Patents by Inventor Erin SUMMERS
Erin SUMMERS 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: 11816757Abstract: The disclosure describes artificial reality systems and techniques for saving and exporting artificial reality data. For example, an artificial reality system includes an application engine configured to generate artificial reality content based on a pose of a user participating in an artificial reality environment and a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output the artificial reality content to the user. The HMD includes a buffer configured to hold data representative of the artificial reality environment during a time window on a rolling basis and a capture engine configured to, in response to user input, capture the data representative of the artificial reality environment held in the buffer at a point in time at which the user input was received.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Melissa Erin Summers, Lindsay Young, Arthur Bodolec, Adam Hupp, Bryan Alger, Peter Aubrey Bartholomew Griess, Nataraja Kumar Koduri, Carl Taylor, Bryan Justice, Andrea Zeller, Ayfer Gokalp
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Patent number: 11416067Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes a suspend mode feature for artificial reality systems and, more specifically, system configurations and techniques for generating a suspend mode environment during execution of an artificial reality application, and presenting and controlling user interface (UI) elements within the suspend mode environment. The suspend mode feature enables a user interacting with one or more other users (or one or more avatars corresponding to the one or more other users) within an artificial reality (AR) environment to suspend the AR environment from the user's perspective. While in the suspend mode environment, the user is able to view and select the other users from the AR environment. For example, the user may select another user to friend, message, mute, block, or report that user from the suspend mode environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Arthur Bodolec, Jing Shu, Lindsay Young, Melissa Erin Summers, Andrea Zeller, Seohyun Lee, Ayfer Gokalp
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Publication number: 20220200945Abstract: The disclosed technology can provide tools to choose who can provide comments and tools to hide comments. A public figure, such as a verified public figure, can select who is permitted to comment on a post by the public figure subject to certain restrictions that promote open public dialogue. Any user, apart from a public figure, also can select who is permitted to comment on their public posts. Further, how a comment to a post is viewed can be based on a type of viewer, a type of action taken on the comment, and a type of actor who takes action on the comment. A plurality of comments can be hidden and removed from an original listing of comments and relocated to a separate area created for hidden comments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Melissa Erin Summers, Henry Tsai, Nan Li, Amey Ajit Porobo Dharwadker, Kirill A. Pugin, Sammy El Ghazzal
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Publication number: 20210405738Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes a suspend mode feature for artificial reality systems and, more specifically, system configurations and techniques for generating a suspend mode environment during execution of an artificial reality application, and presenting and controlling user interface (UI) elements within the suspend mode environment. The suspend mode feature enables a user interacting with one or more other users (or one or more avatars corresponding to the one or more other users) within an artificial reality (AR) environment to suspend the AR environment from the user's perspective. While in the suspend mode environment, the user is able to view and select the other users from the AR environment. For example, the user may select another user to friend, message, mute, block, or report that user from the suspend mode environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Arthur Bodolec, Jing Shu, Lindsay Young, Melissa Erin Summers, Andrea Zeller, Seohyun Lee, Ayfer Gokalp
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Patent number: 11119568Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes a suspend mode feature for artificial reality systems and, more specifically, system configurations and techniques for generating a suspend mode environment during execution of an artificial reality application, and presenting and controlling user interface (UI) elements within the suspend mode environment. The suspend mode feature enables a user interacting with one or more other users (or one or more avatars corresponding to the one or more other users) within an artificial reality (AR) environment to suspend the AR environment from the user's perspective. While in the suspend mode environment, the user is able to view and select the other users from the AR environment. For example, the user may select another user to friend, message, mute, block, or report that user from the suspend mode environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Arthur Bodolec, Jing Shu, Lindsay Young, Melissa Erin Summers, Andrea Zeller, Seohyun Lee, Ayfer Gokalp
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Publication number: 20210089117Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes a suspend mode feature for artificial reality systems and, more specifically, system configurations and techniques for generating a suspend mode environment during execution of an artificial reality application, and presenting and controlling user interface (UI) elements within the suspend mode environment. The suspend mode feature enables a user interacting with one or more other users (or one or more avatars corresponding to the one or more other users) within an artificial reality (AR) environment to suspend the AR environment from the user's perspective. While in the suspend mode environment, the user is able to view and select the other users from the AR environment. For example, the user may select another user to friend, message, mute, block, or report that user from the suspend mode environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Arthur Bodolec, Jing Shu, Lindsay Young, Melissa Erin Summers, Andrea Zeller, Seohyun Lee, Ayfer Gokalp
