Patents by Inventor Thomas MacKenzie

Thomas MacKenzie 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).

  • Patent number: 12251236
    Abstract: A wearable device to wear on a head of a user includes a flexible band generally shaped to correspond to the user's head, the band having at least a front portion to contact at least part of a frontal region of the user's head, a rear portion to contact at least part of an occipital region of the user's head, and at least one side portion extending between the front portion and the rear portion to contact at least part of an auricular region of the user's head. A deformable earpiece is connected to the at least one side portion, the deformable earpiece including conductive material to provide at least one bio-signal sensor to contact at least part of the auricular region of the user's head. At least one additional bio-signal sensor is disposed on the band to receive bio-signals from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Samuel Thomas MacKenzie, Amanda Fleury, Marta Zacharowska, Graeme Moffat
  • Patent number: 12248630
    Abstract: A wearable computing device with bio-signal sensors and a feedback module provides an interactive mediated reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensors receive bio-signal data (for example, brainwaves) from the user and include bio-signal sensors embedded in a display isolator, having a deformable surface, and having an electrode extendable to contact the user's skin. The wearable computing device further includes a processor to: present content in the VR environment via the feedback module; receive bio-signal data of the user from the bio-signal sensor; process the bio-signal data to determine user states of the user, including brain states, using a user profile; modify a parameter of the content in the VR environment in response to the user states of the user. The user receives feedback indicating the modification of the content via the feedback module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Samuel Thomas MacKenzie, Graeme Daniel Moffat, Hubert Jacob Banville, Nicole Hélène Proulx
  • Patent number: 12189854
    Abstract: A computer network implemented system for improving the operation of one or more biofeedback computer systems is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Trevor Ce Coleman, Christopher Allen Aimone, Ariel Stephanie Garten, Locillo (Lou) Giuseppe Pino, Paul Harrison Baranowski, Raul Rajiv Rupsingh, Kapil Jay Mishra Vidyarthi, Graeme Moffat, Samuel Thomas Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 12082942
    Abstract: A wearable apparatus for wearing on a head of a user, the apparatus has a band assembly comprising an outer band member comprising outer band ends joined by a curved outer band portion of a curve generally shaped to correspond to the users forehead; a flexible inner band member comprising inner band ends joined by a curved inner band portion of a curve generally shaped to correspond to the user's forehead, the inner band member is attached to the outer band member at least by each inner band end respectively attached to a respective one of the outer band ends; at least one brainwave sensor disposed inwardly along the curved inner band portion to provide a flexible conductive surface; and a deformable attachment that connects the flexible inner band member to the outer band, the deformable attachment allowing the inner band to conform to the user's forehead shape, the deformable attachment having a biasing component to urge the at the at least one brainwave sensor towards the user's forehead when worn by the u
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Trevor Coleman, Ariel Stephanie Garten, Samuel Thomas Mackenzie
  • Publication number: 20240276351
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method of operating a management node in a cellular telecommunications network, the cellular telecommunications network including a first base station and a User Equipment (UE), the management node storing a first set of tracking area codes, wherein the first base station is configured to transmit a first tracking area code and the UE is configured to send a tracking area update request message to the first base station identifying the first tracking area code, the method including receiving a request message from the first base station, the request including the first tracking area code identified in the tracking area update request message; comparing the received first tracking area code to the first set of tracking area codes; and sending a response message to the first base station, the response message accepting or rejecting the tracking area request based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Thomas MacKenzie, Douglas Francis Fripp
  • Patent number: 11968205
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide methods and systems for securely communicating with electronic assets using an authenticated computer hub and a central server. The authenticated computer hub transmits a hub identity uniquely identifying the computer hub and communication results received from authenticated electronic assets, and receives an identity confirmation message and electronic asset identities to be authorized with control directives defining operational usage parameters. The authenticated computer hub has a user interface to display electronic assets granted access, and a short-range communication device to connect to authorized electronic assets to exchange information based on control directives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: 3D BRIDGE SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Gary Mousseau, Karima Bawa, Samuel Thomas MacKenzie
  • Patent number: 11822720
