Patents by Inventor Charles A. Thomas

Charles A. Thomas 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: 20210239883
    Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. In one example the head mounted display device includes a light engine including an array of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light. The example also includes an optical assembly physically aligned with the light engine and including a set of focusing elements facing toward the light engine and a different set of focusing elements facing away from the light engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas GEORGIOU, Alfonsus D. LUNARDHI, Joel Steven KOLLIN, Bernard C. KRESS, Ishan CHATTERJEE, Mario POSSIWAN, Charles Thomas HEWITT, Brian K. GUENTER, Maria PACE, Jacob HADNETT-HUNTER
  • Patent number: 11068052
    Abstract: A holographic display system includes an eye tracker configured to determine a position of a feature of an eye, a light source configured to output image light, and a digital dynamic hologram. The digital dynamic hologram is configured to receive the image light from the light source. The digital dynamic hologram is further configured to spatially modulate the image light based on a target image to form a reconstructed image in the eye. The reconstructed image includes noise that is non-uniformly distributed across the reconstructed image based on the position of the feature of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Georgiou, Joel Steven Kollin, Charles Thomas Hewitt, Neil Emerton
  • Publication number: 20210205574
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for delivering sensory stimulation to a subject for facilitating sleep onset. The system comprises one or more sensors for generating output signals indicating one or more physiological parameters of a subject; a sensory stimulator for delivering sensory stimulation to the subject; and one or more physical processors configured to: determine an initial state of the subject based on the output signals from the sensor, the initial state corresponding to at least one physiological parameter of the subject; determine one or more stimulation parameters of sensory stimulation to be delivered to the subject by the sensory stimulator based on the initial state of the subject; and cause the sensory stimulator to deliver the sensory stimulation to the subject based on the determined one or more stimulation parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Gary Nelson GARCIA MOLINA, Boomika KALYAN, Antonio AQUINO, Charles THOMAS, Matthew D. HOGAN
  • Publication number: 20210200342
    Abstract: In one example, an electronic input device is described. The electronic input device includes a cylindrical shaft including a tip. A sensor housing of the electronic input device is disposed within an external housing. The sensor housing is parallel with, and surrounds, the cylindrical shaft. The electronic input device also includes a radial sensor(s) disposed on an inside diameter of the sensor housing. The sensor(s) are to sense, directly from the tip, radial force inputs against the tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Owen RICHARD, Fred Charles THOMAS, III
  • Patent number: 11048455
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods obtain a print job, wherein the print job includes printing content, a plurality of respective selected print-settings options for a plurality of print settings, and print-job metadata; determine if the print job includes one or more print-setting conflicts based on the plurality of selected print-settings options and on a first machine-learning model, wherein the first machine-learning model accepts the selected print-settings options as inputs and outputs an indicator that indicates whether the print job includes one or more print-setting conflicts; and generate respective resolutions that include a respective resolution for each of the one or more print-setting conflicts based on a second machine-learning model, wherein the second machine-learning model accepts the plurality of selected print-settings options as inputs, and wherein the second machine-learning model outputs the respective resolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki. Kaisha
    Inventor: Charles Thomas Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20210190215
    Abstract: A disposable dental valve device is disclosed having a valve body having an interior, a tip receiving end for receiving a tip, a socket hose receiving end for receiving a tube having a beaded end, a lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the socket hose receiving end, and a partial opening formed in the valve body, a rotatable valve sealing body adapted to be inserted into the partial opening, and the rotatable valve sealing body having a bore for alignment with the lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the socket hose receiving end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Charles Thomas
  • Publication number: 20210187895
    Abstract: A surface including: a plurality of visually detectable marks, wherein the visually detectable marks include: a first group of grid marks forming a grid and a second group of information marks encoding information based on positions of information marks of the second group of marks relative to the data page, wherein grid marks are less than 45% of the visually detectable marks on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Fred Charles Thomas III, Derek Lukasik, Guy Adams
  • Publication number: 20210181866
    Abstract: Determining locations of electro-optical pens. An example apparatus includes a distance determiner to determine a distance of a pen to a scribing surface based on a first image output by a first imager of the pen and a second image output by a second imager of the pen, the first image associated with a first plane of view and the second image associated with a second plane of view; a tilt orientation determiner to determine a tilt orientation of the scribing surface relative to the pen; a corrector to adjust at least one of the first plane of view or the second plane of view based on the tilt orientation of the scribing surface; and a location determiner to determine a location of the pen relative to the scribing surface based on the at least one of the adjusted first plane of view or the adjusted second plane of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Fred Charles Thomas, III
  • Patent number: 11032977
    Abstract: A method for pumping seeds to an assembly line grow pods includes releasing seeds to a pipe in fluid communication with a pump, moving water from a water source to the pipe in fluid communication with the pump, combining the seeds released from the tank with the water from the water source in the pipe, and pumping the combination of the seeds released from the tank and the water from the water source to a grow pod line in fluid communication with the pump, and moving the seeds from the grow pod line to one or more carts of an assembly line grow pod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: GROW SOLUTIONS TECH LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Farnsworth Smith, Charles Thomas Martin, Joseph David Frodsham, David Smith Broadbent
  • Patent number: 11032994
    Abstract: A soybean variety, designated 5PUYJ35 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PUYJ35, cells from soybean variety 5PUYJ35, plants of soybean 5PUYJ35, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PUYJ35. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PUYJ35 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PUYJ35, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PUYJ35, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PUYJ35. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PUYJ35 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Jessie Lynn Alt, Donald Kyle, Reid Rolland Rice, Catlynn Gail Salois, Charles Thomas Zila, III
