Patents by Inventor Robert C. Flanagan

Robert C. Flanagan 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: 20240152730
    Abstract: A system comprising a first expired drug usability device is provided. The first expired drug usability device comprises a first spectrometer and one or more first processors. The first processors are configured to: obtain at least one expired drug machine learning-artificial intelligence (ML-AI) model associated with a pharmaceutical drug; obtain drug expiration information of a sample of the pharmaceutical drug, wherein the drug expiration information comprises spectrometer data associated with using the first spectrometer on the sample; input the drug expiration information into the at least one expired drug ML-AI model to determine usability information associated with the sample of the pharmaceutical drug; and perform one or more actions based on the usability information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne Kurfirst, Neal Shah, Tulsi Patel, Clark D. Peterson, Matthew C. Van Allen, Alan Bachmann, Ajay Behuria, Harpreet Kaur, Robert W. Goldman, Katharine R. Flanagan, Zainab Salahudin, Kamya Menon
  • Patent number: 6594476
    Abstract: In accordance with one form of the present invention, an Adaptively Peaked Super-Regenerative Filter (APSRF) is provided, which preferably includes an interference suppression system (ISS), a summing block, a phase splitter, one or more variable attenuators, three couplers, an amplifier and a filter. The APSRF provides for significant narrowing of the bandwidth and a significant increase in the SNR and Q transfer function of the filter. The output of the amplifier or filter is sampled by one of the couplers and used as a reference sample signal to the ISS. The ISS includes an adaptive loop, which adjusts the reference sample signal in phase and amplitude to form a replica signal. The replica signal is designed to cancel an input sample signal taken from another coupler and applied to the summing block. An output of the summing block provides an error sample signal to the ISS, which enables the ISS to adaptively optimize the nulling function by adjusting the amplitude and phase of the replica signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: American Nucleonics Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Flanagan, Mark B. Bahu
  • Patent number: 4007331
    Abstract: A digital system is disclosed for demodulating relative phase-shift modulated binary data using a delay circuit to store one data bit period of sample bits for phase comparison with the next data bit period of sample bits, and a cascaded delay circuit of the same length to effectively repeat the demodulation one data bit period later. An up-down counter effectively integrates the difference between current demodulated sample bits and the demodulated sample bits of the previous data bit period to enhance data bit detection. Such data demodulation is used from a selected one of three channels, a center channel for no Doppler shift compensation, and two channels for positive and negative Doppler shift compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1977
    Assignee: Bunker Ramo Corporation
    Inventor: Robert C. Flanagan