Patents by Inventor Lucas Allen

Lucas Allen 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: 20250088506
    Abstract: An identity verification system receives a candidate signal transmitted from a computing device located near a secured asset in response to a target user requesting access to the secure asset. The identity verification system compares the candidate signal to a cluster of signals measured during past successful authentications by the computing device to determine a modulation factor and determines a match probability for the target user based on the determined modulation factor. The identity verification system grants the requesting target user access to the secured asset in response to determining that the match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Oleksandr Rodak, Andrew Weber Spott
  • Patent number: 12239903
    Abstract: Described herein are controllers with sensor-rich controls for enhanced controller functionality. An example control may include a pressure sensor that is configured to detect an amount of a force of a press on a cover of the control based at least in part on a proximity of a metal layer to the pressure sensor. This control may further include a touch sensor for detecting an object contacting the cover of the control. Additional embodiments disclose, among other things, integrated trackpads and D-pads, as well as backlighting features that indicate a functional state of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Judson VanWyk, Lucas Allen Whipple, Walter Petersen, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Scott Dalton, Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais
  • Publication number: 20250061787
    Abstract: Described herein is a broadband haptic system for a controller of a controller system to provide enhanced haptic functionality. A control, such as a trackpad, of the controller may include a cover, a circuit board disposed behind the cover and coupled to the cover, a haptic actuator mounted to the circuit board, and a spring disposed behind the cover, the spring being coupled to the cover and mounted to a housing of the controller. The haptic actuator is configured to vibrate and the spring is configured to deflect bidirectionally in response to a vibration of the haptic actuator. Furthermore, the haptic actuator has a first resonant frequency, and the control has a second resonant frequency different than the first resonant frequency to provide a broadband haptic system for the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Whipple, Richard Karstens
  • Patent number: 12230085
    Abstract: An intention detection mechanism detects a target user accessing an operational context and accesses sensor data collected by a plurality of sensors encoding signals describing one or more characteristics of the target user and surroundings of the target user. The intention detection mechanism converts the accessed sensor data into a multi-channel sensor data time series, where each channel represents a characteristic of the target user. The intention detection mechanism compares the sensor data time series to a multi-channel intentionality template to determine whether the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template. The multi-channel intentionality template describes characteristics indicative of an intent of a target user accessing the operational context. If the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template, the intention detection mechanism communicates a signal confirming that the target user intended to access to the operational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TruU, Inc.
    Inventors: David Brett Pasirstein, Jonathan Welch, Andrew Weber Spott, Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Niles William Hacking
  • Patent number: 12229938
    Abstract: A remotely-controlled (RC) and/or autonomously operated inspection device, such as a ground vehicle or drone, may capture one or more sets of imaging data indicative of at least a portion of an automotive vehicle, such as all or a portion of the undercarriage. The one or more sets of imaging data may be analyzed based upon data indicative of at least one of vehicle damage or a vehicle defect being shown in the one or more sets of imaging data. Based upon the analyzing of the one or more sets of imaging data, damage to the vehicle or a defect of the vehicle may be identified. The identified damage or defect may be compared to a claimed damage or defect to determine whether the claimed damage or defect occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Ryan Knuffman, Bradley A. Sliz, Lucas Allen
  • Patent number: 12192197
    Abstract: An identity verification system receives a candidate signal transmitted from a computing device located near a secured asset in response to a target user requesting access to the secure asset. The identity verification system compares the candidate signal to a cluster of signals measured during past successful authentications by the computing device to determine a modulation factor and determines a match probability for the target user based on the determined modulation factor. The identity verification system grants the requesting target user access to the secured asset in response to determining that the match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TruU, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Oleksandr Rodak, Andrew Weber Spott
  • Publication number: 20240430077
    Abstract: An authentication server receives a request to access an authentication server from a first device. The authentication server receives one or more proximity signals transmitted from the first device and one or more proximity signals transmitted from a second device. The second device has a trust relationship with the authentication server. The authentication server confirms that the first device and the second device are in proximity to each other based on the one or more proximity signals transmitted from the first device and second device. The authentication server verifies the trust relationship with the second device by decrypting a signed message received from the second device after confirmation that the first device and the second device are in proximity to each other. The authentication server updates a trust relationship between the first device and the server based on the verified trust relationship between the second device and the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20240283790
    Abstract: An identity verification system receives context signals from an authenticating computing device in response to a target user requesting access to a secure asset. The identity verification system identifies candidate locations for the operational context assigned to historical context signals labeled as being measured at a known location and compares the context signal to each historical signal to determine a location of the operational context corresponding to the received context signal. The identity verification system determines a match probability for the target user based on a risk score assigned to the location of the operational received context signal and grants the requesting target user access to the secured asset in response to determining that the match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Oleksandr Rodak, Andrew Weber Spott
  • Patent number: 12034719
    Abstract: An identity verification system receives context signals from an authenticating computing device in response to a target user requesting access to a secure asset. The identity verification system identifies candidate locations for the operational context assigned to historical context signals labeled as being measured at a known location and compares the context signal to each historical signal to determine a location of the operational context corresponding to the received context signal. The identity verification system determines a match probability for the target user based on a risk score assigned to the location of the operational received context signal and grants the requesting target user access to the secured asset in response to determining that the match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TruU, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Oleksandr Rodak, Andrew Weber Spott
  • Publication number: 20240202303
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user characteristic data. An identity verification system receives a request from a requesting target user for access to an operational context and characteristic data describing actions of the requesting target user. The identity verification system inputs the characteristic data to an identity confidence model to determine an identity confidence value describes a likelihood that an identity of the requesting target user matches an authenticating identity and determines a false match rate and false non-match rate, which represent a performance of the identity confidence model. The identity verification system determines a match probability for the requesting target user by adjusting the identity confidence value based on the determined false match rate and false non-match rate and grants the requesting target user access to the operational context if match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Andrew Weber Spott, Michael Ross Graf
  • Patent number: 12008092
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user movement data. An identity verification system receives a sequence of motion data characterizing movements performed by a target user. The sequence of motion data is received as a point cloud of the motion data. The point cloud is input a machine-learned model trained based on manually labeled point clusters of a training set of motion data that each represent a movement. The machine-learned model identifies a movement represented by the point cloud of the motion data and assigns a label describing the movement the point cloud. The system generates a labeled representation of the sequence of motion data comprising the label identifying a portion of the sequence of motion data corresponding to the identified movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: TruU, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Andrew Weber Spott
  • Publication number: 20240185659
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user movement data. An identity verification system receives a sequence of motion data from a mobile device operated by a target user. From the sequences of motion data, the identity verification system identifies a plurality of identity blocks representing different movements performed by the target user and encodes a set of signature sequences from each identity block into a feature vector. Each feature vector is input to a confidence model to output an identity confidence value for an identity block. An identity confidence value describes a confidence that the movement in the identity block was performed by the target user. The identity confidence value is compared to an operational security threshold and if identity confidence value is above the threshold, the target user is granted access to an operational context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Andrew Weber Spott, Michael Ross Graf
  • Patent number: 12000111
    Abstract: An excavation vehicle capable of autonomously actuating an excavation tool or navigating an excavation vehicle to perform an excavation routine within an excavation site is described herein. Sensors mounted to the excavation vehicle and the excavation tool produce signals representative of a position and orientation of the corresponding joint relative on the excavation vehicle relative to the excavation site, a position and orientation of the excavation vehicle relative to the excavation site, and one or more features of the excavation site based on the position of the excavation vehicle within the excavation site. A set of solenoids are configured to couple to corresponding hydraulic valves of the excavation tool to actuate the valve. A controller produces actuating signals to control the joints of the excavation tool to autonomously perform the excavation routine based on the signals produced by the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BUILT ROBOTICS INC.
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Christian John Wawrzonek, Gaurav Jitendra Kikani, James Alan Emerick, Lucas Allen Bruder, Ammar Idris Kothari
  • Patent number: 11941096
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user characteristic data. An identity verification system receives a request from a requesting target user for access to an operational context and characteristic data describing actions of the requesting target user. The identity verification system inputs the characteristic data to an identity confidence model to determine an identity confidence value describes a likelihood that an identity of the requesting target user matches an authenticating identity and determines a false match rate and false non-match rate, which represent a performance of the identity confidence model. The identity verification system determines a match probability for the requesting target user by adjusting the identity confidence value based on the determined false match rate and false non-match rate and grants the requesting target user access to the operational context if match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TruU, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Andrew Weber Spott, Michael Ross Graf
  • Publication number: 20240087107
    Abstract: A remotely-controlled (RC) and/or autonomously operated inspection device, such as a ground vehicle or drone, may capture one or more sets of imaging data indicative of at least a portion of an automotive vehicle, such as all or a portion of the undercarriage. The one or more sets of imaging data may be analyzed based upon data indicative of at least one of vehicle damage or a vehicle defect being shown in the one or more sets of imaging data. Based upon the analyzing of the one or more sets of imaging data, damage to the vehicle or a defect of the vehicle may be identified. The identified damage or defect may be compared to a claimed damage or defect to determine whether the claimed damage or defect occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Knuffman, Bradley A. Sliz, Lucas Allen
  • Publication number: 20240062604
    Abstract: An intention detection mechanism detects a target user accessing an operational context and accesses sensor data collected by a plurality of sensors encoding signals describing one or more characteristics of the target user and surroundings of the target user. The intention detection mechanism converts the accessed sensor data into a multi-channel sensor data time series, where each channel represents a characteristic of the target user. The intention detection mechanism compares the sensor data time series to a multi-channel intentionality template to determine whether the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template. The multi-channel intentionality template describes characteristics indicative of an intent of a target user accessing the operational context. If the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template, the intention detection mechanism communicates a signal confirming that the target user intended to access to the operational context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: David Brett Pasirstein, Jonathan Welch, Andrew Weber Spott, Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Niles William Hacking
  • Patent number: 11861947
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user movement data. An identity verification system receives a sequence of motion data from a mobile device operated by a target user. From the sequences of motion data, the identity verification system identifies a plurality of identity blocks representing different movements performed by the target user and encodes a set of signature sequences from each identity block into a feature vector. Each feature vector is input to a confidence model to output an identity confidence value for an identity block. An identity confidence value describes a confidence that the movement in the identity block was performed by the target user. The identity confidence value is compared to an operational security threshold and if identity confidence value is above the threshold, the target user is granted access to an operational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TruU, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Andrew Weber Spott, Michael Ross Graf
  • Patent number: 11854181
    Abstract: A remotely-controlled (RC) and/or autonomously operated inspection device, such as a ground vehicle or drone, may capture one or more sets of imaging data indicative of at least a portion of an automotive vehicle, such as all or a portion of the undercarriage. The one or more sets of imaging data may be analyzed based upon data indicative of at least one of vehicle damage or a vehicle defect being shown in the one or more sets of imaging data. Based upon the analyzing of the one or more sets of imaging data, damage to the vehicle or a defect of the vehicle may be identified. The identified damage or defect may be compared to a claimed damage or defect to determine whether the claimed damage or defect occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Ryan Knuffman, Bradley A. Sliz, Lucas Allen
  • Patent number: 11816942
    Abstract: An intention detection mechanism detects a target user accessing an operational context and accesses sensor data collected by a plurality of sensors encoding signals describing one or more characteristics of the target user and surroundings of the target user. The intention detection mechanism converts the accessed sensor data into a multi-channel sensor data time series, where each channel represents a characteristic of the target user. The intention detection mechanism compares the sensor data time series to a multi-channel intentionality template to determine whether the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template. The multi-channel intentionality template describes characteristics indicative of an intent of a target user accessing the operational context. If the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template, the intention detection mechanism communicates a signal confirming that the target user intended to access to the operational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TruU, Inc.
    Inventors: David Brett Pasirstein, Jonathan Welch, Andrew Weber Spott, Lucas Allen Budman, Amitabh Agrawal, Niles William Hacking
  • Patent number: D1036548
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Benoit Collette, John Ikeda, Jeremy Slocum, Walter Petersen, Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais, Lucas Allen Whipple, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV