Patents by Inventor Wesley R. Schalk

Wesley R. Schalk 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: 11314472
    Abstract: Example tracking measures for a first functionality category may be used to generate a modified tracking measure if it is determined that the first functionality category is unsupported by an automated functionality tracking component. The modified tracking measure may be transmitted for categorization in a second functionality category, wherein the second functionality category is different from the first functionality category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jesse Sutherland, Wesley R Schalk, Kris M English, Steven Dworzak
  • Patent number: 11314467
    Abstract: An example printing device and method of the printing device is disclosed. A print substance usage parameter is determined based on a signal provided from a sensor coupled to a refillable reservoir in the printing device. A fill level of the refillable reservoir is dynamically adjusted with the print substance usage parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R Schalk, Jesse Sutherland, Howard G Wong
  • Patent number: 11305525
    Abstract: An example printing device may comprise an indicator to convey information to a user, a print substance reservoir to house a print substance, where the print substance reservoir is communicatively coupled to a fill port, a sensor to determine when a refill container is connected to the fill port, a processing resource, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by the processing resource to transmit signals to the indicator responsive to an indication that the sensor has detected the refill container connected to the fill port, where the signals correspond to the information to be conveyed by the indicator, and authenticate the refill container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Howard G Wong, Wesley R Schalk, Kris R Livingston, Duane A Koehler, Kenneth Williams, Tyler Kapp
  • Patent number: 11292262
    Abstract: A printing device interface to receive a fluid supply may include a fluid dock arranged on an external surface of a housing of the printing device, the fluid dock further arranged to receive a mechanical interface of a fluid supply wherein the arrangement of the fluid dock on the external surface of the housing enables use of a center of mass and weight of the fluid supply to maintain a mechanical, fluidic, and electrical connection with the fluid supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Judson M. Leiser, Ronald J. Ender, Paul Mark Haines, Roger J. Kolodziej
  • Patent number: 11292202
    Abstract: In one example, a control process for an additive manufacturing machine includes displacing a platform, measuring the actual displacement of the platform, determining that the actual displacement varies from a nominal displacement, and determining an amount of an agent to be applied to build material layered on the displaced platform based on the determined variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R Schalk, Arthur H Barnes, Morgan T Schramm, Xin Cheng, Miguel Angel Lopez Alvarez
  • Publication number: 20220097302
    Abstract: A build material dispensing device may include a material spreader to spread an amount of build material along a build platform, and at least one hopper for dispensing the build material. The at least one hopper dispenses a plurality of doses of the build material in front of the progression of the material spreader as the material spreader is moved over the build platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Mike Rode, John Geile, Pierre J. Kaiser, Wesley R. Schalk, Arthur H. Barnes
  • Publication number: 20220072869
    Abstract: A printing device has a reservoir of colorant that is fillable from an external colorant supply temporarily connectable to the printing device. A selectable fill mode of the reservoir is enabled from a number of fill modes. The fill modes include a restricted fill mode in which the reservoir is filled from the external colorant supply responsive to determining that the external colorant supply can be emptied into the reservoir. The fill modes include an unrestricted fill mode in which the reservoir is filled from the external supply regardless of whether the external colorant supply can or cannot emptied into the reservoir. The printing device, responsive to temporary connection of the external colorant supply, controls filling of the reservoir from the external colorant supply in accordance with the selected fill mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Howard G Wong, Wesley R. Schalk, Jesse Otto Sutherland
  • Patent number: 11269566
    Abstract: Examples of a user interface (UI) for depletion level selection are described herein. In some examples, a control element is displayed in a UI to select a color depletion level for a color printing substance of a printing device. A predicted cost-per-page to print is displayed in the UI based on based on a selected color depletion level. A color map for the printing device is determined based on the selected color depletion level and a separate black depletion level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jesse Otto Sutherland, Wesley R Schalk, Kris M English, Morgan T Schramm, Howard G Wong
  • Patent number: 11267254
    Abstract: An extraction pump of a printing device fluidically connected to a reservoir of the printing device is set to a specified rotational velocity. A pulse-width modulation (PWM) value of the extraction pump correspondingly increases until the extraction pump rotates at the specified rotational velocity. While the power of the extraction pump is monitored, a power of a supply pump of the printing device fluidically connected between the extraction pump and the reservoir is continually increased; the power of the extraction pump correspondingly decreases to maintain rotation of the extraction pump at the specified rotational velocity. Responsive to the power of the extraction pump decreasing to a characterized value for the specified rotational velocity, the power of the supply pump ceases being increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Russell Sterling Sauer, Kenneth Williams, Wesley R. Schalk, Christopher John Arnold
  • Patent number: 11267667
