Patents by Inventor Christopher V. Beckman

Christopher V. Beckman 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: 11653777
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for enhancing the experience of chilled beverages are provided. In some embodiments, a set of holding structures, weights and/or magnets associated with a drinking vessel applies holding force(s) to ice within a drinking vessel. In some embodiments, a beverage is then poured over the ice, at least partially submerging it and chilling the beverage. In some method embodiments, suction-molds with customized shapes and designs are used as the water is frozen within the drinking vessel, creating ice sculptures affixed to the inside of the drinking vessel. In other aspects, holding pressure is maintained even if the frozen water partially melts. In some embodiments, a control system within weights or the drinking vessel implements lighting effects, cooling effects, and gas or other infusions, into the beverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20230038433
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for managing personal activities and health regimens are provided. In some aspects, a control system comprising specialized computer hardware and software provides instruction(s), warning(s), penalty(ies), encouragement(s) and incentive(s) to a user, based on such a health regimen. In additional aspects, such instruction(s), warning(s), penalty(ies), encouragement(s) and incentive(s) are also based on data from specialized sensors tracking a user's personal activities within a personal activity space. In some aspects, instruction(s), warning(s), penalty(ies), encouragement(s) and incentive(s) are adjusted in real time, based on input from multiple users. In one example, a partial giveback reward is provided to a user, in which part of a regimen goal that is exceeded is provided back to the user as one such incentive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20230030591
    Abstract: New, more efficient and robust data storage devices, systems and techniques are provided. In some aspects of the invention, a new form of data storage device is provided, incorporating data storage cells, and a read/write device connected with an auxiliary structure. The auxiliary structure elaborates on the simpler data written in the data storage cells to generate more complex, complete and meaningful data. In some embodiments, the physical arrangement, or other attributes, of structural storage device elements serve as a patterned reference device for data enhancement and supplementation. In some embodiments, the data enhancement and supplementation results from one or more chemical and/or physical reactions, in a sequence of such reactions, between writeable domains, auxiliary structure or the simpler data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11564537
    Abstract: New forms of self-cleansing surfaces are provided. In some embodiments, a self-cleansing surface is provided, which is configured to be handled by a human user, as a user interface. The self-cleansing surface may comprise one or more surface device(s), with surface-covering pores configured to release a cleanser upon physical contact or actuation of the user interface, and configured to clean the self-cleansing surface. In some embodiments, the release is mediated by a physical trigger. In some embodiments, the surface device includes a control system that monitors surface handling with a sensor, and mediates the release with an actuator. The invention may be provided on or in any form of user interface that may be physically touched by a user. For example, in some embodiments, the invention may be provided on door handles or controls, appliance handles or controls, and any other user interfaces bearing a risk of carrying microbes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Gemtera Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20230001235
    Abstract: New techniques for remote administration of medicine and medical devices using an external guidance and activation system are provided. In some embodiments, medicine(s) and/or medical device(s) is/are energized to a predetermined threshold energy level by externally applied radiation, and then driven into the treatment target. The design of such device(s) (e.g., injectable machine(s)) may include sub-device(s), e.g., medical payload-carrying reservoir(s), injector(s) and abrasive tool(s), which may be activated magnetically and/or by such radiation. In some aspects, such sub-device(s) include actuable housing(s) and/or other sub-tool(s), delivering drugs to specific locations commanded by a control system or a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220383717
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for monitoring and managing parts, enterprise resources and other assets, and alleviating risks, in a complex collaboration environment are provided. According to some example aspects of the invention, a device with a hardware- and software-based control system scans and/or writes unique asset-related information within a plurality of chemical, electromagnetic, or written data-bearing tags within, on or throughout an asset for use in a manufacturing, maintenance and/or tracking process. In other example aspects, the system records that asset-specific information (e.g., using secure network(s) and/or a blockchain), providing it for later access and modification by a number of trusted users, to track and control manufacturing-, maintenance-relevant or other factors. In still other example aspects, an enterprise resource planning system both outputs information to, and receives information from, the control system, reconciling changes in the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: SAFEFLIGHTS INC., D.B.A. 14Bis Supply Tracking
    Inventors: Eleanor Mitch, Dharmesh Patel, Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11478167
    Abstract: New activity recognition, recording, analysis and control techniques, systems and sensors are provided. In one embodiment, multiple sensory tags with unique identification and data transfer attributes, create positional, movement, orientation and acceleration data and supply it to a control system. The tags may be placed at location(s) on the user's body, clothing, personal effects, exercise equipment and other activity-relevant locations, to enhance activity recognition and mapping. The system may define a personal activity space, sample data preferentially from that space, and perform a simplified form of object-recognition to determine, record and analyze user activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MYMEE INC.
