Patents by Inventor Aaron Chan
Aaron Chan 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: 12002100Abstract: An insurance computing device is provided. The insurance computing device may include a processor and a memory. The processor may be programmed to receive a registration request from a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle and/or a covered parking location (CPL) computing device associated with a covered parking location, generate a usage profile associated with at least one of the vehicle and the covered parking location, monitor the vehicle computing device and/or the CPL computing device for any requests to reserve an available parking spot of the covered parking location, update the usage profile, determine if an insurance policy associated with the vehicle and/or the covered parking location is eligible for insurance-related benefits based upon the usage profile.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P. Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L. Garretson
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Patent number: 12002101Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing covered parking to vehicles is provided. The method may include transmitting a location identifier of a covered parking location and a communication address of a covered parking location (CPL) computing device to a vehicle computing device and/or an insurance computing device. The method may further include transmitting a signal to the vehicle computing device indicating a number of available parking spots of the covered parking location when the vehicle computing device contacts the CPL computing device, receiving a request from the vehicle computing device to reserve a parking spot of the covered parking location, determining whether to accept the request, and transmitting a response to the vehicle computing device. Accepting the request causes the CPL computing device to permit a vehicle associated with the vehicle computing device access to the covered parking location.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P. Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L. Garretson
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Patent number: 11997839Abstract: Heat dissipation system, a power converter using such a heat dissipation system, and an associated method of thermal management of the power converter are disclosed. The heat dissipation system includes a condenser, a first cooling loop, and a second cooling loop. The first cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a first two-phase heat transfer device. The second cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a second two-phase heat transfer device. The condenser is disposed above the first and second two-phase heat transfer devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: GE Grid Solutions LLCInventors: Alistair Martin Waddell, Mark Aaron Chan Chan, Owen Jannis Schelenz, Michael Fernahl
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Publication number: 20240144378Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing covered parking to vehicles is provided. The method may include transmitting a location identifier of a covered parking location and a communication address of a covered parking location (CPL) computing device to a vehicle computing device and/or an insurance computing device. The method may further include transmitting a signal to the vehicle computing device indicating a number of available parking spots of the covered parking location when the vehicle computing device contacts the CPL computing device, receiving a request from the vehicle computing device to reserve a parking spot of the covered parking location, determining whether to accept the request, and transmitting a response to the vehicle computing device. Accepting the request causes the CPL computing device to permit a vehicle associated with the vehicle computing device access to the covered parking location.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P. Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L. Garretson
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Publication number: 20240144377Abstract: An insurance computing device is provided. The insurance computing device may include a processor and a memory. The processor may be programmed to receive a registration request from a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle and/or a covered parking location (CPL) computing device associated with a covered parking location, generate a usage profile associated with at least one of the vehicle and the covered parking location, monitor the vehicle computing device and/or the CPL computing device for any requests to reserve an available parking spot of the covered parking location, update the usage profile, determine if an insurance policy associated with the vehicle and/or the covered parking location is eligible for insurance-related benefits based upon the usage profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P. Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L. Garretson
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Publication number: 20240132934Abstract: Described herein are systems for measuring enzymatic activities. Also described herein are methods for measuring or screening enzymatic activities utilizing the systems described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Henry CHAN, Aaron COOPER, Molly Jeanette GASPERINI
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Publication number: 20240127127Abstract: A vehicle weather damage-prevention system is provided. The system may include a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle, a covered parking location (CPL) computing device associated with a covered parking location, and an insurance computing device. The vehicle computing device may receive weather data and determine whether the vehicle is affected by inclement weather. The vehicle computing device may receive from the CPL computing device information indicating whether the covered parking location has available parking spots. The vehicle computing device may transmit a request to the CPL computing device to reserve a parking spot. The CPL computing device may selectively permit the vehicle access to the covered parking location. The insurance computing device may monitor the vehicle computing device and/or the CPL computing device and determine if an insurance policy is eligible for insurance-related benefits based upon a usage profile of the vehicle or the covered parking location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P. Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L. Garretson
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Patent number: 11951858Abstract: A charging device for connecting an electrical energy store of a motor vehicle to a charging station for electrical energy includes a charging cable having at least one line for conducting a charging current and at least one connection element via which the charging cable is connectable to a corresponding connection element between the energy store and the charging station. At least one latent heat store is provided on the charging cable and/or on the at least one connection element and can be used to absorb heat generated during the charging process.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Melissa Bowler, Mark Aaron Chan, Markus Feigl, Josef Poemmerl, Martin Rau
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Publication number: 20240071407Abstract: Techniques for detecting certain acoustic events from audio data are described. A system may perform event aggregation for certain types of events before sending an output to a device representing the event is detected. The system may bypass the event aggregation process for certain types of events that the system may detect with a high level of confidence. In such cases, the system may send an output to the device when the event is detected. The system may be used to detect acoustic events representing presence of a person or other harmful circumstances (such as, fire, smoke, etc.) in a home, an office, a store, or other types of indoor settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Harshavardhan Sundar, Sheetal Laad, Jialiang Bao, Ming Sun, Chao Wang, Chungnam Chan, Cengiz Erbas, Mathias Jourdain, Nipul Bharani, Aaron David Wirshba
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Patent number: 11885229Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to electric machines such as electric propulsion systems for aircraft that integrated cooling systems, and methods of cooling such an electric machine. Exemplary electric machines include an electric motor that has a stator, a rotor, and a drive shaft operably coupled to the rotor. Exemplary electric machines further include a motor cooling conduit that defines a pathway for conveying a cooling fluid through or around at least a portion of the electric motor, a casing assembly that circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of the electric motor, a casing assembly conduit integrally formed within at least a portion of the casing assembly which defines a pathway for conveying the cooling fluid through the at least a portion of the casing assembly, and a pump or compressor operably coupled to the drive shaft and configured to circulate the cooling fluid through the motor cooling conduit and the casing assembly conduit.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Florian Stefan Hoefler, Mark Aaron Chan Chan
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Patent number: 11775767Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed including operations of receiving a plurality of request texts, and for each request text of the plurality of request texts: performing a pre-processing operation, performing a first text similarity procedure or a second text similarity procedure that each result in a determination of a most similar request text in a knowledge base, wherein the second text similarity procedure includes performance of word embedding operations, determining a degree of similarity between the current request text and the most similar request text, when the degree of similarity satisfies a similarity threshold comparison, associating an answer associated with the most request text with the current text request, and when the degree of similar does not satisfy the similarity threshold comparison, flagging the current request text or associating a placeholder answer with the current request text. Performing pre-processing may include removing stop words and punctuation and creating tokenized text.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Ningwei Liu, Wangyan Feng, Aaron Chan, Joel Fulton
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Patent number: 11379670Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed including operations of receiving one or more request texts, including at least a first request text, automatically performing processing on the first request text to determine a most similar request text in a knowledge base, determining a degree of similarity between the first request text and the most similar request text, and in response to a comparison between the degree of similarity and a similarity threshold, retrieving, from the knowledge base, an answer corresponding to the most similar request text. Performing processing may include (i) removing stop words and punctuation and creating tokenized text, (ii) converting the tokenized text into a vector using a trained neural network, and (iii) performing an analysis of the vector with the entries of the knowledge base using one or more of a Word Mover's Distance (WMD) algorithm, or a Soft Cosine Measure (SCM) algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Splunk, Inc.Inventors: Ningwei Liu, Wangyan Feng, Aaron Chan, Joel Fulton
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Publication number: 20220053673Abstract: Heat dissipation system, a power converter using such a heat dissipation system, and an associated method of thermal management of the power converter are disclosed. The heat dissipation system includes a condenser, a first cooling loop, and a second cooling loop. The first cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a first two-phase heat transfer device. The second cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a second two-phase heat transfer device. The condenser is disposed above the first and second two-phase heat transfer devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Alistair Martin Waddell, Mark Aaron Chan Chan, Owen Jannis Schelenz, Michael Fernahl
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Patent number: 11252847Abstract: Heat dissipation system, a power converter using such a heat dissipation system, and an associated method of thermal management of the power converter are disclosed. The heat dissipation system includes a condenser, a first cooling loop, and a second cooling loop. The first cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a first two-phase heat transfer device. The second cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a second two-phase heat transfer device. The condenser is disposed above the first and second two-phase heat transfer devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alistair Martin Waddell, Mark Aaron Chan Chan, Owen Jannis Schelenz, Michael Fernahl
