Patents by Inventor Robert To

Robert To 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: 20170365291
    Abstract: An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a first block, a second block, and a drive mechanism configured to cause a magnetic recording tape to move over the blocks. Each of the blocks has a skiving edge along a tape bearing surface thereof. The blocks are positioned or selectively positionable in the apparatus to establish a particular respective wrap angle of the magnetic recording tape approaching the respective skiving edge. None of the blocks have a transducer coupled directly thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Robert G. Biskeborn, Calvin S. Lo
  • Patent number: 9844879
    Abstract: A method for constraining movements of a robot comprises: using the robot, receiving dynamic building data that describes a temporary condition of a building or campus comprising a set of buildings and a location of the temporary condition; using the robot, updating, from the dynamic building data, a map layer of a plurality of map layers of a map by calculating an increased cost of navigation of the portion of the map layer corresponding to the location of the temporary condition, the increased cost based on the description of the temporary condition; using the robot, upon receiving a task having an origin location and a destination location, determining a fastest route from the origin location to the destination location from the plurality of map layers of the map using a graph search algorithm that calculates an expected velocity of the robot over the portion of the map layer corresponding to the location of the temporary condition; using the robot, traversing the fastest route from the origin location to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Savioke, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Cousins, Adrian Canoso, Robert S. Bauer, Phil Herget, Izumi Yaskawa
  • Patent number: 9844534
    Abstract: The invention is directed to compounds that are specific inhibitors of PKC delta, and methods and compositions for the treatment and prevention of cancers and other disorders. Compositions comprising compounds of the invention are used to treat cancers such as, for example, carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumors, malignant melanomas, pancreatic, gastrointestinal and lung cancers. Neuroendocrine tumor cell lines of pulmonary and gastrointestinal origin are surprisingly sensitive to PKC delta inhibition by the compounds of the invention. The invention is further directed to methods, compositions and kits containing compounds of the formulas (Ia), (IIa), (IIIa), (IVa), and (V) as disclosed and described in FIGS. 11 and 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Faller & Williams Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas V. Faller, Robert M. Williams
  • Patent number: 9848022
    Abstract: A method of Inter-User Equipment (UE) Transfer (IUT) for use in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) capable wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising: receiving a registration request from a non-IMS capable WTRU; translating the registration request to an IMS based message; transmitting the translated IMS based message to a Service Centralization and Continuity Application Server (SCC AS), transmitting an IUT transfer command, transmitting an IUT process message; receiving an IUT process-accept message; and establishing an IMS session between the non-IMS capable WTRU and the remote party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xavier De Foy, Robert G. Gazda, Debashish Purkayastha, Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Patent number: 9845105
    Abstract: An adjustment mounting bracket assembly for a steering column includes a mounting bracket mountable to a steering column mating element, the mounting bracket having a bracket aperture configured to receive a clamp bolt therethrough, the mounting bracket also having an arcuate slot. The bracket assembly also includes a spacer having a spacer aperture configured to receive the clamp bolt therethrough to align the spacer with the mounting bracket, the spacer having a first engaging feature disposed within the arcuate slot of the mounting bracket and a second engaging feature engageable with a recess of the steering column, disposal of the first engaging feature within the arcuate slot and disposal of the second engaging feature within the recess restricting the degree of freedom of the mounting bracket relative to the steering column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Melvin L. Tinnin, Robert W. Dubay, Donald A. Buzzard, Matthew J. T. Vincent, Michael P. Anspaugh
  • Patent number: 9844868
    Abstract: A manipulation cart system for manipulating a tool described herein includes a chassis subsystem, a locomotion subsystem, at least one manipulation subsystem, at least one attachment subsystem, and at least one control subsystem. The locomotion subsystem may include a turn pivot. The at least one manipulation subsystem may include at least one tilting subsystem. Preferably the cart system at least partially relieves the physical demands of manipulating the tool and at least partially protects from stress-induced injuries associated with manipulating the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert Abbey, Jennifer Carmel Swendsen
  • Patent number: 9846723
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically accessing data in a database based on query information. In use, query information is received from a user interface, the query information including at least one selection of a preconfigured set of queries that are grouped logically based on a team or an application and the query information further including input parameters defined by a user utilizing the user interface. Additionally, data to access in at least one database is identified based on the query information. Further, a connection with the at least one database is automatically established, the connection with the at least one database being established utilizing a predefined database connection for one or more environments with which the user interface is associated. Moreover, the data in the at least one database is automatically accessed based on the query information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: Amdocs Software Systems Limited, Amdocs Development Limited
    Inventors: Daniel William Fitzpatrick, Sr., Robert J. Jones, Tatiana Zagorovski
  • Patent number: 9846101
    Abstract: A system dynamically balances a rotating body. The system includes a support that holds the body as it rotates. At least one sensor generates signals indicative of a balance of the body as it rotates and a controller identifies a position on the body where material can be placed to balance the body. The controller operates at least one actuator to move a plurality of ejectors opposite the identified position where the controller operates at least one ejector in the plurality of ejectors to eject material onto the identified position. The system can operate iteratively until the body is balanced within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Vankouwenberg, Robert A. Clark, Linn C. Hoover, James E. Williams
  • Patent number: 9845301
    Abstract: The present invention provides, in part, compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; processes for the preparation of; intermediates used in the preparation of; and compositions containing such compounds or salts, and their uses for treating MAGL-mediated diseases and disorders including, e.g., pain, an inflammatory disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer's disease, a metabolic disorder, stroke, or cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Butler, Laura Ann McAllister, Elizabeth Mary Beck, Michael Aaron Brodney, Adam Matthew Gilbert, Christopher John Helal, Douglas Scott Johnson, Justin Ian Montgomery, Steven Victor O'Neil, Bruce Nelsen Rogers, Patrick Robert Verhoest, Damien Webb
  • Patent number: 9844192
    Abstract: A potato cultivar designated FL 2385 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar FL 2385, to seeds of potato cultivar FL 2385, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar FL 2385, to food products produced from potato cultivar FL 2385, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar FL 2385 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar FL 2385, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar FL 2385 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar FL 2385 with another potato cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
  • Patent number: 9844574
    Abstract: Mammalian subjects having a neoplasm are treated with a virus and a camptothecin compound, for example irinotecan or topotecan. The virus is selected from the group consisting of a Newcastle disease virus, a measles virus, a vesicular stomatitis virus, an influenza virus, a Sindbis virus, a picornavirus, and a myxoma virus. The treatment can also include administration of a monoclonal antibody against epidermal growth factor receptor, for example cetuximab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Wellstat Biologics Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M Lorence, Michael Scot Roberts
  • Patent number: 9845651
    Abstract: A downhole tool, a retrievable bridge plug system, and a method. The downhole tool includes a release mandrel, a plurality of slips disposed at least partially around the release mandrel, an upper cone disposed at least partially around the release mandrel and on a first axial side of the plurality of slips, a lower cone disposed at least partially around the outer mandrel and on a second axial side of the plurality of slips, and a collet positioned axially and radially between the release mandrel and the lower cone. The collet is configured to prevent downward movement of the lower cone relative to the release mandrel at least when the downhole tool is in a run-in configuration and when the downhole tool is in a set configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: FORUMS US, INC.