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220332485
    Abstract: New self-threading cords, tapes, cables and/or ropes (“ties”) are provided, with a plurality of ports through their length. In some embodiments, a perimeter of each of the ports matches at least one first perimeter of the tie, and an end of the tie may be threaded through any of the ports (a.k.a., “self-threading” the tie). In some embodiments, ridges are provided on or about at least part of the tie. In some embodiments, the ridges may be threaded through the ports, and the ridges hold the tie in a fastened position. Due to the plurality of ports and possible self-threading actions, a wide variety of fastening actions may be carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11467771
    Abstract: New, more efficient and robust data storage devices and techniques are provided. In some aspects of the invention, a new form of data storage device is provided, incorporating data storage cells, and a read/write device with auxiliary structure. The auxiliary structure elaborates the simpler data written in the data storage cells to generate more complex and complete data sets. In some embodiments, the physical arrangement, or other attributes, of structural storage device elements serve as a patterned reference device for data enhancement and supplementation. In some embodiments, the data enhancement and supplementation results from one or more chemical and/or physical reactions, in a sequence of such reactions, between writeable domains and auxiliary structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11433256
    Abstract: The present invention includes new medical techniques involving radiation and electromagnetic actuation of reagents deployed and directed within bodily fluids (e.g., the bloodstream, digestive tract, or lymph ducts) of a patient. In one aspect of the invention, a medical reagent and/or particle is provided with multiple dipoles, oriented differently in three-dimensional space, allowing a remote control system to drive the acceleration and three-dimensional orientation of the medical agent or particle according to a three-dimensional path. In some embodiments, the medical reagent and/or particle is energized remotely to an activation energy level, and then driven into the treatment target. The design of each small-scale machine may include different sub-devices and electrostatic charges or magnetic dipoles, at different surface or internal locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11410241
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for monitoring and managing parts, enterprise resources and other assets, and alleviating risks, in a complex collaboration environment are provided. A device with a hardware- and software-based control system scans and/or writes unique asset-related information within a plurality of chemical, electromagnetic, or written data-bearing tags within, on or throughout an asset for use in a manufacturing, maintenance and/or tracking process. A system records that asset-specific information (e.g., using secure network(s) and/or a blockchain), providing it for later access and modification by a number of trusted users, to track and control manufacturing-, maintenance-relevant or other factors. An enterprise resource planning system both outputs information to, and receives information from, the control system, reconciling changes in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SafeFlights Inc.
    Inventors: Eleanor Mitch, Dharmesh Patel, Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220196366
    Abstract: New systems, devices and methods for extremely precise aiming and shooting of firearms are provided. In some embodiments, predicted projectile impacts may be selected and adjusted, prior to execution. In some embodiments, a device including specialized computer hardware and software aids a user in planning a shot(s), evaluating the accuracy of the planned shot(s), adjusting the location of the planned shot(s), and executing the planned shots. In some embodiments, smart bullets with on-board electronics, active aerodynamics, and wireless communications capabilities adjust a flight path of the smart bullet in-flight, to match a selected target location and/or flight path. In some embodiments, an active firearm barrel may counteract and/or otherwise adjust for any other relevant ballistic and other accuracy-impacting factors with a position-actuable firing mechanism to maintain a projected flight path of such a point of impact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220167714
    Abstract: New forms of fasteners are disclosed. In some embodiments, some such fasteners include a new form of magnetic zipper or other track fastener, with two tracks of interlocking pieces moved together by magnetic force. In some embodiments, at least one of the interlocking pieces, of one of the zipper tracks, includes at least one exterior edge, interlocking with a complementary edge of another interlocking piece included in the other zipper track, when the interlocking pieces are moved into place by magnetic force. The techniques of the invention are applicable to a wide variety of applications, incorporating many different materials. For example, in some contexts, some embodiments allow rapid closing of articles, such as gym bags or sports apparel, with minimum effort, and leading to an extraordinary custom-fit to a user's preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11319126
    Abstract: Specialized flexible connectors are provided with testable integrity. In some embodiments, each of a plurality of tension load bearing fibers within such a flexible connector are individually testable by specialized computer hardware and software. In some embodiments, healing of such specialized flexible connectors is carried out (e.g., autonomously, by hardware connected with or integral with the flexible connector). In some embodiments, healing fluid passages or voids are included within such flexible connectors, which accept and drain healing fluid. In some embodiments, such healing fluids may include healing particles and a carrier fluid. In some such embodiments, such healing particles are charged. And, in some embodiments, materials comprised in such fibers, or which define at least part of such passages or voids, are provided with a charge opposite from a charge of such particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220132318
