Patents by Inventor Charles Nicholson
Charles Nicholson 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).
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Publication number: 20240149433Abstract: Disclosed is a robot apparatus with a capable and highly maneuverable drive system incorporating two differential swerve drive pods. The robot apparatus further includes a claw mechanism for grasping an object, a passthrough mechanism for moving the object horizontally and a lift mechanism for moving the object vertically. The robot apparatus allows for rapid manipulation and movement of objects such as cones.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Kevin Nicolas Haller, William Michael Meyers, Joseph Michael Biersack, Julia Mary Biersack, Ian Setia, Rachael Setia, Andrew John Andersen, Ethan Christopher Emerton, Thomas Leland Hughes, William Charles Holt, Wyatt John Nicholson
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Publication number: 20240139711Abstract: Compositing a gas adsorbant, macroporous object includes the immersion of a macroporous substrate into a charge stabilized suspension of nanoparticles that has been adapted for electrostatic repulsion. In this regard, the macroporous substrate includes a multiplicity of pores and demonstrates a compatibility with an adsorbant additive while lacking a repellant reaction to the charge stabilized solution. The nanoparticles are then positioned onto different walls of the pores resulting in the decoration of the macroporous structure with high surface volume materials. Finally, the macroporous substrate is removed from the suspension and dried. Thereafter, a gas adsorbant additive is introduced onto both surface portions of the macroporous substrate and also to the different walls of the pores of the macroporous substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SPIRITUS TECHNOLOGIES, PBCInventors: Matthew Nicholson Lee, Jose Manuel Tafoya, Matthew Douglass Crall, Emily Webster Tew, Charles Frederick Cadieu
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Patent number: 11861623Abstract: Examples, methods and systems described herein may include determining, by a payment processing system, whether a second payment mechanism may be used to perform a payment transaction when a first payment mechanism is preferred and/or when the first payment mechanism has failed. Determining to use the second payment mechanism can be based on (i) an analysis of a communication status indicator received from a point-of-sale (POS) terminal that indicates which payment mechanisms are capable of communicating with the POS terminal, (ii) data received from the POS terminal that is associated with a read of a payment object, and/or (iii) an allowance criterion.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Block, Inc.Inventors: Michael Wells White, Charles Nicholson, David Terra, Jason Holmes, Martin Mroz
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Publication number: 20220183574Abstract: One disclosed example method includes receiving sensor data from a biosensor; determining an event using a first analysis based on the sensor data, the first analysis having a first power cost; determining to perform a second analysis based on the event; in response to determining to perform the second analysis, performing the second analysis based on the sensor data, the second analysis having a second power cost greater than the first power cost; and wirelessly transmitting results of the second analysis to a remote device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Charles Nicholson, David He, Brian Schiffer
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Publication number: 20210117975Abstract: Examples, methods and systems described herein may include determining, by a payment processing system, whether a second payment mechanism may be used to perform a payment transaction when a first payment mechanism is preferred and/or when the first payment mechanism has failed. Determining to use the second payment mechanism can be based on (i) an analysis of a communication status indicator received from a point-of-sale (POS) terminal that indicates which payment mechanisms are capable of communicating with the POS terminal, (ii) data received from the POS terminal that is associated with a read of a payment object, and/or (iii) an allowance criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Michael Wells White, Charles Nicholson, David Terra, Jason Holmes, Martin Mroz
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Patent number: 10949858Abstract: Examples, methods and systems described herein may include determining, by a payment processing system, whether a second payment mechanism may be used to perform a payment transaction when a first payment mechanism is preferred and/or when the first payment mechanism has failed. Determining to use the second payment mechanism can be based on (i) an analysis of a communication status indicator received from a point-of-sale (POS) terminal that indicates which payment mechanisms are capable of communicating with the POS terminal, (ii) data received from the POS terminal that is associated with a read of a payment object, and/or (iii) an allowance criterion.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Michael Wells White, Charles Nicholson, David Terra, Jason Holmes, Martin Mroz
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Patent number: 10705692Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch pad are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to: a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) divide the image into one or more regions that fill the display, wherein each region corresponds to a different active element; c) correlating an active element in the image on the visual display to a corresponding active portion of the touch interface; and d) activate one of the one or more active elements in response to a touch to a corresponding one of the active portions of the touch interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Charles Nicholson, Gary M. Zalewski
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Publication number: 20190287108Abstract: Examples, methods and systems described herein may include determining, by a payment processing system, whether a second payment mechanism may be used to perform a payment transaction when a first payment mechanism is preferred and/or when the first payment mechanism has failed. Determining to use the second payment mechanism can be based on (i) an analysis of a communication status indicator received from a point-of-sale (POS) terminal that indicates which payment mechanisms are capable of communicating with the POS terminal, (ii) data received from the POS terminal that is associated with a read of a payment object, and/or (iii) an allowance criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Michael Wells White, Charles Nicholson, David Terra, Jason Holmes, Martin Mroz
