Patents by Inventor John Hard

John Hard 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: 12196790
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to an energy metering assembly configured to measure current and voltage of a one or more primary conductors, the energy metering assembly comprising a core; a coil having a plurality of turns, the coil being positioned around the core when securing the core to the one or more primary conductors; a voltage sensor, the voltage sensor being configured to sense a voltage of a one or more primary conductors; and a controller coupled to the coil and the voltage sensor, the controller being configured to determine a voltage of the one or more primary conductors, determine a current of the one or more primary conductors, and responsive to determining the voltage and the current, determine the power carried by the one or more primary conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Colin N. Gunn, Stewart John Harding, Benedikt Theodor Huber
  • Publication number: 20240210451
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to an energy metering assembly configured to measure current and voltage of a one or more primary conductors, the energy metering assembly comprising a core; a coil having a plurality of turns, the coil being positioned around the core when securing the core to the one or more primary conductors; a voltage sensor coupled to the coil, the voltage sensor being configured to sense a voltage of a one or more primary conductors; and a controller coupled to the coil and the voltage sensor, the controller being configured to determine a voltage of the one or more primary conductors, determine a current of the one or more primary conductors, and responsive to determining the voltage and the current, determine the power and/or energy carried by the one or more primary conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Colin N. Gunn, Stewart John Harding, Benedikt Theodor Huber
  • Publication number: 20240210453
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to an energy metering assembly configured to measure current and voltage of a one or more primary conductors, the energy metering assembly comprising a core; a coil having a plurality of turns, the coil being positioned around the core when securing the core to the one or more primary conductors; a voltage sensor, the voltage sensor being configured to sense a voltage of a one or more primary conductors; and a controller coupled to the coil and the voltage sensor, the controller being configured to determine a voltage of the one or more primary conductors, determine a current of the one or more primary conductors, and responsive to determining the voltage and the current, determine the power carried by the one or more primary conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Colin N. Gunn, Stewart John Harding, Benedikt Theodor Huber
  • Publication number: 20240171488
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a multi-function energy meter apparatus is described. The multi-function energy meter apparatus includes (a) measurement circuitry configured to measure one or more energy-related parameters; and (b) three independent ethernet ports communicatively coupled to the measurement circuitry, each independent ethernet port being configured to connect to a respective local area network (LAN) and to communicate the measured energy-related parameters to that LAN. A related system is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Piotr Boleslaw Przydatek, Stewart John Harding, Marc Alan Ricci
  • Publication number: 20240028283
    Abstract: According to aspects of the disclosed subject matter, a multi-view framework (MVF) is presented. Advantageously and according to aspects of the disclosed subject matter, an MVF operates as an executable service and provides a single user experience (UX) and application programming interface (API) for concurrent viewing and interaction with two or more digital twins, each digital twin being generated by a third-party content display generator unrelated to the MVF and other content display generators providing display content to the MVF for concurrent display. Still further, an MVF may be advantageously incorporated into a consumer software package and/or packaged as a consumer software package or provided as an online service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Twinit Limited
    Inventors: John Harding, Anand Mecheri
  • Patent number: 10957228
    Abstract: A projector includes a first light modulator having first pixels, a second light modulator having second pixels, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine whether to control the spatial light modulators in a high-end mode or a low-end mode based on a video demand indicating greyscale levels. In high-end mode, at least one first pixel is driven in an ON state for at least a fraction of a frame time that a corresponding second pixel is in the ON state, the fraction determined based on the greyscale level. In the low-end mode, the at least one first pixel is driven in an OFF state while the corresponding second pixel is driven between ON and OFF states. The fraction that the second pixel is in the ON state is increased to compensate for driving the at least one first pixel in the OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul French, John Harding
  • Patent number: 10809813
    Abstract: In a system, a server controller is configured to receive at least part of at least one personal dictionary, and is further configured to generate an adapted dictionary using words of the at least part of at least one personal dictionary. The server controller is also configured to transmit at least part of the adapted dictionary to the apparatus configured to use the adapted dictionary during predictive text entry. The apparatus includes an apparatus controller that is configured to receive at least part of an adapted dictionary from the server. The apparatus controller is also configured to utilize at least part of an adapted dictionary when predictive text entry is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: John Rieman, Minna Hekanaho, Minna Koutonen, Tero Rantonen, John Hard
  • Patent number: 10691715
