Patents by Inventor KEVIN BRIAN ENGLEHART

KEVIN BRIAN ENGLEHART 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).

  • Systems and methods for inductive tuning of human-machine interface
    Patent number: 12150868
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for configuring a human-machine interface according to a user's relative preference, or weighting, of a set of utility factors, such that a user can customize a human-machine interface in the absence of the direct selection of interface parameters. In some example embodiments, a total utility function (associated with overall utility of a human-machine interface) is calculated based on the sum of a set of weighted utility functions, with each utility function being weighted according to a respective user-tunable weight, and with each user-tunable weight prescribing a relative importance of a respective utility factor to the total utility function. A set of parameters of the human-machine interface that optimize the overall utility function for a selected set of user-tunable weights is determined and employed to configure the human-machine interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK
    Inventors: Jonathon Sensinger, Kurt Stewart, Anjana Gayathri Arunachalam, Kevin Brian Englehart
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDUCTIVE TUNING OF HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20210307940
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for configuring a human-machine interface according to a user's relative preference, or weighting, of a set of utility factors, such that a user can customize a human-machine interface in the absence of the direct selection of interface parameters. In some example embodiments, a total utility function (associated with overall utility of a human-machine interface) is calculated based on the sum of a set of weighted utility functions, with each utility function being weighted according to a respective user-tunable weight, and with each user-tunable weight prescribing a relative importance of a respective utility factor to the total utility function. A set of parameters of the human-machine interface that optimize the overall utility function for a selected set of user-tunable weights is determined and employed to configure the human-machine interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: JONATHON SENSINGER, KURT STEWART, ANJANA GAYATHRI ARUNACHALAM, KEVIN BRIAN ENGLEHART