  • Patent number: 11029148
    Abstract: Methods and systems for feed-forward of multi-layer and multi-process information using XPS and XRF technologies are disclosed. In an example, a method of thin film characterization includes measuring first XPS and XRF intensity signals for a sample having a first layer above a substrate. The first XPS and XRF intensity signals include information for the first layer and for the substrate. The method also involves determining a thickness of the first layer based on the first XPS and XRF intensity signals. The method also involves combining the information for the first layer and for the substrate to estimate an effective substrate. The method also involves measuring second XPS and XRF intensity signals for a sample having a second layer above the first layer above the substrate. The second XPS and XRF intensity signals include information for the second layer, for the first layer and for the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Heath A. Pois, Wei Ti Lee, Lawrence V. Bot, Michael C. Kwan, Mark Klare, Charles Thomas Larson
  • Publication number: 20210161631
    Abstract: A dental valve device has a valve body having a tip receiving end having a flexible tubing extending outwardly from the tip receiving end with the flexible tubing having a flexible tubing opening, a hose receiving end, a lumen formed between the flexible tubing opening and the hose receiving end, and a partial opening formed in the valve body, and a rotatable valve sealing body adapted to be inserted into the partial opening, the rotatable valve sealing body having a bore for alignment with the lumen formed between the flexible tubing opening and the hose receiving end, the bore having a tip receiving opening and a hose receiving opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Charles Thomas, Edward Arguello
  • Patent number: 11019785
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X13N233 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13N233 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13N233 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13N233, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13N233 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13N233 and methods of using maize variety X13N233 are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Adam Crowley, Charles Thomas Cunnyngham, Mark Jacob Gadlage, Thomas Russell Henry, Randall Newton Holley, Jill Renee Lennon, Nathan Brook O'Berry, Daniel Joseph Pohl, Jennifer Ann Steinke
  • Publication number: 20210123614
    Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: MJC, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Metzger, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Kelly Gene Sprayberry
  • Patent number: 10986796
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X15N058 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X15N058 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X15N058 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X15N058, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X15N058 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X15N058 and methods of using maize variety X15N058 are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Adam Crowley, Charles Thomas Cunnyngham, Mark Jacob Gadlage, Thomas Russell Henry, Randall Newton Holley, Jill Renee Lennon, Nathan Brook O'Berry, Daniel Joseph Pohl, Jennifer Ann Steinke
  • Publication number: 20210106413
    Abstract: A disposable dental valve device has a valve body having a tip receiving end, a hose receiving end, a lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the hose receiving end, a first partial opening formed in the valve body and a second partial opening formed in the valve body, and a movable valve sealing device adapted to being inserted into one of the partial openings, the movable valve sealing device having an opening for alignment with the lumen formed between the tip receiving end and the hose receiving end, the movable valve sealing device having a check valve positioned in the opening, and the movable valve sealing device having a top for positioning the movable valve sealing device between a closed position and an opened position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Charles Thomas
  • Publication number: 20210102046
    Abstract: Briefly described, and according to one embodiment, aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to natural rubber and functional silica compositions for tire manufacturing and methods for forming the same. In at least one embodiment, the disclosed composition is a renewable elastomeric polymeric composition for rubber compounding applications, such as low rolling resistance tire tread and winter tire tread applications. The disclosed composition may also reduce fuel consumption and, thus, carbon dioxide emissions in gas-powered vehicles, and increase driving range in electric vehicles, because the disclosed composition is more energy efficient than current tire material compositions. In various embodiments, the disclosed composition may be formed by blending water-soluble silsesquioxane oligomers into a natural rubber latex system, followed by in-situ formation of a continuous, molecular silica network within the resulting polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Charles Thomas Rosenmayer
  • Patent number: 10967238
    Abstract: A golf swing training apparatus and method of using the same. The swing training apparatus includes an orbital track and a carrier plate that connects a club shaft to the orbital track. The golf swing training apparatus guides the swing of the club shaft on a swing plan plane that is adjusted automatically to the golfer's anthropomorphic dimensions. A tension system provides a resistance during the golf swing to strengthen the muscles used in the golf swing. Repeated use of the golf swing training apparatus develops the golfer's muscle memory for maintaining the club shaft in a desired swing plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventor: Charles Thomas Young
  • Patent number: 10966387
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X15N067 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X15N067 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X15N067 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X15N067, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X15N067 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X15N067 and methods of using maize variety X15N067 are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Adam Crowley, Charles Thomas Cunnyngham, Mark Jacob Gadlage, Thomas Russell Henry, Randall Newton Holley, Jill Renee Lennon, Nathan Brook O'Berry, Daniel Joseph Pohl, Jennifer Ann Steinke
  • Publication number: 20210089140
    Abstract: A surface including: multiple data pages, wherein each data page includes: multiple optically detectable marks indicating boundaries of the data page; and an array of data cells, wherein a location of an optically detectable mark in a data cell of the array of data cells encodes information and adjacent data pages use different encoding patterns such that an encoded value would be represented by a first pattern of marks on a first data page and the same encoded value would be represented by a second, different pattern of marks on a second data page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Fred Charles Thomas, III, Derek Lukasik, Guy Adams