Patents by Inventor Christopher J. White
Christopher J. White 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: 20240135004Abstract: A system determines a baseline cyberthreat-risk score for a user, and displays the baseline cyberthreat-risk score via a user interface. The system presents at least one cyberthreat-education activity via the user interface, and receives, via the user interface, at least one user input associated with the presented at least one cyberthreat-education activity. The system generates an updated cyberthreat-risk score at least in part by updating the baseline cyberthreat-risk score based at least in part on the user input, and displays the updated cyberthreat-risk score via the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Chad E. Adams, Daniel Robert Caricato, Kahlidah B. Covington, Ashley Brook Godfrey, Christopher Wayne Howser, Nicola A. Maiorana, Nirali J. Patel, Richard Joseph Schroeder, Roger Daryll White
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Publication number: 20240133236Abstract: A lighted architectural-structure covering is disclosed. In one example of an embodiment, an architectural-structure covering includes a light source arranged and configured to illuminate at least a portion of the architectural-structure covering. The architectural-structure covering may include first and second coverings. The light source is arranged and configured to direct light onto the second covering, which is arranged and configured to reflect, redistribute, etc. the received light toward the interior space of the room in which the architectural-structure covering is located. Thus arranged, the architectural-structure covering may be used to create, for example, diffused-lighting effects.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Hunter Douglas Inc.Inventors: Coty CHURCH, Michael J. SIEBENALLER, Kevin M. DANN, Christopher M. WHITE
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Publication number: 20240093857Abstract: A lighted architectural-structure covering is disclosed. In one example of an embodiment, an architectural-structure covering includes a light source arranged and configured to illuminate at least a portion of the architectural-structure covering. The architectural-structure covering may include first and second coverings. The light source is arranged and configured to direct light onto the second covering, which is arranged and configured to reflect, redistribute, etc. the received light toward the interior space of the room in which the architectural-structure covering is located. Thus arranged, the architectural-structure covering may be used to create, for example, diffused-lighting effects.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Hunter Douglas Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Siebenaller, Coty Church, Kevin M. Dann, Christopher M. White
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Patent number: 11933076Abstract: An interchangeable electro-mechanical lock core for use with a lock device having a locked state and an unlocked state is disclosed. The interchangeable electromechanical lock core may include a moveable plug having a first position relative to a lock core body which corresponds to the lock device being in the locked state and a second position relative to a lock core body which corresponds to the lock device being in the unlocked state.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: dormakaba USA Inc.Inventors: Brendon Allen, Street Anthony Barnett, III, Matthew J. Velderman, Andrew E. Seman, Jr., Ryan H. Peloquin, Gary Hill, Paul Becke, Christopher W. Lemieux, Anthony Romano, Matthew Stanton, Daniel J. White
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Patent number: 11937032Abstract: A system for remotely retrieving sensed conditions at one or more building components. The building components are remote or numerous so that a wireless collection of the sensed conditions provides a significant benefit to a builder or building operator. A remote transceiver sends a wireless signal to a building component. The building component includes an onboard transceiver. At least some of the energy from the transmitted wireless signal is received by the onboard transceiver, sent to a storage device, and stored therein. The stored energy is used to operate a sensor for sensing an onboard condition. The onboard condition is then wirelessly transmitted by the onboard transceiver back to the remote transceiver to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.Inventors: Daniel J. White, Matthew J. Velderman, Andrew E. Seman, Christopher W. Lemieux, Gary Hill
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Publication number: 20240068333Abstract: A system and method for turning a well over to production. The method may include drilling a wellbore using a drillstring, casing the wellbore, fracturing a reservoir, drilling the wellbore to a plug back total depth using the drillstring to clean out the wellbore, and converting the drillstring from a drilling mode to a production mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Matthew L. White, Jeffrey Spencer, Brian B. Hope, Christopher J. Heikkinen
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Patent number: 11914719Abstract: A system determines a baseline cyberthreat-risk score for a user, and displays the baseline cyberthreat-risk score via a user interface. The system presents at least one cyberthreat-education activity via the user interface, and receives, via the user interface, at least one user input associated with the presented at least one cyberthreat-education activity. The system generates an updated cyberthreat-risk score at least in part by updating the baseline cyberthreat-risk score based at least in part on the user input, and displays the updated cyberthreat-risk score via the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Chad E. Adams, Daniel Robert Caricato, Kahlidah B. Covington, Ashley Brook Godfrey, Christopher Wayne Howser, Nicola A. Maiorana, Nirali J. Patel, Richard Joseph Schroeder, Roger Daryll White
