Patents by Inventor David J. Meyer

David J. Meyer 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: 12328826
    Abstract: A device is provided that includes: a substrate including dielectric material and a conductive via extending into the substrate from a surface of the substrate. The device further includes a conductive pad positioned at the surface of the substrate and offset in a plane of the surface from the conductive via, the conductive pad to receive a solder joint connection to an electronic component. The conductive pad includes a concave edge that defines a gap with a convex edge of the conductive via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Edwin L Bradley, Anthony J Suppelsa, David J Meyer
  • Publication number: 20250165080
    Abstract: Suppressing a hand gesture upon detecting peripheral events on a peripheral device includes determining a first hand pose for a first hand a second hand pose for a second hand in response to a detected peripheral device peripheral event, determining, based on the first hand pose and the second hand pose, at least one hand of the first hand and the second hand in a peripheral use mode, detecting an input gesture from a hand of the at least one hand determined to be in the peripheral use mode, and rejecting the input gesture by a user input pipeline in accordance with the determination that the hand is in the peripheral use mode. The presence of a peripheral device is confirmed by activating a computer vision system in response to determining that a peripheral use condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel J. Brewer, Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi, Tian Qiu, Leah M. Gum, David J. Meyer, Julian K. Shutzberg, Yirong Tang
  • Publication number: 20250115595
    Abstract: This disclosure features chemical entities (e.g., a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof) used to treat a condition or disease that is associated with hypoxia, or with increased expression of hypoxia-inducible factor HIF-1 and/or HIF-2, or with both, the method comprising administering to a subject in need of such treatment a compound of Formula (I) that is capable of inhibiting transcriptional activation mediated by HIFs. This disclosure also features compositions containing the same as well as methods of using and making the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Gregg L. Semenza, Akrit Sodhi, Shaima Salman, David J. Meyers, Yousang Hwang
  • Publication number: 20240411444
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that associate user activities with user interface (UI) elements within a 3D environment. Some implementations do so in ways that account for inaccuracies (i.e., fuzziness) in sensor-based detection of the user activities, e.g., inaccuracy in sensor data-based gaze tracking or sensor data-based hand/joint position. Some implementations use a sampling technique to associate user activity in a 3D environment with an appropriate portion of a UI positioned within a 3D environment. For example, a sampling technique may be used to identify sample locations within the 3D environment (e.g., sample locations around a gaze direction) to evaluate and ultimately select from to associate with a user activity, e.g., associating a particular UI button with a gaze direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Julian K. Shutzberg, David M. Teitelbaum, Chase B. Lortie, David J. Meyer, Lorenzo Soto Doblado
  • Publication number: 20240402801
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods that interpret user activity as user interactions with virtual elements (e.g., UI elements) positioned within in a 3D space such as an XR environment. Some implementations use an architecture that receives application UI geometry in a system or shared simulation area and outputs interaction events data (e.g., less than all user activity data) for an application to use to recognize input to the application. An OS process may be configured to provide an input support process to support recognizing input intended for one or more separately-executing applications, for example, by providing some input recognition tasks to recognize user activity as input for the applications or by converting user activity data into a format that can be more easily, accurately, efficiently, or effectively interpreted by the applications and/or in a way that facilitates preservation of user privacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Julian K. Shutzberg, David J. Meyer, David M. Teitelbaum
  • Publication number: 20240402825
    Abstract: Processing gesture input includes obtaining hand tracking data for a first hand based on one or more camera frames, detecting a first input gesture by the first hand based on the hand tracking data, and determining whether the first hand is in an active state. An input action associated with the first gesture is initiated in accordance with a determination that the first hand is in the active state. If, while the hand is in an active state, a determination is made that the inactive criterion is satisfied, then the first hand is transitioned to an inactive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel J. Brewer, Bharat C. Dandu, David J. Meyer, Julian K. Shutzberg, Lucas Soffer, Yirong Tang
  • Publication number: 20240402821
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that interpret user activity as user interactions with user interface (UI) elements positioned within a three-dimensional (3D) space such as an extended reality (XR) environment. Some implementations enable user interactions with virtual elements displayed in 3D environments that utilize alternative input modalities, e.g., XR environments that interpret user activity as either direct interactions or indirect interactions with virtual elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: David J. Meyer, Julian K. Shutzberg, David M. Teitelbaum, Daniel J. Brewer, Bharat C. Dandu, Christopher D. McKenzie
