Patents by Inventor James D. Butcher

James D. Butcher 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: 20240115831
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide customized feedback content during a meditation experience. For example, an example process may include obtaining physiological data via one or more sensors, determining that an attentive state based on the physiological data, customizing feedback content based on a user attribute to change the attentive state during the meditation mode, and providing the customized feedback content during the meditation mode after a delay time based on the user attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Christine E. Welch, Alastair K. Fettes, Amy E. DeDonato, Christine Godwin, Dorian D. Dargan, Eric Landreneau, Gary I. Butcher, Grant H. Mulliken, Hugh A. Sider, Izzet B. Yildiz, James D. Dusseau, Jean-Francois St-Amour, Joanne Lee, Lucie Belanger, Michael B. Tucker, Philipp Rockel, Theodore Nestor Panagiotopoulos
  • Patent number: 9123499
    Abstract: Electrode configurations for an AC or DC gas discharge device having a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels defined by a hollow gas-filled plasma-shell. One or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each plasma-shell. The electrical contact may include a conductive pad in electrical contact with the electrode and/or the plasma-shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Wedding, Oliver Michael Strbik, III, Carol Ann M. Wedding, James D. Butcher, Adeline Miermont-Butcher
  • Patent number: 9024526
    Abstract: A detector element with one or more attached antenna for the detection of high energy transmissions, including microwaves, lasers, electromagnetic signals, RF waves, radiation, and/or other transmissions emitted by a source including a weapon system. The element may also be used as a safety device to warn and alert personnel working around high energy devices of electromagnetic leaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Wenzlaff, Edwin F. Peters, Carol Ann Wedding, James D. Butcher
  • Patent number: 8998668
    Abstract: A gas discharge device constructed out of one or more plasma-shells with an organic luminescent substance located on an external portion of each plasma-shell, the organic substance being excited by photons from a gas discharge within the plasma-shell. In one embodiment, the plasma-shell is made of an inorganic luminescent substance. The external organic luminescent substance may contain or be combined with an inorganic substance that may also be a luminescent substance. The plasma-shell may contain both inorganic and organic substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Wedding, Carol Ann M. Wedding, Oliver Michael Strbik, III, James D. Butcher, Adeline Miermont-Butcher
  • Patent number: 8981645
    Abstract: Plasma-shells filled with ionizable gas are positioned on or within a rigid, flexible, or semi-flexible substrate. Each plasma-shell is electrically connected to one or more electrical conductors such as electrodes with an electrically conductive bonding substance to form an electrical connection to each electrode. The electrically conductive bonding substance may comprise a pad connected to the plasma-shell and/or an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Wedding, Oliver Michael Strbik, III, Carol Ann M. Wedding, James D. Butcher, Adeline Miermont-Butcher
  • Patent number: 8736166
    Abstract: A gas discharge device such as a plasma display panel (PDP) device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or subpixels. Each pixel or subpixel is defined by a hollow Plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. One or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each Plasma-shell. The Plasma-shell may include inorganic and organic luminescent materials including quantum dots that are excited by the gas discharge within each Plasma-shell. The luminescent material, including quantum dots, may be located on an exterior and/or interior surface of the Plasma-shell or incorporated into the shell of the Plasma-shell. Up-conversion and down-conversion materials may be used. The substrate may be rigid or flexible with a flat, curved, or irregular surface. In one embodiment, the Plasma-shell is in the geometric shape of a cube or cuboid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Butcher, Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 4867398
    Abstract: A radio mounting assembly is disclosed having a pair of brackets for mounting a radio to an instrument panel of an automotive vehicle, a decorative trim bezel for concealing the space between the instrument panel and radio, fastener means for detachably connecting the bezel to the instrument panel without the fasteners being visible and wherein the bezel and the mounting brackets for the radio have cooperable means on there to automatically center and position the bezel relative to the radio face when being secured to the instrument panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Butcher, Eugene R. Bastien