Category: technology

U.S. Patent No. 10,152,892 B2 (‘892), issued on December 11, 2018, for “Autonomous Vehicle Notification System.”  The inventors are Taggart Matthiesen of Kentfield, California, Jisi Guo of San Francisco, California, Sebastian Rolf Johan Brannstrom of San Francisco, California, and Jess Garms of San Francisco, California.  The applicant and assignee is Lyft, Inc. of San Francisco, …

U.S. Patent No. 10,096,319 B1 (‘319), issued on October 9, 2018, for “Voice-Based Determination of Physical and Emotional Characteristics of Users.”  The inventors are Huafeng Jin of Sammamish, Washington and Shuo Wang of Bellevue, Washington.  The applicant and assignee is Amazon Technologies, Inc. of Seattle, Washington, the giant e-commerce company which has transformed how people …

The Game Developers Conference will be held in San Francisco from March 18-22, 2019.  To commemorate the GDC, we will highlight two gaming patents during the conference. U.S. Patent No. 10,158,948 B2 (‘948), issued on December 18, 2018, for “Gaming Headset with Voice Scrambling for Private In-Game Conversations.”  The inventor is Richard Kulavik of San …

The Game Developers Conference will be held in San Francisco from March 18-22, 2019.  To commemorate the GDC, we will highlight two gaming patents during the conference. U.S. Patent No. 10,157,521 B2 (‘521), issued on December 18, 2018, for “Identification of Side Pot Participants in Poker Game.”  The inventors are Jacob Moore of Alameda, California, …

U.S. Patent No. 10,123,538 B2 (‘538), issued on November 13, 2018, for “Glyphosate Salt Herbicidal Composition.”  The inventors are David R. Eaton of Kirkwood, Missouri, Jeffrey A. Graham of Chesterfield, Missouri, and Henry Agbaje of Greensboro, North Carolina.  The applicant and assignee is Monsanto Technology LLC of St. Louis, Missouri, the huge agro- biotech company …

U.S. Patent No. 10,091,202 B2 (‘202), issued on October 2, 2018, for “Text Suggestions for Images.”  The inventors are Aleksandr V. Kennberg and Alexander Nicolaou, both of Waterloo, Canada.  The applicant and assignee is Google LLC of Mountain View, California, the huge tech company focused around its search engine, but is part of the larger …

CES 2019 will open January 8 – 11, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada, bringing to the world’s eyes gadgets and technology from startups all over the globe.  Wearable tech has always been one of the more popular offerings at CES.  This year, we spotlight one of the patents behind Orii, the ring smartphone device from …

U.S. Patent No. 10,057,241 (‘241) issued on August 21, 2018, for “Toggle Between Accounts.”  It was issued to inventors Anand Subramani and François Alexander Allain, both of San Francisco, California.  The applicant/assignee is Dropbox, Inc., a public cloud storage company.  The elements of the ‘241 patent claims appear aimed at its AdminX business division products …