Patents by Inventor Paul M. Wynn

Paul M. Wynn 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: 11915671
    Abstract: Techniques for providing adaptive assistive technology for assisting users with visual impairment can be used on a computing device. These techniques include displaying content to a user, capturing a series of images or video of the user using a camera, analyzing the series of images or video to determine whether the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment, and rendering a magnification user interface on the display configured to magnify at least a portion of the content of the display based on a determination that the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment. The magnification user interface may be controlled based on head and/or eye movements of the user of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason A. Grieves, Eric N. Badger, Grant M. Wynn, Paul J. Olczak, Christian Klein
  • Patent number: 4981232
    Abstract: An improved laundry basket having a detachable divider wall that divides the laundry basket into a clothes compartment and a clothes washing products compartment. A top wall panel extends laterally from the top edge of the divider wall toward the closest side wall so that it spans the clothes washing products compartment. A lip on the outer edge of the top wall panel mates with the lip of the respective side wall. An aperture is formed in the top wall panel and it detachably receives a cup having an outwardly extending annular flange at its top edge. Raised indicia structure on the outer surface of the cup provides markings for measuring contents in the cup. With the divider panel removed, a plurality of laundry baskets may be stacked in a nested fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Inventor: Paul M. Wynn