Patents by Inventor Derek T. Smith

Derek T. Smith 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: 12039743
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to motion tracking synchronization in virtual reality systems. In an embodiment, a computing system that includes a processor and a memory including computer readable instructions is provided. The processor is configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, receive an indication from a virtual reality (VR) application that the VR application has started, receive tracking data from a first motion tracking system and a second motion tracking system, each motion tracking system comprising one or more sensors, and generate system-independent tracking objects from the tracking data. The processor is further configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, format the system-independent tracking objects into VR objects compatible with a VR system, transmit the VR objects to the VR system, and provide a real world environment view to users overlaid or independent of VR environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
    Inventors: Russell N. Todd, Qin Zhu, Derek T. Smith
  • Publication number: 20220351393
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to motion tracking synchronization in virtual reality systems. In an embodiment, a computing system that includes a processor and a memory including computer readable instructions is provided. The processor is configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, receive an indication from a virtual reality (VR) application that the VR application has started, receive tracking data from a first motion tracking system and a second motion tracking system, each motion tracking system comprising one or more sensors, and generate system-independent tracking objects from the tracking data. The processor is further configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, format the system-independent tracking objects into VR objects compatible with a VR system, transmit the VR objects to the VR system, and provide a real world environment view to users overlaid or independent of VR environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Russell N. TODD, Qin ZHU, Derek T. SMITH
  • Patent number: 11393109
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to motion tracking synchronization in virtual reality systems. In an embodiment, a computing system that includes a processor and a memory including computer readable instructions is provided. The processor is configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, receive an indication from a virtual reality (VR) application that the VR application has started, receive tracking data from a first motion tracking system and a second motion tracking system, each motion tracking system comprising one or more sensors, and generate system-independent tracking objects from the tracking data. The processor is further configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, format the system-independent tracking objects into VR objects compatible with a VR system, transmit the VR objects to the VR system, and provide a real world environment view to users overlaid or independent of VR environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
    Inventors: Russell N. Todd, Qin Zhu, Derek T. Smith
  • Publication number: 20210132075
    Abstract: Methods for histochemical and cytochemical detection of oncogenic rearrangements of genes that result in expression of a fusion protein; materials, kits, and systems useful in such methods; and products resulting from performance of such methods are disclosed herein. At least two protein binding entities are provided: one targeting a portion of a wild-type protein that is retained in a fusion protein and a one targeting a portion of the wild type protein that is lost during the rearrangement that forms the fusion protein. A sample of a tissue suspected of harboring the fusion protein is stained with each of the two entities (either in simplex format or multiplex format), and the staining pattern resulting from binding of the entities is compared to determine the presence or absence of the fusion protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Richard Sheng Poe Huang, Yen-Catherine Hoang Nguyen Le, Ina Menzl, Derek T. Smith
  • Publication number: 20200410695
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to motion tracking synchronization in virtual reality systems. In an embodiment, a computing system that includes a processor and a memory including computer readable instructions is provided. The processor is configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, receive an indication from a virtual reality (VR) application that the VR application has started, receive tracking data from a first motion tracking system and a second motion tracking system, each motion tracking system comprising one or more sensors, and generate system-independent tracking objects from the tracking data. The processor is further configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, format the system-independent tracking objects into VR objects compatible with a VR system, transmit the VR objects to the VR system, and provide a real world environment view to users overlaid or independent of VR environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Russell N. TODD, Qin ZHU, Derek T. SMITH
  • Patent number: 6502783
    Abstract: A carrier tape recycling apparatus for receiving bare carrier tape from a manufacturing system and for winding the carrier tape onto a plurality of tape reels for reuse. The carrier tape recycling apparatus includes a reel drive mechanism configured to support and rotationally drive a plurality of tape reels such that bare carrier tape dispensed from the manufacturing system may be wound onto the tape reels. The reel drive mechanism provides a slip drive allowing each tape reel disposed in the recycling apparatus to rotate and receive carrier tape independent of other tape reels disposed in the recycling apparatus, so as to compensate for variation in the rate at which carrier tape is supplied to each tape reel disposed in the carrier tape recycling apparatus. The present invention also includes a method of using the recycling apparatus to recycle bare carrier tape dispensed from a manufacturing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek T. Smith, Tony T. Ibarra, Merle Bicknell, Todd D. Higgins
  • Patent number: 6054682
    Abstract: A system and method for assembling components onto a circuit board is disclosed. The system includes: a thermal chamber for receiving a plurality of components therein and for heating the plurality of components at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined length of time; an outfeed slot located on a wall of the thermal chamber which allows at least one component from the plurality of components to pass therethrough and emerge externally of the thermal chamber; and a pick and place machine, located adjacent to the thermal chamber, which automatically retrieves the at least one component which has passed through the outfeed slot and automatically places the at least one component onto a designated circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Micron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Ochoa, Derek T. Smith