Patents by Inventor John Edison

John Edison 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).

  • Patent number: 12236004
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for delivering psychophysiological self-regulation training in a virtual, augmented, and/or mixed reality environment that simulates a social situation, such as one involving conflict. A user (e.g., a trainee) may interface with a training computing system directly or via an avatar that may interact with other characters in the simulation who may be programmed at one or more levels of threat to or cooperation with the trainee. The system may provide feedback to the trainee regarding their cognitive and emotional states. The feedback may be designed to encourage them to develop the ability to respond in future real environments with appropriately effective states, where the feedback may take the form of the behavior of the characters, with the trainee's interaction based on their effective states being rewarded by desirable character behavior and the trainee's ineffective states being penalized by undesirable character behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Chad L. Stephens, John Edison Munoz Cardona, Alan T. Pope, Marsha J. Turner
  • Publication number: 20240168544
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for delivering psychophysiological self-regulation training in a virtual, augmented, and/or mixed reality environment that simulates a social situation, such as one involving conflict. A user (e.g., a trainee) may interface with a training computing system directly or via an avatar that may interact with other characters in the simulation who may be programmed at one or more levels of threat to or cooperation with the trainee. The system may provide feedback to the trainee regarding their cognitive and emotional states. The feedback may be designed to encourage them to develop the ability to respond in future real environments with appropriately effective states, where the feedback may take the form of the behavior of the characters, with the trainee's interaction based on their effective states being rewarded by desirable character behavior and the trainee's ineffective states being penalized by undesirable character behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: CHAD L. STEPHENS, John Edison Munoz Cardona, Alan T. Pope, Marsha J. Turner, Olafur S. Palsson
  • Publication number: 20240145066
    Abstract: Aspects relate to systems and methods for providing information about a person's physiological signals to that person (and/or others) as they travel through various venues of their daily work and play life. Ubiquitous physiological feedback incentivizes the person to regulate their cognitive and/or emotional states to better perform various tasks. The feedback also provides them with practice opportunities throughout their day to further develop a psychophysiological self-regulation skill set. Obtaining pervasive physiological feedback throughout the environment may be achieved through the person's use and/or interaction with wearable or otherwise mobile physiological monitoring devices or systems and with other systems that may be embedded in environments through which the traveler visits during the course of their day. Such systems may experience functionality changes in response to an individual's physiological signals via biocybernetic adaptation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: JOHN EDISON MUNOZ CARDONA, CHAD L. STEPHENS, OLAFUR S. PALSSON, ALAN T. POPE
  • Publication number: 20070178921
    Abstract: A network of RF devices is connected to a central processing device and a common network clock. The central processing device and the RF devices exchange timing information in order to synchronize the network of RF devices to a common time defined by the common network clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Robert Cutler, Glen Engel, John Edison
  • Publication number: 20050015620
    Abstract: A management system for determining the security measures of a plurality of vendors. An assessment is performed on a plurality of vendors at a discount. The assessment is placed into a database and is reviewable and accessible by clients who subscribe to the management system. The management system allows clients to review and assess the security information regarding a plurality of vendors without the cost of performing an assessment of each vendor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: John Edison, Robert Kelly