Patents by Inventor Christopher Charles

Christopher Charles 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: 20250147317
    Abstract: A time-division multiplexed projection display is pixel shifted to produce an increased perceived display resolution or to mitigate image defects, such as defects in a display, a waveguide, or a prism, in an augmented, mixed, or virtual reality device. A polarizing beam splitter (PBS) divides input unpolarized display light into two orthogonal linear polarizations and directs them to two PBS arms. The PBS arms act to shift the light in synchronization with the time-multiplexed display such that a single pixel of the light engine providing the display light is converted into two or four virtual pixels, effectively increasing the perceived display resolution relative to the native resolution of the light engine. The PBS combines the light from both PBS arms into a single, unpolarized output that may then be projected into a lens or a waveguide incoupler to enable the light to propagate through a waveguide for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Oleg Yaroshchuk, Ravi Kumar Komanduri, Shreyas Potnis, Michael Anthony Klug, Christopher Charles Townsend, Zheng Qin, Xinda Hu, Scott Fullam
  • Publication number: 20250136476
    Abstract: A FOG (Fats, Oils, or Grease) separation apparatus includes a vessel defining a cavity to contain liquid comprising wastewater and FOG, the vessel having an upwardly inwardly inclined side or top wall so that the cavity tapers inwardly towards a top section. A floating weir is operable to float on the liquid within the vessel and configured to collect or separate lighter FOG from heavier wastewater. A liquid level control mechanism is configured to control a liquid level within the vessel, such that (1) when the liquid level is higher, a surface area of the liquid will be smaller due to the inwardly tapering cavity and the FOG will be concentrated in the smaller surface area and (2) when the liquid level is lower, the surface area of the liquid will be larger, and the FOG will be distributed in the larger surfaces area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventor: Christopher Charles CLEMES
  • Patent number: 12281095
    Abstract: Compounds of formula I (1) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Harry Schaetzer, Andrew Edmunds, Julien Daniel Henri Gagnepain, Roger Graham Hall, André Jeanguenat, Amandine Kolleth Krieger, Camille Le Chapelain, Shrikant Palwe, Mangala Phadte, Thomas Pitterna, Sebastian Rendler, Christopher Charles Scarborough
  • Publication number: 20250126322
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for providing personalized content based on gestures, in order to provide a seamless and user-driven feedback capture platform that captures user gestures and provides improved personalized content. The system captures biometric data from the user during the presentation of a first content item from a first content source. The system identifies the feedback indicator from the biometric data captured during the output of the first content item and stores an identifier of the second content item associated with the first content item in the master list. The system generates the master list for display and, in response to receiving a selection of the identifier of the second content item, retrieves for output the second content item from the second content source on the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Lidaka, Reda Harb
  • Patent number: 12277725
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques provide enhanced eye tracking systems utilizing joint estimation of biological parameters and hardware parameters. A system uses joint estimation of biological parameters, e.g., direction and position of an eye, with concurrent estimation of hardware parameters, e.g., camera position or camera direction, to self-calibrate and provide eye tracking estimations to accommodate for deformations and other changes of a device. Sensor data is used to select hardware parameters of a camera for use in the joint estimation with the biological parameters, where the hardware parameters are estimated based on glint and pupil position of a user. The disclosed techniques include a method to model changes of a device, as well as detect and compensate for them while the eye-tracking device is in normal use, without requiring a factory-calibration procedure to be repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paulo Ricardo Dos Santos Mendonca, Rayna Demaster-Smith, Christopher Charles Aholt, Christopher Maurice Mei
  • Patent number: 12271358
    Abstract: The disclosed system obtains records from a database, determines weights associated with the records, and obtains a first and a second force acting on a record among the records. The system defines a projection space based on the records, represents the record in the projection space by projecting the record into the projection space to obtain a projected record, and represents the first force and the second force in the projection space. The system repeatedly applies the first force and the second force to the projected record, thereby changing a position of the projected record in the projection space, until an equilibrium between the first force and the second force is reached. The system determines how closely the value associated with the record satisfies the first value associated with the criterion based on a distance between the projected record in the projection space at equilibrium and the first force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Quandris Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Brader, Christopher Charles Tavares
