Patents by Inventor Robert Martin

Robert Martin 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).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH A SUBSEA WELL
    Publication number: 20210396129
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system and method for detecting the presence, position or dimensions of a body within a portion of a subsea oil and gas well system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Intelligent Wellhead Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Robert Martin, Aaron Mitchell Carlson, Murad Mohammad, Sheldon Kryger
  • Vehicle Seat
    Publication number: 20210380063
    Abstract: A vehicle seat has a lower seat part and a seat backrest. The seat backrest has a backrest structure, a central backrest section which has at least one backrest cushion and a backrest cover, and a left and a right backrest side wall. The seat backrest is provided with at least one expansion element which has at least one cavity that is enclosed by a membrane and can be filled with an expansion fluid from a fluid source. At least one respective fillable cavity of the at least one expansion element is integrated into the backrest cushion of the central backrest section or is provided between the backrest structure and the backrest cushion of the central backrest section to the left and the right of the backrest longitudinal central plane at a lateral distance thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas HUF, Sylvia KLEINDL, Fabian KOEHLER, Robert MARTIN, Martin UNGER
  • Control system and method for managing wireless and wired components
    Patent number: 11188041
    Abstract: System and method provide wireless distributed lighting control systems implementing a secure peer-to-peer, self-organizing and self-healing mesh network of actuators and system inputs. The system and method can be designed specifically for indoor and outdoor lighting where actuators include in-fixture, on-fixture and circuit control modules with ON/OFF and full range dimming capabilities, and system inputs include occupancy/vacancy sensors, daylight sensors and switches. A unique messaging protocol facilitates wireless and wired communication between actuators and system inputs, and provides web-based commissioning and monitoring of the lighting control system using a wireless access point accessible from a local network or Internet which can provide an intuitive and easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Theodore E. Weber, Terrence R. Arbouw, Ronald K. Bender, Ronald J. Cummings-Kralik, Michael D. Crane, Thomas J. Hartnagel, Robert A. Martin, Peter A. Moyle, Gregory F. Smith, Stephan K. Zitz
  • ESIM management platform configured to be polled by an eSIM card
    Patent number: 11190933
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes receiving, by an embedded subscriber identity module (“eSIM”) management platform, a channel request from an eSIM card. In response to the channel request, the platform opens an encrypted data channel and downloads the information to the eSIM card over the encrypted data channel only when the platform has information to download to the eSIM card. Optionally, before the platform receives the channel request, the platform receives a status request from the eSIM card that does not request that the platform open the encrypted data channel, and sends a response to the eSIM card that is positive only when the platform has information to download to the eSIM card, the eSIM card sending the channel request only when the response is positive. The channel request or the status request, when present, originating from the eSIM card and having been triggered by a timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TEAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Martin Hamblet
  • APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGULATING A CONTROL MECHANISM OF A WELL
    Publication number: 20210363856
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system and a process may be used for regulating a wellhead control mechanism. The apparatus may control actuation of the wellhead control mechanism by moving a moveable body of the apparatus between a first position and a second position. When the apparatus is in the first position, a valve actuator is actuatable. When the apparatus is in the second position the valve actuator is physically interfered from actuating. Additionally, when the apparatus is in the second position, the wellhead control mechanism cannot be actuated and is held in either an open, a partially open or a closed position. Further, a system may directly control an actuation of a wellhead actuation mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Intelligent Wellhead Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Robert Martin, Murad Mohammad, Sheldon Kryger, Robert Duncan
  • Treatment of NAFLD and NASH
    Patent number: 11179359
    Abstract: Treatment of NAFLD and NASH by therapy with MBX-8025 or an MBX-8025 salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Roberts, Xueyan Wang, Yun-Jung Choi, David Karpf, Robert Martin, Charles McWherter
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PAYMENT COLLECTION FROM THIRD PARTY SOURCE
    Publication number: 20210350351
    Abstract: Systems and methods for P2P transaction functionality include payment collection from a third party source. A system includes at least one processor and a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including receiving transaction information from a vendor where a card was used and analyzing the transaction information. The operations also include sending one or more requests for repayment to one or more P2P service systems, receiving repayment information, regarding one or more repayments, from the one or more P2P service systems and, based on the repayment information, applying the one or more repayments to the transaction performed on the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Walter Avery MILLER, Jason E. FERRELL, Troy Alan DYE, Robert A. MARTIN, Jordan FISCHER
  • HANGER ENTRAPMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210347307
    Abstract: A clothing hanging system designed to be used in automobiles with built-in safety features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventor: Robert A. Martin, IV
  • Distributed work data management
    Patent number: 11169970
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a user device, a transaction request associated with a first entity and identify a distributed ledger associated with the first entity, the distributed ledger including a set of blocks recording work data associated with the first entity. The set of blocks may include: a first subset of blocks including data specifying work performed by the first entity, and a second subset of blocks including data verifying a portion of the work performed by the first entity and specified by the data included in the first subset of blocks. The device may determine that a transaction, associated with the transaction request, is associated with the first subset of blocks and the second subset of blocks. Based on predetermined instructions that correspond to the transaction and the distributed ledger, the device may perform the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Miller, Robert Martin, Bradley Smith
  • Seal ring assembly for a dynamoelectric machine
    Patent number: 11162591
    Abstract: A seal ring assembly for a rotor shaft includes a seal casing defining a radially inwardly directed channel. The seal ring is disposed in the radially inwardly directed channel of the seal casing. The seal ring is resiliently joined about the shaft to form a seal, and the seal ring comprises an electrically insulating or dissipative material or a non-metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Martin, James Jonathan Grant, Anthony James George, Eric Steven Buskirk, Daniel James Fitzmorris
  • Vehicle Seat Console
    Publication number: 20210331626
    Abstract: A vehicle seat console has at least one vehicle-side guide element and at least one seat-side guide element which is arranged parallel to the vehicle-side guide element. The vehicle seat console also has at least one longitudinal adjustment device which is acted upon by a drive device and is designed to produce a relative adjustment between the vehicle-side guide element and the seat-side guide element. A force-limiting device with a force-limiting element is provided between the longitudinal adjustment device and the vehicle-side guide element and/or between the longitudinal adjustment device and the seat-side guide element. The force-limiting element has a first deformation section which deforms under the effect of a force acting thereon above a specified force threshold. The force-limiting element has a second deformation section which is guided by a deflecting assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas HUF, Sylvia KLEINDL, Fabian KOEHLER, Robert MARTIN, Robert PAINER, Martin UNGER
  • Dynamic scan code generation
    Patent number: 11151591
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamic scan code generation are provided. For example, a meta tag, comprising a user identifier of a user and a promotion code for a consumer good, is extracted from information associated with the user, such as from an email sent to the user. When a current location of a computing device of the user is within a threshold distance of a consumer good location that sells the consumer good, a scan code is dynamically generated based upon the user identifier and the promotion code. A notification of the promotion code, a description of the consumer good location, and/or other information is provided to the user such as through a push notification. The scan code is displayed through the computing device for applying the promotion code to a purchase from the consumer good location for the consumer good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: David Scott Robinson, Aaron Robert Martin
  • AXLE ASSEMBLY HAVING AN INTERNAL LUBRICANT PASSAGE
    Publication number: 20210277989
    Abstract: An axle assembly having at least one lubricant passage. A differential carrier, a motor housing, and a cover may cooperate to at least partially define a first lubricant passage that routes lubricant from an axle housing to the cover. The differential carrier, motor housing, and cover may cooperate to at least partially define a second lubricant passage that routes lubricant from the cover to the axle housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Martin
  • AXLE ASSEMBLY HAVING A FLUID PASSAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20210237508
    Abstract: An axle assembly and method of manufacture. The axle assembly may include a sleeve that is disposed in a spindle and that is in sealing engagement with the spindle proximate opposing ends. The sleeve has a smaller diameter than the spindle such that a fluid passage is provided between the spindle and the sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Martin, Brian Hayes
  • AUTOMATIC REWARDS AND BENEFITS OPTIMIZATION
    Publication number: 20210233100
    Abstract: A processor may detect a user interaction with a user interface provided through a network by a server. The processor may analyze the user interaction to identify at least one offer associated with at least one item available for purchase through the user interface. The offer may be associated with a first payment type. The processor may process a user transaction to purchase the at least one item. The processing may include automatically applying the first payment type to the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Avery MILLER, Robert A. MARTIN
  • HANGER ENTRAPMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210229602
    Abstract: A clothing hanging system designed to be used in automobiles with built-in safety features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: Robert A. Martin, IV
  • Hanger entrapment system
    Patent number: 11072292
    Abstract: A clothing hanging system designed to be used in automobiles with built-in safety features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Robert A. Martin, IV
  • Systems and methods for payment collection from third party source
    Patent number: 11062292
    Abstract: Systems and methods for P2P transaction functionality include payment collection from a third party source. A system includes at least one processor and a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including receiving transaction information from a vendor where a card was used and analyzing the transaction information. The operations also include sending one or more requests for repayment to one or more P2P service systems, receiving repayment information, regarding one or more repayments, from the one or more P2P service systems and, based on the repayment information, applying the one or more repayments to the transaction performed on the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Avery Miller, Jason E. Ferrell, Troy Alan Dye, Robert A. Martin, Jordan Fischer
  • Vehicle seat console
    Patent number: 11059400
    Abstract: A vehicle seat console has at least one vehicle-mounted guiding element, at least one seat-mounted guiding element that runs parallel to the vehicle-mounted guiding element, and a longitudinal adjustment mechanism on which a driving device acts via a transmission mechanism and which is designed to cause a relative adjustment between the vehicle-mounted guiding element and the seat-mounted guiding element. The vehicle seat console is characterized in that the longitudinal adjustment mechanism and/or the transmission mechanism is/are equipped with at least one energy absorption device which is configured to dampen abrupt relative movements between the vehicle-mounted guiding element and the seat-mounted guiding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Huf, Robert Martin
  • Automatic rewards and benefits optimization
    Patent number: 11010781
    Abstract: A processor may detect a user interaction with a user interface provided through a network by a server. The processor may analyze the user interaction to identify at least one offer associated with at least one item available for purchase through the user interface. The offer may be associated with a first payment type. The processor may process a user transaction to purchase the at least one item. The processing may include automatically applying the first payment type to the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Avery Miller, Robert A. Martin