Patents by Inventor Gregory A. Springer
Gregory A. Springer 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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Publication number: 20230128224Abstract: A passenger vehicle optical communication system includes a source vehicle including a light source and an endpoint vehicle including a camera. The source vehicle transmits a series of patterns using the light source to communicate, as one example, state information to the endpoint vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Nathan Leefer, Gregory A. Springer
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Patent number: 11533111Abstract: A passenger vehicle optical communication system includes a source vehicle including a light source and an endpoint vehicle including a camera. The source vehicle transmits a series of patterns using the light source to communicate, as one example, state information to the endpoint vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Glydways Inc.Inventors: Nathan Leefer, Gregory A. Springer
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Publication number: 20210111811Abstract: A passenger vehicle optical communication system includes a source vehicle including a light source and an endpoint vehicle including a camera. The source vehicle transmits a series of patterns using the light source to communicate, as one example, state information to the endpoint vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Nathan Leefer, Gregory A. Springer
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Patent number: 10887023Abstract: A passenger vehicle optical communication system includes a source vehicle including a light source and an endpoint vehicle including a camera. The source vehicle transmits a series of patterns using the light source to communicate, as one example, state information to the endpoint vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Wayfarer, Inc.Inventors: Nathan Leefer, Gregory A. Springer
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Patent number: 10439187Abstract: A battery system comprises a plurality of substantially planar layers extending over transverse areas. The plurality of layers comprises at least one cathode layer, at least one anode layer, and at least one separator layer therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Patent number: 10211433Abstract: In a first embodiment, a pre-formed pouch is provided that includes a plurality of walls joined in order to define an aperture. An assembly may be inserted into the aperture, which may then be sealed. Further, the pre-formed pouch may be fitted to the shape or dimensions of the assembly that will be inserted. In a second embodiment, an assembly may be covered in a plurality of layers of material, such as first layer of plastic, a layer of metal, and then a second layer of plastic. Each of the coverings may be formed by dipping the assembly in plastic or metal (or other material), molding layers around the assembly, coating the assembly in the layers, vapor depositing plastic or metal (or other material) onto the assembly, and/or a combination of these operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Patent number: 10033029Abstract: A battery core includes an anode electrode collector and a cathode current collector. The battery core is created by defining an anode solution cavity on an anode electrode collector; defining a cathode solution cavity on a cathode electrode collector; depositing an anode solution into the anode solution cavity; depositing a cathode solution into the cathode solution cavity; curing the anode solution within the anode solution cavity; and curing the cathode solution within the cathode solution cavity. The anode electrode collector and the cathode current collector may be combined in a sandwich configuration and may be separated by one or more separators.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Publication number: 20170309882Abstract: A battery system comprises a plurality of substantially planar layers extending over transverse areas. The plurality of layers comprises at least one cathode layer, at least one anode layer, and at least one separator layer therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Patent number: 9734108Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that limit the number of types of connectors needed by an electronic device. One example may provide a connector receptacle capable of adapting to multiple types of connector inserts. In this way, connector inserts conveying one of a number of interfaces can be accepted by the same connector receptacle. This may reduce the number and types of connector receptacles needed on an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Erik J. Shahoian, Gregory A. Springer
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Patent number: 9711770Abstract: A battery system comprises a plurality of substantially planar layers extending over transverse areas. The plurality of layers comprises at least one cathode layer, at least one anode layer, and at least one separator layer therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Patent number: 9537238Abstract: Sockets that provide easy access for users to change cards while allowing the use of thinner device enclosures. One example provides a socket having two positions. When the socket is in an open state, the card may be oriented in a direction substantially away from the main logic board. When the socket is in a closed state, the card moves such that it is oriented at least closer to being in parallel to the main logic board.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul J. Hack, Joshua Funamura, George V. Anastas, Zheng Gao, Gregory Springer, Erik James Shahoian
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Publication number: 20150311609Abstract: Sockets that provide easy access for users to change cards while allowing the use of thinner device enclosures. One example provides a socket having two positions. When the socket is in an open state, the card may be oriented in a direction substantially away from the main logic board. When the socket is in a closed state, the card moves such that it is oriented at least closer to being in parallel to the main logic board.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul J. Hack, Joshua Funamura, George V. Anastas, Zheng Gao, Gregory Springer, Erik James Shahoian
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Patent number: 8968019Abstract: Sockets that provide easy access for users to change cards while allowing the use of thinner device enclosures. One example provides a socket having two positions. When the socket is in an open state, the card may be oriented in a direction substantially away from the main logic board. When the socket is in a closed state, the card moves such that it is oriented at least closer to being in parallel to the main logic board.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul J. Hack, Joshua Funamura, George V. Anastas, Zheng Gao, Gregory A. Springer, Erik James Shahoian
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Publication number: 20150044527Abstract: A battery cell core is hermetically sealed inside a casing, with conductive paths formed in the casing that individually connect cell subsets of the core to a battery management circuit for detecting individual failing cell subsets and for changing the battery output voltage by forming series/parallel connections between the cell subsets. In one version, the casing has a metal can with an opening of the can being sealed by a non-conductive cap that is sealed and bonded along its periphery to the can walls. In one aspect, the cap has edge metallization along its periphery where it is sealed to the can walls. In another aspect, the conductive paths are formed in the non-conductive cap. Various other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Bernd J. Neudecker, Brian C. Menzel, Gregory A. Springer, Shawn W. Snyder, Timothy W. Scales, Victor William Santini
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Patent number: 8896487Abstract: Antennas are provided for electronic devices such as portable computers. An electronic device may have a housing in which an antenna is mounted. The housing may have an antenna window for the antenna. The antenna window may be formed from dielectric or from antenna window slots in a conductive member such as a conductive wall of the electronic device housing. An antenna may have an antenna resonating element that is backed by a conductive antenna cavity. The antenna resonating element may have antenna resonating element slots or may be formed using other antenna configurations such as inverted-F configurations. The antenna cavity may have conductive vertical sidewalls and a conductive rear wall. The antenna cavity walls may be formed from conductive layers on a dielectric antenna support structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bing Chiang, Douglas B. Kough, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Gregory A. Springer, Hao Xu, Robert W. Schlub, Eduardo Lopez Camacho, Mattia Pascolini, Jerzy Guterman, Yi Jiang, Rodney Andres Gomez Angulo, Ruben Caballero
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Publication number: 20140147742Abstract: A battery core includes an anode electrode collector and a cathode current collector. The battery core is created by defining an anode solution cavity on an anode electrode collector; defining a cathode solution cavity on a cathode electrode collector; depositing an anode solution into the anode solution cavity; depositing a cathode solution into the cathode solution cavity; curing the anode solution within the anode solution cavity; and curing the cathode solution within the cathode solution cavity. The anode electrode collector and the cathode current collector may be combined in a sandwich configuration and may be separated by one or more separators.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Publication number: 20140147737Abstract: In a first embodiment, a pre-formed pouch is provided that includes a plurality of walls joined in order to define an aperture. An assembly may be inserted into the aperture, which may then be sealed. Further, the pre-formed pouch may be fitted to the shape or dimensions of the assembly that will be inserted. In a second embodiment, an assembly may be covered in a plurality of layers of material, such as first layer of plastic, a layer of metal, and then a second layer of plastic. Each of the coverings may be formed by dipping the assembly in plastic or metal (or other material), molding layers around the assembly, coating the assembly in the layers, vapor depositing plastic or metal (or other material) onto the assembly, and/or a combination of these operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Publication number: 20140147731Abstract: A battery system comprises a plurality of substantially planar layers extending over transverse areas. The plurality of layers comprises at least one cathode layer, at least one anode layer, and at least one separator layer therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Patent number: 8702441Abstract: A computing device includes a Mini DisplayPort or other standardized plug and port connection that is fully internalized within the full device housing. The port can be affixed or coupled to a printed circuit board, with a display cable having a mating plug that is plugged into the port. To prevent the inadvertent uncoupling of the plug from the port, one or more clips, clamps, fixtures, or other cable retention components can hold the cable and/or plug in place at or near where the plug inserts into the Mini DisplayPort or other standardized communication port. Added stability to the cable can also be provided at or near such location.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Houtan R. Farahani, George V. Anastas, Larry A. Barham, Todd F. Gotham, Min C. Kim, George M. Simmel, Gregory A. Springer
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Patent number: 8696388Abstract: Electrical connections that provide a highly manufacturable, well-shielded path from a cable to a printed circuit board. One example provides a path that includes a card and a connector. Conductors in a cable may be attached to a card. The card may be shielded with a ground plane on one or more sides and edges. The card may insert into a connector that may be attached to a printed circuit board. The connector may include a shield that may have a top portion that forms electrical contact with a ground plane on a top of a card inserted in the connector. The connector may have an opening for accepting the card that is defined by the top portion of the shield and a plurality of rows of contacts. The rows of contacts may include an outer row of ground contacts, and an inner row of signal contacts.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zheng Gao, George Tziviskos, Min Chul Kim, Vincent Duperron, George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer