Patents by Inventor Ryan Saylor
Ryan Saylor 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: 11762221Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Brock Scott Mccabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D. Reyes, Colin Boyles
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Publication number: 20230176402Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Brock Scott McCABE, Ryan SAYLOR, Carlos D. REYES
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Publication number: 20230054103Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenuation factor obtained by dividing the integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak can be greater than or equal to about 0.8 for the absorptance peak in each of the plurality of spectral bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Brock Scott McCABE, Ryan SAYLOR, Carlos D. REYES
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Patent number: 11579470Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that has one or more laminates applied to a lens body. In some embodiments, the lens body is constructed from a substantially rigid material having a curved shape. The lens body can have any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. A laminate can include a substantially flexible substrate and one or more functional layers or coatings applied to the substrate. In addition, one or more functional layers or coatings can be applied directly to the lens body. In certain embodiments, a bonding layer bonds a laminate to a convex and/or concave surface of the lens body. Examples of functional layers or coatings that can be applied to a laminate include anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Saylor, Brock Scott McCabe, Carlos D. Reyes
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Publication number: 20230033949Abstract: Embodiments comprise an eyewear having a lens, the lens having an optical filter. A transmittance spectral profile of the optical filter comprises a transmission valley having a minimum transmittance with a spectral bandwidth, wherein the minimum transmittance of the transmittance valley is positioned at a first wavelength from about 450 nm to about 475 nm; and the spectral bandwidth, equal to the full width of the transmittance valley at the minimum transmittance plus 30%, is less than or equal to about 30 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Colin Boyles, Ryan Saylor
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Patent number: 11474382Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Brock Scott McCabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D. Reyes
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Patent number: 11397337Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenuation factor obtained by dividing the integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak can be greater than or equal to about 0.8 for the absorptance peak in each of the plurality of spectral bands.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Brock Scott McCabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D. Reyes
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Publication number: 20220107511Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Brock Scott MCCABE, Ryan SAYLOR, Carlos D. REYES, Colin BOYLES
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Publication number: 20220057654Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that provides controlled variable light attenuation and color enhancement based on an input received from a user, a sensor and/or a signal from a control circuit. In some embodiments, the eyewear includes an optical filter system with two or more defined filter states that are adapted to improve color vision in different environments. The optical filter system can be incorporated into a lens having any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. The lens can include one or more functional components. Examples of functional components include color enhancement filters, chroma enhancement filters, a laser attenuation filter, electrochromic filters, photoelectrochromic filters, variable attenuation filters, anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Ryan SAYLOR, Benjamin J. MEUNIER, Christopher John ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20220040894Abstract: A fish model to replace the use of live fish in hydroelectric studies is provided. The fish model is cast from ballistic gel to include the density, dimensions, and weight distribution of a selected species of living fish. The fish model is formed by additively manufacturing a mold based on a three-dimensional scan of an actual fish. The mold is then used to mass produce fish models for force measurement testing at various blade speeds, thickness, and impact angles. Each fish model includes a surrogate skin and an internal sensor for strike force measurements. Optional additional sensors include strain gauges, temperature probes, pressure probes, and load sensors, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Mark S. Bevelhimer, Ryan Saylor
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Patent number: 11099408Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral hands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Brock Scott McCabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D. Reyes, Colin Boyles
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Patent number: 11086148Abstract: Features are disclosed relating to an article such as eyewear customized to individual wearer parameters (e.g., measurements, preferences, etc.), and to systems and methods for customizing eyewear to individual wearer parameters. The system includes an input for receiving data representative of a three dimensional configuration of a portion of a wearer's face and an input for receiving data representative of a desired position where the wearer would like an eyewear frame to reside on the wearer's face. One system also includes a processor for determining a change in configuration of an eyewear component blank to allow the eyewear frame to reside in the desired position, and an eyewear component modifier for modifying the eyewear component blank so that the frame will reside in the desired position.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Chumbley, Jason Belbey, Benjamin John Meunier, Ryan Saylor
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Patent number: 11048103Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that provides controlled variable light attenuation and color enhancement based on an input received from a user, a sensor and/or a signal from a control circuit. In some embodiments, the eyewear includes an optical filter system with two or more defined filter states that are adapted to improve color vision in different environments. The optical filter system can be incorporated into a lens having any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. The lens can include one or more functional components. Examples of functional components include color enhancement filters, chroma enhancement filters, a laser attenuation filter, electrochromic filters, photoelectrochromic filters, variable attenuation filters, anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Saylor, Benjamin J. Meunier, Christopher John Anderson
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Patent number: 11042046Abstract: Features are disclosed relating to an article such as eyewear customized to individual wearer parameters (e.g., measurements, preferences, etc.), and to systems and methods for customizing eyewear to individual wearer parameters. The system includes an input for receiving data representative of a three dimensional configuration of a portion of a wearer's face and an input for receiving data representative of a desired position where the wearer would like an eyewear frame to reside on the wearer's face. One system also includes a processor for determining a change in configuration of an eyewear component blank to allow the eyewear frame to reside in the desired position, and an eyewear component modifier for modifying the eyewear component blank so that the frame will reside in the desired position.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Chumbley, Jason Belbey, Benjamin John Meunier, Ryan Saylor
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Publication number: 20210157170Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a high transmittance eyewear. The high transmittance eyewear can include a lens with a chroma enhancement filter. The lens can have a front surface and a rear surface. The high transmittance eyewear can further include a transmittance enhancement layer disposed over the front surface of the lens. The high transmittance eyewear that includes the transmittance enhancement layer and the chroma enhancement filter can provide a high optical transparency (e.g., a high optical transmittance) for the wearer for an indoor or a driving use while maintaining a chroma enhancement capability provided by the chroma enhancement filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Ryan SAYLOR, Brock Scott MCCABE
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Patent number: 10976574Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: OAKLEY, INC.Inventors: Brock Scott McCabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D. Reyes
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Patent number: 10925772Abstract: A passive anti-fogging ski goggle is disclosed. In some embodiments, the goggle includes a moisture absorbing element or material, thereby reducing the amount of moisture within the space between the goggle and the wearer. In certain embodiments, the goggle includes one or more cartridges, which can be received in vents of the goggle and can include the moisture absorbing element or material. The elements can surrender moisture to the atmosphere under conditions within the normal range encountered on a ski slope.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventor: Ryan Saylor
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Publication number: 20200409183Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that has one or more laminates applied to a lens body. In some embodiments, the lens body is constructed from a substantially rigid material having a curved shape. The lens body can have any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. A laminate can include a substantially flexible substrate and one or more functional layers or coatings applied to the substrate. In addition, one or more functional layers or coatings can be applied directly to the lens body. In certain embodiments, a bonding layer bonds a laminate to a convex and/or concave surface of the lens body. Examples of functional layers or coatings that can be applied to a laminate include anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Ryan SAYLOR, Brock Scott McCabe, Carlos D. Reyes
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Patent number: 10871661Abstract: Certain embodiments disclosed herein include lenses for eyewear with a molded wafer and a molded clear resin lens component integrated onto a surface of the molded wafer. The molded wafer can include an optical filter that enhances one or more properties of filtered light. The optical filter can be, for example, a contrast-enhancing, color-enhancing, and/or chroma-enhancing filter. The clear resin lens component can be shaped such that the lenses have optical power. In some embodiments, the molded wafer is integrated onto a surface of a polarizing wafer.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Saylor, Benjamin J. Meunier
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Publication number: 20200096792Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral hands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: BROCK SCOTT MCCABE, Ryan SAYLOR, Carlos D. REYES, Colin BOYLES