Patents by Inventor Richard Wright

Richard Wright 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: 20250020906
    Abstract: An eyepiece for a telescope includes a body including a first end having a mounting barrel extending therefrom and a second end, opposite the first end, supporting an eyepiece cup. A digital display is disposed within the body adjacent to the eyepiece cup. A camera is disposed within the body adjacent to the mounting barrel. A controller is operably coupled to the digital display and to the camera. The controller actuates the camera to capture an image and depicts the image on the digital display in near real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Pedro Braganca, Richard Wright, Michael Goodman, Evangelos Souglakos, Angelos Kechagias
  • Patent number: 11435084
    Abstract: A control knob lockout device for rendering knobs of a stove inoperable includes a pair of latches, a pair of keepers, and a housing. The latches are mountable to a stove so that the latches are positioned singly proximate to opposed sides of the stove. The latches also are positioned in substantial alignment with a set of control knobs that is engaged to a surface of the stove. The housing defines an interior space and has a rear face. The rear face has an opening positioned therein to insert the set of control knobs so that the housing is positioned thereover. The pair of keepers is engaged to a front face of the housing. Each keeper is positioned proximate to a respective opposed end of the housing and selectively engages a respective latch to fixedly position the housing over the set of control knobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: Richard Wright
  • Publication number: 20210270466
    Abstract: A control knob lockout device for rendering knobs of a stove inoperable includes a pair of latches, a pair of keepers, and a housing. The latches are mountable to a stove so that the latches are positioned singly proximate to opposed sides of the stove. The latches also are positioned in substantial alignment with a set of control knobs that is engaged to a surface of the stove. The housing defines an interior space and has a rear face. The rear face has an opening positioned therein to insert the set of control knobs so that the housing is positioned thereover. The pair of keepers is engaged to a front face of the housing. Each keeper is positioned proximate to a respective opposed end of the housing and selectively engages a respective latch to fixedly position the housing over the set of control knobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Richard Wright
  • Patent number: 9582477
    Abstract: Methods, systems and program products for providing a first visual region, the first visual region configured to present content determined by a document. A distinct second visual region is provided, the second visual region not defined by the document and configured to present content that is not contained in the document. One or more attributes are identified in the electronic document. Based on the one or more attributes, the presentation of ad content in the second visual region is enabled or disabled. The electronic document is presented in the first visual region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: William H. McCoy, Richard Wright, Peter Sorotokin
  • Patent number: 9361330
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for providing an enterprise crawl and search framework, including features such as use with middleware and enterprise application environments, pluggable security, search development tools, user interfaces, and governance. The system includes an enterprise crawl and search framework which abstracts an underlying search engine, provides a common set of application programming interfaces for developing search functionalities, and allows the framework to serve as an integration layer between one or more enterprise search engine and one or more enterprise application. An application development framework allows an application developer to make searchable view objects that are associated with a plurality of enterprise applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sherry Mead, Richard Wright, DJ Vasant Ursal
  • Publication number: 20140245133
    Abstract: Methods, systems and program products for providing a first visual region, the first visual region configured to present content determined by a document. A distinct second visual region is provided, the second visual region not defined by the document and configured to present content that is not contained in the document. One or more attributes are identified in the electronic document. Based on the one or more attributes, the presentation of ad content in the second visual region is enabled or disabled. The electronic document is presented in the first visual region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: WILLIAM H. MCCOY, Richard Wright, Peter Sorotokin
  • Patent number: 8612847
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products and systems for accessing an electronic document, the electronic document including embedded content, where the file type of the electronic document differs from the file type of the embedded content. The embedded content is provided to a first rendering engine in accordance with the embedded content file type. Rendered embedded content is received from the first rendering engine. The rendered embedded content is blended with a rendering of a page of the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Sorotokin, Richard Wright
  • Patent number: 8543425
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods to provide life insurance. The systems and methods provide techniques to provide an accurate quote to a customer over a website and then allow the customer to complete an application on the website and have that application submitted, while satisfying appropriate state regulations, without the customer having to do anything more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: Nora Hacker, Robert J. Eckelbarger, Richard Wright, Jeffrey Blattner
  • Publication number: 20130238663
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an enterprise crawl and search framework, including features such as use with middleware and enterprise application environments, pluggable security, search development tools, user interfaces, and governance. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes an enterprise crawl and search framework which abstracts an underlying search engine, provides a common set of application programming interfaces for developing search functionalities, and allows the framework to serve as an integration layer between one or more enterprise search engine and one or more enterprise application. An application development framework allows an application developer to make searchable view objects that are associated with a plurality of enterprise applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sherry Mead, Richard Wright, DJ Vasant Ursal
  • Patent number: 8400872
    Abstract: An acoustic energy source for imparting acoustic energy into the Earth's subsurface includes an electrically driven transducer coupled to a source of swept frequency alternating current. A tunable Helmholtz resonator is disposed proximate the transducer. In one example, the resonator has a tuning device configured to maintain a resonant frequency substantially equal to an instantaneous frequency of the alternating current. The tuning device includes an actuator coupled to a sleeve, wherein the sleeve is disposed over selected numbers of openings in a wall of a tube on the resonator. The transducer and the resonator are disposed in a wellbore drilled through rock formations. The wellbore has a plurality of layers of fluid therein, each layer thereof having a different density and/or viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Acoustic Zoom, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacques Y. Gulgné, Nicholas G. Pace, Gary J. Dinn, Richard Wright
  • Patent number: 8325229
    Abstract: A camera system having a camera lens module, a slip ring connector, and a pan/tilt mechanism. In one construction, the camera system includes a circuit board, a slip ring having a stator connected to the circuit board and a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator, a camera lens module, and a flexible flat cable. The camera system can also include an anti-rotation arm connected to the rotor and in contact with a first end of the flexible flat cable. The anti-rotation arm can prevent a twist of the flexible flat cable during panning of the camera lens module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Theodore L. Jones, Richard Wright
  • Patent number: 8118073
    Abstract: A tire having a section height, a maximum section width, an upper section above the maximum section width, and a lower section below the maximum section width is provided. The tire includes a circumferential tread, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of bead regions each having a bead core, and at least one carcass ply extending circumferentially about the tire from one bead region to the other. The at least one carcass ply is wound outwardly about at least one of the bead cores and extends toward the tread to form a turn-up portion that terminates at a turn-up end. The turn-up portion includes a concave segment that begins in the bead region and ends short of the turn-up end or at the turn-up end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Jie Jin, Richard Wright
  • Patent number: 7886226
    Abstract: Methods, systems and program products for providing a first visual region, the first visual region configured to present content determined by a document. A distinct second visual region is provided, the second visual region not defined by the document and configured to present content that is not contained in the document. One or more attributes are identified in the electronic document. Based on the one or more attributes, the presentation of ad content in the second visual region is enabled or disabled. The electronic document is presented in the first visual region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: William H. McCoy, Richard Wright, Peter Sorotokin
  • Patent number: 7788540
    Abstract: Computing environments, each executing at least one software program, are monitored for failures occurring during execution of the software program. Information associated with the failure, such as an identification of the software program and a failure type describing the failure, is recorded. The failure information is quantified to report the number of times the software program has failed or the number of times a particular failure has occurred. The quantified data may provide help in prioritizing what program or what failures merit investigation and resolution. Reports may be received from failing computing systems stopped at a state following the occurrence of the failure. In response, hold information is checked to determine whether to instruct the failing computing system to hold a state existing upon the occurrence of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Loren Merriman, Gordon Hardy, Curtis Anderson, Alan T. B. Brown, Richard Wright, Jared Wilson, Xun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100128122
    Abstract: A camera system having a camera lens module, a slip ring connector, and a pan/tilt mechanism. In one construction, the camera system includes a circuit board, a slip ring having a stator connected to the circuit board and a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator, a camera lens module, and a flexible flat cable. The camera system can also include an anti-rotation arm connected to the rotor and in contact with a first end of the flexible flat cable. The anti-rotation arm can prevent a twist of the flexible flat cable during panning of the camera lens module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Wright, Theodore L. Jones
  • Publication number: 20090044894
    Abstract: A tire having a section height, a maximum section width, an upper section above the maximum section width, and a lower section below the maximum section width is provided. The tire includes a circumferential tread, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of bead regions each having a bead core, and at least one carcass ply extending circumferentially about the tire from one bead region to the other. The at least one carcass ply is wound outwardly about at least one of the bead cores and extends toward the tread to form a turn-up portion that terminates at a turn-up end. The turn-up portion includes a concave segment that begins in the bead region and ends short of the turn-up end or at the turn-up end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE FIRESTONE NORTH AMERICAN TIRE, LLC
    Inventors: Jie Jin, Richard Wright
  • Patent number: 7478658
    Abstract: A tire having a section height, a maximum section width, an upper section above the maximum section width, and a lower section below the maximum section width is provided. The tire includes a circumferential tread, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of bead regions each having a bead core, and at least one carcass ply extending circumferentially about the tire from one bead region to the other. The at least one carcass ply is wound outwardly about at least one of the bead cores and extends toward the tread to form a turn-up portion that terminates at a turn-up end. The turn-up portion includes a concave segment that begins in the bead region and ends short of the turn-up end or at the turn-up end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC
    Inventors: Jie Jin, Richard Wright
  • Publication number: 20090008011
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having an equatorial plane and a maximum section width is provided. The tire includes a tread portion having outer tread edges that define a tread arc therebetween, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each of which has a bead core, at least one carcass ply extending circumferentially about the tire from one bead portion to the other and wound outwardly about the bead cores to form a pair of turn-up portions that each terminate at a turn-up, and at least one belt provided between the tread portion and the at least one carcass ply. When the tire is inflated to its specified inflated pressure, the tread portion has a profile that includes a central arc, a pair of intermediate arcs each of which intersects opposite edges of the central arc at a first intersection point, and a pair of outer arcs each of which intersects a respective intermediate arc at a second intersection point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC
    Inventors: Jie Jin, John Turner, Richard Wright
  • Publication number: 20080082911
    Abstract: Methods, systems and program products for conditionally formatting content. At least one display parameter corresponding to a target display window is identified. A page master and one or more styling rules are selected in accordance with the identified at least one display parameter. The selected page master and the selected one or more styling rules are applied to flowable content to format the flowable content for display in the target display window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Peter Sorotokin, Richard Wright
  • Patent number: D614120
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Marella, John David Neil, Robert Sanetick, Christopher Schrader, Joel Sprow, Richard Wright