Patents by Inventor John A. Bernard

John A. Bernard 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: 20240168317
    Abstract: An electronic assembly including eyewear and/or an eyewear case having a support structure and a conductive contact surface supported by the support structure. The eyewear case includes electronic components, an electrical contact surface adapted to engage the conductive contact surface of the eyewear, a first magnet attached to the electrical contact surface, and a second magnet that is positioned to attract or repel the first magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: John Bernard ARDISANA, II, Yoav BEN-HAIM, Teodor DABOV
  • Publication number: 20240167714
    Abstract: Various examples described herein include various mechanisms, techniques, and methods to control atmospheric effects in a venue. For example, a method for controlling atmospheric effects in a venue is disclosed. The method includes querying and receiving a number of particulate sensors; analyzing particulate sensor-data received from the plurality of particulate sensors; making a determination whether the particulate sensor-data substantially agrees with a pre-determined target level of an environmental effect; and based on a determination that the particulate sensor-data does not agree substantially with the pre-determined target level of the environmental effect, sending a command signal to one or more haze generators to vary a haze production level; and based on a determination that the particulate sensor-data does agree substantially with the pre-determined target level of the environmental effect, making a determination whether additional haze sequences remain to be completed within the venue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: John Daniel McKenna, Daniel Bernard McKenna
  • Publication number: 20240156523
    Abstract: Described here are devices, systems, and methods for applying pulsed or modulated electric fields to tissue. In some variations, a device may comprise a first elongate body comprising a lumen, a second elongate body at least partially positioned within the lumen, and an expandable member rolled about the second elongate body. The expandable member may comprise an inner end coupled to the second elongate body, an outer end coupled to the first elongate body, and an electrode array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Anthony D'AGOSTINO, John Samuel BATCHELDER, John Bernard LOGAN, Alex Alden PETERSON, Michael Patrick BRENZEL, Corey Addison FANGER, John Robert BALLARD, Paul HINDRICHS, Matthew HEIDNER
  • Publication number: 20240117682
    Abstract: A cutting element assembly includes a cutter support including a cutter bore. A cutting element is in the cutter bore and a resilient element is integral with the cutter support. The resilient element is longitudinally compressible and has a displacement of greater than 0.1 mm and optionally less than 2 mm. Another cutting assembly includes a cutter support coupled to multiple cutting elements. A resilient element of the cutter support is compressible based on a force applied to the cutter support through one or more of the cutting elements. The resilient element can include a slit in the cutter support. A slit may, for instance, extend perpendicular or transverse to an axis of the cutting elements and allow the cutter support to flex and close off or reduce a size of the slit when forces act on one or more of the cutting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: David Robert Evan Snoswell, Ashley Bernard Johnson, Mauro Caresta, John Mervyn Cook
  • Patent number: 11951365
    Abstract: A shim or badge is affixed to a golf club body to produce a cap-back iron, giving the appearance of a hollow-body iron. In this way, the golf club can be manufactured with the performance benefits of a game improvement iron, while providing the appearance of a blade, player's iron, and/or a hollow-body iron. For example, by using a lightweight and rigid shim or badge to close a cavity opening and extend into the toe portion in the golf club body, the golf club head can provide increased stiffness in the topline, while lowering CG. Various shim or badge arrangements and materials can be used, and a filler material and/or damper can be included within the cavity to improve sound and feel, while minimizing loss in COR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Mark Halberg, Adam Robert Warren, John Bernard Krzywiec, Scott Taylor, Bret H. Wahl, Mattieu Bovee
  • Patent number: 11947390
    Abstract: A case for an eyewear device includes a body defining an opening leading to a storage chamber that is sized for retaining the eyewear device. A cover depends from the body and is movable between an open position, in which the opening is exposed, and a closed position, in which the opening is covered by the cover. A battery is mounted to the body for charging the eyewear device. A detector is positioned on either the body or the cover for detecting when the cover is in the open position or the closed position. A display displays a charge state of the battery when the cover is in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: John Bernard Ardisana, II, Emily Lauren Clopp, Teodor Dabov, Mathias Hintermann, Jinwoo Kim, Jun Lin, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
  • Patent number: 11940643
