Patents Assigned to Performance Designed Products LLC
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Patent number: 10118092Abstract: A video game system can include a console, a camera and a light targeting peripheral (LTP), where the LPT can direct non-visible light (e.g., infrared (IR) light) onto a display screen. The camera is positioned so that is can view the display screen, and can locate a non-visible light dot on the display screen during video game play. The system can be used with any size or type of electronic display (e.g., any type of television, computer screen, etc.), or any type of non-electronic display (e.g., projector screen) on which the video game can be projected. The LTP has one or more sensors that sense when an accessory is attached thereto and to communicate a signal to the video game console of said attachment to adjust a parameter of the video game operated by the video game console.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: John M. Alpay, David Richard Evans
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Patent number: 10061397Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Eric B. Fulghum
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Patent number: 10042435Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Eric B. Fulghum
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Patent number: 10004982Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward alterable tokens. The alterable token may include a base including an RFID pattern. The base may include an electrical contact electrically coupled to the RFID pattern. The alterable token may include a rotatable body mounted to the base. The body may include first and second RFID tags. The body may include a first electrical contact coupled to the first RFID tag and a second electrical contact coupled to the second RFID tag. The body may be rotatable to a first and a second position. The RFID pattern may be electrically coupled to the first RFID tag when the first electrical contact contacts the electrical contact of the base in the first position. The RFID pattern may be electrically coupled to the second RFID tag when the second electrical contact contacts the electrical contact of the base in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Tom Roberts, Steven Lavache
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Patent number: 9971420Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Eric B. Fulghum
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Patent number: 9914050Abstract: A guitar-shaped video game controller includes a body having a shape that resembles a guitar body, and a neck that is pivotally coupled to the guitar body via a hinge so that the neck can pivot between an extended position and a folded position relative to the guitar body. A latch assembly is actuatable to selectively lock the neck in the extended position to the body. A cable extends between and electrically connects the neck and the body to maintain an electrical connection between the neck and the body when the neck is in the extended and the folded positions.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Eric Fulghum, Brad Strahle, Gaston Santiago, KK Leung, Raymond Leung, Jacky Kam
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Patent number: 9908043Abstract: A guitar-shaped video game controller includes a body having a shape that resembles a guitar body, and a neck that is pivotally coupled to the guitar body via a hinge so that the neck can pivot between an extended position and a folded position relative to the guitar body. A latch assembly is actuatable to selectively lock the neck in the extended position to the body. A cable extends between and electrically connects the neck and the body to maintain an electrical connection between the neck and the body when the neck is in the extended and the folded positions.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Eric Fulghum, Brad Strahle, Gaston Santiago, KK Leung, Raymond Leung, Jacky Kam
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Patent number: 9908042Abstract: A guitar-shaped video game controller includes a body having a shape that resembles a guitar body, and a neck that is pivotally coupled to the guitar body via a hinge so that the neck can pivot between an extended position and a folded position relative to the guitar body. A latch assembly is actuatable to selectively lock the neck in the extended position to the body. A cable extends between and electrically connects the neck and the body to maintain an electrical connection between the neck and the body when the neck is in the extended and the folded positions.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Eric Fulghum, Brad Strahle, Gaston Santiago, KK Leung, Raymond Leung, Jacky Kam
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Patent number: 9811172Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Eric B. Fulghum
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Patent number: 9804691Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Eric B. Fulghum
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Patent number: 9791547Abstract: The present invention provides a method of position sensing between a wireless mobile component carrying a mobile ultrasonic transducer and a fixed component carrying a plurality of fixed ultrasonic transducers in a predetermined spaced-apart relationship, the method comprising turning off all the transducers to establish a period of silence, activating one or more of the fixed transducers to transmit an ultrasonic signal, starting a plurality of timers corresponding to the respective plurality of fixed transducers generally simultaneously with transmitting the signal, receiving the signal at the mobile transducer, transmitting a signal from the mobile transducer responsive to the received signal, receiving the signal transmitted by the mobile transducer at each fixed transducer and stopping the respective timer generally at the time of reception of an edge of the received signal found within the first twenty received edges and preferably within the first ten received edges and more preferably at the first reType: GrantFiled: March 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventor: Steven David Lavache
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Patent number: 9789390Abstract: According to various embodiments, an input device attachment is provided and, more specifically, for some embodiments an input device attachment is provided that is combinable with a computer or video game controller. For example, various embodiments provide attachments for handheld video gaming devices configured to control electronic devices, such handheld video gaming devices including without limitation computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Various embodiments of the invention comprise an attachment comprising an input mechanism that may augment an existing input mechanism of an input device or add an additional input mechanism to the input device. Additionally, some embodiments may augment an exterior structure, or a surface of the input device.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Gerard Lambert Block, Eric B. Fulghum
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Publication number: 20170206054Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward gaming peripherals with built-in audio support. The gaming peripheral may include a plurality of input mechanisms configured to control a video game. The video game may be controlled via the plurality of input mechanisms in a first mode. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. The gaming peripheral may include a designated input mechanism that, when engaged, reconfigures the gaming peripheral into a second mode causing at least one of the plurality of input mechanisms, when actuated, to adjust audio attributes of the video game without interrupting play of the video game.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Yannik Wiggemans, Brad Strahle, Antonio Meneses, Frank Van Brussel, Abid Mozaffar, Rene Trenado
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Patent number: 9710072Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component, and an interchangeable element configured to removably couple to the base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Eric B. Fulghum
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Patent number: D793500Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventor: Christopher K. Dingle
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Patent number: D808334Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventor: Christopher K. Dingle
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Patent number: D808466Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Dennis Keith Foster, Christopher Michael Mancini
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Patent number: D810202Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Dennis Keith Foster, Christopher Michael Mancini
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Patent number: D833389Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Jacob Eliades Dunham, Bradley M. Strahle, Christopher Michael Mancini
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Patent number: D835036Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Jacob Eliades Dunham, Bradley M. Strahle, Christopher Michael Mancini