Patents Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
  • Publication number: 20240088936
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic device is described. An example electronic device includes a processor to place the electronic device in a transit mode. When in the transit mode, the processor is placed in an inactive state. The example electronic device also includes a wireless module. An example wireless module includes a wireless controller to, when in the transit mode, periodically activate a wireless transceiver of the electronic device. The example wireless module also includes the wireless transceiver to, when in the transit mode 1) connect to a wireless network and 2) transmit configuration information for the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Isaac Lagnado, Christopher Charles Mohrman, Steven Harold Petit
  • Publication number: 20240082839
    Abstract: A microfluidic device includes a chamber having sidewalls, a floor, a ceiling, and an inlet. The microfluidic device includes pillars extending from the floor to the ceiling of the chamber. Each pillar has an orientation relative to the inlet defined by a leading surface and a trailing corner opposite the leading corner. The trailing corner has an angle less than a threshold angle that is based on a fluidic contact angle. The orientations of the pillars relative to the inlet promote fluid flow from the inlet throughout the chamber without trapping gas at the sidewalls of the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Carson DENISON, Erik D. TORNIAINEN, Richard W. SEAVER, Pavel KORNILOVICH, Alexander GOVYADINOV, Anand Samuel JEBAKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20240086528
    Abstract: Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a camera. In some examples, the electronic device also includes a processor to start a lock timer to lock the electronic device in response to detecting that a first person leaves a field of view of the camera. The processor is also to adjust the lock timer in response to detecting a second person within the field of view of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Siyuan Zhang, Yun David Tang, Monji G. Jabori, King Sui Kei
  • Publication number: 20240090053
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic device is described. The electronic device includes a wireless controller. The wireless controller is to establish a first wireless connection between the electronic device and a peripheral device to receive a unique identifier for a second electronic device. The wireless controller is also to establish, based on the unique identifier for the second electronic device, a second wireless connection between the electronic device and the second electronic device. The electronic device includes a wireless transceiver to wirelessly transfer data to the second electronic device through the second wireless connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chung-Chun Chen, Chen-Hui Lin, Chih-Ming Huang, Ming-Shien Tsai
  • Publication number: 20240087586
    Abstract: According to an example, a method comprises receiving a first audio stream from an input device, detecting presence within the first audio stream of at least an acoustic pattern, executing at least one corrective action over a portion of data of the first audio stream including the acoustic pattern such that a second audio stream is obtained, and transmitting the second audio stream to an output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Steven, Robert Campbell
  • Patent number: 11926160
    Abstract: In an example, a surface inspection apparatus includes a light source to illuminate a portion of a surface in a print apparatus, a light detection apparatus and processing circuitry. The light detection apparatus may receive diffusely reflected light and specularly reflected light from the portion of the surface, and may comprise a detection element for detecting the specularly reflected light. The processing circuitry may comprise a comparison module to determine a relationship between an intensity of the detected diffusely reflected light and the detected specularly reflected light and a quality module to evaluate if the surface meets a quality criterion based on the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ana Cristina Garcia Alvarez, Maurizio Bordone, Alexander Jose Perez Garcia
  • Patent number: 11927938
    Abstract: In an example, a method includes receiving, at a processor, a data comprising a model of an object to be generated in additive manufacturing. The data comprises object model data representing an object model as a plurality of initial polygons and object property data associated with the initial polygons. The method may comprise generating a representation of a slice of the object model defined between two planes and generating a plurality of polygons to represent the slice of the object model. A mapping between the object property data and the generated plurality of polygons may also be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Josh Shepherd, Matthew A Shepherd
  • Patent number: 11925932
    Abstract: An example microfluidic device includes a microfluidic network through which operational fluid is to flow and a droplet ejector. The microfluidic device includes a drive fluid storage volume to contain drive fluid, the drive fluid storage volume connected in series between the microfluidic network and the droplet ejector. When the drive fluid is ejected from the droplet ejector, the operational fluid is drawn through the microfluidic network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Si-lam Choy
  • Patent number: 11927520
    Abstract: A particle monitoring system may include a flow passage, a particle imager to image a targeted particle within the flow passage, electrodes supported proximate the flow passage, a power source connected to the electrodes and a controller to cause the power source to charge to electrodes so as to (1) apply an electric field balanced with respect to gravity so as to hold, levitate and rotate a targeted particle within the flow passage during imaging and (2) release the targeted particle following the imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Viktor Shkolnikov, Daixi Xin, Yang Lei
  • Patent number: 11926101
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to identify a property of a portion of a three-dimensional (3D) part to be fabricated and determine, based on the identified property, a thermal value associated with the portion. The instructions may also cause the processor to, based on the determined thermal value, determine a first agent composition to be used to fabricate the portion and determine a second agent composition to be used to fabricate a section external and adjacent to the portion, in which the first agent composition and the second agent composition may be determined to cause the portion and the external section to be fabricated to have the identified property while maintaining the external section separate from the portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jacob Wright, Matthew A. Shepherd, Vanessa Verzwyvelt, Xin Cheng
  • Patent number: 11928376
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to maintain client presence information that is received from a client and maintain printer presence information that is received from a printer. The client presence information may include a client network property and the printer presence information may include a printer network property. In some examples, the processor may receive print job information for a print job from the client and may determine a recommended print job delivery path for the print job based on the print job information, the client presence information, and the printer presence information. The processor may cause the print job to be routed to the printer based on the recommended print job delivery path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael St. Laurent, Rajivkumar Vinodchandra Mistry
  • Patent number: 11927197
    Abstract: In one example, a centrifugal fan includes a bearing, a shaft rotatably supported by the bearing, fan blades operatively connected to and rotatable with the shaft to take in air axially and to exhaust air radially, and a groove in the shaft extending axially along an outer surface of the shaft through the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ronald Robert Anderson, Gregory Charles Reed, Richard Walter Riper
  • Patent number: 11928833
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions that the processor may execute to determine displacement levels of multiple locations of an image and to select a sampling density for the multiple locations. The processor may execute the instructions to generate an array of points according to the selected sampling density, the array of points identifying displaced portions of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Nathan Moroney
  • Patent number: 11927909
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a development cartridge having a developing roller. A coupler for the image forming apparatus includes a shaft and a coupling structure to rotate the developing roller. The coupling structure is disposed at an end part of the shaft, is movable along an axial direction of the shaft and coupleable with another coupling structure of a print engine of the image forming apparatus. The coupling structure includes a body, a magnet disposed in the body to cause the coupling structure to be attracted to the another coupling structure so that the coupling structure is aligned with the another coupling structure, and a plurality of protrusions which protrude from the body in the axial direction to engage with the another coupling structure, the plurality of protrusions having at least one side with an inclined face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Swanson, Gabriel S. McDaniel, Jeffrey H. Luke
  • Patent number: 11928385
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method of a computing device may include determining whether a first mode or a second mode is selected. If the first mode is selected, the computing device connects a microphone to a sound processing logic. If the second mode is selected, the computing device disconnects the microphone from the sound processing logic and connecting an audio source to the sound processing logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Richard Bramley
  • Patent number: 11928171
    Abstract: An example uniform resource locator (URL) information providing method includes obtaining a text from a document including location information and identifying the location information, transmitting an original URL corresponding to the identified location information to an external apparatus and receiving a shortened URL corresponding to the original URL, generating an optical recognition code corresponding to the received shortened URL and obtaining information related to a content provided from the original URL from the external apparatus based on the original URL, changing the document based on the shortened URL, the optical recognition code, and the information related to the content provided from the original URL, and generating the changed document as page description language data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Yoon, Jung Nam Bae, Yoon Soo Lee, Chul Gee Lee, Tae Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 11928478
    Abstract: An example computing device includes a tracking device, an interface, a processor, and a controller. The interface including a power pin, a data pin, and a clock pin, where the interface is to couple the tracking device to the computing device via the power pin and the data pin, and the clock pin is disconnected from the tracking device. The controller is communicatively coupled to the processor and the interface, the controller is to control an operation of the tracking device via the data pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles J. Stancil, Isaac Lagnado
  • Patent number: 11928386
    Abstract: An example computing device includes a plurality of interfaces to connect to a plurality of audio peripheral devices, a communications interface to establish a network connection, and a processor interconnected with the plurality of interfaces and the communications interface. The processor is to determine a location of the computing device based on the network connection. The processor sets an audio peripheral device from the plurality of the audio peripheral devices as a default audio peripheral device based on the location. The processor communicates an audio signal through the default audio peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Srinath Balaraman, Ling Wei Chung, Pradosh Tulsidas Verlekar, Charles J. Stancil
  • Patent number: 11930577
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a computing device is described. The computing device includes a housing and a light source to illuminate through a window in the housing. The computing device also includes a controller. The controller determines a usage level of a processor of the computing device. The controller also adjusts a characteristic of the light source based on a determined usage level of the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Po-Hsien Lin, An Chih Chu
  • Patent number: 11930153
    Abstract: In some examples, an imaging device can include a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions to cause the processing resource to perform a feature extraction process to extract a gamut-based feature included in a plurality of pixels of a scanned image to determine whether the scanned image includes a particular marking, apply a classification model to the scanned image, and optimize the scanned image based on the classification of the scanned image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Bauer, Todd J. Harris, Mark Shaw, Jan Allebach, Yafei Mao, Yufang Sun, Lixia Li