Patents by Inventor William Roberts

William 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).

  • Patent number: 12362474
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising the steps of initializing a first platform and a second platform; optically tracking a movement of the second platform by the first platform; and optically communicating bi-directionally between the first platform and the second platform. Disclosed herein is an optical communication device comprising various elements including but not limited to: a processor configured to provide at least a tracking mode and a communications mode; an input-output interface coupled to the processor; an electro-optic controller coupled to the input-output interface; an acquisition-tracking portion coupled to the electro-optic controller; and a communication portion coupled to the electro-optic controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: 4S-Silversword Software and Services, LLC
    Inventors: William Robert Allen Ziegler, Ronald H. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250224304
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method directed to detecting damage to an optical fiber of a medical device. The optical fiber includes one or more core fibers each including a plurality of sensors configured to (i) reflect a light signal based on received incident light, and (ii) alter the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber. The system also includes a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes operations of providing a broadband incident light signal to the multi-core optical fiber, receiving reflected light signals, receiving reflected light signals of different spectral widths of the broadband incident light by one or more of the plurality of sensors, identifying at least one unexpected spectral width or a lack of an expected spectral width, and determining the damage has occurred to the optical fiber based on the identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Anthony K. Misener, Steffan Sowards, William Robert McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 12354738
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are RFID enabled medical device systems including an RFID emitter configured to provide an interrogation signal that impinges on an RFID tag associated with a medical device to trigger a response signal. The response signal can indicate and presence or absence of the medical device proximate to the RFID emitter. A console communicatively coupled to the RFID emitter can determine, record, and analyze procedural or usage information about the medical device. Further information about the medical device can be encoded within the response signal and provided to the console. Console settings can be automatically updated based on the information within the response signal. Additional modalities are also contemplated including optical image recognition of medical device kits. Further AR viewers can provide image overlays to guide a user in correct procedure. Procedural compliance can be automatically recorded and monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steffan Sowards, William Robert McLaughlin, Anthony K. Misener, Shayne Messerly
  • Publication number: 20250216888
    Abstract: Temporary system adjustment for component overclocking is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a processor and/or memory are operated according to first settings. During operation of the processor and/or the memory according to the first settings, a signal triggers a temporary adjustment of operation of the processor and/or the memory according to second settings. Responsive to the request, operation of the processor and/or the memory is switched to the second settings without rebooting. After a duration, operation of the processor and/or the memory is switched back to the first settings. In one or more implementations, at least one of the first settings or the second settings overclock the processor and/or the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicants: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Wayne Paul Rodrigue, Grant Evan Ley, Jerry Anton Ahrens, JR., Coralie So, Xianglong Du, Nicholas Carmine DeFiore, Ronald James Baughman, Joshua Taylor Knight, William Robert Alverson
  • Publication number: 20250214817
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the inventive concepts, provided is a robotic vehicle comprising at least one processor in communication with at least one computer memory device, a navigation system operatively controlling a drive system to navigate the mobile robot along a predetermined path, at least one sensor configured to acquire real-time sensor data, and a dynamic path adjust system comprising computer program code executable by the at least one processor to cause the navigation system to at least partially and/or temporarily deviate from a current path by generating a dynamically determined path or path segment based on the real-time sensor data and/or an indication in the current path to switch to dynamic path adjust. The robotic vehicle can be configured to switch path to a current and/or original path after executing a dynamically determined path adjustment. A corresponding method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas Melchior, Iva Jestrovic, Tom Panzarella, John Spletzer, William Robert Ganucheau, JR., Erich L. Foster
  • Publication number: 20250206586
    Abstract: A support tray system includes a load lift frame attached with a plurality of wheels. The support tray system further includes a support tray including a vertical portion having a first edge and a second edge and a horizontal portion extending from the second edge of the vertical portion. The horizontal portion includes a rib for stiffening the horizontal portion, a groove for supporting an article, and a retaining feature opposite the vertical portion. The horizontal portion is removably coupled to a lifting portion of the load lift frame. The support tray system further includes one or more extenders extending between the article and the horizontal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Jerome LaPalme, William Roberts, Roy Gonzales
