Patents Examined by William L. Bashore
  • Patent number: 12282726
    Abstract: Dyslexic-friendly, readable images are generated from linear formatted images. Each dyslexic-friendly, readable image may include one or more positioned, non-linear (e.g., curved) boundaries and a plurality of textual objects, where each object is positioned at a distance from the boundaries and follows a boundary. The dyslexic-friendly, readable images can be edited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Summerbell Reading Method, LLC
    Inventors: Hillary Patience Summerbell, Jeremy Dunsworth
  • Patent number: 12282948
    Abstract: A computer readable medium for sizing a product includes instructions, that when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to: retrieve from a webpage information on a product including product dimensions; present on a display of a client device a graphical button that upon access by a user activates a camera for capturing an image of an object positioned at a focal distance from the camera, the object having a surface; prompt the user to enter boundary information of an imaginary housing to be placed on the surface; generate the imaginary housing dimensions in two dimensions (2D) based on the boundary information and the focal distance; and determine whether the product fits within the imaginary housing by comparing the product dimensions against the imaginary housing dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Gourav Singhal, Sourabh Gupta, Mrinal Kumar Sharma
  • Patent number: 12277310
    Abstract: A panoramic system can receive content (e.g., live video) recorded in a landscape orientation and use a portrait dynamic crop window to display a portrait area of the received content. The panoramic system can further display the content in a landscape dynamic crop window that has a moveable user interface control that can pan the portrait crop window as the content plays in one or both of the dynamic crop windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Burfitt, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Yamill Antonio Vallecillo, Sivakumar Loganathan, Gene Michael Cahill, Jr., Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12271745
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be provided for providing dynamic user experience (UX) applications that may reduce burden upon application users by allowing querying and sharing of user information across multiple application interactions associated with a user. Furthermore, the systems and methods herein may provide security restrictions that protect potentially sensitive user information from erroneous user authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: John M. VanAntwerp, Dan Kalmes
  • Patent number: 12265889
    Abstract: A systematic explainer is described herein, which comprises local, model-agnostic, surrogate ML model-based explanation techniques that faithfully explain predictions from any machine learning classifier or regressor. The systematic explainer systematically generates local data samples around a given target data sample, which improves on exhaustive or random data sample generation algorithms. Specifically, using principles of locality and approximation of local decision boundaries, techniques described herein identify a hypersphere (or data sample neighborhood) over which to train the surrogate ML model such that the surrogate ML model produces valuable, high-quality information explaining data samples in the neighborhood of the target data sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Karoon Rashedi Nia, Tayler Hetherington, Zahra Zohrevand, Sanjay Jinturkar, Nipun Agarwal
  • Patent number: 12260841
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for presenting information to a user through multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include providing first data to a first primary user interface that causes the first primary user interface to provide a first view of an application state of a software application, providing second data to a second primary user interface that causes the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the application state, changing the application state to a new application state, and in response to changing the application state, providing data to the first and second view modules so as to cause the first primary user interface to provide a first view of the new application state and the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the new application state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Shawn Zabel, Dennis Doubleday, Brian Bender, Mark David Murawski
  • Patent number: 12245105
    Abstract: An equipment identification system for identifying and operating one or more machines at a site. The system includes one or more connectivity modules, each connectivity module communicatively and physically coupled to one of the one or more machines. The system also includes a user device configured to communicate with the one or more connectivity modules via a network connection. In response to a user selection on an application hosted on the user device, one or more of the machines are identified by one or both of an audible signal or a visual signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Korry D. Kobel, Fredric L. Yutzy, Dan Adamson, Stefan Eshleman, Greg Pray
  • Patent number: 12242666
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an interface for receiving input using multiple modalities in an artificial reality environment. The interface can be a virtual keyboard displayed in an artificial reality environment that includes characters arranged as elements. Implementations include an artificial reality device/system for displaying the artificial reality environment and receiving user input in a first modality, and a controller device for receiving user input in an additional input modality. For example, the artificial reality system can be configured to receive user gaze input as a first input modality and the controller device can be configured to receive input in a second modality, such as touch input received at a trackpad. An interface manager can process input in the multiple modalities to control an indicator on the virtual interface. The interface manager can also resolve character selections from the virtual interface according to the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Ibars Martinez, Johnathon Simmons, Pol Pla I Conesa, Nathan Aschenbach, Aaron Faucher, Chris Rojas, Emron Jackson Henry, Bryan Sparks
  • Patent number: 12241226
    Abstract: There are provided a position calculator that determines a position of working equipment included in a work machine, a display that displays a route image corresponding to a route through which the working equipment moves, and a display processor that causes, on the basis of a position of the route and a position of the working equipment determined by the position calculator, the display to display the route image corresponding to a portion of the route that is shielded by the working equipment with a predetermined position serving as a viewpoint in a form different from the route image corresponding to a portion of the route that is not shielded by the working equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: KOMATSU LTD., OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takanobu Tanimoto, Kei Shinohara, Hiroshi Yoshinada
  • Patent number: 12242772
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a session between a mobile device and an alternative playback device. In response to detecting that the session has been established, the method also includes presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on a screen of a mobile device of a user including a voice search GUI element representing a voice search, receiving a user selection of the voice search GUI element, receiving an audio input of the user to request a search of one or more media items, the audio input specifying one or more search criteria for the search, and submitting a textual search query derived from the audio input for processing, wherein a result of the search is to be presented to the user on a screen of the alternative playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jaee Patwardhan, Sana Mithani, Allan Mills, Nicolas Klein, Yakka Nakia Murphy, Adam Harrison
  • Patent number: 12229502
    Abstract: A method for facilitating private drafting is described. A request to edit a section of a document in a draft mode is received from a first user of a plurality of users collaborating on the document. An edit for the section of the document in the draft mode is received from the first user. A result of the edit is displayed on a computing device of the first user but not on computing devices of other users of the plurality of users. A request to publish the edit is received from the first user. In response to the request to publish the edit, the result of the edit is displayed on computing devices of the other users of the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: WORKIVA INC.
    Inventors: Travis Smith, Michael Jerome Thiesen, Hannah Joy Deering, Mark David Erickson, Ross W. Hendrickson, Bryon Lee Marks, Tanner Davis Miller
  • Patent number: 12229729
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to try to collect information from a terminal carried by a user, and control notification to the user based on information related to a behavior of the user in a case where the information is not collected from the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Keisuke Komatsubara
  • Patent number: 12226239
    Abstract: A software library for providing a uniform framework for various applications or third-party applications access to sensor data. The system further includes a sensor control module and a remote management module. The sensor control module includes logic for communicating with the sensors and receiving sensor data and to communicate that sensor data to the remote management module or various applications. The sensor control module may include a user interface that may display a banner containing numerous components. The content of the banner may differ depending on the host application. The system may further include a host application that incorporates the banner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: LINGO SENSING TECHNOLOGY UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventor: Justin N. Williams
  • Patent number: 12230046
    Abstract: Tables including cells can be extracted from an input document image, as objects and processed to be output in an XML format. The tables can be filtered based on one or more keywords, to reduce a number of the tables. The filtered tables that include the one or more keywords can be obtained. A query can be executed on the filtered tables, the query including one or more keys composed based on cell level information associated with the filtered tables. One or more cells among the cells can be identified based on the one or more keys. As a response to the query, the target content that corresponds to the one or more cells can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Oracle Financial Services Software Limited
    Inventors: Shivam Agrahari, Dakshayani Singaraju, Veresh Jain
  • Patent number: 12207920
    Abstract: A audiological test system is provided for audiological testing of a patient situated at a test location, comprising a first display screen for monitoring of the audiological test system and that is positioned outside a viewing field of the patient when the patient is situated at the test location, a second display screen positioned within the viewing field of the patient when the patient is situated at the test location, a first switch located at the first display screen and adapted for control of the second display screen in such a way that predetermined information relating to operation of the audiological test system is not displayed on the second display screen upon activation of the first switch, and a second switch located at the second display screen and adapted for control of the second display screen in such a way that the predetermined information relating to operation of the audiological test system is displayed on the second display screen upon activation of the second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Natus Medical Incorporated
    Inventor: Johannes Lantz
  • Patent number: 12206632
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling user access through content analysis of an application are disclosed. The method for controlling access may include understanding a public level according to honorific language use by analyzing chat contents for each chat partner registered in an application, by the at least one processor; and controlling user access to the application based on the public level for each chat partner, by the at least one processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Jong Min Kim, Ji Hyeon Park, Hyukjae Jang
  • Patent number: 12205716
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing patient assistance requests in a healthcare facility, documenting items (e.g., minor, routine, and/or frequently-performed items) in association with a patient's records in an Electronic Healthcare Information System, and cancelling patient requests for assistance. Indications that requests for assistance have been received and/or are being addressed by an appropriate healthcare team member may be audibly output from a speaker associated with a personal assistant device. Healthcare team members may verbally provide items for documentation in association with a patient's medical records, the items for documentation being received by a listening component of a personal assistant device and transmitted to an EHIS for documentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Bechtel, Chad G. Hays, Amanda Sleightholm
  • Patent number: 12197829
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus operative to quantify building metrics using artificial intelligence analysis of a design plan and apply the quantified building metrics to smoke control practices. A design plan is represented using multiple dynamic components. Each dynamic component may include a parameter changeable via the user interactive interface. The dynamic components may be arranged in a user interactive interface to form a first set of boundaries, including a respective length and area, and defining at least a portion of a first unit. AI may determine a longest path of egress and a supportable occupancy load that may be used to determine compliance with parameters of a given code. The AI may assess whether a building described in the design plans complies with a relevant code set forth by an authority having jurisdiction. Codes may include, for example, codes relating to smoke control and fire safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew Foley, Michael Sheehan, Patrick E Murphy, Johnny Maghzal
  • Patent number: 12190051
    Abstract: Systems and methods to facilitate a customization and proliferation of models are described. The system receives, via a first interface, table information and communicates the table information to a first model. The first model includes logic to process the values to generate a column of predicted values. The system receives a column of predicted values from the first model. The system appends the column of predicted values to the table information to generate appended table information. The system communicates, via a second interface, the appended table information to a second state including a second plurality of models. The sequence of states is associated with a plurality of interfaces including the first interface and the second interface. The interfaces facilitate a customization and proliferation of models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Opendoor Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Tianyi Xia, Leonid Boris Pekelis, David Makanalani Lundgren
  • Patent number: 12185177
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mapping addressable information (e.g., locations denoted by name or address, street addresses, landmarks, etc.) off of disparate applications on a mobile device, onto an existing map on the mobile device, are disclosed. An application on a mobile device may display addressable information (e.g., a website displaying a location name and/or address, an email containing an address, etc.). In response to a user's selecting the addressable information and invoking a mapping command, a map-display application (e.g., Google Maps®, Yahoo! Maps®, Windows Live Search Map®, MapQuest®, iPhone® maps, Waze® etc.) may be automatically presented (e.g., launches, become visible, displayed, etc.) displaying the addressable information in addition to at least one prior mapping content previously displayed by the map-display application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Nearby Systems LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel Jakobson, Steven L. Rueben