Patents by Inventor Evan Marks

Evan Marks 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: 20240184136
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a partial reflector, a first lens, a reflective polarizer, and a second lens. The second lens includes a first part and a second part coupled to the first part with at least one optical property designed to correct a specific user's refractive error. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Carl Chancy, Afsoon Jamali, Kurt Jenkins, Yang Zheng, Rongzhi Huang, Timothy Louis Wong, Evan Mark Richards
  • Patent number: 11914162
    Abstract: An eye-tracking system includes two mirrors. A first mirror is positioned to transmit light, received at a first incident angle, reflected off an eye of a user toward a second mirror. The first mirror is also positioned to reflect the light, reflected from the second mirror, at a second incident angle. The second mirror is inclined from the first mirror so that the light transmitted through the first mirror is reflected by the second mirror toward the first mirror at a first reflection angle. The light reflected by the second mirror is reflected by the first mirror toward the second mirror at a second reflection angle greater than the first reflection angle. The eye-tracking system also includes one or more sensors positioned to detect the light reflected by the first mirror and the second mirror for determining a gaze direction of the eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Cina Hazegh
  • Patent number: 11583719
    Abstract: An exercise chair includes a chair frame, and a base fixed with the chair frame that is adapted to support the exercise chair on a floor surface. The base and chair frame have a plurality of anchors projecting away therefrom. A cushion may cover at least a portion of the frame. Multiple resistance bands each have multiple longitudinal slots therethrough, each adapted for selective fixing with any of the anchor knobs or several attachable exercise devices. In use, with the person seated in the chair and the chair resting on the support surface, one or two of the resistance bands can be fixed with any of the anchor knobs, so that the person can exercise by pushing and/or pulling the at least one resistance band. Different types of attachments are included for exercising varying muscle groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventor: Evan Mark Weisz
  • Patent number: 11409116
    Abstract: An eye-tracking system includes two mirrors. A first mirror is positioned to transmit light, received at a first incident angle, reflected off an eye of a user toward a second mirror. The first mirror is also positioned to reflect the light, reflected from the second mirror, at a second incident angle. The second mirror is inclined from the first mirror so that the light transmitted through the first mirror is reflected by the second mirror toward the first mirror at a first reflection angle. The light reflected by the second mirror is reflected by the first mirror toward the second mirror at a second reflection angle greater than the first reflection angle. The eye-tracking system also includes one or more sensors positioned to detect the light reflected by the first mirror and the second mirror for determining a gaze direction of the eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Cina Hazegh
  • Publication number: 20220188838
    Abstract: A method for automatically monitoring and reporting campaign financial transactions. The method can detect, in real-time, whether non-compliant contribution attributes exist for a campaign financial transaction by identifying campaign-related rules associated with the campaign; and making a determination of whether one or more of the campaign-related rules are triggered. The method further can perform an operation associated with the one or more triggered rules, including terminating the campaign financial transaction without processing the campaign financial transaction; or processing, in real-time, an online payment based on the campaign financial transaction. The method further can create, in response to a payment confirmation for the online payment, a record associated with the campaign financial transaction in a transaction database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Schweitzer Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: William Kevin Schweitzer, Evan Mark Piro
  • Publication number: 20220003910
    Abstract: An alignment apparatus for a polarization device includes a polarizer subassembly for polarizing a light beam, a rotary support for rotatably supporting the polarization device in a path of the light beam downstream of the polarizer subassembly, an analyzer subassembly downstream of the rotary support for receiving the light beam propagated through the polarization device, and a photodetector array disposed downstream of the analyzer subassembly and extending along the width dimension of the light beam for detecting the light beam propagated through the analyzer subassembly. At least one of the polarizer or analyzer subassemblies includes a spatially variant polarization element having a polarization property varying along the width dimension of the light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kieran Tobias Levin, Evan Mark Richards
  • Patent number: 11156755
    Abstract: An alignment apparatus for a polarization device includes a polarizer subassembly for polarizing a light beam, a rotary support for rotatably supporting the polarization device in a path of the light beam downstream of the polarizer subassembly, an analyzer subassembly downstream of the rotary support for receiving the light beam propagated through the polarization device, and a photodetector array disposed downstream of the analyzer subassembly and extending along the width dimension of the light beam for detecting the light beam propagated through the analyzer subassembly. At least one of the polarizer or analyzer subassemblies includes a spatially variant polarization element having a polarization property varying along the width dimension of the light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Kieran Tobias Levin, Evan Mark Richards
