Patents by Inventor Robert Stephen

Robert Stephen 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).

  • Asset Inventorying System with In-Context Asset Valuation Prioritization
    Publication number: 20230094208
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method provides for vulnerability ranking and scoring assets based on remediation action measurements and asset value and risk measurements. A method might comprise obtaining information about a set of assets, obtaining information about environments of assets in the set of assets, determining asset valuation factors for the assets, computing remediation costs for vulnerabilities of the assets, determining returns on investment for remediating the vulnerabilities of the assets, and scoring assets based on remediation action returns on investment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Stephen Hansen
  • Push connector for vape cartridges
    Patent number: 11612703
    Abstract: The present invention provides a connector for push-connecting a cartridge containing vaporizable material, such as a 510-cartridge, to a power-supplying device. The connector includes a housing containing electrical contacts, a cartridge-receiving end for receiving a conductive end of the cartridge, and a flexible, preferably silicone, ring connected to the cartridge receiving end of the housing for retaining the conductive end of the cartridge inserted therethrough against the electrical contacts. The ring is preferably part of a silicon boot that houses the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Vapor Dosing Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yisroel Kirsh, Akiva Wagner, Robert Stephen Walter Bates
  • Method, apparatus and computer program for transaction destination verification
    Patent number: 11605079
    Abstract: A method of verifying the destination of a transaction between nodes in a network includes receiving transaction information corresponding to a transaction between the nodes, where the transaction information comprises a unique destination identifier and a destination name and where the unique destination identifier defines a destination account of the transaction; obtaining from a storage unit a set of names used in previous transactions to that destination account; determining at least one disparity value between the destination name and the set of names; and producing a destination verification value based on the at least one disparity value, wherein the destination verification value is used to verify whether the transaction between nodes should proceed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: VOCALINK LIMITED
    Inventors: Ashish Jain, Bhupinder Singh Narang, Pulkit Gupta, Michael Alan Dewar, Jeremy Robert Stephens
  • AUTOMATED VOLUMETRIC IMAGE CAPTURE OF AN OBJECT TO SUPPORT GENERAL VISUAL INSPECTION
    Publication number: 20230073587
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide technology for inspections including receiving image data from a sensor, the sensor operable to scan an object, where the object is a manufactured object, generating a 3D image record for the object based on the image data, comparing the 3D image record with a stored design model for the object and/or a stored baseline image record of the object, and generating findings data based on the comparing, where the findings data is indicative of a discrepancy identified between the 3D image record and the one or more of the stored design model for the object or the stored baseline image record of the object. The sensor can be mounted on a moving platform such as a robotic arm, a track mounted assembly or a drone. The technology can further include a motion or flight plan for moving the sensor relative to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jeremiah Scott, Peter John Karpinski, Robert Stephen Kanematsu Baker, Gregory James Sweers
  • Remote attestation of modular devices with multiple cryptoprocessors
    Patent number: 11601292
    Abstract: A methodology for requesting at least one signed security measurement from at least one module is provided. The methodology includes receiving the at least one signed security measurement from the at least one module; validating the at least one signed security measurement; generating a signed dossier including all validated signed security measurements in a secure enclave, the signed dossier being used by an external network device for remote attestation of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, Jesse Daniel Backman, Robert Stephen Rodgers, Joseph Eryx Malcolm
  • Double-Walled Round and Oval HVAC Ductwork Systems Using Phenolic Insulation
    Publication number: 20230054867
    Abstract: The present invention involves the preparation and manufacture of phenolic insulation boards for use in double-walled ductwork systems. The preparation of the phenolic insulation board, having a first and second surface each having a foil coating, includes the cutting or grooving of V-grooves into the first surface of the phenolic insulation and first foil coating. This grooving process creates a continuous piece of phenolic insulation having trapezoidal shapes along the second surface and second foil coating. The prepared phenolic insulation board can then be wrapped around an inner sheet metal duct and then covered with an outer shell. Alternatively, the prepared phenolic insulation board can be inserted between an inner duct and outer shell. Both result in a double-walled phenolic insulation ductwork systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Spiral Pipe of Texas
    Inventors: Robert Stephen Reid, Reid Boydstun
  • NETWORK ENCLAVE ATTESTATION FOR NETWORK AND COMPUTE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20230026420
    Abstract: An enclave manager of a network enclave obtains a request to retrieve configuration information and state information corresponding to compute devices and network devices comprising a network enclave. The request specifies a set of parameters of the configuration information and the state information usable to generate a response to the request. The enclave manager evaluates the compute devices, the network devices, and network connections among these devices within the network enclave to obtain the configuration information and the state information. Based on the configuration information and the state information, the enclave manager determines whether the network enclave is trustworthy. Based on the parameters of the request, the enclave manager generates a response indicating a summary that is used to identify the trustworthiness of the network enclave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: David Delano Ward, Robert Stephen Rodgers, Andrew Phillips Thurber, Eric Voit, Thomas John Giuli
