Andrew Stone Cifala 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).
Abstract: Styli for generating alert notifications to prevent unintentional marking of interactive devices are disclosed. A disclosed stylus includes a housing and a processor. The housing is to interchangeably receive a physically marking nib and an electronic marking nib. The processor is carried by the housing. The processor is to determine a received nib is the physically marking nib. The processor is further to determine a distance between the stylus and an interactive device satisfies a threshold. The processor is further to generate an alert notification based on the received nib being the physically marking nib and the distance between the stylus and the interactive device satisfying the threshold.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 14, 2016
Date of Patent:
June 30, 2020
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Inventors:
Neill Thomas Kapron, Scott Michael Fehringer, Jeffrey Edward Leaming, George Hristov Gueorguiev, Andrew Stone Cifala, Ken Ogden, Lauren M. Domingo, Bruce E. Blaho, Fred Charles Thomas, III
Abstract: Styli for generating alert notifications to prevent unintentional marking of interactive devices are disclosed. A disclosed stylus includes a housing and a processor. The housing is to interchangeably receive a physically marking nib and an electronic marking nib. The processor is carried by the housing. The processor is to determine a received nib is the physically marking nib. The processor is further to determine a distance between the stylus and an interactive device satisfies a threshold. The processor is further to generate an alert notification based on the received nib being the physically marking nib and the distance between the stylus and the interactive device satisfying the threshold.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 14, 2016
Publication date:
May 9, 2019
Applicant:
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LP
Inventors:
Neill Thomas Kapron, Scott Michael Fehringer, Jeffery Edward Leaming, George Hristov Gueorguiev, Andrew Stone Cifala, Ken Ogden, Lauren M. Domingo, Bruce E. Blaho, Fred Charles Thomas, III
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