Patents by Inventor Gregory Mason
Gregory Mason 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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Patent number: 11893227Abstract: In one example, a computing device includes one or more user input detection components, and one or more processors configured to receive an indication of a first user input detected by the one or more user input detection components, responsive to receiving the indication of the first user input, adjust a level of an attention buffer at a defined rate; responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a first threshold, prevent further interaction with a user interface of the computing device, responsive to determining that an indication of a second user input has not been received within a time period, adjust a level of the attention buffer, and responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a second threshold, allow further interaction with the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Gregory Mason Neiswander, Sabrina Silk Billinghurst, Yuan Hang Li, Daniel Holle, Yan Yan, Jorge Taketoshi Furuya Mariche, Jia Wei Tam, Stefan Day Dierauf, Rasekh Rifaat, Ian Douglas Barlow
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Publication number: 20220206650Abstract: In one example, a computing device includes one or more user input detection components, and one or more processors configured to receive an indication of a first user input detected by the one or more user input detection components, responsive to receiving the indication of the first user input, adjust a level of an attention buffer at a defined rate; responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a first threshold, prevent further interaction with a user interface of the computing device, responsive to determining that an indication of a second user input has not been received within a time period, adjust a level of the attention buffer, and responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a second threshold, allow further interaction with the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Gregory Mason Neiswander, Sabrina Silk Billinghurst, Yuan Hang Li, Daniel Holle, Yan Yan, Jorge Taketoshi Furuya Mariche, Jia Wei Tam, Stefan Day Dierauf, Rasekh Rifaat, Ian Douglas Barlow
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Patent number: 11044958Abstract: A face covering having a support structure with a first magnet and a second magnet. The support structure has a fastener mechanism configured to orient the support structure in an open orientation during installation and a closed orientation during use. The support structure has a first protrusion having a first magnetic portion. The support structure has a second protrusion having a second magnetic portion. The support structure has a third protrusion having a third magnetic portion. The fastener mechanism of the support structure is formed from the magnetic connection between the first magnetic portion of the first protrusion, the second magnetic portion of the second protrusion, and the third magnetic portion of the third protrusion. A barrier member has a first filter layer connected to a layer of material. A magnetic snap rivet has a rivet portion removably connected to a post stud. The post stud retains a magnet.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Inventors: Alexis Victoria Mason, Dennis Gregory Mason
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Publication number: 20210092933Abstract: The present invention relates to new methods of selecting and breeding organisms, in particular organisms which exhibit symbiotic behaviour with symbionts, and to new organisms and symbiota developed thereby, such as plant or grass and endophyte symbiota. Multiple symbionts are deployed in multiple organsims and selected for improved symbiotic compatibility and performance early in the breeding process. Methods include producing improved organisms from germplasm, by inoculating host organism germplasm libraries with symbionts seleced from symbiont libraries and selecting improved host organisms exhibiting desired symbiota characteristics, and selection of organism-symbiont associations with a desired genetic and metabolic profile by metagenomic analysis of nucleic acid libraries from an organism or organism-symbiont.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTDInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, John White Forster, Noel Cogan, Yidong Ran, John Gregory Mason, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Ben Hayes, Matthew James Hayden, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge, Simone Jane Rochfort, Ben Cocks, Hans Dieter Daetwyler
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Patent number: 10739912Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data corresponding to a contact by a user detected at a touch-sensitive device. Variations in the contact over time are analyzed, and an anchor confidence score that is indicative of whether the contact represents a user input made using the touch-sensitive device is determined based at least on the analysis of the variations in the contact over time. The contact is classified as an anchor based at least on the anchor confidence score. Based on classifying the contact as an anchor, the contact is not processed as a user input to the touch-sensitive device.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Gregory Mason Neiswander, Evan Malahy
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Patent number: 10631516Abstract: The present invention relates to new methods of selecting and breeding organisms, in particular organisms which exhibit symbiotic behaviour with symbionts, and to new organisms and symbiota developed thereby, such as plant or grass and endophyte symbiota. Multiple symbionts are deployed in multiple organisms and selected for improved symbiotic compatibility and performance early in the breeding process. Methods include producing improved organisms from germplasm, by inoculating host organism germplasm libraries with symbionts selected from symbiont libraries and selecting improved host organisms exhibiting desired symbiota characteristics, and selection of organism-symbiont associations with a desired genetic and metabolic profile by metagenomic analysis of nucleic acid libraries from an organism or organism-symbiont association.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTDInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, John White Forster, Noel Cogan, Yidong Ran, John Gregory Mason, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge, Simone Jane Rochfort, Ben Cocks
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Patent number: 10598069Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for regenerating a particulate filter. In one example, vehicle speed control mode parameters may be adjusted in response to an amount of soot stored in a particulate filter being greater than a first threshold. The vehicle speed control parameters may be returned to base values in response to the amount of soot stored in the particulate filter being less than a second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Kenneth Carl Leisenring, Allen Lehmen, Colin Yager, Gregory Mason
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Patent number: 10260007Abstract: Improved separation of oil and water as well as suspended solids from the emulsion layer formed in a petroleum desalter is achieved by injection of demulsifier into the desalter vessel to achieve a higher localized concentration of demulsifier in the emulsion layer so as to promote improved oil/water separation from the emulsion layer. The demulsifier may be injected into the water layer or the oil layer in the region of the emulsion layer or directly into the stabilized emulsion layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Magaly C. Barroeta, Gregory Mason Goodman, Ashok Uppal, Mohsen Shahmirzadi Yeganeh, Jose X. Simonetty
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Publication number: 20190001974Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for regenerating a particulate filter. In one example, vehicle speed control mode parameters may be adjusted in response to an amount of soot stored in a particulate filter being greater than a first threshold. The vehicle speed control parameters may be returned to base values in response to the amount of soot stored in the particulate filter being less than a second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Kenneth Carl Leisenring, Allen Lehmen, Colin Yager, Gregory Mason
