Patents by Inventor Zachary Collins
Zachary Collins 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: 12217107Abstract: This document describes apparatuses that include integrated memory card ejector and sensor ports. A first described aspect of an apparatus includes a memory card connector, a housing, and a carriage. The memory card connector includes a receiver configured to receive a memory card and an ejector assembly configured to eject the memory card from the receiver. The housing includes a sidewall that includes a memory card slot and an integrated port. The integrated port defines an outside opening of the housing. The carriage includes a slide portion slidably positioned in the integrated port and is accessible through the outside opening of the housing. The carriage includes a carriage body having an outer port, a sensor port, and an acoustic chamber defined within the carriage body. The carriage includes an ejector connector configured for contacting the ejector assembly and a sensor assembly mounted on the carriage at the sensor port.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Trevor Matthew Cardiff, Brandon Raphael Collins-Smoot, Cindy Xinzi Wang, Warren Zachary Jones, Jeffrey Yukio Hayashida
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Patent number: 12204235Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 12080174Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for drone pairing are disclosed. Drones may be paired by configuring each of a first drone and a second drone in a drone pairing mode, establishing physical contact between the first drone and the second drone while in the drone pairing mode, determining an acceleration parameter for each of the first drone and the second drone related to the physical contact between the first drone and the second drone, comparing the determined acceleration parameter of the first drone and the determined acceleration parameter of the second drone to identify a match, and pairing the first drone and the second drone in response to the identified match between the compared acceleration parameters of the first and second drones.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Publication number: 20240118598Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11922685Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11852960Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Publication number: 20220415041Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Publication number: 20220357641Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11481997Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11435656Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Publication number: 20220277655Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for drone pairing are disclosed. Drones may be paired by configuring each of a first drone and a second drone in a drone pairing mode, establishing physical contact between the first drone and the second drone while in the drone pairing mode, determining an acceleration parameter for each of the first drone and the second drone related to the physical contact between the first drone and the second drone, comparing the determined acceleration parameter of the first drone and the determined acceleration parameter of the second drone to identify a match, and pairing the first drone and the second drone in response to the identified match between the compared acceleration parameters of the first and second drones.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11373538Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for drone pairing are disclosed. Drones may be paired by configuring each of a first drone and a second drone in a drone pairing mode, establishing physical contact between the first drone and the second drone while in the drone pairing mode, determining an acceleration parameter for each of the first drone and the second drone related to the physical contact between the first drone and the second drone, comparing the determined acceleration parameter of the first drone and the determined acceleration parameter of the second drone to identify a match, and pairing the first drone and the second drone in response to the identified match between the compared acceleration parameters of the first and second drones.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11141285Abstract: The present disclosure provides an orthopedic device and method for carpal fusion that provides bone to bone compression and multiple fixation points to decrease multiple degrees of freedom and motion of carpal bones. The device is biocompatible, resistant to corrosion, and sufficient in mechanical strength. Bone to bone compression and fixation points can be increased by using a first set of fasteners in a peripheral portion of the device to couple through the device into bone structure, and a second set of fasteners in a central portion of the device can be coupled through the device into the bone structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Baylor UniversityInventors: Connor Fisher, Zachary Collins, Alex Chen, Chad Regensberg, Tim Adeleye, Joshua Buckner
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Publication number: 20200038195Abstract: The present disclosure provides an orthopedic device and method for carpal fusion that provides bone to bone compression and multiple fixation points to decrease multiple degrees of freedom and motion of carpal bones. The device is biocompatible, resistant to corrosion, and sufficient in mechanical strength. Bone to bone compression and fixation points can be increased by using a first set of fasteners in a peripheral portion of the device to couple through the device into bone structure, and a second set of fasteners in a central portion of the device can be coupled through the device into the bone structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: BAYLOR UNIVERSITYInventors: Connor Fisher, Zachary Collins, Alex Chen, Chad Regensberg, Tim Adeleye, Joshua Buckner