Patents by Inventor Robert Byrd

Robert Byrd 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: 20250044057
    Abstract: A holster defining an at least partial holster cavity; and a release lever pivotably attached or coupled to the holster body and repeatably pivotable between a retention position and a release position, and wherein the release lever is capable of being pivoted to the release position when a pivoting force is applied to the release lever, wherein if the release lever is in the retention position, at least a portion of a handgun locking portion of the release lever is positioned so as to protrude into a portion of the holster cavity a sufficient distance to engage at least a portion of an ejection port of an inserted handgun, and wherein if the release lever in the release position, the handgun locking portion is withdrawn from the holster cavity to disengage from the ejection port of the handgun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Eric M. Yeates, Thomas M. Gregory, Robert A. Kincaid, Marcus Byrd
  • Patent number: 12142097
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a system including a communication component and a processor coupled to the communication component. The processor may collect user input data indicative of skills for providing vehicle towing services from users, receive driving behavior data associated with each user, build a model indicative of an expected location of each user based on the user input data and the driving behavior data, receive a request for a vehicle towing service associated with a vehicle from a computing device, identify a user for performing the vehicle towing service based on the driving behavior data, send a notification to an additional computing device to request a confirmation that the user agrees to perform the vehicle towing service, send a location of the vehicle to the additional computing device, and transfer a digital key to the additional computing device to access the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Robert Lee Black, Timothy Blair Chalmers, Zachery C. Lake, Justin Dax Haslam, Matthew Robert Byrd
  • Patent number: 11995673
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, by a monitoring system from a software application configured to execute on a mobile device, a performance rating associated with an activity performed by an individual with respect to usage of a vehicle operated by the individual, determining, by the monitoring system, one or more rewards to allocate to the individual for use in a gaming platform, and updating, by the monitoring system, a user profile associated with the individual in the gaming platform, wherein the updated user profile is configured to access to the rewards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Jose L. Romero, Jr., Andre Rene Buentello, Matthew Robert Byrd, Mounica Urity, Sayeef Rahim, Timothy Blair Chalmers, Robert Lee Black, Ashley Raine Philbrick
  • Patent number: 8376055
    Abstract: A shearing tool for shearing, trimming, or reducing objects being pulled through a drill string and methods for retrieving retrievable tools with fins from the drill string, where the retrievable tools must pass through restrictions in the drill string having interior diameters less than the outer diameters of the fins. The fins, affixed to the retrievable tools, provide stability to the tools, while within the drill string, and can be made of rubber, plastic, other shearable materials, or combinations thereof. The apparatuses and methods include inserting a shearing tool with a flange into a box end of a section of drill string, where the flange keeps the shearing tool in place. The shearing tool further comprising a cutting surface for cutting materials pulled through the shearing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Inventors: James Edward Chambers, II, Gerald Robert Byrd
  • Patent number: 8147592
    Abstract: A filter includes a metallocene for removing oxygen from a gas stream. The filter further includes a support for the metallocene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Norman Robert Byrd, Charles A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20110278020
    Abstract: A shearing tool for shearing, trimming, or reducing objects being pulled through a drill string and methods for retrieving retrievable tools with fins from the drill string, where the retrievable tools must pass through restrictions in the drill string having interior diameters less than the outer diameters of the fins. The fins, affixed to the retrievable tools, provide stability to the tools, while within the drill string, and can be made of rubber, plastic, other shearable materials, or combinations thereof. The apparatuses and methods include inserting a shearing tool with a flange into a box end of a section of drill string, where the flange keeps the shearing tool in place. The shearing tool further comprising a cutting surface for cutting materials pulled through the shearing tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: James Edward Chambers, II, Gerald Robert Byrd
  • Patent number: 8006769
    Abstract: A shearing tool for shearing, trimming, or reducing objects being pulled through a drill string and methods for retrieving retrievable tools with fins from the drill string, where the retrievable tools must pass through restrictions in the drill string having interior diameters less than the outer diameters of the fins. The fins, affixed to the retrievable tools, provide stability to the tools, while within the drill string, and can be made of rubber, plastic, other shearable materials, or combinations thereof. The apparatuses and methods include inserting a shearing tool with a flange into a box end of a section of drill string, where the flange keeps the shearing tool in place. The shearing tool further comprising a cutting surface for cutting materials pulled through the shearing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Specialty Supply Companies
    Inventors: James Edward Chambers, II, Gerald Robert Byrd
  • Publication number: 20100206581
    Abstract: A shearing tool for shearing, trimming, or reducing objects being pulled through a drill string and methods for retrieving retrievable tools with fins from the drill string, where the retrievable tools must pass through restrictions in the drill string having interior diameters less than the outer diameters of the fins. The fins, affixed to the retrievable tools, provide stability to the tools, while within the drill string, and can be made of rubber, plastic, other shearable materials, or combinations thereof. The apparatuses and methods include inserting a shearing tool with a flange into a box end of a section of drill string, where the flange keeps the shearing tool in place. The shearing tool further comprising a cutting surface for cutting materials pulled through the shearing tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: James Edward Chambers, II, Gerald Robert Byrd
  • Publication number: 20090230248
    Abstract: A filter includes a metallocene for removing oxygen from a gas stream. The filter further includes a support for the metallocene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman Robert Byrd, Charles A. Smith
  • Patent number: D735072
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D735073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D763131
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D783449
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Deborah Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D789244
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D789245
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D789246
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D791015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D792279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MyDor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell
  • Patent number: D798767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Mydor, LLC
    Inventors: William Skinner, Robert Taylor, Debora Hastings, Darin R. Telfer, Margo Taylor-Bredesen, Jamie Lockwood, Robert Byrd, Brian Moon, John Durnell