Patents Examined by Pierre E. Elisca
  • Patent number: 11617943
    Abstract: Input data containing at least strain data corresponding to deformation of an input apparatus or motion data corresponding to a motion or orientation of the input apparatus, is obtained from the input apparatus. Based on the motion data, a first object is caused to move in a virtual space or an orientation of the first object in the virtual space is changed. Based on the strain data, the first object is caused to perform a predetermined action in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kitahara, Shota Shimada, Atsushi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11612811
    Abstract: A game server switching method, applied to a game server switching system, is provided, the game server switching system including a load balancer, a network-layer access subsystem, a network-layer proxy subsystem, a game logic subsystem, and a role login management server. A communication connection is established between the network-layer access subsystem and the second game server based on the route switching request message. A write-back request is sent by the first game server to the role login management server. User role data are sent by the role login management server to the second game server based on the write-back request. In response to obtaining the user role data from the role login management server, the game data are sent by the second game server to the game client by using the network-layer proxy subsystem, the network-layer access subsystem, and the load balancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Lin Liu, Xiao Cheng Ding
  • Patent number: 11607600
    Abstract: Swimming goggles have a left-eye covering and a right-eye covering, each having a corresponding transparent window that defines a field of view and each further having a seal extending between the transparent window and the swimmer's face and formed to exclude water. A near-eye display is in signal communication with an image processor and forms a virtual image in the left- or right-eye field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Vuzix Corporation
    Inventor: Craig R. Travers
  • Patent number: 11602683
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed to methods, products and systems for streamlining the process of playing bingo. This patent is directed to a computer application whereby a computing device such as a mobile phone captures one or more likenesses of a bingo card(s) using the camera function of the device. Optical character or image recognition software and algorithms interpret and store the card(s) and corresponding characters. When characters are called for matching with the bingo cards in play, the called character is entered into the computing device. The application compares the called character to those captured by the computing device to identify instances of matches on each card in play until a winning card is identified and the player is alerted of the win, or until the game is over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventors: Walter Brian Mansell, Daniel Scott Dryden
  • Patent number: 11602696
    Abstract: An access control system that includes an access control device configured to receive transaction information that identifies a member identifier for a member and a purchased item. The access control device is configured to compare the purchased item to items in an item list and to determine whether the purchased item matches any items in the item list. The access control device is configured to store an authorization for the member identifier to access an augmented reality experience in response to a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Nathan Beran, Sajjad Mahmood Khan, Santhanagopalakrishnan Panchapakesan, Stephen Patrick Kinch, Tarang Swadeshkumar Sethia, Mark Hollon, Maninder Singh Suri, Manish Agarwal, Gurmeet Singh
  • Patent number: 11600142
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing secure wagering gaming operations involving randomly generating a plurality of playing card values as player hands, a dealer hand and a community group, and distributing a payout responsive to the best possible poker ranking achievable from final hands formed of only specific number of cards in the each of the respective player hands and dealer hand, and community group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
  • Patent number: 11596856
    Abstract: A system includes a card shoe that includes a housing for housing cards and an opening through which the housed cards can be drawn. The system includes a computer to detect whether there is any of the following predefined arrangements: (1) for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card housing; (2) a respective rank of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; (3) a respective suit of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; or (4) a same sequence in which a predefined number of the cards are consecutively drawn is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11600114
    Abstract: Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. Hoffman, Kwamina Crankson, Jason Nims, Michael Levi Orenstein, Kristen Laina White
  • Patent number: 11587402
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing a feature in gaming devices with multiple chances of using an awarded modifier. Accordingly, a gaming device can include a display, and a processor configured to execute operations that include facilitating participation in a first gaming event and determining if a bonus feature is triggered during the first gaming event. When the feature is triggered, the operations further include determining an awarded modifier, and determining if the modifier is to be used in the first gaming event based on whether a predefined condition is satisfied. If the awarded modifier is not used in the first gaming event, the modifier is then applied in a second, subsequent gaming event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventor: Bradley Berman
  • Patent number: 11587105
    Abstract: A system for customizing an end user gaming experience is disclosed herein. The system includes a processor. The processor is configured to create a campaign by receiving a campaign creation request from an end user device, the campaign creation request comprising one or more parameters of a campaign associated with the campaign request, creating the campaign based on the one or more parameters associated with the campaign request, and personalizing one or more offers for an end user, each of the one or more offers comprising a game having one or more hurdles, wherein completion of each of the one or more hurdles leads to a reward. The processor is further configured to map a subset of the one or more personalized offers to the end user. The processor is further configured to monitor progress of the campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Formation, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris McKinlay, Greg Pfeil, Stas Goldobin, Christian Selchau-Hansen
  • Patent number: 11581060
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for generating and displaying a three dimensional map of a protein sequence. An exemplary method can provide for using deep learning models to predict protein folding and model protein folding using three dimensional representations. The method more effectively exploits the potential of deep learning approaches. The method approach overall involves three stages—computation, geometry, and assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventor: Mohammed AlQuraishi
  • Patent number: 11580823
