Patents by Inventor Tracy Van Dyk
Tracy Van Dyk 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: 20240005717Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and techniques to provide smart access control devices with legacy access control systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Luke Andrew SCHOENFELDER, Michael Brian JONES, Tracy VAN DYK, Sage WRIGHT, Euan Scott Foster ABRAHAM, Kevin CHEN, Aaron SIRKEN
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Patent number: 11798327Abstract: A smart module configured to control electronic locking devices may include a plurality of wireless interfaces configured to operate in accordance with at least one of a plurality of wireless protocols. The smart module may include a communications interface having a plurality of pins to couple to an electronic locking device. The smart module may include a memory coupled with the plurality of wireless interfaces, processing circuitry, the communications interface, and a touch display. The memory may include instructions, that when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive, via the touch display, a request to cause an action on the electronic locking device, and transmit a command to the electronic locking device via the communications interface to cause the action on the electronic locking device.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Latch Systems, Inc.Inventors: Michael Brian Jones, Luke Andrew Schoenfelder, Sarah Margaret Plis, John Thomas Jacobsen, Euan Scott Foster Abraham, Sage Wright, Tracy Van Dyk, Tim Stonelake, Anna Petruczynik
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Patent number: 11676437Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and techniques to provide smart access control devices with legacy access control systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Latch Systems, Inc.Inventors: Luke Andrew Schoenfelder, Michael Brian Jones, Tracy Van Dyk, Sage Wright, Euan Scott Foster Abraham, Kevin Chen, Aaron Sirken
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Publication number: 20230154264Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and techniques to provide smart access control devices with legacy access control systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Luke Andrew SCHOENFELDER, Michael Brian JONES, Tracy VAN DYK, Sage WRIGHT, Euan Scott Foster ABRAHAM, Kevin CHEN, Aaron SIRKEN
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Patent number: 11091214Abstract: A lock for securing a bicycle to a dock. The lock consumes little power in operation, with transitions between states in which a bicycle is locked to a dock and released from the dock being driven predominately by force applied to the bicycle by a user. Force applied to the bicycle may drive a latch within the lock to move between a latched and unlatched position. A locking member may be driven in one direction by an actuator and retained by an arm that blocks movement of the locking member. The locking member may be driven in the other direction by spring force, when the locking member is released by movement of the arm, which is coupled to the latch and therefore driven by a user applying force to a bicycle. As a result, a small battery may supply power to the actuator and to communication and control circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Sébastien Bettez, Tracy Van Dyk, Michael Frumin, Peter Luedtke, Jacob Robert Doctoroff
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Publication number: 20210225100Abstract: A smart module configured to control electronic locking devices may include a plurality of wireless interfaces configured to operate in accordance with at least one of a plurality of wireless protocols. The smart module may include a communications interface having a plurality of pins to couple to an electronic locking device. The smart module may include a memory coupled with the plurality of wireless interfaces, processing circuitry, the communications interface, and a touch display. The memory may include instructions, that when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive, via the touch display, a request to cause an action on the electronic locking device, and transmit a command to the electronic locking device via the communications interface to cause the action on the electronic locking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Michael Brian JONES, Luke Andrew SCHOENFELDER, Sarah Margaret PLIS, John Thomas JACOBSEN, Euan Scott Foster ABRAHAM, Sage WRIGHT, Tracy VAN DYK, Tim STONELAKE, Anna PETRUCZYNIK
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Publication number: 20190127002Abstract: A lock for securing a bicycle to a dock. The lock consumes little power in operation, with transitions between states in which a bicycle is locked to a dock and released from the dock being driven predominately by force applied to the bicycle by a user. Force applied to the bicycle may drive a latch within the lock to move between a latched and unlatched position. A locking member may be driven in one direction by an actuator and retained by an arm that blocks movement of the locking member. The locking member may be driven in the other direction by spring force, when the locking member is released by movement of the arm, which is coupled to the latch and therefore driven by a user applying force to a bicycle. As a result, a small battery may supply power to the actuator and to communication and control circuity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: 8D TECHNOLOGIES ULCInventors: Jean-Sébastien Bettez, Tracy Van Dyk, Michael Frumin, Peter Luedtke, Jacob Robert Doctoroff
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Patent number: 9804654Abstract: A computing device is associated with a circuit for sharing and distributing backup power. During normal operating conditions, a main bus bar provides power to each computing device in a rack via a main power bus of the corresponding circuit. In the event of an AC power outage, the main power bus is deactivated and a backup power path of the circuit is activated. Backup power is provided to the device from a battery of the circuit via the backup power path. A shared power path is also activated in the circuit such that backup power may be provided from the battery to the main bus bar. By providing backup power to the main bus bar, the other computing devices in the rack that do not have sufficient backup power may receive backup power from the main bus bar until AC power is restored.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Udaya Kiran Ammu, Tracy Van Dyk, Cornelius O'Sullivan, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
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Patent number: 9772666Abstract: A system for providing battery status information can include a plurality of battery packs that each include a plurality of battery cells, a computer system for performing battery condition checks, and an interface for communicating information about a respective battery cell to a power supply that is connected to receive power from a respective battery pack; a plurality of power supplies to communicate with the battery packs to cause the battery packs to perform defined operations and to receive information from the battery packs that is generated from the defined operations; and a central power management system connected over a network with the plurality of power supplies and arranged to obtain information from the defined operations performed by the battery packs.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Pascal Kam, Tracy Van Dyk
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Patent number: D773994Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: BioLite, LLCInventors: Jonathan N. Cedar, Alexander H. Drummond, Nisan H. Lerea, Anton Olof Ljunggren, Whitney Goodwin, Monte MacDiarmid, Tracy Van Dyk