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Patent number: 9659532Abstract: A four-color transmissive display system incorporates a display having independently variable light sources for different colors, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive and process a three-color input image signal, and provide a four-color output image signal to the display. The controller incorporates units respectively configured to (1) calculate a blue reduction factor for each pixel, dependent on luminance differences between blue and other color components, (2) produce respective saturation adjustment factors for red, green, and blue, (3) apply the blue reduction factor to reduce blue luminance, and apply the saturation adjustment factors to reduce saturation of other colors, (4) produce the output image signal. An optional sensor is operable to provide a control signal to the controller, whereby display power can be reduced. An optional estimating unit is configured to estimate current required to display the input image signal, for adjustment of the output image signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Inventors: Michael E. Miller, Christopher J. White
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Patent number: 9601047Abstract: A method for controlling an electroluminescent display to produce first and second images for display wherein the second image has reduced luminance to reduce burn-in on the display, includes providing the electroluminescent (EL) display having a plurality of EL emitters, the luminance of the light produced by each EL emitter being responsive to a respective drive signal; receiving a respective input image signal for each EL emitter for each of a plurality of frames; transforming the input image signals for a first frame to provide a plurality of first drive signals to produce an image on the display; and transforming the input image signals for a second frame to a plurality of second drive signals using a dimming transform that operates on the input image signals for each frame to provide a peak frame luminance value for the second frame wherein the dimming transform includes an exponential function.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Michael E. Miller, Christopher J. White
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Patent number: 9565076Abstract: Network traffic information from multiple sources, at multiple time scales, and at multiple levels of detail are integrated so that users may more easily identify relevant network information. The network monitoring system stores and manipulates low-level and higher-level network traffic data separately to enable efficient data collection and storage. Packet traffic data is collected, stored, and analyzed at multiple locations. The network monitoring locations communicate summary and aggregate data to central modules, which combine this data to provide an end-to-end description of network traffic at coarser time scales. The network monitoring system enables users to zoom in on high-level, coarse time scale network performance data to one or more lower levels of network performance data at finer time scales.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Inventors: Loris Degioanni, Steven McCanne, Christopher J. White, Dimitri S. Vlachos
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Publication number: 20160247462Abstract: A four-color transmissive display system incorporates a display having independently variable light sources for different colors, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive and process a three-color input image signal, and provide a four-color output image signal to the display. The controller incorporates units respectively configured to (1) calculate a blue reduction factor for each pixel, dependent on luminance differences between blue and other color components, (2) produce respective saturation adjustment factors for red, green, and blue, (3) apply the blue reduction factor to reduce blue luminance, and apply the saturation adjustment factors to reduce saturation of other colors, (4) produce the output image signal. An optional sensor is operable to provide a control signal to the controller, whereby display power can be reduced. An optional estimating unit is configured to estimate current required to display the input image signal, for adjustment of the output image signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Michael E. MILLER, Christopher J. WHITE
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Patent number: 9407117Abstract: A shaped electrical conductor (610, 630) includes a first sheet of metal (319) with a first and second thermoplastic adhesive pattern (311, 312). The second pattern is justified with the first pattern. The first sheet is etched to remove metal not covered by the thermoplastic adhesive patterns so that no metal bridges remain between disconnected coated portions. A second sheet of metal (339) has a third and fourth thermoplastic adhesive pattern (333, 334) on a second surface and the fourth pattern is justified with the third pattern. The second sheet is etched to remove metal not covered by the thermoplastic adhesive patterns so that no metal bridges remain between disconnected coated portions. First and second contact regions (315, 335) in the second and third adhesive patterns are in electrical contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Donald S. Rimai, Roland R. Schindler, II, Christopher J. White
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Patent number: 9356839Abstract: A network health monitoring application computes aggregate reports of network health by combining status results from a group of segments to render a summary health status indicative of the entire group. Individual status values result from policies, which monitor various segments and metrics, or performance parameters (such as byte counts or retransmissions), concerned with providing a particular service. The policies form a hierarchy defining the general or specific nature of the segments included in the policy according to a range of attributes, in which the attributes define a scope of the segments included in the policy group. Multiple metrics gathered on each segment allow filtering by polices based on the metric, rather than the attribute (hierarchy level), thus lending a hierarchy filtering based on “vertical” slices of the hierarchy, allowing the user flexibility to filter on specific attribute values while still computing aggregate health at a particular attribute level.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Christopher J. White
