Patents by Inventor Rex Alexander

Rex Alexander 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: 11966261
    Abstract: In a display assistant device, a speaker is mounted in a waveguide structure which is at least partially disposed beneath a display screen. The waveguide structure is mounted in an exterior housing which includes speaker grills distributed on a plurality of surfaces of the exterior housing, permitting sound waves from the speaker to be projected outside the exterior housing. A cover structure is disposed on top of the waveguide structure to conceal the waveguide structure and speaker within the exterior housing. The cover structure has a tilted bottom surface configured to be suspended above the waveguide structure and to be separated by a first space. Sound waves projected from an upper portion of the speaker are reflected by the tilted bottom surface and are guided through the first space to exit the device from a speaker grill portion located on a rear side of the exterior housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: James Nelson Castro, Carl Alexander Cepress, Liang Ching Tseng, Darren Torrie, Frances Maria Hui Hong Kwee, Rex Pinegar Price
  • Patent number: 11961018
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying and notifying requestors that may be candidates for a particular autonomous vehicle in order to find those candidates that may be willing or able to relax their travel constraints to match the autonomous vehicle. A request flow may involve surfacing the potential option of matching to an autonomous vehicle before setting a specific destination. For example, the request flow may involve determining that an autonomous vehicle is sufficiently near an in-session potential requestor. Before the potential requestor enters a specific destination, the request flow may present the possibility of the potential requestor being matched with the autonomous vehicle. In some examples, the request flow may then provide available drop-off locations that are compatible with the autonomous vehicle for selection by the potential requestor. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Sebastian Hurley, Leighton Kamaile Jen, Jody Metzenbaum Kelman, Rex See Chun Lam, Jonathan Patrick O'Keefe, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Arkesh Jagdish Patel, John Robert Tighe, Adam Alexander Wolf
  • Patent number: 5435464
    Abstract: A system for the prevention of jamming of pumps used with containers having a liner therein. The system includes a container having a disposable liner contained therein, a pump and a housing attached to the lower end of the pump. The housing has at least one downwardly extending leg which serves to hold down the disposable liner thereby preventing the pump from being clogged or damaged by pieces of the flexible liner. The housing also has at least one passage therethrough to allow the flow of the medium being pumped upwardly through the housing central cavity. The invention is particularly adapted to the pumping of grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Rex Alexander, Dale J. Hikes