  • Patent number: 12271576
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Burns, George Alban Heitz, III, James Edward Stewart, Cameron Hill, Seungho Yang, Joe Delone Venters, William Alex Finlayson, Carsten Hinz, Timothy Samuel Psiaki, Nathan Scott Klee, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Kevin James Avery, Lawrence W. Neal, Martin Davidsson
  • Publication number: 20250109711
    Abstract: A machine has: an outer member; an inner member having an outer diameter (OD) surface; and a seal system. A seal housing is mounted to the outer member and has first and second walls; a first seal stage contacting the OD surface and the first wall; a second seal stage contacting the OD surface and the second wall; and a wave spring biasing the seal stages axially apart from each other. The seal stages each have a plurality of seal segments interfitting end to end and each having: a first end; a second end circumferentially opposite the first end; a first face; a second face axially opposite the first face; an inner diameter (ID) face; and an outer diameter (OD) face having a radially protruding lug. The housing has an inner diameter (ID) surface having recesses receiving the lugs of the seal stages to circumferentially retain the seal stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan L. Miller, Jonathan F. Zimmitti, Christopher Charles Killian, Bryan Richard Camerlin
  • Patent number: 12252418
    Abstract: A FOG (Fats, Oil and Grease) collector (100, 100?) includes at least one floating member (110, 110?) which is configured operatively to float in an effluent containing zone. The FOG collector has at least one heating arrangement (112) configured to warm effluent (150) in the effluent containing zone, thereby liquifying, at least partially, FOG (152) in the effluent. The FOG collector has collecting arrangement (114, 114?) configured to draw in at least some of the warmed effluent including the liquified FOG out of the effluent containing zone for further treatment, processing and/or separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ECO CLARITY Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher Charles Clemes
  • Patent number: 12233913
    Abstract: A vehicle monitors an ongoing enforcement situation using one or more sensors provided to the vehicle and determines, based on the monitoring and sensor data of the one or more sensors, that a foot pursuit has begun. The vehicle receives a location signal from a location-providing device carried by at least one entity involved in the situation and determines a street route for the vehicle that follows movement of the entity by using streets travelable by the vehicle, based on a plurality of locations received from the location-providing device. Also, the vehicle automatically and autonomously controls the vehicle to follow the determined street route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Christopher Charles Hunt, Brendan F. Diamond, Matthew Cramer Mullen, Douglas H. Randlett, Paul Kenneth Dellock
  • Publication number: 20250055942
    Abstract: A conferencing system includes a plurality of microphones and an audio processing system that generates and evaluates machine-learning/artificial intelligence models to optimize acoustics of meeting rooms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Nighman, Gerrit Eimbertus Rosenboom, Alfredo Martin Aguilar, Matthew George Skogmo, Jainish Nileshkumar Chauhan, Josh Arnold
  • Publication number: 20250049035
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, which can be used as fungicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Andrew EDMUNDS, Christopher Charles SCARBOROUGH, Atul MAHAJAN, Clemens LAMBERTH, Daniel STIERLI, Daria GROSHEVA, Benjamin PINSON
  • Publication number: 20250032740
    Abstract: A flow therapy apparatus can provide a hypoxic flow of gases to a user, for altitude training, athletic performance training, and other indications. The system can include an apparatus that can include a gas conduit, an ambient air inlet, and a hypoxic gas source inlet configured to connect to a hypoxic gas source and configured to create a hypoxic gas composition upon mixing of ambient air and the hypoxic gas. The system can also include a user interface, and a gas flow generation element configured to deliver the hypoxic gas composition to nares of the user at a predetermined flow rate of at least about 10 liters/minute. Methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Peter O'DONNELL, Christopher Charles KAMOLINS, Robert Stuart KIRTON
  • Publication number: 20250029460
