Patents by Inventor Scott Russell

Scott Russell 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).

  • Tracking transactions by confluences and sequences of RFID signals
    Patent number: 9449295
    Abstract: An RFID device may include one or more manually activated RFID tags configured to transmit unique RFID signals in response to a manual activation thereof. A transaction may be defined upon receiving a confluence of multiple RFID signals at the same time, or at nearly the same time, at an RFID reader. A transaction may also be defined upon receiving multiple RFID signals or confluences of such signals in a predetermined series or sequence. The RFID devices may include a single manually activated RFID tag, or two or more of such tags, which may be individually activated by one or more manual interactions from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Wesley Scott Lauka, Ned Lecky, Joshua Joel Boelter
  • Unified Sampling and Analytical System for Monitoring Volatile Chemicals in Ground Water, Soil-Gas and Indoor Air Quality with Sample Collection For Laboratory Analysis
    Publication number: 20160266084
    Abstract: An automated unified monitoring/analytical system for the sampling and analysis of volatile compounds (VOCs) in gaseous (soil-gas and atmospheric) and water samples. The unified system uses static and dynamic headspace techniques to partition VOCs from the water samples into a gaseous sample that can be introduced into a single sensor (or sensor array) for the analysis of the VOCs. The identical sensor (or sensor array) is used for the analysis of soil-gas and atmospheric samples. The monitoring system can acquire samples from a variety of sources and medias and provide analytical information on all the sources and medias using one sensor (or sensor array). The system can be calibrated using gaseous standards, permeation tubes or aqueous standards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Scott Russell Burge, David Allan Hoffman
  • Articulating mount for flat panel display
    Patent number: 9433293
    Abstract: A mounting system for an electronic display including a wall interface, a display interface, and an arm assembly operably coupling the wall interface to the display interface. The display interface includes a pair of spaced-apart vertical mounting assemblies operably coupled by a pair of spaced-apart horizontal assemblies, the vertical mounting assemblies being shiftable relative to each other with the horizontal assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Milestone AV Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Curtis Gross, Scott Russell, Jay Dittmer, Nick Stanek
  • Reading station structures
    Patent number: 9400971
    Abstract: In some examples, a reader system is provided for managing inventory items in an inventory system. The reader system may be configured to read tags associated with items stowed in an inventory holder. The inventory holder may be detachably coupled to a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit may move the inventory holder to a first position near an antenna of the reader system and the tags may begin to be read. While reading or at other times in the reading process, the mobile drive unit may move the inventory holder relative to the antenna. The identified tags may be compared to a manifest list of items expected to be stowed in the inventory holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Thomas Matthew Ryle, Wesley Scott Lauka, Jonathan David Phillips, James Hollis Wood
  • Management of inventory items
    Patent number: 9378484
    Abstract: In some examples, a reader system is provided for managing inventory items in an inventory system. The reader system may be configured to read tags associated with items stowed in an inventory holder. The inventory holder may be detachably coupled to a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit may move the inventory holder to a first position near an antenna of the reader system and the tags may begin to be read. While reading or at other times in the reading process, the mobile drive unit may move the inventory holder relative to the antenna. The identified tags may be compared to a manifest list of items expected to be stowed in the inventory holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Thomas Matthew Ryle, Wesley Scott Lauka, Jonathan David Phillips, James Hollis Wood
  • DYNAMIC RFID-BASED INPUT DEVICES
    Publication number: 20160116976
    Abstract: A dynamic RFID-based input device may include an input surface and an input station. The input surface may include a plurality of RFID transmitting devices provided on at least one flexible layer, and the input station may include one or more RFID receiving devices, e.g., antennas and/or readers, provided in communication with a computing system or network. A worker may contact one or more portions of the input surface, and thereby cause one or more of the RFID transmitting devices to transmit one or more RFID signals including information, data, commands or instructions to be provided to the RFID receiving devices. Audible, visible or haptic feedback may be provided to the worker in response to the transmission of the one or more RFID signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Wesley Scott Lauka, Fransisca Vina Zerlina
  • Association of item identifiers
    Patent number: 9305283
    Abstract: A radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader system and an imaging device are provided. The RFID reader system is configured to read an RFID tag attached to an item at a location relative to a barcode. The barcode is associated with the item. Once the RFID reader system identifies the RFID tag, the imaging device uses the placement of the RFID tag and/or features of the RFID tag to identify and read the barcode. The imaging device may also identify the RFID tag. Once the barcode is identified, the barcode and the RFID tag are associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wesley Scott Lauka, Ryan Scott Russell
  • RFID READER INTEGRATION WITH A LIGHT SOURCE
    Publication number: 20160092704
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a light bulb or other type of lighting fixture that integrates a light source and a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader. Embodiments of the disclosure can also forward identifiers corresponding to RFID tags detected by the RFID reader to another computing device that can facilitate identification of products or items associated with the RFID tags. RFID tags are energized with interrogator signals and/or an electromagnetic field emitted from the RFID reader and submit a response, which can be forwarded, or data extracted and transmitted, to another computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Ryan Scott Russell