  • Patent number: 11022809
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes one or more infrared light sources configured to emit infrared light toward one or more eyes of a wearer, a first mirror configured to transmit the infrared light reflected from the one or more eyes of the wearer toward the first mirror, that reaches the first mirror at a first incident angle, the second mirror configured to reflect the infrared light transmitted through the first mirror, toward the first mirror so that the first mirror is configured to reflect the infrared light reflected by the second mirror, and incident on the first mirror at a second incident angle that is greater than the first incident angle, one or more sensors configured to detect the infrared light reflected by the first mirror and the second mirror for determining a gaze direction of the one or more eyes of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Cina Hazegh
  • Publication number: 20200310067
    Abstract: An alignment apparatus for a polarization device includes a polarizer subassembly for polarizing a light beam, a rotary support for rotatably supporting the polarization device in a path of the light beam downstream of the polarizer subassembly, an analyzer subassembly downstream of the rotary support for receiving the light beam propagated through the polarization device, and a photodetector array disposed downstream of the analyzer subassembly and extending along the width dimension of the light beam for detecting the light beam propagated through the analyzer subassembly. At least one of the polarizer or analyzer subassemblies includes a spatially variant polarization element having a polarization property varying along the width dimension of the light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Kieran Tobias Levin, Evan Mark Richards
  • Publication number: 20200261713
    Abstract: A medical lead may be fabricated using an electrode fixture configured to facilitate circumferential and axial alignment between electrodes of the lead. In one example, a method may include positioning an electrode fixture around at least one conductor of a plurality of conductors for a medical lead, wherein the electrode fixture at least partially retains an electrode assembly. The method may also include electrically coupling a portion of the at least one conductor with at least a portion of the electrode assembly at an attachment area defined by the electrode assembly when the electrode assembly is at least partially retained by the electrode fixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Dale F. Seeley, Evan Mark Gustafson, Michael T. Hegland, Seth M. Humphrys, Darren A. Janzig, Gerald G. Lindner
  • Patent number: 10549088
    Abstract: A medical lead may be fabricated using an electrode fixture ((130A)-(130D)) configured to facilitate circumferential and axial alignment between electrodes of the lead. In one example, a method includes positioning an electrode fixture around at least one conductor of a plurality of conductors (122) for a medical lead, wherein the electrode fixture at least partially retains an electrode assembly. The method also includes electrically coupling a portion of the at least one conductor with at least a portion of the electrode assembly at an attachment area defined by the electrode assembly when the electrode assembly is at least partially retained by the electrode fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale F. Seeley, Evan Mark Gustafson, Michael T. Hegland, Seth M. Humphrys, Darren A. Janzig, Gerald G. Lindner
  • Patent number: 10198978
    Abstract: An optical evaluation workstation evaluates quality metrics (e.g., optical contrast) of optical elements of a HMD. The workstation includes a test pattern, an optical element feed assembly, a light source, a camera and a control module. The light source backlights the test pattern with diffuse light. The optical element feed assembly receives an optical element of a HMD and places the optical element at a first distance from the test pattern corresponding to a distance between the optics block in the HMD and an exit pupil of the HMD. The camera images the test pattern through the optical element and the camera is positioned at a second distance from the test pattern corresponding to a distance between the exit pupil and an electronic display in the HMD. The control module generates a test report for presentation to a user based on the evaluation of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Matthew Robert Fulghum, Samuel Redmond D'Amico, Shizhe Shen
  • Patent number: 10150075
    Abstract: The filter assembly includes a threadless closure system for sealing a filter element of the filter assembly within a bowl of the filter assembly. The bowl is fluidly connectable to opposing fluid transfer passages. The filter element and a cover element connected to the filter element are received into the bowl. The filter element is retained in the bowl via a pin of the filter assembly that engages the cover element. The filter element may be removed and replaced without the unscrewing of threads exposed to an external environment external to the filter assembly during typical use of the filter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: PARKER-HANNIFIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Evan Marks, Kevin Noe
  • Publication number: 20180339181
    Abstract: An exercise chair includes a chair frame, and a base fixed with the chair frame that is adapted to support the exercise chair on a floor surface. The base and chair frame have a plurality of anchors projecting away therefrom. A cushion may cover at least a portion of the frame. Multiple resistance bands each have multiple longitudinal slots therethrough, each adapted for selective fixing with any of the anchor knobs or several attachable exercise devices. In use, with the person seated in the chair and the chair resting on the support surface, one or two of the resistance bands can be fixed with any of the anchor knobs, so that the person can exercise by pushing and/or pulling the at least one resistance band. Different types of attachments are included for exercising varying muscle groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventor: Evan Mark Weisz
