Patents by Inventor Christopher R. Taylor
Christopher R. Taylor 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: 20240152245Abstract: A computer system displays a first object that includes at least a first portion of the first object and a second portion of the first object and detects a first gaze input that meets first criteria, wherein the first criteria require that the first gaze input is directed to the first portion of the first object in order for the first criteria to be met. In response, the computer system displays a first control element that corresponds to a first operation associated with the first object, wherein the first control element was not displayed prior to detecting that the first gaze input met the first criteria, and detects a first user input directed to the first control element. In response to detecting the first user input directed to the first control element, the computer system performs the first operation with respect to the first object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Lee S. Broughton, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Matan Stauber, Miquel Estany Rodriguez, James J. Owen, Jonathan R. Dascola, Stephen O. Lemay, Christian Schnorr, Zoey C. Taylor, Jay Moon, Benjamin H. Boesel, Benjamin Hylak, Richard D. Lyons, Willliam A. Sorrentino, III, Lynn I. Streja, Jonathan Ravasz, Nathan Gitter, Peter D. Anton, Michael J. Rockwell, Peter L. Hajas, Evgenii Krivoruchko, Mark A. Ebbole, James Magahern, Andrew J. Sawyer, Christopher D. McKenzie, Michael E. Buerli, Olivier D. R. Gutknecht
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Patent number: 11961621Abstract: A method includes receiving patient health data; determining a score using a trained machine learning model; determining a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; comparing the score to the threshold value; and generating an alarm. A computing system includes a processor; and a memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to: receive patient health data; determine a score using a trained machine learning model; determine a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; compare the score to the threshold value; and generate an alarm. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: receive patient health data; determine a score using a trained machine learning model; determine a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; compare the score to the threshold value; and generate an alarm.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Christopher Elliot Gillies, Daniel Francis Taylor, Kevin R. Ward, Fadi Islim, Richard Medlin
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Patent number: 11934569Abstract: A computer system displays a first and second user interface object in a three-dimensional environment. The first and second user interface objects have a first and second spatial relationship to a first and second anchor position corresponding to a location of a user's hand in a physical environment, respectively. While displaying the first and second user interface objects in the three-dimensional environment, the computer system detects movement of the user's hand in the physical environment, corresponding to a translational movement and a rotational movement of the user's hand relative to a viewpoint, and in response, translates the first and second user interface objects relative to the viewpoint in accordance with the translational movement of the user's hand, and rotates the first user interface object relative to the viewpoint in accordance with the rotational movement of the user's hand without rotating the second user interface object.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Israel Pastrana Vicente, Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher D. McKenzie, Jesse Chand, Stephen O. Lemay, Kristi E. S. Bauerly, Zoey C. Taylor
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Publication number: 20220196289Abstract: A fuel-fired heating appliance comprises a fuel source, an air source, a chamber in which fuel and air mix, a burner downstream from the mixing chamber, an igniter proximate the burner, a heat exchanger, a blower and a flue pipe. An ambient air inlet may be defined by at least one of the outlet end of the blower and the flue pipe extending between the interior of the flue pipe and an area ambient to the flue pipe. A flow rate of combustion gas may be controlled to a level below a steady-state flow rate during appliance warm-up.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Shawn A. Reed, Mickey E. Batson, Michael D. Williams, Christopher R. Taylor, Tyson J. Cogburn
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Patent number: 11209188Abstract: A fuel-fired heating appliance comprises a fuel source, an air source, a chamber in which fuel and air mix, a burner downstream from the mixing chamber, an igniter proximate the burner, a heat exchanger, a blower and a flue pipe. An ambient air inlet may be defined by at least one of the outlet end of the blower and the flue pipe extending between the interior of the flue pipe and an area ambient to the flue pipe. A flow rate of combustion gas may be controlled to a level below a steady-state flow rate during appliance warm-up.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Shawn A. Reed, Mickey E. Batson, Michael D. Williams, Christopher R. Taylor, Tyson J. Cogburn