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Patent number: 10163107Abstract: In some examples, methods and systems may institute technical fallback by determining, by a payment processing system, and based on analysis of the communication status indicator and the data obtained when a magnetic stripe of the payment object is introduced in magnetic stripe object reader, whether the payment object was swiped while an EMV object reader was communicatively coupled to the POS terminal. If the magnetic stripe of the payment object was swiped while the EMV object reader was connected to the POS terminal, the payment processing system extracts a transaction count indicating a number of times the customer has attempted to insert a chip of the payment object into the EMV object reader prior to swiping magstripe. By comparing the transaction count with a threshold count, the payment processing system authorizes the payment transaction as a technical fallback transaction if the transaction count is greater than the threshold count.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Square, Inc.Inventors: Michael Wells White, Jason Holmes, Martin Mroz, David Terra, Charles Nicholson
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Patent number: 9927964Abstract: A hand-held electronic device has a processor that is operably coupled to the visual display and touch interface. The hand held electronic device includes instructions executable by the processor configured to present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; perform a tessellation that divides the image into one or more regions that fill the display, each region corresponds to a different active element, a size of each region depends on a corresponding probability of use of the corresponding active element within a given time frame; correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to a corresponding one or more of the regions; and activate a particular active element in response to a touch on a corresponding active portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Charles Nicholson
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Patent number: 9524085Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to: a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) present a transformed active element corresponding to a particular one of the one or more active elements on the visual display in response to a user interaction with a corresponding one of the one or more active portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Charles Nicholson, Gary M. Zalewski
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Patent number: 9448701Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a processor is operably coupled to a visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) adjust a layout of content shown on the display according to a probability of one or more actions that may be taken with the one or more active elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Charles Nicholson
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Patent number: 9367216Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Charles Nicholson
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Patent number: 9189211Abstract: Method and apparatus and computer program code for cross programming language transformation. This transcoding permits automation of a video game asset conditioning process by using introspection and reflection capabilities of high level tool languages to generate optimally-packed, platform-specific binary memory images as well as the code, such as C++ to read the images.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLCInventor: Charles Nicholson
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Publication number: 20150199117Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch interface. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) perform a tessellation that divides the image into one or more regions that fill the display, each region corresponds to a different active element, a size of each region depends on a corresponding probability of use of the corresponding active element within a given time frame; c) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to a corresponding one or more of the regions; and d) activate a particular active element in response to a touch on a corresponding active portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Charles Nicholson
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Patent number: 9009588Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) adjust a layout of content shown on the display according to a probability of one or more actions that may be taken with the one or more active elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Charles Nicholson
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Patent number: 8882597Abstract: A hybrid separable motion controller is provided. The controller includes a first portion including a first handle, a first medial connector defined along a length of the first handle, and a first geometric object defined at an end of the first handle. The controller further includes a second portion including a second handle, a second medial connector defined along a length of the second handle for coupling to the first medial connector, and a second geometric object defined at an end of the second handle. The first portion or the second portion includes a connection sensor for determining whether the controller is in a connected configuration or a disconnected configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLCInventor: Charles Nicholson
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Patent number: 8677238Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for controlling a device without requiring visual contact are presented. One method includes an operation for identifying available options for a user according to a state of a program executing on a device, where the available options correspond to possible menu items. Further, the method provides an audible output of the available options and the detection of a touch-based input, where the input is received at the device without providing an identifiable visual cue to the user. Further yet, the method includes operations for determining the selected option from the available options based on the timing of the input relative to the audible output, and for performing the selected option by the computer program. In another method, the options are presented to the user via different vibration patterns or via vibrations of a second device connected to the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Charles Nicholson
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Publication number: 20130212503Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) adjust a layout of content shown on the display according to a probability of one or more actions that may be taken with the one or more active elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Charles Nicholson
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Publication number: 20130212504Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a processor is operably coupled to a visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) adjust a layout of content shown on the display according to a probability of one or more actions that may be taken with the one or more active elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Charles Nicholson