  • Orifice holder and tube assembly for use with a gas-fueled appliance
    Patent number: 9297537
    Abstract: An orifice holder for use with a gas-fueled appliance includes a body, an orifice passage defined in the body, a first tube passage defined in the body, and a second tube passage defined in the body. The orifice passage, the first tube passage, and the second tube passage are in flow communication within the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Amelia Lear Hensley, Allen Louis Tatum, Michael Mahaney, Scott Russell King, Jason Randall Northcut, Jeffrey Shawn Coulter
  • Automatic drawer state detection
    Patent number: 9235740
    Abstract: An inventory system can include radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and RFID tuners that can be brought into interacting proximity with one another to provide input or other information about the location or other condition of movable elements within the inventory system. For example, a closed or at least partially open state of a drawer can be determined based on signals from an RFID tag when the RFID tag and a corresponding RFID tuner are mounted on opposing faces of the drawer and a compartment that receives the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jules Cook Graybill, Jonathan David Phillips, Wesley Scott Lauka, Ryan Scott Russell
  • Tracking Transactions By Confluences of RFID Signals
    Publication number: 20150379317
    Abstract: Where an RFID reader receives multiple RFID signals at the same time, or at nearly the same time, from multiple RFID tags, a transaction may be defined. Information regarding the transaction may be stored in at least one data store. The multiple RFID tags may be associated with one or more objects, humans, machines or structures, and the information regarding the transaction may include times or dates at which the RFID signals were received, or the identities of the objects, humans, machines or structures with which the RFID tags were associated. At least one of the RFID signals may be received from a manually activated RFID tag, which may transmit the RFID signal within the presence of an RFID reader only upon contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Justin David Kelly, Ryan Scott Russell
  • Wearable RFID Devices With Manually Activated RFID Tags
    Publication number: 20150379791
    Abstract: A wearable RFID device may include one or more manually activated RFID tags configured to transmit unique RFID signals in response to a manual activation thereof. Such wearable RFID devices may be worn about any aspect of a user's body, such as a hand, a wrist or an arm of the user, who may contact the manually activated RFID tag and transmit an RFID signal that is consistent with a particular action or instruction associated with a task. The action or the instruction may be executed based on the RFID signal, or upon receiving a confluence or sequence of RFID signals. Additionally, a wearable RFID device may be recognized by one or more discrete systems and configured to operate such systems accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Wesley Scott Lauka
  • Tracking Transactions By Confluences and Sequences of RFID Signals
    Publication number: 20150379459
    Abstract: An RFID device may include one or more manually activated RFID tags configured to transmit unique RFID signals in response to a manual activation thereof. A transaction may be defined upon receiving a confluence of multiple RFID signals at the same time, or at nearly the same time, at an RFID reader. A transaction may also be defined upon receiving multiple RFID signals or confluences of such signals in a predetermined series or sequence. The RFID devices may include a single manually activated RFID tag, or two or more of such tags, which may be individually activated by one or more manual interactions from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Wesley Scott Lauka, Ned Lecky, Joshua Joel Boelter
  • ARTICULATING MOUNT FOR FLAT PANEL DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20150250315
    Abstract: A mounting system for an electronic display including a wall interface, a display interface, and an arm assembly operably coupling the wall interface to the display interface. The display interface includes a pair of spaced-apart vertical mounting assemblies operably coupled by a pair of spaced-apart horizontal assemblies, the vertical mounting assemblies being shiftable relative to each other with the horizontal assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Curtis Gross, Scott Russell, Jay Dittmer, Nick Stanek
  • Sampling and Analytical Platform for the Remote Deployment of Sensors
    Publication number: 20150233884
    Abstract: An automated microprocessor-controlled monitoring system for the sampling and analysis of environmental contamination has independent multiple sample chambers 47, 48. The sample chambers are populated with multiple analytical sensors 59, 60, 61, Multiple water level sensors 49, 50, 135 located in the sample chambers are capable of determining the volume of sample, or standard, introduced into the individual sample chambers. The monitoring system is standardized with independent calibration modules 7L 80, 89 to support the analytical sensors in the sample chambers. This configuration of a monitoring system allows a “plug and play” configuration with all analytical sensors capable of standardization. The system anticipates the incorporation of future sensing methodologies through its flexible design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventor: Scott Russell Burge
  • Display screen having a graphical user interface for packing items
    Patent number: D757068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Anne Lewis, Joshua Joel Boelter, Jamie Marie Holland, Justin David Kelly, Ryan Scott Russell, Kathryn Anne Storm
  • Display screen having a graphical user interface
    Patent number: D760255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Michael Lemmon, Kathryn Anne Storm, Justin David Kelly
  • Display screen with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D760294
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Michael Lemmon, Fransisca Vina Zerlina, Wesley Scott Lauka
  • Display screen having a graphical user interface
    Patent number: D760755
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Michael Lemmon, Kathryn Anne Storm, Justin David Kelly, Kimberly Anne Lewis
  • Display screen having a graphical user interface
    Patent number: D768665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Michael Lemmon, Fransisca Vina Zerlina, Wesley Scott Lauka