  • Publication number: 20240402826
    Abstract: Processing gesture input includes obtaining hand tracking data for a hand from one or more sensors, wherein the hand performs a pinch in the hand tracking data, determining a hand position and a hand orientation for the hand from the hand tracking data, applying a predefined offset from the hand position based on the hand orientation to determine a pinch centroid, and determining an input location based on the pinch centroid. The pinch centroid is used in an indirect motion mapping pipeline to determine characteristics of user input based on user motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel J. Brewer, Chase B. Lortie, David J. Meyer, Julian K. Shutzberg, Tian Qiu, Yirong Tang
  • Publication number: 20240402800
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that interpret user activity as user interactions with user interface (UI) elements positioned within a three-dimensional (3D) space such as an extended reality (XR) environment. Some implementations enable user interactions with virtual elements displayed in 3D environments that utilize alternative input modalities, e.g., XR environments that interpret user activity as either direct interactions or indirect interactions with virtual elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Julian K. Shutzberg, David J. Meyer, David M. Teitelbaum, Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Ian R. Fasel, Chase B. Lortie, Daniel J. Brewer, Tim H. Cornelissen, Leah M. Gum, Alexander G. Berardino, Lorenzo Soto Doblado, Vinay Chawda, Itay Bar Yosef, Dror Irony, Eslam A. Mostafa, Guy Engelhard, Paul A. Lacey, Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi, Bhavin Vinodkumar Nayak, Liuhao Ge, Lucas Soffer, Victor Belyaev, Bharat C. Dandu, Matthias M. Schroeder, Yirong Tang
  • Patent number: 12161052
    Abstract: Solid-state devices including a layer of a superconductor material epitaxially grown on a crystalline high thermal conductivity substrate, the superconductor material being one of TiNx, ZrNx, HfNx, VNx, NbNx, TaNx, MoNx, WNx, or alloys thereof, and one or more layers of a semiconducting or insulating or metallic material epitaxially grown on the layer of superconductor material, the semiconducting or insulating material being one of a Group III N material or alloys thereof or a Group 4b N material or SiC or ScN or alloys thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: Cornell University, Govmt. of U.S.—Navy
    Inventors: Rusen Yan, Guru Bahadur Singh Khalsa, John Wright, H. Grace Xing, Debdeep Jena, D. Scott Katzer, Neeraj Nepal, Brian P. Downey, David J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 12118200
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that associate user activities with user interface (UI) elements within a 3D environment. Some implementations do so in ways that account for inaccuracies (i.e., fuzziness) in sensor-based detection of the user activities, e.g., inaccuracy in sensor data-based gaze tracking or sensor data-based hand/joint position. Some implementations use a sampling technique to associate user activity in a 3D environment with an appropriate portion of a UI positioned within a 3D environment. For example, a sampling technique may be used to identify sample locations within the 3D environment (e.g., sample locations around a gaze direction) to evaluate and ultimately select from to associate with a user activity, e.g., associating a particular UI button with a gaze direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julian K Shutzberg, David M Teitelbaum, Chase B Lortie, David J Meyer, Lorenzo Soto Doblado
  • Publication number: 20240103705
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein facilitate interactions with a user interface in 3D environment in which a user interface element is moved based on a user movement in a way that the user interface element appears to lag behind or follow a portion of the user (e.g., the user's fingertip). The user interface element may be moved in a way that it converges with and thus catches up to the portion of the user. Such convergence may be based on the speed of the movement of the portion of the user. No convergence may occur when the portion of the user is not moving or is moving below a threshold speed. When the portion of the user is moving (e.g., above a threshold speed), the user interface component may converge with the portion of the user and the rate of convergence may be increased with faster speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Vinay Chawda, Julian K. Shutzberg, Chase B. Lortie, Daniel J. Brewer, David J. Meyer, Leah M. Gum
  • Publication number: 20240103635
    Abstract: Suppressing a hand gesture upon detecting peripheral events on a peripheral device includes determining a first hand pose for a first hand a second hand pose for a second hand in response to a detected peripheral device peripheral event, determining, based on the first hand pose and the second hand pose, at least one hand of the first hand and the second hand in a peripheral use mode, detecting an input gesture from a hand of the at least one hand determined to be in the peripheral use mode, and rejecting the input gesture by a user input pipeline in accordance with the determination that the hand is in the peripheral use mode. The presence of a peripheral device is confirmed by activating a computer vision system in response to determining that a peripheral use condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel J. Brewer, Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi, Tian Qiu, Leah M. Gum, David J. Meyer, Julian K. Shutzberg, Yirong Tang
