Patents by Inventor Robert Charles
Robert Charles 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).
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Patent number: 11959132Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for simultaneously amplifying a plurality of sample wells for a predetermined amount of amplification, detecting whether amplification has occurred in a first set of the wells, amplifying for an additional amount of amplification and detecting whether amplification has occurred in a second set of the wells. Methods are also provided for analyzing a target nucleic acid sequence using melt curves that were generated in a plurality of amplification cycles.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: BioFire Diagnostics, LLCInventors: Randy P. Rasmussen, Robert John Crisp, Andrew Clinton Hemmert, Elizabeth Barker Campbell, Thomas Charles Robbins, David J. Eyre
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Patent number: 11960577Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for sharing and publishing files. In one aspect, the database system can maintain a user database, a file database and a library. The database system can receive a first request initiated by a first user to share a first file with one or more second users and, responsive to the first request, enable a second set of one or more permissions for each of the second users. The database system also can receive a second request initiated by the first user to publish the first file to the library and, responsive to the second request, publish the first file to the library. The database system additionally can restrict access to the published file based on permissions associated with the library.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Miko Arnab Bose, Robert J. Snell, Mark Francis Movida, Valliappan Annamalai Natarajan, Adam Thielemann Wegel, Matthew Charles Hagenian, Durgesh Singh
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Patent number: 11959708Abstract: A heat exchanger includes an inlet for receiving bulk solids, a plurality of heat transfer plate assemblies, a plurality of spacers disposed between adjacent heat transfer plate assemblies, and supports for supporting the heat transfer plate assemblies. The heat transfer plate assemblies include a first plate having a first pair of holes extending therethrough, the first plate having channels extending along a surface thereof, for the flow of fluid through the channels, and a second plate bonded to the first plate to enclose the channels, the second plate including a second pair of holes generally aligned with the first pair of holes to form through holes to facilitate flow of the fluid through the through holes and the channels.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Solex Thermal Science Inc., National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Vacuum Process Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Ashley D. Byman, Robert McGillivray, Brandon Emmanuel St Germain, Layne Charles, Kevin James Albrecht, Dereje Shiferaw Amogne, Matthew David Carlson, Clifford Kuofei Ho, Carl P. Schalansky, Aaron Edward Wildberger
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Publication number: 20240121256Abstract: A system and method for preventing illicit use of a telephony platform that includes enrolling a plurality of accounts on a telecommunications platform, wherein an account includes account configuration; at a fraud detection system of the telecommunications platform, receiving account usage data, wherein the usage data includes at least communication configuration data and billing configuration data of account configuration and further includes communication history of the plurality of accounts; calculating fraud scores of a set of fraud rules from the usage data, wherein at least a sub-set of the fraud rules include conditions of usage data patterns between at least two accounts; detecting when the fraud scores of an account satisfy a fraud threshold; and initiating an action response when a fraud score satisfies the fraud threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Adam Ballai, Robert Charles Hagemann, III, Daniel Zarick
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Publication number: 20240117326Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and means for producing nitrogenase polypeptides in the mitochondria of plant cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Ema Jayne JOHNSTON, Robert Silas ALLEN, Christina Maria GREGG, Shoko OKADA, Amratha MENON, Andrew Charles WARDEN, Matthew Craig TAYLOR, Craig Christopher WOOD
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Publication number: 20240116080Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods of integrated on-demand labeling of item containers. In particular, this disclosure relates systems and methods for automatically creating and using placards to label, track, and organize item containers and items.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Robert Charles Moran, Marlon Guy Wells
