Patents by Inventor Nathan Petersen

Nathan Petersen 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).

  • Mobile interface for marking and organizing images
    Patent number: 12413846
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a mobile interface for marking and organizing images is described herein. In some instances, the system may present, on a display device, an image region that displays a capturable image that is capturable by an image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device and a preview region including a series of one or more annotatable image previews. The system may receive an input instructing the wireless mobile electronic device to capture a second image using the image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device, generate a second image preview representing the second image, and update the graphical user interface to include the second image preview at the preview region. The system may receive an input including an annotation using an input device of the wireless mobile electronic device and update the graphical user interface to represent the annotation at the preview region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Steven Walker, Nathan Petersen
  • Sensing rotor displacement using stator power winding
    Patent number: 12368400
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine (motor or generator) includes a controller evaluating rotor displacement using a combined winding that also provides for torque coupling to the rotor through the use of a model relating rotor offset to at least one of resistance, inductance, or back-EMF measured through a combined winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Nathan Petersen, Eric Severson
  • Electric Motor Providing Bearing-Force Unloading
    Publication number: 20240344560
    Abstract: The windings of an electric motor are used to reduce the loading of noncontact bearings through the application of an offsetting radial force. For aerodynamic gas bearings, this force may be converted to a torque force after sustaining levitation speeds have been obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Eric Severson, Nathan Petersen
  • Mobile interface for marking and organizing images
    Patent number: 11910082
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a mobile interface for marking and organizing images is described herein. In some instances, the system may present, on a display device, an image region that displays a capturable image that is capturable by an image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device and a preview region including a series of one or more annotatable image previews. The system may receive an input instructing the wireless mobile electronic device to capture a second image using the image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device, generate a second image preview representing the second image, and update the graphical user interface to include the second image preview at the preview region. The system may receive an input including an annotation using an input device of the wireless mobile electronic device and update the graphical user interface to represent the annotation at the preview region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Steven Walker, Nathan Petersen
  • Sensing Rotor Displacement Using Stator Power Winding
    Publication number: 20230378893
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine (motor or generator) includes a controller evaluating rotor displacement using a combined winding that also provides for torque coupling to the rotor through the use of a model relating rotor offset to at least one of resistance, inductance, or back-EMF measured through a combined winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Petersen, Eric Severson
  • Mobile interface for marking and organizing images
    Patent number: 11218639
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a mobile interface for marking and organizing images is described herein. In some instances, the system may present, on a display device, an image region that displays a capturable image that is capturable by an image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device and a preview region including a series of one or more annotatable image previews. The system may receive an input instructing the wireless mobile electronic device to capture a second image using the image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device, generate a second image preview representing the second image, and update the graphical user interface to include the second image preview at the preview region. The system may receive an input including an annotation using an input device of the wireless mobile electronic device and update the graphical user interface to represent the annotation at the preview region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Steven Walker, Nathan Petersen