Patents by Inventor Tucker Jensen Spofford

Tucker Jensen Spofford 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: 11638868
    Abstract: A controller system for surfacing selectable elements on a display of the controller along with game content associated with a video game is described. In an example, a user may provide touch input on the display, and, in response, a game content window that is presenting the game content may scale and/or move to a new position on the display in order to create space on the display for presenting one or more selectable elements outside of the scaled and/or repositioned game content window. The surfaced element(s) may be selectable to cause performance of a game-related action. In this manner, the selectable element(s) do(es) not occlude the game content, and the user may interact with both the game content and the selectable element(s) presented on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventor: Tucker Jensen Spofford
  • Publication number: 20210252387
    Abstract: A controller system for surfacing selectable elements on a display of the controller along with game content associated with a video game is described. In an example, a user may provide touch input on the display, and, in response, a game content window that is presenting the game content may scale and/or move to a new position on the display in order to create space on the display for presenting one or more selectable elements outside of the scaled and/or repositioned game content window. The surfaced element(s) may be selectable to cause performance of a game-related action. In this manner, the selectable element(s) do(es) not occlude the game content, and the user may interact with both the game content and the selectable element(s) presented on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Tucker Jensen Spofford
  • Patent number: 9521732
    Abstract: A wearable motion-signaling bag is provided. The bag includes a housing, one or more straps connected to the housing and shaped to be worn by a user; one or more motion sensors; one or more lights contacting at least one surface of the housing; one or more controls configured to be activated by the user; and a microcontroller operable to execute under programmable control and interfaced to one or more of the sensors, the controls, and the lights, the microcontroller configured to provide signals regarding the motion of the user through the lights based on sensed data from the motion sensors and commands from the capacitive controls. The bag can receive commands from a user device and provide the signals based on the commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Girling Kelly Design Group, LLC
    Inventors: Tucker Jensen Spofford, Benoit Francois Collette, Robert Marcus Girling, Gavin Morris Kelly, Sam Baker, Nicholas James Alto