Patents by Inventor David Guerra
David Guerra 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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Patent number: 11938791Abstract: A vehicle window opacity system that includes a vehicle window system comprising a front windshield, side windows, and a rear window, a liquid crystal display system coupled to the vehicle window system, and a controller coupled to the liquid crystal display system. The controller is operable to control an opacity of a portion of the liquid crystal display system coupled to at least one side window relative to the front windshield to reduce and/or block light from passing through the at least one side window based on information regarding a light source.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
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Patent number: 11922810Abstract: A vehicle adjustment system includes one or more processors configured to receive data from one or more sensors coupled to a vehicle that is in a stationary position. The one or more processors are also configured to analyze the data to determine whether an object is within a buffer zone surrounding the vehicle while the vehicle is in the stationary position. In response to determining that the object is within the buffer zone while the vehicle is in the stationary position, the one or more processors are configured to provide control signals to one or more driving components of the vehicle to reposition the vehicle to an alternate position.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
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Patent number: 10750797Abstract: The present invention is a deployable segmented sport equipment for reducing the impact force on sport equipment worn by a user by using deployable panels. The invention has a body defining a recess, and a panel movable within the recess. The panel includes a panel magnetic element capable of being acted upon by a magnetic force. An electromagnet is provided producing an attractive or repulsive magnetic force on the panel magnetic element. A proximity sensing device capable of sensing an object at a distance from the deployable segmented sport equipment is provided with the body. An electronic controller unit receives signals from the proximity sensing device and controls operation of the controllable magnetic element so as to deploy or retract the panel from or into the recess. The panel being deployed prior to impact with the object, with the repulsive force being controlled to absorb the impact force after impact.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Inventors: Sebastian Yoon, David A. Guerra
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Publication number: 20170143054Abstract: The present invention is a deployable segmented sport equipment for reducing the impact force on sport equipment worn by a user by using deployable panels. The invention has a body defining a recess, and a panel movable within the recess. The panel includes a panel magnetic element capable of being acted upon by a magnetic force. An electromagnet is provided producing an attractive or repulsive magnetic force on the panel magnetic element. A proximity sensing device capable of sensing an object at a distance from the deployable segmented sport equipment is provided with the body. An electronic controller unit receives signals from the proximity sensing device and controls operation of the controllable magnetic element so as to deploy or retract the panel from or into the recess. The panel being deployed prior to impact with the object, with the repulsive force being controlled to absorb the impact force after impact.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Sebastian Yoon, David A. Guerra
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Patent number: 9625328Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a pacifier having a base section, an upper mouth member extending from the base section, a sublingual member extending from the base section, and a transition section connecting the upper mouth member and sublingual member. The upper mouth member is configured to be positioned adjacent a roof of a mouth of a user when in use. The sublingual member is configured to be received in a sublingual pocket of the mouth of the user located below a tongue. The transition section has a profile that defines a pocket configured to receive a portion of the tongue of the user, thereby opening the sublingual pocket and positioning the sublingual member of the pacifier in the sublingual pocket of the mouth. A temperature sensor is fitted to the sublingual member so as to acquire a body temperature of the user from the sublingual pocket.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: David A. Guerra
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Publication number: 20170043230Abstract: The present invention is related to a sport post associated with a goal, a score or finish line, and a method of using the sport post. The sport post includes at least one post defining at least one slot along a longitudinal axis of the post. The post is substantially aligned with an edge adjacent a sport area associated with a sport surface for determining a sport condition of a goal, a finish or a score. At least one transparent member is received through the slot, and has a configuration so that at least a portion of the edge is visible through the transparent member. The sport post can be associated with a system including a reflective strip on the sport surface, an electromagnetic radiation transmitting device and a detection device for determining if a sport element crosses the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Sebastian Yoon, David Guerra
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Publication number: 20170042273Abstract: The present invention is a shock absorbing face guard for reducing an impact force by a user. The segmented face guard has a hub wearable by a user or mountable to a helmet, and a face bar having a portion slidably associated with the hub. The hub includes a hub magnetic element featuring a first pole. The face bar portion received in the hub includes a face bar magnetic element featuring a first pole oriented toward the first pole of the hub magnetic element. The first pole of the face bar magnetic element is of a same pole as the first pole of the hub magnetic element so as to produce a magnetic repulsion force at a predetermined distance therebetween. Connection bars can be articulately between face bars so as to provide additional impact absorption, and to support the face bars while allowing independent movement of the face bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Mark Fletcher, David Guerra
