Patents by Inventor Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick 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: 11280215Abstract: An engine component assembly includes a first engine component having a hot surface in thermal communication with a hot combustion gas flow and a cooling surface with at least one cavity. A second engine component is spaced from the cooling surface, and includes at least one cooling aperture. The cooling aperture is arranged such that cooling fluid impinges on the cooling surface at an angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Frederick Bergholz, Jason Randolph Allen, Robert David Briggs, Kevin Robert Feldmann, Curtis Walton Stover, Zachary Daniel Webster, Fernando Reiter
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Patent number: 11278677Abstract: A data collection device for attachment to an injection device, such as an injector pen, includes a sensor arrangement to detect movement of a movable component of the injection device relative to the data collection device during delivery of a medicament by the injection device, and a processor arrangement configured to, based on said detected movement, determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device. The processor arrangement may monitor the time that has elapsed since the medicament dosage was administered, and control a display to show the mediacament dosage and elapsed time to provide a memory aid to the user. In an example embodiment, the sensor arrangement includes an optical encoder and the movable component includes a plurality of light barrier formations. The movable component may be a number sleeve that provides a visual indication of a dose programmed into the injection device.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Frank Erbstein, Paul Richard Draper, Robert Frederick Veasey, David Aubrey Plumptre, Joseph Butler
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Publication number: 20220072235Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a dose setting mechanism that may be used with a drug delivery device. The dose setting mechanism may include an inner body having a helical thread along an outer cylindrical surface of the inner body, and a drive sleeve for driving a piston rod in an axial direction, the drive sleeve positioned within at least a portion of the inner body. The dose setting mechanism may further include a dose dial sleeve rotatably engaged with the helical thread of the inner body and a dial grip connected to the dose dial sleeve and releasably connected to the drive sleeve. Further when a dose is set, the dial grip is rotated so that both the dose dial sleeve and the drive sleeve rotate with respect to the inner body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher Nigel Langley, Steven Wimpenny
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Patent number: 11241624Abstract: A mobile video game uses real world anchor points in providing for video game play which includes virtual elements. The real world anchor points may be specified in terms of a geographic coordinate system, and game play may be based on mobile device presence at or about the anchor points.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Alexander Bridge, Robert Frederick Ford, Eunice Lee, Nathan Lutz, Michal Tadeusz Madej, Paul Reiche, III
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Publication number: 20220031954Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a cartridge containing medicinal product, the cartridge being retained within the housing, means for selecting a dose of medicinal product to be expelled, and means for expelling the selected dose of medicinal product. The housing may be a unitary housing within which the means for selecting a dose and the means for expelling the selected dose are moveably retained. Alternatively, the injector may include a housing, a piston rod, an insert located in the housing and through which the piston may rotate, ratchet means, a dose dial sleeve, a drive sleeve, a button located on the drive sleeve and rotatable with respect to the drive sleeve, and clutch means which upon depression of the button prevents rotation between the dose dial sleeve and the drive sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher Nigel Langley, Steven Wimpenny
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Patent number: 11229916Abstract: A system for controlling an electrostatic precipitator includes a computer control system with a computer and a controller in operative communication with an electrostatic precipitator. The computer control system is operative to control performance of the electrostatic precipitator by controlling one or more of: a) a power supply that controls voltage between an electrically grounded vertical plate and a metallic wire electrode in the electrostatic precipitator; b) a first feeder valve and a second feeder valve in a hopper; and c) a power supply to an electrical coil in operative communication with a rapper.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Carl Marcus Williamsson, Niraj Kumar Singh, Nanda Kishore Dash, Robert Frederick Murphy
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Patent number: 11207467Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a dose setting mechanism that may be used with a drug delivery device. The dose setting mechanism may include an inner body having a helical thread along an outer cylindrical surface of the inner body, and a drive sleeve for driving a piston rod in an axial direction, the drive sleeve positioned within at least a portion of the inner body. The dose setting mechanism may further include a dose dial sleeve rotatably engaged with the helical thread of the inner body and a dial grip connected to the dose dial sleeve and releasably connected to the drive sleeve. Further when a dose is set, the dial grip is rotated so that both the dose dial sleeve and the drive sleeve rotate with respect to the inner body.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher Nigel Langley, Steven Wimpenny
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Patent number: 11197959Abstract: A drive mechanism suitable for use in drug delivery devices is disclosed. The drive mechanism may be used with injector-type drug delivery devices, such as those permitting a user to set the delivery dose. The drive mechanism may include a housing, a dose dial sleeve, and a drive sleeve. A clutch is configured to permit rotation of the drive sleeve and the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are coupled through the clutch. Conversely, when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are in a de-coupled state, rotation of the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing is permitted and rotation of the drive sleeve with respect to the housing is prevented. In the de-coupled state, axial movement of the drive sleeve transfers force in a longitudinal direction for actuation of a drug delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
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Patent number: 11160928Abstract: The present invention relates to injectors, such as pen-type injectors, that provide for administration of medicinal products from a multidose-cartridge and permit a user to set the delivery dose. The injector may include a housing, a piston rod adapted to operate through the housing, a dose dial sleeve located between the housing and the piston rod, and a drive sleeve located between the dose dial sleeve and the piston rod. The dose dial sleeve may have a helical thread of first lead and the drive sleeve may have a helical groove of second lead. The first lead of the helical thread and the second lead of the helical groove may be the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
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Patent number: 11141534Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a dose setting mechanism that may be used with a drug delivery device. The dose setting mechanism may include an inner body having a helical thread along an outer cylindrical surface of the inner body, and a drive sleeve for driving a piston rod in an axial direction, the drive sleeve positioned within at least a portion of the inner body. The dose setting mechanism may further include a dose dial sleeve rotatably engaged with the helical thread of the inner body and a dial grip connected to the dose dial sleeve and releasably connected to the drive sleeve. Further when a dose is set, the dial grip is rotated so that both the dose dial sleeve and the drive sleeve rotate with respect to the inner body.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher Nigel Langley, Steven Wimpenny
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Publication number: 20210283333Abstract: A cartridge assembly for a drug delivery device is described. The cartridge assembly includes (i) a cartridge containing a drug, the cartridge including a dispensing end; (ii) a cartridge holder, the cartridge holder defining an interior cartridge holding section, in which the cartridge is arranged within the cartridge holding section; and (iii) a fixing member. The fixing member includes a fixing surface, in particular a radially oriented surface, which is arranged to abut a cartridge surface of the cartridge, in particular a radially oriented surface. The cartridge surface is a proximal surface which faces away from the dispensing end of the cartridge, and the cartridge surface is arranged between the dispensing end of the cartridge and the end opposite of the dispensing end.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2019Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Steven Wimpenny, David Aubrey Plumptre, Robert Frederick Veasey, Ian McFaul, Hugh Smith, Paul Griffin
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Publication number: 20210268194Abstract: A drive mechanism suitable for use in drug delivery devices is disclosed. The drive mechanism may be used with injector-type drug delivery devices, such as those permitting a user to set the delivery dose. The drive mechanism may include a housing, a dose dial sleeve, and a drive sleeve. A clutch is configured to permit rotation of the drive sleeve and the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are coupled through the clutch. Conversely, when the dose dial sleeve and drive sleeve are in a de-coupled state, rotation of the dose dial sleeve with respect to the housing is permitted and rotation of the drive sleeve with respect to the housing is prevented. In the de-coupled state, axial movement of the drive sleeve transfers force in a longitudinal direction for actuation of a drug delivery device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Robert Perkins, David Aubrey Plumptre
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Patent number: 11090436Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament. The device comprises a housing and at least two separate component parts, wherein for example at least one of these component parts performs a movement relative to the housing during dose setting and for example at least one of these component parts performs a movement relative to the housing during dose dispensing, and wherein the relative movement of the at least two separate component parts with respect to each other during dose setting differs from the relative movement of the at least two separate component parts with respect to each other during dose dispensing.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: SanofiInventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, David Aubrey Plumptre, Samuel Keir Steel, Robert Frederick Veasey
