Patents by Inventor Lincoln Matthew Ghioni
Lincoln Matthew Ghioni 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: 11895860Abstract: A computing device is disclosed that includes an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The OLED display has a front surface and a back surface. The computing device includes a moveable display support connected to the back surface of the display. In some implementations, the moveable display support is configured to limit bending in one direction to a first bend radius and to limit bending in another direction to a second bend radius. In some implementations, the moveable display support is formed by a plurality of unit cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Timothy Andrew Large, Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Sarat Babu, Matthew James Longbottom, Duncan Alexander Wallis Carter
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Patent number: 11895812Abstract: A computing component is described. The computing component includes a cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material may have a cosmetic surface and a protrusion surface. The computing component includes a protrusion extending from the protrusion surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material is uniform in appearance to the naked eye. In some embodiments, the protrusion may have a base and an end. The base may have a cross-sectional width and the end may have a cross-sectional width. A difference in the cross-sectional width of the base and the cross-sectional width of the end may be less than 250 microns.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Gary Russell McClary, Lawrence David Azzano, Minh Cao Nguyen, Scott Jeffrey Korn
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Patent number: 11712838Abstract: A method of manufacturing an impeller for a thermal management device includes partially curing a curable liquid in a curable liquid bath to form a first stage rotor, removing the first stage rotor from the curable liquid bath, the first stage rotor having excess curable liquid on a surface thereof, rotating the first stage rotor to displace the excess curable liquid radially outward from a rotational axis to compensate for imbalances in the first stage rotor, and fully curing the first stage rotor and at least a portion of the excess curable liquid to produce a second stage rotor that is more rotationally balanced than the first stage rotor.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Robert Ullman Myers, Bo Dan, Andrew Douglas Delano
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Patent number: 11635830Abstract: Supplementing the movement stroke of a trackpad with a haptic response is one way to restore some or all of a reduced trackpad feel and overall performance caused by a reduction in the movement stroke. However, incorporating haptic responses in a clickable trackpad may interfere with accurate force measurement using physical movement of the trackpad as a proxy. The following describes haptic trackpads with anisotropic compliant spacers. The disclosed haptic trackpads permit selective haptic responses to a user, while also permitting accurate force measurement using displacement of a sensing surface caused by the user's finger(s) as a proxy.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Federico Zannier, Tianyu Zhao, Thomas Joseph Longo
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Publication number: 20230094134Abstract: A computing device is disclosed that includes an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The OLED display has a front surface and a back surface. The computing device includes a moveable display support connected to the back surface of the display. In some implementations, the moveable display support is configured to limit bending in one direction to a first bend radius and to limit bending in another direction to a second bend radius. In some implementations, the moveable display support is formed by a plurality of unit cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Timothy Andrew LARGE, Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Sarat BABU, Matthew James LONGBOTTOM, Duncan Alexander Wallis CARTER
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Patent number: 11539021Abstract: A computing device is disclosed that includes an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The OLED display has a front surface and a back surface. The computing device includes a moveable display support connected to the back surface of the display. In some implementations, the moveable display support is configured to limit bending in one direction to a first bend radius and to limit bending in another direction to a second bend radius. In some implementations, the moveable display support is formed by a plurality of unit cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Timothy Andrew Large, Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Sarat Babu, Matthew James Longbottom, Duncan Alexander Wallis Carter
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Patent number: 11507206Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to touch-sensitive input devices, systems, and methods for providing user input to a computing device. In one example, a touch-sensitive input device comprises an elongated body and a plurality of force-sensing elements spaced along a length of the body. The touch-sensitive input device also comprises a wireless communication subsystem configured to communicatively couple the input device to the computing device and provide signals from the plurality of force-sensing elements to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kelly Marie Bogan, Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Anatoly Churikov
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Publication number: 20220350429Abstract: Supplementing the movement stroke of a trackpad with a haptic response is one way to restore some or all of a reduced trackpad feel and overall performance caused by a reduction in the movement stroke. However, incorporating haptic responses in a clickable trackpad may interfere with accurate force measurement using physical movement of the trackpad as a proxy. The following describes haptic trackpads with anisotropic compliant spacers. The disclosed haptic trackpads permit selective haptic responses to a user, while also permitting accurate force measurement using displacement of a sensing surface caused by the user's finger(s) as a proxy.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Federico ZANNIER, Tianyu ZHAO, Thomas Joseph LONGO
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Patent number: 11201103Abstract: A vapor chamber device is provided. The vapor chamber device includes a heat-generating component, a first metallic layer deposited directly on the heat-generating component, and a second metallic layer deposited so as to contact the first metallic layer at a perimeter. The first and second metallic layers fully enclose an internal void formed therein.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Brian J. Toleno, Sahar Vilan, Han Li, Bo Dan
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Publication number: 20210028387Abstract: A computing device is disclosed that includes an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The OLED display has a front surface and a back surface. The computing device includes a moveable display support connected to the back surface of the display. In some implementations, the moveable display support is configured to limit bending in one direction to a first bend radius and to limit bending in another direction to a second bend radius. In some implementations, the moveable display support is formed by a plurality of unit cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Timothy Andrew LARGE, Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Sarat BABU, Matthew James LONGBOTTOM, Duncan Alexander Wallis CARTER
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Publication number: 20210001539Abstract: A method of manufacturing an impeller for a thermal management device includes partially curing a curable liquid in a curable liquid bath to form a first stage rotor, removing the first stage rotor from the curable liquid bath, the first stage rotor having excess curable liquid on a surface thereof, rotating the first stage rotor to displace the excess curable liquid radially outward from a rotational axis to compensate for imbalances in the first stage rotor, and fully curing the first stage rotor and at least a portion of the excess curable liquid to produce a second stage rotor that is more rotationally balanced than the first stage rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Robert Ullman MYERS, Bo DAN, Andrew Douglas DELANO
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Patent number: 10886498Abstract: A computing device is disclosed that includes an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The OLED display has a front surface and a back surface. The computing device includes a moveable display support connected to the back surface of the display. In some implementations, the moveable display support is configured to limit bending in one direction to a first bend radius and to limit bending in another direction to a second bend radius. In some implementations, the moveable display support is formed by a plurality of unit cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Timothy Andrew Large, Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Sarat Babu, Matthew James Longbottom, Duncan Alexander Wallis Carter
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Patent number: 10881037Abstract: Printed circuit boards include conductive metallic paths, such as vias, traces, and pads on the printed circuit board. One or more metal additive structures are additively manufactured onto the printed circuit boards in a manner that forms a continuous weld with at least one of the conductive metallic paths. As a result, the metal additive structures are continuous with the printed circuit board and do not require separate attachment mechanisms (e.g., soldering or mechanical fastening). The metal additive structures may include shield cans, frames, antennas, or heat sinks for the printed circuit board, for example.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kurt Allen Jenkins, Gary Russell McClary, Lincoln Matthew Ghioni
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Publication number: 20200381337Abstract: A vapor chamber device is provided. The vapor chamber device includes a heat-generating component, a first metallic layer deposited directly on the heat-generating component, and a second metallic layer deposited so as to contact the first metallic layer at a perimeter. The first and second metallic layers fully enclose an internal void formed therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Brian J. TOLENO, Sahar VILAN, Han LI, Bo DAN
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Publication number: 20200363880Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to touch-sensitive input devices, systems, and methods for providing user input to a computing device. In one example, a touch-sensitive input device comprises an elongated body and a plurality of force-sensing elements spaced along a length of the body. The touch-sensitive input device also comprises a wireless communication subsystem configured to communicatively couple the input device to the computing device and provide signals from the plurality of force-sensing elements to the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2019Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kelly Marie BOGAN, Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Anatoly CHURIKOV
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Publication number: 20200270778Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to textile coverings for electronic devices and methods for manufacturing textile coverings for electronic devices. In one example, a textile covering for an electronic device comprises one or more structural fibers woven into a seamless tube, the seamless tube configured to encircle at least a portion of the electronic device. The textile covering also comprises one or more heat-shrink fibers and/or one or more adhesive fibers woven into the seamless tube. The heat-shrink fibers shrink when the seamless tube is heated above a threshold temperature, thereby constricting the seamless tube around the electronic device. The one or more adhesive fibers adhere the textile covering to the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kelly Marie BOGAN, Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Anatoly CHURIKOV, Paul Ryan SANDOVAL
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Publication number: 20200008326Abstract: A computing component is described. The computing component includes a cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material may have a cosmetic surface and a protrusion surface. The computing component includes a protrusion extending from the protrusion surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material is uniform in appearance to the naked eye. In some embodiments, the protrusion may have a base and an end. The base may have a cross-sectional width and the end may have a cross-sectional width. A difference in the cross-sectional width of the base and the cross-sectional width of the end may be less than 250 microns.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Lincoln Matthew GHIONI, Gary Russell MCCLARY, Lawrence David AZZANO, Minh Cao NGUYEN, Scott Jeffrey KORN
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Publication number: 20190354148Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to heat transfer devices comprising a vapor chamber and a flexible hinge. One disclosed example provides an electronic device comprising a first portion and a second portion connected by a hinge region, and a vapor chamber extending from the first portion to the second portion across the hinge region, the vapor chamber comprising a first layer comprising titanium, a second layer comprising titanium joined to the first layer to form the vapor chamber, a working fluid within the vapor chamber, and a third layer comprising titanium positioned between the first layer and the second layer, the third layer comprising one or more features configured to conduct the working fluid via capillary action.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew Douglas DELANO, Erin Elizabeth HURBI, Lincoln Matthew GHIONI
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Patent number: 10453768Abstract: A thermal management device is described. The thermal management device includes a housing having an upper wall, a lower wall, and a side wall. The upper wall has an outer surface and an inner surface. The lower wall has an outer surface, an inner surface and an inner height between the inner surface of the upper wall and the inner surface of the lower wall. The thermal management device includes a working fluid within the housing. The inner height of the housing is sized to form a continuous meniscus of the working fluid from the inner surface of the upper wall to the inner surface of the lower wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Shi Luo
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Patent number: 10455747Abstract: A computing component is described. The computing component includes a cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material may have a cosmetic surface and a protrusion surface. The computing component includes a protrusion extending from the protrusion surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material. In some embodiments, the cosmetic surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material is uniform in appearance to the naked eye. In some embodiments, the protrusion may have a base and an end. The base may have a cross-sectional width and the end may have a cross-sectional width. A difference in the cross-sectional width of the base and the cross-sectional width of the end may be less than 250 microns.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lincoln Matthew Ghioni, Gary Russell McClary, Lawrence David Azzano, Minh Cao Nguyen, Scott Jeffrey Korn