Patents by Inventor Carl A. Wright

Carl A. Wright 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: 20170365101
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a display system comprising a head-mountable, augmented reality display is configured to perform a neurological analysis and to provide a perception aid based on an environmental trigger associated with the neurological condition. Performing the neurological analysis may include determining a reaction to a stimulus by receiving data from the one or more inwardly-directed sensors; and identifying a neurological condition associated with the reaction. In some embodiments, the perception aid may include a reminder, an alert, or virtual content that changes a property, e.g. a color, of a real object. The augmented reality display may be configured to display virtual content by outputting light with variable wavefront divergence, and to provide an accommodation-vergence mismatch of less than 0.5 diopters, including less than 0.25 diopters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Nicole Elizabeth Samec, Christopher M. Harrises, Mark Baerenrodt, Stephen Vincent Mangiat, Nastasja U. Robaina, Adam Carl Wright
  • Publication number: 20170206691
    Abstract: A display system comprises a wearable display device for displaying augmented reality content. The display device comprises a display area comprising light redirecting features that are configured to direct light to a user. The display area is at least partially transparent and is configured to provide a view of an ambient environment through the display area. The display device is configured to determine that a reflection of the user is within the user's field of view through the display area. After making this determination, augmented reality content is displayed in the display area with the augmented reality content augmenting the user's view of the reflection. In some embodiments, the augmented reality content may overlie on the user's view of the reflection, thereby allowing all or portions of the reflection to appear to be modified to provide a realistic view of the user with various modifications made to their appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher M. Harrises, Nicole Elizabeth Samec, Nastasja U. Robaina, Mark Baerenrodt, Adam Carl Wright, Adrian Kaehler
  • Patent number: 7562037
    Abstract: A system and method for the mass customization of bills or invoices particularized to each client's preference is provided. The present invention is used to permit a provider of mass customization billing service to customize invoice/bill formats, layouts, and contents for service organizations as well as recipients of those services. Under the system and method of the present art, the invoice generation process is driven by a set of format specifications customized to an individual account or client. Accordingly, the system and method of the invention is ideal for customers and clients that require particularized styles, formats, or information content relevant to invoices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Inventor: Carl A. Wright
  • Publication number: 20070119671
    Abstract: A decoupled mono tube damper assembly for a vehicle includes an outer tube attached to the vehicle's unsprung mass. The outer tube has a base and a sleeve end. An outer tube sleeve engaging end of an inner tube is slidingly engaged with the sleeve end. The inner tube has an end distal to the sleeve engaging end, and is attached to the vehicle's sprung mass at the distal end. A damper rod has one opposed end extending axially into a base aperture, and an opposed end connecting to the inner tube. The rod moves axially relative to the outer tube, due to forces transmitted from the unsprung mass. A low amplitude energy-managing member is operatively disposed within the outer tube, and has a throughbore receiving the rod. A travel-limiting member attaches to the rod and is engageable with the energy-managing member. The travel-limiting member constrains axial movement of the rod through the outer tube base to a predetermined limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Shawn Quinn, Gregory Fadler, William Gregory, Carl Wright, Kenneth Oblizajek
  • Publication number: 20060229791
    Abstract: The ability of a damper to attenuate smooth road shake in a vehicle is tested using a test fixture that is controlled by inputting data for periodic low amplitude periodic excitations having a selected frequency range, selected amplitude range and a selected dither representative of vehicle operation on relatively smooth roads. The selected frequency range is about 5 Hz to 30 Hz and the selected amplitude range is about 0.05 mm to 2.00 mm. A preferred frequency is about 15 Hz which is applied preferably for about 200 cycles in a series of separate tests at individual amplitudes of, for example, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25, 0.50, 1.00 and 2.00 mm. The damper is tested to produce low amplitude test results comprising displacement, force and velocity parameters, measured as functions of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Kenneth Oblizajek, Carl Wright, Shawn Quinn, John Sopoci, Gregory Fadler, William Gregory
  • Publication number: 20060225979
    Abstract: Dampers for vehicle suspensions include a housing comprising a tube attached to a wheel axle of a vehicle and a piston rod extending from a piston within the tube and attached to the vehicle body. The piston divides the tube into first and second chambers. In order to damp responses when minor smooth road imperfections impart low force excitations to the wheel of the vehicle, a fluid bypass passageway in the form of a sleeve is positioned around the tube and overlies the piston. This provides second stage quasi-ideal damping at low force excitations to the wheels and thus to the wheel axles of the vehicle. The sleeve communicates with the first and second chambers through metered orifices or valves. As low force excitations from smooth road imperfections displace fluid within the tube through the metered orifices or valves, the orifices damp responses to the low force excitations, thereby smoothing the ride of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Shawn Quinn, Gregory Fadler, William Gregory, Carl Wright, Kenneth Oblizajek
  • Publication number: 20020010666
    Abstract: A system and method for the mass customization of bills or invoices particularized to each client's preference is provided. The present invention is used to permit a provider of mass customization billing service to customize invoice/bill formats, layouts, and contents for service organizations as well as recipients of those services. Under the system and method of the present art, the invoice generation process is driven by a set of format specifications customized to an individual account or client. Accordingly, the system and method of the invention is ideal for customers and clients that require particularized styles, formats, or information content relevant to invoices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: Carl A. Wright
  • Publication number: 20010027449
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for providing and displaying on a computer device information related to charges incurred for the consumption of Internet services. Using such a system, a consumer of services is notified of the charges and usage information within seconds of the actual consumption of services, thereby permitting the consumer to budget for services and control their consumption of services accordingly. Preferably, the charge and usage information includes ongoing updates on the basis of the smallest incremental unit consumed, to provide the consumer with a running total of the amount of services used at any one point in time; the charges incurred for such usage; the charges for proposed actions so that the consumer can determine an action's cost in advance; and predictions regarding future usage and expenditures based on the consumer's utilization history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventor: Carl A. Wright
  • Patent number: 5923741
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus facilitate rating of telecommunications transactions and allow modification of the rating process without requiring reprogramming of the rating system program. An input data structure includes pointers to functions that return internally or externally derived data values to the rating system program. By virtue of a system of selection criteria and selection rules, the rating system program evaluates telecommunications transaction characteristics to obtain appropriate rating data for the transaction and to calculate charges based on this rating data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Inventors: Carl A. Wright, Becky L. Glesner
  • Patent number: 4607763
    Abstract: A collapsible tube dispenser includes rollers movably mounted in a housing for squeezing a tube, as the rollers roll axially along the tube. The housing is constructed to permit ready installation of a tube to be squeezed. In one form of the invention, the housing includes an open frame, and in another form of the invention, the housing can be quickly disassembled in a convenient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Inventor: Carl A. Wright