Patents by Inventor Eric Todd

Eric Todd 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: 20210108782
    Abstract: A lighting fixture has a base, a first yoke coupled to the base, a second yoke coupled to the first yoke and a lighting head positioned coupled to, the second yoke, wherein the first yoke, the second yoke and the lighting head are each movable independent of, and relative to, each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Eric TODD
  • Patent number: 10976028
    Abstract: A lighting fixture has a base, a first yoke coupled to the base, a second yoke coupled to the first yoke and a lighting head positioned coupled to, the second yoke, wherein the first yoke, the second yoke and the lighting head are each movable independent of, and relative to, each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: BML PRODUCTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric Todd
  • Publication number: 20210027103
    Abstract: In various examples, object detections of a machine learning model are leveraged to automatically generate new ground truth data for images captured at different perspectives. The machine learning model may generate a prediction of a detected object at the different perspective, and an object tracking algorithm may be used to track the object through other images in a sequence of images where the machine learning model may not have detected the object. New ground truth data may be generated as a result of the object tracking algorithms outputs, and the new ground truth data may be used to retrain or update the machine learning model, train a different machine learning model, or increase the robustness of a ground truth data set that may be used for training machine learning models from various perspectives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Eric Todd Brower
  • Patent number: 10900649
    Abstract: An auxiliary component for use with event lighting is described including a collar, dimensioned to couple to an external surface of an event light and at least one lighting element coupled to the event light via the collar. An event light including an auxiliary component having at least one lighting element is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: BML PRODUCTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric Todd
  • Publication number: 20210018720
    Abstract: The technology provides a spectroscopy system having two or more spectrometers with substantially uniform focal lengths. The spectrometers include a detector that converts optical signals into electrical signals to render spectral data. The spectroscopy system includes a computing device that is electrically coupled to one or more detectors to receive the spectral data and compare the spectral data against other spectral data. The other spectral data originates from spectrometers that have substantially similar focal lengths, slit widths, excitation laser wavelengths, or any combination of these. The technology includes an application server that is communicatively coupled to a second spectroscopy system. The application server includes software that enables data sharing among the two or more spectroscopy systems, including sharing the spectral data and the other spectral data. The application server compares sampled spectral data against stored spectral data to identify a match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Todd Marple, Kirk David Urmey, John Meckert
  • Patent number: 10823934
    Abstract: The technology provides two or more spectrometers with substantially uniform focal lengths. A method includes adjusting a size of a first air gap associated with a first lens in order to modify a first focal length and securing a relative position of a first body and a second body of the first lens to set the first focal length at a first value for a first spectrometer. The method further includes adjusting a size of a second air gap associated with a second lens provided in a second spectrometer in order to modify a second focal length and securing a relative position of a first body and a second body of the second lens to set the second focal length at a second value for a second spectrometer. The first and second values are selected to render the first focal length substantially equal to the second focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Todd Marple, Kirk David Urmey, John Meckert
  • Patent number: 10643477
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for collecting vehicle data from a vehicle engine computer of a vehicle and a plurality of sensors disposed about the vehicle and generating feedbacks for a driver of the vehicle using at least the vehicle data. The systems and methods additionally provide for receiving user inputs from the driver responding to the feedbacks so that the user inputs are associated with corresponding rule violations that triggered the feedbacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Todd Hodges, Alexander C. Gee, Ralph Joseph Maier, John Thomas Morris
  • Patent number: 10619827
    Abstract: A lighting fixture involves a base, at least one yoke, and a shaft, a lighting head is coupled to the at least one yoke, wherein the lighting head is controllably rotatably movable. The lighting head has a first extent at a lighting output side. A transition plate has multiple connection ports through which power can pass from the lighting head to a lighting array, comprising one or more lighting modules. The lighting array has a second extent that is greater than the first extent of the lighting head. The lighting head includes an electrically conductive coupling which will allow the transition plate to be rotated relative to the lighting head, through at least one revolution, while maintaining a continuous electrical path between the lighting head and lighting array when a particular lighting array is coupled to the transition plate and the transition plate is coupled to the lighting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: BML PRODUCTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric Todd
  • Patent number: 10594681
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving authentication input, at a device, that is sent to an aggregate service device; requesting file system data, retrieved by the aggregate service device, analogous to data stored on a remote device and data stored on a cloud storage device; receiving at the device, after providing the authentication input to the aggregate service device, the file system data from the aggregate service device; and displaying, on the device, a user interface in the form of a file manager application generated from the requested file system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Philip L. Childs, Eric Todd Marshall, Christopher Donald Oman, Greyson Craig Davis, Tony Eugene Thompson, James Anthony Hunt
  • Patent number: 10579397
    Abstract: According to an example, machine readable instructions backward compatibility may include determining changes between first and second sets of machine readable instructions, and generating a backward compatibility switch. The backward compatibility switch may be implemented in the second set of machine readable instructions to selectively revert functionality to functionality of the first set of machine readable instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Joshua M. Moore, Matthew J. Riley, Eric Todd Debusschere, Thomas P. Gundrum