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Patent number: 9545125Abstract: The present invention is a magnetic segmented sport equipment for reducing the impact force on sport equipment using deployable segments. The magnetic segmented sport equipment has a body defining a recess, and a panel movable within the recess. The body and the recess each have magnetic elements associated therewith, with similar pole orientation. The panel has magnetic elements that are aligned with the magnetic elements of in the recess. A biasing element is located in the recess which provides a spring force against the panel. The panel is retained in the recess by an attraction force between the panel magnetic elements and the recess magnetic elements, which is greater than the spring force. The attraction and spring forces are configured so that the spring force is greater than the attraction force when an additional force in the direction of the spring force is combined with the spring force.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Inventors: Sebastian Yoon, David A. Guerra
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Publication number: 20160316829Abstract: A sport equipment for absorbing and dispersing, at least in part, an impact force, thereby reducing the impact force. The sport equipment can be a helmet having an outer shell, an inner shell, and a tensile sheet located between the outer and inner shells. The outer shell includes an interior side featuring a plurality of outer shell detents extending out therefrom. The inner shell includes an exterior side featuring a plurality of inner shell detents extending toward the outer shell. The tensile sheet is configured to dissipate and redirect, randomly directed impact force applied to the outer shell, to a tensile loading directed along a respective longitudinal axis of the tensile sheet. The outer and inner shells are in a spaced apart relationship with and movable to each other. The outer shell detents extend toward the inner shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventor: David A. Guerra
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Patent number: 9408423Abstract: A sport equipment for absorbing and dispersing, at least in part, an impact force, thereby reducing the impact force. The sport equipment can be a helmet having an outer shell, an inner shell, and a tensile sheet located between the outer and inner shells. The outer shell includes an interior side featuring a plurality of outer shell detents extending out therefrom. The inner shell includes an exterior side featuring a plurality of inner shell detents extending toward the outer shell. The tensile sheet is configured to dissipate and redirect, randomly directed impact force applied to the outer shell, to a tensile loading directed along a respective longitudinal axis of the tensile sheet. The outer and inner shells are in a spaced apart relationship with and movable to each other. The outer shell detents extend toward the inner shell.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Inventor: David A. Guerra
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Publication number: 20160088884Abstract: A sport equipment for absorbing and dispersing, at least in part, an impact force, thereby reducing the impact force. The sport equipment can be a helmet having an outer shell, an inner shell, and a tensile sheet located between the outer and inner shells. The outer shell includes an interior side featuring a plurality of outer shell detents extending out therefrom. The inner shell includes an exterior side featuring a plurality of inner shell detents extending toward the outer shell. The tensile sheet is configured to dissipate and redirect, randomly directed impact force applied to the outer shell, to a tensile loading directed along a respective longitudinal axis of the tensile sheet. The outer and inner shells are in a spaced apart relationship with and movable to each other. The outer shell detents extend toward the inner shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventor: David A. Guerra
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Publication number: 20130123846Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a pacifier having a base section, an upper mouth member extending from the base section, a sublingual member extending from the base section, and a transition section connecting the upper mouth member and sublingual member. The upper mouth member is configured to be positioned adjacent a roof of a mouth of a user when in use. The sublingual member is configured to be received in a sublingual pocket of the mouth of the user located below a tongue. The transition section has a profile that defines a pocket configured to receive a portion of the tongue of the user, thereby opening the sublingual pocket and positioning the sublingual member of the pacifier in the sublingual pocket of the mouth. A temperature sensor is fitted to the sublingual member so as to acquire a body temperature of the user from the sublingual pocket.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventor: David A. Guerra
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Patent number: 5385067Abstract: A turn signal cancellation mechanism is comprised of a handle, an actuator, a pawl and a biasing means. An engagement segment of the actuator has a modified T-shaped slot formed therein. The pawl is defined by a base having an arm projecting in an offset manner therefrom. A post is mounted perpendicularly upon the arm opposite from the base. The pawl is slidably juxtapositioned within the actuator such that the post of the pawl engagably extends through the modified T-shaped slot within the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1993Date of Patent: January 31, 1995Assignee: United Technologies Automotive, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey K. Wiersing, LeRoy A. Poleschuk, David Guerra
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Patent number: 5343736Abstract: Optical leak sensor and position detector including a generally hollow body having a sealed forward end that is designed to be mounted in an opening formed within a fluid handling device such as a pump or valve. Disposed within the hollow body of the sensor are a liquid leak detection optical system and a motion sensing optical system. In the preferred embodiment, the optical sensing systems are removably engaged within the hollow body, such that the hollow body can remain inserted within the fluid handling device, whereby the device can remain operational and the optical components can be removed, checked and replaced if need be.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1992Date of Patent: September 6, 1994Assignee: Systems Chemistry, Inc.Inventors: Byron C. Cady, Carl E. Story, David A. Guerra, III
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Patent number: D289779Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1984Date of Patent: May 12, 1987Inventor: David A. Guerra-Prats