  • Publication number: 20240094882
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates user input for displaying a selection refinement user interface object in an object within a three-dimensional environment, wherein the selection refinement user interface object indicates a location in the object at which the computer system performs a selection operation in response to further user input. In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates user input for activating a selection refinement mode in the three-dimensional environment during which an interaction point for a selection operation is movable based on movement of a hand of the user of the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel J. BREWER, Julian K. SHUTZBERG, David J. MEYER, Chase B. LORTIE
  • Patent number: 11899843
    Abstract: An indirect haptic device includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of haptic electrodes and a plurality of island electrodes arranged on the top surface. The device further includes a plurality of transmit electrodes and a plurality of receive electrodes arranged on the bottom surface, a position sensor, and a friction modulator. The device further includes a control device configured to apply bipolar electrical signals to the plurality of transmit electrodes to detect touch locations of a user's appendage and to modulate the friction between the user's appendage and the touch surface. Each of the plurality of haptic electrodes are substantially aligned with and capacitively coupled to a corresponding two of the plurality of transmit electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Tanvas Magic Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Colgate, Mondher Cherif, David J. Meyer, Craig Shultz
  • Publication number: 20230387877
    Abstract: Method for forming an integrated acoustic device. A thin film piezoelectric acoustic transducer is epitaxially formed on a host substrate and is then transferred to a functional target substrate wherein physical phenomena from the piezoelectric transducer and the arbitrary functional substrate interact to form a hybrid acoustic microsystem comprising the piezoelectric transducer and the arbitrary functional substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Vikrant J. GOKHALE, Brian P. DOWNEY, Shawn C. MACK, D. Scott KATZER, David J. MEYER, Pallavi DHAGAT, Albrecht JANDER
  • Patent number: 11831295
    Abstract: Acoustic wave devices based on epitaxially grown heterostructures comprising appropriate combinations of epitaxially grown metallic transition metal nitride (TMN) layers, epitaxially grown Group III-nitride (III-N) piezoelectric semiconductor thin film layers, and epitaxially grown perovskite oxide (PO) layers. The devices can include bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, high overtone bulk acoustic resonator (HBAR) devices, and composite devices comprising HBAR devices integrated with high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Vikrant J. Gokhale, Brian P. Downey, Matthew T. Hardy, Eric N. Jin, Neeraj Nepal, D. Scott Katzer, David J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11726569
    Abstract: A haptic interface unit may include an application in the operating system of a device in communication with a driver layer. A plurality of sensors and actuators may be in communication with the driver layer. The driver layer analyzes information from the sensors to generate an output signal based on an interaction model stored in the driver layer. The application updates the interaction model in the driver layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Tanvas Magic Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11728398
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices having conductive floating gates superimposed on and/or embedded within a conducting channel for managing electromagnetic radiation in the device. The conductive floating gates can comprise a one- or two-dimensional array of asymmetric structures superimposed on and/or embedded within the conducting channel. The conductive floating gates can comprise Nb2N, Ta2N, TaNx, NbNx, WNx, or MoNx or any transition metal nitride compound. The device can include a plurality of conductive floating gates on a rear surface of a barrier layer, wherein each of the conductive floating gates might be separately biased for individual tuning. Antennas for capturing or emitting THz or sub-THz radiation could be attached to the device contacts. Terahertz or infrared radiation could be manipulated by driving a current through the conducting channel into a plasmonic boom regime. Additional manipulation of the electromagnetic radiation could be achieved by having antennas with an appropriate phase angle shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Michael Shur, David J. Meyer
  • Publication number: 20230225060
    Abstract: A conductive solder pad for a ball grid array (BGA) includes a concave edge to accommodate a via that exits a substrate at a position at the surface of the substrate that is offset from the solder pad. The offset arrangement of the via and solder pad allow for differential thermal expansion of the substrate material and the via material with reduced risk of cracking or fracturing the solder joint. The concave edge of the solder pad provides a gap from the via to avoid unintended electrical connections while maintaining the solder-joint pitch of the BGA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Edwin L. Bradley, Anthony J. Suppelsa, David J. Meyer