Patents by Inventor Robert Samuel

Robert Samuel 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).

  • Publication number: 20160160819
    Abstract: An electronic fuel injection system for land vehicles, comprising: a fuel tank, at least one pump, a fuel sump, wherein the at least one pump is operatively coupled to and between the fuel tank and the sump, and an engine, wherein the engine is operatively coupled to the fuel sump. A fuel sump system for land vehicles, comprising: an inlet from a pump, wherein the pump is operatively connected to a fuel tank, a fuel pump system, a regulator operatively coupled to the fuel pump system, an outlet operatively coupled to an engine, and a float component, coupled to the inlet. An electronic fuel injection system for land vehicles, comprising: a fuel tank, at least one pump, a fuel sump, wherein the at least one pump is operatively coupled to and between the fuel tank and the sump, and an engine, wherein the engine is operatively coupled to the fuel sump and wherein the electronic fuel injection system does not require a return line from the engine to the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Simons, Chadron Michael Magana, Jamie Wagner
  • Publication number: 20160117288
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting content on tearable displays. One of the methods includes presenting, by a device having a tearable display, first content on the tearable display; receiving, at the device, an indication of a tear in the tearable display, the tear in the tearable display defining a first portion and a second portion of the tearable display; in response to receiving the indication, determining, by the device, a size of the second portion of the tearable display; and presenting, by the device, second content within the second portion of the tearable display including sizing the second content according to the size of the second portion of the tearable display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Max Andrew Sills, Robert Samuel Gordon
  • Publication number: 20160101056
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for transmucosal delivery of active agents. In some embodiments, a system may comprise one or more mucoadhesive devices configured for release of an active agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Baruch Z. HARRIS, Vijay M. K. MURTHY, David Adam STEINBERG, Rodney PEARLMAN, Howard Brian ROSEN, Robert Samuel LANGER, Hila ESPTEIN-BARASH, Jonathan Robert BEHR, Samir Suresh MITRAGOTRI
  • Publication number: 20160085248
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling an environmental parameter of an indoor human-occupiable environment include receiving a plurality of values from a plurality of environmental sensors arranged in an indoor human-occupiable environment, the plurality of values associated with at least one environmental parameter of the indoor human-occupiable environment; generating an environmental model of the indoor human-occupiable environment based on the received plurality of values; and using the environmental model to control at least one airflow control device to deliver an airflow to the indoor human-occupiable environment to meet a desired setpoint of the environmental parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Gordon, Max Andrew Sills
  • Patent number: 9232269
    Abstract: Interactive programming advertising methods and systems are provided. A selectable menu may be provided with a broadcast programming advertisement. The selectable menu may include one or more selectable functions that may allow for a user to interact with the broadcast programming advertisement. Data regarding the user's interaction or non-interaction with the interactive programming advertisement may be collected and utilized for providing a user with a more customized television viewing experience, for targeted programming advertisements, for measurement of new viewer generation data, as well as for other marketing activities directed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Samuel Kelter
  • Patent number: 9226627
    Abstract: A dispensing container for wet wipes includes a pop-up style dispensing means formed by a rigid port which surrounds a flexible, rubber-like material or sheet having one or more slits through which the wet wipes are dispensed. The configuration of the slits, in combination with the flexibility of the rubber-like material, enables the user to insert at least one finger through the slit to thread a wipe through the slit. The dispensing means has a Penetration Index of greater than 600 grams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: David James Sealy Powling, Robert Michael Hill, Robert Samuel Schlaupitz, Andrew John Fojtik
  • Patent number: 9206777
    Abstract: An electronic fuel injection system for land vehicles, comprising: a fuel tank, at least one pump, a fuel sump, wherein the at least one pump is operatively coupled to and between the fuel tank and the sump, and an engine, wherein the engine is operatively coupled to the fuel sump. A fuel sump system for land vehicles, comprising: an inlet from a pump, wherein the pump is operatively connected to a fuel tank, a fuel pump system, a regulator operatively coupled to the fuel pump system, an outlet operatively coupled to an engine, and a float component, coupled to the inlet. An electronic fuel injection system for land vehicles, comprising: a fuel tank, at least one pump, a fuel sump, wherein the at least one pump is operatively coupled to and between the fuel tank and the sump, and an engine, wherein the engine is operatively coupled to the fuel sump and wherein the electronic fuel injection system does not require a return line from the engine to the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: EDELBROCK, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Simons, Chadron Michael Magana, Jamie Wagner
  • Publication number: 20150346701
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to selecting among devices room to interact with. It also relates operating a smart phone with reduced power consumption. It further relates to gesturally interacting with devices that lack gestural responsiveness. The technology disclosed also relates to distinguishing control gestures from proximate non-control gestures in a pervasive three dimensional (3D) sensory space. The technology disclosed further relates to selecting among virtual interaction modalities to interact with.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Leap Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Gordon, Maxwell Sills, Paul Alan Durdik
  • Patent number: 9203264
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention include systems, computer program products, and related methods for managing the purging of a hydrogen-cooled dynamoelectric machine. In various embodiments, a system is disclosed including at least one computing device configured to perform the following: obtain an indication of a fault in an alternating current (AC) power supply to a hydrogen-cooled dynamoelectric machine system; determine a reserve power characteristic of a reserve energy storage device in response to obtaining the indication of the fault in the AC power supply; and extend a pre-purge cycle for the hydrogen-cooled dynamoelectric machine system based upon the reserve power characteristic of the reserve energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Luis Fernando Magana Cano, Manvinder Singh Chhatwal, Nicola Piccirillo, Robert Samuel Rodick, Ravishankar Bagalur Sampangiramaiah, Jose Donaciano Estrada Zepeda
  • Publication number: 20150272405
    Abstract: A dispensing container for wet wipes includes a pop-up style dispensing means formed by a rigid port which surrounds a flexible, rubber-like material or sheet having one or more slits through which the wet wipes are dispensed. The configuration of the slits, in combination with the flexibility of the rubber-like material, enables the user to insert at least one finger through the slit to thread a wipe through the slit. The dispensing means has a Penetration Index of greater than 600 grams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: David James Sealy Powling, Robert Michael Hill, Robert Samuel Schlaupitz, Andrew John Fojtik
  • Patent number: 9141359
    Abstract: A parallel-code optimization system includes a Procedural Concurrency Graph (PCG) generator. The PCG generator produces an initial PCG of a computer program including parallel code, and determines a refined PCG from the initial PCG by applying concurrency-type refinements and interference-type refinements to the initial PCG. The initial PCG and the refined PCG include nodes and edges connecting pairs of the nodes. The nodes represent defined procedures in the parallel code, and each edge represents a may-happen-in-parallel relation, and is associated with a set of lvalues that represents the immediate interference between the corresponding pair of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Pramod G. Joisha, Robert Samuel Schreiber, Prithviraj Banerjee, Hans Boehm, Dhruva R. Chakrabarti
  • Publication number: 20150192987
    Abstract: A motion control assembly includes a motion control device electrically connected to a battery pack and to a mobile computing device for at least data transmission therebetween. The motion control device can generate inputs, such as inputs corresponding to an attribute of a sensed object, for transmission to the mobile computing device. The drain on a battery of a battery-powered mobile computing device can be reduced when used with a motion control device as follows. A motion control assembly, comprising a motion control device and a battery pack, capable of powering the motion control device, as an integral, one-piece unit, is selected. The motion control device is connected to an electrical connector of a battery-powered mobile computing device. The motion control device is supplied with power from the battery pack during use so the motion control device can be operated using the power from the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: LEAP MOTION, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Gordon, Paul Alan Durdik
  • Publication number: 20150174076
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for transmucosal delivery of active agents. In some embodiments, a system may comprise one or more mucoadhesive devices configured for release of an active agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Baruch Z. Harris, Vijay M.K. Murthy, David Adam Steinberg, Rodney Pearlman, Howard Brian Rosen, Robert Samuel Langer, Hila Esptein-Barash, Jonathan Robert Behr, Samir Suresh Mitragotri
  • Publication number: 20150119074
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to determining positional information about an object of interest is provided. In particular, it includes, conducting scanning of a field of interest with an emission from a transmission area according to an ordered scan pattern. The emission can be received to form a signal based upon at least one salient property (e.g., intensity, amplitude, frequency, polarization, phase, or other detectable feature) of the emission varying with time at the object of interest. Synchronization information about the ordered scan pattern can be derived from a source, a second signal broadcast separately, social media share, others, or and/or combinations thereof). A correspondence between at least one characteristic of the signal and the synchronization information can be established. Positional information can be determined based at least in part upon the correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: LEAP MOTION, INC.