    Abstract: Generally, embodiment(s) disclosed herein may include modular luminaires and customizable luminaire combinations to produce desired overall illumination patterns, modular luminaires interchangeable between one or more lighting systems/luminaires having differing configurations, and/or luminaires with portions thereof formed primarily by optical waveguides, e.g., a wall sconce where primarily only waveguides extend from the wall. Further, contemplated throughout this disclosure is modification of panel-style and/or blade-style waveguide(s) for use with luminaire configurations having different sizes, shapes, and structural elements including as modular luminaires for use in creating further customizable lighting systems/luminaires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Cree Lighting USA LLC
    Inventors: Ethan Creasman, Randy Bernard, Dana Deskiewicz, Nathan Snell, John W. Durkee, Kurt S. Wilcox, Eric J. Tarsa
  • Patent number: 11934038
    Abstract: Eyewear devices including a tether and methods for identifying proper installation of the tether are disclosed. An eyewear device includes transmission lines extending through the temples to electrical and electronic components positioned adjacent to edges of a frame. A tether is attached to the temples to enable power and communication flow between the electrical and electronic components rather than through the frame. Proper installation is identified based on communications passing between the electrical and electronic components via the tether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Yoav Ben-Haim, Varun Sehrawat, Teodor Dabov, John Bernard Ardisana
  • Patent number: 11918874
    Abstract: A damper is provided within the cavity of a golf club head and spans substantially the full length of the striking face from heel-to-toe of the golf club head. One or more cutouts and/or other relief is provided in the damper to reduce the surface area of the damper that contacts the rear surface of the striking face. By reducing the surface area that the damper contacts the rear surface of the striking face, the full length damper improves the sound and feel of the golf club head at impact and only minimally reduces performance of the golf club head. For example, the one or more cutouts and/or other relief maintains face flexibility, characteristic time (CT) and coefficient of restitution (COR) of the striking face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Mark Halberg, Adam Robert Warren, John Bernard Krzywiec, Scott Taylor, Bret H. Wahl
  • Patent number: 11921354
    Abstract: An electronic assembly including eyewear and/or an eyewear case having a support structure and a conductive contact surface supported by the support structure. The eyewear case includes electronic components, an electrical contact surface adapted to engage the conductive contact surface of the eyewear, a first magnet attached to the electrical contact surface, and a second magnet that is positioned to attract or repel the first magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: John Bernard Ardisana, II, Teodor Dabov, Yoav Ben-Haim
  • Publication number: 20240056560
    Abstract: Three-dimensional image calibration and presentation for eyewear including a pair of image capture devices is described. Calibration and presentation includes obtaining a calibration offset to accommodate flexure in the support structure for the eyewear, adjusting a three-dimensional rendering offset by the obtained calibration offset, and presenting the stereoscopic images using the three-dimension rendering offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: John Bernard ARDISANA, II, Nir DAUBE, David BEN EZRA, Mathias Andreas HINTERMANN, Sagi KATZ, Nati KLIGLER, Michael RYNER, Ashutosh SHUKLA
  • Patent number: 11883724
    Abstract: A shim or badge is affixed to a golf cub body to produce a cap-back iron, giving the appearance of a hollow-body iron. In this way, the golf club can be manufactured with the performance benefits of a game improvement iron, while providing the appearance of a blade, player's iron, and/or a hollow-body iron. For example, by using a lightweight and rigid shim or badge to close a cavity opening in the golf club body, the golf club head can provide increased stiffness in the topline, while maintaining a low CG. Various shim or badge arrangements and materials can be used, and a filler material and/or damper can be included within the cavity to improve sound and feel, while minimizing loss in COR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Mark Halberg, Adam Robert Warren, John Bernard Krzywiec, Scott Taylor, Bret H. Wahl
  • Patent number: 11885484
    Abstract: A method is described for deploying one or more illumination devices. The or each illumination device is self-contained and has a first state in which it is inoperative and a second state in which it is operative to provide illumination at at least one frequency within the range from and including infrared to and including ultraviolet. The method comprises the steps, optionally repeated at intervals, of: actuating a mechanism to move a said illumination device from a housing storing one or more illumination devices to an exposed position outside the housing; and automatically changing the state of the illumination device from its first state to its second state as a direct result of movement of the illumination device from within the housing to the exposed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BDZ INVESTMENTS LTD
