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).

  • Publication number: 20250147608
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    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
  • Patent number: 12293741
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Triverio, Gary Ian Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Christopher Patrick Foss
  • Patent number: 12287962
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20250130692
    Abstract: Techniques and user interfaces for accessing, navigating, and displaying photos on an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan R. DASCOLA, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Lawrence Y. YANG, Alan C. DYE, David Chance GRAHAM, Jonathan P. IVE, Kevin LYNCH
  • Publication number: 20250117110
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Taylor G. CARRIGAN, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Stephen O. LEMAY
  • Publication number: 20250109628
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventor: Christopher Patrick Rupell, SR.
  • Patent number: 12264247
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Todd L. Kurth, Scott Nivens, Christopher Patrick Stevermer, Hassan Ali Tabatabaee
  • Patent number: 12264476
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 12265364
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, Arian Behzadi, Christopher Patrick Foss, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Ieyuki Kawashima, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher D. Soli, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 12262089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher Patrick Foss
  • Patent number: 12256128
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher Patrick Foss
  • Patent number: 12242707
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Sundstrom, Taylor G. Carrigan, Christopher Patrick Foss, Ieyuki Kawashima, Stephen O. Lemay, Marco Triverio
  • Patent number: 12229396
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Wan Si Wan, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Kevin Lynch, Brian Schmitt, Christopher Wilson
  • Publication number: 20250043107
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: William BRAGG, Xiangfu SHI, Christopher Patrick STEVERMER
  • Publication number: 20250027609
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher Patrick BOYLE, Richard Hugh REYNOLDS
  • Publication number: 20250019374
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 12197659
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 12200161
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Nathan De Vries, Marcel Van Os, Christopher Patrick Foss, Heena Ko, Patrick L. Coffman, Robert Garcia, III
  • Patent number: 12197699
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Christopher Patrick Foss, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Publication number: 20250011597
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Todd L. KURTH, Scott NIVENS, Christopher Patrick STEVERMER, Hassan Ali TABATABAEE