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Patent number: 11953686Abstract: An optical combiner in a display system of a mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) device comprises a lens of birefringent material and a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) modulator that are adapted for use with a reflective waveguide to provide multiple different focal planes on which holograms of virtual-world objects (i.e., virtual images) are displayed. The birefringent lens has two orthogonal refractive indices, ordinary and extraordinary, depending on the polarization state of the incident light. Depending on the rotation of the polarization axis by the FLC modulator, the incoming light to the birefringent lens is focused either at a distance corresponding to the ordinary refractive index or the extraordinary refractive index. Virtual image light leaving the birefringent lens is in-coupled to a see-through reflective waveguide which is configured to form an exit pupil for the optical combiner to enable an HMD device user to view the virtual images from the source.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Robert Thomas Held, Bernard Charles Kress, Ashley Saulsbury, Dmitry Reshidko
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Patent number: 11946173Abstract: Yarns and fabrics that include modacrylic fibers are described herein. A yarn and/or fabric may include modacrylic fibers, meta-aramid fibers, anti-static fibers, and optionally para-aramid fibers. In some embodiments, the modacrylic fibers, meta-aramid fibers, and, if present, para-aramid fibers, may each be solution-dyed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Glen Raven, Inc.Inventors: Robert Charles Earhart, Mia Rauston Alberto, Christopher Brent Martin
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Patent number: 11944693Abstract: A method for delivering one or more oral care active agents to a mammal's mouth using a nonwoven web of filaments and/or fibers containing one or more oral care active agents that are releasable from the filaments and/or fibers is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Robert Sivik, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
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Publication number: 20240101274Abstract: An electric pushback vehicle includes a frame having a forward portion and a rear portion. The vehicle further includes front drive axle and a rear drive axle configured to communicate power to ground engaging members. A traction battery is housed within the electric pushback vehicle and provides electric power to an electric motor to drive an output shaft. A transmission is connected to receive mechanical power from the electric motor through a torque converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Trevor Douglas ROEBUCK, Brian Wallace YODER, Patrick Dwaine WARDEN, Chase Cherek SCHOFIELD, Robert Charles BRADLEY, Anthony Christopher MORRIS, Joshua David BARNES, William Cole KOSTER, Ian Kendall BALK, James Chandler LIGGETT
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Publication number: 20240102241Abstract: This disclosure pertains to the use of black liquors from kraft pulp mills as a source of catalysts for the thermochemical conversion of organic matter feedstocks to bio oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: Canfor Pulp Ltd., Licella Pty Ltd.Inventors: William Neil Rowlands, Leonard James Humphreys, Robert William Clayton Thew, James Allan Spankie, Victor Charles Uloth, Pawl Andrew Watson, Martin William Pudlas
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Patent number: 11939638Abstract: Method and systems for identifying and distinguishing subjects using a detection system comprising pooled probes are described. The pooled probes described comprise subject specific features allowing for identification and distinction of subjects in a complex sample and can be utilized in a variety of detection platforms. The methods and systems can further comprise the use of isotachophoresis to concentrate analytes in a sample.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: REVERE BIOSENSORS, LLCInventors: Robert Charles Kain, Theofilos Kotseroglou, Vladimir Bashkirov, Richard Shen
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Patent number: 11942013Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for improving the color uniformity of a display of a display device. A plurality of images of the display are captured using an image capture device. The plurality of images are captured in a color space, with each image corresponding to one of a plurality of color channels. A global white balance is performed to the plurality of images to obtain a plurality of normalized images. A local white balance is performed to the plurality of normalized images to obtain a plurality of correction matrices. Performing the local white balance includes defining a set of weighting factors based on a figure of merit and computing a plurality of weighted images based on the plurality of normalized images and the set of weighting factors. The plurality of correction matrices are computed based on the plurality of weighted images.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Messer, Miller Harry Schuck, III, Nicholas Ihle Morley, Po-Kang Huang, Nukul Sanjay Shah, Marshall Charles Capps, Robert Blake Taylor
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Patent number: 11943262Abstract: A method is presented for secure communication, the method including generating a signature using a private key, a nonce, and at least one of an identifier and a key component; and transmitting the signature, the nonce, a security parameter, and the at least one of the identifier and the key component, wherein the security parameter associates a user identity with a public key, the public key being associated with the private key.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Michael Eoin Buckley, Michael Charles Hollatz, Robert John Lambert, Nevine Maurice Nassif Ebeid
