Patents by Inventor Craig Douglass

Craig Douglass 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: 20220111290
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving data from a game engine associated with one or more virtual interactions in a virtual world, determining a haptic response based on the virtual interactions, and outputting a signal to a haptic device to cause the haptic device to create the haptic response
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Buchanan, IV, Zachary Schroeder, John Schroeder, III, Craig Douglass
  • Publication number: 20220113797
    Abstract: A haptic feedback device to be worn on top of a user's hand comprises a plurality of loops configured to be circumscribed around the user's fingers and thumb, a plurality of anchoring finger caps configured to be circumscribed around extremities of the user's fingers and thumb, at least one haptic actuator housed within each of the anchoring finger caps, and a plurality of tendons coupled to the loops and the anchoring finger caps, the tendons configured to extend along the user's fingers and thumb. The tendons are configured to cause the loops to decrease in diameter to conform to the user's fingers and thumb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Buchanan, IV, Zachary Schroeder, John Schroeder, III, Craig Douglass
  • Patent number: 7342203
    Abstract: In one example, an oven chamber has a heating element located within a first section of the oven chamber, and includes a shielding member that extends over the first section of the oven. The shielding member has an outer boundary, and one or more portions of the outer boundary are spaced away from walls of the oven chamber so as to form an open space through which convective heat is able to pass. The shielding member is supported above the heating element by support elements on which the shielding member rests and a portion of the outer boundary of the shielding member that extends away from the remainder of the shielding member to the bottom wall of the oven chamber, and the latter portion of the outer boundary of the shielding member attaches to a bracket fastened to the bottom wall of the oven chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Benoit, Craig Douglass Burnett