Patents by Inventor Brannon James Zahand

Brannon James Zahand 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: 20240100428
    Abstract: A method of navigating visual content includes establishing an interface template including a viewport; obtaining visual content data; identifying at least one focusable element in the visual content data; presenting a first portion of visual content in the viewport on a display device, wherein the visual content is based at least partially on the visual content data; indicating a first focusable element in the viewport with a visual indicator; and responsive to a user input, scrolling the visual content in the viewport when a second focusable element of the visual content is not present in the viewport in a navigation direction of the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Karlo Alexis REYES, Ryan Ashley MEDLIN, Efus RICHMAN, Ross Anthony MARSHALL, Raymond Charles DEAN, Kayla Louise COVINGTON, Brannon James ZAHAND
  • Patent number: 10463978
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a refreshable braille display accessory for a game controller that includes a housing sized to be received by a handheld game controller, a braille display including a plurality of pins arranged in a plurality of braille cells, each of the plurality of braille cells to provide tactile feedback representative of individual braille characters, and a control circuit enclosed within the housing to control refreshable activation of at least a portion of the plurality of pins based at least in part on a translation of game text or game audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Julie Tran, Patrick Thomas Gaule, John Richard Porter, III, Catherine Marie Baker, Dillon Taylor Baker, Brannon James Zahand, Harrison Tu
  • Publication number: 20180214779
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a refreshable braille display accessory for a game controller that includes a housing sized to be received by a handheld game controller, a braille display including a plurality of pins arranged in a plurality of braille cells, each of the plurality of braille cells to provide tactile feedback representative of individual braille characters, and a control circuit enclosed within the housing to control refreshable activation of at least a portion of the plurality of pins based at least in part on a translation of game text or game audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Julie Tran, Patrick Thomas Gaule, John Richard Porter, III, Catherine Marie Baker, Dillon Taylor Baker, Brannon James Zahand, Harrison Tu
  • Patent number: 9720854
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure enable location of a wireless peripheral by a computing device even when the wireless peripheral is beyond a communication range of, or otherwise inaccessible by, the computing device. A user gives a command to a first computing device to determine the location of the wireless peripheral. The first computing device requests other networked computing devices to locate the wireless peripheral. At least one of the other networked computing devices establishes communication with the wireless peripheral, obtains location information for the wireless peripheral, and communicates the location information to the first computing device. The first computing device communicates the location of the wireless peripheral to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brannon James Zahand, Daniel John Wallace
  • Publication number: 20150356030
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure enable location of a wireless peripheral by a computing device even when the wireless peripheral is beyond a communication range of, or otherwise inaccessible by, the computing device. A user gives a command to a first computing device to determine the location of the wireless peripheral. The first computing device requests other networked computing devices to locate the wireless peripheral. At least one of the other networked computing devices establishes communication with the wireless peripheral, obtains location information for the wireless peripheral, and communicates the location information to the first computing device. The first computing device communicates the location of the wireless peripheral to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Brannon James Zahand, Daniel John Wallace