    Abstract: A wearable computing device with bio-signal sensors and a feedback module provides an interactive mediated reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensors receive bio-signal data (for example, brainwaves) from the user and include bio-signal sensors embedded in a display isolator, having a deformable surface, and having an electrode extendable to contact the user's skin. The wearable computing device further includes a processor to: present content in the VR environment via the feedback module; receive bio-signal data of the user from the bio-signal sensor; process the bio-signal data to determine user states of the user, including brain states, using a user profile; modify a parameter of the content in the VR environment in response to the user states of the user. The user receives feedback indicating the modification of the content via the feedback module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Samuel Thomas MacKenzie, Graeme Daniel Moffat, Hubert Jacob Banville, Nicole Hélène Proulx
  • Patent number: 11520404
    Abstract: A wearable computing device with bio-signal sensors and a feedback module provides an interactive mediated reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensors receive bio-signal data (for example, brainwaves) from the user and include bio-signal sensors embedded in a display isolator, having a deformable surface, and having an electrode extendable to contact the user's skin. The wearable computing device further includes a processor to: present content in the VR environment via the feedback module; receive bio-signal data of the user from the bio-signal sensor; process the bio-signal data to determine user states of the user, including brain states, using a user profile; modify a parameter of the content in the VR environment in response to the user states of the user. The user receives feedback indicating the modification of the content via the feedback module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Samuel Thomas MacKenzie, Graeme Daniel Moffat, Hubert Jacob Banville, Nicole Hélène Proulx
  • Patent number: 11505381
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for resealable packaging, to improve the accessibility of medications. Embodiments relate to systems and methods for resealable packaging with a bottom element with one or more storage areas, and a top element of a corresponding size to the bottom element. The top element couples to the bottom element and has apertures to expose the storage areas of the bottom element. The top element has a sliding middle section movable between a sealed closed position to cover the apertures and an open position to uncover to expose the one or more storage areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: 3D Bridge Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Mousseau, Samuel Thomas MacKenzie, Karima Bawa
  • Publication number: 20210200313
    Abstract: A wearable computing device with bio-signal sensors and a feedback module provides an interactive mediated reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensors receive bio-signal data (for example, brainwaves) from the user and include bio-signal sensors embedded in a display isolator, having a deformable surface, and having an electrode extendable to contact the user's skin. The wearable computing device further includes a processor to: present content in the VR environment via the feedback module; receive bio-signal data of the user from the bio-signal sensor; process the bio-signal data to determine user states of the user, including brain states, using a user profile; modify a parameter of the content in the VR environment in response to the user states of the user. The user receives feedback indicating the modification of the content via the feedback module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Allen AIMONE, Samuel Thomas MacKenzie, Graeme Daniel Moffat, Hubert Jacob Banville, Nicole Helene Proulx
  • Patent number: 10993155
    Abstract: A method in a cellular telecommunications network having a first central base station unit connecting to each of a plurality of distributed base station units, including identifying a cluster of distributed base station units within the plurality of distributed base station units, wherein each member of the cluster has a neighboring relationship with another member of the cluster that satisfies a threshold; using a first functional split in which a first set of protocol functions are implemented in the first central base station unit and a second set of protocol functions are implemented by each member of the cluster of distributed base station units; identifying a change in the membership of the cluster of distributed base station units; and, in response, causing the first central base station unit and each member of the cluster of distributed base station units to implement a second functional split in which a third set of protocol functions are implemented in the first central base station unit and a fourt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Richard Thomas Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 10986596
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a base station for a cellular network, and a method of operating the base station in the cellular network, the cellular network also including a second base station, wherein the first and second base stations include first and second oscillators providing a first and second periodic timing pulse respectively, the method including determining a relative timing offset between a first instance of the first periodic timing pulse for transmission of a frame from the first base station and a first instance of the second periodic timing pulse for transmission of a frame from the second base station; determining that the relative timing offset is changeable; and adjusting the first periodic timing pulse to maintain the relative timing offset by varying a first period between instances of the first periodic timing pulse such that the rate of change of the relative timing offset over time is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Richard Thomas Mackenzie, Michael Robert Fitch, Anvar Tukmanov
  • Patent number: 10942568
    Abstract: A wearable computing device with bio-signal sensors and a feedback module provides an interactive mediated reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensors receive bio-signal data (for example, brainwaves) from the user and include bio-signal sensors embedded in a display isolator, having a deformable surface, and having an electrode extendable to contact the user's skin. The wearable computing device further includes a processor to: present content in the VR environment via the feedback module; receive bio-signal data of the user from the bio-signal sensor; process the bio-signal data to determine user states of the user, including brain states, using a user profile; modify a parameter of the content in the VR environment in response to the user states of the user. The user receives feedback indicating the modification of the content via the feedback module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Samuel Thomas Mackenzie, Graeme Daniel Moffat, Hubert Jacob Banville, Nicole Helene Proulx
  • Patent number: 10863360
    Abstract: A method of operating a cellular telecommunications network having a plurality of base stations, wherein each base station of the plurality of base stations has an operational parameter being one of a set of values, wherein the set includes k values, the method including defining a first graph comprising a first plurality of nodes and a first plurality of edges, wherein a node of the first plurality of nodes represents a first base station of the plurality of base stations, and an edge of the first plurality of edges represents a first neighboring relationship between two base stations of the plurality of base stations, wherein each edge of the first plurality of edges has an associated first weight value; partitioning the first graph into k sub-first graphs, each having a first subset of the plurality of nodes and a first subset of the plurality of edges, such as to minimize a first sum value of the first weight values of the first subset of the plurality of edges in all k sub-first graphs; calculating a fir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Richard Thomas MacKenzie, Keith Briggs
  • Patent number: 10606353
    Abstract: A computer network implemented system for improving the operation of one or more biofeedback computer systems is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Trevor Ce Coleman, Christopher Allen Aimone, Ariel Stephanie Garten, Locillo (Lou) Giuseppe Pino, Paul Harrison Baranowski, Raul Rajiv Rupsingh, Kapil Jay Mishra Vidyarthi, Graeme Moffat, Samuel Thomas Mackenzie
  • Publication number: 20200100152
    Abstract: A method in a cellular telecommunications network having a first central base station unit connecting to each of a plurality of distributed base station units, including identifying a cluster of distributed base station units within the plurality of distributed base station units, wherein each member of the cluster has a neighboring relationship with another member of the cluster that satisfies a threshold; using a first functional split in which a first set of protocol functions are implemented in the first central base station unit and a second set of protocol functions are implemented by each member of the cluster of distributed base station units; identifying a change in the membership of the cluster of distributed base station units; and, in response, causing the first central base station unit and each member of the cluster of distributed base station units to implement a second functional split in which a third set of protocol functions are implemented in the first central base station unit and a fourt
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Richard Thomas Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 10491350
    Abstract: A mobile terminal in a wireless communications system estimates channel characteristics from transmissions of a base station comprising reference symbols arranged in a first density and distribution. In the event of an impairment in accuracy of channel estimation, the mobile terminal first applies a checking function to determine whether a base station identity conflict is present. If such a conflict is detected, it transmits a report to the base station to initiate a network channel reallocation process to remove the conflict. If no conflict is detected, the base station is instructed to initiate a function to change the density and distribution of the reference symbols. This allows a dynamic system to distinguish between different causes of poor channel quality, allowing adaptation of the transmissions of the base stations in a manner appropriate to the cause identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Michael Robert Fitch, Richard Thomas Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 10452144
    Abstract: A wearable computing device with bio-signal sensors and a feedback module provides an interactive mediated reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensors receive bio-signal data (for example, brainwaves) from the user and include bio-signal sensors embedded in a display isolator, having a deformable surface, and having an electrode extendable to contact the user's skin. The wearable computing device further includes a processor to: present content in the VR environment via the feedback module; receive bio-signal data of the user from the bio-signal sensor; process the bio-signal data to determine user states of the user, including brain states, using a user profile; modify a parameter of the content in the VR environment in response to the user states of the user. The user receives feedback indicating the modification of the content via the feedback module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Samuel Thomas Mackenzie, Graeme Daniel Moffat, Hubert Banville, Nicole Helene Proulx
  • Patent number: D908982
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Katrina Goff Candy, Ian Victor Chaffey, Geoffrey Thomas Mackenzie
  • Patent number: D1036434
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Amanda Fleury, Christopher Allen Aimone, Marta Joanna Zacharowska, Samuel Thomas Mackenzie, Nathaly Arraiz Matute