Patents by Inventor Kenneth Cooper
Kenneth Cooper 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: 20240094983Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application implemented on a client device, input that selects a sound option to add sound to one or more images; in response to receiving the input, presenting a sound editing user interface element that visually indicates a played portion of the sound and separately visually indicates an un-played portion of the sound; receiving an interaction with the sound editing user interface element to modify a start point of the sound; embedding a graphical element representing the sound in the one or more images; playing, by the messaging application, the sound associated with the graphical element starting from the start point together with displaying the one or more images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jonathan Dale Brody, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Brandon Francis, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Ranidu Lankage
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Patent number: 11928167Abstract: In one or more implementations, content generated using a client application may be associated with a classification. A number of classifications may be recommended to users of a client application based on alphanumeric characters entered by the users. Additionally, a number of classifications may be recommended to the users of the client application based one or more additional criteria, such as recently used classifications or classifications having at least a threshold frequency of use by additional users of the client application.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Suraj Vindana Samaranayake, Vu Tran, Yamill Vallecillo, Yiwen Zhan
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Publication number: 20220398079Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting a first application's interface within a second application's interface. One of the methods includes receiving, by an active application executing on a user device that is not an application store, digital content referencing a second application not installed on the user device; obtaining application store data for the second application; providing, a user interface of the active application, the digital content with an application store user interface that includes (i) the application store data for the second application and (ii) an install element for triggering installation of the second application on the user device from within the active application; detecting user interaction with the install element; and in response to detecting the user interaction with the install element, triggering a download of the second application independent of launching an application for the application store.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Chunlei Zhu, Tianpeng Jin, Xuanang Zhao, Miao Xing, Thomas Andrew Shimko, Jr., Siavash Sedigh Nejad, Kenneth Cooper Ebbitt, Chaohui Wang
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Publication number: 20200297970Abstract: A catheter, comprising: a drive cable having cylindrical opening extending from a proximal end to a distal end along a longitudinal axis thereof; an imaging probe having an optical fiber arranged inside the drive cable and a distal optics assembly fixedly attached to the drive cable at the distal end thereof; a first radiopaque marker arranged at a distal end of the drive cable at a position distal and parallel to the distal optics assembly; and a second radiopaque marker arranged at a predetermined distance from the distal end of the drive cable at a position proximal to the distal optics assembly. The second radiopaque marker is arranged concentric or coaxially to the longitudinal axis in a space between the longitudinal axis and an outer surface of the drive cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Mark Alan Hamm, Badr Elmaanaoui, Albert Harold Dunfee, Kenneth Cooper Lippencott, Jeffrey Yutien Chen
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Patent number: 10697745Abstract: The present invention discloses an ammunition device or pellet suitable for use with gas fired guns, such as paintballing guns. The pellets have a body and a charge that are arranged as a single unit of formed as separate parts which are assembled for use. The body can be single use or reusable. The charge contains marking material and is a single-use portion arranged to be adjacent to the body. The charge has breakable outer shell for surrounding marking material.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: IFTF Holding LtdInventor: David Kenneth Cooper
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Publication number: 20190025032Abstract: The present invention discloses an ammunition device or pellet suitable for use with gas fired guns, such as paintballing guns. The pellets have a body and a charge that are arranged as a single unit of formed as separate parts which are assembled for use. The body can be single use or reusable. The charge contains marking material and is a single-use portion arranged to be adjacent to the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventor: David Kenneth COOPER
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Patent number: 10010936Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for designing and fabricating contact-free support structures for overhang geometries of parts fabricated using electron beam additive manufacturing. One or more layers of un-melted metallic powder are disposed in an elongate gap between an upper horizontal surface of the support structure and a lower surface of the overhang geometry. The powder conducts heat from the overhang geometry to the support structure. The support structure acts as a heat sink to enhance heat transfer and reduce the temperature and severe thermal gradients due to poor thermal conductivity of metallic powders underneath the overhang. Because the support structure is minimally or not connected to the part, the support structure can be removed with minimal or no post-processing step.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabma, The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Yuag-Shan Chou, Kenneth Cooper
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Patent number: 9767224Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for designing and fabricating contact-free support structures for overhang geometries of parts fabricated using electron beam additive manufacturing. One or more layers of un-melted metallic powder are disposed in an elongate gap between an upper horizontal surface of the support structure and a lower surface of the overhang geometry. The powder conducts heat from the overhang geometry to the support structure. The support structure acts as a heat sink to enhance heat transfer and reduce the temperature and severe thermal gradients due to poor thermal conductivity of metallic powders underneath the overhang. Because the support structure is not connected to the part, the support structure can be removed freely without any post-processing step.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignees: The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama, The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Yuag-Shan Chou, Kenneth Cooper
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Patent number: 9752961Abstract: A dual-purpose dynamometer assembly is disclosed including a dynamometer motor, a chassis dynamometer roll that can be driven by a vehicle wheel, and a powertrain dynamometer shaft that can be driven by a vehicle powertrain. A gearbox is disposed between and rotatably couples the dynamometer motor with the chassis dynamometer roll and the powertrain dynamometer shaft. At least one chamber wall defining a test chamber is disposed between the dynamometer motor on one side and the chassis dynamometer roll and the powertrain dynamometer shaft on the other side such that the dynamometer motor is disposed outside of the test chamber. There is at least one aperture penetrating the chamber wall through which the dynamometer motor is connected to the chassis dynamometer roll and the powertrain dynamometer shaft. Accordingly, the dynamometer motor is isolated from extreme temperatures within the test chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: AVL TEST SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Kenneth Cooper Barnes, Stephen Gibson
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Patent number: 9686612Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for communicating between two or more drivers respectively controlling and/or managing different channels through which data is transferred between a wireless communication device and a computer system and/or between a controller of the computer system and an application of the computer system. Typically, at least one of the channels is configured to transmit time sensitive data (e.g., such as audio data) while another channel is configured to transmit time insensitive data (e.g., such as call control data). A device driver interface may be configured to provide a medium through which the two or more drivers can communicate. The techniques and/or systems find particular application with respect to Bluetooth headsets used in combination with a computer system comprising a system on chip architecture, but other applications are also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Frank Yerrace, Yuk Lai Suen, John Bregar, Rian Chung, Kenneth Cooper
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Publication number: 20170136539Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for designing and fabricating contact-free support structures for overhang geometries of parts fabricated using electron beam additive manufacturing. One or more layers of un-melted metallic powder are disposed in an elongate gap between an upper horizontal surface of the support structure and a lower surface of the overhang geometry. The powder conducts heat from the overhang geometry to the support structure. The support structure acts as a heat sink to enhance heat transfer and reduce the temperature and severe thermal gradients due to poor thermal conductivity of metallic powders underneath the overhang. Because the support structure is minimally or not connected to the part, the support structure can be removed with minimal or no post-processing step.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Yuag-Shan Chou, Kenneth Cooper
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Publication number: 20150369702Abstract: A dual-purpose dynamometer assembly is disclosed including a dynamometer motor, a chassis dynamometer roll that can be driven by a vehicle wheel, and a powertrain dynamometer shaft that can be driven by a vehicle powertrain. A gearbox is disposed between and rotatably couples the dynamometer motor with the chassis dynamometer roll and the powertrain dynamometer shaft. At least one chamber wall defining a test chamber is disposed between the dynamometer motor on one side and the chassis dynamometer roll and the powertrain dynamometer shaft on the other side such that the dynamometer motor is disposed outside of the test chamber. There is at least one aperture penetrating the chamber wall through which the dynamometer motor is connected to the chassis dynamometer roll and the powertrain dynamometer shaft. Accordingly, the dynamometer motor is isolated from extreme temperatures within the test chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Kenneth Cooper BARNES, Stephen GIBSON
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Publication number: 20140335313Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for designing and fabricating contact-free support structures for overhang geometries of parts fabricated using electron beam additive manufacturing. One or more layers of un-melted metallic powder are disposed in an elongate gap between an upper horizontal surface of the support structure and a lower surface of the overhang geometry. The powder conducts heat from the overhang geometry to the support structure. The support structure acts as a heat sink to enhance heat transfer and reduce the temperature and severe thermal gradients due to poor thermal conductivity of metallic powders underneath the overhang. Because the support structure is not connected to the part, the support structure can be removed freely without any post-processing step.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: The Board of Trustees of The University of AlabamaInventors: Yuag-Shan Chou, Kenneth Cooper
