Patents by Inventor Robert E. Fitzgerald

Robert E. Fitzgerald 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: 20180234660
    Abstract: Limited and temporary queuing of video data captured by a portable device prior to user initiation of video recording commands using a portable device that includes a digital camera, a memory for queuing pre-record command video and for storing video after a record command is initiated by a user, a user interface for a user to initiate the record command to cause the camera to capture and the portable device to store the video, and software that specially adapts the portable device to enable pre-record command video capture and queuing, post-command video capture, and storage of combined pre-record command video and post-record command video upon user activation of the record command on the user interface. The portable device can be, inter alia, a smartphone, eyeglasses, headgear, and lapel camera. A wearable device can maintain wireless communication with a portable computer providing network access and social media application functionality/integration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Luis M. Ortiz
  • Publication number: 20180233170
    Abstract: Systems and methods convert computer generated data and video into patterns of 0s and 1s for storage as a still image on camera film (e.g., 35 mm film). A system can include a user interface identifying computer generated data for conversion into a still image pattern of 0s and 1s for storage as a still image on a frame of film, a microprocessor programmed to convert the computer generated data into a still image pattern of 0s and 1s, and film imaging hardware for processing the frame of film with the still image pattern as a still image on the frame of film. The data can include at least one of: video data, pictures, text, and diagrams. The frame can be stored in a cartridge, which can contain more than one frame. The cartridge can be stored and retrieved from a multiple cartridge housing including automated storage and reading hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Robert E. Fitzgerald
  • Publication number: 20160344984
    Abstract: A headgear mounted camera including image processing and wireless communications modules to facilitate wireless data communications of video and audio to remote clients including smartphones and tablet computers, wherein the head mounted camera is mounted in at least one of: a sweatband, helmet, goggles, hat, and glasses. A camera that may be built into, mounted and or attachable/detachable as a camera lens to a verity of different headgear products and can transmits video data to computers, including portable handheld devices such as smartphones/and tablets computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Robert E. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 9316391
    Abstract: Lighted headwear having a brim and a light unit located within the brim. The light unit includes: a holder with a front end and a back end; at least one lens located within the holder at the front end of the holder; and at least one light source located within the holder and axially spaced from the at least one lens such that light produced by the light source projects along the holder, through the lens, and out the front end of the holder. The lighted headwear produces a narrower, longer-distance beam of light than typical lighted headwear, more akin to the light produced by a flashlight or torch, while maintaining the look of a normal hat or cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: OUTDOOR CAP COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Caitlin A. Fitzgerald
  • Publication number: 20150036324
    Abstract: Lighted headwear having a brim and a light unit located within the brim. The light unit includes: a holder with a front end and a back end; at least one lens located within the holder at the front end of the holder; and at least one light source located within the holder and axially spaced from the at least one lens such that light produced by the light source projects along the holder, through the lens, and out the front end of the holder. The lighted headwear produces a narrower, longer-distance beam of light than typical lighted headwear, more akin to the light produced by a flashlight or torch, while maintaining the look of a normal hat or cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Caitlin A. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 8813268
    Abstract: Lighted headwear having a brim and a light unit located within the brim. The light unit includes: a holder with a front end and a back end; at least one lens located within the holder at the front end of the holder; and at least one light source located within the holder and axially spaced from the at least one lens such that light produced by the light source projects along the holder, through the lens, and out the front end of the holder. The lighted headwear produces a narrower, longer-distance beam of light than typical lighted headwear, more akin to the light produced by a flashlight or torch, while maintaining the look of a normal hat or cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Outdoor Cap Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Caitlin A. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 8805839
    Abstract: An analysis system is described for identifying potentially malicious activity within a computer network. It performs this task by interacting with a user to successively remove known instances of non-malicious activity, to eventually reveal potentially malicious activity. The analysis system interacts with the user by inviting the user to apply labels to identified examples of network behavior; upon response by the user, the analysis system supplies new examples of network behavior to the user. In one implementation, the analysis system generates such examples using a combination of feature-based analysis and graph-based analysis. The graph-based analysis relies on analysis of graph structure associated with access events, such as by identifying entropy scores for respective portions of the graph structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Jack W. Stokes, Alice X. Zheng, Edward W. Hardy, Bodicherla Aditya Prakash
  • Publication number: 20140053318
    Abstract: A power source is concealed into headwear/headgear that may also have multiple built-in plugs that can be used to plug in a variety of external devices that would require power to operate. This headwear/headgear can also be used to recharge variety of external devices with only USB plug technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: NRG PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Caitlin A. Fitzgerald
  • Publication number: 20110252032
    Abstract: An analysis system is described for identifying potentially malicious activity within a computer network. It performs this task by interacting with a user to successively remove known instances of non-malicious activity, to eventually reveal potentially malicious activity. The analysis system interacts with the user by inviting the user to apply labels to identified examples of network behavior; upon response by the user, the analysis system supplies new examples of network behavior to the user. In one implementation, the analysis system generates such examples using a combination of feature-based analysis and graph-based analysis. The graph-based analysis relies on analysis of graph structure associated with access events, such as by identifying entropy scores for respective portions of the graph structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Jack W. Stokes, Alice X. Zheng, Edward W. Hardy, Bodicherla Aditya Prakash
  • Patent number: 5319878
    Abstract: The extermination of imported fireants is accomplished by a process in which water, heated to a temperature in the range of 200 212.degree. F., is applied by impulse inundation within the central core region of a fireant mound, initiated below ground level, continuing as the probe is inserted to a lowermost region, and thereafter continuing as the probe is withdrawn, and repeating the process from different angles and orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Inventors: Daniel Moffett, Robert E. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 4754927
    Abstract: A boundary layer thrust vector control nozzle (10) has a housing (18), the aft end of which has attached a control vane assembly (12). The control vane assembly includes two brackets (78, 80) which receive two vanes (86,88) such that the vanes are in spaced parallel relationship and extend across the exhaust opening. The vanes have equal but opposite angles of attack and are adapted to generate large side forces in a perpendicular plane and small side forces in a plane parallel to the vanes. The nozzle includes four sets of control ports (44, 46) for deflecting an exhaust plume to produce the large and small side forces also to produce significant roll moments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Colt Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 4282976
    Abstract: A rotatable article storage and display holder having a number of hangers for the pre-packaged articles sought to be displayed. The holder includes a means of adjusting the hangers longitudinally throughout their length as well as through a vertical component relative to their attachment to a freely rotatable top, which in turn is supported on a vertical standard mounted upon a stabilizing base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Inventor: Robert E. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 4011965
    Abstract: A coin-controlled manually operated envelope-vending machine having a vertical supply compartment whereby the lowermost envelope of the supply is available to a yieldable vending member having a horizontal reciprocal movement for engagement with a portion of the lowermost envelope so as to displace the same exteriorly of the machine to facilitate the complete removal of the envelope therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1977
    Inventor: Robert E. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 3995662
    Abstract: Fluidic switches characterized by a first divergent region immediately downstream of a nozzle throat and a second downstream region of reduced divergence which will be contacted by a deflected jet. The switches of the present invention include control ports which are normally open to the ambient atmosphere, the ports being located at or near the free stream separation point, and the transition from the first divergent section to the second section is located at or near the attached stream separation point. The switches of the present invention may assume a circular cross-section and when so doing will be provided with a plurality of ribs on the internal surface for preventing circumferential flow about a deflected jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1972
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Chandler Evans Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Fitzgerald, Robert F. Kampe