Patents by Inventor Robert Lee Smith
Robert Lee Smith 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: 20240093587Abstract: An apparatus and method for trapping particles disposed in a fluid. The apparatus may comprise one or more cavities disposed axially along a length of a tubular housing, one or more connecting components disposed at opposing ends of the housing, and may optionally comprise a check valve system. Alternate embodiments are provided for forming each of the one or more cavities, which may comprise a combination of a cavity frame and cavity surface. The method may comprise flowing a fluid into a first end of a particle trap apparatus at a rate of fluid flow, directing the fluid flow at least partially through one or more cavity sub-assemblies disposed in the particle trap apparatus, collecting the particulate matter in one or more of the cavity sub-assemblies when the rate of fluid flow may slow or become suspended, and clearing collected particles from the one or more cavity sub-assemblies upon restoration of fluid flow in a primary direction of travel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: PetroQuip Energy Services, LLCInventors: Robert Joe Coon, Roddie R. Smith, John Lee Emerson, Josh Hornsby
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Publication number: 20240085754Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media related to display constructs that can be fixed or movable. The display constructs can be configured to facilitate media display at opposite sides. The display constructs may be is at least partially transparent and can be viewed therethrough. Various interactive capabilities with the display construct are disclosed, as well as various installation component and kits. Further disclosed are wireless chargers embedded in fixtures and/or real assets of a facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Robert Michael Martinson, Matthew Burton Sheffield, Nitesh Trikha, Brian Lee Smith, Ahmed Mustafa, Amit Sarin, Vinh N. Nguyen, Anthony Young, Chee Yung Chan, Todd Daniel Antes, Nayana Vasant Ghantiwala, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam
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Patent number: 11783854Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; a head, configured to be positioned proximate to a disk surface among the one or more disks; a temperature sensor; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to: detect, via the temperature sensor, a non-nominal heat dissipation of a portion of the head; and, in response to detecting the non-nominal heat dissipation of the portion of the head, mitigate the non-nominal heat dissipation of the portion of the head.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Sukumar Rajauria, Robert Lee Smith
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Patent number: 11709291Abstract: Optically transparent fiber glass cover substrates for electronic displays. The cover substrates include an optically transparent fiberglass composite layer including a fiberglass layer embedded in a matrix material and an optically transparent hard-coat layer bonded to a top surface of the optically transparent fiberglass composite layer. A bottom surface of the optically transparent fiberglass composite layer may define a bottommost exterior surface of a cover substrate. The bottommost exterior surface of a cover substrate may be disposed over a display surface of an electronic display to protect the display surface from damage.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Jun Hou, Kuan-Ting Kuo, Kevin Robert McCarthy, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Patent number: 11430482Abstract: A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a magnetic media, wherein the head comprises a write element, a read element, a laser, and a near field transducer. An operating thermal gradient of the magnetic media is periodically measured at an operating power setting for the laser that achieves a target magnetic write width. When a slope of the operating thermal gradient exceeds a threshold, a test thermal gradient and magnetic write width of the magnetic media is measured at multiple power settings for the laser in order to detect a contamination of the near field transducer.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sukumar Rajauria, Robert Lee Smith, Taiebeh Tahmasebi
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Publication number: 20210331961Abstract: A cover element for an electronic device that includes a glass element having a thickness from 20 ?m to 125 ?m, a first primary surface, a second primary surface, a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth, and a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. Further, the glass element has a stress profile such that it has a bend strength of about 1850 MPa or more at a 10% failure probability, wherein the cover element is made by a multi-step method that employs a redraw thinning step and at least two chemical etching steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Bethany Jon Alderman, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Kuan-Ting Kuo, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Patent number: 11157395Abstract: A method for displaying visual representation of test case coverage is described. A computer-implemented method can include receiving updates during test case runtime to generate a tree that represents a hierarchical ordering of test cases within related branches, providing a test coverage map of the tree in a form of a tree representation; receiving a request through interaction with a node of the tree representation, and performing operation corresponding to the request. In some cases, a tree may include nodes representing completed tests and nodes representing incomplete accepted tests. The nodes representing completed tests and the nodes representing incomplete accepted tests each include one or more tags that represent the environment in which a piece of functionality is tested. Percentage completion can be based on the number of completed test cases to the number of incomplete accepted test cases.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: ARM LIMITEDInventor: Andrew Jonathan Robert Lee-Smith