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Patent number: 11080905Abstract: An information handling system operating an image analysis integration flow creation system may comprise a network interface device receiving a captured image of an illustrated integration process flow chart connecting process step illustrations in a user-specified pattern, and a processor determining a process flow plot connecting visual element placeholders corresponding to the process step illustrations according to the user-specified pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Dennis Matthew McCarty, Tiffany T. Powley, Thang Ngoc Mai, Christopher R. Taylor
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Publication number: 20180259223Abstract: A fuel-fired heating appliance comprises a fuel source, an air source, a chamber in which fuel and air mix, a burner downstream from the mixing chamber, an igniter proximate the burner, a heat exchanger, a blower and a flue pipe. An ambient air inlet may be defined by at least one of the outlet end of the blower and the flue pipe extending between the interior of the flue pipe and an area ambient to the flue pipe. A flow rate of combustion gas may be controlled to a level below a steady-state flow rate during appliance warm-up.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2017Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Shawn A. Reed, Mickey E. Batson, Michael D. Williams, Christopher R. Taylor, Tyson J. Cogburn
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Patent number: 9795884Abstract: An interactive gaming system is disclosed. The system comprises at least one sensor that conveys information to the system about the physical, intellectual, mental, emotional, psychological or other type of ability of a user. The system uses the information to assess the existence and extent of a disability, and then implements a change to an aspect of the gaming environment, thus optimizing the gaming experience for the game player by accounting for the game player's disabilities.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: DATADNA, INC.Inventors: Gregory T. Short, Geoffrey C. Zatkin, Christopher R. Taylor
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Publication number: 20160117029Abstract: An interactive gaming system is disclosed. The system comprises at least one sensor that conveys information to the system about the physical, intellectual, mental, emotional, psychological or other type of ability of a user. The system uses the information to assess the existence and extent of a disability, and then implements a change to an aspect of the gaming environment, thus optimizing the gaming experience for the game player by accounting for the game player's disabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2016Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Gregory T. Short, Geoffrey C. Zatkin, Christopher R. Taylor
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Patent number: 9254437Abstract: An interactive gaming system is disclosed. The system comprises at least one sensor that conveys information to the system about the physical, intellectual, mental, emotional, psychological or other type of ability of a user. The system uses the information to assess the existence and extent of a disability, and then implements a change to an aspect of the gaming environment, thus optimizing the gaming experience for the game player by accounting for the game player's disabilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Electronic Entertainment Design and ResearchInventors: Gregory T. Short, Geoffrey C. Zatkin, Christopher R. Taylor
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Patent number: 6756569Abstract: A heating unit for use in a cooktop is disclosed. The heating unit includes a pan with an insulation structure supporting a heating element. The heating unit further includes a temperature sensor and indicator to be used as a visual indication to the user that the heating unit is energized.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bates, Christopher R. Taylor, James E. Small
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Patent number: 6518549Abstract: The present invention provides a modular heating unit for a grill. The grill has a grill plate supported on a support base. The grill plate has a bottom surface and a top surface. The modular heating unit is mounted to the bottom surface of the grill plate and has at least four side edges. The modular heating unit has a pan, an insulation layer and a heating element. The pan has a generally flat base and a circumferential sidewall. The insulation layer has an insulation base and a circumferential sidewall. The heating element is supported on the insulation base to heat the grill plate and is positioned in a spaced apart relationship to the bottom surface of the grill plate. The modular heating unit is divided into a center section and two side sections. The side sections are adjacent to two side edges of the modular heating unit. The heating element is contoured to provide more heat to at least one of the side sections than the center section of the heating unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Inventors: Christopher R. Taylor, Simon P. Griffiths, Philip Wayne Hunnicutt, Byron Neal Cantrell
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Publication number: 20020185489Abstract: A heating unit for use in a cooktop is disclosed. The heating unit includes a pan with an insulation structure supporting a heating element. The heating unit further includes a temperature sensor and indicator to be used as a visual indication to the user that the heating unit is energized.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2002Publication date: December 12, 2002Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bates, Christopher R. Taylor, James E. Small
