Patents by Inventor John Feland

John Feland 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).

  • Proximity sensor device and method with adjustment selection tabs
    Patent number: 7825797
    Abstract: A proximity sensor device and method is provided that facilitates improved usability. Specifically, the proximity sensor device and method provides the ability for a user to easily select the type of adjustment inputted by the proximity sensor device. In one embodiment, the proximity sensor device includes an adjustment region and one or more start tabs adjacent to the adjustment region. The proximity sensor also includes a processor adapted to indicate adjustment of a first type responsive to sensed object motion originating in a first start tab and continuing in the adjustment region. Thus, a user can cause an adjustment of the first type by introducing an object proximate the first start tab, and moving the object from the first start tab and into the adjustment region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Fidel Zawde, Thuy T. B. Le, John Feland, Ray Alexander Trent, Jr., Mark Huie
  • Proximity sensor device and method with adjustment selection tabs
    Publication number: 20070283263
    Abstract: A proximity sensor device and method is provided that facilitates improved usability. Specifically, the proximity sensor device and method provides the ability for a user to easily select the type of adjustment inputted by the proximity sensor device. In one embodiment, the proximity sensor device includes an adjustment region and one or more start tabs adjacent to the adjustment region. The proximity sensor also includes a processor adapted to indicate adjustment of a first type responsive to sensed object motion originating in a first start tab and continuing in the adjustment region. Thus, a user can cause an adjustment of the first type by introducing an object proximate the first start tab, and moving the object from the first start tab and into the adjustment region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Fidel Zawde, Thuy T.B. Le, John Feland, Ray Alexander Trent, Mark Huie
  • Portable fluid sensing device and method
    Publication number: 20060031030
    Abstract: Fluid monitoring methods, systems and apparatus are disclosed. Preferred embodiments comprise one or more flexural resonator sensing elements. In preferred embodiments a sensor or a sensor subassembly is ported to multiple fluidic systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Applicant: Symyx Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Bennett, G. Dales, John Feland, Oleg Kolosov, Eric Low, Leonid Matsiev, William Rust, Mikhail Spitkovsky, Mark Uhrich
  • Environmental control system fluid sensing system and method
    Publication number: 20050145019
    Abstract: A sensor system and method for analyzing a fluid contained within an environmental control system, comprising the steps of providing a system including a passage for containing a thermal change fluid; placing a sensor including a mechanical resonator in the passage; operating the resonator to have at least a portion thereof translate through the fluid; and monitoring the response of the resonator to the fluid in the passage. A preferred sensor includes a tuning fork resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: Symyx Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonid Matsiev, Oleg Kolosov, Mark Uhrich, William Rust, John Feland, John Varni, Blake Walker