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Publication number: 20210291494Abstract: A cover element for an electronic device that includes a redrawn glass element, first and second primary surfaces, and a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. The redrawn glass element has a reduced thickness and an average surface roughness of 1 nanometer or less. Further, the cover element can withstand a pen drop height of greater than 6 centimeters or 2.5 times or more than that of a control pen drop height of the cover element having a non-redrawn glass element the layer according to Drop Test 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Bethany Jon Alderman, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Kuan-Ting Kuo, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Publication number: 20210206145Abstract: A cover element for a foldable electronic device that includes a foldable glass element, first and second primary surfaces, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth that is defined by a stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa in compression at the first primary surface. The device also includes a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. The glass element has a stress profile such that when the glass element is bent to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, to induce a bending stress ?B at the first primary surface in tension, ?I+?B<400 MPa (in tension). Further, the cover element can withstand a pen drop height of at least 1.5 times that of a control pen drop height of the cover element without the layer according to a Drop Test 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Polly Wanda CHU, Michael Patrick Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, JR., Prakash Chandra Panda, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Publication number: 20210178730Abstract: An article including a laminate having a substrate and an ultra-thin cover glass layer bonded to atop surface of the substrate. The ultra-thin cover glass layer has a thickness in the range of 1 micron to 49 microns. The ultra-thin cover glass layer is bonded to the top surface of the substrate with an optically transparent adhesive layer having a thickness in the range of 5 microns to 50 microns.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Shinu Baby, Kuan-Ting Kuo, Yousef Kayed Qaroush, Robert Lee Smith
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Patent number: 10974487Abstract: A cover element for a foldable electronic device that includes a foldable glass element, first and second primary surfaces, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth that is defined by a stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa in compression at the first primary surface. The device also includes a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. The glass element has a stress profile such that when the glass element is bent to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, to induce a bending stress ?B at the first primary surface in tension, ?I+?B<400 MPa (in tension). Further, the cover element can withstand a pen drop height of at least 1.5 times that of a control pen drop height of the cover element without the layer according to a Drop Test 1.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Polly Wanda Chu, Michael Patrick Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, Jr., Prakash Chandra Panda, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Publication number: 20200398530Abstract: A glass article including an ultra-thin glass layer and an optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer having a pencil hardness of 8H or more bonded to the ultra-thin glass layer. The optically transparent polymer hard-coat layer may include an organic polymer material or an aliphatic or aromatic hexafunctional urethane acrylate. In some embodiments, the glass article may have an impact resistance defined by the capability of the glass article to avoid failure at a pen drop height that is 2 times or more than that of a control pen drop height of the ultra-thin glass layer without the optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer, where the pen drop height and the control pen drop height are measured according to the Pen Drop Test. In some embodiments, the glass article may survive a bend radius of 5 mm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Kuan-Ting Kuo, Robert Lee Smith
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Publication number: 20200371273Abstract: Optically transparent fiber glass cover substrates for electronic displays. The cover substrates include an optically transparent fiberglass composite layer including a fiberglass layer embedded in a matrix material and an optically transparent hard-coat layer bonded to a top surface of the optically transparent fiberglass composite layer. A bottom surface of the optically transparent fiberglass composite layer may define a bottommost exterior surface of a cover substrate. The bottommost exterior surface of a cover substrate may be disposed over a display surface of an electronic display to protect the display surface from damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: JUN HOU, KUAN-TING KUO, KEVIN ROBERT MCCARTHY, ROBERT LEE SMITH
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Patent number: 10688756Abstract: A cover element for a foldable electronic device that includes a foldable glass element, first and second primary surfaces, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth that is defined by a stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa in compression at the first primary surface. The device also includes a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. The glass element has a stress profile such that when the glass element is bent to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, to induce a bending stress ?B at the first primary surface in tension, ?I+?B<400 MPa (in tension). Further, the cover element can withstand a pen drop height of at least 1.5 times that of a control pen drop height of the cover element without the layer according to a Drop Test 1.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Polly Wanda Chu, Michael Patrick Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, Jr., Prakash Chandra Panda, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Publication number: 20200104243Abstract: A method for displaying visual representation of test case coverage is described. A computer-implemented method can include receiving updates during test case runtime to generate a tree that represents a hierarchical ordering of test cases within related branches, providing a test coverage map of the tree in a form of a tree representation; receiving a request through interaction with a node of the tree representation, and performing operation corresponding to the request. In some cases, a tree may include nodes representing completed tests and nodes representing incomplete accepted tests. The nodes representing completed tests and the nodes representing incomplete accepted tests each include one or more tags that represent the environment in which a piece of functionality is tested. Percentage completion can be based on the number of completed test cases to the number of incomplete accepted test cases.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventor: Andrew Jonathan Robert LEE-SMITH
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Patent number: 10391746Abstract: A flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass substrate having a thickness of no more than 0.3 mm. The flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass layer including the flexible glass substrate. A property control layer is laminated to the flexible glass layer. A neutral axis of the flexible glass laminate is located outside the flexible glass layer when the flexible glass layer is in a compressive bend configuration.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Michael William Price, Robert Lee Smith, III, Windsor Pipes Thomas, III, James Ernest Webb
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Publication number: 20190022980Abstract: A cover element for a foldable electronic device that includes a foldable glass element, first and second primary surfaces, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth that is defined by a stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa in compression at the first primary surface. The device also includes a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. The glass element has a stress profile such that when the glass element is bent to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, to induce a bending stress ?B at the first primary surface in tension, ?I+?B<400 MPa (in tension). Further, the cover element can withstand a pen drop height of at least 1.5 times that of a control pen drop height of the cover element without the layer according to a Drop Test 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Polly Wanda Chu, Michael Patrick Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, JR., Prakash Chandra Panda, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Publication number: 20190011954Abstract: A cover element for a foldable electronic device that includes a foldable glass element, first and second primary surfaces, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth that is defined by a stress ?I of at least about 100 MPa in compression at the first primary surface. The device also includes a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. The glass element has a stress profile such that when the glass element is bent to a target bend radius of from 1 mm to 20 mm, to induce a bending stress ?B at the first primary surface in tension, ?I+?B<400 MPa (in tension). Further, the cover element can withstand a pen drop height of at least 1.5 times that of a control pen drop height of the cover element without the layer according to a Drop Test 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Polly Wanda Chu, Michael Patrick Donovan, Timothy Michael Gross, Louis Mattos, JR., Prakash Chandra Panda, Robert Lee Smith, III
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Publication number: 20170190155Abstract: A flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass substrate having a thickness of no more than 0.3 mm. The flexible glass laminate structure includes a flexible glass layer including the flexible glass substrate. A property control layer is laminated to the flexible glass layer. A neutral axis of the flexible glass laminate is located outside the flexible glass layer when the flexible glass layer is in a compressive bend configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Michael William Price, Robert Lee Smith, III, Windsor Pipes Thomas, III, James Ernest Webb
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Patent number: RE45335Abstract: Disclosed are formulae and methods for the simultaneous relief of a variety of unpleasant symptoms of poison ivy on the skin. The compositions of the present invention remove toxic urushiol, relieve itching of the skin from urushiol, and heal the dermatitis caused by urushiol. A preferred embodiment of the invention is a topical dosage form which can be applied as often as desired, may be scrubbed onto the skin, and leaves a soothing effect on the skin after rinsing with warm water.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Tec Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Robert Lee Smith, John Mark Christensen, Wendy S. Langley, Vernon W. Smith, Brian Chipman