Patents by Inventor Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson 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: 20230242038
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of vehicle cameras disposed at a vehicle, a trailer camera disposed at a trailer, and a video display screen disposed at the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. When the trailer is hitched to the vehicle, the trailer camera captures image data and provides captured image data to an electronic control unit (ECU). The plurality of vehicle cameras capture image data and provide captured image data to the ECU. An auxiliary camera is detachably attached at an exterior side portion of the trailer. With the auxiliary camera detachably attached at the exterior side portion of the trailer and during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle with the trailer hitched to the vehicle, and responsive to a user input, video images derived from the image data captured by the auxiliary camera are displayed for viewing by the driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Eric Peterson
  • Patent number: 11703841
    Abstract: Virtually-integrated wire harness design and automated production systems and methods that achieve completely integrated data management by automatically producing scripts to dynamically propagate production commands and data to various subsystems for handling assembling necessary circuits and wire harness layout boards to produce corresponding batches of wire harnesses while script-based methods control configuring, testing, and using wire harness layout boards, and assembling, testing, reworking, and delivering wire harnesses. Augmented reality is used to assist in the assembly of layout boards and wire harnesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Automated Wiring Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Kennon Guglielmo, Eric Peterson
  • Patent number: 11702010
    Abstract: A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a display device disposed in the mirror head and behind a reflective element. An actuator is operable to adjust the mirror head between a mirror mode orientation and a display mode orientation. Operation of the actuator moves a cam follower to cause a pin at the mirror head to travel along the groove to adjust orientation of the mirror head. With the mirror head in the mirror mode orientation, a first voltage is applied to adjust the mirror head out of the mirror mode orientation. A second voltage that is lower than the first voltage is then applied to adjust the mirror head toward the display mode orientation. A third voltage that is higher than the second voltage is then applied to adjust the mirror head into the display mode orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. LaCross, Gregory A. Huizen, Eric Peterson
  • Patent number: 11689550
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to analyze network traffic for malicious activity. An example apparatus includes a graph generator to, in response to obtaining one or more internet protocol addresses included within input data, generate a graph data structure based on one or more features of the one or more internet protocol addresses in the input data, a file generator to generate a first matrix using the graph data structure, the first matrix to represent nodes in the graph data structure and generate a second matrix using the graph data structure, the second matrix to represent edges in the graph data structure, and a classifier to, using the first matrix and the second matrix, classify at least one of the one or more internet protocol addresses to identify a reputation of the at least one of the one or more internet protocol addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MCAFEE, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghong Huang, Armando Rodriguez, Adam Wosotowsky, John Wagener, Joanna Negrete, Eric Peterson, Celeste Fralick
  • Patent number: 11680431
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door system includes a door handle assembly configured for mounting at a door handle region of a vehicle door of a vehicle. The door handle assembly includes a pocket lighting module comprising at least one light emitting diode operable to emit light to illuminate a pocket region of the door handle region. The door handle assembly includes a plurality of touch sensors linearly arranged along a handle portion and generating sensor data based on detection of touch at the respective touch sensor. The vehicular exterior door system, with the door handle assembly mounted at the door handle region, and responsive to processing at the processor of the sensor data generated by individual touch sensors of the plurality of touch sensors, determines a touch event at the door handle assembly and, responsive to the determined touch event, unlocks the vehicle door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Rodney K. Blank, Eric Peterson, Nathan Z. Hellwig, Michael T. McNally, Gregory A. Huizen, Kenneth C. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20230181200
    Abstract: A method of operating an aspiration catheter having a proximal end and a distal end includes the acts of at least partially blocking the distal end of the aspiration catheter with an embolus, creating a vacuum at the distal end of the aspiration catheter with a vacuum source adjacent the proximal end of the aspiration catheter, at least partially relieving the vacuum at the distal end of the catheter by at least one of interrupting the vacuum from the vacuum source and venting the aspiration catheter with a vent fluid adjacent the proximal end, and repeating the acts of interrupting the vacuum and venting the aspiration catheter in a timing cycle that maximizes the time that the aspiration catheter is at vacuum and changes pressure at the distal end of the catheter from vacuum to at least atmospheric pressure during each cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Peterson, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, JR., Carlos Rivera, Alejandro N. Caldron
  • Publication number: 20230150433
    Abstract: A vehicular lighting assembly includes an plurality of micro-LEDs disposed at a substrate. Width dimension of each individual micro-LED of the plurality of micro-LEDs is less than 500 microns, and length dimension of each individual micro-LED of the plurality of micro-LEDs is less than 500 microns. Packing density of micro-LEDs of the plurality of micro-LEDs at the substrate is at least 10 micro-LEDs per square centimeter. Each individual micro-LED of the plurality of micro-LEDs, when the vehicular lighting assembly is operated to emit light, passes less than 4 mA electrical current. The vehicular lighting assembly is configured to be disposed at a portion of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular lighting assembly, With the vehicular lighting assembly disposed at the portion of the vehicle, light emitted by the plurality of micro-LEDs, when the vehicular lighting assembly is operated to emit light, is viewable at the portion of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory A. Huizen, Eric Peterson
  • Publication number: 20230117863
    Abstract: A resistance mechanism for a sheet product dispenser for dispensing a length of sheet product from a roll of sheet product rotatably supported by the sheet product dispenser is provided. The resistance mechanism includes an arm configured to frictionally engage a surface of the roll of sheet product, and a spring attached to the arm and configured to bias the arm into engagement with the surface of the roll of sheet product, such that the resistance mechanism provides a pull force resistance opposing a pull force applied to a tail portion of the roll of sheet product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Steven B. Mattheeussen, Genevieve Taylor, Roy J. Rozek, Antonio M. Cittadino, Eric Peterson, Ryan A. Goltz, John Laitala
  • Publication number: 20230099283
    Abstract: A clot removal system comprises a catheter, a vacuum source, and a controller. The catheter comprises a proximal end, a distal end, and controller operating parameters and defines a lumen configured to be filled with a liquid column having a proximal portion. The vacuum source is configured to supply vacuum. The controller is configured to carry out a control pattern of turning on and off the vacuum based upon the controller operating parameters and is configured to receive the controller operating parameters in an automatic response to the catheter being operatively connected to at least one of the vacuum source and the controller and, responsive to the connection, to carry out the control pattern to change a level of vacuum at the distal end of the catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Peterson, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, JR., Carlos Rivera
  • Publication number: 20230100426
    Abstract: A clot removal system comprises a catheter, a vacuum source, and a controller. The catheter comprises a proximal end, a distal end, and controller operating parameters and defines a lumen configured to be filled with a liquid column having a proximal portion. The vacuum source is configured to supply vacuum. The controller is configured to carry out a control pattern of turning on and off the vacuum based upon the controller operating parameters and is configured to receive the controller operating parameters in an automatic response to the catheter being operatively connected to at least one of the vacuum source and the controller and, responsive to the connection, to carry out the control pattern to change a level of vacuum at the distal end of the catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Peterson, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, JR., Carlos Rivera
  • Patent number: 11560094
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior lighting assembly includes a plurality of lighting devices. The plurality of lighting devices includes a first lighting device operable to emit light for a first lighting function and a second lighting device operable to emit light for a second lighting function. A plurality of micro-LEDs of the lighting devices are disposed at electrically conductive traces of at least one flexible circuit element. Packing density of the micro-LEDs at the at least one flexible circuit element is at least 10 micro-LEDs per square centimeter. Each individual micro-LED of the plurality of micro-LEDs when operated to emit light passes less than 4 mA electrical current. With the vehicular exterior lighting assembly attached at an exterior portion of a vehicle, light emitted by the first lighting device and light emitted by the second lighting device, when operated to emit light, is viewable exterior the equipped vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Huizen, Eric Peterson
  • Patent number: 11547426
    Abstract: A clot removal system comprises a catheter, a vacuum source, and a controller. The catheter comprises a proximal end, a distal end, and controller operating parameters and defines a lumen configured to be filled with a liquid column having a proximal portion. The vacuum source is configured to supply vacuum. The controller is configured to carry out a control pattern of turning on and off the vacuum based upon the controller operating parameters and is configured to receive the controller operating parameters in an automatic response to the catheter being operatively connected to at least one of the vacuum source and the controller and, responsive to the connection, to carry out the control pattern to change a level of vacuum at the distal end of the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: RapidPulse, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, William T. Bales, M. Sean McBrayer, Eric Peterson, Richard Cartledge, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Carlos Rivera
  • Publication number: 20230003058
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door system includes a door handle assembly configured for mounting at a door handle region of a vehicle door of a vehicle. The door handle assembly includes a pocket lighting module comprising at least one light emitting diode operable to emit light to illuminate a pocket region of the door handle region. The door handle assembly includes a plurality of touch sensors linearly arranged along a handle portion and generating sensor data based on detection of touch at the respective touch sensor. The vehicular exterior door system, with the door handle assembly mounted at the door handle region, and responsive to processing at the processor of the sensor data generated by individual touch sensors of the plurality of touch sensors, determines a touch event at the door handle assembly and, responsive to the determined touch event, unlocks the vehicle door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Rodney K. Blank, Eric Peterson, Nathan Z. Hellwig, Michael T. McNally, Gregory A. Huizen, Kenneth C. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11540675
    Abstract: A resistance mechanism for a sheet product dispenser for dispensing a length of sheet product from a roll of sheet product rotatably supported by the sheet product dispenser is provided. The resistance mechanism includes an arm configured to frictionally engage a surface of the roll of sheet product, and a spring attached to the arm and configured to bias the arm into engagement with the surface of the roll of sheet product, such that the resistance mechanism provides a pull force resistance opposing a pull force applied to a tail portion of the roll of sheet product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Steven B. Mattheeussen, Genevieve Taylor, Roy J. Rozek, Antonio M. Cittadino, Eric Peterson, Ryan A. Goltz, John Laitala
  • Publication number: 20220408860
    Abstract: A guard to protect the neck of a person absorbs kinetic energy from an object that, if not for the guard, would strike the person's neck. The guard includes a body that has a material that deforms when an object strikes it, a shape configured to cover the posterior region of each of the cervical vertebrae of a person's spine when the guard is worn by a person to protect their neck, and a coupler to position and hold the body over the posterior region of each of the cervical vertebrae of a person's spine. The guard's body also includes a first region positioned above a person's first cervical vertebrae, when the guard is worn by a person to protect their neck, and a second region positioned above a person's last cervical vertebrae, when the guard is worn by a person to protect their neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Peterson
  • Publication number: 20220348754
    Abstract: A composite polymer process aid is provided. The process aid includes one or more inorganic mineral fillers and one or functionalized polymers. The functionalized polymers include at least one base polymer functionalized with an epoxy, hydroxyl, ?-keto ester, ?-keto amide, or carboxylic acid reactive functional group. The composite polymer process aid is in the form of a plurality of individual particles. At least a portion of the individual particles include both inorganic mineral fillers and the functionalized polymers. The composite polymer modifier is formed by a process of: i) blending an aqueous solution, an aqueous dispersion, an aqueous suspension, an aqueous slurry, or a dry powder of the mineral fillers with an aqueous solution, an aqueous dispersion, an aqueous suspension or an aqueous emulsion of the functionalized polymers to form an aqueous blend, and ii) powderizing the aqueous blend to form the composite polymer process aid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Arkema Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Ting SU, Kevin Ryan YOCCA, Eric PETERSON
  • Publication number: 20220324386
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior lighting assembly includes a plurality of lighting devices. The plurality of lighting devices includes a first lighting device operable to emit light for a first lighting function and a second lighting device operable to emit light for a second lighting function. A plurality of micro-LEDs of the lighting devices are disposed at electrically conductive traces of at least one flexible circuit element. Packing density of the micro-LEDs at the at least one flexible circuit element is at least 10 micro-LEDs per square centimeter. Each individual micro-LED of the plurality of micro-LEDs when operated to emit light passes less than 4 mA electrical current. With the vehicular exterior lighting assembly attached at an exterior portion of a vehicle, light emitted by the first lighting device and light emitted by the second lighting device, when operated to emit light, is viewable exterior the equipped vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory A. Huizen, Eric Peterson
  • Patent number: 11441338
    Abstract: A door handle assembly includes a handle portion disposed at a pocket region of the door handle region. The door handle assembly includes a plurality of touch sensors disposed at the handle portion that are linearly arranged along the handle portion. Each touch sensor has a respective touch sensitivity and generates sensor data based on the respective touch sensitivity and detection of a touch. The plurality of touch sensors includes at least two touch sensors having different respective touch sensitivities. A processor is operable to process the sensor data generated by the plurality of touch sensors. A controller, responsive to processing at the processor of the sensor data generated by the plurality of touch sensors, determines a touch event at the door handle assembly. The determined touch event includes a user touching the handle portion. The controller, responsive to detecting the touch event, locks or unlocks the vehicle door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Rodney K. Blank, Eric Peterson, Nathan Z. Hellwig, Michael T. McNally, Gregory A. Huizen, Kenneth C. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20220282534
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a base portion disposed at a door handle region of a vehicle door. A handle portion is movable relative to the base portion between a recessed position and a deployed position. An actuator includes a motor that is electrically operable to move the handle portion between the recessed position and the deployed position. The actuator includes a position indicating element that indicates at least one position of an output shaft of the motor. Responsive to an input signal, the actuator moves the handle portion between the recessed position and the deployed position. While the actuator moves the handle portion, the position indicating element indicates that the output shaft arrives at one of the at least one positions and the actuator depowers the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Peterson, Justin E. Sobecki
  • Patent number: D983897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BELIEVE PURSUE LLC
    Inventors: Brett Andrew Beck, Hanna-Greta Kirber Beck, Eric Peterson, Wang Pai Sheng