Patents by Inventor Cleveland-Joel Chavez Wilcox

Cleveland-Joel Chavez Wilcox 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).

  • Haptic device for artificial reality systems
    Patent number: 10310610
    Abstract: A haptic device provides haptic sensation to a user. The haptic device comprises a haptic plate and a plurality of actuators. The haptic plate includes a center portion and an outer portion that circumscribes the center portion. The plurality of actuators is coupled to the outer portion of the haptic plate. Of the plurality of actuators, one or more actuators are configured to generate, in accordance with haptic instructions, a haptic wave that converges to a specific waveform at a specific region of the center portion of the haptic plate. The shape of the specific waveform and the location of the specific region on the center portion of the haptic plate are based in part on the haptic instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin Jeffery Gordon Krogstad, Cleveland-Joel Chavez Wilcox, Matthew Robert Schwab, Riccardo DeSalvo, David R. Perek, Ravish Mehra, Sean Jason Keller, Ian Andreas Marquez, Sabrina Monique Sandoval
  • HAPTIC DEVICE FOR ARTIFICIAL REALITY SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20190121432
    Abstract: A haptic device provides haptic sensation to a user. The haptic device comprises a haptic plate and a plurality of actuators. The haptic plate includes a center portion and an outer portion that circumscribes the center portion. The plurality of actuators is coupled to the outer portion of the haptic plate. Of the plurality of actuators, one or more actuators are configured to generate, in accordance with haptic instructions, a haptic wave that converges to a specific waveform at a specific region of the center portion of the haptic plate. The shape of the specific waveform and the location of the specific region on the center portion of the haptic plate are based in part on the haptic instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Dustin Jeffery Gordon Krogstad, Cleveland-Joel Chavez Wilcox, Matthew Robert Schwab, Riccardo DeSalvo, David R. Perek, Ravish Mehra, Sean Jason Keller, Ian Andreas Marquez, Sabrina Monique Sandoval