Patents by Inventor Ivan A. McCracken
Ivan A. McCracken 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: 20230371430Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for computer-assisted and automatic harvest, sorting, pruning, and trimming of agricultural products. In one implementation, the agricultural product may be a hemp or cannabis product. In one implementation, the agricultural product is automatically pruned through use an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated cutting path. In one implementation, the agricultural product is supported by a clamping assembly. In one implementation, the agricultural product is imaged in a positive-pressure imaging assembly. In one implementation, the agricultural product is automatically trimmed in a positive pressure cutting assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Farm-Hand AI, Inc.Inventors: David HARTKOP, Milan Gabriel YOUNG, Ivan MCCRACKEN
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Patent number: 11789277Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a front having a display housing and a back having a rear housing. A first member extends between the front and the back and is adjustable via an actuation of a first rotatable actuator and a first cabling mechanism. A second member extends between the front and the back and is adjustable via an actuation of a second rotatable actuator and a second cabling mechanism. A third member extends between the front and the back and is adjustable via the actuation of the second rotatable actuator and a third cabling mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Keaton Snyder, Isaac Frazier, Jos Jacobs, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Clement Gallois, John Underwood, William Winters, Darryl Jensen
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Publication number: 20230004013Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes various features that allow for customizing the HMD to different users. The HMD may include an interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment mechanism that includes a double biasing assembly for smooth, controlled adjustment of the spacing between lens tubes. The HMD may include a field of view (FOV) adjustment mechanism that includes first and second gear assemblies connected via a connecting rod to allow uniform adjustment of the spacing between the lenses and the user's face. The HMD may further include a swappable face gasket, a swappable visor, a removable head strap, and a modular accessory compartment for further customizations to the HMD. The HMD may further include inconspicuous spectrum-transmissive windows that are made with a spectrum-transmissive base material for the HMD housing that is coated with a spectrum-opaque material, and the spectrum-opaque material is selectively removed to create the spectrum-transmissive windows.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Ivan A. McCracken, Carl Samuel Conlee IV, Isaac Frazier, Keaton Snyder, John A. Underwood
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Patent number: 11442280Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes various features that allow for customizing the HMD to different users. The HMD may include an interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment mechanism that includes a double biasing assembly for smooth, controlled adjustment of the spacing between lens tubes. The HMD may include a field of view (FOV) adjustment mechanism that includes first and second gear assemblies connected via a connecting rod to allow uniform adjustment of the spacing between the lenses and the user's face. The HMD may further include a swappable face gasket, a swappable visor, a removable head strap, and a modular accessory compartment for further customizations to the HMD. The HMD may further include inconspicuous spectrum-transmissive windows that are made with a spectrum-transmissive base material for the HMD housing that is coated with a spectrum-opaque material, and the spectrum-opaque material is selectively removed to create the spectrum-transmissive windows.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Ivan A. McCracken, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Isaac Frazier, Keaton Snyder, John A. Underwood
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Publication number: 20220187609Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a front having a display housing and a back having a rear housing. A first member extends between the front and the back and is adjustable via an actuation of a first rotatable actuator and a first cabling mechanism. A second member extends between the front and the back and is adjustable via an actuation of a second rotatable actuator and a second cabling mechanism. A third member extends between the front and the back and is adjustable via the actuation of the second rotatable actuator and a third cabling mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Keaton Snyder, Isaac Frazier, Jos Jacobs, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Clement Gallois, John Underwood, William Winters, Darryl Jensen
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Patent number: 10996463Abstract: A head-mounted display, or other near-to-eye display, incorporates optics that include a spatially-varying retarder (SVR). The SVR may be manufactured with a correction factor applied thereto in order to compensate for one or more manufacturing errors that are exhibited in a molded lens and/or a polarizing beam splitter included in the optics of the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Joshua Mark Hudman, Ivan A. McCracken
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Publication number: 20210072533Abstract: A head-mounted display, or other near-to-eye display, incorporates optics that include a spatially-varying retarder (SVR). The SVR may be manufactured with a correction factor applied thereto in order to compensate for one or more manufacturing errors that are exhibited in a molded lens and/or a polarizing beam splitter included in the optics of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Joshua Mark Hudman, Ivan A. McCracken
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Publication number: 20200341283Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes various features that allow for customizing the HMD to different users. The HMD may include an interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment mechanism that includes a double biasing assembly for smooth, controlled adjustment of the spacing between lens tubes. The HMD may include a field of view (FOV) adjustment mechanism that includes first and second gear assemblies connected via a connecting rod to allow uniform adjustment of the spacing between the lenses and the user's face. The HMD may further include a swappable face gasket, a swappable visor, a removable head strap, and a modular accessory compartment for further customizations to the HMD. The HMD may further include inconspicuous spectrum-transmissive windows that are made with a spectrum-transmissive base material for the HMD housing that is coated with a spectrum-opaque material, and the spectrum-opaque material is selectively removed to create the spectrum-transmissive windows.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Ivan A. McCracken, Carl Samuel Conlee IV, Isaac Frazier, Keaton Snyder, John A. Underwood
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Patent number: 10014629Abstract: The described technology includes a connecting apparatus for a computing device including a connector protrusion attached to an input component and a receptor formed in a receiving component of the computing device and configured to attach to the connector protrusion. The connector protrusion includes a center section having a plurality of electrical connectors configured within a plastic overmold and configured to be communicatively coupled to the computing device to communicate the generated signals and two end sections having mechanical support components configured to be physically coupled to the computing device wherein each of the two end sections are contiguous to the center section. The receptor includes a locking mechanism configured to releasably attach to the connector protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Scott D. Bowers, Joseph B. Gault, Ivan McCracken, Andrew W. Hill
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Patent number: 10014638Abstract: A USB-C connector includes a plug tip and a cable. The USB-C connector includes a single, seamless, continuous, thin housing protecting a wire termination and contacts within the housing. The housing has a uniform thickness along the entire length of the housing. The housing may provide strain relief to the cable and an aesthetically pleasing USB-C connector. The connector may include an overmold residing inside the housing and over the wire termination and contacts.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Ivan A. McCracken
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Publication number: 20180175568Abstract: A USB-C receptacle includes a housing and a tongue assembly. The housing includes first and second sidewalls and may include first and second support members. The housing may be directly attached to the chassis of a computing device and may secure a USB-C plug. The tongue assembly includes a mid-plate. The tongue assembly and mid-plate may reside between the first and second sidewalls of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventor: Ivan A. McCracken
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Publication number: 20180175567Abstract: A USB-C connector includes a plug tip and a cable. The USB-C connector includes a single, seamless, continuous, thin housing protecting a wire termination and contacts within the housing. The housing has a uniform thickness along the entire length of the housing. The housing may provide strain relief to the cable and an aesthetically pleasing USB-C connector. The connector may include an overmold residing inside the housing and over the wire termination and contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventor: Ivan A. MCCRACKEN
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Patent number: 9084521Abstract: The surface cleaning assembly for scrubbing a surface in a concealed location includes a handle that may be gripped by a user. A shaft is coupled to the handle. The shaft may be positioned proximate the surface. A bristle is coupled to the shaft. The bristle may scrub the surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Inventor: Ivan McCracken
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Patent number: 8308281Abstract: An ink umbilical provides different colors of heated ink to multiple print heads in an integrated structure. The ink umbilical includes a first plurality of ink carrying conduits mounted on one side of a heater and a second plurality of conduits mounted on a second side of the heater opposite the first side of the heater. The heater is operated to keep the ink in the conduits on each of the heater in a predetermined temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Chad David Freitag, Roger G. Leighton, Ivan A. McCracken, Antonio St. Clair Lloyd Williams
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Patent number: D857692Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Jeremy Adam Selan, Quentin Smith, Dustin Michael Horn, Clement Gallois
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Patent number: D885384Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Jeremy Adam Selan, Quentin Smith, Dustin Michael Horn, Clement Gallois
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Patent number: D917477Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Jeremy Adam Selan, Quentin Smith, Dustin Michael Horn, Clement Gallois
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Patent number: D943575Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Jeremy Adam Selan, Quentin Smith, Dustin Michael Horn, Clement Gallois
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Patent number: D955386Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Jeremy Adam Selan, Quentin Smith, Dustin Michael Horn, Clement Gallois
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Patent number: D956045Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Ivan A. McCracken, Jeremy Adam Selan, Quentin Smith, Dustin Michael Horn, Clement Gallois