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Publication number: 20130064386Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for communicating between two or more drivers respectively controlling and/or managing different channels through which data is transferred between a wireless communication device and a computer system and/or between a controller of the computer system and an application of the computer system. Typically, at least one of the channels is configured to transmit time sensitive data (e.g., such as audio data) while another channel is configured to transmit time insensitive data (e.g., such as call control data). A device driver interface may be configured to provide a medium through which the two or more drivers can communicate. The techniques and/or systems find particular application with respect to Bluetooth headsets used in combination with a computer system comprising a system on chip architecture, but other applications are also contemplated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Frank Yerrace, Yuk Lai Suen, John Bregar, Rian Chung, Kenneth Cooper
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Patent number: 8382633Abstract: A drive axle assembly comprises a carrier member having a trunnion outwardly extending from the carrier member, an output shaft axially outwardly extending from the carrier member, a differential assembly including a differential case supported for rotation within the carrier member and a side gear rotatably mounted about the output shaft, a clutch collar non-rotatably coupled thereto and configured to selectively drivingly engage the side gear, and an annular clutch actuator for axially moving the clutch collar between a first position and a second position. The clutch collar drivingly engages the side gear in power transmitting relationship in the first position, while the clutch collar is disengaged from the side gear in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLCInventors: Kenneth Cooper, James Krisher
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Publication number: 20120277051Abstract: A drive axle assembly comprises a carrier member having a trunnion outwardly extending from the carrier member, an output shaft axially outwardly extending from the carrier member, a differential assembly including a differential case supported for rotation within the carrier member and a side gear rotatably mounted about the output shaft, a clutch collar non-rotatably coupled thereto and configured to selectively drivingly engage the side gear, and an annular clutch actuator for axially moving the clutch collar between a first position and a second position. The clutch collar drivingly engages the side gear in power transmitting relationship in the first position, while the clutch collar is disengaged from the side gear in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Kenneth Cooper, James Krisher
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Publication number: 20100041506Abstract: A drive axle assembly comprises a carrier member having a trunnion outwardly extending from the carrier member, an output shaft axially outwardly extending from the carrier member, a differential assembly including a differential case supported for rotation within the carrier member and a side gear rotatably mounted about the output shaft, a clutch collar non-rotatably coupled thereto and configured to selectively drivingly engage the side gear, and an annular clutch actuator for axially moving the clutch collar between a first position and a second position. The clutch collar drivingly engages the side gear in power transmitting relationship in the first position, while the clutch collar is disengaged from the side gear in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Kenneth COOPER, James KRISHER
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Patent number: 7467384Abstract: Data associated with a function instance corresponding to a resource on one computer system is published for use on another computer system. A function instance is created on the other computer system using the published data.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2005Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Douglas K. Brubacher, Dale Alan Sather, John M. Gehlsen, Kenneth Cooper, Kosar Jaff, Gary P. Raden, Ralph Lipe, Roland Ayala, Shannon J. Chan
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Patent number: 7417644Abstract: A framework for individually controlling the layout of display elements provides management of the layout automatically via pluggable policies. Control modules are dedicated to controlling the format of respective display elements. The control modules are organized into an ancestral hierarchy tree structure. Each parent control module specifies a policy object that manages the layout of its children, and provides measurement information to ancestor control modules. When an aspect of a control module changes that will affect its layout, it makes a single call which causes the framework to utilize the relevant layout managers to layout any affected control modules.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kenneth Cooper, Ted Andrew Peters
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Patent number: 7294716Abstract: Synthetic methods for preparing isomerically pure N-arylsulfonyl derivatives of proton pump inhibitors which include a substituted benzimidazole nucleus are shown by the synthetic schemes and experimental description.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Allergan, Inc.Inventors: Michael E. Garst, Lloyd Jay Dolby, Shervin Esfandiari, Vivian Rose MacKenzie, Alfred Arthur Avey, Jr., David Charles Muchmore, Geoffrey Kenneth Cooper, Thomas C. Malone