Patents by Inventor Robert D. Lee

Robert D. Lee 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).

  • Patent number: 12127784
    Abstract: An electrosurgical forceps includes first and second shaft members pivotably coupled to one another via a pivot member such that pivoting of the first and second shaft members between spaced-apart and approximated positions pivots jaw members thereof between open and closed positions. A knife is translatable between retracted and extended positions. A knife deployment mechanism is operably coupled to the first shaft member and includes at least one trigger and at least one linkage coupling the at least one trigger with the knife such that pivoting of the at least one trigger relative to the first shaft member translates the knife between the retracted and extended positions. A knife lockout biased towards a locked position inhibits distal translation of the knife. The knife lockout is movable from the locked position to an unlocked position upon approximation of the jaw members to permit distal translation of the knife.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Grant T. Sims, Benjamin R. Arts, Kelley D. Goodman, David Michael Keffeler, Craig V. Krastins, Jennifer E. Lee, Robert F. McCullough, Jr., Daniel W. Mercier
  • Publication number: 20240318388
    Abstract: A system for assisting an asphalt compactor in performing a directional change can include a controller configured to perform a turn-out for the asphalt compactor by steering the asphalt compactor at a desired turning angle on an asphalt mat; the controller configured to turn off a vibratory system for the asphalt compactor during the turn-out; the controller configured to slow down and stop the asphalt compactor after a desired distance into the turn-out; and the controller configured to move the asphalt compactor in an opposite direction and restart the vibratory system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Lindholm, John L. Marsolek, Cary M. Bryant, Jeremy W. Lee, Matthew D. Chisholm, Joseph A. Lehtola, Robert J. McGee, Mark A. Tarvin, Rianto A. Rahman, Paul S. Petersen
  • Publication number: 20240315760
    Abstract: A knife configured for use with an electrosurgical forceps having curved jaw members and a method of manufacturing the same. The knife includes a distal body having an inner side and an outer side, a first etching on the outer side of the distal body defining a distal cutting edge and a second etching on the outer side of the distal body extending along a portion of a length of the distal body to define relatively protruded and relatively recessed surfaces extending along a portion of the length of the distal body on the outer side thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Kelley D. Goodman, David Michael Keffeler, Craig V. Krastins, Jennifer E. Lee, Robert F. McCullough, Jr., Daniel W. Mercier, Grant T. Sims
  • Patent number: 12097345
    Abstract: Venous infusion catheter assemblies and methods of use are described herein. A catheter assembly may comprise an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, with an expandable occlusion element disposed on the elongated catheter body. A catheter may include a first infusion lumen extending to a proximal infusion port positioned on the catheter body proximally of the occlusion element and a second infusion lumen extending to a distal infusion port. Some embodiments may use a suction lumen extending to at least one suction port. When the catheter is introduced into vasculature of a patient, the suction port may be positioned in the patient's superior vena cava or right atrium to draw blood, the distal infusion port is positioned to direct normothermic or hyperthermic fluid toward the patient's heart, and the proximal infusion port is positioned to create a flow of hypothermic fluid in the patient's cerebral vasculature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Penumbra, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Schultz, Justin M. Olshavsky, Bridget C. Vaughan, Corey Teigen, Scott Teigen, Michael E. Salamy, Nitika S. Chellappa, Akhilesh R. R. Yeluru, Annam K. Quraishi, Melissa E. R. Jones, Aurko J. Shaw, Matthew W. L. Sprinkel, Anderson S. Lee, Evan T. Koretsky, Steve Loisel, Robyn Shaffer
  • Patent number: 12095040
    Abstract: A secondary battery for cycling between a charged and a discharged state, wherein a 2D map of the median vertical position of the first opposing vertical end surface of the electrode active material in the X-Z plane, along the length LE of the electrode active material layer, traces a first vertical end surface plot, EVP1, a 2D map of the median vertical position of the first opposing vertical end surface of the counter-electrode active material layer in the X-Z plane, along the length LC of the counter-electrode active material layer, traces a first vertical end surface plot, CEVP1, wherein for at least 60% of the length LC of the first counter-electrode active material layer (i) the absolute value of a separation distance, SZ1, between the plots EVP1 and CEVP1 measured in the vertical direction is 1000 ?m?|SZ1|?5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Enovix Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Busacca, Ashok Lahiri, Murali Ramasubramanian, Bruno A. Valdes, Gardner Cameron Dales, Christopher J. Spindt, Geoffrey Matthew Ho, Harrold J. Rust, III, James D. Wilcox, John F. Varni, Kim Han Lee, Nirav S. Shah, Richard J. Contreras, Lynn Van Erden, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Jeremie J. Dalton, Jason Newton Howard, Robert Keith Rosen
  • Patent number: 12087947
    Abstract: Secondary batteries and methods of manufacture thereof are provided. A secondary battery can comprise an offset between electrode and counter-electrode layers in a unit cell. Secondary batteries can be prepared by removing a population of negative electrode subunits from a negative electrode sheet, the negative electrode sheet comprising a negative electrode sheet edge margin and at least one negative electrode sheet weakened region that is internal to the negative electrode sheet edge margin, removing a population of separator layer subunits from a separator sheet, and removing a population of positive electrode subunits from a positive electrode sheet, the positive electrode sheet comprising a positive electrode edge margin and at least one positive electrode sheet weakened region that is internal to the positive electrode sheet edge margin, and stacking members of the negative electrode subunit population, the separator layer subunit population and the positive electrode subunit population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Enovix Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Busacca, Ashok Lahiri, Murali Ramasubramanian, Bruno A. Valdes, Gardner Cameron Dales, Christopher J. Spindt, Geoffrey Matthew Ho, Harrold J. Rust, III, James D. Wilcox, John F. Varni, Kim Han Lee, Nirav S. Shah, Richard J. Contreras, Lynn Van Erden, Ken S. Matsubayashi, Jeremie J. Dalton, Jason Newton Howard, Robert Keith Rosen, Jonathan C. Doan, Michael J. Armstrong, Anthony Calcaterra, Benjamin L. Cardozo, Joshua David Winans, Neelam Singh, Jeffrey Glenn Buck, Thomas John Schuerlein, Kim Lester Fortunati, Neal Sarswat
  • Publication number: 20240291012
    Abstract: A secondary battery is provided for cycling between a charged and a discharged state, the secondary battery including a battery enclosure, an electrode assembly, carrier ions, a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte within the battery enclosure, and a set of electrode constraints. The set of electrode constraints includes a primary constraint system having first and second primary growth constraints and at least one primary connecting member, the first and second primary growth constraints separated from each other in the longitudinal direction, wherein the primary constraint array restrains growth of the electrode assembly in the longitudinal direction such that any increase in the Feret diameter of the electrode assembly in the longitudinal direction over 20 consecutive cycles of the secondary battery is less than 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Robert S. Busacca, Ashok Lahiri, Murali Ramasubramanian, Bruno A. Valdes, Gardner Cameron Dales, Christopher J. Spindt, Geoffrey Matthew Ho, Harrold J. Rust, III, James D. Wilcox, John F. Varni, Kim Han Lee, Nirav S. Shah, Richard J. Contreras, Lynn Van Erden, Vladimir Dioumaev
  • Publication number: 20240280737
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a pixelated OLED display panel and a color-correction component disposed on the pixelated OLED display panel. The pixelated OLED display panel has a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 30 degrees of ?030, and a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 45 degrees of ?045, where ?045??030?1.05 and 1.5??045?1.1. The color-correction component is configured such that a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 45 degrees of the display is ?45 and a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 30 degrees of the display is ?30, where ?045?0.1??45?2.1??045 and ?030?0.05??30?2.05??030. Methods of making OLED displays are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Erickson, David G. Freier, Robert L. Brott, Bing Hao, David A. Rosen, Stephen M. Menke, Bert T. Chien, Seong Taek Lee, Encai Hao, Zhaohui Yang, Albert I. Everaerts, Yongshang Lu, William Blake Kolb, Keith R. Bruesewitz, Adam D. Haag, Sun-Yong Park, Timothy J. Nevitt (Deceased), Brianna N. Wheeler, Jody L. Peterson, Gilles J. Benoit
  • Patent number: 12060443
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the polymerisation of one or more monomers in a gas phase reactor, and in particular provides a process for from the polymerisation of one or more monomers in a horizontal stirred bed gas phase reactor, wherein the process comprises: a. Polymerising a mixture comprising one or more monomers and hydrogen in the reactor to produce the polymer, b. Withdrawing from the reactor a gaseous stream, c. Passing the gaseous stream to a condenser in which it is partly condensed to produce a liquid phase and a remaining vapour phase, d. Passing the mixture of liquid phase and remaining vapour from the condenser to a separator in which there is maintained a liquid phase and a vapour phase, the volume of the liquid phase in the separator being a percentage, X, which is between 10 and 80% of the total volume of the separator, e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: INEOS USA LLC
    Inventors: William E. Beardsley, Robert Topliss, James H. Lee, William D. Stephens
  • Patent number: 9819593
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein can allow a user of mobile device in a network environment to switch between using public network services and using private network services. To access private network services, a virtualization cloud client application running on mobile device connects to a virtualized device hosted in virtualization cloud and brokers access to private network services as well as local device functions. Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer program product for improving network latency by bypassing elements or functions on a remote virtual machine. Examples of this approach include moving elements of the user interface from the remote virtual machine to the local physical device, bypassing a media player on a virtual machine, and bypassing certain telephone functions on a virtual machine and instead performing those functions on the physical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hypori, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Vetter, Rajesh P. Gopi, Robert D. Lee, Justin P. Marston
  • Patent number: 9697629
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein can match a virtual display configuration to a physical display configuration. A method may include receiving from a physical device a physical device display configuration; generating a list of display configurations compatible with the physical display configuration, the generating a list including determining best matches of display geometries, aspect ratio, and density; providing the list to the physical device; and implementing a selected member of the list as a virtual device display on the physical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Hypori, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Vetter, Robert D. Lee, Justin P. Marston, Patrick Turley
  • Patent number: 9516883
    Abstract: Disclosed are: an assembly and method for thin bread-like food having a housing, rotatable drum, infeed roller for moving food toward drum rotation, and a drum heater. A radiant heater associated with the housing radiates heat towards food on the drum. Food can be directed toward the infeed roller by an infeed platform. The drum can be rotatably supported by a bearing arrangement. An interior drum heater and a thermostat sensor can also be supported by the bearing. A guide can contact food that separates from the drum, to redirect it toward the drum surface. A discharge scraper can separate food from the drum. A discharge roller can direct food from the drum toward a discharge direction. A motor drive assembly can drive drum, infeed roller and discharge roller rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Star Manufacturing International Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Huegerich, Robert D. Lee
