Patents by Inventor Xiaoyue Xie
Xiaoyue Xie 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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Patent number: 10739986Abstract: Techniques for a circuit board for an input device are described. In at least some embodiments, an input device is integrated into a circuit board of an apparatus. For instance, a touch interaction region of the input device is formed by cutting and/or etching a portion of the circuit board such that the touch interaction region is moveable with respect to adjacent portions of the circuit board. According to one or more embodiments, an input device includes a switch such that movement of the touch interaction region actuates the switch to generate a click input event.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xiaoyue Xie, Rahul Marwah, John Jacob Nelson, Ivan Andrew McCracken, David Otto Whitt, III
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Patent number: 10352740Abstract: The description relates to devices having sensing tips and releasably retaining the sensing tips. One example includes a tip holder that defines a cavity that receives the sensing tip. This example also includes first and second clamps positioned radially around the tip holder and extending through holes in the tip holder into the cavity to contact the sensing tip. The example further includes a flexible clamp band positioned around the first and second clamps and biasing the first and second clamps inwardly against the sensing tip.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bradley E. Clements, Xiaoyue Xie
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Publication number: 20180307395Abstract: Techniques for a circuit board for an input device are described. In at least some embodiments, an input device is integrated into a circuit board of an apparatus. For instance, a touch interaction region of the input device is formed by cutting and/or etching a portion of the circuit board such that the touch interaction region is moveable with respect to adjacent portions of the circuit board. According to one or more embodiments, an input device includes a switch such that movement of the touch interaction region actuates the switch to generate a click input event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xiaoyue Xie, Rahul Marwah, John Jacob Nelson, Ivan Andrew McCracken, David Otto Whitt, III
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Publication number: 20180238721Abstract: The description relates to devices having sensing tips and releasably retaining the sensing tips. One example includes a tip holder that defines a cavity that receives the sensing tip. This example also includes first and second clamps positioned radially around the tip holder and extending through holes in the tip holder into the cavity to contact the sensing tip. The example further includes a flexible clamp band positioned around the first and second clamps and biasing the first and second clamps inwardly against the sensing tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bradley E. CLEMENTS, Xiaoyue XIE
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Patent number: 10042545Abstract: Techniques for a touch input in a circuit board are described. In at least some embodiments, a touch input device is integrated into a circuit board of an apparatus. For instance, a touch interaction region of the touch input device is formed by cutting and/or etching a portion of the circuit board such that the touch interaction region is moveable with respect to adjacent portions of the circuit board. According to one or more embodiments, a touch input device includes a switch such that movement of the touch interaction region actuates the switch to generate a click input event.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Xiaoyue Xie, Rahul Marwah, John Jacob Nelson, Ivan Andrew McCracken, David Otto Whitt, III
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Publication number: 20180024720Abstract: Techniques for a touch input in a circuit board are described. In at least some embodiments, a touch input device is integrated into a circuit board of an apparatus. For instance, a touch interaction region of the touch input device is formed by cutting and/or etching a portion of the circuit board such that the touch interaction region is moveable with respect to adjacent portions of the circuit board. According to one or more embodiments, a touch input device includes a switch such that movement of the touch interaction region actuates the switch to generate a click input event.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xiaoyue Xie, Rahul Marwah, John Jacob Nelson, Ivan Andrew McCracken, David Otto Whitt, III
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Publication number: 20170351349Abstract: The described technology includes a fluid force sensor interface between a pressure sensor, such as a barometric pressure sensor disposed inside a sensor housing with an aperture, and a container with an interior cavity exposed to the ambient environmental fluid pressure. The interior cavity of the container may equalize with the pressure of the ambient fluid environment, and may cooperate with the aperture on the sensor housing to create at least a partial fluid seal. A force member may transmit an applied outside force to deform the container, and the interior cavity therein, to reduce the volume of the interior cavity and thus increase pressure inside the interior cavity. The fluid force sensor may measure the applied force by sensing an increase in pressure inside the interior cavity. After the outside applied force has been removed, the pressure inside the interior cavity may equalize with the ambient fluid pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Jay Michael Fassett, Bradley Edgar Clements, Michael Dale Jensen, Gabriel Pirie, Xiaoyue Xie
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Patent number: 9785339Abstract: Techniques for a touch input device in a circuit board are described. In at least some embodiments, a touch input device is integrated into a circuit board of an apparatus. For instance, a touch interaction region of the touch input device is formed by cutting and/or etching a portion of the circuit board such that the touch interaction region is moveable with respect to adjacent portions of the circuit board. According to one or more embodiments, a touch input device includes a switch such that movement of the touch interaction region actuates the switch to generate a click input event.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xiaoyue Xie, Rahul Marwah, John Jacob Nelson, Ivan Andrew McCracken, David Otto Whitt, III
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Publication number: 20160162147Abstract: Techniques for a touch input device in a circuit board are described. In at least some embodiments, a touch input device is integrated into a circuit board of an apparatus. For instance, a touch interaction region of the touch input device is formed by cutting and/or etching a portion of the circuit board such that the touch interaction region is moveable with respect to adjacent portions of the circuit board. According to one or more embodiments, a touch input device includes a switch such that movement of the touch interaction region actuates the switch to generate a click input event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Xiaoyue Xie, Rahul Marwah, John Jacob Nelson, Ivan Andrew McCracken, David Otto Whitt, III