Patents by Inventor Gerald Lewis

Gerald Lewis 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: 20240164487
    Abstract: A device includes a cleat and a receiver. The cleat is mountable to a shoe and includes a front portion and a rear footing. The receiver is mountable to a support of an external device. The receiver includes a frame including a front portion and a rear portion, with the rear portion configured to removably slidably receive the rear footing of the cleat. The front portion of the receiver includes a catch element, which is pivotally movable relative to the frame while under a rotational biasing force in a first orientation, to permit slidable entry of, and retention of, the front portion of the cleat relative to the frame of the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: GCLIProw, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald Lewis Strickland, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9932360
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are “equipment-free” flow-through assay devices based on patterned porous media, methods of making same, and methods of using same. The porous, hydrophilic media are patterned with hydrophobic barriers for performing assays on liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Scott Thomas Phillips, Gregory Gerald Lewis, Jessica Sloane Robbins
  • Patent number: 9818347
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for controlling the states of a light modulator used in displays. A display apparatus includes pixel circuits coupled to the light modulators. Each pixel circuit can include an output node, a data capacitor, a charge transistor for charging the output node and a discharge transistor for selectively conducting a current between the output node and an update interconnect providing an update voltage. The display apparatus can include a controller for testing the pixel circuits to determine two or more update voltage levels, each update voltage level causing the discharge transistor to conduct current. The controller also can be configured to determine a logical high voltage level to be stored in the data capacitor based on the plurality of update voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SnapTrack, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Uriostigue, Alan Gerald Lewis, Mark Milenko Todorovich, Pramod Varma, Paul Penchin Pan
  • Publication number: 20170287414
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for controlling the states of a light modulator used in displays. A display apparatus includes pixel circuits coupled to the light modulators. Each pixel circuit can include an output node, a data capacitor, a charge transistor for charging the output node and a discharge transistor for selectively conducting a current between the output node and an update interconnect providing an update voltage. The display apparatus can include a controller for testing the pixel circuits to determine two or more update voltage levels, each update voltage level causing the discharge transistor to conduct current. The controller also can be configured to determine a logical high voltage level to be stored in the data capacitor based on the plurality of update voltage levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Eric Uriostigue, Alan Gerald Lewis, Mark Milenko Todorovich, Pramod Varma, Paul Penchin Pan
  • Patent number: 9714076
    Abstract: A rowing shoe retaining system includes a plate mountable to a sole of a shoe and a receiver mountable to a footboard of a rowing boat. The receiver removably retains the plate, thereby removably retaining the shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: G Clip Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald Lewis Strickland, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9613587
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enhancing display viewability in high ambient conditions without excessive increase in power consumption. In one aspect, a controller associated with the display device can be configured to obtain an indication of ambient light conditions from an ambient light sensor or from a host device hosting the display device. Upon receiving an image frame, the controller can derive a set of color subfields and determine a bit-depth value for each color subfield based on the obtained indication of current ambient light conditions and mapping data which maps ranges of ambient light to respective bit-depth values on a color subfield by color subfield basis. The controller can then generate a number of subframes for each color subfield based on the respective determined bit-depth value and cause the generated subframes to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: SNAPTRACK, INC., SHARP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Halfman, Edward Buckley, Nakano Taketoshi, Brian Finkel, James Eakin, Jignesh Gandhi, Alan Gerald Lewis, Robert Myers, Fahri Yaras, John Fijol
  • Patent number: 9423449
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a display apparatus including dummy display elements that can be switched between being coupled to a test bus and a drive bus. When connected to the drive bus, the circuit components, including thin-film transistors, of the dummy display element experience exposure to typical operating signals. When connected to the test bus, the display apparatus can test the operating parameters of the dummy display element circuit components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Gerald Lewis, Mark Milenko Todorovich, Alain Blaing Nadiguebe, Nada Vukovic-Radic, Stephen Robert Lewis
  • Publication number: 20160214695
    Abstract: A rowing shoe retaining system includes a plate mountable to a sole of a shoe and a receiver mountable to a footboard of a rowing boat. The receiver removably retains the plate, thereby removably retaining the shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Gerald Lewis Strickland, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160210934
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enhancing display viewability in high ambient conditions without excessive increase in power consumption. In one aspect, a controller associated with the display device can be configured to obtain an indication of ambient light conditions from an ambient light sensor or from a host device hosting the display device. Upon receiving an image frame, the controller can derive a set of color subfields and determine a bit-depth value for each color subfield based on the obtained indication of current ambient light conditions and mapping data which maps ranges of ambient light to respective bit-depth values on a color subfield by color subfield basis. The controller can then generate a number of subframes for each color subfield based on the respective determined bit-depth value and cause the generated subframes to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Halfman, Edward Buckley, Nakano Taketoshi, Brian Finkel, James Eakin, Jignesh Gandhi, Alan Gerald Lewis, Robert Myers, Fahri Yaras, John Fijol
  • Publication number: 20160187415
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a display apparatus including dummy display elements that can be switched between being coupled to a test bus and a drive bus. When connected to the drive bus, the circuit components, including thin-film transistors, of the dummy display element experience exposure to typical operating signals. When connected to the test bus, the display apparatus can test the operating parameters of the dummy display element circuit components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Alan Gerald Lewis, Mark Milenko Todorovich, Alain Blaing Nadiguebe, Nada Vukovic-Radic, Stephen Robert Lewis
  • Publication number: 20160189466
    Abstract: A delivery service system includes a cabinet having a plurality of controlled-access storage cells, located in a plurality of zones, a user interface, a user evaluation device, and a processor. The system receives a user request to accept an item for delivery, detects user physical characteristics, and provides user access to a storage cell in a selected zone, the zone being selected based on the detected user physical characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Federal Express Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Ray GIBSON, JR., Douglas William BONSER, Paul Everrett GARRETT, III, David Gerald LEWIS, JR.