  • Patent number: 10018838
    Abstract: An electronic display is driven to compensate for aging of pixels in the electronic display. An aging factor is determined based on initial display data for a display portion of the electronic display during one or more monitored frames. The aging factor is indicative of aging of pixels in the display portion of the electronic display due to use corresponding to the initial display data. An aging counter for the display portion is increased based on the determined aging factor. A compensation value is determined for the display portion based on the aging counter for the display portion. Input display data for the display portion is modified during a subsequent frame according the determined compensation value. The display portion is driven with the modified input display data during the subsequent frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Andrew T. Forsyth
  • Patent number: 10019844
    Abstract: An electronic display is driven to compensate for non-uniformity in a display property across display regions of the electronic display. Non-uniformity measures are determined for a set of electronic displays. A transformation is determined for converting the non-uniformity measures to transformed non-uniformity representations having fewer dimensions than a total number of the display regions in an electronic display. Using the transformation, a transformed non-uniformity representation for the electronic display is generated and stored, and an inverse transform is determined and stored. A system containing the electronic display generates correction values for the display regions by applying the inverse transformation to the transformed non-uniformity representation. Input display data for the electronic display is modified according to the generated correction values for the display regions. The electronic display is driven according the modified display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Shizhe Shen, Evan Mark Richards
  • Publication number: 20170363865
    Abstract: An electronic display is driven to compensate for aging of pixels in the electronic display. An aging factor is determined based on initial display data for a display portion of the electronic display during one or more monitored frames. The aging factor is indicative of aging of pixels in the display portion of the electronic display due to use corresponding to the initial display data. An aging counter for the display portion is increased based on the determined aging factor. A compensation value is determined for the display portion based on the aging counter for the display portion. Input display data for the display portion is modified during a subsequent frame according the determined compensation value. The display portion is driven with the modified input display data during the subsequent frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Andrew T. Forsyth
  • Patent number: 9779686
    Abstract: An electronic display is driven to compensate for aging of pixels in the electronic display. An aging factor is determined based on initial display data for a display portion of the electronic display during one or more monitored frames. The aging factor is indicative of aging of pixels in the display portion of the electronic display due to use corresponding to the initial display data. An aging counter for the display portion is increased based on the determined aging factor. A compensation value is determined for the display portion based on the aging counter for the display portion. Input display data for the display portion is modified during a subsequent frame according the determined compensation value. The display portion is driven with the modified input display data during the subsequent frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Andrew T. Forsyth
  • Publication number: 20170169747
    Abstract: An optical evaluation workstation evaluates quality metrics (e.g., optical contrast) of optical elements of a HMD. The workstation includes a test pattern, an optical element feed assembly, a light source, a camera and a control module. The light source backlights the test pattern with diffuse light. The optical element feed assembly receives an optical element of a HMD and places the optical element at a first distance from the test pattern corresponding to a distance between the optics block in the HMD and an exit pupil of the HMD. The camera images the test pattern through the optical element and the camera is positioned at a second distance from the test pattern corresponding to a distance between the exit pupil and an electronic display in the HMD. The control module generates a test report for presentation to a user based on the evaluation of the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Matthew Robert Fulghum, Samuel Redmond D'Amico, Shizhe Shen
  • Publication number: 20170169790
    Abstract: An electronic display is driven to compensate for aging of pixels in the electronic display. An aging factor is determined based on initial display data for a display portion of the electronic display during one or more monitored frames. The aging factor is indicative of aging of pixels in the display portion of the electronic display due to use corresponding to the initial display data. An aging counter for the display portion is increased based on the determined aging factor. A compensation value is determined for the display portion based on the aging counter for the display portion. Input display data for the display portion is modified during a subsequent frame according the determined compensation value. The display portion is driven with the modified input display data during the subsequent frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Andrew Thomas Forsyth