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Patent number: 10823698Abstract: The invention relates to, among other things, a method for performing electrophoresis with in-situ calibration. The method includes combining a volume of a test sample with a volume or quantity of a calibrating sample to form a final volume, where the volume of the calibrating sample includes a known concentration of a calibrator and the final volume includes a known ratio of test sample to calibrating sample. The method also includes depositing a loading fraction in a receiving well of an electrophoretic gel, in which the loading fraction is a fraction of the final volume, and separating the loading fraction along a common separation lane of the electrophoretic gel such that components of the test sample and the calibrator are separated from one another along the common separation lane.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Helena Laboratories CorporationInventors: Philip Guadagno, Erin Summers
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Publication number: 20150268193Abstract: The invention relates to, among other things, a method for performing electrophoresis with in-situ calibration. The method includes combining a volume of a test sample with a volume or quantity of a calibrating sample to form a final volume, where the volume of the calibrating sample includes a known concentration of a calibrator and the final volume includes a known ratio of test sample to calibrating sample. The method also includes depositing a loading fraction in a receiving well of an electrophoretic gel, in which the loading fraction is a fraction of the final volume, and separating the loading fraction along a common separation lane of the electrophoretic gel such that components of the test sample and the calibrator are separated from one another along the common separation lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Philip Guadagno, Erin Summers
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Patent number: 9005419Abstract: The invention relates to, among other things, a method for performing electrophoresis with in-situ calibration. The method includes combining a volume of a test sample with a volume or quantity of a calibrating sample to form a final volume, where the volume of the calibrating sample includes a known concentration of a calibrator and the final volume includes a known ratio of test sample to calibrating sample. The method also includes depositing a loading fraction in a receiving well of an electrophoretic gel, in which the loading fraction is a fraction of the final volume, and separating the loading fraction along a common separation lane of the electrophoretic gel such that components of the test sample and the calibrator are separated from one another along the common separation lane.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Philip Guadagno, Erin Summers
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Publication number: 20150060278Abstract: A cylindrical cam device includes an axle and a plurality of disk portions disposed about the axle. The plurality of disk portions define a plurality of interstitial regions disposed between the plurality of disk portions. Each of the plurality of disk portions comprises a radial edge. The radial edge of each of the plurality of disk portions comprises a material or structure capable of retaining a liquid and releasing at least a portion of the liquid onto a substrate. A method for facilitating electrophoretic analysis of biological samples utilizing the cylindrical cam device is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Philip GUADAGNO, Erin SUMMERS
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Publication number: 20140243431Abstract: The present invention relates to, among other things, a gel electrophoresis system for detecting the level of specific Apolipoproteins and/or lipoprotein particles present in intact lipid particles in a biological sample. The system includes a gel substrate to receive a biological sample, at least two lipoprotein-binding complexes. Each complex includes an antibody that binds a lipoprotein particle or a portion thereof, which is bound to a signal producing molecule capable of producing or causing production of a detectable signal. The system also includes a device for detecting the detectable signal. The present invention also relates to methods of assessing the level of specific Apolipoproteins and/or lipoprotein particles present in a biological sample, determining whether a subject is at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and monitoring the risk for developing cardiovascular disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Philip GUADAGNO, Erin SUMMERS
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Publication number: 20130319864Abstract: The invention relates to, among other things, a method for performing electrophoresis with in-situ calibration. The method includes combining a volume of a test sample with a volume or quantity of a calibrating sample to form a final volume, where the volume of the calibrating sample includes a known concentration of a calibrator and the final volume includes a known ratio of test sample to calibrating sample. The method also includes depositing a loading fraction in a receiving well of an electrophoretic gel, in which the loading fraction is a fraction of the final volume, and separating the loading fraction along a common separation lane of the electrophoretic gel such that components of the test sample and the calibrator are separated from one another along the common separation lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Philip GUADAGNO, Erin SUMMERS