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Patent number: 9343042Abstract: A method of presenting an image on a display device having color channel dependent light emission comprising receiving an image input signal including a plurality of three-component input pixel signals; calculating a reduction factor for each input pixel signal dependent upon differences in luminance between blue and other color components; selecting a respective saturation adjustment factor for each color component of each pixel signal; selecting a luminance gain; producing an image output signal having four color components from the image input signal using the reduction factors, saturation adjustment factors, and luminance gain to adjust the luminance and color saturation, of corresponding components of the image input signal; providing a four-channel display device having color channel dependent light emission; and applying the image output signal to the display device to cause it to present an image corresponding to the image output signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Michael E. Miller, Christopher J. White
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Patent number: 9343040Abstract: A method of presenting an image on a display device having color channel dependent light emission comprising receiving an image input signal including a plurality of three-component input pixel signals; selecting a reduction color component; calculating a reduction factor for each input pixel signal dependent upon a distance metric between the input pixel signal and the selected reduction color component; selecting a respective saturation adjustment factor for each color component of each pixel signal; producing an image output signal having four color components from the image input signal using the reduction factors and saturation adjustment factors to adjust the luminance and color saturation, respectively, of the image input signal; providing a four-channel display device having color channel dependent light emission; and applying the image output signal to the display device to cause it to present an image corresponding to the image output signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Michael E. Miller, Christopher J. White
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Patent number: 9343041Abstract: A four-color emissive display system comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to receive and process a three-color input image signal, and provide a four-color output image signal to the display. The controller comprises units respectively configured to (1) calculate a blue reduction factor for each pixel, dependent on luminance differences between blue and other color components, (2) produce respective saturation adjustment factors for red, green, and blue, (3) apply the blue reduction factor to reduce blue luminance, and apply the saturation adjustment factors to reduce saturation of other colors, (4) produce the output image signal. An optional sensor is operable to provide a control signal to the controller, whereby display power can be reduced. An optional estimating unit is configured to estimate current required to display the input image signal, whereby the output image signal can be adjusted accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Michael E. Miller, Christopher J. White
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Publication number: 20160012772Abstract: A display securely decrypts an encrypted image signal. Pixels are disposed between the display substrate and cover in a display area, and provide light to a user in response to a drive signal. Control chiplets disposed between the display substrate and cover in the display area are each connected to one or more of the plurality of pixels. A demultiplexer receives the encrypted image signal and routes respective encrypted local image signals to corresponding control chiplets. Each control chiplet includes a decryptor for decrypting its corresponding encrypted local image signal. Thereby, each control chiplet produces respective drive signal(s) for the connected pixel(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventors: Christopher J. WHITE, Ronald S. Cok, John W. Hamer
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Patent number: 9189662Abstract: Apparatus for reading an RFID tag includes an RF-blocking enclosure having a port and adapted to receive through the port a non-RFID-active object having an RFID tag affixed thereto. An RFID reader has a reader antenna located outside the enclosure. The antenna transmits an RF downlink signal in a particular direction. An RF grating is arranged between the reader antenna and the port so that, after the enclosure receives the object having the tag, the port is located in the transmit direction from the reader antenna, and RF energy transmitted from the reader antenna has a selected linear polarization after passing through the grating.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Edward Zogg, Mark P. Hinman, Christopher J. White
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Patent number: 9177500Abstract: A display securely decrypts an encrypted image signal. Pixels are disposed between the display substrate and cover in a display area, and provide light to a user in response to a drive signal. Control chiplets disposed between the display substrate and cover in the display area are each connected to one or more of the plurality of pixels. Each receives a respective control signal and produce respective drive signal(s) for the connected pixel(s). A decryption chiplet is disposed between the display substrate and cover. It includes means for receiving the encrypted image signal and a decryptor for decrypting the encrypted image signal to produce a respective control signal for each of the control chiplets.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Christopher J. White, Ronald S. Cok, John W. Hamer
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Patent number: 9163955Abstract: An electronic sensing system has a transceiver with input and output pads, an excitation circuit connected to the output pad, and a detection circuit connected to the input pad. An electrically-conductive sensor patch has an electrical state that changes with exposure to a corresponding environmental factor. The detection circuit detects an electrical state of the input electrical-connection pad in response to the excitation signal and the electrical state of the input pad. Several electrically-conductive sensor patches are distributed over the substrate so that they are exposed to an external environmental factor substantially contemporaneously, each having a conductance susceptible to a respective environmental factor. The output pad is electrically connected to the input pad through the sensor patches in series, so that the detection circuit detects an electrical state of the input pad in response to the excitation signal and the respective conductances of the sensor patches.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Ronald Steven Cok, Christopher J. White