  • Publication number: 20200057243
    Abstract: The technology provides two or more spectrometers with substantially uniform focal lengths. A method includes adjusting a size of a first air gap associated with a first lens in order to modify a first focal length and securing a relative position of a first body and a second body of the first lens to set the first focal length at a first value for a first spectrometer. The method further includes adjusting a size of a second air gap associated with a second lens provided in a second spectrometer in order to modify a second focal length and securing a relative position of a first body and a second body of the second lens to set the second focal length at a second value for a second spectrometer. The first and second values are selected to render the first focal length substantially equal to the second focal length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Todd Marple, Kirk David Urmey, John Meckert
  • Patent number: 10534842
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating, editing and publishing cross-platform interactive digital content works include a content management component configured to store portions of a digital content work and to implement version control of the digital content work; a defect tracking component configured to store a defect record related to a stored portion of the digital content work; a publication pipeline component configured to format the digital content work for publication; and a integration component configured to present a graphical user interface which allows for editing the stored portions of the digital content work, editing the defect record, and instructing the publication pipeline to format the digital content work for publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: INKLING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter S. Cho, Joyce Myra Croft, Robert Cromwell, Joshua John Forman, Thomas Charles Genoni, Christopher William Hunt, Avi Itskovich, Jessica Summer Jenkins, Kerryck Arthur Clemens Jones, Arthur Kopatsy, Eric Todd Lovett, Olof Alexander Mathe
  • Patent number: 10511608
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: sending, from a device, input from a user requesting access to data retrievable by an aggregate service device; sending, from the device, input from the user selecting, from the aggregate service device, a selection of data; and sending a distribution command; wherein the distribution command comprises information related to distributing a pointer indicating the selection of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Philip L. Childs, Eric Todd Marshall, Christopher Donald Oman, Greyson Craig Davis, Tony Eugene Thompson, James Anthony Hunt
  • Patent number: 10459191
    Abstract: The technology provides two or more spectrometers having uniform focal lengths that facilitate comparing spectral results obtained therefrom. The spectrometers include a collimating lens that receives light rays therethrough, a grating that is optically coupled to the collimating lens, and a focus lens that is optically coupled to the grating. The focus lens includes an outer body having a first lens set, an inner body having a second lens set, and an air gap defined between the first lens set and the second lens set. The inner body is moveable relative to the outer body to adjust a size of the air gap in order to modify a focal length of the focus lens. The inner body moves relative to the outer body to change an image size in the x-dimension. A fastener is provided to fixedly secure the inner body and the outer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Todd Marple, Kirk David Urmey, John Meckert
  • Publication number: 20190227604
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to server bezels. For instance, in an example, a server bezel includes an attachment mechanism, a housing to couple via the attachment mechanism to a front face of a server chassis, the housing defining at least a portion of a cavity to receive a backup power source, and power circuitry to couple the backup power source when located in the cavity to corresponding power circuitry in the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Richard A. Bargerhuff, Eric Todd
  • Patent number: 10240374
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a flexible living hinge for an identification pull tab. The flexible living hinge has a first shot area with a first portion of a first material and a second portion of a second material. The first portion has a first spring tail and a second sprint tail for attachment to a surface of a product and the second portion has a flat surface. A second shot area of a third flexible material is connected to the first portion and the second portion of the first shot area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Eric Todd, James Schulze, Keith A. Sauer
  • Patent number: 10204460
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for collecting vehicle data from a vehicle engine computer of a vehicle and a plurality of sensors disposed about the vehicle and generating feedbacks for a driver of the vehicle using at least the vehicle data. One or more validation checks may be performed before the feedbacks are provided to the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Todd Hodges
  • Publication number: 20190034211
    Abstract: According to an example, machine readable instructions backward compatibility may include determining changes between first and second sets of machine readable instructions, and generating a backward compatibility switch. The backward compatibility switch may be implemented in the second set of machine readable instructions to selectively revert functionality to functionality of the first set of machine readable instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Joshua M. Moore, Matthew J. Riley, Eric Todd Debusschere, Thomas P. Gundrum
  • Patent number: 10108438
    Abstract: According to an example, machine readable instructions backward compatibility may include determining changes between first and second sets of machine readable instructions, and generating a backward compatibility switch. The backward compatibility switch may be implemented in the second set of machine readable instructions to selectively revert functionality to functionality of the first set of machine readable instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Joshua M. Moore, Matthew J. Riley, Eric Todd Debusschere, Thomas P. Gundrum
  • Publication number: 20180283446
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a flexible living hinge for an identification pull tab. The flexible living hinge has a first shot area with a first portion of a first material and a second portion of a second material. The first portion has a first spring tail and a second sprint tail for attachment to a surface of a product and the second portion has a flat surface. A second shot area of a third flexible material is connected to the first portion and the second portion of the first shot area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Eric Todd, James Schulze, Keith A. Sauer