Patents by Inventor Steven A. Roberts

Steven A. Roberts 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: 20190318368
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for automatically generating context-based survey questions predicated on the customers' actual purchase experience with the merchant, thus eliminating for the customer the need to respond to obvious, redundant, and even irrelevant questions, and providing to the merchant customer feedback directly bound to the actual purchase event and correlating data. Purchase information is stored at the time of purchase and the customer is given an identifier for the purchase. Then, at the customer's convenience, either at the point of sale or through a networked computer, the customer can provide responses to questions that are selectively and automatically generated based on the items purchased, or other definable attributes associated with the sale, and based upon configurable preferences of the merchant. Survey questions are displayed and feedback responses are stored, analyzed and associated with purchase information in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Steven A. Roberts, Drew Peloubet
  • Patent number: 10430811
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for automatically generating context-based survey questions predicated on the customers' actual purchase experience with the merchant, thus eliminating for the customer the need to respond to obvious, redundant, and even irrelevant questions, and providing to the merchant customer feedback directly bound to the actual purchase event and correlating data. Purchase information is stored at the time of purchase and the customer is given an identifier for the purchase. Then, at the customer's convenience, either at the point of sale or through a networked computer, the customer can provide responses to questions that are selectively and automatically generated based on the items purchased, or other definable attributes associated with the sale, and based upon configurable preferences of the merchant. Survey questions are displayed and feedback responses are stored, analyzed and associated with purchase information in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: AFTERWORDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven A. Roberts, Drew Peloubet
  • Patent number: 10380611
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for automatically generating context-based survey questions predicated on the customers' actual purchase experience with the merchant, thus eliminating for the customer the need to respond to obvious, redundant, and even irrelevant questions, and providing to the merchant customer feedback directly bound to the actual purchase event and correlating data. Purchase information is stored at the time of purchase and the customer is given an identifier for the purchase. Then, at the customer's convenience, either at the point of sale or through a networked computer, the customer can provide responses to questions that are selectively and automatically generated based on the items purchased, or other definable attributes associated with the sale, and based upon configurable preferences of the merchant. Survey questions are displayed and feedback responses are stored, analyzed and associated with purchase information in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: AFTERWORDS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven A. Roberts, Drew Peloubet
  • Publication number: 20190180296
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for automatically generating context-based survey questions predicated on the customers' actual purchase experience with the merchant, thus eliminating for the customer the need to respond to obvious, redundant, and even irrelevant questions, and providing to the merchant customer feedback directly bound to the actual purchase event and correlating data. Purchase information is stored at the time of purchase and the customer is given an identifier for the purchase. Then, at the customer's convenience, either at the point of sale or through a networked computer, the customer can provide responses to questions that are selectively and automatically generated based on the items purchased, or other definable attributes associated with the sale, and based upon configurable preferences of the merchant. Survey questions are displayed and feedback responses are stored, analyzed and associated with purchase information in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Steven A. Roberts, Drew Peloubet
  • Publication number: 20160253686
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for automatically generating context-based survey questions predicated on the customers' actual purchase experience with the merchant, thus eliminating for the customer the need to respond to obvious, redundant, and even irrelevant questions, and providing to the merchant customer feedback directly bound to the actual purchase event and correlating data. Purchase information is stored at the time of purchase and the customer is given an identifier for the purchase. Then, at the customer's convenience, either at the point of sale or through a networked computer, the customer can provide responses to questions that are selectively, and automatically generated based on the items purchased, or other definable attributes associated with the sale, and based upon configurable preferences of the merchant. Survey questions are displayed and feedback responses are stored, analyzed and associated with purchase information in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Steven A. Roberts, Drew Peloubet
  • Publication number: 20160130543
    Abstract: A perfusable, microtube-based flow system for microdevice models of human tissues and organs includes a microfluidic chip with a network of microtubes passing through at least one common chamber space suitable to hold cells of an appropriate organ and/or a biocompatible support matrix. The microtube model network can be used to create model tissues and organs for study and research.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Michael A. Daniele, Steven A. Roberts, Frances S. Ligler, André A. Adams
  • Patent number: 4893721
    Abstract: A hard shell tamper-proof capsule having cylindrical, telescopically joinable, coaxial cap and body parts each having a side wall, an open end and a closed end, the cap and body being adapted to be mutually joined; characterized in that the body closed end has either a generally hemispheroidal, a pyramidical, a conical or a flat outside surface, and that the body side wall is totally enclosed within the cap side wall thereby exposing only the outside surface of the body closed end for gripping, which impedes separation of and tampering with the joined capsule.For additional security the tamper-proof capsule may be provided with locking means of circumferentially extending ridges or grooves.For further security the tamper-proof capsule may be provided with sealing means such as hot water, steam, or hot solutions or emulsions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Hans U. Bodenmann, Steven A. Roberts, Fritz Wittwer