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems are disclosed. The systems and methods provide bi-directional interoperability between disparate CAD systems and maintain stateful ongoing interactions between interconnected CAD systems. Information objects in one CAD system are associated and bound to related objects in other CAD systems through a centralized information hub that transforms data items intelligently to facilitate communication and interaction between the CAD systems connected to the hub. The described systems and methods maintain complete and current perspectives of all relevant information for each CAD system connected to the information hub, thereby eliminating the need for point-to-point intelligence maintained by the CAD systems about the other interconnected CAD systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CentralSquare Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan K Wesley, Sr., Erik Cooley, Nathan Daniels, John Harding, Andrew Horlacher, Ryan McAlister, Ryan Sealy, Brian Taylor
  • Patent number: 10274128
    Abstract: An adapter assembly is used to secure a base unit and a display unit to a panel, with the base unit including a housing, the panel including an opening formed in the panel, and the display unit including a body. The adapter assembly includes an adapter disposed between the base unit and the panel. The adapter includes a primary wall. One of the display unit and the adapter includes a formation that extends from the body of the display unit or the primary wall of the adapter, and the other of the display unit and the adapter includes a mechanism configured to engage and secure the display unit to the panel without disturbing a securement of the base unit to the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Marc Alan Ricci, Stewart John Harding
  • Publication number: 20180308401
    Abstract: A projector includes a first light modulator having first pixels, a second light modulator having second pixels, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine whether to control the spatial light modulators in a high-end mode or a low-end mode based on a video demand indicating greyscale levels. In high-end mode, at least one first pixel is driven in an ON state for at least a fraction of a frame time that a corresponding second pixel is in the ON state, the fraction determined based on the greyscale level. In the low-end mode, the at least one first pixel is driven in an OFF state while the corresponding second pixel is driven between ON and OFF states. The fraction that the second pixel is in the ON state is increased to compensate for driving the at least one first pixel in the OFF state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul French, John Harding
  • Publication number: 20180027678
    Abstract: An adapter assembly is used to secure a base unit and a display unit to a panel, with the base unit including a housing, the panel including an opening formed in the panel, and the display unit including a body. The adapter assembly includes an adapter disposed between the base unit and the panel. The adapter includes a primary wall. One of the display unit and the adapter includes a formation that extends from the body of the display unit or the primary wall of the adapter, and the other of the display unit and the adapter includes a mechanism configured to engage and secure the display unit to the panel without disturbing a securement of the base unit to the adapter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Marc Alan Ricci, Stewart John Harding
  • Patent number: 9632112
    Abstract: An intelligent electronic device (100) for metering a characteristic of electricity that has a rear opening (214) and a side opening (216) in a housing of the device for accepting a connector of an expansion module through one or the other opening. The device can be configured with an integrated display module (120) that protrudes through a panel of an enclosure, and in this configuration, the expansion module connects to the device through the rear opening of the housing. The device can also be configured to be mounted on a DIN rail, and in this configuration, the expansion module connects through the side opening of the housing. The same module can be used in either configuration, without requiring that different versions of the module be made for the different configurations and without having to mount the device in an awkward orientation that makes it difficult to access external connections around the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Stewart John Harding, Darrin Graham Marr, Colin Murray Slade, Marc Alan Ricci, David Andrew Hanke
  • Patent number: 9568374
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mounting a sensor are presented herein. A temperature sensor assembly for a capacitor bank is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, and a plurality of contact temperature sensors attached to each substrate. Each temperature sensor is configured to directly contact a surface of one of the capacitor cans in the capacitor bank and therefrom generate a signal indicative of the temperature of the capacitor can. A biasing member attaches the two substrates together. The biasing member is configured to selectively contract, such that the width of the sensor assembly is less than the gap distance between adjacent sets of tandem capacitor cans and the sensor assembly can insert between the sets of capacitor cans, and expand, such that the width of the sensor assembly is greater than the gap distance and the sensor assembly is tensioned against and thereby secured between the sets of capacitor cans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Farago, Marcelo A. Perez, Stewart John Harding
  • Publication number: 20170024449
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems are disclosed. The systems and methods provide bi-directional interoperability between disparate CAD systems and maintain stateful ongoing interactions between interconnected CAD systems. Information objects in one CAD system are associated and bound to related objects in other CAD systems through a centralized information hub that transforms data items intelligently to facilitate communication and interaction between the CAD systems connected to the hub. The described systems and methods maintain complete and current perspectives of all relevant information for each CAD system connected to the information hub, thereby eliminating the need for point-to-point intelligence maintained by the CAD systems about the other interconnected CAD systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Jonathan K. Wesley, SR., Erik Cooley, Nathan Daniels, John Harding, Andrew Horlacher, Ryan McAlister, Ryan Sealy, Brian Taylor