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Publication number: 20210380006Abstract: A charging device for connecting an electrical energy store of a motor vehicle to a charging station for electrical energy includes a charging cable having at least one line for conducting a charging current and at least one connection element via which the charging cable is connectable to a corresponding connection element between the energy store and the charging station. At least one latent heat store is provided on the charging cable and/or on the at least one connection element and can be used to absorb heat generated during the charging process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Melissa BOWLER, Mark Aaron CHAN, Markus FEIGL, Josef POEMMERL, Martin RAU
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Patent number: 10916070Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing covered parking to vehicles is provided. The method may include transmitting a location identifier of a covered parking location and a communication address of a covered parking location (CPL) computing device to a vehicle computing device and/or an insurance computing device. The method may further include transmitting a signal to the vehicle computing device indicating a number of available parking spots of the covered parking location when the vehicle computing device contacts the CPL computing device, receiving a request from the vehicle computing device to reserve a parking spot of the covered parking location, determining whether to accept the request, and transmitting a response to the vehicle computing device. Accepting the request causes the CPL computing device to permit a vehicle associated with the vehicle computing device access to the covered parking location.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L Garretson
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Patent number: 10916947Abstract: A modular substation (10) for subsea applications includes a plurality of modular DC/AC converters (32) configured for converting DC electrical power transmitted along a DC transmission link (24) into AC electrical power for supplying to a plurality of subsea loads (56). The plurality of modular DC/AC converters (32) is configured to couple in series to the DC transmission link (24) and couple in parallel to an AC distribution network (52). At least a first modular DC/AC converter (32) is configured to be selectively electrically and mechanically disconnected from the DC transmission link (24) and the AC distribution network (52) to facilitate maintenance of the first modular DC/AC converters (32) while the AC distribution network (52) continues to supply AC electrical power to at least one of the plurality of subsea loads (56). The modular substation (10) also comprises protection and bypass circuits (26) intended to isolate faulty DC/AC converters (32) and to facilitate safe maintenance and repair.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: GE OIL & GAS UK LTDInventors: Jie Shen, Zhihui Yuan, Christof Martin Sihler, Stefan Schroeder, Mark Aaron Chan, Fei Xu
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Patent number: 10909633Abstract: An insurance computing device is provided. The insurance computing device may include a processor and a memory. The processor may be programmed to receive a registration request from a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle and/or a covered parking location (CPL) computing device associated with a covered parking location, generate a usage profile associated with at least one of the vehicle and the covered parking location, monitor the vehicle computing device and/or the CPL computing device for any requests to reserve an available parking spot of the covered parking location, update the usage profile, determine if an insurance policy associated with the vehicle and/or the covered parking location is eligible for insurance-related benefits based upon the usage profile.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L Garretson
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Patent number: 10909478Abstract: A vehicle weather damage-prevention system is provided. The system may include a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle, a covered parking location (CPL) computing device associated with a covered parking location, and an insurance computing device. The vehicle computing device may receive weather data and determine whether the vehicle is affected by inclement weather. The vehicle computing device may receive from the CPL computing device information indicating whether the covered parking location has available parking spots. The vehicle computing device may transmit a request to the CPL computing device to reserve a parking spot. The CPL computing device may selectively permit the vehicle access to the covered parking location. The insurance computing device may monitor the vehicle computing device and/or the CPL computing device and determine if an insurance policy is eligible for insurance-related benefits based upon a usage profile of the vehicle or the covered parking location.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Aaron Chan, Christina P Mullen, Rosemarie Grant, John Nepomuceno, Cynthia L Garretson
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Publication number: 20210013778Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to electric machines such as electric propulsion systems for aircraft that integrated cooling systems, and methods of cooling such an electric machine. Exemplary electric machines include an electric motor that has a stator, a rotor, and a drive shaft operably coupled to the rotor. Exemplary electric machines further include a motor cooling conduit that defines a pathway for conveying a cooling fluid through or around at least a portion of the electric motor, a casing assembly that circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of the electric motor, a casing assembly conduit integrally formed within at least a portion of the casing assembly which defines a pathway for conveying the cooling fluid through the at least a portion of the casing assembly, and a pump or compressor operably coupled to the drive shaft and configured to circulate the cooling fluid through the motor cooling conduit and the casing assembly conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Florian Stefan Hoefler, Mark Aaron Chan Chan