    Abstract: An exemplary method comprises receiving information associated with a game-playing transaction conducted between a user device and a game-playing terminal, wherein the game-playing transaction is associated with a request for playing a game; determining a location of the user device associated with the game; determining the user device is located in an approved location associated with the game; and processing the game-playing transaction based on determining the user device is located in the approved location associated with the game. The game-playing transaction is conducted on a first communication interface, and the information associated with the game-playing transaction is received on a first or second communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: E2INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Cage, John Minutaglio, Roy Leach, David Trashjian, Travis L Smith, John Frederick Houseal, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11574706
    Abstract: A dataset is obtained comprising data blocks, each representing a different characteristic, for a plurality of cells across a plurality of bins, each bin representing a different portion of a reference sequence. Cells are clustered on one such characteristic across the bins thereby forming a tree that includes root, intermediate, and terminal nodes, where the cells are terminal nodes and intermediate nodes have daughter nodes, themselves being intermediate nodes or a cell. A subset of the tree is displayed that includes the root and leaves, each leaf representing an intermediate node or a cell. A heat map of the characteristic is also displayed, the map including a segment for each leaf, across the bins. When a segment represents an intermediate node, it is an average of the characteristic across daughters of the node. Graphs of characteristics for the root across the bins are also displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Mellen, Kevin J. Wu, Vijay Kumar Sreenivasa Gopalan, Nicolaus Lance Hepler, Jasper Staab
  • Patent number: 11574518
    Abstract: A jackpot machine with surround audio is provided. The jackpot machine includes a processor to process at least one audio to generate at least one 3D surround audio, a sending means to send the generated at least one 3D surround audio to a headphone worn by a player, and a display showing at least one graphical representation of a prize. The at least one graphical representation of the prize is associated with the at least one audio, and is perceived by the player to audibly and visually move around the player in accordance with the generated at least one 3D surround audio and the at least one graphical representation of the prize shown on the display respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Wong Hoo Sim, Teck Chee Lee
  • Patent number: 11551524
    Abstract: A system and method that provide non-cash avenues to redeem a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11551783
    Abstract: There is provided a technology that supports selection of a label to be used for analysis of target molecules. The present technology provides a label selection support system including an information acquisition unit that obtains, via a network, information associated with a plurality of target molecules to be analyzed, an information processor that obtains, using the information associated with a plurality of target molecules, in vivo expression information of the plurality of target molecules from a database storing in vivo expression information of target molecules and generates support information associated with assignment of a label to each of the plurality of target molecules on the basis of the expression information, and a transmitter that transmits the generated support information via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakagawa, Teruaki Iyama, Takuya Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11545008
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing gaming devices having a poker mystery feature. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to have sub-symbol overlays that specify a replication feature that may replicate a card associated with the sub-symbol overlay and either replace a specified card that is adjacent to the card associated with the sub-symbol overlay, or create a multi-indicia card using the replication. Replication may mean a direct copy of the card associated with the sub-symbol overlay or may mean providing a card that is related to the card associated with the sub-symbol overlay according to predefined rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventor: Bradley Berman
  • Patent number: 11544994
    Abstract: A system for proximity-based digital interactions includes a beacon transmitter configured to wirelessly broadcast a first interaction prompt message that includes a first interaction event code. A system server is configured to: receive an event activation message that includes the first interaction event code; identify and perform a first pre-programmed action; identify proximity between a mobile computing device and the beacon transmitter based on receipt of the first interaction event code from the mobile computing device; create a second interaction event code that is targeted to be performed by the mobile computing device; and transmit a configuration message to the beacon transmitter that includes the second interaction event code, causing the beacon transmitter to begin broadcasting a second interaction prompt message including the second interaction event code together with the first interaction prompt message, where the first interaction event code is different than the second interaction even code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Taylor, Damian Tarnawsky, Scott Kania
  • Patent number: 11541316
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for detecting abnormal device operation are provided. The method includes: obtaining multiple action events of a movable input device, and each action event including a relative coordinate and a time stamp of the movable input device; generating multiple absolute coordinates based on the relative coordinate of each action event; estimating multiple speed vectors based on the absolute coordinates and the time stamp of each action event; estimating multiple acceleration vectors based on the speed vectors and the time stamp of each action event; and estimating a probability of abnormal operation based on the speed vectors and the acceleration vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien-Yi Chi, Wei-Chieh Chen, Shih-Cheng Huang, Tzu-Lung Chuang
  • Patent number: 11534679
    Abstract: An immersive amusement system features a path to be traversed by participants, a first array of devices mounted on a first side of said path, and a second array of devices mounted on an opposing second side of said path. Each device comprises either a beam emitter operable to transmit a respective visible beam, or a beam receiver operable to detect receipt thereby of a visible beam. The arrayed devices are setup in co-operable pairs, of which each co-operable pair comprises a beam emitter in one of said arrays and a corresponding beam receiver in the other of said arrays. A controller operably connected to the arrayed devices is configured to selectively activate and deactivate said beam emitters to cause transmission of visible beams from said beam emitters to said corresponding beam receivers, and to monitor for breaking of any of said visible beams by any of said participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Activate Games Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Schmidt