Patents by Inventor Robert Dexter
Robert Dexter 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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Publication number: 20240306602Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cleaning system and various related apparatus for grooming a pet. The cleaning system can comprise components dedicated to pet grooming or can adapt a surface cleaning apparatus or tools normally used for cleaning floors and upholstery to instead groom a pet. The pet grooming system can include a portable module, a fluid delivery system, and a recovery system. The recovery system can include a recovery pathway, a recovery tank, and a suction source. An enclosure for the suction source eliminates a direct, unobstructed path for soundwaves exiting the enclosure and at least one other opening where air enters or exits the portable module.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Jeremy W. Hoffmann, Brian Robert Dexter
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Patent number: 12022800Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cleaning system and various related apparatus for grooming a pet. The cleaning system can comprise components dedicated to pet grooming or can adapt a surface cleaning apparatus or tools normally used for cleaning floors and upholstery to instead groom a pet. The cleaning system can include two supply tanks, and a supply valve controlling the flow of cleaning solution out of one of the tanks.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: BISSELL Inc.Inventors: Jeremy W. Hoffmann, Brian Robert Dexter
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Publication number: 20240032757Abstract: An extraction cleaner system includes a housing with a fluid delivery pathway and a fluid recovery pathway. A suction source is disposed within the housing and is fluidly connected to the fluid recovery pathway. The suction source is configured to create a fluid pressure vacuum. A liquid source is carried by the housing and is fluidly connected to the fluid delivery pathway. The liquid source is configured to contain and dispense a liquid. A suction nozzle is fluidly connected to the fluid recovery pathway upstream from the suction source. The suction nozzle is configured to draw therethrough the liquid dispensed from the liquid source. The suction nozzle defines a pad compartment located within the fluid recovery pathway and an absorbent pad is removably stored inside the pad compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Jason W. Pruiett, Brian Robert Dexter
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Publication number: 20230190063Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus includes a base assembly with a suction nozzle and at least one wheel. A hand-held portion has a hand grip, a recovery container, and a suction source in fluid communication with the suction nozzle and the recovery container and configured for generating a working airstream. A wand is operably coupled between the base assembly and the hand-held portion and defines at least a portion of a working air path extending from the suction nozzle to an air outlet in the hand-held portion and including the suction source.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Mackenzie Leigh Knapp, Brian Robert Dexter, Tyler Newkirk, Churu Yun, Connor Canavan, Nicholas Harvey Jobbitt
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Publication number: 20230120701Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cleaning system and various related apparatus for grooming a pet. The cleaning system can comprise components dedicated to pet grooming or can adapt a surface cleaning apparatus or tools normally used for cleaning floors and upholstery to instead groom a pet. The cleaning system can include two supply tanks, and a supply valve controlling the flow of cleaning solution out of one of the tanks.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Jeremy W. Hoffmann, Brian Robert Dexter
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Patent number: 11559039Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pet grooming system and various related apparatus for grooming a pet. The pet grooming system can comprise components dedicated to pet grooming or can adapt a surface cleaning apparatus or tools normally used for cleaning floors and upholstery to instead groom a pet. The pet grooming system can include a hand tool coupled with a portable module via a conduit assembly, at least a portion of which may be in the form of a flexible hose. A plurality of pet grooming attachments are provided, and the hand tool can concurrently mount a grooming comb and a sprayer attachment to groom a pet.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: BISSELL Inc.Inventors: Jeremy W. Hoffmann, Brian Robert Dexter
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Publication number: 20210051921Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pet grooming system and various related apparatus for grooming a pet. The pet grooming system can comprise components dedicated to pet grooming or can adapt a surface cleaning apparatus or tools normally used for cleaning floors and upholstery to instead groom a pet. The pet grooming system can include a hand tool coupled with a portable module via a conduit assembly, at least a portion of which may be in the form of a flexible hose. A plurality of pet grooming attachments are provided, and the hand tool can concurrently mount a grooming comb and a sprayer attachment to groom a pet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Jeremy W. Hoffmann, Brian Robert Dexter
