Patents by Inventor Robert Harding
Robert Harding 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: 20220402466Abstract: A wheel chock mounting assembly includes a bracket and a stopper. The bracket has a retention member and is configured to be coupled to a surface of a machine. The bracket defines a receptacle to at least partially receive a wheel chock at a predefined location on the machine. The stopper has an engagement member. The stopper is configured to be mounted on the machine at a predefined distance from the bracket. The bracket and the stopper are structured and arranged to receive and constrain the wheel chock therebetween at the predefined location on the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Nirmal GOLDWIN, Sriharsha HEBBANI NAGARAJA, Robert HARDING
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Publication number: 20210400858Abstract: A new banana cultivar ‘QCAV-4’ is provided that, when under significant disease pressure, remains largely free from infection by Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4). In the absence of such significant disease pressure, ‘QCAV-4’ appears to be essentially phenotypically identical to the wild type parent Cavendish Grand Nain. This includes in relation to immature and mature plant characteristics, fruit characteristics, and yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Queensland University of TechnologyInventors: James Dale, Robert Harding, Harjeet Khanna, Anthony James, Jennifer Kleidon, Mark Smith, Upendra Shekhawat
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Patent number: 11120423Abstract: Techniques for managing communications sessions between multiple user devices is provided. The computer system may support a capability of automatically establishing communications sessions between the user devices. For example, the computer system may receive audio data from a voice controlled device (VCD). The audio data may indicate an utterance of a user confirming that information of a payment instrument is needed for transaction. The computer system may initiate a second communications session with a second device of the user to receive the information required for the transaction. In some examples, the computer system may execute the script to synthesize text-to-speech content that requests user input for the information from the second device. Once received, the information may be stored in a user account associated with the user. The VCD may be instructed to resume communications with the user upon termination of the second communications session with the second device.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Aravindhan Vijayaraghavan, Jacob Daniel Robert Harding, Varun Sharma
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Publication number: 20200302423Abstract: Techniques for managing communications sessions between multiple user devices is provided. The computer system may support a capability of automatically establishing communications sessions between the user devices. For example, the computer system may receive audio data from a voice controlled device (VCD). The audio data may indicate an utterance of a user confirming that information of a payment instrument is needed for transaction. The computer system may initiate a second communications session with a second device of the user to receive the information required for the transaction. In some examples, the computer system may execute the script to synthesize text-to-speech content that requests user input for the information from the second device. Once received, the information may be stored in a user account associated with the user. The VCD may be instructed to resume communications with the user upon termination of the second communications session with the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Aravindhan Vijayaraghavan, Jacob Daniel Robert Harding, Varun Sharma
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Patent number: 10137428Abstract: Disclosed are silica bound zeolite adsorbent particles which possess high volumetric gas adsorption capacity for the adsorption and/or desorption of gases. The adsorbent are highly effective as a gas source in volumetrically constrained applications. The silica-bound zeolite adsorbents possess a relatively high zeolite content simultaneously with a relatively low intra-particle pore volume as compared to the clay bound zeolite aggregates heretofore used as a gas source in volumetrically constrained environments, e.g. instant beverage carbonation processes, devices or systems.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONNInventors: James George Miller, Robert Harding, Demetrius Michos, James Neil Pryor
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Publication number: 20170043318Abstract: Disclosed are silica bound zeolite adsorbent particles which possess high volumetric gas adsorption capacity for the adsorption and/or desorption of gases. The adsorbent are highly effective as a gas source in volumetrically constrained applications. The silica-bound zeolite adsorbents possess a relatively high zeolite content simultaneously with a relatively low intra-particle pore volume as compared to the clay bound zeolite aggregates heretofore used as a gas source in volumetrically constrained environments, e.g. instant beverage carbonation processes, devices or systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.Inventors: James George Miller, Robert Harding, Demetrius Michos, James Neil Pryor
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Publication number: 20170007104Abstract: The disclosure relates to bite blocks for endoscopic and related medical procedures, specifically bite blocks that achieve and maintain patient mandibular advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Frank Wilson Jackson, Frank Wilson Jackson, III, William Robert Harding
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Patent number: 9378500Abstract: A merchant generates a customized service strategy related to a suite of electronic transaction services hosted by a service provider. The custom strategy specifies services to perform, and possibly an order in which to perform the services, by a service provider in relation to an electronic transaction associated with the merchant. Through use of a user interface, the strategy can be represented as a graphical decision tree, with terminal nodes representing services or actions. A customized strategy is transmitted to a service provider, as is transaction related information, whereby the service provider can service the transaction according to the strategy and based on the transaction information. Scheduling information that specifies different strategies to apply to different transaction scenarios can be generated. A strategy is selected by a service provider based on the scheduling information and transaction information, and is used to service one or more electronic transactions.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Cybersource CorporationInventors: Michael Pe Jimenez, Jeffrey Leroy King, Theodore Arthur Strout, Timothy Robert Harding
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Patent number: 9179792Abstract: A dispenser assembly secures an object, such as a bottle of nail polish, within a tilting repository at an orientation and angle efficacious for accessing the object with one hand. Pressure applied to the repository tilts it to a desired angle for facilitated access and manipulation of the object. After the pressure is removed, the center of gravity for the repository and object is met, and the repository returns to its starting position prior to receiving the exerted force. A bracket portion provides a support for the assembly. Sidewalls that extend form a base in the bracket portion include slots. The repository portion includes rods that slide into the slots, thereby forming a cradle. The repository may then tilt in response to an exerted force applied to the object in the repository. A brace hinges up from the base to hold the repository at a desired angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Inventors: Beverly Harding, Robert Harding
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Publication number: 20150107600Abstract: The disclosure relates to bite blocks for endoscopic and related medical procedures, specifically bite blocks that achieve and maintain patient mandibular advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Frank Wilson Jackson, Frank Wilson Jackson, III, William Robert Harding
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Publication number: 20150014494Abstract: A dispenser assembly secures an object, such as a bottle of nail polish, within a tilting repository at an orientation and angle efficacious for accessing the object with one hand. Pressure applied to the repository tilts it to a desired angle for facilitated access and manipulation of the object. After the pressure is removed, the center of gravity for the repository and object is met, and the repository returns to its starting position prior to receiving the exerted force. A bracket portion provides a support for the assembly. Sidewalls that extend form a base in the bracket portion include slots. The repository portion includes rods that slide into the slots, thereby forming a cradle. The repository may then tilt in response to an exerted force applied to the object in the repository. A brace hinges up from the base to hold the repository at a desired angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Beverly Harding, Robert Harding
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Publication number: 20130262310Abstract: A merchant generates a customized service strategy related to a suite of electronic transaction services hosted by a service provider. The custom strategy specifies services to perform, and possibly an order in which to perform the services, by a service provider in relation to an electronic transaction associated with the merchant. Through use of a user interface, the strategy can be represented as a graphical decision tree, with terminal nodes representing services or actions. A customized strategy is transmitted to a service provider, as is transaction related information, whereby the service provider can service the transaction according to the strategy and based on the transaction information. Scheduling information that specifies different strategies to apply to different transaction scenarios can be generated. A strategy is selected by a service provider based on the scheduling information and transaction information, and is used to service one or more electronic transactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Michael Pe Jiminez, Jeffrey Leroy King, Theodore Arthur Strout, Timothy Robert Harding
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Patent number: 8417587Abstract: A merchant generates a customized service strategy related to a suite of electronic transaction services hosted by a service provider. The custom strategy specifies services to perform, and possibly an order in which to perform the services, by a service provider in relation to an electronic transaction associated with the merchant. Through use of a user interface, the strategy can be represented as a graphical decision tree, with terminal nodes representing services or actions. A customized strategy is transmitted to a service provider, as is transaction related information, whereby the service provider can service the transaction according to the strategy and based on the transaction information. Scheduling information that specifies different strategies to apply to different transaction scenarios can be generated. A strategy is selected by a service provider based on the scheduling information and transaction information, and is used to service one or more electronic transactions.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: CyberSource CorporationInventors: Michael Pe Jimenez, Jeffrey Leroy King, Theodore Arthur Strout, Timothy Robert Harding
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Patent number: 8366275Abstract: Image display apparatus (102) comprising projector means (112), a light source (104), at least one primary modulator (106) for modulating light, an auxiliary modulator (110) for modulating the light modulated by the primary modulator (106), optical means (108) for relaying the light modulated by the primary modulator (106) to the auxiliary modulator (110), and control means (118, 120) for controlling the primary modulator (106) and the auxiliary modulator (110), characterized in that: the primary modulator (106) comprises a first array of pixels, and the auxiliary modulator (110) comprises a second array of pixels; each pixel in the first array of pixels of the primary modulator (106) is controlled by the control means (118, 120) as a function of video input data for each pixel in the first array of pixels; and each pixel in the second array of pixels of the auxiliary modulator (110) is controlled by control means (118, 120) as a function of video input data for each equivalent pixel in the second array of piType: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Rockwell Collins UK LimitedInventors: John Robert Harding, Geoffrey Howard Blackham, Phillip John Scarfield
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Publication number: 20120011026Abstract: A merchant generates a customized service strategy related to a suite of electronic transaction services hosted by a service provider. The custom strategy specifies services to perform, and possibly an order in which to perform the services, by a service provider in relation to an electronic transaction associated with the merchant. Through use of a user interface, the strategy can be represented as a graphical decision tree, with terminal nodes representing services or actions. A customized strategy is transmitted to a service provider, as is transaction related information, whereby the service provider can service the transaction according to the strategy and based on the transaction information. Scheduling information that specifies different strategies to apply to different transaction scenarios can be generated. A strategy is selected by a service provider based on the scheduling information and transaction information, and is used to service one or more electronic transactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: CyberSource CorporationInventors: Michael Pe Jimenez, Jeffrey Leroy King, Theodore Arthur Strout, Timothy Robert Harding
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Patent number: 8046271Abstract: A merchant generates a customized service strategy related to a suite of electronic transaction services hosted by a service provider. The custom strategy specifies services to perform, and possibly an order in which to perform the services, by a service provider in relation to an electronic transaction associated with the merchant. Through use of a user interface, the strategy can be represented as a graphical decision tree, with terminal nodes representing services or actions. A customized strategy is transmitted to a service provider, as is transaction related information, whereby the service provider can service the transaction according to the strategy and based on the transaction information. Scheduling information that specifies different strategies to apply to different transaction scenarios can be generated. A strategy is selected by a service provider based on the scheduling information and transaction information, and is used to service one or more electronic transactions.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: CyberSource CorporationInventors: Michael Pe Jimenez, Jeffrey Leroy King, Theodore Arthur Strout, Timothy Robert Harding
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Publication number: 20100253863Abstract: Image display apparatus (102) comprising projector means (112), a light source (104), at least one primary modulator (106) for modulating light, an auxiliary modulator (110) for modulating the light modulated by the primary modulator (106), optical means (108) for relaying the light modulated by the primary modulator (106) to the auxiliary modulator (110), and control means (118, 120) for controlling the primary modulator (106) and the auxiliary modulator (110), characterised in that: the primary modulator (106) comprises a first array of pixels, and the auxiliary modulator (110) comprises a second array of pixels; each pixel in the first array of pixels of the primary modulator (106) is controlled by the control means (118, 120) as a function of video input data for each pixel in the first array of pixels; and each pixel in the second array of pixels of the auxiliary modulator (110) is controlled by control means (118, 120) as a function of video input data for each equivalent pixel in the second array of piType: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: John Robert Harding, Geoffrey Howard Blackham, Philip John Scarfield
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Patent number: D754846Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: GI Supply, Inc.Inventors: Frank Wilson Jackson, Frank Wilson Jackson, III, William Robert Harding
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Patent number: D754847Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: GI Supply, Inc.Inventors: Frank Wilson Jackson, Frank Wilson Jackson, III, William Robert Harding
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Patent number: PP34398Abstract: A new banana cultivar ‘QCAV-4’ is provided that, when under significant disease pressure, remains largely free from infection by Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4). In the absence of such significant disease pressure, ‘QCAV-4’ appears to be essentially phenotypically identical to the wild type parent Cavendish Grand Nain. This includes in relation to immature and mature plant characteristics, fruit characteristics, and yield.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Australian Banana Research Pty Ltd.Inventors: James Dale, Robert Harding, Harjeet Khanna, Anthony James, Jennifer Kleidon, Mark Smith, Upendra Shekhawat