Patents by Inventor David Boyd Townsley

David Boyd Townsley 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: 20230318342
    Abstract: A method for controlling charging of a wearable computing device includes determining a voltage at a charging interface of the wearable computing device when the wearable computing device is not being charged by an external power supply to which the wearable computing device is coupled via a conductor. The method includes determining a resistance of the conductor when the wearable computing device is drawing a first charging current from the external power supply. The method includes determining an expected voltage drop between the external power supply and the wearable computing device when the wearable computing device is drawing a second charging current that is greater than the first charging current. The method includes reducing the current draw when an actual voltage drop between the external power supply and the wearable computing device is greater than a threshold voltage drop that is greater than the expected voltage drop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Lei Yu, Ajmal Godil, Conrad Smith, David Boyd Townsley
  • Patent number: 9500535
    Abstract: Each of one or more temperature sensors of a computing system can measure and provide a temperature value (e.g., provide temperature data) to the system. In some embodiments, the system can apply an offset value, a time-based filter, and a weighting factor to each temperature value received from the one or more temperature sensors of the system. Based, at least in part, on the offsetting, filtering, and/or weighting, the computing system can determine (e.g., calculate, estimate, predict, etc.,) a temperature value representative of an enclosure temperature of the system. In some embodiments, based on the determined temperature value that is representative of the enclosure temperature, the computing system can perform appropriate subsequent processing in accordance with thermal management of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley David Urban, Vaughn Todd Arnold, David Boyd Townsley