Patents by Inventor Kai Tashima McKenney

Kai Tashima McKenney 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: 20230185406
    Abstract: A method, for detecting a press button action in a headset and assessing the user intention thereof is provided. The method includes receiving a force data from a force sensor in a headset, a capacitive data from a capacitive sensor in the headset, an inertial data from an inertial sensor in the headset, and a location data from a face sensor in the headset; combining the force data, the capacitive data, the inertial data, and the location data to assess a user intention; and determining whether to accept or reject a button press action on the headset based on the user intention. A headset including a memory storing instructions to cause a processor to cause the headset to perform the above method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Kai Tashima McKenney, Igor Markovsky, Kevin Jun Suk Choi, Francisco Xavier Suarez
  • Publication number: 20230041202
    Abstract: A device including a frame and an eyepiece is provided. The eyepiece includes a front glass, a rear glass, and an active element sandwiched between the front glass and the rear glass. The active layer is electrically activated, via an interconnect, by a flex circuit enclosed between a top portion of the frame and a cap, the flex circuit including a memory and a processor. A method for assembling the above device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Igor Markovsky, Johana Gabriela Coyoc Escudero, Demetrios Basil Karanikos, Brandon Potens, Rafat Mehdi, Sebastian Sztuk, Pablo Castillo Canales, Eric Daniels, Andriy Pletenetskyy, Abhinav Subramani, Jaykishan Dakshesh Choksi, Katherine Suzi Torigoe, Raymond Lee, Evan Lawrence Coons, Yi-Chen Kuo, Kai Tashima McKenney, Simon David-Levinskas Hodgson, Trevor Grant Boswell, Punit Narendra Govenji, Nan Wang, Melinda Dora Szabo, Yewching Chen, Afsoon Jamali