Patents by Inventor Walter Stoll

Walter Stoll 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: 11933976
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking the position of one or more head-mounted display (HMD) system components of an HMD system. The HMD components may carry a plurality of angle sensitive detectors or other types of detectors. The HMD system may be operative to detect corrupted position tracking samples, allowing such samples to be ignored, thereby improving the position tracking process. Control circuitry causes light sources to emit light according a specified pattern, and receives sensor data from the plurality of detectors. Control circuitry may process the sensor data, for example using machine learning or other techniques, to track a position of one or more HMD components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Evan Fletcher, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Joshua Mark Hudman, Alan Yates, Gordon Wayne Stoll, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh, Charles Lohr
  • Patent number: 10031874
    Abstract: A universal input/output circuit for building automation is provided that may avoid issues related to capacitor soakage, thereby giving more accurate measurements of electric resistance. To mitigate capacitor soakage, the voltage between the input/output terminals is held constant. A programmable source drives a current through a resistor that connects to the input/output terminals. The circuit then measures a value of electrical resistance. The measurement yields a voltage signal which is transferred from the input of an analog-to-digital converter to the input of a digital-to-analog converter. A unity gain amplifier applies the output voltage of the digital-to-analog converter D/A to one of terminals. The circuit is configured such that the voltage signal at the output of the amplifier matches or substantially matches the voltage obtained from the resistance measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Publication number: 20170010994
    Abstract: A universal input/output circuit for building automation is provided that may avoid issues related to capacitor soakage, thereby giving more accurate measurements of electric resistance. To mitigate capacitor soakage, the voltage between the input/output terminals is held constant. A programmable source drives a current through a resistor that connects to the input/output terminals. The circuit then measures a value of electrical resistance. The measurement yields a voltage signal which is transferred from the input of an analog-to-digital converter to the input of a digital-to-analog converter. A unity gain amplifier applies the output voltage of the digital-to-analog converter D/A to one of terminals. The circuit is configured such that the voltage signal at the output of the amplifier matches or substantially matches the voltage obtained from the resistance measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Patent number: 8291512
    Abstract: A face shield includes a brim having a front portion, a rear portion, an upper portion, and a lower portion. A channel is formed in the lower portion adjacent the rear portion of the brim. The front portion includes a plurality of spaced apart catch members disposed thereon. A head band is unitary with one side of the brim and configured to surround a head of a wearer. The head band has a free end that is adjustably insertable into the channel of the brim to select a size of the head band for the head of the wearer. The face shield may include a removable transparent shield having a plurality of holes formed therein. Each of the holes is configured to cooperate with one of the catch members of the brim to releasably hold the transparent shield on the front portion of the brim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Patent number: 8177553
    Abstract: An elongated flexible dental strip includes front and rear surfaces defining a thickness therebetween. The strip also includes first and second edges defining a lateral width therebetween. A first portion of the strip further is spaced from a second portion along the length of the strip, wherein the thickness of the first portion is different from the thickness of the second portion. The strip has a constant thickness across a lateral width defined between the first and second edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Publication number: 20110265236
    Abstract: A face shield includes a brim having a front portion, a rear portion, an upper portion, and a lower portion. A channel is formed in the lower portion adjacent the rear portion of the brim. The front portion includes a plurality of spaced apart catch members disposed thereon. A head band is unitary with one side of the brim and configured to surround a head of a wearer. The head band has a free end that is adjustably insertable into the channel of the brim to select a size of the head band for the head of the wearer. The face shield may include a removable transparent shield having a plurality of holes formed therein. Each of the holes is configured to cooperate with one of the catch members of the brim to releasably hold the transparent shield on the front portion of the brim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Patent number: 7271752
    Abstract: An interface component (10) for a universal in-/output module with connection points (X0, M) for field devices includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a digital-to-analog converter (DCA), a power source (25) and a combinational circuit, through which, as required, the analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) or the power source (25) are each able to be automatically connected to connection points of the interface component (10). The interface component (10) is able to be connected via a microcomputer to a digital data bus of a control and/or regulation device. A connection point (X0, M) for a field device includes a terminal (X0) able to be configured via the interface component (10) for the field device as an input and/or as an output for bidirectional signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Building Technologies AG
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Publication number: 20070148613
    Abstract: An elongated flexible dental strip includes front and rear surfaces defining a thickness therebetween. The strip also includes first and second edges defining a lateral width therebetween. A first portion of the strip further is spaced from a second portion along the length of the strip, wherein the thickness of the first portion is different from the thickness of the second portion. The strip has a constant thickness across a lateral width defined between the first and second edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Patent number: 7049987
    Abstract: In a method for generating a scanning clock signal (S) for scanning an analog signal (Ua) for an analog-to-digital converter (20) operating according to the sigma-delta method, a variable period (T; T*) of the power supply system (PL) is ascertained in time units of a system clock signal (C), and the scanning clock signal (S) is generated by distributing a constant number K of pulses over the ascertained period (T; T*), so that the frequency of the scanning clock signal (S) is an integer multiple of the frequency of the power supply system (PL). The method is essentially able to be carried out by an accumulator unit (4) connected to a counter (3) and makes possible the advantage that during the analog-to-digital conversion a mains hum contained in the analog signal (Ua) is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Building Technologies AG
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Publication number: 20050070177
    Abstract: An interface component (10) for a universal in-/output module with connection points (X0, M) for field devices includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a digital-to-analog converter (DCA), a power source (25) and a combinational circuit, through which, as required, the analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) or the power source (25) are each able to be automatically connected to connection points of the interface component (10). The interface component (10) is able to be connected via a microcomputer to a digital data bus of a control and/or regulation device. A connection point (X0, M) for a field device includes a terminal (X0) able to be configured via the interface component (10) for the field device as an input and/or as an output for bidirectional signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: Siemens Building Technologies AG
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Publication number: 20050062625
    Abstract: In a method for generating a scanning clock signal (S) for scanning an analog signal (Ua) for an analog-to-digital converter (20) operating according to the sigma-delta method, a variable period (T; T*) of the power supply system (PL) is ascertained in time units of a system clock signal (C), and the scanning clock signal (S) is generated by distributing a constant number K of pulses over the ascertained period (T; T*), so that the frequency of the scanning clock signal (S) is an integer multiple of the frequency of the power supply system (PL). The method is essentially able to be carried out by an accumulator unit (4) connected to a counter (3) and makes possible the advantage that during the analog-to-digital conversion a mains hum contained in the analog signal (Ua) is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Patent number: 4278490
    Abstract: A collapsible mandrel having a longitudinally slit tubular shell providing a molding surface for glass fiber reinforced plastic pipe is provided with a removably mountable longitudinally slit sleeve as a molding surface for pipe of larger diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Assignee: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Pistole, Walter A. Stoll, Leo A. Oswald
  • Patent number: D292021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Patent number: D297888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Inventor: Walter Stoll
  • Patent number: D652574
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Inventor: Walter Stoll