Patents by Inventor Anthony Christian
Anthony Christian 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).
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Patent number: 9575515Abstract: Techniques for fabric lamination to a component are described. According to various implementations, a single piece of fabric is laminated to a moveable component and to an apparatus to which the moveable component is attached. Generally, lamination of fabric to a moveable component and portions of an associated apparatus can enhance a user experience in a variety of ways. Embodiments may also be employed to cut fabric from around a surface component of an apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Camilo Leon, Kabir Siddiqui, Dane M. Hansen, Anthony Christian Reed, Matthew David Mickelson, Jiannan Chen, Rahul Marwah
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Publication number: 20160274760Abstract: A canvas (e.g., a digital page or sheet of paper) on which a user can input data is displayed on a display device of a computing device in response to the canvas being invoked. The canvas can be invoked in different manners, such as by the user activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration. The user can input any digital data such as notes, drawings, and so forth on the canvas that he or she desires. In response to the canvas being dismissed (e.g., by the user again activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration), display of the canvas ceases. The digital data input by the user is saved or otherwise processed by the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sarah Graham Williams, Catherine N. Boulanger, Yann Florian Daniel Riche, Hua Wang, John G. A. Weiss, Anthony Christian Reed, Ralf Groene, Steven Nabil Bathiche, Vincent L. Ball
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Patent number: 9372571Abstract: A canvas (e.g., a digital page or sheet of paper) on which a user can input data is displayed on a display device of a computing device in response to the canvas being invoked. The canvas can be invoked in different manners, such as by the user activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration. The user can input any digital data such as notes, drawings, and so forth on the canvas that he or she desires. In response to the canvas being dismissed (e.g., by the user again activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration), display of the canvas ceases. The digital data input by the user is saved or otherwise processed by the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sarah Graham Williams, Catherine N. Boulanger, Yann Florian Daniel Riche, Hua Wang, John G. A. Weiss, Anthony Christian Reed, Ralf Groene, Steven Nabil Bathiche, Vincent L. Ball
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Publication number: 20150378392Abstract: A hinge for component attachment is described. In at least some implementations, a kickstand is rotatably attached to a mobile computing device. The kickstand can be rotated to various positions to provide support for different orientations of the computing device. In at least some implementations, hinges are employed to attach a kickstand to a mobile computing device. One example hinge utilizes preset hinge stops that enable the kickstand to be placed at different preset positions. Another example hinge exerts pressure on an edge of the kickstand, providing stability and vibration dampening to the kickstand.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Kabir Siddiqui, Ralf Groene, Karsten Aagaard, Anthony Christian Reed, Stephan Alexander Cummings, Darryl I. Jensen, Joseph B. Gault
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Publication number: 20150353948Abstract: The invention provides plants having desirable levels of sugar release and/or lignin synthesis. The invention further provides methods of selecting plants with such desirable levels of sugar release and/or lignin synthesis; methods of genetically modifying plants to modulate lignin synthesis, sugar release, and modulating phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan and flavonoid production; and uses of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Wellington Muchero, Jay Chen, Lee E. Gunter, Sara Jawdy, Gerald A. Tuskan, Anthony Christian Bryan, Stephen Difazio, Hao-Bo Guo
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Publication number: 20150346780Abstract: Techniques for fabric lamination to a component are described. According to various implementations, a single piece of fabric is laminated to a moveable component and to an apparatus to which the moveable component is attached. Generally, lamination of fabric to a moveable component and portions of an associated apparatus can enhance a user experience in a variety of ways. Embodiments may also be employed to cut fabric from around a surface component of an apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Camilo Leon, Kabir Siddiqui, Dane M. Hansen, Anthony Christian Reed, Matthew David Mickelson, Jiannan Chen, Rahul Marwah
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Patent number: 9134808Abstract: A device kickstand is described. In at least some implementations, a kickstand is rotatably attached to a mobile computing device. The kickstand can be rotated to various positions to provide support for different orientations of the computing device. In at least some implementations, hinges are employed to attach a kickstand to a mobile computing device. One example hinge utilizes preset hinge stops that enable the kickstand to be placed at different preset positions. Another example hinge exerts pressure on an edge of the kickstand, providing stability and vibration dampening to the kickstand.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kabir Siddiqui, Ralf Groene, Karsten Aagaard, Anthony Christian Reed, Stephan Alexander Cummings, Darryl I. Jensen, Joseph B. Gault
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Patent number: 9116550Abstract: A device kickstand is described. In at least some implementations, a kickstand is rotatably attached to a mobile computing device. The kickstand can be rotated to various positions to provide support for different orientations of the computing device. In at least some implementations, hinges are employed to attach a kickstand to a mobile computing device. One example hinge utilizes preset hinge stops that enable the kickstand to be placed at different preset positions. Another example hinge exerts pressure on an edge of the kickstand, providing stability and vibration dampening to the kickstand.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kabir Siddiqui, Ralf Groene, Karsten Aagaard, Anthony Christian Reed, Stephan Alexander Cummings, Darryl I. Jensen, Joseph B. Gault
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Publication number: 20150227253Abstract: A canvas (e.g., a digital page or sheet of paper) on which a user can input data is displayed on a display device of a computing device in response to the canvas being invoked. The canvas can be invoked in different manners, such as by the user activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration. The user can input any digital data such as notes, drawings, and so forth on the canvas that he or she desires. In response to the canvas being dismissed (e.g., by the user again activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration), display of the canvas ceases. The digital data input by the user is saved or otherwise processed by the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sarah Graham Williams, Catherine N. Boulanger, Yann Florian Daniel Riche, Hua Wang, John G.A. Weiss, Anthony Christian Reed, Ralf Groene, Steven Nabil Bathiche, Vincent L. Ball
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Publication number: 20130332628Abstract: User experience adaptation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively with a computing device, a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more characteristics that are viewable by a user, and memory disposed within the housing and configured to communicate data to the computing device via the connection portion, the data usable by the computing device to dynamically adapt a user interface displayable by a display device of the computing device to mimic the one or more physical characteristics of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Panos C. Panay, Sharon Drasnin, Michael D. McCormack, John E. Inman, Steve Seixeiro, Anthony Christian Reed, Ralf Groene, Jeffrey Jay Johnson
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Publication number: 20130229100Abstract: A device kickstand is described. In at least some implementations, a kickstand is rotatably attached to a mobile computing device. The kickstand can be rotated to various positions to provide support for different orientations of the computing device. In at least some implementations, hinges are employed to attach a kickstand to a mobile computing device. One example hinge utilizes preset hinge stops that enable the kickstand to be placed at different preset positions. Another example hinge exerts pressure on an edge of the kickstand, providing stability and vibration dampening to the kickstand.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kabir Siddiqui, Ralf Groene, Karsten Aagaard, Anthony Christian Reed, Stephan Alexander Cummings, Darryl I. Jensen
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Publication number: 20130229773Abstract: A device kickstand is described. In at least some implementations, a kickstand is rotatably attached to a mobile computing device. The kickstand can be rotated to various positions to provide support for different orientations of the computing device. In at least some implementations, hinges are employed to attach a kickstand to a mobile computing device. One example hinge utilizes preset hinge stops that enable the kickstand to be placed at different preset positions. Another example hinge exerts pressure on an edge of the kickstand, providing stability and vibration dampening to the kickstand.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventors: Kabir Siddiqui, Ralf Groene, Karsten Aagaard, Anthony Christian Reed, Stephan Alexander Cummings, Darryl I. Jensen, Joseph B. Gault
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Publication number: 20110248922Abstract: An input device includes a display device configured to selectively modulate light to produce a changeable display image. The input device also includes a keyboard assembly disposed over the display device and including one or more depressible keys. Each depressible key includes a keycap having a light transmissive window; a light pillar between the keycap and the display device; and a light-turning layer between the light pillar and the keycap.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Glen C. Larsen, Neil Emerton, Anthony Christian Reed
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Publication number: 20110248923Abstract: An input device includes a display device configured to selectively modulate light to produce a changeable display image. The input device also includes a keyboard assembly disposed over the display device and including one or more depressible keys. Each depressible key includes a keycap having a light transmissive window and a light-turning feature or element between the display device and the keycap.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Glen C. Larsen, Neil Emerton, Anthony Christian Reed
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Publication number: 20090100559Abstract: My invention is the perforation of hat visors. Perforated Projection Visors are articles of manufacture that are to be worn on a person's head. It involves cutting into the visor of a hat. A picture can be perforated through the hat's visor, allowing it to be reflected onto a person's face or article of clothing. Plastic is placed into the hat's visor so that a person can be protected from elements of the weather. The plastic can also be tinted so that the picture can be in color when reflected onto a person's clothing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventor: Charles Anthony Christian
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Publication number: 20040126450Abstract: This invention relates to a method for using electromagnetic radiation to destroy data stored on a device that includes a data storage region and a conductive region. For example, common Compact Disks (often called a CD) and Digital Versatile Disks (often called a DVD) both have regions of the disk constructed to have at least one data storage layer and at least one conductive layer. The method disclosed in this invention relies on electromagnetic radiation, such as microwave radiation, to set up an electric field in the conductive layer of the data storage disk, where the electrical field is strong enough to alter the physical proprieties of a fraction of the data storage region of the disk. The data stored in and near these physically altered regions is destroyed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2002Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventor: Anthony Christian Barkans
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Publication number: 20040091110Abstract: A display system capable of displaying an image is modified with one or more elements that emit energy (140) that is outside the range of human perception, but within the range that is detected by the sensors used in a mechanical recording device (160). This energy could be in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. With this modification the display screen (110) will produce two simultaneous, or near simultaneous, images. The first image, seen by a human observer, will differ from the second image captured by the sensors of a recording device, such as a video camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2002Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventor: Anthony Christian Barkans
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Patent number: 4541506Abstract: An exhaust diffusion apparatus positionable between noise level control and performance modes defining a restricted diffusion passage and an unrestricted exit port for performance operation which may be closed to effect noise level control operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1982Date of Patent: September 17, 1985Inventors: Scott Venning, Anthony Christian