Patents by Inventor Lawrence Brand
Lawrence Brand 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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Patent number: 11586268Abstract: Techniques are described for controlling a sensing state of a device. For example, a controller of the device receives input data indicating a request to disable a sensor of the device. The controller determines that the sensor is not disabled and is to enter a mute state based on the input data. Accordingly, controller causes the sensor to be decoupled from a power source via a power switch, causes the sensor to be decoupled from a processor of the device via a data switch, and causes outputting of an indication of the mute state by a user interface of the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerald A. Welch, Zachary Lawrence Brand
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Publication number: 20220159215Abstract: Techniques for disabling a sensor are described. In an example, the techniques include receiving input data indicating a request to disable a sensor of the device. Based on the input data, the sensor is disabled by at least decoupling the sensor from a power source and decoupling the sensor from an input terminal of a processor of the device. The techniques also include sending, to a plurality of clients that are implemented on the device and that are configured to receive sensor data generated by the sensor, notification data indicating that the sensor is disabled. Further, the techniques include outputting, by a user interface of the device, an indication that the sensor is disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Gerald A. Welch, Zachary Lawrence Brand, Amit Agrawal
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Patent number: 11272141Abstract: Techniques for disabling a sensor are described. In an example, the techniques include receiving input data indicating a request to disable a sensor of the device. Based on the input data, the sensor is disabled by at least decoupling the sensor from a power source and decoupling the sensor from an input terminal of a processor of the device. The techniques also include sending, to a plurality of clients that are implemented on the device and that are configured to receive sensor data generated by the sensor, notification data indicating that the sensor is disabled. Further, the techniques include outputting, by a user interface of the device, an indication that the sensor is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerald A. Welch, Zachary Lawrence Brand, Amit Agrawal
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Publication number: 20210329198Abstract: Techniques for disabling a sensor are described. In an example, the techniques include receiving input data indicating a request to disable a sensor of the device. Based on the input data, the sensor is disabled by at least decoupling the sensor from a power source and decoupling the sensor from an input terminal of a processor of the device. The techniques also include sending, to a plurality of clients that are implemented on the device and that are configured to receive sensor data generated by the sensor, notification data indicating that the sensor is disabled. Further, the techniques include outputting, by a user interface of the device, an indication that the sensor is disabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Gerald A. Welch, Zachary Lawrence Brand, Amit Agrawal
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Publication number: 20210325953Abstract: Techniques are described for controlling a sensing state of a device. For example, a controller of the device receives input data indicating a request to disable a sensor of the device. The controller determines that the sensor is not disabled and is to enter a mute state based on the input data. Accordingly, controller causes the sensor to be decoupled from a power source via a power switch, causes the sensor to be decoupled from a processor of the device via a data switch, and causes outputting of an indication of the mute state by a user interface of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Gerald A. Welch, Zachary Lawrence Brand
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Publication number: 20190202271Abstract: An air outlet for controlling airflow in a vehicle includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, with first and second walls between the air inlet and the air outlet wherein the first wall is spaced from the second wall, an airfoil located within the housing, and a handle moveably mounted to the airfoil by a coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: Summit Polymers, Inc.Inventors: James Lawrence Brand, Eric Steven Jacobsma, Hui Gao, Daniel A. Stanek, Lawrence Michael Jones, William Morison
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Patent number: 10009554Abstract: In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for capturing video frames. The method includes obtaining a depth-data frame of an environment using a depth-sensing camera and an infrared illuminator, where the environment is illuminated by an illumination pattern emitted by the infrared illuminator, obtaining, an infrared illuminator parameterization for the illumination pattern emitted by the infrared illuminator, obtaining a desired frame exposure time, based on a desired frame exposure, determining, based on the infrared illuminator parameterization and the desired frame exposure time, an actual frame exposure time, and after determining the actual frame exposure time, obtaining a frame of the environment using the actual frame exposure time using the infrared illuminator with the illumination pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Lighthouse AI, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoyu Miao, Daniel Yum, Zachary Lawrence Brand, Hendrik Dahlkamp
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Patent number: 9740313Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring use of a tip of a stylus, determining an amount of wear of or life remaining in the tip, and notifying a user when to replace the tip are disclosed. The tip should be replaced to avoid an abrasive material of the tip from being exposed and contacting a touch screen or other surface of a computing device to avoid scratching or otherwise damaging the touch screen or other surface of the computing device. The computing device or the stylus device may perform one or more of the monitoring, determining, or prompting steps.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Zachary Lawrence Brand, Piotr Pawel Blaszczak, Ann Yuhui Yun, Timothy Michael Vanderet, Miguel Angel Morales
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Patent number: 9459710Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for charging a power source/battery of a stylus device through a conductive tip of the stylus device are disclosed. Voltage may be input into the stylus device through the conductive tip and applied to a rechargeable battery. This may be accomplished using a charging component, such as, a charging station or dock, including a corresponding electrical contact that interacts with the conductive tip to charge the battery of the stylus device. In this aspect, the stylus device may be configured to recognize when the stylus device is in the charging component and configure itself into a tip charging mode to receive voltage and charge the battery.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Lawrence Brand, Bela Incze
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Patent number: 9244543Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring use of a tip of a stylus, determining an amount of wear of or life remaining in the tip, and notifying a user when to replace the tip are disclosed. The tip should be replaced to avoid an abrasive material of the tip from being exposed and contacting a touch screen or other surface of a computing device to avoid scratching or otherwise damaging the touch screen or other surface of the computing device. The computing device or the stylus device may perform one or more of the monitoring, determining, or prompting steps.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Zachary Lawrence Brand, Piotr Pawel Blaszczak, Ann Yuhui Yun, Timothy Michael Vanderet, Miguel Angel Morales
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Patent number: 8807990Abstract: A gaseous fuel fired furnace having a vapor condensing flue gas vent conduit, a flue gas flow restrictor disposed in the vapor condensing flue gas vent conduit having a flue gas upstream side and a flue gas downstream side, and a condensate bypass conduit extending around the flue gas flow restrictor having a condensate inlet in fluid communication with the flue gas downstream side of the flue gas flow restrictor and a condensate outlet in fluid communication with the flue gas upstream side of the flue gas flow restrictor.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Utilization Technology Development, NFPInventors: Shawn Matthew Scott, Lawrence Brand
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Publication number: 20140154635Abstract: A gaseous fuel fired furnace having a vapor condensing flue gas vent conduit, a flue gas flow restrictor disposed in the vapor condensing flue gas vent conduit having a flue gas upstream side and a flue gas downstream side, and a condensate bypass conduit extending around the flue gas flow restrictor having a condensate inlet in fluid communication with the flue gas downstream side of the flue gas flow restrictor and a condensate outlet in fluid communication with the flue gas upstream side of the flue gas flow restrictor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: UTILIZATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, NFPInventors: Shawn Matthew Scott, Lawrence Brand
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Patent number: 5768056Abstract: A slider for a magnetic disc drive includes a recess at the trailing edge of the slider. A thin film inductive magnetic transducer protrudes from a lower surface of the recess, the transducer having patterned magnetic poles. A barrier layer formed of an oleophobic, hydrophobic polymer having a surface energy lower than the surface tension of lubricant on the disc is bonded to the lower surface of the recess. One suitable polymer for the barrier layer is a fluorochemical acrylate.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1997Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: Seagate Technology, Inc.Inventors: Zine-Eddine Boutaghou, John Lawrence Brand, Dallas W. Meyer, David G. Wobbe