Patents by Inventor Robert C. Allen

Robert C. Allen 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: 20180142515
    Abstract: A door, method of making a door, and stack of doors includes providing a door having front and back skins that have differing, but complementary profiles, one for the front side of the door and one for the back side of the door where each allows and fits onto the other, while still providing direct contact in the stile and rail zones of the door permitting conventional door layup practices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Steven K. Lynch, Robert C. Allen, Gregory J. Wysock
  • Publication number: 20180030776
    Abstract: A door assembly includes a doorframe, an insulated glazing unit (IGU), door skins, and a gas passageway. The IGU includes a substantially sealed IGU cavity and a hole communicating with the IGU cavity. The door skins are secured to opposite sides of the doorframe and have openings between which the IGU is provided. The gas passageway provides gas communication between the IGU cavity and the atmosphere outside of the door assembly. The gas passageway contains a gas passage conduit that includes a first end communicating with the IGU cavity through the hole and a second end communicating with atmosphere outside of the door assembly. The gas passageway may contain a gas passage conduit having a first end communicating with the IGU cavity through the first hole and a second end communicating with an air pocket, and a channel connects the air pocket with atmosphere outside of the door assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Abhishek VAIDYA, Steven B. SWARTZMILLER, Wendell S. YODER, Robert C. ALLEN, Jan H. ETTRICH
  • Publication number: 20170362884
    Abstract: Molded articles are provided. An exemplary molded article includes an inner panel portion, a main body portion, and a contoured portion extending between and interconnecting the inner panel portion and the main body portion so as to surround the inner panel portion and be surrounded by the main body portion. The contoured portion includes contoured corner segments and contoured elongated segments extending between respective pairs of the contoured corner segments. The contoured corner segments have a first maximum thickness. The contoured elongated segments have a second maximum thickness that is greater than the first maximum thickness. Related methods, assemblies, and apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Timothy D. GOUGE, Robert C. ALLEN, Allen R. HILL
  • Publication number: 20170355220
    Abstract: A door skin featuring a facing having an exterior surface and an interior surface can be provided. A wood grain pattern portion can be formed in the exterior surface of the facing. The wood grain pattern portion can feature a plurality of grooves formed in the exterior surface of the facing, the grooves are recessed from a first plane of the exterior surface, and tonal portions formed in the exterior surface of the facing. The tonal portions can include at least a first protrusion, a second protrusion, and a third protrusion. Spacing between the first protrusion and the second protrusion can be different from spacing between the second protrusion and the third protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Robert C. ALLEN
  • Patent number: 9834982
    Abstract: A door, method of making a door, and stack of doors includes providing a door having front and back skins that have differing, but complementary profiles, one for the front side of the door and one for the back side of the door where each allows and fits onto the other, while still providing direct contact in the stile and rail zones of the door permitting conventional door layup practices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Steven K. Lynch, Robert C. Allen, Gregory J. Wysock
  • Publication number: 20170293810
    Abstract: Within examples, systems and methods of generating a synthetic image representative of an environment of a vehicle are described comprising generating a first image using infrared information from an infrared (IR) camera, generating a second image using laser point cloud data from a LIDAR, generating an embedded point cloud representative of the environment based on a combination of the first image and the second image, receiving navigation information traversed by the vehicle, transforming the embedded point cloud into a geo-referenced coordinate space based on the navigation information, and combining the transformed embedded point cloud with imagery of terrain of the environment to generate the synthetic image representative of the environment of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Robert C. Allen, Brendan Blanton, Lauren Gresko, Rajib Mitra, Frank Vincent
  • Patent number: 9752378
    Abstract: Molded articles are provided. An exemplary molded article includes an inner panel portion, a main body portion, and a contoured portion extending between and interconnecting the inner panel portion and the main body portion so as to surround the inner panel portion and be surrounded by the main body portion. The contoured portion includes contoured corner segments and contoured intermediate segments extending between respective pairs of the contoured corner segments. The contoured intermediate segments have a first maximum thickness. The contoured corner segments have a second maximum thickness. The first maximum thickness of the contoured intermediate segments is greater than the second maximum thickness of the contoured corner segments. Related methods, assemblies, and apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen, Allen R. Hill
  • Patent number: 9744801
    Abstract: A door skin featuring a facing having an exterior surface and an interior surface can be provided. A wood grain pattern portion can be formed in the exterior surface of the facing. The wood grain pattern portion can feature a plurality of grooves formed in the exterior surface of the facing, the grooves are recessed from a first plane of the exterior surface, and tonal portions formed in the exterior surface of the facing. The tonal portions can include at least a first protrusion, a second protrusion, and a third protrusion. Spacing between the first protrusion and the second protrusion can be different from spacing between the second protrusion and the third protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventor: Robert C. Allen
  • Publication number: 20170235723
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed cause a processor to select a narrative content template based at least in part on a predetermined content type associated with a real-world and/or virtual event. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to select a narrative tone type. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to, for each phrase included in an ordered set of phrases associated with the narrative content template, select, based at least in part on the narrative tone type, a phrase variation from a set of phrase variations associated with that phrase, and define, based on the selected phrase variation and at least one datum from a set of data, a narrative content portion associated with the real-world event. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to output, at a display, the narrative content portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Automated Insights, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Allen
  • Publication number: 20170218684
    Abstract: A door includes a door frame, first and second door skins having rectangular outer peripheries and inner openings, and a frameless glazed unit received at the openings. The door skins include exterior surfaces facing away from the door frame and opposite interior surfaces facing and secured to opposite sides of the door frame. The exterior and interior surfaces of the first and second door skins establish integral lips and grooves of the first and second door skins. Opposite sides of the frameless glazed unit directly contact and are sealed by the integral lips and sealant and/or adhesive contained in the grooves of the first and second door skins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Timothy D. GOUGE, Abhishek Vaidya, Robert C. ALLEN, Steven B. SWARTZMILLER, Jason M. WALSH
  • Patent number: D797310
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen, Jason M. Walsh, Mark Albrighton
  • Patent number: D797954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Allen, Jason M. Walsh, Dale W. Mayfield
  • Patent number: D800920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen, Jason M. Walsh, Mark Albrighton
  • Patent number: D802793
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen
  • Patent number: D802794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Shaun Alsdorf, Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen
  • Patent number: D802795
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen, Shaun E. Alsdorf, Steven Gutkowski
  • Patent number: D804057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Allen, Jason M. Walsh, Dale W. Mayfield
  • Patent number: D808541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen
  • Patent number: D812773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen, Jason M. Walsh, Mark Albrighton
  • Patent number: D813412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Gouge, Robert C. Allen, Jason M. Walsh, Mark Albrighton