Patents by Inventor Ian Wright
Ian Wright 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: 20150224374Abstract: A golf club head comprises a club head body having an external surface with a heel portion, a toe portion, a crown, a sole, and a face. The golf club head has a moment of inertia about a CG Z axis, IZZ. In some implementations, IZZ is greater than 4150 g·cm2 or greater than 4400 g·cm2. The face comprises a bulge curvature that satisfies a predetermined mathematical relationship. In some implementations, a moment of inertia about the CG X axis, Ixx, exceeds a predetermined value, and Izz is greater than Ixx. The face can comprise a roll curvature, and a ratio of the bulge curvature divided by the roll curvature, RC, can be greater than 0.28 and less than 0.75.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Brandon Woolley, Ian Wright, Todd P. Beach
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Patent number: 9065103Abstract: A battery system is provided in which the batteries are mounted between a pair of substrates, the system further including at least one cooling tube mounted next to the batteries, the cooling tube used to withdraw heat from the batteries via a circulating liquid coolant.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey B. Straubel, Eugene Berdichevsky, David Lyons, Thomas Colson, Martin Eberhard, Ian Wright, Robert Ferber
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Patent number: 9050528Abstract: Techniques for controlling motions using motion recognizers generated in advance by users are described. According to embodiment, the motion recognizers created by end users are utilized to control virtual objects displayed in a virtual environment. By manipulating one or more motion sensitive devices, end users could command what the objects to do in the virtual environment. Motion signals from each of the motion sensitive devices are recognized in accordance with the motion recognizers created in advance by the users. One or more of the motion signals are at the same time utilized to tune the motion recognizers or create additional motion recognizers. As a result, the motion recognizers are constantly updated to be more accommodating to the user(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: AiLive Inc.Inventors: Yoichiro Kawano, Xiaoyuan Tu, Charles Musick, Jr., William Robert Powers, III, Stuart Reynolds, Dana Wilkinson, Ian Wright, Wei Yen
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Publication number: 20150037797Abstract: The invention relates to a method of detecting nucleic acid molecules by immunoassay detection. Detection of a specific nucleic acid molecule of interest is achieved by using a nucleic acid probe in solution which hybridizes in solution to the nucleic acid molecule of interest. Immunoassay detection is achieved by using an antibody specific for the hybrid formed by hybridization of the nucleic acid probe to the nucleic acid molecule of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicants: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS INC, SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS PRODUCTS GMBHInventors: Andreas Kappel, Andreas Keller, Cord Friedrich Stahler, Ian Wright, Linda Marie Anderson-Mauser, William Bedzyk, Herbert Schwarz, Michaela Wicke
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Patent number: 8888609Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body and at least one self-extracting pressed weight assembly. The body comprises a face plate positioned at a forward portion of the golf club head, a sole positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown positioned at a top portion of the golf club head and a skirt positioned around a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and the crown. The body defines an interior cavity. The weight assembly comprises at least three components and is configured for a press fit engagement with the golf club head. The assembly has a drive portion and a threaded portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Todd P. Beach, Benoit Vincent, Ian Wright, Kraig Alan Willett, Gery Mel Zimmerman, Joseph Henry Hoffman
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Publication number: 20140207320Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a geared traction drive system configured to drive a wheel of a vehicle, comprising: a driveshaft for transmitting power to the wheel; an electric drive motor for driving the driveshaft, the electric drive motor configured to receive signals from a vehicle dynamic control system to command a required speed; a gear reduction component for reducing the speed of the motor by a predetermined factor to a lower speed suitable for driving the wheel; and a drive electronics component that works with the electric drive motor to drive the wheel to the speed commanded by the vehicle dynamic control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: WRIGHTSPEED, INC.Inventors: Ian Wright, Ryan Cash
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Publication number: 20140178722Abstract: A battery system is provided in which the batteries are mounted between a pair of substrates, the system further including at least one cooling tube mounted next to the batteries, the cooling tube used to withdraw heat from the batteries via a circulating liquid coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Tesla Motors, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey B. Straubel, Eugene Berdichevsky, David Lyons, Thomas Colson, Martin Eberhard, Ian Wright, Robert Ferber
