Patents by Inventor Robert Jacobs

Robert Jacobs 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).

  • INCENTIVIZED MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20140207565
    Abstract: A system and method for rule-based or algorithm-based automated response optimization in a marketing environment is provided. The system and method increases email or website open, click through, and fulfillment rates for advertisers, including newsletter advertisers, national retailers, manufacturers, non-profits and the like (“Customers”). Individuals who receive emails from any of the Customers or access websites with Customer's advertisements will become a Member through a simple enrollment process. The system and method rewards Members for opening, clicking through and/or fulfilling advertisements disseminated through emails or websites with a proprietary currency and trading floor. The rewards may be exchanges on the trading floor for coupons, goods, services and actual cash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Jacobs
  • EMAIL MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20140188595
    Abstract: A system and method for providing rules-based or algorithm-based automated response optimization in the email-marketing environment is provided. The system and method increases email open, click through, and fulfillment rates for its newsletter advertisers, national retailers, manufacturers, non-profits and the like (“Customers”). Individuals who receive emails from any of the Customers will become a Member through a simple enrollment process. The system and method rewards Members for opening, clicking through and/or fulfilling emails with a proprietary currency and trading floor. The rewards may be exchanges on the trading floor for coupons, goods, services and actual cash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Jacobs
  • BORON-CONTAINING SMALL MOLECULES AS ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS
    Publication number: 20140011768
    Abstract: Compounds and methods of treating anti-inflammatory conditions are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Tsutomu Akama, Yong-Kang Zhang, Charles Z. Ding, Jacob J. Plattner, Kirk R. Maples, Yvonne Freund, Virginia Sanders, Yi Xia, Stephen J. Baker, James A. Nieman, Xiaosong Lu, Marcelo Sales, Rashmi Sharma, Rajeshwar Singh, Robert Jacobs, Daitao Chen, Michael Richard Kevin Alley
  • Film dispensing and wrapping apparatus or system using smart technology
    Patent number: 8453420
    Abstract: A film wrapping machine or apparatus wherein various operational conditions and data can be detected, determined, and subsequently utilized for diagnostic, operational performance, and safety characteristics, as well as for implementing improvements in operational performance so as to not only achieve optimal or predetermined performance characteristics but to also achieve economical usage of the wrapping or packaging film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Schmidt, Robert Jacob, Thomas Mutch, Petar Isaev, Stephen G. Forrest
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIR INTAKE FILTER ASSEMBLIES
    Publication number: 20120124950
    Abstract: Combustion turbine air intake filter assemblies, their components, and methods of use are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the assemblies may be useful, inter alia, for extending high efficiency filter life, reducing turbine downtime for filter assembly changeouts, or adjusting filter assemblies to address changing local conditions after the assemblies have been put into service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Florida Power & Light Company
    Inventors: Robert Jacob Sessions, Martin P. Domenech, James A. Keener, William A. Spanks, JR.
  • Reconfigurable pallet using pins and hollow supports
    Patent number: 8167290
    Abstract: A pallet includes a platform and a plurality of support assemblies located at multiple positions on the platform. One support assembly is associated with each location of the component to be supported. Each support assembly has a linkage assembly to support and enable movement of a support element. The support assemblies also each include multiple bases secured to the platform, to position the support element in a desired location for each version of a component. An alignment mechanism on each base allows for rotational alignment of the support element relative to the pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Lauzier, Robin Stevenson, Dalong Gao, Robert Jacob Scheuerman, Chi-Hung Shen
  • Reconfigurable pallet
    Patent number: 8092127
    Abstract: A pallet includes a platform and a plurality of support assemblies located at multiple positions on the platform. One support assembly is associated with each location of the component to be supported. Each support assembly has several linkage assemblies to position a support element in a desired location for each version of a component. The linkage assemblies each include multiple bases secured to the platform, to position the support element in the desired location. Securing a locking mechanism on the linkage assemblies prevents movement of the support element when in the desired position. To configure the pallet for another version of the component the locking mechanisms are released, the support elements are moved to another base and the locking mechanisms are secured again for each of the support assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Dalong Gao, Nicolas Lauzier, Robin Stevenson, Robert Jacob Scheuerman
  • Boron-containing small molecules as anti-inflammatory agents
    Patent number: 8039450
    Abstract: Compounds and methods of treating anti-inflammatory conditions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Akama, Yong-Kang Zhang, Charles Z. Ding, Jacob J. Plattner, Kirk R. Maples, Yvonne Freund, Virginia Sanders, Yi Xia, Stephen J. Baker, James A. Nieman, Xiaosong Lu, Marcelo Sales, Rashmi Sharma, Rajeshwar Singh, Robert Jacobs, Daitao Chen, Michael Richard Kevin Alley
  • Reconfigurable pallet using locator bases and clamps
    Patent number: 8028631
    Abstract: A pallet includes a platform and a plurality of support assemblies located at multiple positions on the platform. One support assembly is associated with each location of the component to be supported. Each support assembly has a linkage assembly to support and enable movement of a support element. The support assemblies also each include multiple bases secured to the platform, to position the support element in a desired location for each version of a component. A locking mechanism on each base prevents movement of the support element when in the desired position. To configure the pallet for another version of the component the locking mechanism is released, the support element is moved to another base and the locking mechanism for that base is secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Lauzier, Robin Stevenson, Dalong Gao, Robert Jacob Scheuerman
  • BORON-CONTAINING SMALL MOLECULES AS ANTI-PROTOZOAL AGENTS
    Publication number: 20110207702
    Abstract: This invention provides, among other things, novel compounds useful for treating protozoal infections, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, as well as combinations of these compounds with at least one additional therapeutically effective agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jacobs, Matthew Orr, Stephen Wring, Daitao Chen, Huchen Zhou, Dazhong Ding, Yiqing Feng, Long Yi, Vincent S. Hernandez, Yong-Kang Zhang, Jacob J. Plattner
  • BORON-CONTAINING SMALL MOLECULES AS ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS
    Publication number: 20110190235
    Abstract: This invention provides, among other things, novel compounds useful for treating protozoal infections, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, as well as combinations of these compounds with at least one additional therapeutically effective agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Daitao Chen, Matthew Orr, Jessica Sligar, Robert Jacobs, Jacob J. Plattner
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MULTIPLE DISPLAY PANELS FROM A SINGLE GRAPHICS OUTPUT
    Publication number: 20110148888
    Abstract: Techniques for providing image information in a single graphics pipe for operation of a plurality of display panels, where a displaying of an image represented by data in the single graphics pipe is to span the plurality of display panels. In an embodiment, the plurality of display panels is represented to an operating system as a single display. In another embodiment, a scale factor may be determined for the representation of the plurality of display panels to conform to one or more criteria of the operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Robert A. Jacobs, Jorge U. Martinez
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: 7950486
    Abstract: A utility vehicle is disclosed. The utility vehicle may include storage areas under the dash. The utility vehicle may include suspension systems for utility vehicles having shocks with both a fluidic stiffness adjustment and a mechanical stiffness adjustment. The utility vehicle may include an electrical power steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Van Bronkhorst, Anthony J. Kinsman, Steven M. Schiebel, Kurt E. Stenberg, Louis J. Brady, D. Brett Gass, Jeffrey L. Gardner, Kelly J. Knutson, Robert A. Jacobs, Chris J. Hurd, Patrick James McArdle
  • Dishwasher with targeted sensing
    Patent number: 7935194
    Abstract: An automatic dishwasher comprises a housing defining a wash chamber for holding utensils to be washed, a movable sensor for determining a utensil load within at least one preselected location within the wash chamber, and a controller operably coupled to the movable sensor to control the direction of movement of the movable sensor to determine the presence and size of a utensil load in the at least one preselected location within the wash chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Jacob Rolek
  • LAMINATE STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20110076506
    Abstract: A method of producing a laminate structure comprises producing a multi-layer barrier film by producing a blown film of n-layers, by a blown extrusion process and subsequently collapsing the n-layer blown film to form the multi-layer barrier film, which consists of 2n-layers and which comprises a first polymer layer, a gas barrier layer and a second polymer layer, wherein at least one of the first and second polymer layers comprises a polyamide layer, providing the outside of a substrate with a polymer layer, and extrusion laminating the multi-layer barrier film to the inside of the substrate by an adhesive layer. In one embodiment, the first polymer layer, the gas barrier layer and the second polymer layer form a first barrier block, and the multi-layer barrier film further comprises a second barrier block, substantially identical to the first barrier block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Elopak Systems AG
    Inventors: Robert Jacob Blok, Jørn Erland Olsen
  • Lactams and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7858776
    Abstract: Compounds having the formula (I) pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their methods of use for the treatment of neurological disorders related to amyloid ? protein production and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. These compounds inhibit ? secretase and thereby inhibit the production of amyloid ? protein, thereby acting to prevent the formation of neurological deposits of amyloid protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Bruce Thomas Dembofsky, Robert Jacobs, Cyrus Ohnmacht
  • Reader board assembly circuit, system, and method for identifying a digital device among multiple digital devices
    Patent number: 7852214
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic circuit for detecting, identifying, and/or activating a digital device, including a touch-and-hold connector configured to hold an object of interest, the digital device coupled to the touch-and-hold connector, for example, wherein the digital device has a unique digital registration number, a microcontroller that reads the unique digital registration number of the digital device, a storage receptacle configured to selectively receive the touch-and-hold connector, a light-emitting source coupled to the storage receptacle and associated with the touch-and-hold connector, and an electrical power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Marcon Internatonal, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Jacob Smilie
  • Film dispensing and wrapping apparatus or system using smart technology
    Publication number: 20100300049
    Abstract: A film wrapping machine or apparatus wherein various operational conditions and data can be detected, determined, and subsequently utilized for diagnostic, operational performance, and safety characteristics, as well as for implementing improvements in operational performance so as to not only achieve optimal or predetermined performance characteristics but to also achieve economical usage of the wrapping or packaging film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Daniel Schmidt, Robert Jacob, Thomas Mutch, Petar Isaev, Stephen G. Forrest
  • NOVEL LACTAMS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100160627
    Abstract: Compounds having the formula (I) pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their methods of use for the treatment of neurological disorders related to amyloid ? protein production and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. These compounds inhibit ? secretase and thereby inhibit the production of amyloid ? protein, thereby acting to prevent the formation of neurological deposits of amyloid protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Bruce Thomas Dembofsky, Robert Jacobs, Cyrus Ohnmacht
  • System and method for alarming for misplaced computer tablet pen
    Patent number: 7705837
    Abstract: A computer tablet includes a wireless receiver, and a pen is configured to be manipulated by a person to ride against the computer tablet and thereby provide input to the computer tablet. The pen includes a wireless transmitter. A processor associated with the computer tablet outputs an alarm when a signal from the transmitter of the pen is not sensed by the computer tablet within a time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Jeffrey Locker, Daryl Carvis Cromer, Robert Jacob Herman, Thomas R. Hildner, Jeffrey Michael Samitt