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Publication number: 20160001759Abstract: A brake monitoring system for use on a motor vehicle includes a sensor connected to each brake actuator shaft on the motor vehicle for monitoring the position and travel of the brake actuator and for generating and transmitting a brake condition signal; a data processor carried in an axle box associated with each axle and connected to sensors associated with brakes for the axle for receiving, interpreting, storing, and upon request, transmitting the brake condition signal, wherein each data processor includes an auto-address mechanism to identify its position on the vehicle; and a master station, wherein said master station includes a display for identifying a particular vehicle brake, a quantitative indication of the travel on the brake actuator shaft associated with the particular brake, and wherein said visual indicating devices which are indicative of said safety condition of a particular brake.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Judith Clark, Bridget Taylor, Robert Dexter, Kent Larson
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Patent number: 9156460Abstract: A brake monitoring system for use on a motor vehicle includes a sensor connected to each brake actuator on the motor vehicle for monitoring the position and travel of the brake actuator and for generating and transmitting a brake condition signal; a data processor carried in an axle box associated with each axle and connected to sensors associated with brakes for the axle for receiving, interpreting, storing, and upon request, transmitting the brake condition signal, wherein each data processor includes an auto-address mechanism to identify its position on the vehicle; and a master station, wherein said master station includes a display for identifying a particular vehicle brake, a quantitative indication of the travel on the brake actuator associated with the particular brake, and wherein said visual indicating devices which are indicative of said safety condition of a particular brake.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: SafetyWatch Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Judith Clark, Bridget Taylor, Robert Dexter, Kent Larson
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Publication number: 20130253762Abstract: A brake monitoring system for use on a motor vehicle includes a sensor connected to each brake actuator on the motor vehicle for monitoring the position and travel of the brake actuator and for generating and transmitting a brake condition signal; a data processor carried in an axle box associated with each axle and connected to sensors associated with brakes for the axle for receiving, interpreting, storing, and upon request, transmitting the brake condition signal, wherein each data processor includes an auto-address mechanism to identify its position on the vehicle; and a master station, wherein said master station includes a display for identifying a particular vehicle brake, a quantitative indication of the travel on the brake actuator associated with the particular brake, and wherein said visual indicating devices which are indicative of said safety condition of a particular brake.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Judith Clark, Bridget Taylor, Robert Dexter, Kent Larson
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Patent number: 7751421Abstract: A switch in a data communications network for performing traffic generation in addition to standard switching and routing operations is disclosed. The switch uses a fixed number of test packets retained in a conventional switch buffer to produce one or more infinite packet streams transmitted to a router under test (RUT). The switching device enqueues packets in the priority queues, dequeues the packets from the priority queues, transmits the dequeued packets to the RUT, and re-enqueues a copy of the dequeued packets into the priority queues from which they were dequeued. The enqueued packets and associated pointers to packets are organized into linked lists. By re-writing a copy of each dequeued packet to the tail of a linked list and updating the pointers, the switch produces repeatable streams of test packets. The priority buffers, without the re-write operation, may also be used for conventional egress traffic.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2004Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Paul Chi, Anees Narsinh, Marc-Alain Santerre, Robert Dexter
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Publication number: 20060140128Abstract: A switch in a data communications network for performing traffic generation in addition to standard switching and routing operations is disclosed. The switch uses a fixed number of test packets retained in a conventional switch buffer to produce one or more infinite packet streams transmitted to a router under test (RUT). The switching device enqueues packets in the priority queues, dequeues the packets from the priority queues, transmits the dequeued packets to the RUT, and re-enqueues a copy of the dequeued packets into the priority queues from which they were dequeued. The enqueued packets and associated pointers to packets are organized into linked lists. By re-writing a copy of each dequeued packet to the tail of a linked list and updating the pointers, the switch produces repeatable streams of test packets. The priority buffers, without the re-write operation, may also be used for conventional egress traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2004Publication date: June 29, 2006Inventors: Paul Chi, Anees Narsinh, Marc-Alain Santerre, Robert Dexter
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Patent number: D902503Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: BISSELL Inc.Inventor: Brian Robert Dexter
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Patent number: D948813Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: BISSELL Inc.Inventor: Brian Robert Dexter