Patents by Inventor Kenneth R. Foss

Kenneth R. Foss 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: 20240103694
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: displays a first user interface that includes a plurality of selectable objects; while a focus selector is at a location that corresponds to a respective selectable object, detects an input that includes detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and in response to detecting the input: in accordance with a determination that detecting the input meeting input criteria, including a criterion that is met when the contact meets a respective input threshold, displays a menu that includes contact information for the respective selectable object overlaid on top of the first user interface; and in accordance with a determination that detecting the input includes detecting a liftoff of the contact without meeting the input criteria, replaces display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, Jonathan R. Dascola, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Gregory M. Apodaca, Wan Si Wan, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Sebastian J. Bauer, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan Ive
  • Patent number: 7503147
    Abstract: A suspended ceiling grid system has parallel main runners and perpendicular cross members which are formed of pultruded fiber-reinforced plastic. The main runners have vertical webs with regularly spaced vertical slots. The cross members are connected to each other and to the main runners by resilient extruded PVC cross connectors which pass through the main runner web slots and resiliently engage the ends of the cross members. The cross connectors have a horizontal element which is received within horizontal slots in the ends of the cross members, and two vertical elements which engage the cross member webs therebetween. The main runners are supported by overhead hanger wires. Ceiling tiles are received on horizontal flanges of the connected main runners and cross members. The connectors may be attached without tools for convenient assembly of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Foss