Patents by Inventor Robert Stevens

Robert Stevens 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).

  • Method for purification of lecithin
    Patent number: 10442827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the purification of lecithin, comprising the steps of (a) mixing lecithin with active carbon to form a dispersion; then (b) mixing an organic solvent into the dispersion; then (c) separating the active carbon and contaminants from the lecithin preferably through gravitational forces. The invention further relates to a lecithin substantially free of contaminants, and a food or feed product comprising said lecithin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Cargill, Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Stevens, Jos Van Denderen
  • System and method for clearing a clogged HVAC drain tube
    Patent number: 10442270
    Abstract: A vehicle system is provided. The vehicle system may include a tube configured to provide an outlet for condensate collected within a plenum that connects a cabin duct to a ventilation manifold arrangement. The vehicle system may also include a clearing duct that bypasses the plenum and connects the tube and arrangement, and a controller configured to block passageways between the plenum and cabin duct, and to activate a blower of the arrangement to build pressure within the plenum and clearing duct to clear the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mukesh Kumar, Robert Steven Sawyer
  • SYSTEMS FOR A RADIO FREQUENCY COIL FOR MR IMAGING
    Publication number: 20190310327
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a flexible, lightweight, and low-cost disposable radio frequency (RF) coil of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In one example, an RF coil assembly for an MRI imaging system includes a loop portion comprising distributed capacitance conductor wires, a coupling electronics portion including a pre-amplifier; and a disposable material enclosing at least the loop portion, the disposable material comprising one or more of paper, plastic, and/or cloth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Steven STORMONT, Scott Allen LINDSAY, Dashen CHU, Ricardo M. MATIAS
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLUCOSE MONITORING
    Publication number: 20190290173
    Abstract: A glucose biosensor includes a plurality of optical fibers configured for placement within the ear canal. A first optical fiber emits light into the ear canal. A plurality of other optical fibers capture and transmit the reflected light back to the glucose biosensor. A plurality of photodetectors are configured in the glucose biosensor to detect the reflected light from the plurality of optical fibers. The glucose biosensor processes the detected light from each photodetector to determine a glucose level measurement. In an embodiment, the glucose biosensor also obtains a second glucose level measurement using another method and determines a calibration for the first glucose level measurement using the second glucose level measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Steven Newberry
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF A BIOSENSOR FOR DETECTION OF MICROVASCULAR RESPONSES
    Publication number: 20190282179
    Abstract: An optical circuit detects PPG signals reflected from skin tissue at one or more different wavelengths. A processing circuit integrated in the biosensor or in communication with the biosensor identifies an insulin release event using the a first PPG signal at a first wavelength and second PPG signal at a second wavelength. A correlation function is performed on the first and second PPG signals during the insulin release. The correlation is used to determine a relative change in diameter of vessels during the insulin release event and determine vascular health in response to the relative change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Steven Newberry
  • MULTICELLULAR LAY-UP PROCESS
    Publication number: 20190283325
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multicellular lay-up process. The process comprises the steps of: a) forming a core material, b) forming a capsule material, c) encapsulating the core with the capsule material, d) adding the capsule to a substrate, and e) exposing the capsule to at least one bioactivating agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Edward John Attenborough, Robert Stevens
  • Squib circuit for fire protection system
    Patent number: 10413767
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for testing a squib circuit. An electrical signature of the squib circuit is monitored when a test switch in the squib circuit is activated. The electrical signature of the squib circuit is based on characterizing resistors electrically connected to squibs in the squib circuit in which each characterizing resistor in the characterizing resistors has a resistance value. A health of each squib in the squib circuit is determined based on the electrical signature of the squib circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert Steven Wright, Eric B. Gilbert, Timothy LeRoy Skilton
  • Thin film with high load of active ingredient
    Patent number: 10413516
    Abstract: A method of preparing a thin film, the method comprising: (a) mixing a lipid, emulsifier, and solvent to provide a uniform first mixture; (b) contacting an active ingredient with the uniform first mixture to provide a thickened second mixture; (c) contacting a binder with the thickened second mixture to provide a slurry; and (d) hot extruding, casting, and condensing the slurry to provide the thin film; or cooling, shearing, mixing, casting, and condensing the slurry to provide the thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CURE Pharmaceutical Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Allen, Robert Steven Davidson, Jose Bernardo
  • Chromatography Medium
    Publication number: 20190276491
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chromatography medium comprising one or more electrospun polymer nanofibres which in use form a stationary phase comprising a plurality of pores through which a mobile phase can permeate and use of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Gilbert Bracewell, Robert Stevens, Oliver Hardick
  • SYSTEMS FOR A RADIO FREQUENCY COIL FOR MR IMAGING
    Publication number: 20190277926
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a flexible, lightweight, and low-cost radio frequency (RF) coil of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In one example, a RF coil assembly for an MRI system includes a distributed capacitance loop portion comprising two parallel conductor wires encapsulated and separated by a dielectric material, the two parallel conductor wires maintained separate by the dielectric material along an entire length of the loop portion between terminating ends thereof, a coupling electronics portion including a pre-amplifier, and a coil-interfacing cable extending between the coupling electronics portion and an interfacing connector of the RF coil assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Steven STORMONT, Scott Allen LINDSAY, Victor TARACILA, Ghazi MUSTAFA, Nabeel M. MALIK, Fraser John Laing ROBB, Dashen CHU
  • Cycloalkyl-Linked Diheterocycle Derivatives
    Publication number: 20190270737
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A, L, D, R1-R15, w, x, y, and z are defined herein. The novel cycloalkyl-linked diheterocycle derivatives that are useful in the treatment of abnormal cell growth, such as cancer, in mammals. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and to methods of using the compounds and compositions in the treatment of abnormal cell growth in mammals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Craig Burns, Michael Raymond Collins, Samantha Elizabeth Greasley, Robert Louis Hoffman, Peter Qinhua Huang, Robert Steven Kania, Pei-Pei Kung, Maria Angelica Linton, Lakshmi Sourirajan Narasimhan, Paul Francis Richardson, Daniel Tyler Richter, Graham Smith
  • Method and apparatus for minimizing heat, moisture, and shear damage to medicants and other compositions during incorporation of same with edible films
    Patent number: 10398644
    Abstract: A medicant composition is provided. The composition includes a film layer and a powder matrix layer. The powder matrix layer includes a medicant. The powder matrix layer is applied to the film layer by admixing particulate to form a powder matrix and by then applying the powder matrix to the film layer by any desired method. The composition of the powder matrix is varied to alter the dissolution rate of the medicant, the adhesion of the medicant composition, and other physical properties of the powder matrix. The powder matrix layer can be cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CURE PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Steven Davidson, Gary S. Kehoe
  • X-ray collimator
    Patent number: 10395788
    Abstract: An x-ray collimator that may include a substrate containing a plurality of holes, each hole being frustoconical at one end and tubular at the other end for use in an x-ray imaging system, whereby the x-ray collimator may be aligned with a two-dimensional array of x-ray sources and a two-dimensional x-ray sensor, and whereby x-ray photons from the x-ray sources may pass through the collimator holes and emerge as a beam of x-ray photons in a narrow angle cone which may pass through a subject being imaged, positioned between the output holes of the collimator and the x-ray sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Adaptix Ltd
    Inventors: Gil Travish, Mark Evans, Robert Stevens
  • Audio associating of computing devices
    Patent number: 10379808
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for associating electronic devices together based on received audio commands are described. Methods for associating an audio-controlled device with a physically separate display screen device such that information responses can then be provided in both audio and graphic formats using the two devices in conjunction with each other are described. The audio-controlled device can receive audio commands that can be analyzed to determine the author, which can then be used to further streamline the association operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin-Josef Angel, Eric Alan Breitbard, Sean Robert Ryan, Robert Steven Murdock, Michael Douglas McQueen, Ryan Charles Chase, Colin Neil Swann