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for authorizing and providing a secure wireless network to users based on physical presence in a particular location are provided. In some embodiments, access to a network is based on physical presence and/or user location information related to a user, as determined by a control system. Such information may include a precise location of a user, or a device associated with the user. A secure network may be provided based on a classification of the user inferred from her, his or its location. In some embodiments, the user may be recognized at a later time, authorized by the control system, and access provided again, regardless of whether the user has the same physical presence or location at that time. In some embodiments, the control system provides a secure wireless network to additional user(s) associated with said user, based on a physical interaction between or other behavior indicating a trusted relationship between the additional user(s) and the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220118590
    Abstract: Improved techniques for remotely monitoring and managing fasteners and fastener driver conditions, are provided. In some aspects of the invention, conditions of a fastener and/or structural material(s) held by the fastener and/or connector, are monitored by a control system including sensor(s) at least partially embedded in, on or throughout the fastener and/or structural material(s). When an adverse condition is sensed, a torque may be remotely applied to the fastener, in some embodiments. In some embodiments, other remedial actions may be taken by the control system. In some embodiments, such sensor(s) include a magnetizable array, which may include one or more charge-carrying and/or otherwise magnetic wires or particles on, about, or embedded within, the fastener and/or structural material. In some embodiments, such remote monitoring includes testing a magnetic signature of the fastener and/or structural material (e.g., via remote scanning and/or testing).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11268789
    Abstract: New systems, devices and methods for extremely precise aiming and shooting of firearms by relatively unskilled users are provided. In some embodiments, shots may be planned in advance. In some embodiments, a device including specialized computer hardware and software aids a user in planning a shot(s), evaluating the accuracy of the planned shot(s), adjusting the location of the planned shot(s), and executing the planned shots. In some embodiments, the system may prevent shots where motion, acceleration and positioning of the device and/or firearm relative to the planned shot location(s) and/or the surrounding environment may cause an inaccurate shot, but execute shots where those factors facilitate a highly accurate shot. In some embodiments, the control system may similarly account for, counteract and/or otherwise adjust for any other relevant ballistic and other accuracy-impacting factors with a position-actuable firing mechanism to maintain a projected flight path of such a point of impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220054243
    Abstract: Hands-free systems, devices and methods, adapted for brushing, cleaning and treating all of a user's teeth simultaneously, are provided. In some embodiments, such a device comprises brushes for cleaning all of a user's teeth simultaneously. In some embodiments, such a device includes a generally U-shaped channel(s), accepting, cleaning and/or treating all of a user's teeth simultaneously. Customized fluid jets within such devices are provided, introducing dentifrices and other treatments into the channels. In some embodiments, compartments and cartridges with a proprietary form factor for delivering dentifrice and other treatments and for disposing of waste without mess are provided. In some embodiments, data are gathered, analyzed and serve as the basis for a treatment plan, which may then be carried out by the system(s), device(s) and method(s), over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Patent number: 11246383
    Abstract: New forms of fasteners are disclosed. Some such fasteners include a new form of zipper with magnetic actuation, initiated by bringing one end of a linear array of magnets into closer proximity with another end of a linear array of magnets. Some such fasteners include structural locking, driven by magnetic force. Some such fasteners include elastic subunits incorporated in a common semi-flexible substrate. The techniques set forth are applicable to a wide variety of applications, incorporating many different materials. For example, in some contexts, some fastening techniques allow rapid closing of articles, such as gym bags or sports apparel, with minimum effort, leading to an extraordinary custom-fit to a user's preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20220038138
    Abstract: New wireless power distribution and payment techniques are disclosed. In some aspects of the invention, a system distributes wireless power from a power source, through a network of wireless power transmission, enhancement and consumption devices, each of which may be independently owned and controlled. The system may create monetary payments and charges based on each device's use and/or facilitation of the wireless power provided through the network. In some embodiments, the system may determine monetary credits and/or debits based on the type and amount of power provided by, or other qualities of, wireless power enhancement devices implemented by the network, and users thereof. For example, in some embodiments, the system determines a rating (e.g., based on efficiency or superiority of the power source) of at least one of wireless power enhancement devices. Such ratings may be determined by consensus, and recorded, on a distributed ledger, such as a blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman