Patents by Inventor Jonathan Lester
Jonathan Lester 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).
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Publication number: 20240127092Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Jonathan KING, Benjamin BLOOM, Brian LESTER
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Patent number: 11591779Abstract: The disclosure described herein relates to waterway assemblies and manifolds for waterway assemblies for use in water fixtures such as, for example, faucets. Examples of the manifold for a waterway assembly of the present disclosure include an insert with a pair of inlet tubes which are offset from a supply tube. A method of manufacture for the waterway assembly and manifold having the insert with a pair of inlet tubes which are offset from a supply tube is also provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Delta Faucet CompanyInventors: Don Currey, Earl Christian, Scott R. Gardner, Adam DeVries, Jonathan Lester
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Publication number: 20210388582Abstract: The disclosure described herein relates to waterway assemblies and manifolds for waterway assemblies for use in water fixtures such as, for example, faucets. Examples of the manifold for a waterway assembly of the present disclosure include an insert with a pair of inlet tubes which are offset from a supply tube. A method of manufacture for the waterway assembly and manifold having the insert with a pair of inlet tubes which are offset from a supply tube is also provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Don Currey, Earl Christian, Scott R. Gardner, Adam DeVries, Jonathan Lester
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Patent number: 10721594Abstract: Mobile devices provide a variety of techniques for presenting messages from sources to a user. However, when the message pertains to the presence of the user at a location, the available communications techniques may exhibit deficiencies, e.g., reliance on the memory of the source and/or user of the existence and content of a message between its initiation and the user's visit to the location, or reliance on the communication accessibility of the user, the device, and/or the source during the user's location visit. Presented herein are techniques for enabling a mobile device, at a first time, to receive a request to present an audio message during the presence of the user at a location; and, at a second time, detecting the presence of the user at the location, and presenting the audio message to the user, optionally without awaiting a request from the user to present the message.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Raja Bose, Hiroshi Horii, Jonathan Lester, Ruchita Bhargava, Kazuhito Koishida, Michelle L. Holtmann, Christina Chen
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Patent number: 10238288Abstract: A wearable radio frequency receiver device is provided, which includes a receiver antenna configured to receive an interrogation signal from a transmitter. The receiver device further includes a sensor coupled to the receiver antenna and configured to receive a physiological input from a user wearing the device and generate a sensor signal based on the physiological input, and a modulator configured to perform direct modulation on the received interrogation signal based on the sensor signal to encode the physiological input in the directly modulated interrogation signal. The receiver antenna may be configured to reflect at least a portion of the directly modulated interrogation signal as backscatter radiation. A transceiver including a transceiver antenna may be provided to receive the directly modulated interrogation signal, and the modulation receiver may be configured to process the directly modulated interrogation signal and output a decoded physiological input.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Sidhant Gupta, Jonathan Lester, Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan
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Publication number: 20180360312Abstract: A wearable radio frequency receiver device is provided, which includes a receiver antenna configured to receive an interrogation signal from a transmitter. The receiver device further includes a sensor coupled to the receiver antenna and configured to receive a physiological input from a user wearing the device and generate a sensor signal based on the physiological input, and a modulator configured to perform direct modulation on the received interrogation signal based on the sensor signal to encode the physiological input in the directly modulated interrogation signal. The receiver antenna may be configured to reflect at least a portion of the directly modulated interrogation signal as backscatter radiation. A transceiver including a transceiver antenna may be provided to receive the directly modulated interrogation signal, and the modulation receiver may be configured to process the directly modulated interrogation signal and output a decoded physiological input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sidhant GUPTA, Jonathan LESTER, Vaishnavi Nattar RANGANATHAN
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Patent number: 10076252Abstract: A wrist-worn pressure sensing device includes a pressure sensor. The wrist-worn pressure sensing device also includes a first strap that sets the position of the pressure sensor on a wearer's wrist and a second strap that engages with the first strap to adjust the overall length of the strap without moving the set position of the pressure sensor on the wearer's wrist.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: T. Scott Saponas, Sumit Basu, Daniel Morris, Sidhant Gupta, Sailaja Malladi, Desney S. Tan, Nicolas Villar, Shwetak N. Patel, Gabriel Adam Cohn, Jonathan Lester, Gregory R. Smith, Ronald E. Paulsen
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Publication number: 20160287103Abstract: A wrist-worn pressure sensing device includes a pressure sensor. The wrist-worn pressure sensing device also includes a first strap that sets the position of the pressure sensor on a wearer's wrist and a second strap that engages with the first strap to adjust the overall length of the strap without moving the set position of the pressure sensor on the wearer's wrist.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: T. Scott Saponas, Sumit Basu, Daniel Morris, Sidhant Gupta, Sailaja Malladi, Desney S. Tan, Nicolas Villar, Shwetak N. Patel, Gabriel Adam Cohn, Jonathan Lester, Gregory R. Smith, Ronald E. Paulsen
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Patent number: 9337926Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described below that can provide and/or detect dynamic fiducial markers presented on a display of an apparatus. An apparatus providing the fiducial marker may initially provide for the presentation of the fiducial marker on a display, where the fiducial marker represents one or more properties of the apparatus, such as connectivity information for the apparatus. The apparatus may modify the presentation of the fiducial marker based on a change in one or more properties of the apparatus. An apparatus configured to detect dynamic fiducial markers provided on other device displays may also be configured to provide for the presentation of its own fiducial markers, and vice versa. Thus, in some cases, apparatuses may function as both a tangible user interface display and a tangible object (e.g., in a bi-directional communication scenario).Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Raja Bose, Jonathan Lester, Jörg Brakensiek
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Publication number: 20150382138Abstract: Mobile devices provide a variety of techniques for presenting messages from sources to a user. However, when the message pertains to the presence of the user at a location, the available communications techniques may exhibit deficiencies, e.g., reliance on the memory of the source and/or user of the existence and content of a message between its initiation and the user's visit to the location, or reliance on the communication accessibility of the user, the device, and/or the source during the user's location visit. Presented herein are techniques for enabling a mobile device, at a first time, to receive a request to present an audio message during the presence of the user at a location; and, at a second time, detecting the presence of the user at the location, and presenting the audio message to the user, optionally without awaiting a request from the user to present the message.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Raja Bose, Hiroshi Horii, Jonathan Lester, Ruchita Bhargava, Kazuhito Koishida, Michelle L. Holtmann, Christina Chen
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Patent number: 9170607Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that can detect the presence of a tangible object without using computer vision. The apparatus receives a signal from a device proximate the apparatus, where the signal includes at least one of a proximity component and an orientation component, and also receives a touch input from the associated display. The apparatus then determines whether there is an association between the signal and the touch input based on the proximity component and/or the orientation component. If the signal and the touch input are associated, it is an indication that the device is disposed on the display, operations may be executed, such as to facilitate interaction between the apparatus and the device. As a result, any object capable of providing a signal having a proximity component or an orientation component can be detected (e.g., without the use of cameras or fiducial markers).Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Raja Bose, Keun-Young Park, Jörg Brakensiek, Jonathan Lester
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Patent number: 8890825Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that determine a position of a touch component of a user input received outside a touch sensitive area of a touch surface by correlating a position of the force component and a position of a touch component of a portion of the user input received within the touch sensitive area with a position of the force component of a portion of the user input received outside the touch sensitive area. In this way, the position of a touch component of the user input received outside the touch sensitive area, where the touch surface is not capable via hardware to detect the position of the touch component, may be determined, and operations may be executed based on the position of the touch component that is determined.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Raja Bose, Jonathan Lester, Jorg Brakensiek
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Publication number: 20140214462Abstract: Systems and methods for defining, booking and managing activities or services by a user of digital computer implemented applications and interactive displays based on time, location and theme as related to the user's local environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Inventors: ROBERT JOSEPH FARINA, Jonathan Lester Simon, Alexander L. Voltz, David Ngo
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Publication number: 20130215040Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that determine a position of a touch component of a user input received outside a touch sensitive area of a touch surface by correlating a position of the force component and a position of a touch component of a portion of the user input received within the touch sensitive area with a position of the force component of a portion of the user input received outside the touch sensitive area. In this way, the position of a touch component of the user input received outside the touch sensitive area, where the touch surface is not capable via hardware to detect the position of the touch component, may be determined, and operations may be executed based on the position of the touch component that is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Raja Bose, Jonathan Lester, Jorg Brakensiek
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Publication number: 20130109961Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described below that can provide and/or detect dynamic fiducial markers presented on a display of an apparatus. An apparatus providing the fiducial marker may initially provide for the presentation of the fiducial marker on a display, where the fiducial marker represents one or more properties of the apparatus, such as connectivity information for the apparatus. The apparatus may modify the presentation of the fiducial marker based on a change in one or more properties of the apparatus. An apparatus configured to detect dynamic fiducial markers provided on other device displays may also be configured to provide for the presentation of its own fiducial markers, and vice versa. Thus, in some cases, apparatuses may function as both a tangible user interface display and a tangible object (e.g., in a bi-directional communication scenario).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Raja Bose, Jonathan Lester, Jörg Brakensiek
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Publication number: 20130093713Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that can detect the presence of a tangible object without using computer vision. The apparatus receives a signal from a device proximate the apparatus, where the signal includes at least one of a proximity component and an orientation component, and also receives a touch input from the associated display. The apparatus then determines whether there is an association between the signal and the touch input based on the proximity component and/or the orientation component. If the signal and the touch input are associated, it is an indication that the device is disposed on the display, operations may be executed, such as to facilitate interaction between the apparatus and the device. As a result, any object capable of providing a signal having a proximity component or an orientation component can be detected (e.g., without the use of cameras or fiducial markers).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Raja Bose, Keun-Young Park, Jörg Brakensiek, Jonathan Lester
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Patent number: 8364508Abstract: Systems and methods for defining, booking and managing activities or services by a user of digital computer implemented applications and interactive displays based on time, location and theme as related to the user's local environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: The Cimarron GroupInventors: Robert Joseph Farina, Jonathan Lester Simon, Alexander L. Voltz, David Ngo
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Publication number: 20120041793Abstract: Systems and methods for defining, booking and managing activities or services by a user of digital computer implemented applications and interactive displays based on time, location and theme as related to the user's local environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Inventors: Robert Joseph Farina, Jonathan Lester Simon, Alexander L. Voltz, David Ngo
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Publication number: 20070072682Abstract: An electronic poker game assembly preferably provides a head-to-head poker game for two players. The assembly has a housing that is preferably a table and contains at least a portion of a computer system that generates and shuffles a virtual poker card deck, deals the cards and performs other tasks typically associated with a dealer. The housing supports an electronic player interaction area (EPIA) for each player and a common display area. Dealt virtual hole cards are displayed on screens of each EPIA and virtual common cards are preferably displayed on a screen of the common display area. Mechanical actuators for each EPIA are operated by the players when playing poker, sending electric signals to the computer system for play of the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Inventors: James Crawford, Gehrig White, Lyle Berman, Daniel Byrd, Jonathan Lester, Michael Stanford
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Patent number: D793508Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventor: Jonathan Lester