Patents by Inventor Steven A. Turner
Steven A. Turner 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: 10373391Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for a wearable augmented reality system for fitness. The embodiments may include producing an avatar in the field of vision of the wearer, wherein a perceived position of the avatar may be controlled to aid the wearer in fitness training by establishing a controllable pace for the wearer. The embodiments may further include an optical system that produces the avatar such that it may be perceived by the wearer of the wearable augmented reality apparatus as a virtual running partner.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Inventors: AbdurRahman Bin Shahzad Bhatti, Jensen Rarig Steven Turner, Xander E. Fries
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Patent number: 10323888Abstract: The system and method for installing external corrosion guards of the present disclosure comprises a method of protecting tubing in tubular heat exchangers from external corrosion that includes the installation of protective collars or guards around the tube outer diameter at the tubsheet plate, anti-vibration baffle, and/or pass partition plate levels. The external corrosion guards can be installed using a ridge method, where a ridge sits on a plate level, using a mechanical expansion method, and using a mechanical rolling method.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Corrosion Monitoring Service Inc.Inventors: Steven A Turner, Alexander Turner, Ronald Charles Preston
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Publication number: 20180025331Abstract: A mobile banking system and method allows an unbanked individual to engage in banking practices that would otherwise not be available to the individual due to the individual not having a bank account and not being able to cash checks, make deposits, etc. The mobile banking system allows the unbanked individual to create a registered system account and become a customer of the system. This system account allows the customer to make deposits at credit unions and merchants who are part of the mobile banking system. The customer can also withdraw funds from a merchant or make purchases from a merchant. The customer can also make donations to a desired donation receiver and create a wallet that allows the customer to allocate funds to cards in the wallet and allow individuals access to the cards and money associated with a card.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: David DALLENBACH, Steven TURNER
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Patent number: 9800359Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for identifying content from one or more radio frequency signals. One or more radio frequency signals are monitored for available content. The one or more radio frequency signals with available content are processed to obtain audio or data associated with the one or more radio frequency signals. The obtained audio or data is analyzed. The radio frequency signals are categorized based on the analyzed audio or data. One or more items of information related to the radio frequency signals are identified. The one or more items of categorizing information are stored.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Inventor: Steven Turner
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Publication number: 20170299286Abstract: The system and method for installing external corrosion guards of the present disclosure comprises a method of protecting tubing in tubular heat exchangers from external corrosion that includes the installation of protective collars or guards around the tube outer diameter at the tubsheet plate, anti-vibration baffle, and/or pass partition plate levels. The external corrosion guards can be installed using a ridge method, where a ridge sits on a plate level, using a mechanical expansion method, and using a mechanical rolling method.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2016Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Corrosion Monitoring Service, Inc.Inventors: Steven A. Turner, Alexander Turner, Ronald Charles Preston
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Publication number: 20170136486Abstract: A liquid dispenser. The dispenser includes reversible modular components to define selective removability and rearrangement between them and a base structure such that one or more sheets of a passing liquid-receiving substrate may receive such liquid through interchangeable liquid-dispensing orientations. The removability features include tool-free operation to facilitate quick insertion and removal of the modular components that include at least a liquid-dispensing valve assembly and a seal that is selectively engageable with the valve assembly to protect liquid-dispensing nozzles of the valve assembly from becoming clogged with residual dried liquid during periods of inactivity of the liquid dispenser. Selective movable cooperation or attachment between the modules—as well as between the modules and the base structure—facilitates flexible configurations of the dispenser, including top-down and bottom-up liquid-dispensing orientations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Valco Cincinnati, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Woolery, Steven Turner
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Publication number: 20160219855Abstract: A fishing rod alert device is provided that monitors the motion of a fishing rod and sends a wireless alert to a user's handheld device when the lure of the fishing rod is struck by a fish. The device comprises an elongated member with a series of attachments that secure the device along the length of a fishing rod. The device includes a processor, a motion sensor, and a radio frequency transmitter. Motion of the fishing rod is detected by the motion detector, which sends signals to the processor. Upon determining that a fish has struck the line based on the motion signals, the processor directs the transmitter to send radio frequency signals over a network or directly to a user's handheld electronic device. The handheld electronic device receives the signals and alerts the user though one or more means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Steven Turner, John Ismert
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Publication number: 20150011156Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for identifying content from one or more radio frequency signals. One or more radio frequency signals are monitored for available content. The one or more radio frequency signals with available content are processed to obtain audio or data associated with the one or more radio frequency signals. The obtained audio or data is analyzed. The radio frequency signals are categorized based on the analyzed audio or data. One or more items of information related to the radio frequency signals are identified. The one or more items of categorizing information are stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventor: Steven Turner
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Patent number: 8887262Abstract: A Quick Recognition (QR) code scanner is activated on a computing device. A user specific QR code is scanned using the QR code scanner. User specific data that is encoded in the QR code is extracted from the scanned QR code. The computing device is configured to access a local area network based on the user specific data extracted from the scanned QR code. The computing device is register, over the local area network, with a server using the user specific data extracted from the scanned QR code. User specific configuration information is received at the computing device from the server. The computing device is configured using the received configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Amplify Education, Inc.Inventors: Steven Turner, Sean P. Farrell
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Patent number: 8031093Abstract: An n bit D/A decoder is formed using P-type and N-type transistor switches, instead of convention CMOS switches. Each P-type and N-type switch may be formed of fewer transistors than those used to form a CMOS switch, thereby reducing the overall transistor count. The decoder may be used to decode digital values to non-linear GAMMA corrected analog output voltages.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Kongning Li, Charles Leung, Grigori Temkine, Milivoje Aleksic, Steven Turner, Greg Vansickle, Kevin O'Neil
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Patent number: 7729338Abstract: The invention is a provider agent product and method that operates as a software interface between a telephony card and a session manager in an advanced communications network. The provider agent receives event messages from the telephony card indicating on-hook events, off-hook events, and digit events. The provider agent instructs the telephony card to provide dial tone, ring current, ringback, and busy signals to the telephones. The provider agent also exchanges messages with a session manager in the network. These messages include: invite messages, reply messages, join messages, and terminate messages. In response to the above processing, the provider agent instructs the telephony card to interwork telephony signals on a telephony channel with ATM signals on an ATM virtual channel. The provider agent is comprised of a plurality of software objects that are stored on a software storage medium and that include: a controller object, port objects, and event objects.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Abdullah Murat Bog, Steven Turner, Matthew Kung-Wei Jonathan Barrow, Tracey Mark Bernath
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Patent number: 7729364Abstract: A communication device is coupled to an analog telephone and a packet network. The communication device detects an off-hook condition for the analog telephone and transfers a dial tone to the analog telephone, detects digit tones from the analog telephone that indicate a called number and responsively transfers a first message indicating the called number to the packet network, receives a second message from the packet network indicating that a called party associated with the called number is being alerted and responsively transfers a ring tone to the analog telephone, receives a third message from the packet network indicating that the called party has accepted the communication session and responsively stops the transfer of the ring tone to the analog telephone, exchanges analog voice signals with the analog telephone, exchanges voice packets with the packet network, and interworks between the analog voice signals and the voice packets.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Abdullah Murat Bog, Steven Turner, Matthew Kung-Wei Jonathan Barrow, Tracey Mark Bernath
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Publication number: 20100013689Abstract: An n bit D/A decoder is formed using P-type and N-type transistor switches, instead of convention CMOS switches. Each P-type and N-type switch may be formed of fewer transistors than those used to form a CMOS switch, thereby reducing the overall transistor count. The decoder may be used to decode digital values to non-linear GAMMA corrected analog output voltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Kongning Li, Charles Leung, Grigori Temkine, Milivoje Aleksic, Steven Turner, Greg Vansickle, Kevin O'Neil
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Patent number: 7565392Abstract: A carry/majority circuit, comprising a plurality of differential transistor pairs coupled in parallel and forming a pair of output nodes, with a single parallel gated level. Current is steered through a leg of the transistor pair having a higher input voltage.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventor: Steven Turner
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Patent number: 7443840Abstract: A communication device is coupled to a packet network and includes two ports coupled to two analog telephones. The communication device receives a message from the packet network indicating a called number and processes the called number to select one of the ports and to transfer a ring signal through the selected port to ring the analog telephone. The communication device transfers a message to the packet network indicating that a called party is being alerted, detects an off-hook condition for the analog telephone and stops the transfer of the ring signal, transfers a message to the packet network indicating packet routing information for the communication session, exchanges analog voice signals with the analog telephone through the selected port, exchanges voice packets with the packet network using the packet routing information, and interworks between the analog voice signals and the voice packets.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2005Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Abdullah Murat Bog, Steven Turner, Matthew Kung-Wei Jonathan Barrow, Tracey Mark Bernath
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Patent number: 7385545Abstract: An n bit D/A decoder is formed using P-type and N-type transistor switches, instead of convention CMOS switches. Each P-type and N-type switch may be formed of fewer transistors than those used to form a CMOS switch, thereby reducing the overall transistor count. The decoder may be used to decode digital values to non-linear GAMMA corrected analog output voltages.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: ATI Technologies Inc.Inventors: Kongning Li, Charles Leung, Grigori Temkine, Milivoje Aleksic, Steven Turner, Greg Vansickle, Kevin O'Neil
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Publication number: 20080055134Abstract: An n bit D/A decoder is formed using P-type and N-type transistor switches, instead of convention CMOS switches. Each P-type and N-type switch may be formed of fewer transistors than those used to form a CMOS switch, thereby reducing the overall transistor count. The decoder may be used to decode digital values to non-linear GAMMA corrected analog output voltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Kongning Li, Charles Leung, Grigori Temkine, Milivoje Aleksic, Steven Turner, Greg Vansickle, Kevin O'Neil
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Publication number: 20070208797Abstract: A carry/majority circuit, comprising a plurality of differential transistor pairs coupled in parallel and forming a pair of output nodes, with a single parallel gated level. Current is steered through a leg of the transistor pair having a higher input voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Steven Turner
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Publication number: 20070061099Abstract: A processor is responsive to a thermistor temperature Tth adjacent a FET functioning as a switch to control power to a load (L) and responsive to drain-to-source voltage (VDS) of the FET. The processor stores the characteristics of the FET and a thermal model of the system hardware and uses a first set of equations to determine the temperature TJ at the junction of the FET in a stable region of operation where TJ?Tth is nearly constant. The processor is further responsive to a step change in successive measurements of VDS indicative of a lag of Tth relative to TJ thereby rendering Tth unusable in the first set of equations and immediately determines an initial FET current IFET. The processor then resolves TJ based upon a second set of equations comprising TJ=Tth+?TSS(1?e?t/?) when ?TSS+Tth?TJ and TJ=Tth+?TSS(e?t/?) when ?TSS+Tth?TJ where ? is a constant and ?TSS is the steady-state temperature difference between the TJ and Tth at the initial FET current IFET determined in accordance with ?TSS=IFET2RDS?J?th.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2005Publication date: March 15, 2007Applicant: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Steven Turner, Mohammed Zakaria
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Patent number: 7012610Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for supporting an external display on a portable device. A system on a chip (SOC) of the portable device provides a first set of graphics data to a graphics controller. The embedded graphics controller renders the first set of graphics data for output using an LCD screen integrated with the portable device. The SOC renders a second set of graphics data and provides rendered graphics data to an external display interface. The external display interface formats the rendered graphics data for output on an external, remote display.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Steven Turner, Milivoje Aleksic, Yin Wong Yang, Charles Leung