Patents by Inventor Blake Christensen

Blake Christensen 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: 20230418813
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating and providing a hybrid search-and-browse interface for accurately and efficiently locating and presenting targeted genealogical content items. For example, the disclosed systems generate and provide a multi-layered navigational structure using browse trees that represent categories of genealogical content items, where each successive browse tree in the hybrid search-and-browse interface narrows the search results from the one before based on some (selected) criteria. In some cases, to support a hybrid search-and-browse interface, the hybrid search-and-browse system generates and maintains a facet index for genealogical content items stored in a database as a basis for generating and providing browse trees for navigating through search results of content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Baird Wille, Christopher Todd Brewer, Blake Matthew Scarbrough, Justin Blake Christensen
  • Patent number: 4776080
    Abstract: A workpiece carrier and positioning system determines the particular orientation of each workpiece upon an individually identifiable carrier or frame to which it has been affixed. The carriers themselves are precisely registered at each workstation where an operation is to be performed upon the workpiece. Once registered at a workstation the carrier's identification is determined and the carrier or the operational tool of the workstation is offset and/or rotated as needed, according to the determined particular orientation of the workpiece, to allow precise alignment of the workpiece with the operation to be performed. The offset and/or rotation needed is individually determined for each workpiece at each workstation on the basis of the original particular orientation of each workpiece upon its individual carrier. A table is maintained that associates with each carrier the particular orientation of the workpiece carried thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventor: Blake Christensen