    Inventor: John Bernard King
  • Publication number: 20240029223
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system for automatic identification and classification of an insect that has a device connected to a camera, a processor, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by the processor, cause the processors to perform the following operations: receiving a live-time image of the insect captured by the camera, determining from the live-time image an irrelevant image data and a relevant image data, determining identification and classification of the insect from the relevant image data by using a convolutional neural network (CNN) module, and providing an alert based on the identification and classification of the insect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventor: John Bernard HUNT
  • Patent number: 11856179
    Abstract: Three-dimensional image calibration and presentation for eyewear including a pair of image capture devices is described. Calibration and presentation includes obtaining a calibration offset to accommodate flexure in the support structure for the eyewear, adjusting a three-dimensional rendering offset by the obtained calibration offset, and presenting the stereoscopic images using the three-dimension rendering offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: John Bernard Ardisana, II, Nir Daube, David Ben Ezra, Mathias Hintermann, Sagi Katz, Nati Kligler, Michael Ryner, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
  • Publication number: 20230369741
    Abstract: An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna and the non-loop antenna is connected in common to a transceiver mechanism or signal feed mechanism. The non-loop antenna is in some embodiments provided by a dipole conductor. An eyewear device incorporates the antenna system, a loop conductor and a dipole conductor of the antenna system being integrated in a body of the eyewear device. The loop conductor may be provided by a lens ring that extends around a lens held by the body. The lens ring may serve both as loop conductor and as a lens retention mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Mathias Andreas Hintermann, Pat Kusbel, Douglas Wayne Moskowitz, Ugur Olgun, Russell Douglas Patton, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons, John Bernard Ardisana, II, Teodor Dabov, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
  • Patent number: 11814555
    Abstract: A polyorganosiloxane hot melt adhesive composition includes a polyolefin-polydiorganosiloxane block copolymer, a polydiorganosiloxane, and a polyorganosilicate resin. The hot melt adhesive composition is useful in electronic device assembly processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: DOW SILICONES CORPORATION, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Steven Swier, Glenn Gordon, Zachary Kean, Michael Behr, John Bernard Horstman
  • Publication number: 20230253634
    Abstract: A battery pack comprises a pair of physically separate battery cells share a single protection circuit module (PCM). Each further saw comprises a respective pair of electrodes, with both pairs of electrodes being connected to a single, common protection circuit board (PCB) of the PCM. The common PCM may be located in a spacing between adjacent ends of the batteries such that a widthwise dimension of the PCB has an upright orientation between the two batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: John Bernard Ardisana, II, Yoav Ben-Haim, Teodor Dabov, Douglas Wayne Moskowitz
  • Patent number: 11721881
    Abstract: An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna and the non-loop antenna is connected in common to a transceiver mechanism or signal feed mechanism. The non-loop antenna is in some embodiments provided by a dipole conductor. An eye-wear device incorporates the antenna system, a loop conductor and a dipole conductor of the antenna system being integrated in a body of the eyewear device. The loop conductor may be provided by a lens ring that extends around a lens held by the body. The lens ring may serve both as loop conductor and as a lens retention mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mathias Andreas Hintermann, Pat Kusbel, Douglas Wayne Moskowitz, Ugur Olgun, Russell Douglas Patton, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons, John Bernard Ardisana, II, Teodor Dabov, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
  • Patent number: 11696423
    Abstract: An immersion cooling system includes an electronic component, a thermally conductive dielectric liquid, and a tank defining a tank interior configured to receive the electronic component and the thermally conductive dielectric liquid for cooling the electronic component. The immersion cooling system also includes a wall positioned external to the tank to coordinate with the tank to define an overflow gap extending between the tank and the wall. The overflow gap is configured to receive an overflow of the thermally conductive dielectric liquid from the tank interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Michael J Sweeney, David Patrick Selmser, John Bernard Zwicker, Shahreen Beente Haider