Patents by Inventor Robert Mitchell

Robert Mitchell 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: 10159167
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for cooling microprocessor based equipment is disclosed. The cooling apparatus comprises a rack mountable cooling unit and a cooling control module. The rack mountable cooling unit has a rack mountable housing sized to fit in a server rack, a fan disposed in the rack mountable housing, and a cooling unit disposed in the rack mountable housing. The cooling control module has a plurality of temperature sensors connected to a controller. The controller is connected to a fan control output to control a fan speed of the fan and a cooling unit control output to control a coolant flow through the cooling unit based on signals from the plurality of temperature sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Rack Cooling Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Browning Altizer, Robert Mitchell Menuet
  • Patent number: 10113824
    Abstract: A composite projectile barrel having an inner barrel section and a composite outer barrel shell aligned coaxially with the inner barrel section is described. The inner barrel section may be made from a metal or metal alloy. The composite outer barrel shell may include two or more layers of carbon fiber prepreg and a layer of non-woven nanofiber web membrane disposed between adjacent layer of carbon fiber prepreg. The carbon fiber prepreg can include a weave of carbon fibers in a nanoparticle-reinforced resin matrix, with the resin content being less than or equal to 35 wt % of the carbon fiber content. The non-woven nanofiber web membrane can be Xantu.layrâ„¢.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: K & M INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Darcy Kowalski, Stephen Robert Mitchell McGuire
  • Patent number: 10102781
    Abstract: A religious message display system for displaying various illuminated and uplifting religious messages through a rear window of a vehicle is provided. The religious message display system comprises a housing having a base wall, a first side wall extending from the base wall, and a second side wall extending from the base wall opposite the first side wall. A light box is rotatably mounted between the first side wall and the second side wall of the housing. At least one religious message is mounted on the light box. An illumination source illuminates the at least one religious message. A power source activates illumination of the illumination source. The light box displays various illuminated and uplifting religious messages viewable to anyone following the vehicle or viewing the vehicle from behind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventors: Robert Mitchell, Mikita Miller
  • Patent number: 10060842
    Abstract: A downhole viscosity sensor and related systems and methods are disclosed. The sensor includes a first fluid flow path including a turbine and a velocity sensor, a second fluid flow path including a second turbine and a second velocity sensor, a mechanical or electrical linkage linking the first turbine and second turbine to cause the turbines to rotate in unison. The sensor also includes a field generator, which may be a magnetic field or electric field generator. The first fluid flow path includes an open flow path for receiving a fluid from a formation and the second fluid flow path includes a closed flow path having a reference fluid that has a variable but known viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael McMillon, Robert Mitchell Neely
  • Patent number: 10041344
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining pressure within a sealed annulus based on the conservation of mass to test the structural integrity of the sealed annulus. The conservation of mass is applied to fluid(s) in a sealed annulus by using the total mass of the fluid(s) in the sealed annulus, instead of volume changes, as the basis for estimating pressure changes due to temperature changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Robert Mitchell
  • Patent number: 10040046
    Abstract: A system and method of treating a fluid to be used for hydraulic fracturing adds an effective amount of chlorine dioxide to the fluid to act as a biocide that kills harmful bacteria. A system for adding chlorine dioxide to the fluid can continuously add chlorine dioxide to an incoming flow of the fluid to produce a continuous flow of treated fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BOSQUE SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20180156001
    Abstract: A downhole friction control system comprises a downhole sub to attach to a drill string and a vibration component. The vibration component is mechanically coupled to the downhole sub to generate a selected vibration in the drill string when the downhole sub is attached to the drill string. Additional apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Schwendemann, Robert Mitchell Neely
  • Patent number: 9976409
    Abstract: An assembly for measuring a temperature of a fluid flowing through a tubing section is provided. The assembly can include the tubing section that can include a reduced-width portion. The reduced-width portion can traverse a circumference of the tubing section. The assembly can also include a temperature measurement component in thermal communication with an inner diameter of the tubing section. A temperature of a fluid flowing through the tubing section can be detected using the temperature measurement component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael McMillon, Robert Mitchell Neely
  • Publication number: 20180101479
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for caching data. One method includes receiving, through a user device, a selection of a set of data items, and determining, with an electronic processor, a storage rate, wherein the storage rate includes an integer (N). The method also include retrieving the set of data items and storing every Nth data item included in the set of data items to a non-transitory memory cache while discarding intervening data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventor: Robert Mitchell
  • Patent number: 9921688
    Abstract: An interactive display, including a cover glass having a front surface that includes a viewing area provides an input/output (I/O) interface for a user of an electronic device. An arrangement includes a processor, a light source, and a camera disposed outside the periphery of the viewing area coplanar with or behind the cover glass. The camera receives scattered light resulting from interaction, with an object, of light outputted from the interactive display, the outputted light being received by the cover glass from the object and directed toward the camera. The processor determines, from image data output by the camera, an azimuthal angle of the object with respect to an optical axis of the camera and/or a distance of the object from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kalin Mitkov Atanassov, Vikas Ramachandra, Hasib Ahmed Siddiqui, James Wilson Nash, Robert Mitchell Kleiman, Albrecht Johannes Lindner, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev
  • Publication number: 20180017350
    Abstract: A composite projectile barrel having an inner barrel section and a composite outer barrel shell aligned coaxially with the inner barrel section is described. The inner barrel section may be made from a metal or metal alloy. The composite outer barrel shell may include two or more layers of carbon fiber prepreg and a layer of non-woven nanofiber web membrane disposed between adjacent layer of carbon fiber prepreg. The carbon fiber prepreg can include a weave of carbon fibers in a nanoparticle-reinforced resin matrix, with the resin content being less than or equal to 35 wt % of the carbon fiber content. The non-woven nanofiber web membrane can be Xantu.layrâ„¢.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Darcy Kowalski, Stephen Robert Mitchell McGuire
  • Publication number: 20170326331
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to methods, systems and devices for generating and playing back a personalized state song representing a target state of a user. In one scenario, a computer system accesses biometric data corresponding to various bodily systems of a user. The computer system encodes the biometric data into data structures that are configured for modeling using an algorithm that is specific to the user. The computer system models the encoded biometric data to identify specified patterns in the encoded biometric data, and these identified patterns are used to generate a personalized algorithm that corresponds with the identified patterns unique to the user. The computer system then synthesizes a state song using the personalized algorithm, which represents a specific biometric state for one of the bodily systems, and plays back the state song to the user to induce the user to the specific biometric state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Robert Mitchell JOSEPH
  • Publication number: 20170311190
    Abstract: An apparatus determining network health in a network comprising base station transceivers in bidirectional communication with radios, each having an identifier and transmitting a signal including the identifier. First and second devices each receive the transmitted signal during normal over-the-air operation of the radio, measure signal parameters, and determine operating characteristics of the radio from the parameters. Each of the devices produce a responsive received signal when the first operating characteristics determined by the first device indicate a healthy first radio and the second device produces a responsive received signal when the second operating characteristics determined by the second device indicate a healthy first radio. The devices determine respective signal parameters of the respective received signals. The received signals are time aligned to insure that the devices have determined the respective signal parameters of the same transmitted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John McCarthy, Robert Mitchell, Joseph Rey
  • Patent number: 9762726
    Abstract: The system and method detect a communication device being connected to a network. It is determined if the communication device will be used by an Agent the contact center. If the communication device will be used by an Agent in the contact center, a contact center display application is downloaded onto the communication device. The contact center display application is used to display contact center status information. The contact center status information is transmitted to the communication device. The communication device receives the contact center status information and displays the contact center status information via the contact center display application that was downloaded onto the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mitchell, William Jolicoeur, Joseph M. Wallerius
  • Patent number: 9743302
    Abstract: An apparatus determining network health in a network comprising base station transceivers in bidirectional communication with radios, each having an identifier and transmitting a signal including the identifier. First and second devices each receive the transmitted signal during normal over-the-air operation of the radio, measure signal parameters, and determine operating characteristics of the radio from the parameters. Each of the devices produce a responsive received signal when the first operating characteristics determined by the first device indicate a healthy first radio and the second device produces a responsive received signal when the second operating characteristics determined by the second device indicate a healthy first radio. The devices determine respective signal parameters of the respective received signals. The received signals are time aligned to insure that the devices have determined the respective signal parameters of the same transmitted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John McCarthy, Robert Mitchell, Joseph Rey
  • Publication number: 20170203074
    Abstract: A method for controlling state dependent behaviors of a user includes obtaining biometric data from a user. The method involves converting at least some of the biometric data into lines of sounds. The method involves compiling at least some of sound into a composition or song arranged to represent a targeted state. The method involves feeding the composition or song back to the user to induce the user to the targeted state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: Robert Mitchell JOSEPH
  • Patent number: 9688394
    Abstract: A gearbox for driving a sprocket includes a gear train and an output shaft assembly positioned between the gear train and a power output end of the gearbox. The output shaft assembly includes, a first shaft segment extending to the power output a second shaft segment coupled to the gear train and a torsion spring interposed between the first shaft segment and the second shaft segment. Upon non-conjugate meshing of the sprocket, the torsion spring expands and contracts so that the angular velocity of the second shaft segment differs from the angular velocity of the first shaft segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Donald Jeffrey Christensen, Robert Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20170083696
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure are directed towards providing feedback to users of multi-user system that has biometric recognition capabilities, so that a user knows whether the system has correctly associated the user with his or her identity. The feedback may include a display of a current camera view, along with visible identity information that is associated with each user in the view. The feedback may include per-user icons (e.g., tiles, thumbnail images and so on) by which a user visually confirms that he or she is correctly recognized. Any misrecognition may be detected via the feedback and corrected. Feedback may convey other information, such as the current interaction state/capabilities of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Mitchell Smith, Emily M. Yang, Joseph Wheeler, Sergio Paolantonio, Xiaoji Chen, Eric C. Sanderson, Calvin Kent Carter, Christian Klein, Mark D. Schwesinger, Rita A. Yu
  • Patent number: D835273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LIFE360 INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Robert Mitchell Orr, Thom Bellaire, Nigel Halsted, Ernie Janzen
  • Patent number: D835784
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LIFE360 INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Robert Mitchell Orr, Thom Bellaire, Nigel Halsted, Ernie Janzen