  • Low-profile ventilation system for a motor vehicle and related method of providing a low-profile ventilation system
    Patent number: 10377347
    Abstract: A low-profile ventilation system is provided for a motor vehicle. That low-profile ventilation system includes an inlet duct having an inlet-free top wall, a sidewall and a bottom wall. A recirculating air inlet is provided in the sidewall. A fresh air inlet is also provided in the sidewall. A related method of providing a low-profile ventilation system is also provided. The method includes providing an inlet duct with an inlet-free top wall and both a fresh air inlet and a recirculating air inlet, wherein the recirculating air inlet has first and second laterally opposing openings in a sidewall of the inlet duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Steven Sawyer
  • Systems and methods for common mode traps in MRI systems
    Patent number: 10379181
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a common mode trap for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus. In one embodiment, a common mode trap for an MRI apparatus comprises: a first conductor and a second conductor counterwound around a length of a central conductor, wherein the first and the second conductors are radially spaced a first distance from the central conductor at first and second ends of the length, and wherein the first and the second conductors are radially spaced a second distance larger than the first distance from the central conductor at a midpoint of the length. In this way, coupling and subsequent detuning of common mode traps provided adjacent to one another may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Victor Taracila, Robert Steven Stormont, Fraser John Laing Robb
  • WATER QUALITY SENSING
    Publication number: 20190242864
    Abstract: A water quality sensor comprising a fluorescence sensor arrangement 16 operable to measure a fluorescence intensity, a temperature sensor 22 and a turbidity sensor 24, the outputs of which are used in combination to derive a value for the BOD concentration of a sample, wherein the output of the temperature sensor 22 is used to apply a correction to the sensed fluorescence intensity value using the equation F ref = F mes 1 + ? ? ( T mes - T ref ) where F is the fluorescence intensity signal, T is temperature (° C.), and the subscripts mes and ref represent the measured and reference values respectively, and ? is a temperature compensation coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: RS HYDRO LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert STEVENS, Kieran KHAMIS
  • Airplane-mounted external fire detection system
    Patent number: 10371575
    Abstract: An aircraft-mounted external fire detection system includes optical circuitry and processing circuitry. The optical circuitry is mounted on an aircraft forward of an engine nacelle of the aircraft, and is configured to optically monitor an exterior of the engine nacelle for a hydrocarbon fire by detecting radiation outside of the visible light spectrum. The processing circuitry is communicatively coupled to the optical circuitry and is configured to use the optical circuitry to determine that the fire has been continuously present for more than a threshold duration, and in response, transmit a warning to an operator terminal of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert Steven Wright, Van Jerold Winters
  • Predicted instruction execution in parallel processors with reduced per-thread state information including choosing a minimum or maximum of two operands based on a predicate value
    Patent number: 10360039
    Abstract: A mechanism for predicated execution of instructions within a parallel processor executing multiple threads or data lanes is disclosed. Each thread or data lane executing within the parallel processor is associated with a predicate register that stores a set of 1-bit predicates. Each of these predicates can be set using different types of predicate-setting instructions, where each predicate setting instruction specifies one or more source operands, at least one operation to be performed on the source operands, and one or more destination predicates for storing the result of the operation. An instruction can be guarded by a predicate that may influence whether the instruction is executed for a particular thread or data lane or how the instruction is executed for a particular thread or data lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Craig Johnson, John R. Nickolls, Robert Steven Glanville
  • Parking meter
    Patent number: D863076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: J. J. MacKay Canada Limited
    Inventors: George Allan MacKay, James George MacKay, Adrian Ignatius O'Neil, Robert Steven Cosh, Darren Scott Cameron, Gregory Emile Chauvin, David Andrew McMullin, Michael Brown, Matthew Watson