618
    Abstract: A conventional flow tube for a metabolic cart is usually a straight length of pipe whose inner diameter is fixed by the respiratory burden imposed by the flow tube on the user, with a smaller diameter imposing a higher respiratory burden. The ratio of the straight flow tube's length to diameter is fixed by fluid dynamics, so increasing the flow tube's diameter causes the flow tube's length to increase. As the flow tube gets longer, it exerts more torque on the user's neck and jaw, creating discomfort. Reducing the flow tube's length causes an undesired increase in the respiratory burden but increasing the flow tube's diameter to reduce the respiratory burden makes the flow tube less comfortable, making the flow tube unconformable, hard to breathe through, or both. Bending the flow tube, e.g., in an L shape, makes it possible to increase the flow tube's propagation length without increasing the flow tube's lever arm length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Holly MCCLUNG, Reed Wasson HOYT, Lawrence M Candell, Joseph M. MAHAN, Gary A Shaw, Andrew M Siegel, Robert Linton STANDLEY, Kyle THOMPSON
  • VENTILATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20200029459
    Abstract: An environmental control system for a telecom shelter integrates with a native HVAC system for exchanging interior air in a conditioned space in a machine room, telecom enclosure, or other closed machine environment by forcing or directing cooler outside air to replace interior air without active refrigeration by the native HVAC system. Primary cooling and heating of the conditioned space in the enclosure is performed by an exchange system and control logic that identifies, based on sensory input, when outside air exchange is more efficient than native AC (Air Conditioner) operation. The native AC system is suppressed or inhibited, and primary environmental control performed by fan driven exchange of outside air with air in the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Richard De Felice, David Therrien, Robert Paterson, Henry Riddoch
  • Passive Radiotherapy Intensity Modulator for Electrons
    Publication number: 20200023200
    Abstract: Typically, electron beam radiation therapy aims at delivering a uniform dose to a target volume containing cancer cells. Electron sources typically impinge a spatially uniform flux across the beam onto the patient; however, irregular patient and bolus surfaces, the latter encountered in bolus electron conformal therapy (ECT), scatter electrons unevenly creating non-homogeneous dose distributions in the target. However, spatially-modulated beam intensities can restore target dose homogeneity, as well as enable utilization of other advanced ECT methods. Unfortunately, present methods, which have attempted to spatially-modulate beam intensities, have been either impractical or ineffective. Here, a novel, passive method has been developed to spatially-modulate electron beam intensities by taking advantage of multiple Coulomb scattering. The method utilizes Island Blocks or Island Apertures, strategically located in ‘transparent’ or ‘opaque’ substrates, respectively, which are placed in the beam's path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kenneth Hogstrom, Robert Carver
  • Insulin Management
    Publication number: 20200027544
    Abstract: A method of administering insulin includes receiving blood glucose measurements of a patient at a data processing device from a glucometer. Each blood glucose measurement is separated by a time interval and includes a blood glucose time associated with a time of measuring the blood glucose measurement. The method also includes receiving patient information at the data processing device and selecting a subcutaneous insulin treatment for tube-fed patients from a collection of subcutaneous insulin treatments. The selection is based on the blood glucose measurements and the patient information. The subcutaneous insulin treatment program for tube-fed patients determines recommended insulin doses based on the blood glucose times. The method also includes executing, using the data processing device, the selected subcutaneous insulin treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Aseko, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Booth, Harry Hebblewhite
  • NOVEL OXABOROLE ANALOGS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20200024289
    Abstract: This application describes compounds, compositions, and methods which are useful in treating, preventing, inhibiting, ameliorating, or eradicating the pathology and/or symptomology of a disease caused by a parasite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicants: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army, The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Robert Toms Jacobs, Yang Liu, Richard J. Sciotti, Jason D. Speake, Gavin Alistair Whitlock, Paul Alan Glossop, Charles Eric Mowbray, Delphine Françoise Monique Launay, Stephen John Robinson
  • EXPANDABLE TISSUE ENGAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20200022692
    Abstract: A system and associated method for manipulating tissues and anatomical or other structures in medical applications for the purpose of treating diseases or disorders or other purposes. In one aspect, the system includes an expandable structure for enhancing engagement with median lobe prostate tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Theodore C. Lamson, Theodore Bender, Jolene Cutts, Robert M. George, Jennifer Kiyoi, Daniel Merrick, Ailee Pham, Mahesh Rao, Christopher Zaler, Curtis Yarra, Kevin Alexander Lessard
  • Safe Zones in Tracking Device Environments
    Publication number: 20200027332
    Abstract: A tracking system determines if a tracking device is located within a safe zone based on whether a set of safe conditions are satisfied. The set of safe conditions includes a geographic boundary or a geographic location and corresponding threshold distance. The set of safe conditions can also include a time window during which a safe zone is active. When a tracking device is within a safe zone (e.g., geographically and temporally), the tracking device is determined to be safe, and notifications associated with the tracking device can be minimized. The safe zones may be user-selected, user-defined, or determined based on data analytics. If a set of safe conditions are not satisfied, the tracking system generates and sends a notification to the user of the tracking device indicating that the tracking device may be lost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Doxey, Arunkumar Puppala, Wayne Patterson
  • Mobile Device Case For Capturing Digital Images
    Publication number: 20200029000
    Abstract: A mobile device case for coupling around a mobile device that includes a miniature camera module has defined therein a lens attachment aperture shaped both to permit light from an object to be captured as a digital image to travel along the optical path of the miniature camera module to a built-in image sensor of the miniature camera module of the mobile device, and to facilitate stable coupling of an auxiliary lens in optical alignment with the miniature camera module. The case comprises electric circuit components positioned to balance an attached auxiliary lens approximately at a grip location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Marc Barros, Erik Hedberg, Josh Baxley, Amanda Kirk, Bradley G Castaneda, Zachary Reed, Steve McCallion, Wesley Glen Wirth, Robert John Lincoln, Russell Hudyma, Michael Thomas, Eric Davis, Arash Ghorbani