    Inventors: David S. HOLZ, Robert Samuel GORDON, Gabriel A. HARE, Neeloy ROY, Maxwell SILLS, Paul DURDIK
  • Publication number: 20150059821
    Abstract: A device for passively converting nuclear radiation to electricity comprising a plurality of thin-film flexible solar panels, sandwiched between a plurality of diagnostic intensifying screens by which conversion of radiation to light and subsequently to electrical current through the sandwiched thin-film flexible solar panels is effected. The layered array will be comprised of one layer of intensifying screen material affixed to one layer of thin-film flexible solar panels with repeated layers for a total of three intensifying screen-solar panel pairs. This device makes use of new flexible solar panel design and efficiencies. Through the flexible nature provided by both components (intensifying screen and thin film solar panels), facilitates the complete wrapped envelopment of High Level Nuclear Waste containment cylinders and can accommodate any size and shape requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Samuel Altomare
  • Patent number: 8944279
    Abstract: A container for storing personal care articles comprising a lid structure attached to the container is disclosed. The lid structure has a top lid portion connected to a base lid portion. The base lid portion includes a rigid port surrounding a unitary dispensing partition extending in an x and z direction to the rigid port, the unitary dispensing partition having a dispensing slit formed therethrough. The unitary dispensing partition forms an arc extending a first depth into the interior of the container in a z-direction. The depth of the dispensing partition allows for the personal care article to be stored in a pop-up dispensing position with a larger portion of the personal care article extending from the dispensing slit. This allows for easier retrieval of the product by a consumer and less dispensing failures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Walter Shoaf, Andrew Dale Brinkdopke, Robert Samuel Schlaupitz
  • Patent number: 8925894
    Abstract: A ball valve assembly includes an enclosure for supporting the ball valve during actuation. In one embodiment, the enclosure can be a split enclosure, and can have trunnion support apertures for engaging trunnions on the ball valve. In one embodiment, a pair of link arms are used to transfer force from a pair of actuation members to the ball valve. The link arms can be located in a recess on the actuation members, such the actuation members and the face of the trunnions define a cavity to enclose and protect the link arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Sivakumar Natarajan, Robert Samuel Buchan, Thirupathi Dommati
  • Publication number: 20140290937
    Abstract: An apparatus having conduits, flattened tubing or pipes of varying widths, heights and/or lengths may simulate a network of fractures that may be used to experimentally evaluate the flow of treatment fluids (e.g. fracturing fluids) within narrow, shale-type fractures. The tubing or pipes each have an interior space with a height and a width, and in one non-limiting embodiment the ratio of height/width is at least 10. The conduits may be constructed of flattened tubing or constructed from components designed and engineered to have the correct height/width ratio. The apparatus may be used to empirically develop diversion principles, more precise numeric models and the parameter relationships that control fluid diversion, secondary fracture initiation and the development of complex fracture networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: JAMES B. CREWS, ROBERT SAMUEL HURT
  • Patent number: 8844745
    Abstract: A lid structure for use with a container for storing personal care products is disclosed. The lid structure includes a lid-activation button that when pressed allows the lid top to rotate about the lid base giving a consumer access to the contents of the container. Additionally, the lid-activation button functions so that the lid top is released independent of where the lid-activation button is pressed by the consumer. To create better and more consistent opening of the lid top portion, an inner longitudinal edge of the lid-activation button may be attached to the lid bottom via a living hinge that is formed integrally with the lid base. A strengthening rib is attached to the living hinge that keeps the main body side of the living hinge immobile and encourages the button side of the living hinge to flex when the lid-activation button is depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James Peters, Ryan Leslie Fulscher, Robert Samuel Schlaupitz, Kieron H. Tse, James Wolford, Tyson Manullang
  • Patent number: 8849325
    Abstract: Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to the determination of maximal independent sets (MISs) of mobile devices. Example embodiments include participating with other mobile devices of a plurality of mobile devices in concurrent distributed determinations of a plurality of MISs of the mobile devices and selecting one of the plurality of MISs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Schreiber, Terence P. Kelly