  • Patent number: 9322869
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a display apparatus including dummy display elements that can be switched between being coupled to a test bus and a drive bus. When connected to the drive bus, the circuit components, including thin-film transistors, of the dummy display element experience exposure to typical operating loads. When connected to the test bus, the display apparatus can test the operating parameters of the dummy display element circuit components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Gerald Lewis, Mark Milenko Todorovich, Alain Blaing Nadiguebe, Nada Vukovic-Radic, Stephen Robert Lewis
  • Patent number: 9317832
    Abstract: A delivery service system includes a cabinet having a plurality of controlled-access storage cells, located in a plurality of zones, a user interface, a user evaluation device, and a processor. The system receives a user request to accept an item for delivery, detects user physical characteristics, and provides user access to a storage cell in a selected zone, the zone being selected based on the detected user physical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donald Ray Gibson, Jr., Douglas William Bonser, Paul Everrett Garrett, III, David Gerald Lewis, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160086529
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for reducing flicker in display devices. In some image formation processes, a controller can form an image by utilizing a set of color subfields in displaying subframes associated with each of the color subfields. In some implementations, the controller may determine whether to divide or split the display of certain subframes based on environmental factors such as ambient light with or without concern for flicker. In some implementations, the controller may determine to divide or split the display of an x-channel subframe based on the ambient light. The controller can monitor the ambient light levels via an ambient light sensor, and compare the ambient light level to an ambient light threshold. If the ambient light levels go below the ambient light threshold, the controller can employ subframe division or splitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: PIXTRONIX, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Louis Myers, Edward Buckley, Alan Gerald Lewis, Jignesh Gandhi, Fahri Yaras
  • Publication number: 20160078824
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for powering display light sources. A display can include a DC/DC converter included in a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) to serve as the light source driver. Battery current drawn by the DC/DC converter can be smoothed, in part, by introducing a capacitor in parallel with the set of light sources. A display controller can control the DC/DC converter to output a substantially constant current for substantially the entirety of a time period for displaying a set of subframes, storing enough charge on the capacitor to support the current drawn through the light sources by a digital-to-analog converter included in the PMIC. Output current level for the DC/DC converter can be determined for the time period over which the subframes are displayed. The set of subframes can include subframes of a single image frame, or of one or more image frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: James Chester Meador, Alan Gerald Lewis
  • Publication number: 20160074861
    Abstract: A portable analytic apparatus is provided that is capillary-driven and capable of detecting analytes within a sample and providing an unambiguous positive/negative response. Embodiments provide for a hydrophobic detection reagent within a hydrophilic porous media, where a hydrophobic detection reagent changes to hydrophilic products in a presence/absence of a target analyte. This change from hydrophobic to hydrophilic provides a means to achieve a desired result of generating an unambiguous qualitative and/or quantitative positive/negative readout by forcing samples to wick at differential rates through hydrophilic regions towards a detection region. Suitable hydrophobic detection reagents are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Scott Thomas Phillips, Gregory Gerald Lewis, Dustin Wayne Ritter, Adam Brooks
  • Publication number: 20150192634
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a display apparatus including dummy display elements that can be switched between being coupled to a test bus and a drive bus. When connected to the drive bus, the circuit components, including thin-film transistors, of the dummy display element experience exposure to typical operating loads. When connected to the test bus, the display apparatus can test the operating parameters of the dummy display element circuit components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Gerald Lewis, Mark Milenko Todorovich, Alain Blaing Nadiguebe, Nada Vukovic-Radic, Stephen Robert Lewis
  • Patent number: 9027502
    Abstract: A rowing shoe retaining system includes a plate mountable to a sole of a shoe and a receiver mountable to a footboard of a rowing boat. The receiver removably retains the plate, thereby removably retaining the shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: G Clip Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald Lewis Strickland, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150005193
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are “equipment-free” flow-through assay devices based on patterned porous media, methods of making same, and methods of using same. The porous, hydrophilic media are patterned with hydrophobic barriers for performing assays on liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Scott Thomas Phillips, Gregory Gerald Lewis, Jessica Sloane Robbins
  • Publication number: 20140299037
    Abstract: A rowing shoe retaining system includes a plate mountable to a sole of a shoe and a receiver mountable to a footboard of a rowing boat. The receiver removably retains the plate, thereby removably retaining the shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventor: Gerald Lewis Strickland, JR.