  • Patent number: 9465839
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems are disclosed. The systems and methods provide bi-directional interoperability between disparate CAD systems and maintain stateful ongoing interactions between interconnected CAD systems. Information objects in one CAD system are associated and bound to related objects in other CAD systems through a centralized information hub that transforms data items intelligently to facilitate communication and interaction between the CAD systems connected to the hub. The described systems and methods maintain complete and current perspectives of all relevant information for each CAD system connected to the information hub, thereby eliminating the need for point-to-point intelligence maintained by the CAD systems about the other interconnected CAD systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Inventors: Jonathan Wesley, Erik Cooley, Nathan Daniels, John Harding, Andrew Horlacher, Ryan McAlister, Ryan Sealy, Brian Taylor
  • Patent number: 9434362
    Abstract: A braking system for an electric vehicle has a first wheel having a first friction brake and an electric motor and a second having a second friction brake. A first user-actuated brake lever is coupled to the first friction brake. The first brake lever has a first sensor indicating actuation of the first brake lever. A second user-actuated brake lever is coupled to the second friction brake. The second brake lever has a second sensor indicating actuation of the second brake lever. An electronic control unit electronically coupled to the first and second sensors and the electric motor commands the electric motor to operate as a generator when at least one of the brake levers is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Current Motor Company
    Inventors: John Harding, Erik Kauppi
  • Patent number: 9310904
    Abstract: A toy for providing input to a computing device includes a main body sized and shaped to fit within a grasp of a user of the toy. The toy also includes input switches mounted to the main body. Each of the input switches can switch between a first position and a second position responsive to an action performed on the input switch. The toy also includes a removable outer covering that is configured to substantially encapsulate the main body. A top surface of the covering includes openings sized and shaped to receive a portion of each of the input switches. The toy includes a programmable processing circuit enclosed within the main body. The circuit includes input ports coupled to the input switches. The circuit includes an output port coupled to a communications port to transmit output signals and programmable processing circuitry configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Zyrobotics, LLC
    Inventors: Ayanna Howard, John Harding
  • Publication number: 20150309594
    Abstract: A toy for providing input to a computing device includes a main body sized and shaped to fit within a grasp of a user of the toy. The toy also includes input switches mounted to the main body. Each of the input switches can switch between a first position and a second position responsive to an action performed on the input switch. The toy also includes a removable outer covering that is configured to substantially encapsulate the main body. A top surface of the covering includes openings sized and shaped to receive a portion of each of the input switches. The toy includes a programmable processing circuit enclosed within the main body. The circuit includes input ports coupled to the input switches. The circuit includes an output port coupled to a communications port to transmit output signals and programmable processing circuitry configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Zyrobotics, LLC.
    Inventors: Ayanna Howard, John Harding
  • Patent number: 9120027
    Abstract: A toy for providing input to a computing device includes a main body sized and shaped to fit within a grasp of a user of the toy. The toy also includes input switches mounted to the main body. Each of the input switches can switch between a first position and a second position responsive to an action performed on the input switch. The toy also includes a removable outer covering that is configured to substantially encapsulate the main body. A top surface of the covering includes openings sized and shaped to receive a portion of each of the input switches. The toy includes a programmable processing circuit enclosed within the main body. The circuit includes input ports coupled to the input switches. The circuit includes an output port coupled to a communications port to transmit output signals and programmable processing circuitry configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Zyrobotics, LLC
    Inventors: Ayanna Howard, John Harding
  • Publication number: 20150241480
    Abstract: An intelligent electronic device (100) for metering a characteristic of electricity that has a rear opening (214) and a side opening (216) in a housing of the device for accepting a connector of an expansion module through one or the other opening. The device can be configured with an integrated display module (120) that protrudes through a panel of an enclosure, and in this configuration, the expansion module connects to the device through the rear opening of the housing. The device can also be configured to be mounted on a DIN rail, and in this configuration, the expansion module connects through the side opening of the housing. The same module can be used in either configuration, without requiring that different versions of the module be made for the different configurations and without having to mount the device in an awkward orientation that makes it difficult to access external connections around the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Stewart John Harding, Darrin Graham Marr, Colin Murray Slade, Marc Alan Ricci, David Andrew Hanke