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Patent number: 8718897Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a geared traction drive system configured to drive a wheel of a vehicle, comprising: a driveshaft for transmitting power to the wheel; an electric drive motor for driving the driveshaft, the electric drive motor configured to receive signals from a vehicle dynamic control system to command a required speed; a gear reduction component for reducing the speed of the motor by a predetermined factor to a lower speed suitable for driving the wheel; and a drive electronics component that works with the electric drive motor to drive the wheel to the speed commanded by the vehicle dynamic control system.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Wrightspeed, Inc.Inventors: Ian Wright, Ryan Cash
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Publication number: 20140106898Abstract: A golf club head with an increased moment of inertia (MOI) about the X axis and the Z axis. Generally, the MOI about the Z axis is at least about 4400 g·cm2 and the MOI about the X axis is at least about 2500 g·cm2. The radius of the bulge of the club face is increased while the radius of the roll is reduced to compensate for the gear effect produced by the increased MOIs. The bulge curvature is generally between about 0.016 cm?1 and about 0.028 cm?1, and the roll curvature is between about 0.033 cm?1 and about 0.066 cm?1. The roll curvature is greater than the bulge curvature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Brandon H. Woolley, Ian Wright, Todd P. Beach
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Publication number: 20140092009Abstract: A video gaming system includes a wireless controller that senses linear and angular acceleration to calculate paths of controller movement over a broad range of controller motion. The system also includes an electromagnetic alignment element, such as a set of LEDS. The controller includes an additional sensor to sense light from the LEDs over a relatively restricted range of controller motion, and use this sensed light to dynamically calibrate the controller when the controller passes through the restricted range of motion over which the sensor senses the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: AiLive Inc.Inventors: Wei Yen, Ian Wright, Xiaoyuan Tu, Stuart Reynolds, William Robert Powers, Charles Musick, John Funge, Daniel Dobson, Curt Bererton
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Patent number: 8655622Abstract: Techniques for interpreting orientation invariant motion are disclosed. Unlike a prior art controller that has a specific physical design to induce or force a user to grip the controller in a consistent way, a disclosed controller does not have such a physical design and allows a user to grip the controller in any way that is comfortable to the user. One or more transformations or rotations are designed to transform or rotate readings from inertial sensors housed in the controller to readings independent from how the controller is being gripped by a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: AiLive, Inc.Inventors: Wei Yen, Ian Wright, Dana Wilkinson, Xiaoyuan Tu, Stuart Reynolds, William Robert Powers, III, Charles Musick, Jr., John Funge
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Patent number: 8616999Abstract: A golf club head with an increased moment of inertia (MOI) about the X axis and the Z axis. Generally, the MOI about the Z axis is at least about 4400 g·cm2 and the MOI about the X axis is at least about 2500 g·cm2. The radius of the bulge of the club face is increased while the radius of the roll is reduced to compensate for the gear effect produced by the increased MOIs. The bulge curvature is generally between about 0.016 cm?1 and about 0.028 cm?1, and the roll curvature is between about 0.033 cm?1 and about 0.066 cm?1. The roll curvature is greater than the bulge curvature.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Brandon Woolley, Ian Wright, Todd P. Beach
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Publication number: 20130331199Abstract: A method is disclosed for matching a test golfer with a particular golf club selected from a group of golf clubs having a plurality of styles. The method utilizes data set derived in an initial procedure in which the club style preferences for each of a large number of pre-test golfers is recorded and correlated with a set of performance parameters for the golf swings of such pre-test golfers. This data enables the pre-test golfers to be classified into subgroups, in which golfers within the same subgroup generally prefer the same club style and golfers in different subgroups generally prefer different club styles. After this data set has been established, the test golfer takes a golf swing with a golf club, while performance parameters for the swing are measured. Based on the measured performance parameters and the previously established data set, the test golfer is classified according to swing type, and the optimum golf-club is then selected from the plurality of styles of golf clubs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Ian Wright, David Anderson, Peter J. Roberts, Benoit Vincent
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Publication number: 20130324300Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body and at least one self-extracting pressed weight assembly. The body comprises a face plate positioned at a forward portion of the golf club head, a sole positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown positioned at a top portion of the golf club head and a skirt positioned around a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and the crown. The body defines an interior cavity. The weight assembly comprises at least three components and is configured for a press fit engagement with the golf club head. The assembly has a drive portion and a threaded portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Todd P. Beach, Benoit Vincent, Ian Wright, Kraig Alan Willett, Gery Mel Zimmerman, Joseph Henry Hoffman