  • Electrochromic coated glass articles and methods for laser processing the same
    Patent number: 11556039
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass articles coated on at least one surface with an electrochromic layer and comprising minimal regions of laser damage, and methods for laser processing such glass articles. Insulated glass units comprising such coated glass articles are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Moussa N'Gom, David Andrew Pastel, Garrett Andrew Piech, Robert Stephen Wagner, Chad Michael Wilcox
  • SECURE OPERATING MODES FOR COMPUTING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220414271
    Abstract: Example computing devices that are enabled to enter secure operating modes are provided. An example computing device includes a main processor to run an operating system enabled to establish communication from an external device to the main processor via a hardware interrupt handler when the external device is connected to the computing device. The computing device further includes a keyboard controller to detect a lock keystroke sequence at a keyboard, and, in response to detecting the lock keystroke sequence, cause the main processor to halt the operating system and to enter a secure operating mode in which communication from the external device to the main processor via the hardware interrupt handler is blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: MASON ANDREW GUNYUZLU, ROBERT STEPHEN CRAIG, TEVIN RICHARDS
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD RELATING TO MANAGED PRESSURE DRILLING (MPD) WHILST USING A SUBSEA RCD SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220381105
    Abstract: A subsea rotating control device (RCD) system (1; 2) adapted to permit a tubular work string to pass there through such that there is an annulus created between the inner throughbore of subsea rotating control device (RCD) system (1; 2) and the outer surface of the tubular work string. The subsea rotating control device (RCD) system (1; 2) comprises a system housing (10) comprising a throughbore, an upper end and a lower end (10L) adapted for connection with a BOP (18) of a wellhead. The subsea RCD system (1; 2) further comprises at least two RCD seals (302, 2302; 304, 2304) arranged for selective mounting within the system housing (10) and which are selectively actuable between an unsealed configuration and a sealed configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Oil States Industries (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Wilson, Richard Johnston, Garry Robert Stephen
  • Network enclave attestation for network and compute devices
    Patent number: 11489823
    Abstract: An enclave manager of a network enclave obtains a request to retrieve configuration information and state information corresponding to compute devices and network devices comprising a network enclave. The request specifies a set of parameters of the configuration information and the state information usable to generate a response to the request. The enclave manager evaluates the compute devices, the network devices, and network connections among these devices within the network enclave to obtain the configuration information and the state information. Based on the configuration information and the state information, the enclave manager determines whether the network enclave is trustworthy. Based on the parameters of the request, the enclave manager generates a response indicating a summary that is used to identify the trustworthiness of the network enclave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: David Delano Ward, Robert Stephen Rodgers, Andrew Phillips Thurber, Eric Voit, Thomas John Giuli
  • CONTACTOR DAMAGE AND DIAGNOSTICS
    Publication number: 20220337070
    Abstract: A method includes interpreting a contactor open event and a contactor load value for a contactor positioned on a motive power circuit for a mobile application, determining that a contactor opening event under load has occurred in response to the contactor open event and the contactor load value, and updating a contactor wear condition in response to the contactor opening event under load, wherein updating the contactor wear condition comprises accumulating a number of the contactor opening events under load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Justin Keith Griffiths, Nilesh Surase, Ritika Shetty, Shalini Tripathy, Somdut Dey, Madhavi Gupta, Mayura Madane, Sadiya Qureshi, Toseed Khan, Amit Chavan, Kumar Prasad Telikepalli, Atul Solvande, Hao Wang, Jiong Chen, Yueyue Deng, Jason Carroll, Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur, Jacob William Green, Ashok Chakravarthi Kandru, Cheng Luo, Tianyang Jiang, Cheng Wan, Ye Zhu, John Trublowski, Robert Stephen Douglass, Rajen Modi, Nilay Mehta, Laura Natali Valencia Fritsch, Han Li, Dongxin JIn, Lewei Qian, Jun Li, Hongrae Kim, Daniel R. Ouwenga, Patrick Herranz, Miroslav Horejs, Rohit Baranwal, Zhe Zhang, Martin Wayne Mensch, Brandon William Fisher, Austin Robert Zurface, Jeff Howard Urian, James David, Bharath Kumar Suda, Asheesh Kumar Soni, Rene Guy Gallet, Michael Scott Sullivan, Karsten Gerving, Guido Völlmar, Gerd Schmitz, Christoph Bausch, Ute Molitor, Lutz Friedrichsen, Kai Schroeder, Julia Otte, Madeline Philipsohn, Norbert Roesner, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Paolo D'Amico, Jalpa Shah, Meng Wang, Damrongrit Piyabongkarn, Niles Stephen Ramseyer, Dennis Dukaric, Matt Haylock, Anvaya R. Hingangave, Devendra Patil
  • Methods and systems for organization extensibility and cluster scalability
    Patent number: 11475049
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes determining whether a level of resource utilization of an organization having a first index and a first cluster requires that the organization is assigned to a second cluster, if the level of resource utilization requires that the organization is assigned to the second cluster, creating a second index for the organization in the second cluster, adding a consul entry in a consul that points to the second index, and upon completion of a data migration operation, changing an entry of the cluster routing controller for the organization, from the first index to the second index. A connection is established using the consul entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SALESFORCE, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Stephen Logan, Gabriel Such Tobias, Shan-Cheng Ho
  • FUSE AND CONTACTOR MANAGEMENT FOR AN ELECTRIC MOBILE APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20220274504
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle including a motive electrical power path; a power distribution unit including: a current protection circuit disposed in the motive electrical power path, the current protection circuit including a fuse and a contactor in a series arrangement with the fuse; a high voltage power input coupling including a first electrical interface for a high voltage power source; and a high voltage power output coupling including a second electrical interface for a motive power load, where the current protection circuit electrically couples the high voltage power input coupling to the high voltage power output coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Stephen Douglass, Brandon William Fisher, Martin Wayne Mensch, Austin Robert Zurface, Jeff Howard Urian, James David, Bharath Suda, Asheesh Soni
  • Asset Search and Discovery System Using Graph Data Structures
    Publication number: 20220277047
    Abstract: In a search and database system, a graph generator builds a graph, comprising nodes and edges, and stores that graph in a database or other data structure and uses a repeated extending and culling process to build the graph. From that storage, the graph can be used to generate displays for users interested in learning about the graph and/or for performing queries and the like on that graph data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremiah Jacob Grossman, Robert Stephen Hansen
  • PUSH CONNECTOR FOR VAPE CARTRIDGES
    Publication number: 20220271466
    Abstract: The present invention provides a connector for push-connecting a cartridge containing vaporizable material, such as a 510-cartridge, to a power-supplying device. The connector includes a housing containing electrical contacts, a cartridge-receiving end for receiving a conductive end of the cartridge, and a flexible, preferably silicone, ring connected to the cartridge receiving end of the housing for retaining the conductive end of the cartridge inserted therethrough against the electrical contacts. The ring is preferably part of a silicon boot that houses the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Yisroel Kirsh, Akiva Wagner, Robert Stephen Walter Bates
  • MODEL SELECTION INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20220222550
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing, to a client system of a user, a user interface for display. The user interface may include a first set of options for selecting an artificial intelligence (AI) task for integrating into a user application, a second set of options for selecting one or more devices on which the user wants to deploy the selected AI task, and a third set of options for selecting one or more performance constraints specific to the selected devices. User specifications may be received based on user selections in the first, second, and third sets of options. A custom AI model may be generated based on the user specifications and sent to the client system of the user for integrating into the user application. The custom AI model once integrated may enable the user application to perform the selected AI task on the selected devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander James Oscar Craver KIRCHHOFF, Ali FARHADI, Anish Jnyaneshwar PRABHU, Carlo Eduardo Cabanero DEL MUNDO, Daniel Carl TORMOEN, Hessam BAGHERINEZHAD, Matthew S. WEAVER, Maxwell Christian HORTON, Mohammad RASTEGARI, Robert Stephen KARL, JR., Sophie LEBRECHT
  • Fuse and contactor management for an electric mobile application
    Patent number: 11370324
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle including a motive electrical power path; a power distribution unit including: a current protection circuit disposed in the motive electrical power path, the current protection circuit including a fuse and a contactor in a series arrangement with the fuse; a high voltage power input coupling including a first electrical interface for a high voltage power source; and a high voltage power output coupling including a second electrical interface for a motive power load, where the current protection circuit electrically couples the high voltage power input coupling to the high voltage power output coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Robert Stephen Douglass, Brandon William Fisher, Martin Wayne Mensch, Austin Robert Zurface, Jeff Howard Urian, James David, Bharath Suda, Asheesh Soni
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN ENGINE WITH REMOVABLE CAMSHAFT CARRIER
    Publication number: 20220178327
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cylinder head with an exterior wall including a removable camshaft carrier. In one example, a cylinder head includes a camshaft carrier removably couplable to a mount surface of the cylinder head and adapted to form a portion of an exterior wall of the cylinder head while coupled to the mount surface. The camshaft carrier may include a first section removably couplable to the cylinder head and a second section removably couplable to the first section, with the first section and the second section together shaped to receive a camshaft journal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Jeff Fluharty, Forest Heggie, Chad Ramsby, Robert Stephen Furby
  • Asset search and discovery system using graph data structures
    Patent number: 11347797
    Abstract: In a search and database system, a graph generator builds a graph, comprising nodes and edges, and stores that graph in a database or other data structure and uses a repeated extending and culling process to build the graph. From that storage, the graph can be used to generate displays for users interested in learning about the graph and/or for performing queries and the like on that graph data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BIT DISCOVERY INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah Jacob Grossman, Robert Stephen Hansen