Patents by Inventor Christopher Patrick
Christopher Patrick 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).
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Publication number: 20250147608Abstract: Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Inventors: Christopher Patrick FOSS, Anton M. DAVYDOV, Dylan Ross EDWARDS, Imran CHAUDHRI, Alan C. DYE, Jonathan P. IVE, Stephen O. LEMAY, Kevin M. LYNCH, Lawrence Y. YANG, Dennis S. Park
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Patent number: 12293741Abstract: An electronic device having a display and a physical input mechanism detects a request to display a flashlight user interface. In response to detecting the request, the device displays the flashlight user interface. While displaying the flashlight user interface, the electronic device detects an interaction with the physical input mechanism. In response to detecting the interaction, the electronic device changes a property of the illumination source that is used as the flashlight.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marco Triverio, Gary Ian Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Christopher Patrick Foss
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Patent number: 12287962Abstract: User interface navigation on a personal electronics device based on movements of a crown is disclosed. The device can select an appropriate level of information arranged along a z-axis for display based on crown movement. The navigation can be based on an angular velocity of the crown.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang, Gary Ian Butcher, Anton M. Davydov, Dylan Ross Edwards, Jonathan P. Ive, Zachery Kennedy, Nicholas V. King, Daniel Trent Preston
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Publication number: 20250130692Abstract: Techniques and user interfaces for accessing, navigating, and displaying photos on an electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Jonathan R. DASCOLA, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Lawrence Y. YANG, Alan C. DYE, David Chance GRAHAM, Jonathan P. IVE, Kevin LYNCH
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Publication number: 20250117110Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to playing and managing audio items. In some examples, an electronic device provides intuitive user interfaces for playing and managing audio items on the device. In some examples, an electronic device provides seamless transitioning from navigating a stack of items corresponding to groups of audio items to navigating a list of menus. In some examples, an electronic device provides for quick and easy access between different applications that are active on the device. In some examples, an electronic device enables automatic transmission of data associated with audio items to be stored locally on a linked external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Taylor G. CARRIGAN, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Stephen O. LEMAY
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Publication number: 20250109628Abstract: Various implementations include a swing gap cover device. The device includes a base, a seal bar, and one or more springs. The seal bar is configured to contact a top edge of a door hingedly coupled to the door jamb. The one or more springs are coupled to the base and the seal bar. The one or more springs are configured to bias the seal bar toward an extended position and urgable toward a retracted position. The seal bar is further from the base in the extended position than it is in the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventor: Christopher Patrick Rupell, SR.
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Patent number: 12264247Abstract: Disclosed herein are rejuvenating compositions for asphalt applications. In one aspect, the rejuvenating composition comprises a polymerized oil having a polymeric distribution ranging from about 2 to about 80 wt % oligomer content and Hildebrand solubility ranging from about 6 to about 12. In another aspect, the rejuvenating composition comprises an oil having a Hildebrand solubility ranging from about 6 to about 12 and a flash point ranging from about 100° C. to about 400° C. In yet another aspect, the rejuvenating composition comprises a modified oil having a Hildebrand solubility ranging from about 6 to about 12 and a flash point ranging from about 100° C. to about 400° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATEDInventors: Todd L. Kurth, Scott Nivens, Christopher Patrick Stevermer, Hassan Ali Tabatabaee
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Patent number: 12264476Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Carmen Anthony LaTorre, Jacob Paul Honsvick, Christopher Patrick Kasprzak, Daniel James Buckwalter, Edward R. Harrington, Jonathan Ross Davis, Laurand Henry Lewandowski, David Michael Ploense, William Edwin Smith, Scott W. Schweiger, Ganesh Latta
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Patent number: 12265364Abstract: An electronic device, with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, one or more processors and memory, displays a first representation of a first controllable external device, where the first controllable external device is situated at a location. The device detects a first user input corresponding to a selection of the first representation of the first controllable external device. The device, after detecting the first user input, adds data identifying the first controllable external device and a first state of the first controllable external device in a scene profile.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, Arian Behzadi, Christopher Patrick Foss, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Ieyuki Kawashima, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher D. Soli, Christopher Wilson
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Patent number: 12262089Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces related to sources of video data. User interfaces enables users to configure and interact with the sources of video data, such as for displaying a live video feed and a recorded video from an external source of video data. In some embodiments, a device provides user interfaces for displaying video from a video source and controlling external devices related to the source.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher Patrick Foss
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Patent number: 12256128Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces related to sources of video data. User interfaces enables users to configure and interact with the sources of video data, such as for displaying a live video feed and a recorded video from an external source of video data. In some embodiments, a device provides user interfaces for displaying video from a video source and controlling external devices related to the source.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher Patrick Foss
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Patent number: 12242707Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to selecting and opening applications. An electronic device includes a display and a rotatable input mechanism rotatable around a rotation axis substantially perpendicular to a normal axis that is normal to a face of the display. The device detects a user input, and in response to detecting the user input, displays a first subset of application views of a set of application views. The first subset of application views is displayed along a first dimension of the display substantially perpendicular to both the rotation axis and the normal axis. The device detects a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism, and in response to detecting the rotation, displays a second subset of application views of the set of application views. Displaying the second subset of application views includes moving the set of application views on the display along the first dimension of the display.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Sundstrom, Taylor G. Carrigan, Christopher Patrick Foss, Ieyuki Kawashima, Stephen O. Lemay, Marco Triverio
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Patent number: 12229396Abstract: Reduced-size user interfaces for providing weather information are disclosed. At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, indications of a location and a temperature at the location may be displayed. In some examples, a user may provide input through a touch on the touch-sensitive display and/or through a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism to display additional weather information, such as weather information for another location, another temperature, another time, and so forth. In some examples, the device may obtain data representing an upcoming activity, determine whether the activity is to begin within a threshold amount of time, and display weather information based on the upcoming activity. In some examples, the device may display an affordance at a position to indicate the time of day for which a weather condition is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Wan Si Wan, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Kevin Lynch, Brian Schmitt, Christopher Wilson
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Publication number: 20250043107Abstract: The disclosure relates to a plasticizer composition comprising an epoxidized fatty acid C1-C6 alkyl ester component wherein the epoxidized fatty acid C1-C6 alkyl ester component contains (i) less than 6% saturated fatty acid residues and (ii) less than 2% monoacylglycerols. The disclosure further relates to a plasticized polymer composition, comprising (a) 100 parts by weight of at least one polymer resin; and (b) about 10 to 150 parts by weight of a plasticizer compounded with the at least one polymer resin, wherein the plasticizer comprises an epoxidized fatty acid C1-C6 alkyl ester component wherein the epoxidized fatty acid C1-C6 alkyl ester component contains (i) less than 7% saturated fatty acid residues and (ii) less than 2% monoacylglycerols.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATEDInventors: William BRAGG, Xiangfu SHI, Christopher Patrick STEVERMER
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Publication number: 20250027609Abstract: A cryogenic vessel arrangement 100 for storage of cryogenic liquids, the arrangement comprising a liner member 30 spaced inwardly and apart from an inner wall 24 of the vessel arrangement, the inner wall 24 defining a containment volume 28 of the vessel arrangement internally of the inner wall 24, the liner member 30 located within said containment volume 28 and configured to receive and contain a cryogenic liquid 30A, wherein a thermal capacitance of the liner member 30 is substantially less than that of the inner wall 24.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Christopher Patrick BOYLE, Richard Hugh REYNOLDS
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Publication number: 20250019374Abstract: The present invention provides for compounds of Formula (I) (I); wherein R2, X, and Z have any of the values defined herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are useful as agents in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Andrew Bogdan, Elliot P. Farney, Jennifer M. Frost, Philip R. Kym, Zhaoming Xiong, Naomi Anne Barton, Claire Anne Marie Cariou-Mumford, Christopher Patrick McMahon, Giuseppe Nano
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Patent number: 12197659Abstract: Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Patrick Foss, Anton M. Davydov, Dylan Ross Edwards, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay, Kevin M. Lynch, Lawrence Y. Yang, Dennis S. Park
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Patent number: 12200161Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays an incoming call user interface in response to receiving an indication of an incoming call. In some embodiments, the incoming call user interface is displayed overlaid on a respective user interface that is optionally associated with an application other than the application associated with the incoming call.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Nathan De Vries, Marcel Van Os, Christopher Patrick Foss, Heena Ko, Patrick L. Coffman, Robert Garcia, III
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Patent number: 12197699Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to playing and managing audio items. In some examples, an electronic device provides intuitive user interfaces for playing and managing audio items on the device. In some examples, an electronic device provides seamless transitioning from navigating a stack of items corresponding to groups of audio items to navigating a list of menus. In some examples, an electronic device provides for quick and easy access between different applications that are active on the device. In some examples, an electronic device enables automatic transmission of data associated with audio items to be stored locally on a linked external device.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Christopher Patrick Foss, Stephen O. Lemay
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Publication number: 20250011597Abstract: Described herein is a polymerized biorenewable, previously modified, or functionalized oil, comprising a polymeric distribution having about 2 to about 80 wt % oligomer content, a polydispersity index ranging from about 1.30 to about 2.20, and sulfur content ranging from 0.001 wt % to about 8 wt %. Methods of manufacturing the polymerized oil as well as its incorporation into asphalt paving, roofing, and coating applications are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATEDInventors: Todd L. KURTH, Scott NIVENS, Christopher Patrick STEVERMER, Hassan Ali TABATABAEE