    Abstract: A method of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including determining that a visitor is approaching an entryway of the smart home environment; initiating a facial recognition operation while the visitor is approaching the entryway; initiating an observation window in response to the determination that a visitor is approaching the entryway; obtaining context information from one or more sensors of the smart home environment during the observation window; and at the end of the time window, initiating a response to the detected approach of the visitor based on the context information and/or an outcome of the facial recognition operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jason Evans Goulden, Rengarajan Aravamudhan, Hae Rim Jeong, Michael Dixon, James Edward Stewart, Sayed Yusef Shafi, Sahana Mysore, Seungho Yang, Yu-An Lien, Christopher Charles Burns, Rajeev Nongpiur, Jeffrey Boyd
  • Publication number: 20250008934
    Abstract: An aquaculture system can include an aquafarm with one or more aquatic pods of aquatic organisms and a remote device to manage the aquafarm. An aquatic pod may be associated with an aquatic structure with a buoyancy system and a control device to automatically perform daily farming functions. The aquatic structure may include an enclosure to hold the aquatic organisms. The control device may be configured to use a smart buoyancy assistant to control the buoyancy system and to determine the farming task to perform in response to environmental stimuli. The remote device can receive data representing crop metrics, harvest results, and sensor data. The remote device can aggregate data from multiple aquatic pods and correlate the data to generate aquaculture models to improve the harvest results. The remote device can generate overview and maintenance reports for the aquafarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Craig Sinclair, Christopher Charles Webb
  • Publication number: 20250011314
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, which can be used as fungicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Andrew EDMUNDS, Christopher Charles SCARBOROUGH, Martin POULIOT, Damien BONVALOT
  • Patent number: 12183191
    Abstract: An enforcement vehicle includes monitors an identified stopped vehicle using one or more sensors of the enforcement vehicle, to determine if any change to the stopped vehicle indicates a likelihood of escalation based on predefined escalation characteristics. The enforcement vehicle detects at least one escalation characteristic via the monitoring and automatically enacts a predefined vehicle reaction based on a predicted type of escalation determined from one or more detected at least one escalation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Douglas H. Randlett, Christopher Charles Hunt, Chad Hoover, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Brendan F. Diamond
  • Publication number: 20240416389
    Abstract: An item sorting system is described. The item sorting system includes at least one bin that holds items to be sorted and a light source that illuminates the items stored in the at least one bin. In implementations, the at least one bin includes walls that direct light, received from the light source via a first surface, for emission via a second surface facing an interior of the at least one bin. The item sorting system further includes a recognition device that identifies the items for use in sorting the items. The item sorting system further includes an end effector that manipulates the items during sorting. In some implementations, the end effector includes tips that apply a gentle vacuum force to individually manipulate items in a manner that allows for efficient sorting without damaging the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Cornell G. Wright, Kevin H. Lipkin, Jason Raymond Evarts, Christopher Charles Dombrowski
  • Patent number: 12167081
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for providing personalized content based on gestures, in order to provide a seamless and user-driven feedback capture platform that captures user gestures and provides improved personalized content. The system captures biometric data from the user during the presentation of a first content item from a first content source. The system identifies the feedback indicator from the biometric data captured during the output of the first content item and stores an identifier of the second content item associated with the first content item in the master list. The system generates the master list for display and, in response to receiving a selection of the identifier of the second content item, retrieves for output the second content item from the second content source on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Adeia Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Lidaka, Reda Harb
  • Publication number: 20240394229
    Abstract: Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method comprises receiving, from a user device, a selected workflow message identifying a selected workflow; accessing the selected workflow from a workflow data store; evaluating, using runtime context information received from the user device, one or more secondary triggers associated with the selected workflow to determine an applicable branch of the selected triggered workflow; communicating, to the user device, branch information in respect of the applicable branch, the branch information including information in respect of one or more operations that would be performed if the selected workflow was executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Mann, Jose Ignacio Romagnoli