Patents by Inventor John T. Morrison

John T. Morrison 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: 20260219884
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a keyboard assembly, a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly, and a processor configured to, when the display assembly is in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly, determine a context of the information handling system and selectively enable and disable one or more components of the information handling system while in the closed position based on the context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. FILES, John T. MORRISON, Chiu-Jung TSEN
  • Publication number: 20260219704
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a display assembly comprising a display and a keyboard assembly rotationally coupled to the display assembly, wherein at least one of the display assembly and the keyboard assembly comprises a lightpipe configured to transmit light generated by the display through a housing of such at least one of the display assembly and the keyboard assembly when the display assembly is in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Brandon J. BROCKLESBY, Jace W. FILES, Chiu-Jung TSEN, John T. MORRISON, YiMing CHOU
  • Publication number: 20260212052
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a user interface comprising a user interface component, a gesture sensor configured to sense a user gesture proximate to a housing of the information handling system and generate a signal indicative of presence or absence of the user gesture, and a processor configured to receive the signal and control the user interface component in response to the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. FILES, Erik SUMMA, John T. MORRISON
  • Publication number: 20260211461
    Abstract: A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and cooling fan. A dNPU slot accepts a dNPU card with a latch biased to a secured position and having a handle that presses away from the dNPU slot to release the dNPU card. Logic executing on processing resources of the information handling system manage allocation of tasks to artificial intelligence resources for efficient application of the resources to end user goals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John T. Morrison, Chiu-Jung Tsen, Yi-Ming Chou, Chun-Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20260211526
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a keyboard assembly, a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly, and a processor. The display assembly may include a display, a touch sensor mechanically coupled to and overlaying the display, and a cover mechanically coupled to the display and the touch sensor, wherein the display, touch sensor, and cover are arranged such that the display is interfaced between the cover and the touch sensor. The processor may be communicatively coupled to the touch sensor and configured to, in response to the display assembly being manipulated from an open position to a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly, increase a sensitivity of the touch sensor such that the touch sensor is able to detect user interaction with the cover and communicate signals indicative of the user interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. FILES, Brandon J. BROCKLESBY, John T. MORRISON
  • Publication number: 20260211806
    Abstract: A method may include, in response to a display assembly of an information handling system being manipulated from an open position to a closed position relative to a keyboard assembly of the information handling system, determining services of the information handling system needed in a special mode of operation of the information handling system that executes in the closed position, determining services of the information handling system needed in a normal mode of operation of the information handling system that executes in the open position which are not needed in the special mode of operation, and causing memory allocation within a memory of the information handling system of services needed in a normal mode of operation which are not needed in the special mode of operation to be transferred from the memory to virtual memory within a storage resource of the information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. FILES, John T. MORRISON, David J. ZAVELSON
  • Publication number: 20260211738
    Abstract: A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and cooling fan. A dNPU slot accepts a dNPU card with a latch biased to a secured position and having a handle that presses away from the dNPU slot to release the dNPU card. Logic executing on processing resources of the information handling system manage allocation of tasks to artificial intelligence resources for efficient application of the resources to end user goals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John T. Morrison, Jace W. Files, Brandon J. Brocklesby
  • Publication number: 20260212171
    Abstract: A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and cooling fan. A dNPU slot accepts a dNPU card with a latch biased to a secured position and having a handle that presses away from the dNPU slot to release the dNPU card. Logic executing on processing resources of the information handling system manage allocation of tasks to artificial intelligence resources for efficient application of the resources to end user goals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John T. Morrison, Jace W. Files, Chiu-Jung Tsen, Yi-Ming Chou, Brandon J. Brocklesby
  • Publication number: 20260211467
    Abstract: A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and cooling fan. A dNPU slot accepts a dNPU card with a latch biased to a secured position and having a handle that presses away from the dNPU slot to release the dNPU card. Logic executing on processing resources of the information handling system manage allocation of tasks to artificial intelligence resources for efficient application of the resources to end user goals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Chiu-Jung Tsen, Brandon J. Brocklesby, Yi-Ming Chou, John T. Morrison
  • Publication number: 20260211472
    Abstract: A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and cooling fan. A dNPU slot accepts a dNPU card with a latch biased to a secured position and having a handle that presses away from the dNPU slot to release the dNPU card. Logic executing on processing resources of the information handling system manage allocation of tasks to artificial intelligence resources for efficient application of the resources to end user goals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Brandon J. Brocklesby, John T. Morrison, Jace W. Files
  • Publication number: 20260214364
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a keyboard assembly and a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly and comprising a display, a cover mechanically coupled to the display, and a piezoelectric transducer interfaced between the display and the cover and configured to generate sound from the display in response to the display assembly being in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly and generate sound from the cover in response to the display assembly being in an open position relative to the keyboard assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. FILES, Brandon J. BROCKLESBY, John T. MORRISON
  • Patent number: 12687896
    Abstract: A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and cooling fan. A dNPU slot accepts a dNPU card with a latch biased to a secured position and having a handle that presses away from the dNPU slot to release the dNPU card. Logic executing on processing resources of the information handling system manage allocation of tasks to artificial intelligence resources for efficient application of the resources to end user goals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John T. Morrison, Chiu-Jung Tsen, Yi-Ming Chou, Chun-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 12689852
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a keyboard assembly and a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly and comprising a display, a cover mechanically coupled to the display, and a piezoelectric transducer interfaced between the display and the cover and configured to generate sound from the display in response to the display assembly being in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly and generate sound from the cover in response to the display assembly being in an open position relative to the keyboard assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, Brandon J. Brocklesby, John T. Morrison
  • Patent number: 12663835
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a keyboard assembly, a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly, a user interface comprising input/output devices, and a processor. The processor may be configured to when the display assembly is in an open position relative to the keyboard assembly, selectively enable a first set of the input/output devices and selectively disable a second set of the input/output devices to optimize operation in a normal operational mode of the information handling system, and when the display assembly is in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly, selectively enable a third set of the input/output devices different from the first set of input/output devices and selectively disable a fourth set of the input/output devices different from the second set of input/output devices to optimize operation in a special operational mode of the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Wei-Hsiang Chi, Brandon J. Brocklesby, Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison
  • Patent number: 12016159
    Abstract: A cooling system for an information handling system in a portable chassis comprises a vapor chamber for transferring heat away from components, a porous heat exchanger for receiving heat from the vapor chamber, an air pump of receiving airflow at a first air pressure and generating a second airflow at a second air pressure greater than the first airflow. The porous heat exchanger may comprise one of a plurality of sides of an internal air chamber configured to allow the air pump to generate the second air pressure two to three orders of magnitude greater than the first air pressure. An air pump such as a piezoelectric air pump can generate airflow at a pressure that is two to three orders of magnitude greater than possible using a traditional blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Travis C. North, John T. Morrison, Laurent Andrew Regimbal
  • Patent number: 11991855
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a fan to cool a component of the information handling system, and a sensor device. The fan includes a first fan inlet, a second fan inlet, and a fan outlet. The fan is configured to draw air into the first and second fan inlets and to blow air out the fan outlet. The sensor device includes a sensor inlet, a sensor outlet, and a cover. The sensor is coupled to the fan with the first fan inlet collocated with the sensor outlet such that air drawn into the first fan inlet is first drawn through the sensor inlet. The cover is configured in a first position to cover the sensor inlet to permit no air flow through the sensor inlet and in a second position to uncover the sensor inlet to permit air to flow through the sensor inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: James D. Trim, Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison, Sajjad Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20240095614
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for an information technology (IT) ecosystem management and monitoring operation. The IT ecosystem management and monitoring operation includes: providing a sustainability application to an information handling system, the information handling system comprising a modular component architecture; obtaining sustainability information regarding a component of the information handling system via the sustainability application; providing an IT ecosystem monitoring and management console, the IT ecosystem monitoring and management console comprising an IT ecosystem sustainability system, the IT ecosystem sustainability system comprising a sustainability component; and, communicating between the sustainability component and the sustainability application to perform an IT environment sustainability operation, the communicating providing the sustainability component with the sustainability information regarding the component of the information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Robinette, Karthik Suryanarayanan, David O. Garner, John T. Morrison, Preeth Srinivasan, Jace W. Files, Jaegeon Park, Alexis Perkins
  • Publication number: 20240097989
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for an information technology (IT) ecosystem management and monitoring operation. The IT ecosystem management and monitoring operation includes: executing a sustainability application on a hardware processor of an information handling system; providing an IT ecosystem monitoring and management console, the IT ecosystem monitoring and management console comprising an IT ecosystem sustainability system, the IT ecosystem sustainability system comprising a sustainability component; and, communicating between the sustainability component and the sustainability application to perform an IT environment sustainability operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Robinette, David O. Garner, John T. Morrison, Preeth K. Srinivasan, Jace W. Files, Karthik Suryanarayanan, Jaegeon Park, Alexis Perkins
  • Patent number: 11924994
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for managing a heatsink of an information handling system includes: determining, by a controller unit of the information handling system, that a vibration event is to occur, the vibration event associated with a vibration unit of the information handling system, the controller unit communicably coupled to the vibration unit, the vibration unit removably coupled to the heatsink; and causing, by the controller unit, the vibration unit to generate the vibration event, the vibration event causing the vibration unit to apply one or more vibrations to the heatsink, the one or more vibrations causing a boundary layer of particles to be removed from a surface of the heatsink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Chiu Jung Tsen, Yi-Te Chih, John T. Morrison, Travis C. North
  • Patent number: 11740218
    Abstract: A sensor measures an environmental factor in an ambient environment immediately surrounding an information handling system. A processor determines that the information handling system is in a first location, provides a first sampling frequency of the sensor based upon the first location, determines that the information handling system is in a second location, and provides a second sampling frequency of the sensor based upon the second location. The first sampling frequency is different from the second sampling frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: James D. Trim, Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison, Sajjad Ahmed