Patents by Inventor Robert Lees

Robert Lees 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).

  • Patent number: 11704073
    Abstract: A method for accessing a file in a storage system is provided. The method includes determining, for each file chunk of the file, an authority among differing storage nodes of the storage system and receiving from the authority having ownership of the file chunk, location information for the file chunk. The method includes accessing file chunks of the file as directed by each of the determined authorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC
    Inventors: John Hayes, Robert Lee, Igor Ostrovsky, Peter Vajgel
  • Patent number: 11706895
    Abstract: A storage system that supports independent scaling of compute resources and storage resources, the storage system including: one or more chassis, wherein each chassis includes a plurality of slots, each slot configured to receive a blade; a plurality of compute resources; a plurality of storage resources; a plurality of blades, where each blade includes at least one compute resource or at least one storage resource and each of the storage resources may be directly accessed by each of the compute resources without utilizing an intermediate compute resource; a first power domain configured to deliver power to one or more of the compute resources; and a second power domain configured to deliver power to the storage resources, wherein the first power domain and the second power domain can be independently operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: John Davis, Hari Kannan, Robert Lee, Yuhong Mao
  • Publication number: 20230218979
    Abstract: A protective apparatus comprising a first panel, a rear panel, and a mask, the first panel including a front side and a back side, the first panel including at least a transparent portion, the rear panel being coupled to the first panel, the front side of the rear panel including at least four supporting members, each of the at least four supporting members including a flat edge to enable positioning of a collectible object, the cavity being at least between the flat edges of the four supporting members, and the mask coupled to the back side of the first panel, the mask being opaque and extending around a perimeter of the back side of the first panel, the mask covering an inside of the protective apparatus between the first panel and the second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Rare Edition, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lee, Tiancheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230205631
    Abstract: A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure coding, despite loss of two of the storage nodes. The method includes determining that one of the storage nodes is unreachable and determining to rebuild the user data for the one of the storage nodes that is unreachable. The method includes reading the user data across a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding and writing the user data across the remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding. A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis that can proactively rebuild the user data stored within the storage nodes is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, JOHN COLGROVE, ROBERT LEE, IGOR OSTROVSKY, JOSHUA ROBINSON
  • Publication number: 20230199926
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for powering light sources to reduce optical and/or electrical interference between the light sources and optical components in the same environment. The light sources may be powered using power modulation signals, whose frequency may be varied across modulation periods. Optionally, the frequency may be varied randomly or pseudo randomly. The systems and methods may additionally or alternatively introduce phase modulation into the control signals for driving channels of light sources. A phase difference in the control signals to at least two channels can reduce or avoid simultaneous or synchronous driving of the channels. The systems and methods described herein can vary one or more properties (e.g., frequency, phase shift, delay, duty cycle, power, etc.) of the power modulation signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: James Kenneth ALEXANDERSON, Robert Lee YORK
  • Patent number: 11679004
    Abstract: A system for dilating tissue includes a retractor having a pair of retractor blades that are movable towards and away from each other to retract tissue of a patient. The retractor blades have longitudinal guide channels. A first pin is attachable to a first vertebra. The system also includes an interbody spacer insertion device that has a guide channel for slidably engaging the longitudinal channel guide and is releasably attachable to an interbody spacer. The interbody spacer insertion device is configured to guide the interbody spacer into a space between adjacent vertebrae. A method for using the system includes advancing the retractor blades towards first and second vertebrae. The first retractor blade is attached to the first vertebra using the first pin and the retractor blades are moved away from each other. The interbody spacer insertion device is translated towards the vertebrae to position the interbody spacer between the vertebrae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: K2M, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank LaMarca, Robert Lee, Gregory Poulter, Steven Tresser, Michael Wang, Josh Rubin, Hadley Sis, Nick Padovani
  • Publication number: 20230188365
    Abstract: A method for authorizing I/O (input/output) commands in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes generating a token responsive to an I/O command, wherein the token is specific to assignment of a storage node of the storage cluster. The method includes verifying the I/O command using the token, wherein the token includes a signature confirming validity of the token and wherein the token is revocable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: ROBERT LEE, JOHN HAYES
  • Publication number: 20230185477
    Abstract: A method including generating a new storage object derived from an existing storage object, wherein the new storage object has a first historical record identifying previous actions taken to generate the existing storage object. The method further includes generating a second historical record for the new storage object, wherein the second historical record represents the first historical record and an action that generated the new storage object from the existing storage object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: ANDREW SILLIFANT, TAHER VOHRA, ROBERT LEE, MICHAEL RICHARDSON
  • Patent number: 11676235
    Abstract: A computer-based system for facilitating the execution of law enforcement duties is disclosed. More particularly, according to one aspect of the invention, an electronic system is configured to facilitate the performance of law enforcement duties by quasi-instantaneously providing actionable intelligence to its users, such as front-line law enforcement officers, in response to a real-time query. According to another aspect of the invention, a system implements a set of automated status classifications for subjects with suspected or confirmed involvement in criminal activities. The status classifications specifically and concisely establish the subject's involvement in criminal activities. According to yet another aspect of the invention, a system executes a streamlined electronic process for handling and processing seized items so as to ensure that criminal assets are efficiently and effectively seized, and that asset forfeiture actions are effectively initiated against the seized items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Subject Packet Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Russel William Sarpy, Sr., Robert Lee Fortune, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11673890