    Inventors: Mark McCoy, Benny Layton, Michael J. Harris, William M. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9844525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of polyunsaturated fatty acids and one or more components which have a beneficial effect on total methionine metabolism selected from the group consisting of vitamin B 12 and precursors thereof, vitamin B6 and derivatives thereof, folic acid, zinc and magnesium, in the manufacture of a preparation for improving the action of receptors. This preparation is advantageously applied in patients suffering from Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, epilepsy, schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, sleep disorders, impaired memory function, psychoses, dementia and ADHD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: N.V. Nutricia
    Inventors: Amanda Johanne Kiliaan, Robert Johan Joseph Hageman
  • Patent number: 9844404
    Abstract: An electrosurgical system for performing an electrosurgical procedure is provided and includes an electrosurgical generator and a calibration computer system. The electrosurgical generator includes one or more processors and a measurement module including one or more log amps that are in operative communication with the processor. The calibration computer system configured to couple to a measurement device and is configured to measure parameters of an output signal generated by the electrosurgical generator. The calibration computer system is configured to compile the measured parameters into one or more data look-up tables and couple to the electrosurgical generator for transferring the data look-up table(s) to memory of the electrosurgical generator. The microprocessor is configured to receive an output from the log amp(s) and access the data look-up table(s) from memory to execute one or more control algorithms for controlling an output of the electrosurgical generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Robert J. Behnke, II, Donald W. Heckel, Robert B. Smith, James E. Krapohl
  • Patent number: 9845340
    Abstract: A polypeptide or multimeric polypeptide construct having the ability to bind to cMet or a complex comprising cMet and HGF, and methods for use are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Dyax Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel T. Dransfield, Aaron K. Sato, Robert Charles Ladner
  • Patent number: 9846848
    Abstract: A method of exchanging water allocation credits comprises accessing data describing a water allocation credit reserved for a first user. An unused amount of the water allocation credit which will not be used by the first user is then determined. A sale is then brokered of the unused amount of the water allocation credit to another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Lindores, Katherine Sandford, Richard W. Hilliker, Jeffrey A. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 9844804
    Abstract: A carrier holds an extreme ultraviolet light source collector mirror. The carrier includes a front panel having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface, and defining a through opening that has an edge having a plurality of scallops; a back panel having an inner surface that faces the front panel and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; and a plurality of posts that are configured to connect the back panel to the front panel and to sandwich a flat rim around the circular boundary of the collector mirror between the inner surface of one of the panels and flanges of the posts. The scallops are positioned around a circumference of the edge and being separated by arcs, where the arcs define a circle that has a diameter that is less than a diameter of the circular boundary of the reflective surface of the collector mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Silvia De Dea, Michael Varga, Alexander I. Ershov, Robert L. Morse
  • Patent number: 9846600
    Abstract: A mainframe computing system hosts a plurality of logical partitions, each having a static entitlement of processing capacity. The mainframe computer system has a workload manager that schedules work requested by the logical partitions and tracks consumption of the processing capacity by the logical partitions, and a capping policy that is stored in non-transitory memory and which identifies a subset of the logical partitions. The mainframe computer system further includes a capping master that is configured to allocate dynamically varying entitlements of processing capacity to the subset of the logical partitions based on the high-importance work percentages of computing workloads running on the logical partitions to encourage completion of high-importance work over completion of low-importance work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Williams, Steven DeGrange, Hemanth Rama, Robert Perini
  • Patent number: 9844704
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium to direct a processor to: receive signals indicating a made basketball shot or a missed basketball shot of a basketball by a person during a basketball shooting session, receive signals indicating a location from which each made basketball shot is made, and determine and output a user cumulative score for the person for the basketball shooting session, the cumulative score being based upon the location of each made basketball shot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Wilson Sporting Goods Co.
    Inventors: Robert T. Thurman, Kevin L. Krysiak, David J. Proeber, Allen G. Wagner
  • Patent number: D805618
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: STEGO-HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Robert Dent