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Patent number: 11090435Abstract: A computerized electro-mechanical drug delivery device configured to deliver at least one dose of two or more medicaments. The device comprises a control unit. An electro-mechanical drive unit is operably coupled to the control unit and a primary reservoir for a first medicament and a secondary reservoir for a fluid agent, e.g. a second medicament. An operator interface is in communication with the control unit. A single dispense assembly is configured for fluid communication with the primary and the secondary reservoir. Activation of the operator panel sets a first dose from the primary reservoir and based on the first dose and a therapeutic dose profile, the control unit is configured to determine a dose or range of the fluid agent. Alternatively, the control unit determines or calculates a dose or range of a third medicament. Further, a dispense interface for use with a drug delivery device is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHInventors: Shane Alistair Day, Daniel Thomas De Sausmarez Lintell, Steven Wimpenny, Christopher Jones, Aidan Michael O'Hare, Barry Yates, Robert Frederick Veasey, Christopher James Smith, Malcolm Boyd, David Martin Leak, Carmen Patricia Keating, David Sanders, Elizabeth Anne Marshall
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Patent number: 11090771Abstract: An assembly for a dual-walled component of a gas turbine engine and methods of forming and repairing a dual-walled component. The assembly includes a cold section part having an outer surface that defines a plurality of impingement apertures, a hot section part including a pre-sintered preform, the hot section part positioned over the outer surface of the cold section part, and a plurality of support structures including the pre-sintered preform, the plurality of support structures positioned between the hot section part and the cold section part, the plurality of support structures separating the hot section part from the cold section part to define at least one cooling channel therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Joseph Peter Henderkott, Robert Frederick Proctor
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Patent number: 11020533Abstract: A data collection device for attachment to an injection device, such as an injector pen, includes a sensor arrangement to detect movement of a movable component of the injection device relative to the data collection device during delivery of a medicament by the injection device, and a processor arrangement configured to, based on said detected movement, determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device. The processor arrangement may monitor the time that has elapsed since the medicament dosage was administered, and control a display to show the medicament dosage and elapsed time to provide a memory aid to the user. In an example embodiment, the sensor arrangement includes an optical encoder and the movable component includes a plurality of light barrier formations. The movable component may be a number sleeve that provides a visual indication of a dose programmed into the injection device.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Frank Erbstein, Paul Richard Draper, Robert Frederick Veasey, David Aubrey Plumptre, Joseph Butler
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Publication number: 20210086078Abstract: A virtual game world may have game locations based on electronic devices with communications capabilities. In some embodiments electronic devices with communications capabilities are identified to a server, which forms a game location for the identified devices, or at least some of them. The game locations may have non-player controlled game characters as inhabitants of the game locations. One or more characteristics of the inhabitants of a game location may be based on an aspect relating to the electronic device with communication capability with which the game location is associated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Robert Frederick Ford, Paul Reiche
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Publication number: 20210078108Abstract: A method of forming a ferrous metal case-hardened layer using additive manufacturing. The method includes delivering, by a material delivery device, a filler material to a surface of a substrate. The substrate includes a first ferrous metal. The filler material includes a second ferrous metal and a carbon-based material. The method also includes directing, by an energy delivery device, an energy toward a volume of the filler material to join at least some of the filler material to the substrate to form a component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Brian Drier, Amanda Dawn Graham, Robert Frederick Proctor, Quinlan Yee Shuck, Jacque Sue Bader
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Publication number: 20210047488Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for preparing a surface comprising thermoplastic or thermoset material to receive a polysulfide or polythioether sealant or coating, the method comprising applying to the surface an activating composition consisting of a tetraalkoxide of a Group 4 metal, a complex of an alkoxide of a Group 4 metal, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Daniel James Cowan, Bart Stevens, Jason Alan Bolles, Robert Frederick Rivers
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Patent number: 10865985Abstract: A method for operating a combustion chamber is provided. The method includes obtaining a carbon monoxide reading at an exit of the combustion chamber via a carbon monoxide sensor, and deriving an oxygen set point trim based at least in part on the carbon monoxide reading and a carbon monoxide set point via a controller. The method further includes determining a stability status of the combustion chamber via a combustion stability sensor, and adjusting an oxygen set point of the combustion chamber with the oxygen set point trim based at least in part on the stability status via the controller. The oxygen set point defines a desired oxygen level at the exit of the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Shizhong Yang, Robert Frederick Murphy, Jilin Tu, Xiaoleinmn Shi, Dayu Huang