Patents by Inventor James Chester
James Chester 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: 11923704Abstract: A computer implemented method includes accessing a first status of a first battery pack interface coupled to a load via a first load switch and accessing a second status of a second battery pack interface coupled to the load via a second load switch. The first status and the second status are compared and the first and second load switches are controlled based on the comparing to balance remaining capacities of the first and second battery packs.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: James Chester Meador, Daniel Tsuteh Chian, Julian Arlo Binder, Meera Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 11914093Abstract: A method for human movement classification includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) antennas to expose a body surface of a human user to an E-field, at least a part of the human user positioned within a near-field region relative to the RF antennas. The plurality of RF antennas are scanned to determine ground-relative changes in electrical conditions. A differential-scanning subset of RF antennas are selected, including two or more RF antennas for which the changes in electrical conditions exceed a threshold. For each RF antenna in the differential-scanning subset, a set of antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions are determined by comparing the RF antenna to one or more other RF antennas in the differential-scanning subset as a plurality of pairs. Based at least in part on the ground-relative changes in electrical conditions and the antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions, a movement performed by the human user is classified.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jouya Jadidian, Emily Po-Kay Chung, James Chester Meador
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Publication number: 20230283087Abstract: A computer implemented method includes accessing a first status of a first battery pack interface coupled to a load via a first load switch and accessing a second status of a second battery pack interface coupled to the load via a second load switch. The first status and the second status are compared and the first and second load switches are controlled based on the comparing to balance remaining capacities of the first and second battery packs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: James Chester MEADOR, Daniel Tsuteh CHIAN, Julian Arlo BINDER, Meera RADHAKRISHNAN
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Publication number: 20230228609Abstract: A sight glass column is described. The sight glass column is configured to be indirectly attachable to a machine via a machine connector such that machine fluid is transferable from the machine to the sight glass column. The sight glass column further has a remote sensing port, and a lockable oil level ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, James Bennett Fitch, Jeremy J. Wright
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Patent number: 11688958Abstract: An electronic assembly that includes a rigid printed circuit board having an upper surface with a first plurality of lands. The electronic assembly further includes a flexible printed circuit board having a second plurality of lands on an upper surface. The lower surface of the flexible printed circuit board is directly attached to the upper surface of the rigid printed circuit board. The electronic assembly further includes a plurality of wires. Each of the wires is bonded to the first plurality of lands on the upper surface of the rigid printed circuit board and the second plurality of lands on the upper surface of the flexible printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Julian Arlo Binder, James Chester Meador
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Publication number: 20230176243Abstract: A method for human movement classification includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) antennas to expose a body surface of a human user to an E-field, at least a part of the human user positioned within a near-field region relative to the RF antennas. The plurality of RF antennas are scanned to determine ground-relative changes in electrical conditions. A differential-scanning subset of RF antennas are selected, including two or more RF antennas for which the changes in electrical conditions exceed a threshold. For each RF antenna in the differential-scanning subset, a set of antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions are determined by comparing the RF antenna to one or more other RF antennas in the differential-scanning subset as a plurality of pairs. Based at least in part on the ground-relative changes in electrical conditions and the antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions, a movement performed by the human user is classified.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jouya JADIDIAN, Emily Po-Kay CHUNG, James Chester MEADOR
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Patent number: 11525725Abstract: A hub, sight glass column and bottom sediment and water bowl are described. The hub is adapted to interconnect multiple machine fluid equipment to a single port on a machine. The hub is provided with an adjustable fitting connectable to a housing, and recessed within the hub. The sight glass column is configured to be indirectly attachable to a machine via a machine connector such that machine fluid is transferable from the machine to the sight glass column. The sight glass column further has a remote sensing port, and a lockable oil level ring. The bottom sediment and water bowl has a conically shaped bottom to direct fluid to a drain valve, and an indicator located on an upper tip of the drain valve. The indicator is configured to provide information with respect to one or more contaminant or property of machine fluid within the bottom sediment and water bowl.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Luneta, LLCInventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, James Bennett Fitch, Jeremy J. Wright
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Patent number: 11525724Abstract: A sight glass column is described. The sight glass column is configured to be indirectly attachable to a machine via a machine connector such that machine fluid is transferable from the machine to the sight glass column. The sight glass column further has a remote sensing port, and a lockable oil level ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Luneta, LLCInventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, James Bennett Fitch, Jeremy J. Wright
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Patent number: 11513197Abstract: A multiple-pulses-in-air (MPiA) laser scanning system, wherein the MPiA problem is addressed in that an MPiA assignment of return pulses to send pulses of a laser scanner is based on range tracking and range probing at intermittent points in time. Each range probing comprises a time-of-flight arrangement which is constructed to be free of the MPiA problem. The invention further relates to an MPiA laser scanning system, wherein an MPiA ambiguity within a time series of return pulses, is converted into 3D point cloud space, which provides additional information from the spatial neighborhood of the points in question to enable MPiA disambiguation.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Quan Yang, Zhigang Pan, James Chester Sanders, III
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Publication number: 20220376412Abstract: An electronic assembly that includes a rigid printed circuit board having an upper surface with a first plurality of lands. The electronic assembly further includes a flexible printed circuit board having a second plurality of lands on an upper surface. The lower surface of the flexible printed circuit board is directly attached to the upper surface of the rigid printed circuit board. The electronic assembly further includes a plurality of wires. Each of the wires is bonded to the first plurality of lands on the upper surface of the rigid printed circuit board and the second plurality of lands on the upper surface of the flexible printed circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Julian Arlo BINDER, James Chester MEADOR
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Patent number: 11400581Abstract: A case for storing drivable components includes first and second half shells, a frame member included in the first or second half shell, a first rail having a first length and including a first plurality of receptacles configured to receive a first set of drivable components, and a second rail having a second length shorter than the first length and including a second plurality of receptacles configured to receive a second set of drivable components. The frame member includes rail holding slots. Both the first and second rail are removable from the rail holding slots and rotatable therein between a storage position and an in-use position. When in the storage position, the first rail is retained at a first bit storage layer within the case and the second rail is retained at a second bit storage layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: APEX BRANDS, INC.Inventors: James Chester Spaulding, Jr., Stephen M. Batsa
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Patent number: 11137110Abstract: Apparatuses are disclosed including an apparatus for machine fluid monitoring or sampling comprising a transparent sight glass attachable to a machine such that machine fluid is transferable to the sight glass. The sight glass is at least partially constructed of one or more materials that is transparent to light in a visible region. The sight glass has an open first end, a closed second end, an inside surface and an outside surface extending from the open first end to the closed second end and across the closed second end, the sight glass at least partially surrounds a cavity within the sight glass, the inside surface and the outside surface of the closed second end being parallel. The closed second end is constructed of the one or more materials that are transparent to light in the visible region to allow inspection of machine fluid through the closed second end.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Luneta, LLCInventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, Michael Anthony Ramsey
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Patent number: 11047758Abstract: A pressure indicator is disclosed having a coupling body and an indicator member positioned within the coupling body. The coupling body has an open first end and an open second end, an inside surface and an outside surface extending from the open first end to the open second end. The inside surface surrounds a coupling body cavity. The outside surface is threaded adjacent to the second end. The coupling body is sized and dimensioned to be threaded into a bung hole of a static storage container. The indicator member is positioned within the coupling body cavity in a sealing relationship. The indicator member, biased to a first position, is movable from the first position within the coupling body cavity to a second position outside of the coupling body cavity responsive to the coupling body being exposed to a pressure within the static storage container above a predetermined pressure threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Luneta, LLCInventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch
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Publication number: 20210146525Abstract: A case for storing drivable components includes first and second half shells, a frame member included in the first or second half shell, a first rail having a first length and including a first plurality of receptacles configured to receive a first set of drivable components, and a second rail having a second length shorter than the first length and including a second plurality of receptacles configured to receive a second set of drivable components. The frame member includes rail holding slots. Both the first and second rail are removable from the rail holding slots and rotatable therein between a storage position and an in-use position. When in the storage position, the first rail is retained at a first bit storage layer within the case and the second rail is retained at a second bit storage layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: James Chester Spaulding, JR., Stephen M. Batsa
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Patent number: 10863946Abstract: In nuclear medical imaging, respiratory motion is corrected. Rather than pairwise estimation of motion from projection views, a sequence-based technique is used to jointly estimate parameters for a motion model across many projection views. In one approach, this sequence-based method is iteratively solved with a maximum likelihood objective function incorporating the motion model. A surrogate respiration signal is used to gate for the joint estimation and used to convert gated motion parameters to temporal motion parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Inventors: James Chester Sanders, III, Alexander Hans Vija
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Publication number: 20200116833Abstract: A multiple-pulses-in-air (MPiA) laser scanning system, wherein the MPiA problem is addressed in that an MPiA assignment of return pulses to send pulses of a laser scanner is based on range tracking and range probing at intermittent points in time. Each range probing comprises a time-of-flight arrangement which is constructed to be free of the MPiA problem. The invention further relates to an MPiA laser scanning system, wherein an MPiA ambiguity within a time series of return pulses, is converted into 3D point cloud space, which provides additional information from the spatial neighborhood of the points in question to enable MPiA disambiguation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Quan YANG, Zhigang PAN, James Chester SANDERS, III
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Publication number: 20200056920Abstract: A sight glass column is described. The sight glass column is configured to be indirectly attachable to a machine via a machine connector such that machine fluid is transferable from the machine to the sight glass column. The sight glass column further has a remote sensing port, and a lockable oil level ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, James Bennett Fitch, Jeremy J. Wright
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Publication number: 20200056921Abstract: A hub, sight glass column and bottom sediment and water bowl are described. The hub is adapted to interconnect multiple machine fluid equipment to a single port on a machine. The hub is provided with an adjustable fitting connectable to a housing, and recessed within the hub. The sight glass column is configured to be indirectly attachable to a machine via a machine connector such that machine fluid is transferable from the machine to the sight glass column. The sight glass column further has a remote sensing port, and a lockable oil level ring. The bottom sediment and water bowl has a conically shaped bottom to direct fluid to a drain valve, and an indicator located on an upper tip of the drain valve. The indicator is configured to provide information with respect to one or more contaminant or property of machine fluid within the bottom sediment and water bowl.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, James Bennett Fitch, Jeremy J. Wright
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Publication number: 20200041069Abstract: Apparatuses are disclosed including an apparatus for machine fluid monitoring or sampling comprising a transparent sight glass attachable to a machine such that machine fluid is transferable to the sight glass. The sight glass is at least partially constructed of one or more materials that is transparent to light in a visible region. The sight glass has an open first end, a closed second end, an inside surface and an outside surface extending from the open first end to the closed second end and across the closed second end, the sight glass at least partially surrounds a cavity within the sight glass, the inside surface and the outside surface of the closed second end being parallel. The closed second end is constructed of the one or more materials that are transparent to light in the visible region to allow inspection of machine fluid through the closed second end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, Michael Anthony Ramsey
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Patent number: 10545045Abstract: A hub, sight glass column and bottom sediment and water bowl are described. The hub is adapted to interconnect multiple machine fluid equipment to a single port on a machine. The hub is provided with an adjustable fitting connectable to a housing, and recessed within the hub. The sight glass column is configured to be indirectly attachable to a machine via a machine connector such that machine fluid is transferable from the machine to the sight glass column. The sight glass column further has a remote sensing port, and a lockable oil level ring. The bottom sediment and water bowl has a conically shaped bottom to direct fluid to a drain valve, and an indicator located on an upper tip of the drain valve. The indicator is configured to provide information with respect to one or more contaminant or property of machine fluid within the bottom sediment and water bowl.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Luneta, LLCInventors: James Chester Fitch, Thomas Chester Fitch, James Bennett Fitch, Jeremy J. Wright