Patents by Inventor Eric Richards

Eric Richards 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: 20250196313
    Abstract: An Allen wrench grip that is used in combination with an Allen wrench or a Hex wrench that provides more comfort, speed, precision, and torque than using a standalone Allen wrench or Hex wrench. The Allen wrench grip includes a handle style grip embodiment, a shaft style grip embodiment, and a removable shaft style embodiment. The handle style grip embodiment includes an elongated gripping surface having a plurality of relatively hard, smooth plastic strips disposed lengthwise across the elongated screwdriver handle and a plurality of relatively soft, tactile rubber strips. The shaft style grip embodiment includes an extending shaft extending from the top surface that includes a slot and a pair of apertures. The removable shaft style includes a hollow body, a pair of grasping notches, a pair of end notches, and a pair of apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Eric Richards
  • Patent number: 11590636
    Abstract: A driver extension with hand knobs is shown and described. The driver extension with hand knobs includes an elongated rod. The elongated rod has a first end opposite a second end. The first end of the elongated rod is a tool attachment end. The second end of the elongated rod is a securement end for a socket or a screwdriver. A pair of opposing hand knobs are secured along the elongated rod extending away from the elongated rod. The knobs are positioned in the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Eric Richards
  • Publication number: 20210101265
    Abstract: A driver extension with hand knobs is shown and described. The driver extension with hand knobs includes an elongated rod. The elongated rod has a first end opposite a second end. The first end of the elongated rod is a tool attachment end. The second end of the elongated rod is a securement end for a socket or a screwdriver. A pair of opposing hand knobs are secured along the elongated rod extending away from the elongated rod. The knobs are positioned in the same plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Eric Richards
  • Patent number: 10127725
    Abstract: A two-dimensional augmentation image is rendered from a three-dimensional model from a first virtual perspective. A transformation is applied to the augmentation image to yield an updated two-dimensional augmentation image that approximates a second virtual perspective of the three-dimensional model without additional rendering from the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Kohler, Denis Demandolx, Will Guyman, Ashraf Ayman Michail, Minshik Park, Justin Nafziger, Eric Richards
  • Publication number: 20170061693
    Abstract: A two-dimensional augmentation image is rendered from a three-dimensional model from a first virtual perspective. A transformation is applied to the augmentation image to yield an updated two-dimensional augmentation image that approximates a second virtual perspective of the three-dimensional model without additional rendering from the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey Kohler, Denis Demandolx, Will Guyman, Ashraf Ayman Michail, Minshik Park, Justin Nafziger, Eric Richards
  • Publication number: 20150016691
    Abstract: An image having a region tagged by a first user is obtained. The tag can include a first label of a person in the region, and the label can be used by the first user to identify the person in the region. Then, a second label of the person is determined. In implementations, the second label is used by a second user to identify the person in the region. The image is then displayed with the second label when displaying the image for the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karthik G. Anbalagan, Scott R. Ramsby, Chunkit J. Chan, Michael H. Kim, John M. Thornton, Timothy R. O'Connor, Alexander S. Brodie, Samuel J. Pinson, Bryan P. Ferguson, Aanand Narayanan Pisharathu, Ryan A. Kabir, Shanjeef Satchithanantham, Eric Richards, Eric W. Doerr, William D. Sproule, Shawn L. Morrissey, Mindy C. King
  • Patent number: 8867779
    Abstract: A global tag for an image is received identifies one or more objects in the image, and a region-specific tag for the image identifies one or more objects in a region of the image. The global tag and the region-specific tag are stored with the image. Displayed, along with the image, is an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the global tag, and an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the region-specific tag. Different users are able to maintain different names for the same person, allowing the same tag of the image to be used as the basis for displaying the image with different names for the different users. Additionally, the tags can be used as a basis for generating a credits list of people that are included in a compilation of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karthik G. Anbalagan, Scott R. Ramsby, Chunkit J. Chan, Michael H. Kim, John M. Thornton, Timothy R. O'Connor, Alexander S. Brodie, Samuel J. Pinson, Bryan P. Ferguson, Aanand Narayanan Pisharathu, Ryan A. Kabir, Shanjeef Satchithanantham, Eric Richards, Eric W. Doerr, William D. Sproule, Shawn L. Morrissey, Mindy C. King
  • Patent number: 8837859
    Abstract: A determination is made for each of multiple regions in multiple images of how good that region is perceived as being. A base image is identified, and a combined image is generated from the multiple images by automatically replacing each region of the base image with a corresponding region of another image if the corresponding region has been determined as being better than the region of the base image. The generating of the combined image can include automatically selecting from one of the multiple images a region in which an object that is present in one or more corresponding regions of other images is absent. Additionally, for a particular region of the base image, corresponding regions of the other images can be displayed, and the particular region replaced with a user-selected one of the corresponding regions of the other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Richards, Roger A. Bischoff, Timothy R. O'Connor, Tomasz S. M. Kasperkiewicz
  • Patent number: 8436780
