Patents by Inventor Ethan Fieldman

Ethan Fieldman 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: 12153762
    Abstract: A method for displaying a virtual interface to a user in an extended reality environment based on detecting a physical height of the user and adjusting the appearance of the virtual interface displayed to the user in the extended reality environment based on the user's height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: VR-EDU, INC.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20240362868
    Abstract: A user creates and changes appearance of a digital object in extended reality environments by voice commands in conjunction pointing input and retrieving a representation of the digital object for display at a location point pointed to by the user with an artificial intelligence process communicating with a database of images or with image-generating software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20240362861
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aligning and recognizing text in extended reality environments include determining a plane and aligning text on that plane in the extended reality environment to provide for text recognition and interactivity of the recognized text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20240296751
    Abstract: A system and associated methods facilitate administration of assessments within an extended reality learning environment. Assessment recordings captured during administration of an assessment module to a first user are used for providing feedback information to the first user from a second user that can view the first user's interactions with the assessment module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20240267486
    Abstract: A method to deter cheating by a user engaging in an examination activity in an extended reality (XR) environment includes restricting or providing access to disallowed or allowable applications, files and tools during an examination activity. The restriction or access to application, files and tools in the XR environment during the examination activity may be controlled on a question-by-question basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20240257487
    Abstract: An anti-cheating method in virtual reality environments includes detecting from outside light entering a virtual reality device when a user is attempting to look outside a virtual reality device during an educational testing activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 12033293
    Abstract: A method for generating a virtual tablet at a comfortable position relative to a user's hand in an extended reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20240211099
    Abstract: A method of displaying a second interactive control interface with a 3-dimensional icon that activates at least one of a software application, setting and a menu item in a virtual reality environment from detecting that the user is using a hand to interact with a first interactive control interface in the virtual reality environment where the 3-dimensional icon was changed from appearing as a 2-dimensional icon in the first interactive control interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11990059
    Abstract: A system and associated methods facilitate administration of assessments within an extended reality learning environment. Assessment recordings captured during administration can be used for grading and professional development purposes, and can also serve to enable students to “enter” assessment recordings during future study sessions to aid in understanding of educational concepts. The system further facilitates collaborative learning through review sessions that can use the assessment recordings to provide and record feedback to further improve learning outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11983837
    Abstract: An anti-cheating method in virtual reality environments includes detecting when a user's eyes are attempting to look outside a virtual reality device during an educational testing activity and activating an external camera of the virtual reality device to record video of the real-world environment of the user to determine whether the user attempted to cheat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20240078751
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying virtual versions of physical objects held or worn by the user in real world to that user in an extended reality environment by capturing at least a portion of an image of the physical object and comparing to types of objects stored in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11917324
    Abstract: A method for detecting cheating by a first user engaging in an examination activity in an extended reality (XR) environment includes creating an audiovisual recording while the first user is engaged in the examination activity in the XR environment and displaying an interactive version of the recording to a second user to review for possible cheating by the first user during the examination activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11900555
    Abstract: Users create, change, duplicate, move and define interactions and relationships for digital objects in extended reality environments by voice commands in conjunction with hand or control input pointing and/or gesturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: VR-Edu, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11875472
    Abstract: An object in 3D extended reality (XR), such as a virtual reality (VR) environment, is dynamically labelled based on the viewpoint of a main camera for a user. The dynamically labelled object can be rotated or walked around with labels of information dynamically being generated around visible points of interest that are referenced to the user in an organized and non-overlapping manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: VR-EDU, INC.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20230393706
    Abstract: A method for a user in a virtual reality environment to select an icon by virtually pressing the icon with the user's finger and displaying the icon as being pushed like a button in a real world environment when launching or activating a software application, setting or menu item represented by the icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Publication number: 20230360349
    Abstract: An anti-cheating method in virtual reality environments includes detecting when a user's eyes are attempting to look outside a virtual reality device during an educational testing activity and activating an external camera of the virtual reality device to record video of the real-world environment of the user to determine whether the user attempted to cheat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: VR-EDU, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11792357
    Abstract: A method to detect cheating on an examination in an extended reality environment, such as by a user taking an examination via a virtual reality headset, includes detecting an activity of the user during the examination that triggers a notification of possible cheating by the user to an individual monitoring for cheating and displaying the user taking the examination in the extended reality environment to the individual monitoring for cheating on a display of computing hardware, such as via another virtual reality headset, mobile computing device, or computer device connected to an online network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VR-EDU, INC.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11756280
    Abstract: A system and method for providing multiple faces of a discrete segment of an information board in virtual reality environments includes receiving a control input and displaying one or more added faces to the discrete segment of the information board at a virtual reality display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: VR-EDU, INC.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11734906
    Abstract: An object is displayed in a three-dimensional virtual reality environment so that a first user can view an avatar of a second user in a non-obstructive form when the avatar of the second user would otherwise obstruct a view of the object from the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: VR-EDU, INC.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman
  • Patent number: 11715386
    Abstract: Provided is a means for professors and tutors to easily queue and manage students in a video conference session during online office hours or similar scenarios in which the professor gives one student one-to-one attention while other students wait their turn but are able to listen. Students queue in order of arrival, transparency is provided to students so that they know where they are in the queue relative to other students, and provides students with real-time status updates, thus reducing frustration and making the experience of waiting and queuing more psychologically palatable and pleasant. There is a current student having a one-on-one session with the professor; the rest are waiting and listening in the queue. Further, the professor need only click one button in order to place the current student at the back of the queue and bring the next student in the queue into the one-on-one session. A virtual reality room also has a queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Study Edge, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Fieldman