Patents by Inventor Christopher Coffin

Christopher Coffin 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: 11919404
    Abstract: A high voltage battery case assembly for a vehicle includes a battery case having a plurality of walls at least partially defining a cavity configured to receive one or more high voltage battery modules, a sacrificial pocket formed on an exterior of the battery case and including a thin-walled section, and an attachment bracket configured to couple between the sacrificial pocket and a body of the vehicle. The thin-walled section is configured to intentionally break away from the sacrificial pocket when the attachment bracket receives an impact load of a predetermined energy level to thereby facilitate protecting the high voltage battery case assembly from the impact load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Prabhu Selvaraj, Tim Coffin, Christopher M Smith
  • Patent number: 11520687
    Abstract: A system for automating testing of an accessibility screen-reader for a software application includes an accessibility testing module. The accessibility testing module communicates a set of input commands to a user device in which the software application is installed. The set of input commands emulates a set of actions being performed on the software application. For each input command, an audio of a string of utterances is received when the accessibility screen-reader produces the audio. The audio is converted to a text of the string of utterances. The text is compared with a corresponding test string that is expected to be uttered by the accessibility screen-reader when a corresponding action is performed on the software application. If it is determined that the text matches the corresponding test string, it is concluded that the accessibility screen-reader uttered the corresponding test string that was expected to be uttered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Christopher Coffin, Srinivasa Chakravarthy Kotcherlakota
  • Publication number: 20220164278
    Abstract: A system for automating testing of an accessibility screen-reader for a software application includes an accessibility testing module. The accessibility testing module communicates a set of input commands to a user device in which the software application is installed. The set of input commands emulates a set of actions being performed on the software application. For each input command, an audio of a string of utterances is received when the accessibility screen-reader produces the audio. The audio is converted to a text of the string of utterances. The text is compared with a corresponding test string that is expected to be uttered by the accessibility screen-reader when a corresponding action is performed on the software application. If it is determined that the text matches the corresponding test string, it is concluded that the accessibility screen-reader uttered the corresponding test string that was expected to be uttered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Christopher Coffin, Srinivasa Chakravarthy Kotcherlakota
  • Patent number: 10403050
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure relates to an example marker identification and position tracking system configured to interface and work in conjunction with a marker device and camera system and to provide high fidelity tracking of user and object motion in a virtual and/or augmented reality experience. The example computing system enables use case scenarios in which certain computer aided design capabilities enable rapid creation/configuration of a multi-user, interactive, virtual reality, and/or augmented reality slide presentation experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: WorldViz, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew C. Beall, Christopher Coffin, Todd Hartwig