    Abstract: An inexpensive planar antenna fabricated as a plurality of parallel layers of multi turn spiral loops co-located with conductive material at the center of the loops, there being an exclusion zone free of conductive material between the innermost loop and the conductive material at the center. The conductive material may comprise circuit elements, for example batteries, amplifiers, antenna drivers or other functional elements as well as passive elements. In one embodiment, the loop traces may be staggered. In another embodiment, the loop traces are varied in width as a function of position within the loop cross section. In further embodiments, the planar form is integrated with additional orthogonal planar antennas substantially coplanar with the first planar antenna and having axes orthogonal to the first planar antenna and to one another. In further embodiments the exclusion zone is extended by design rules and confining routes in a circuit section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Q-Track Corporation
    Inventors: Hans Gregory Schantz, Eric Richards, Andrew Compston
  • Publication number: 20120007787
    Abstract: An inexpensive planar antenna fabricated as a plurality of parallel layers of multi turn spiral loops co-located with conductive material at the center of the loops, there being an exclusion zone free of conductive material between the innermost loop and the conductive material at the center. The conductive material may comprise circuit elements, for example batteries, amplifiers, antenna drivers or other functional elements as well as passive elements. In one embodiment, the loop traces may be staggered. In another embodiment, the loop traces are varied in width as a function of position within the loop cross section. In further embodiments, the planar form is integrated with additional orthogonal planar antennas substantially coplanar with the first planar antenna and having axes orthogonal to the first planar antenna and to one another. In further embodiments the exclusion zone is extended by design rules and confining routes in a circuit section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Q-Track Corporation
    Inventors: Hans Gegory Schantz, Eric Richards, Andrew Compston
  • Patent number: 8018383
    Abstract: A signal-of-opportunity location device (SOLD) that may be situated in a complex radio propagation environment with multiple RF signal obstructions receives RF signals from a distant transmitter. The RF signals from the distant transmitter interact with obstructions in the propagation environment local to the SOLD. The local obstructions perturb the RF signals causing the RF signals to exhibit near field behavior in the complex radio propagation environment. The SOLD receives the locally perturbed signals. The SOLD detects signal characteristics of RF signal components of the received signals and compares these signal characteristics with reference data in a reference data store to determine the current location of the SOLD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Q-Track Corporation
    Inventors: Hans Gregory Schantz, Alfred Hans Unden, Eric Richards, Robert Edward Depierre
  • Publication number: 20100054601
    Abstract: A global tag for an image is received identifies one or more objects in the image, and a region-specific tag for the image identifies one or more objects in a region of the image. The global tag and the region-specific tag are stored with the image. Displayed, along with the image, is an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the global tag, and an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the region-specific tag. Different users are able to maintain different names for the same person, allowing the same tag of the image to be used as the basis for displaying the image with different names for the different users. Additionally, the tags can be used as a basis for generating a credits list of people that are included in a compilation of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karthik G. Anbalagan, Scott R. Ramsby, Chunkit J. Chan, Michael H. Kim, John M. Thornton, Timothy R. O'Connor, Alexander S. Brodie, Samuel J. Pinson, Bryan P. Ferguson, Aanand Narayanan Pisharathu, Ryan A. Kabir, Shanjeef Satchithanantham, Eric Richards, Eric W. Doerr, William D. Sproule, Shawn L. Morrissey, Mindy C. King
  • Publication number: 20070178506
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for determining the methylation profile of individuals and using the profiles to identify clones with desired traits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Washington University
    Inventors: Robert Martienssen, Eric Richards, Zachary Lippmann, Vincent Colot
  • Publication number: 20060191175
    Abstract: A precisely measured removable cover for reusable beverage containers with releasable closures. The cover has a flexible sheet with a graphical display imprinted on one side and a cover fastener for removably fastening the cover to a container. The sheet is advantageously adapted to substantially cover the side walls of the container. The cover fastener has one or more releasable closures, and at least one of the releasable closures includes a fluked tab interlock locking tab and slot structure, wherein the fluked tab is on one end of the cover and the slot is proximate the opposite end of the cover and parallel to the fluked tab. A cam/slot paired closure is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventor: Eric Richards
  • Publication number: 20060156603
    Abstract: A precisely measured removable cover for reusable beverage containers with releasable closures. The cover has a flexible sheet with a graphical display imprinted on one side and a cover fastener for removably fastening the cover to a container. The sheet is advantageously adapted to substantially cover the side walls of the container. The cover fastener has one or more releasable closures, and at least one of the releasable closures includes a fluked tab interlock locking tab and slot structure, wherein the fluked tab is on one end of the cover and the slot is proximate the opposite end of the cover and parallel to the fluked tab. A cam/slot paired closure is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventor: Eric Richards