Patents by Inventor Liam David Bucci

Liam David Bucci 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).

  • Tactile, interactive neuromorphic robots
    Patent number: 10369459
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a neuromorphic robot includes a curved outer housing that forms a continuous curved outer surface, a plurality of trackball touch sensors provided on and extending across the continuous curved outer surface in an array, each trackball sensor being configured to detect a direction and velocity a sweeping stroke of a user, and a plurality of lights, one light being collocated with each trackball touch sensor and being configured to illuminate when its collocated trackball touch sensor is stroked by the user, wherein the robot is configured to interpret the sweeping stroke of the user sensed with the plurality of trackball touch sensors and to provide immediate visual feedback to the user at the locations of the touched trackball touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Liam David Bucci, Ting-Shuo Chou, Jeffrey Lawrence Krichmar
  • TACTILE, INTERACTIVE NEUROMORPHIC ROBOTS
    Publication number: 20180311569
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a neuromorphic robot includes a curved outer housing that forms a continuous curved outer surface, a plurality of trackball touch sensors provided on and extending across the continuous curved outer surface in an array, each trackball sensor being configured to detect a direction and velocity a sweeping stroke of a user, and a plurality of lights, one light being collocated with each trackball touch sensor and being configured to illuminate when its collocated trackball touch sensor is stroked by the user, wherein the robot is configured to interpret the sweeping stroke of the user sensed with the plurality of trackball touch sensors and to provide immediate visual feedback to the user at the locations of the touched trackball touch sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Liam David Bucci, Ting-Shuo Chou, Jeffrey Lawrence Krichmar
  • Tactile, interactive neuromorphic robots
    Patent number: 9975038
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a neuromorphic robot includes a curved outer housing, and multiple touch sensors provided on the outer housing, wherein the robot is configured to interpret a touch of a user sensed with the touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Liam David Bucci, Ting-Shuo Chou, Jeffrey Lawrence Krichmar
  • Tactile, Interactive Neuromorphic Robots
    Publication number: 20150151196
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a neuromorphic robot includes a curved outer housing, and multiple touch sensors provided on the outer housing, wherein the robot is configured to interpret a touch of a user sensed with the touch sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Liam David Bucci, Ting-Shou Chou, Jeffrey Lawrence Krichmar