  • Patent number: 9380456
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer program product for dynamically switching virtual devices in a virtual mobile device platform. The virtual devices may use any desired operating system or operating system version. In some embodiments, a launch application installed on a secondary virtual device is defined for opening a file of a given file type. Upon a request to open a file of the given file type, the secondary virtual device is launched, and a connection is established with a client device. A client device can connect to a secondary virtual device by using a primary virtual device as a proxy, or by using a bypass channel connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Hypori, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Lee, Justin P. Marston
  • Patent number: 8107634
    Abstract: A calibration device for calibrating a dynamic pressure sensor includes a power/control box and a portable calibration head disposed in electrical communication with the power/control box. The portable calibration head may include a calibration head housing having a housing opening and a speaker provided in the calibration head housing and communicating with the housing opening. The power/control box may be configured to induce emission of an acoustic calibration signal from the speaker of the calibration head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Richard M Gratzer, Robert D. Lee, Joel R. Tuss, James R. Underbrink, Wayne F. Wenneman
  • Publication number: 20100104108
    Abstract: A calibration device for calibrating a dynamic pressure sensor includes a power/control box and a portable calibration head disposed in electrical communication with the power/control box. The portable calibration head may include a calibration head housing having a housing opening and a speaker provided in the calibration head housing and communicating with the housing opening. The power/control box may be configured to induce emission of an acoustic calibration signal from the speaker of the calibration head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Richard M. Gratzer, Robert D. Lee, Joel R. Tuss, James R. Underbrink, Wayne F. Wenneman
  • Patent number: 6969970
    Abstract: A battery charger with charging parameter values derived from communication with a battery pack to be charged. Communication is over a one-wire bus with battery pack transmissions in response to charger inquiries. The battery charger may be in the form an integrated circuit driving a power transistor or other controllable DC supply. A battery pack may contain a program with multiple charging currents and charging interval termination methods such as time, temperature rise, and incremental voltage polarity. A lack of communication may be invoke a default charging program or denial of access to the charger. The charger also communicates over a high-speed three-wire bus with an external computer for analysis of identification information acquired from the battery and for control of the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Dallas Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Donald R. Dias, Robert D. Lee
  • Publication number: 20030189417
    Abstract: A battery charger with charging parameter values derived from communication with a battery pack to be charged. Communication is over a one-wire bus with battery pack transmissions in response to charger inquiries. The battery charger may be in the form an integrated circuit driving a power transistor or other controllable DC supply. A battery pack may contain a program with multiple charging currents and charging interval termination methods such as time, temperature rise, and incremental voltage polarity. A lack of communication may be invoke a default charging program or denial of access to the charger. The charger also communicates over a high-speed three-wire bus with an external computer for analysis of identification information acquired from the battery and for control of the charger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Dallas Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Donald R. Dias, Robert D. Lee
  • Patent number: 6587807
    Abstract: A device and method for measuring temperature is disclosed. The device, for example, can include a thermocouple configured to generate a voltage indicative of a junction temperature; a memory device configured to store a unique device ID and to store data; a logic unit connected to the thermocouple and the memory device; an I/O interface connected to the logic unit, the I/O interface configured to communicate with a computer system; and an internal temperature sensor connected to the logic unit, the internal temperature sensor configured to determine a cold junction temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Dallas Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Awtrey, Hal Kurkowski, Robert D. Lee
  • Publication number: 20020177970
    Abstract: A device and method for measuring temperature is disclosed. The device, for example, can include a thermocouple configured to generate a voltage indicative of a junction temperature; a memory device configured to store a unique device ID and to store data; a logic unit connected to the thermocouple and the memory device; an I/O interface connected to the logic unit, the I/O interface configured to communicate with a computer system; and an internal temperature sensor connected to the logic unit, the internal temperature sensor configured to determine a cold junction temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: James D. Awtrey, Hal Kurkowski, Robert D. Lee
  • Publication number: 20020117993
    Abstract: A battery charger with charging parameter values derived from communication with a battery pack to be charged. Communication is over a one-wire bus with battery pack transmissions in response to charger inquiries. The battery charger may be in the form an integrated circuit driving a power transistor or other controllable DC supply. A battery pack may contain a program with multiple charging currents and charging interval termination methods such as time, temperature rise, and incremental voltage polarity. A lack of communication may be invoke a default charging program or denial of access to the charger. The charger also communicates over a high-speed three-wire bus with an external computer for analysis of identification information acquired from the battery and for control of the charger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Dallas Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Donald R. Dias, Robert D. Lee