  • Publication number: 20250202758
    Abstract: Lightweight, dynamic mechanisms are provided to support service layer interworking and resource extensibility. For example, one mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new service layer (SL) resource definition registration procedure that allows for specifying custom attributes of service layer resources to represent third party technology resources. A second mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new SL data model mapping registration procedure to map service layer resources to third party data models and to provide a new interworked retargeting indicator to the service layer. Further, a third mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a SL generic interworking procedure to intelligently retarget requests toward interworked resources based on the interworked retargeting indicator provided by the data model mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Quang Ly, Dale N. Seed, William Robert Flynn, IV, Catalina M. Mladin, Chonggang Wang, Rocco Di Girolamo, Zhuo Chen
  • Publication number: 20250191823
    Abstract: A method of imparting a magnetic signature includes inserting a first medical device into a single-dipole section of a magnetizer and positioning a second medical device into a multipole section of the magnetizer. Inserting the first medical device into the single-dipole section can impart a single-dipole magnetic signature with a first magnetic field to the first medical device. Positioning the second medical device into the multipole section can impart a multipole magnetic signature with a second magnetic field to the second medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Steffan Sowards, Anthony K. Misener, William Robert McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 12328376
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are used to support cross-platform data sharing, access, and management between a communication process flow management platform and a communication platform. Specifically, techniques described herein support a communication process flow management platform detecting an event associated with a communication process flow that control electronic communications between a tenant and a set of users. The platform may generate a data object corresponding to the event. The data object may include metadata associated with the event. The platform may transmit, to a communication platform, a request that includes the data object. The request may be configured to cause an entry associated with the event to be posted into the communication platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Popelka, William Robert Jennings, II, Andrew Short, Pranavkumar Janakbhai Parekh
  • Publication number: 20250176853
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system, apparatus and method directed to placing a medical instrument in a vasculature of a patient body, where the medical instrument includes an optical fiber having one or more core fibers. The system also includes a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes operations of providing an incident light signal to the optical fiber, receiving a reflected light signal of the incident light, processing the reflected light signals associated with the optical fiber and determining a location of a distal tip of the medical instrument within the patient body. The medical instrument may be steerable in one of various methods including having a predetermined curvature, a distal tip that is magnetic, magnetized, metallic or ferrous and is steerable by an external magnetic device or a having a variable stiffness at a distal tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Steffan Sowards, Anthony K. Misener, Anthony D. Decheek, William Robert McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20250181652
    Abstract: A data processing system with a dataset multiplexer that enables applications to be written to specify access to datasets as operations on logical datasets. During execution of an application by the data processing system, the physical dataset used for performing data access operations may be selected based on current context. Current context may be specified based on values of system parameters and/or user specified values. The physical dataset accessed may be identified by selecting a record from multiple records in a dataset catalog associated with the logical dataset. Each record includes information to access a physical dataset associated with the selected record and context information to indicate the context in which the specific physical dataset is to be selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Ab Initio Technology LLC
    Inventors: Amit Weisman, Cory Christopher James Fantasia, Robert Parks, Matthew Austin Eads, William Robert Zimmerman, Aaron Huang, Matthew Douglas Becker
  • Patent number: 12323380
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are used to support cross platform data sharing, access, and management between a communication process flow management platform and a communication platform. Specifically, techniques described herein support a communication process flow management platform detecting an event associated with a communication process flow that control electronic communications between a tenant and a set of users. The platform may generate a data object corresponding to the event. The data object may include metadata associated with the event. The platform may transmit, to a communication platform, a request that includes the data object. The request may be configured to cause an entry associated with the event to be posted into the communication platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Popelka, William Robert Jennings, II, Andrew Short, Pranavkumar Janakbhai Parekh
  • Publication number: 20250174270
    Abstract: A write circuit for writing state into a plurality of superconducting memory cells includes a control circuit, a plurality of write lines, each of the write lines being associated with a corresponding column of the superconducting memory cells and being configured to convey a write column current, and a first plurality of non-superconducting switch devices. Each of the non-superconducting switch devices are integrated with a corresponding one of the write lines and are configured to receive a first control signal supplied by the control circuit for enabling the write column current to flow through the corresponding one of the write lines for writing state into a selected one of the superconducting memory cells associated with the corresponding one of the write lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventor: William Robert Reohr
  • Publication number: 20250162227
    Abstract: Polyurethane waste blending using dynamic urethane exchange and twin-screw extrusion is described. The method may comprise introducing the polyurethane composition into a compounding device, heating the polyurethane composition to an effective bond-exchange temperature, and compounding the polyurethane composition for an effective bond-exchange time where the polyurethane composition comprises two or more network polymers and an effective amount of a polyurethane exchange catalyst permeated within the polyurethan composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: William Robert Dichtel, Daylan Tyler Sheppard, Jeremy L. Swartz
  • Publication number: 20250151175
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic smoking article that provides for improved aerosol delivery. Particularly, the article comprises one or more microheaters. In various embodiments, the microheaters provide for improved control of vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition and provide for reduced power requirements to achieve consistent aerosolization. The present disclosure further relates to methods of forming an aerosol in a smoking article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: William Robert Collett, Stephen Benson Sears, Dennis Lee Potter, Steven Lee Alderman, Mo Kebaili
  • Publication number: 20250148462
    Abstract: An extensible policy-based service layer dynamic authorization framework can allow a service layer to determine whether or not to grant or deny a registrant access to a resource or service hosted by the service layer for which the registrant currently lacks the proper privileges to access. This method can also enable a service layer to dynamically update its statically configured authorization privileges (by leveraging its dynamic authorization results) such that future requests from the same registrant and to the same resource and service do not require dynamic authorization to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Dale N. SEED, Vinod Kumar CHOYI, William Robert FLYNN, IV, Quang LY, Donald A. FLECK, Richard P. GORMAN, Nicholas J. PODIAS, Michael F. STARSINIC, Hongkun LI, Zhuo CHEN, Yogendra C. Shah, Shamim Akbar RAHMAN
  • Publication number: 20250134458
    Abstract: An assistive medical device includes a brace configured to fit around an anatomical joint of a user. One or more sensors, such as an inertial measurement unit and an angle sensor, determine pose (e.g., position and/or orientation) of the brace. A controller receives data from the sensors and compares the data from the sensors to a pose of the anatomical joint that is either measured (e.g., via separate limb pose sensors) or assumed (e.g., by instructing the user to assume a specific pose). Based on the comparison, an indication of the alignment status between the brace and the limb is determined to guide an alignment verification process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Todd William Roberts, Bianca Lisa Riello, Owen P. Kent, Pablo David Amor Lacaba, Grace O'Connell, Charlotte Adiaz Lao, Saahil Jayesh Patel, David Day Wilkinson, Horacio Alain Millan, Tylor W. Langford
  • Patent number: 12289488
    Abstract: A system and method for initiating closed captioning. The system includes a processor that can receive an instruction to add closed captioning. The system may also, upon receiving the instruction, determine a time point at which to begin the closed captioning and determining an amount of closed captioning to include, and output, for display, the closed captioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventor: William Roberts
  • Patent number: 12287403
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ultrasound imaging system including an ultrasound probe and a blood vessel visualization device. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound generation device and is configured to detect one or more blood vessels. The blood vessel visualization device is configured to project a depiction of the blood vessel topography within a target area. The blood vessel visualization device can include one or more near-infrared/infrared emitters configured to generate infrared/near-infrared waves within the target area, one or more near-infrared/infrared sensors configured to detect the difference in reflective properties of tissue and blood vessels within the target area, and one or more visual light projectors configured to project a blood vessel visualization depiction of the blood vessel topography onto the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steffan Sowards, William Robert McLaughlin, Anthony K. Misener
  • Patent number: 12285572
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are optical-fiber stylet holders and methods thereof for holding optical-fiber stylets in position in catheters or the like while preventing breakage of optical fibers in the optical-fiber stylets and maintaining functionality of the optical-fiber stylets. The holding of optical-fiber stylets in position in catheters or the like can be important for maintaining distal tips of intravascularly delivered optical-fiber stylets in their target anatomical locations during procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steffan Sowards, Anthony K. Misener, William Robert McLaughlin