Patents by Inventor Morrison Ulman
Morrison Ulman 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: 11754857Abstract: Authentication of a user is based on an electronic contact lens that contains a retinal scanner. The retinal scanner captures a retinal scan, which is used to authenticate the user (i.e., what a person is). The contact lens itself may also be used in the authentication process (i.e., what a person has). Authentication based on these two factors are used to control access to assets.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventor: Morrison Ulman
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Patent number: 11513367Abstract: A scleral contact lens has a core containing an optical filter. The core and/or the optical filter may comprise oxygen impermeable material, such that an overall oxygen permeability of the core is insufficient to oxygenate a user's cornea when wearing the contact lens. To provide oxygenation to the user's cornea, the contact lens further comprises an outer covering, and an inner covering, each corresponding to a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective manifold between the covering and the core. Oxygen from an outside environment passes through the outer covering to reach the outer manifold, through an air path formed within the core to the inner manifold, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the user's eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventors: Morrison Ulman, Ritu Raj Singh, Thomas Llewellyn Owens
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Publication number: 20220350167Abstract: A system includes a pair of electronic contact lenses that obtain respective motion sensor measurements in response to eye movements. A tracking module derives estimated orientations for both eyes based on the sensor measurements and a set of correlations and constraints that describe human eye movement. The model describes the limited number of ways that an individual eye can move and relationships between relative movement of the left and right eye. The tracking module performs filtering based on the measurements and the eye model to suppress noise and generate orientation estimates for both eyes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Abhishek Deepak Bhat, Ramin Mirjalili, Morrison Ulman, Sheng Wan
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Publication number: 20220284731Abstract: Authentication of a user is based on an electronic contact lens that contains a retinal scanner. The retinal scanner captures a retinal scan, which is used to authenticate the user (i.e., what a person is). The contact lens itself may also be used in the authentication process (i.e., what a person has). Authentication based on these two factors are used to control access to assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventor: Morrison Ulman
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Patent number: 11373450Abstract: Authentication of a user is based on an electronic contact lens that contains a retinal scanner. The retinal scanner captures a retinal scan, which is used to authenticate the user (i.e., what a person is). The contact lens itself may also be used in the authentication process (i.e., what a person has). Authentication based on these two factors are used to control access to assets.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventor: Morrison Ulman
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Publication number: 20210290441Abstract: An electronic intraocular device is implantable into the capsular bag of a wearer's eye. In some cases, the intraocular device may include a femtoprojector. The femtoprojector projects images onto the wearer's retina when the electronic intraocular device is implanted in the wearer's eye. Different haptic designs may be used to keep the femtoprojector in position. In some embodiments, an imager is contained in a contact lens worn by the wearer. Images captured by the contact lens imager may be relayed to the intraocular femtoprojector. In some cases, the intraocular device may include an electronic capsular tension ring with a femtoimager. The femtoimager may capture images of the wearer's retina, for example for purposes of monitoring eye health.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Michael West Wiemer, Morrison Ulman, Drew Daniel Perkins, Paul J. Soye, Dan Cohen
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Publication number: 20210290367Abstract: An electronic intraocular device is implantable into the capsular bag of a wearer's eye. In some cases, the intraocular device may include a femtoprojector. The femtoprojector projects images onto the wearer's retina when the electronic intraocular device is implanted in the wearer's eye. Different haptic designs may be used to keep the femtoprojector in position. In some embodiments, an imager is contained in a contact lens worn by the wearer. Images captured by the contact lens imager may be relayed to the intraocular femtoprojector. In some cases, the intraocular device may include an electronic capsular tension ring with a femtoimager. The femtoimager may capture images of the wearer's retina, for example for purposes of monitoring eye health.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Michael West Wiemer, Morrison Ulman, Drew Daniel Perkins
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Publication number: 20210290368Abstract: An electronic intraocular device is implantable into the capsular bag of a wearer's eye. In some cases, the intraocular device may include a femtoprojector. The femtoprojector projects images onto the wearer's retina when the electronic intraocular device is implanted in the wearer's eye. Different haptic designs may be used to keep the femtoprojector in position. In some embodiments, an imager is contained in a contact lens worn by the wearer. Images captured by the contact lens imager may be relayed to the intraocular femtoprojector. In some cases, the intraocular device may include an electronic capsular tension ring with a femtoimager. The femtoimager may capture images of the wearer's retina, for example for purposes of monitoring eye health.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Michael West Wiemer, Morrison Ulman, Drew Daniel Perkins
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Publication number: 20210290440Abstract: An electronic intraocular device is implantable into the capsular bag of a wearer's eye. In some cases, the intraocular device may include a femtoprojector. The femtoprojector projects images onto the wearer's retina when the electronic intraocular device is implanted in the wearer's eye. Different haptic designs may be used to keep the femtoprojector in position. In some embodiments, an imager is contained in a contact lens worn by the wearer. Images captured by the contact lens imager may be relayed to the intraocular femtoprojector. In some cases, the intraocular device may include an electronic capsular tension ring with a femtoimager. The femtoimager may capture images of the wearer's retina, for example for purposes of monitoring eye health.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Michael West Wiemer, Morrison Ulman, Drew Daniel Perkins
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Publication number: 20200341299Abstract: A scleral contact lens has a core containing an optical filter. The core and/or the optical filter may comprise oxygen impermeable material, such that an overall oxygen permeability of the core is insufficient to oxygenate a user's cornea when wearing the contact lens. To provide oxygenation to the user's cornea, the contact lens further comprises an outer covering, and an inner covering, each corresponding to a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective manifold between the covering and the core. Oxygen from an outside environment passes through the outer covering to reach the outer manifold, through an air path formed within the core to the inner manifold, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the user's eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Morrison Ulman, Ritu Raj Singh, Thomas Llewellyn Owens
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Publication number: 20190050643Abstract: Authentication of a user is based on an electronic contact lens that contains a retinal scanner. The retinal scanner captures a retinal scan, which is used to authenticate the user (i.e., what a person is). The contact lens itself may also be used in the authentication process (i.e., what a person has). Authentication based on these two factors are used to control access to assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventor: Morrison Ulman
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Patent number: 10165255Abstract: An indoor navigation system is based on a multi-beam laser projector, a set of calibrated cameras, and a processor that uses knowledge of the projector design and data on laser spot locations observed by the cameras to solve the space resection problem to find the location and orientation of the projector.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: James M. Janky, Kevin A. I. Sharp, Michael V. McCusker, Morrison Ulman
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Patent number: 9582873Abstract: Active imaging systems for plant growth monitoring acquire images in which each pixel represents an absolute NDVI value obtained with active illumination.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventor: Morrison Ulman
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Publication number: 20160217562Abstract: Active imaging systems for plant growth monitoring acquire images in which each pixel represents an absolute NDVI value obtained with active illumination.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventor: Morrison Ulman
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Patent number: 9336584Abstract: Active imaging systems for plant growth monitoring acquire images in which each pixel represents an absolute NDVI value obtained with active illumination.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventor: Morrison Ulman
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Publication number: 20150379702Abstract: Active imaging systems for plant growth monitoring acquire images in which each pixel represents an absolute NDVI value obtained with active illumination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITEDInventor: Morrison Ulman
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Patent number: 9058633Abstract: A system for agricultural monitoring and prediction comprises a first reporting agent a second reporting agent a database, and a processor. The first reporting agent is configured for reporting aerial data representing relative measurements of an agricultural metric in a geographic area, the relative measurements having an unknown bias. The second reporting is configured for reporting ground-based data representing absolute measurements of the agricultural metric for a portion of the geographic area. The database is configured for storing the absolute measurement data and the relative measurement data along with other farming data for a wide geographic area. The processor is configured for accessing the database and using the ground-based data for the portion of the geographic area to calibrate the aerial data, thereby synthesizing absolute measurements of the agricultural metric for the geographic area from the aerial data.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventors: Robert J. Lindores, Ted Mayfield, Morrison Ulman
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Patent number: 8902413Abstract: Apparatus and techniques for measuring and managing plant growth with cell phones or similar devices are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventors: Morrison Ulman, James M Janky
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Patent number: 8893548Abstract: Inertial navigation systems for wheeled vehicles with constrained motion degrees of freedom are described. Various parts of the navigation systems may be implemented in a smart-phone.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventors: Peter Van Wyck Loomis, Morrison Ulman
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Publication number: 20140285631Abstract: An indoor navigation system is based on a multi-beam laser projector, a set of calibrated cameras, and a processor that uses knowledge of the projector design and data on laser spot locations observed by the cameras to solve the space resection problem to find the location and orientation of the projector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITEDInventors: James M. Janky, Kevin A. I. Sharp, Michael V. McCusker, Morrison Ulman