    Abstract: In one example, a media feed system includes a pick arm that is adjustable at a pivot and operable to maintain a distance between a pick roller and a separation wall as the pick arm changes orientation. In another example, a media feed system may include a pick arm, a pick roller coupled to the pick arm, a pivot coupled to the pick arm, and a plate coupled to the pivot via a pin and slot interface. In that example, a slot of the pin and slot interface is to adjust position of the pivot and adjust orientation of the pick arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R Schalk, Al Olson
  • Patent number: 11260585
    Abstract: In an example implementation, a method of printing a three-dimensional (3D) object includes scanning a print bar in a first direction over a build platform of a 3D printer to deposit a liquid agent onto a layer of build powder. The print bar is then indexed in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction before scanning the print bar back over the build platform in a third direction opposite the first direction to deposit additional liquid agent onto the layer of build powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Matthew A. Shepherd, Arthur H. Barnes
  • Patent number: 11260599
    Abstract: A control system for a three-dimensional printer includes an energy component interface, an agent depositing component interface, and control logic. The control logic controls the operation of an energy component through the energy component interface and an agent depositing component through the agent depositing component, in forming an output object that is specified in a print job. Additionally, in some examples, the control logic can implement a plurality of modes. Each mode, when selected modulate one or more operational parameters of a least one of the energy component or agent depositing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Vanessa Verzwyvelt, Matthew A. Shepherd, Arthur H. Barnes, Wesley R. Schalk, Hector Jose Lebron, Jake Wright
  • Publication number: 20220060603
    Abstract: Example color resources are generated. A first luminosity amount of a greyscale color in a greyscale color space is determined. The greyscale color corresponds with a transformation of a source color in a first color space converted to the greyscale color. The source color corresponding with a depletion color in a second color space, and the depletion color has a second luminosity amount. A target color in a color resource is generated via adjusting a black channel amount in the depletion color to match the second luminosity amount with the first luminosity amount. The target color to correspond with the source color in the color resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.C.
    Inventors: Morgan T. Schramm, Ranjit Bhaskar, Jesse Otto Sutherland, Wesley R. Schalk
  • Patent number: 11258926
    Abstract: An example color resource is generated. A source color from a first color space is converted to a corresponding greyscale color in a greyscale color space. The greyscale color includes a first luminosity amount. A black channel amount is adjusted to a depletion color from a second color space to form a target color in the second color space. The depletion color corresponds with a transformation of the source color into the second color space. The depletion color includes a second luminosity amount, and adjusting the black channel includes matching the second luminosity amount in the target color with the first luminosity amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Morgan T. Schramm, Ranjit Bhaskar, Jesse Sutherland, Wesley R. Schalk
  • Publication number: 20220040989
    Abstract: A print liquid supply apparatus or interface structure to be connected to a print system comprises a liquid channel, liquid interface and integrated circuit contact pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Judson M. LEISER, Miquel BOLEDA BUSQUETS, Bernd KARLSBOECK, David OLSEN, Michael E. PETERSCHMIDT, Lynn A. COLLIE, Paul Allan OSBORNE, Wesley R. SCHALK, Ronald J. ENDER, Paul Mark HAINES, Roger J. KOLODZIEJ, Steve A. O'HARA
  • Publication number: 20220032645
    Abstract: A method of recirculating printing fluid that includes with a first pump upstream of an internal reservoir, pumping printing fluid into the reservoir and with a second pump downstream of the internal reservoir and upstream of a pen assembly, pumping printing fluid from the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Schalk, Kenneth Williams, Christopher John Arnold
  • Patent number: 11230111
    Abstract: A print supply, the print supply to connect to a printing device to provide a print material to the printing device that includes a fluidic bag within a box to maintain a print material supply, a machine and human readable fluid gauge system that includes a microprocessor to transfer print material level information describing a level of print material within the bag, and a gauge display to represent the level of print material within the bag, and a near field communication device to transfer data describing a level of print material within the print liquid supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Duane A. Koehler, Wesley R. Schalk, Howard G. Wong
  • Patent number: 11225022
    Abstract: A build material dispensing device may include a material spreader to spread an amount of build material along a build platform, and at least one hopper for dispensing the build material. The at least one hopper dispenses a plurality of doses of the build material in front of the progression of the material spreader as the material spreader is moved over the build platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mike Rode, John Geile, Pierre J. Kaiser, Wesley R. Schalk, Arthur H. Barnes
  • Publication number: 20220004346
    Abstract: Example printing devices and methods of the printing devices are disclosed. Target data is received responsive to imaging the source item. The source item includes a mark indicative of rendering information. The target data is used to detect the rendering information. The target object is output based on the target data and the rendering information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David M. Berfanger, Jesse Sutherland, Wesley R. Schalk, Benjamin Hoopes, Morgan T. Schramm
  • Publication number: 20210409572
    Abstract: An image file is prepared for printing. The image file is received. The image file includes a cell having pixels. A pixel of the pixels of the cell corresponds with a command to apply a print substance to a medium. For the pixel, the command to apply the print substance is selectively replaced with a command to not apply the print substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Morgan T. Schramm, Wesley R. Schalk, Ranjit Bhaskar