Patents by Inventor Aaron M. Stewart

Aaron M. Stewart 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).

  • Publication number: 20210148628
    Abstract: A cabinet structure includes a wrapper defining an opening. At least one liner is positioned inside the opening of the wrapper and defines a temperature-controlled compartment. An insulation cavity is defined between the wrapper and the liner. A trim breaker is coupled to the wrapper and the liner. A first hinge bracket is positioned outwardly of the trim breaker. An encapsulation member is positioned rearwardly of the trim breaker and defines an encapsulation cavity. A first hinge support has a first section positioned along a second hinge support and a second section extending rearwardly from the first section. The first hinge bracket is coupled to the first and second hinge supports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Lottinville, Lynne F Hunter, Karen J. Querfurth, Aaron M. Stewart
  • Publication number: 20210102748
    Abstract: A refrigerating appliance includes an inner liner, an outer wrapper and a trim breaker extending between the inner liner and the outer wrapper to define an insulating cavity therebetween. The trim breaker includes a liner portion coupled with the inner liner, a wrapper portion coupled to the outer wrapper and an outer glazing member that extends between the liner and wrapper portions. An external surface of the outer glazing member defines a contact surface that is configured to receive a seal of an operable panel in a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Aaron M. Stewart
  • Patent number: 10958518
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to switch a hub device from a hub mode to a slave or pass-through mode responsive to one or more contextual triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Russell Speight VanBlon, Axel Ramirez Flores, Aaron M. Stewart, Mark Krynock, Rodrigo Felix de Almeida, Jonathan Co Lee, James A. Hunt
  • Publication number: 20210051245
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify coordinates of a camera relative to a screen and to present on the screen a video stream next to the coordinates responsive to identifying the coordinates of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Aaron M. Stewart, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Jeffrey Earle Skinner, Alden Rose
  • Patent number: 10907891
    Abstract: A refrigerating appliance includes an inner liner, an outer wrapper and a trim breaker extending between the inner liner and the outer wrapper to define an insulating cavity therebetween. The trim breaker includes a liner portion coupled with the inner liner, a wrapper portion coupled to the outer wrapper and an outer glazing member that extends between the liner and wrapper portions. An external surface of the outer glazing member defines a contact surface that is configured to receive a seal of an operable panel in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Aaron M. Stewart
  • Patent number: 10845116
    Abstract: A flush-mount refrigerator is provided that includes a cabinet defining a compartment and including a pair of side walls that extends forwardly of the compartment. A pair of doors is coupled to the cabinet and positioned on either side of a centerline of the cabinet. The pair of doors are spaced apart by a predetermined spacing. A storage feature is positioned within the compartment of the cabinet and movable between an extended position and a recessed position when one or both of the pair of doors is in an open position. A hinge assembly is coupled to the cabinet and to one of the pair of doors. The hinge assembly includes a six-link mechanism that keeps the door within a predefined distance of at least one side wall when the door is moved from a closed position to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Lynne F. Hunter, Aaron M. Stewart, Daniel Lottinville
  • Publication number: 20200311619
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify at least one factor related to an electronic reservation for a first meeting room and to provide an electronic notification suggesting a room swap to a second meeting room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Axel Ramirez Flores, Russell Speight VanBlon, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Aaron M. Stewart, Jonathan Co Lee, Rodrigo Felix de Almeida, James A. Hunt
  • Publication number: 20200313963
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to switch a hub device from a hub mode to a slave or pass-through mode responsive to one or more contextual triggers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Russell Speight VanBlon, Axel Ramirez Flores, Aaron M. Stewart, Mark Krynock, Rodrigo Felix de Almeida, Jonathan Co Lee, James A. Hunt
  • Publication number: 20200263919
    Abstract: A refrigerating appliance includes an inner liner, an outer wrapper and a trim breaker extending between the inner liner and the outer wrapper to define an insulating cavity therebetween. The trim breaker includes a liner portion coupled with the inner liner, a wrapper portion coupled to the outer wrapper and an outer glazing member that extends between the liner and wrapper portions. An external surface of the outer glazing member defines a contact surface that is configured to receive a seal of an operable panel in a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Aaron M. Stewart
  • Patent number: 10694145
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for presenting a portion of a first display on a second display positioned relative to the first display. An apparatus includes an information handling device that includes a processor, a display that is communicatively coupled to the processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable to determine a position of the information handling device relative to a display that is external to the information handling device, determine at least a portion of information presented on the external display that corresponds to the position of the information handling device, and present, on the display of the information handling device, the determined at least a portion of the external display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Jeffrey Earle Skinner, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Aaron M. Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Alden Rose
  • Patent number: 10649540
    Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides an information handling device including one or more processors; a display device; and a touchable control area having one or more configurable areas, said one or more configurable areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; wherein said touchable control area is disposed in place of at least a portion of a standard component of said information handling device, other than said display device, and provides functionality equivalent thereto in one or more configurations. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, James S. Rutledge, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak, Jason P. Parrish
  • Patent number: 10576727
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, user input to generate a three dimensional projection of an object in physical space; generating, using a projection source, a plurality of perspective views of the object, wherein each of the plurality of perspective views is associated with a different angle of the object; and providing, using the plurality of perspective views, the three dimensional projection of the object at a predetermined location in the physical space using at least one reflective surface. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Aaron M. Stewart, Lincoln Penn Hancock
  • Publication number: 20190285335
    Abstract: A flush-mount refrigerator is provided that includes a cabinet defining a compartment and including a pair of side walls that extends forwardly of the compartment. A pair of doors is coupled to the cabinet and positioned on either side of a centerline of the cabinet. The pair of doors are spaced apart by a predetermined spacing. A storage feature is positioned within the compartment of the cabinet and movable between an extended position and a recessed position when one or both of the pair of doors is in an open position. A hinge assembly is coupled to the cabinet and to one of the pair of doors. The hinge assembly includes a six-link mechanism that keeps the door within a predefined distance of at least one side wall when the door is moved from a closed position to the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lynne F. Hunter, Aaron M. Stewart, Daniel Lottinville
  • Patent number: 10185403
    Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including: providing a first configuration for one or more areas of a touchable control area of an information handling device, said first configuration comprising a designation of one or more areas of said touchable control area, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input, wherein said reflective display substantially only draws power when the display contents are changed; ascertaining a power state; updating said first configuration for said one or more areas of said touchable control area associated with the ascertained power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak
  • Patent number: 10180704
    Abstract: A device can include a folding case that includes a fold region that defines a first portion and a second portion of the folding case; a housing disposed on the first portion of the folding case where the housing includes a processor, memory operatively coupled to the processor, and a keyboard operatively coupled to the processor; and a flexible display operatively coupled to the processor and disposed in part on the first portion of the folding case and disposed in part on the second portion of the folding case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Jeffrey Earle Skinner, Lincoln Penn Hancock
  • Publication number: 20190011955
    Abstract: A device can include a folding case that includes a fold region that defines a first portion and a second portion of the folding case; a housing disposed on the first portion of the folding case where the housing includes a processor, memory operatively coupled to the processor, and a keyboard operatively coupled to the processor; and a flexible display operatively coupled to the processor and disposed in part on the first portion of the folding case and disposed in part on the second portion of the folding case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Jeffrey Earle Skinner, Lincoln Penn Hancock
  • Patent number: 10126940
    Abstract: An approach is provided for establishing touch zones of soft keys of a soft keypad that is displayed on a touch-screen device. The approach identifies a fingertip size associated with a user of the touch-screen device. Touch zones of one or more keys are then established so that the size of the touch zones is based on the fingertip size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Jonathan J. Yu, Lance W. Cassidy
  • Publication number: 20180290397
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, user input to generate a three dimensional projection of an object in physical space; generating, using a projection source, a plurality of perspective views of the object, wherein each of the plurality of perspective views is associated with a different angle of the object; and providing, using the plurality of perspective views, the three dimensional projection of the object at a predetermined location in the physical space using at least one reflective surface. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Aaron M. Stewart, Lincoln Penn Hancock
  • Patent number: 9946459
    Abstract: A device configured to distinguish between intentional and inadvertent input is provided. Input may be in the form of touch screen or on-screen keyboard input. Such input is examined such that a device may ignore unintentional and resting contact while reacting only to purposeful contact. The characteristics of unintentional and resting device contact are ascertained and differentiated from the contact characteristics of intentional device input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Harriss Christopher Neil Ganey, Jay W. Johnson, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 9904510
    Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method including: providing a touchable control having one or more areas, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; displaying data on a display device of an information handling device which does not overlap the reflective display of said one or more areas; ascertaining touch-based input to said one or more areas of said touchable control area; and executing one or more functions responsive to said touch-based input. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas J. Sluchak