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Publication number: 20020088792Abstract: The present invention provides a radiant heating unit for a cooktop. The heating unit includes a cooking plate, a support pan, an insulation layer, a heating element, a temperature sensor, and a support post. The support pan is disposed beneath the cooking plate. The insulation layer is supported in the pan and includes an insulation base and an insulation sidewall ring. The heating element is supported on the insulation base in a spaced apart relationship to the cooking plate. The heating element is capable of radiating direct radiant energy. The temperature sensor senses the temperature inside the heating unit and includes a sensing element and lead wires. The support post has an upper head portion and a lower base portion. The upper head portion has a recess to house at least a portion of the sensing element of the temperature sensor. The recess also shields at least a portion of the sensing element from direct radiant energy of the heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2001Publication date: July 11, 2002Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bates, James E. Small, Christopher R. Taylor
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Patent number: 6417496Abstract: The present invention provides a radiant heating unit for a cooktop. The heating unit includes a cooking plate, a support pan, an insulation layer, a heating element, a temperature sensor, and a support post. The support pan is disposed beneath the cooking plate. The insulation layer is supported in the pan and includes an insulation base and an insulation sidewall ring. The heating element is supported on the insulation base in a spaced apart relationship to the cooking plate. The heating element is capable of radiating direct radiant energy. The temperature sensor senses the temperature inside the heating unit and includes a sensing element and lead wires. The support post has an upper head portion and a lower base portion. The upper head portion has a recess to house at least a portion of the sensing element of the temperature sensor. The recess also shields at least a portion of the sensing element from direct radiant energy of the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bates, James E. Small, Christopher R. Taylor
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Patent number: 6403930Abstract: A modular radiant heating unit adapted for installation into a cooktop or the like. In one embodiment, the heating unit comprises an open-topped pan having a bottom and circumferential sidewall defining a flanged upper rim. A thermally insulating support element disposed in the bottom of the pan, and a radiant heating element is disposed in a pattern on the support element. An insulation ring is extends around and adjacent to the inner surface of the circumferential sidewall of the pan. A thermally insulating washer-like gasket is disposed atop the insulation ring and the flanged upper rim of the pan. A glass-ceramic cover plate is disposed atop the gasket, such that the gasket enhances the seal between the plate and the pan. The present invention also includes methods of assembling a modular radiant heating unit having such a gasket.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2001Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Subhash R. Deo, Jeffrey A. Bates, Byron N. Cantrell, Christopher R. Taylor
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Publication number: 20010035405Abstract: A modular radiant heating unit adapted for installation into a cooktop or the like. In one embodiment, the heating unit comprises an open-topped pan having a bottom and circumferential sidewall defining a flanged upper rim. A thermally insulating support element disposed in the bottom of the pan, and a radiant heating element is disposed in a pattern on the support element. An insulation ring is extends around and adjacent to the inner surface of the circumferential sidewall of the pan. A thermally insulating washer-like gasket is disposed atop the insulation ring and the flanged upper rim of the pan. A glass-ceramic cover plate is disposed atop the gasket, such that the gasket enhances the seal between the plate and the pan. The present invention also includes methods of assembling a modular radiant heating unit having such a gasket.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2001Publication date: November 1, 2001Inventors: Subhash R. Deo, Jeffrey A. Bates, Byron N. Cantrell, Christopher R. Taylor
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Patent number: 6194689Abstract: A grill (100) includes a hot plate (102) on one side of which is a cooking surface (104) upon which food to be cooked is set. A heating unit (106) installed on the underside (108) of the hot plate is used to heat the grill so the cooking surface temperature is a desired temperature. The unit includes a radiant heating element (110) and a pan (114) in which the heating element is installed. A cavity (C) defined by the underside of the grill, a sidewall (118) of the pan, and a top surface (122) of an insulation material (120) in which the heating element is supported, is heated to a uniform temperature across the cavity, and the grill is heated to this temperature. This uniformity of temperature results in food placed anywhere on the grill rapidly heating to a desired temperature and the food being cooked uniformly throughout.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1998Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Simon P. Griffiths, Christopher R. Taylor