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Patent number: 8562457Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body and at least one self-extracting pressed weight assembly. The body comprises a face plate positioned at a forward portion of the golf club head, a sole positioned at a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown positioned at a top portion of the golf club head and a skirt positioned around a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and the crown. The body defines an interior cavity. The weight assembly comprises at least three components and is configured for a press fit engagement with the golf club head. The assembly has a drive portion and a threaded portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Todd P. Beach, Thomas Olsavsky, Benoit Vincent, Ian Wright, Kraig Alan Willett, Gery Mel Zimmerman, Joseph Henry Hoffman
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Patent number: 8419545Abstract: Techniques for controlling movements of an object in a videogame are disclosed. At least one video camera is used at a location where at least a player plays the videogame, the video camera captures various movements of the player. A designated device (e.g., a game console or computer) is configured to the video data to derive the movements of the player from the video data, and cause the object to respond to the movements of the player. When the designated device receives video data from more than one locations, players at the respective locations can play a networked videogame that may be built upon a shared space representing some or all of the real-world spaces of the locations. The video game is embedded with objects, some of which respond to the movements of the players and interact with other objects in accordance with rules of the video games.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: AiLive, Inc.Inventors: Wei Yen, Ian Wright, Dana Wilkinson, Xiaoyuan Tu, Stuart Reynolds, William Robert Powers, III, Charles Musick, Jr., John Funge
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Patent number: 8292756Abstract: A golf club head with an increased moment of inertia (MOI) about the X axis and the Z axis. Generally, the MOI about the Z axis is at least about 4400 g·cm2 and the MOI about the X axis is at least about 2500 g·cm2. The radius of the bulge of the club face is increased while the radius of the roll is reduced to compensate for the gear effect produced by the increased MOIs. The bulge curvature is generally between about 0.016 cm?1 and about 0.028 cm?1, and the roll curvature is between about 0.033 cm?1 and about 0.066 cm?1. The roll curvature is greater than the bulge curvature.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2012Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Brandon Woolley, Ian Wright, Todd P. Beach
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Patent number: 8251821Abstract: A movable game controller for controlling aspects of a computer controlled game display with apparatus for determining the linear and angular motion of that movable controller. The apparatus includes a plurality of self-contained inertial sensors for sensing the tri-axial linear and tri-axial angular motion of the moving controller. Each sensor is mounted at a fixed linear position and orientation with respect to the others. The linear and angular motion of the controller is computed from the correlated motion sensor readings of each of the plurality of self-contained inertial sensors.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: AiLive, Inc.Inventors: Wei Yen, Ian Wright, Xiaoyuan Tu, Stuart Reynolds, William Robert Powers, III, Charles Musick, Jr., John Funge, Daniel Dobson
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Publication number: 20120202614Abstract: A golf club head with an increased moment of inertia (MOI) about the X axis and the Z axis. Generally, the MOI about the Z axis is at least about 4400 g·cm2 and the MOI about the X axis is at least about 2500 g·cm2. The radius of the bulge of the club face is increased while the radius of the roll is reduced to compensate for the gear effect produced by the increased MOIs. The bulge curvature is generally between about 0.016 cm?1 and about 0.028 cm?1, and the roll curvature is between about 0.033 cm?1 and about 0.066 cm?1. The roll curvature is greater than the bulge curvature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Brandon Woolley, Ian Wright, Todd P. Beach
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Patent number: 8195585Abstract: Techniques for supporting generalized motion recognition are disclosed. A set of motion recognizers created from training sets of labeled processed motion signals is provided, each of the component outputs is transformed. When a motion signal including two or more component outputs is received, the component outputs are transformed into device-independent motion signals, where each of the component outputs describes a different component of a motion made by a user. The motion recognizers are applied to the motion signal to build generalized motion recognizers responsive to the motion sensitive device that has generated the motion signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: AiLive, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoyuan Tu, Yoichiro Kawano, Charles Musick, Jr., William Robert Powers, III, Stuart Reynolds, Dana Wilkinson, Ian Wright, Wei Yen