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of Formula (1) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, wherein R1, R2, R3, Z, A1, L and A2 are as described herein; pharmaceutical compositions thereof; and the use thereof in treating diseases, conditions or disorders modulated by the inhibition of an acetyl-CoA carboxylase enzyme(s) in an animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Theresa Didiuk, Robert Lee Dow, David Andrew Griffith
  • Patent number: 11677771
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for community threat intelligence for operational technology networks. For a plurality of OT networks, at least one monitoring device processes OT network traffic and collects telemetry data, and a telemetry sanitization system applies a sanitization process to the telemetry data to generate sanitized telemetry data that does not include sensitive data. A computer system receives sanitized telemetry data from the telemetry sanitization systems provided for the plurality of OT networks, maintains threat intelligence data generated based on the sanitized telemetry data, and provides access to at least one of the threat intelligence data and the sanitized telemetry data to a plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dragos, Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett Bladow, Robert Lee, Benjamin Whitney, Jerry Matthew Bodman
  • Patent number: 11671496
    Abstract: A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a first storage cluster, the first storage cluster having a first plurality of storage nodes coupled together and a second storage cluster, the second storage cluster having a second plurality of storage nodes coupled together. The system includes an interconnect coupling the first storage cluster and the second storage cluster and a first pathway coupling the interconnect to each storage cluster. The system includes a second pathway, the second pathway coupling at least one fabric module within a chassis to each blade within the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Prabhath Sajeepa, Daniel Talayco, Qing Yang, Robert Lee
  • Publication number: 20230171916
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, an electronic assembly comprises a chassis including a wall and a component section. The electronic assembly comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) having an inset that forms a gap between the PCB and the wall of the chassis to enable fluid to flow along the wall of the chassis from a first region of the electronic assembly located adjacent to a first side of the PCB to a second region of the electronic assembly located adjacent to a second side of the PCB. The electronic assembly also includes a fluid mover to move fluid, via the inset, from the first region of the electronic assembly to the component section located in the second region of the electronic assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew L. Wiltzius, Robert Lee Crane
  • Patent number: 11660222
    Abstract: A device for treating hand tremors and methods of using the device. In at least some embodiments, the device includes a glove covering and at least one Coulomb damping suspension assembly. In some embodiments, the Coulomb damping suspension assembly includes a flexible tube and a wire-tube assembly. In some embodiments, the wire-tube assembly includes a first length of a wire and a first tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Lee Bullock
  • Publication number: 20230159197
    Abstract: Several embodiments of turntable systems for loaded pallets are disclosed. In some embodiments, a first ramp leads up to the turntable and a second ramp leads down from the turntable on the opposite side. In other embodiments, at least two turntables are positioned adjacent one another, optionally with a bridge surface connecting them so that a pallet lift can be driven from one turntable to the other to place one pallet on one turntable and another pallet on the other turntable according to a method disclosed herein. A validation system without a turntable includes a plurality of cameras about a periphery of a platform weight sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, JR., Jason Crawford Miller, Hisham Khalid A. Alshmmasi, Derick Foster, Daniel James Thyer, Dane Gin Mun Kalinowski, Joseph E. Popovits, II, Justin Corless
  • Patent number: 11656768
    Abstract: A method of distributed file deletion, performed by a storage system, is provided. The method includes receiving, at the storage system, a request to delete a directory and contents of the directory and adding the directory to a first set, listed in a memory in the storage system. The method includes operating on the first set, by examining each directory in the first set to identify subdirectories, adding each identified subdirectory to the first set as a directory, and adding each examined directory to a second set listed in the memory. The method includes deleting in a distributed manner across the storage system without concern for order, contents of directories, and the directories, listed in the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald Karr, Robert Lee, Igor Ostrovsky
  • Patent number: 11657443
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh-based environmental augmentation are presented. Attribute data associated with a user may be received from a plurality of attribute sources. A portion of the attribute data may include real-time data. A portion of the real-time data indicative of an identity of the user may be identified. The identity of the user may be authenticated with respect to the real-time data by analyzing the identified portion of the real-time data. Based on the authentication of the identity of the user, a user activity being performed by the user may be identified based on the real-time data, and the user activity may be augmented according to a user setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Melcher, John Tapley, Robert Lee
  • Publication number: 20230155917
    Abstract: Correlating captured packets with synthetic application testing is provided. A device captures packets associated with a plurality of processes that include one or more synthetic transactions and one or more transactions responsive to user input. A packet capture data set can lack process identifiers (PIDs). The device captures first finger-printing data including first PIDs and attributes associated with the plurality of processes, and second finger-printing data comprising second PIDs corresponding to the one or more synthetic transactions. The device applies a first filter generated from the second PIDs in the second finger-printing data to a first finger-printing data set, and a second filter generated from the filtered attributes of a filtered finger-printing data set to the packet capture data set. The device provides a filtered packet capture data set to manage a performance of one or more processes of the plurality of processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: NetScout Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Lee, Robert Alan Vogt
  • Publication number: 20230147974
    Abstract: A pick assist system may include a pallet destacker storing a front column of pallets and a back column of pallets. At least one rfid reader is configured to read an rfid tag on a pallet in or below at least one of the front column of pallets or the back column of pallets. The pick assist system may include a pallet sled including a display indicating a product to be retrieved. The pallet sled may determine that the product has been placed in a center of a pallet on the pallet sled. A method for verifying a pallet may include identifying skus on exterior products in a layer in a stack of products. Based upon that determination, the skus of the interior products may also be determined. For example, it may be determined that the interior products were part of a layer pick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Lee Martin, JR., Peter Douglas Jackson, Steven Stavro, Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown, Vance Asher Weintraub
  • Patent number: D986133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: 365 Outdoor Gear, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Lee Taylor