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Publication number: 20180335890Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data corresponding to a contact by a user detected at a touch-sensitive device. Variations in the contact over time are analyzed, and an anchor confidence score that is indicative of whether the contact represents a user input made using the touch-sensitive device is determined based at least on the analysis of the variations in the contact over time. The contact is classified as an anchor based at least on the anchor confidence score. Based on classifying the contact as an anchor, the contact is not processed as a user input to the touch-sensitive device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Gregory Mason Neiswander, Evan Malahy
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Patent number: 10059338Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for regenerating a particulate filter. In one example, vehicle speed control mode parameters may be adjusted in response to an amount of soot stored in a particulate filter being greater than a first threshold. The vehicle speed control parameters may be returned to base values in response to the amount of soot stored in the particulate filter being less than a second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Kenneth Carl Leisenring, Allen Lehmen, Colin Yager, Gregory Mason
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Patent number: 10051777Abstract: The present invention relates to new methods of selecting and breeding organisms, in particular organisms which exhibit symbiotic behavior with symbionts such as fungal endophytes or epiphytes or bacterial microbiome in plants, and to new organisms and symbiota developed thereby. More particularly, the present invention provides artificial seeds comprising symbiota, and methods for preparing and using such artificial seeds, as well as plants, plant seeds and other plant parts derived from artificial seeds or symbiont-containing plants of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, Yidong Ran, John Gregory Mason, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge
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Patent number: 10019109Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data corresponding to a contact by a user detected at a touch-sensitive device. Variations in the contact over time are analyzed, and an anchor confidence score that is indicative of whether the contact represents a user input made using the touch-sensitive device is determined based at least on the analysis of the variations in the contact over time. The contact is classified as an anchor based at least on the anchor confidence score. Based on classifying the contact as an anchor, the contact is not processed as a user input to the touch-sensitive device.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Gregory Mason Neiswander, Evan Malahy
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Publication number: 20170371486Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data corresponding to a contact by a user detected at a touch-sensitive device. Variations in the contact over time are analyzed, and an anchor confidence score that is indicative of whether the contact represents a user input made using the touch-sensitive device is determined based at least on the analysis of the variations in the contact over time. The contact is classified as an anchor based at least on the anchor confidence score. Based on classifying the contact as an anchor, the contact is not processed as a user input to the touch-sensitive device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Gregory Mason Neiswander, Evan Malahy
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Publication number: 20170286537Abstract: In some implementations, user input specifying a character to be included in a search query is received and a determination is made (i) that all identified search results responsive to the search query can be simultaneously provided on a display, (ii) that adding one or more additional characters to the search query up to a maximum number of characters will not reduce the number of search results responsive to the search query to a number greater than zero, or (iii) that the search query includes the maximum number of characters. Search results are provided on the display in response to the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Evan Malahy, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, German W. Bauer, Gregory Mason Neiswander, Andrew Scott Brenner
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Publication number: 20170158194Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for regenerating a particulate filter. In one example, vehicle speed control mode parameters may be adjusted in response to an amount of soot stored in a particulate filter being greater than a first threshold. The vehicle speed control parameters may be returned to base values in response to the amount of soot stored in the particulate filter being less than a second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Kenneth Carl Leisenring, Allen Lehmen, Colin Yager, Gregory Mason
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Publication number: 20160208176Abstract: Improved separation of oil and water as well as suspended solids from the emulsion layer formed in a petroleum desalter is achieved by injection of demulsifier into the desalter vessel to achieve a higher localized concentration of demulsifier in the emulsion layer so as to promote improved oil/water separation from the emulsion layer. The demulsifier may be injected into the water layer or the oil layer in the region of the emulsion layer or directly into the stabilized emulsion layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Magaly C. BARROETA, Gregory Mason GOODMAN, Ashok UPPAL, Mohsen Shahmirzadi YEGANEH, Jose X. SIMONETTY
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Publication number: 20150156982Abstract: The present invention relates to new methods of selecting and breeding organisms, in particular organisms which exhibit symbiotic behaviour with symbionts, and to new organisms and symbiota developed thereby, such as plant or grass and endophyte symbiota. Multiple symbionts are deployed in multiple organisms and selected for improved symbiotic compatibility and performance early in the breeding process. Methods include producing improved organisms from germplasm, by inoculating host organism germplasm libraries with symbionts selected from symbiont libraries and selecting improved host organisms exhibiting desired symbiota characteristics, and selection of organism-symbiont associations with a desired genetic and metabolic profile by metagenomic analysis of nucleic acid libraries from an organism or organism-symbiont association.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, John White Forster, Noel Cogan, Yidong Ran, John Gregory Mason, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Ben Hayes, Matthew James Hayden, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge, Simone Jane Rochfort, Ben Cocks, Hans Dieter Daetwyler
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Publication number: 20150150161Abstract: The present invention relates to new methods of selecting and breeding organisms, in particular organisms which exhibit symbiotic behaviour with symbionts such as fungal endophytes or epiphytes or bacterial microbiome in plants, and to new organisms and symbiota developed thereby. More particularly, the present invention provides artificial seeds comprising symbiota, and methods for preparing and using such artificial seeds, as well as plants, plant seeds and other plant parts derived from artificial seeds or symbiont-containing plants of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTDInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, Yidong Ran, John Gregory Mason, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge