Patents by Inventor Nicholas Michael Degnan
Nicholas Michael Degnan 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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Publication number: 20240076180Abstract: A beverage production system, comprising a cup dispensing station configured to dispense cups, a beverage dispensing station configured to dispense a beverage, and a turntable assembly. The turntable assembly comprising a central axis, an inner turntable including a first row of cup receptacles, and an outer turntable including a second row of cup receptacles. The outer turntable is disposed circumferentially about the inner turntable, and the outer turntable is configured to rotate about the central axis to align the cup receptacles of the second row with the cup dispensing station and the beverage dispensing station. The turntable assembly is configured to align an opening in a cup receptacle in the second row with an opening in a cup receptacle in the first row. A slide assembly includes an arm configured to slide a cup positioned in the cup receptacle in the second row into the aligned opening of the cup receptacle in the first row.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Nicholas Michael Degnan, Arthur Francois David Levy, Robert William Lyle, Joseph Park, Aaron Thomas, Karl Thomas Szatrowski, Won Suk You, Elvis Junior Palma, Sze Wun Wong
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Publication number: 20230348256Abstract: A beverage production system, comprising a cup dispensing station configured to dispense cups, a beverage dispensing station configured to dispense a beverage, and a turntable assembly. The turntable assembly comprising a central axis, an inner turntable including a first row of cup receptacles, and an outer turntable including a second row of cup receptacles. The outer turntable is disposed circumferentially about the inner turntable, and the outer turntable is configured to rotate about the central axis to align the cup receptacles of the second row with the cup dispensing station and the beverage dispensing station. The turntable assembly is configured to align an opening in a cup receptacle in the second row with an opening in a cup receptacle in the first row. A slide assembly includes an arm configured to slide a cup positioned in the cup receptacle in the second row into the aligned opening of the cup receptacle in the first row.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Nicholas Michael Degnan, Arthur Francois David Levy, Robert William Lyle, Joseph Park, Aaron Thomas, Karl Thomas Szatrowski, Won Suk You, Elvis Junior Palma, Sze Wun Wong
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Publication number: 20230280839Abstract: A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward PARAZYNSKI, Jeffrey William BULL, Nicholas Michael DEGNAN, Alina Mercedes MATSON, Brandon TRAN
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Patent number: 11738987Abstract: A beverage production system, comprising a cup dispensing station configured to dispense cups, a beverage dispensing station configured to dispense a beverage, and a turntable assembly. The turntable assembly comprising a central axis, an inner turntable including a first row of cup receptacles, and an outer turntable including a second row of cup receptacles. The outer turntable is disposed circumferentially about the inner turntable, and the outer turntable is configured to rotate about the central axis to align the cup receptacles of the second row with the cup dispensing station and the beverage dispensing station. The turntable assembly is configured to align an opening in a cup receptacle in the second row with an opening in a cup receptacle in the first row. A slide assembly includes an arm configured to slide a cup positioned in the cup receptacle in the second row into the aligned opening of the cup receptacle in the first row.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: YUM Connect, LLCInventors: Nicholas Michael Degnan, Arthur Francois David Levy, Robert William Lyle, Joseph Park, Aaron Thomas, Karl Thomas Szatrowski, Won Suk You, Elvis Junior Palma, Sze Wun Wong
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Patent number: 11644859Abstract: A gimbal support that senses rotational displacement and provides haptic feedback in one, two or three dimensions of a manually-operated control member used to generate control inputs using a single hand while also limiting cross-coupling.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson, Brandon Tran
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Patent number: 11500475Abstract: A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson, Brandon Tran
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Publication number: 20220291708Abstract: A gimbal support that senses rotational displacement and provides haptic feedback in one, two or three dimensions of a manually-operated control member used to generate control inputs using a single hand while also limiting cross-coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward PARAZYNSKI, Jeffrey William BULL, Nicholas Michael DEGNAN, Alina Mercedes MATSON, Brandon TRAN
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Publication number: 20220267135Abstract: A beverage production system, comprising a cup dispensing station configured to dispense cups, a beverage dispensing station configured to dispense a beverage, and a turntable assembly. The turntable assembly comprising a central axis, an inner turntable including a first row of cup receptacles, and an outer turntable including a second row of cup receptacles. The outer turntable is disposed circumferentially about the inner turntable, and the outer turntable is configured to rotate about the central axis to align the cup receptacles of the second row with the cup dispensing station and the beverage dispensing station. The turntable assembly is configured to align an opening in a cup receptacle in the second row with an opening in a cup receptacle in the first row. A slide assembly includes an arm configured to slide a cup positioned in the cup receptacle in the second row into the aligned opening of the cup receptacle in the first row.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Nicholas Michael Degnan, Arthur Francois David Levy, Robert William Lyle, Joseph Park, Aaron Thomas, Karl Thomas Szatrowski, Won Suk You, Elvis Junior Palma, Sze Wun Wong
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Patent number: 11194407Abstract: A hand controller for commanding or controlling a target, such as a remote vehicle or a virtual target, includes a display mounted on a free end of a joystick for indicating graphically a direction of the remote vehicle from the hand controller and an orientation of the target relative to the hand controller's frame of reference, based on the location and orientation of the target received by the hand controller from the target and the location and orientation of the hand controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Radley Angelo, Alina Mercedes Matson, Michael Charles Lui
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Patent number: 11194358Abstract: A gimbal support that senses rotational displacement and provides haptic feedback in one, two or three dimensions of a manually-operated control member used to generate control inputs using a single hand while also limiting cross-coupling.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson, Brandon Tran
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Publication number: 20210325977Abstract: A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward PARAZYNSKI, Jeffrey William BULL, Nicholas Michael DEGNAN, Alina Mercedes MATSON, Brandon TRAN
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Publication number: 20210269257Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for positioning an object. The apparatus can include gripping elements or arms to grip the object and actuators to move the object. Methods for positioning the object can include rotating the object about a first and second axis to achieve the desired position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Robert Kenneth Patteson, JR., Maximilian Sluiter, Daniel Samarin, Matthew Michael O'Brien, Devid Volovskiy, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Eric Michael Cosselman
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Patent number: 10921904Abstract: A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson, Brandon Tran
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Publication number: 20210011561Abstract: A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward PARAZYNSKI, Jeffrey William BULL, Nicholas Michael DEGNAN, Alina Mercedes MATSON, Brandon TRAN
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Publication number: 20200393865Abstract: A gimbal support that senses rotational displacement and provides haptic feedback in one, two or three dimensions of a manually-operated control member used to generate control inputs using a single hand while also limiting cross-coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward PARAZYNSKI, Jeffrey William BULL, Nicholas Michael DEGNAN, Alina Mercedes MATSON, Brandon TRAN
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Publication number: 20200387238Abstract: A hand controller for commanding or controlling a target, such as a remote vehicle or a virtual target, includes a display mounted on a free end of a joystick for indicating graphically a direction of the remote vehicle from the hand controller and an orientation of the target relative to the hand controller's frame of reference, based on the location and orientation of the target received by the hand controller from the target and the location and orientation of the hand controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward PARAZYNSKI, Jeffrey William BULL, Nicholas Michael DEGNAN, Radley ANGELO, Alina Mercedes MATSON, Michael Charles LUI
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Patent number: 10664002Abstract: A controller including a first control member and a second control member that extends from a portion of the first control member. A controller processor is operable to produce a rotational movement output signal in response to movement of the first control member, and a translational movement output signal in response to movement of the second control member relative to the first control member. The first control member may be gripped and moved using a single hand, and the second control member may be moved using the thumb of the single hand.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Nicholas Michael Degnan
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Patent number: 10520973Abstract: A controller including a first control member, a second control member that extends from a portion of the first control member, and a third control member that moves in conjunction with, and in opposition to, a degree of freedom of the second control member. The third control member is configured to be operated by one or more of the non-index fingers of the user's hand. A controller processor is operable to produce a rotational movement output signal in response to movement of the first control member, and a translational movement output signal in response to movement of the second control member relative to the first control member. In exemplary embodiments, the first control member may be gripped and moved using a single hand, and the second control member may be moved using the thumb of the single hand.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Fluidity Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson
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Publication number: 20190243468Abstract: A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson, Brandon Tran
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Patent number: 10331232Abstract: A hand controller for commanding or controlling a target, such as a remote vehicle or a virtual target, includes a display mounted on a free end of a joystick for indicating graphically a direction of the remote vehicle from the hand controller and an orientation of the target relative to the hand controller's frame of reference, based on the location and orientation of the target received by the hand controller from the target and the location and orientation of the hand controller.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Fluidity Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Radley Angelo, Alina Mercedes Matson, Michael Charles Lui