Patents by Inventor Kevin Lo

Kevin Lo 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).

  • Patent number: 11182487
    Abstract: A set of high level test logic is configured to include a set of insertion points. The high-level test logic can be controlled to insert test conditions into a data center configuration. It can also be configured to execute remediation actions that are to be taken, and validation actions to be performed in order to determine whether the remediation action works against the test conditions. Different instances of the high-level test logic can be configured for different environments and different test conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Lo, Daiqian Hu, Hongquan Yin, Lei He
  • Publication number: 20210354480
    Abstract: Some examples include a print system including a memory to store instructions and print data of a print job, a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to reference print data of a print job, determine a print parameter of the print job, and transform the print data and the print parameter into a conditioning modifier. The print system includes a print engine to dispense a print substance on a medium based on the print data to generate printed medium, and a conditioner to apply heat and pressure to the printed medium, the conditioner including a pressure roller assembly, and a controller to selectively increase a transport speed the pressure roller assembly based on the conditioning modifier and a position of the printed medium relative to the pressure roller assembly to selectively increase the speed of the printed medium through the conditioner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Kevin Lo, Stephen Thomas Rohman
  • Patent number: 11157053
    Abstract: An example auxiliary module includes an external power supply interface to couple to an external power source, at least one subsystem to operate using power from the external power source, and a power controller coupled to the external power supply interface. The at least one subsystem is to receive control signals from a primary device. The power controller includes circuitry to provide power from the external power source to the at least one subsystem. The power controller is to further provide power control signals to the primary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Duane A Koehler, Kevin Lo, Benjamin Whitney Griffith
  • Publication number: 20210323323
    Abstract: In some examples, a conditioner system for a media printed by a printing system includes a media conditioning assembly comprising a heater, the media conditioning assembly to receive the media printed by the printing system after the media has been heated by a dryer in the printing system after printing has occurred on the media. Responsive to a determined moisture content of the media, the heater of the media conditioning assembly controls a temperature of the media, and the media conditioning assembly controls a speed of the media through the media conditioning assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Stephen Thomas Rohman, Kevin Lo
  • Publication number: 20210323318
    Abstract: Some examples include a print system including a memory to store instructions and print data of a print job, a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to reference the print data of the print job, determine a process characteristic of a print job, the process characteristic including one of a plexity of the print job, a finishing of the print job, or a humidity of the print environment, and transform the process characteristic into a print process modifier. The print system including a print engine including a print path to move the medium along to deposit a print substance onto a medium based on the print data and apply drying to the medium, and a controller operably coupled to the processor and the print engine, the controller to adjust the drying of the medium along the print path of the print engine based on the print process modifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Lorraine T. Golob, Steve Rohman, Matt Raisanen, Kevin Lo
  • Publication number: 20210312040
    Abstract: Certificate usage data is generated which identifies which processes or applications use which specific certificates. A certificate-specific usage model is generated based upon the certificate usage data and is used to detect anomalous usage of a certificate, by an application or process that has not previously used the certificate to authenticate itself to the computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Nayantara DUTTACHOUDHURY, Kevin LO
  • Publication number: 20210254955
    Abstract: An explosive detonating system comprises connectable components to connect/disconnect a pathway that ignites an explosion. A firing actuator activates primers (percussion caps). An adapter connects the firing actuator to shock tube and channels the ignition force into the shock tube. A cap box houses blasting caps coupled to the end of the shock tube. A priming well is coupled to the cap box/blasting caps and the detonating cord. When the firing actuator is initiated, the percussion caps ignite, sending an explosive wave into the adapter, which channels the wave into the shock tube and ignites the shock tube. The explosive wave travels through the shock tube and activates the blasting caps, which activate the detonating cord in the priming well. The explosive is placed in a location to provide a desired explosive effect. For example, the system may be employed as a system to breach structures or other applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Steve A O'Hara, Kenneth Williams, Kevin Lo
  • Patent number: 11091335
    Abstract: An example bridge module includes a media transport roller to move in a translational direction, a rotatable guide proximate to the media transport roller, a handle coupled to the rotatable guide to cause the rotatable guide to articulate into an open configuration and away from the media transport roller, and an elongated member operatively connected to the rotatable guide, the elongated member to articulate into the open configuration creating an unobstructed pathway to the media transport roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin K Kuramura, Devin S Uehling, Kevin Lo, Devin Knowles, Kevin Witkoe
  • Patent number: 11091347
    Abstract: According to examples, a printing apparatus may include an output bin that is laterally translatable between a retracted position and an extended position. The printing apparatus may also include a sensor to detect a height of a stack of media on the output bin while the output bin is in the retracted position and a controller. The controller may determine whether the detected height of the stack of media on the output bin exceeds a certain level and in response to a determination that the detected height of the stack of media exceeds the certain level, laterally translate the output bin from the retracted position to the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Arthur H Barnes, Jody L Clayburn, Francisco Javier Gomez Maurer, Kevin Lo
  • Publication number: 20210245529
    Abstract: A heating roller for a wet ink-based image forming apparatus includes a roller having a contact surface to contact a print medium having wet ink deposited thereon by wet ink-based image forming apparatus. The heating roller conductively heats the print medium and dries and flattens the print medium. The heating roller includes a heating element embedded along the roller. The heating element rotates with the roller as the roller rotates. The heating element generates and conducts heat to the contact surface so as to conductively heat the print medium through the contact surface when the contact surface contacts the print medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Heungsup PARK, Juntae KIM, Brett BUCHHOLTZ, Lonny MORGAN, Dongwoo LEE, Richard Lee BRINKLY, Kevin LO, Youngsu LEE, Kihyuk LEE
  • Publication number: 20210237479
    Abstract: In one example, a heated pressure roller can include a structural element positioned within a belt roller, a platen coupled to the structural element, wherein the platen comprises: a first side to guide a belt of the belt roller to form a first angle on the first side, and a second side to guide the belt of the belt roller to form a second angle on the second side that is different than the first angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew Raisanen, Richard Lee Brinkly, Kevin Lo
  • Patent number: 11072509
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes a media receiving portion having a leading edge receiving region and a trailing edge receiving region for receiving media traveling onto the media receiving portion in a direction from the trailing edge receiving portion the leading edge receiving portion. The example apparatus further includes a leading edge stop coupled to the media receiving portion at the leading edge receiving portion. The leading edge stop is resiliently coupled to the media receiving portion to bias against movement of the leading edge stop from a resting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Lo, Daniel Fredrickson, Tim Roels, Brett Thomas Buchholtz, Steven Brown, Hunter Dane Cantrell
  • Patent number: 11073784
    Abstract: An example apparatus may include a supply guide to receive a plurality of print supplies and a lock mechanism to retain the plurality of print supplies and release a print supply of the plurality of print supplies responsive to a determination that an amount of print substance in the print supply is at or below a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lynn A Collie, Wesley R Schalk, Vern Elliot Myers, John Connell, Paul Osborne, Kevin Lo
  • Patent number: 11073793
    Abstract: An example device includes a conveyor to convey a printed medium along a path from a print engine towards a printed media output. The device further includes a housing to hold the conveyor. The housing defines an air intake, an exhaust port, and a conveyor volume to contain the conveyor. The air intake provides air to the conveyor volume to dry the printed medium. The device further includes a tortuous exhaust passage extending from the conveyor volume to the exhaust port to exhaust air from the conveyor volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Lo, Matthew Raisanen, Alan Shibata
  • Patent number: 11060590
    Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a plate configured to pivot about a pivot point, a pulley coupled to a first planar side of the plate and configured to rotate a belt, a motor coupled to the first planar side of the plate and configured to drive the pulley, and a torsion spring coupled to a second planar side of the plate that is opposite the first planar side and configured to apply tension to the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald Boyum, Matthew Douglas Reier, Kevin Lo
  • Publication number: 20210206182
    Abstract: A door for a printing device may include a spring having a first and a second end, the second end coupled to the door and the first end biased away from a surface of the door and a groove into which the first end of the spring may be placed into wherein when the first end of the spring is placed into the groove, the door is deflected in the direction that the spring is biased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin LO, Tim Roels
  • Patent number: 11046099
    Abstract: A serviceable machine includes a door assembly having a door, and a jointed assembly that extends between an external surface of the serviceable machine and the door. The jointed assembly is operable to move the door between a closed position in which an interior region of the serviceable machine is covered, and an open position in which the interior portion of the interior region is unobstructed. The jointed assembly may extend connectivity to the door when the door is in either the open or closed positions. Additionally, the door can mechanically and electrically decouple from the jointed assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald Boyum, Michael Kevin Bowen, Tod Kinsley, Lynn A Collie, Kevin Lo, Jeremy Daniel Barker
  • Patent number: 11017076
    Abstract: Certificate usage data is generated which identifies which processes or applications use which specific certificates. A certificate-specific usage model is generated based upon the certificate usage data and is used to detect anomalous usage of a certificate, by an application or process that has not previously used the certificate to authenticate itself to the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nayantara Duttachoudhury, Kevin Lo
  • Patent number: 11006011
    Abstract: In an example, a conditioner module may include a bridge to receive media from a media path of an imaging device and to deliver the media to a media input of a finisher module. The conditioner module may include a calender nip disposed at an output end of the bridge. The calender nip may compress the media and may feed the media into the media input of the finisher module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Lo, Jeffrey G Bingham, Bradley B Branham
  • Publication number: 20210116852
    Abstract: An example apparatus may comprise a supply guide to receive a plurality of print supplies and a lock mechanism to retain the plurality of print supplies and release a print supply of the plurality of print supplies responsive to a determination that an amount of print substance in the print supply is at or below a threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Lynn A Collie, Wesley R Schalk, Vern Elliot Myers, John Connell, Paul Osborne, Kevin Lo