Patents by Inventor Carlos Ross

Carlos Ross 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).

  • Patent number: 9111005
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that may be implemented to allow a user and/or a software entity to define particular variable pressure or variable pressure or displacement sensor (VPD) system configurations to achieve a desired system functionality as a function of varying key pressure or varying displacement applied to one or more sensors, such as VPD keys of a keyboard or other VPD sensors such as game controller or mouse buttons, etc. The disclosed systems and methods may be implemented using these defined VPD system configurations to control interaction between VPD subsystem hardware components and software application/s of interest that are executing on a host processing device of an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products LP
    Inventors: Carlos Ross, Danae Sierra
  • Patent number: 8700829
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for implementing one or more individual pressure sensitive keys that each support multiple native scan codes, with each scan code corresponding to a unique pressure level output. The disclosed systems and methods may be implemented in one exemplary embodiment to allow users to leverage the capability of a variable pressure keyboard by providing an information handling system having individual variable pressure keys that are each capable of outputting a different macro or multi-key sequence per key pressure level sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Mark A. Casparian, Carlos Ross, Danae Sierra, Karun Reddy, Larry E. Knepper
  • Publication number: 20130067126
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for implementing one or more individual pressure sensitive keys that each support multiple native scan codes, with each scan code corresponding to a unique pressure level output. The disclosed systems and methods may be implemented in one exemplary embodiment to allow users to leverage the capability of a variable pressure keyboard by providing an information handling system having individual variable pressure keys that are each capable of outputting a different macro or multi-key sequence per key pressure level sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Mark A. Casparian, Carlos Ross, Danae Sierra, Karun Reddy, Larry E. Knepper