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Publication number: 20240093186Abstract: The disclosure provides, e.g., compositions, systems, and methods for targeting, editing, modifying, or manipulating a host cell's genome at one or more locations in a DNA sequence in a cell, tissue, or subject. Gene modifying systems for treating cystic fibrosis, e.g., in subjects having a mutation resulting in F508del, are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Robert Charles Altshuler, Anne Helen Bothmer, Daniel Raymond Chee, Cecilia Giovanna Silvia Cotta-Ramusino, Kyusik Kim, Randi Michelle Kotlar, Gregory David McAllister, Aamir Mir, Ananya Ray, Nathaniel Roquet, Carlos Sanchez, Barrett Ethan Steinberg, Robert James Citorik, William Edward Salomon, William Querbes, Luciano Henrique Apponi, Zhan Wang
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Publication number: 20240092190Abstract: Techniques control a utility vehicle. Such techniques involve storing electric power in a lithium battery of the utility vehicle. Such techniques further involve operating a motor controller of the utility vehicle in a normal mode in which the motor controller provides electric power from a lithium battery of the utility vehicle to an electric motor of the utility vehicle to turn one or more ground engaging members of the utility vehicle. Such techniques further involve, after operating the motor controller in the normal operating mode, operating the motor controller in a walkaway mode in which the motor controller configures the electric motor to provide braking torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Arthur James Harvey, Norman R. Padgett, John Ledden, Robert Charles Bradley, Patrick Dwaine Warden
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Publication number: 20240091453Abstract: An electronic system for a drug delivery device is provided, the electronic system comprising at least one user interface member configured to be manipulated by a user for performing a dose operation, e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Oliver Charles Gazeley, Adam Moyo Harvey-Cook, Craig Ashley Mason, Aidan Michael O`Hare, David Aubrey Plumptre, Maurice Toporek, Robert Veasey
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Publication number: 20240092054Abstract: A thermoplastic film which exhibits elastic-like behavior along at least one axis when stretched or elongated and then released. The thermoplastic film comprises a plurality of raised rib-like elements extending in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the thermoplastic film. The thermoplastic film further includes a plurality of web areas positioned about the plurality of raised rib-like elements. The plurality of raised rib-like elements and plurality of web areas are arranged in a complex pattern. The complex pattern provides visual and tactile cues as the films are stretched or elongated. The complex pattern can cause the thermoplastic film to have a complex stretch profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Shaun T. Broering, Michael G. Borchardt, Ranyi Zhu, Jason R. Maxwell, Daniel Charles Peck, Hugh Joseph O’Donnell, Robert T. Dorsey, Lehai Minh Pham Vu, Karen Denise McAffry
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Patent number: 11934376Abstract: A database management engine provides a user interface that allows users to access and modify employee information in a database. The database includes entries for employees, and each database entry includes identifying information about the associated employee. A user can request to modify data within database entries, for instance in order to update information associated with an employee. Responsive to the request, the database management engine identifies liabilities associated with the database modification stemming from associated tax laws. Based on the identified tax liabilities, the engine computes the aggregate tax liability owed by the employer and/or employee. Before modifying a database entry, the engine modifies the user interface to include interface elements detailing the computed aggregate tax liability. The user explicitly can be required to confirm the database modification in view of the aggregate tax liability.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ZENPAYROLL, INC.Inventors: Michael Kelly Sutton, Stephen Walter Hopkins, Matthew Charles Wilde, Alexander Scott Gerstein, Julia Hara Chin Lee, Michael Ryan Nierstedt, Nicholas Giancarlo Gervasi, Matan Zruya, Robert Douglas Gill, Jr., Bria Nicole Fincher, Ningjing Su, Ryan Kwong, Sheng Xiang Lei, Ketki Warudkar Duvvuru
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Patent number: 11936236Abstract: Selective discharging of a rechargeable battery pack across a power supply system load is provided, which includes determining occurrence of a condition within the power supply system, the power supply system including a power supply circuit and a backup energy source. The power supply circuit receives main input power, and the backup energy source is operatively coupled to the power supply circuit to supply backup power to the system load when main power input to the power supply circuit is unavailable. Based on determining occurrence of the condition within the power supply system, a controller actively discharges a rechargeable battery pack of the backup energy source. The actively discharging includes controlling the power supply circuit to force discharging of power from the rechargeable battery pack to the power supply system load by suspending the main input power within the system from powering the system load.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Noah Singer, Steven John Ahladas, Robert K. Mullady, Brian Charles Tucker