Patents by Inventor David Wurtz

David Wurtz 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).

  • Publication number: 20230404583
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Lindsay GORDON, Sylvie STACY, Johannah VAN DER PLAS, Anita R. KALRA, David WURTZ, Eamon DOYLE
  • Patent number: 11779338
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Lindsay Gordon, Sylvie Stacy, Johannah Van Der Plas, Anita R. Kalra, Eamon Doyle, David Wurtz
  • Patent number: 11766262
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Lindsay Gordon, Sylvie Stacy, Johannah Van Der Plas, Anita R. Kalra, Eamon Doyle, David Wurtz
  • Publication number: 20230205485
    Abstract: An audio capture device selects between multiple microphones to generate an output audio signal depending on detected conditions. The audio capture device determines whether one or more microphones are wet or dry and selects one or more audio signals from the one or more microphones depending on their respective conditions. The audio capture device generates a mono audio output signal or a stereo output signal depending on the respective conditions of the one or more microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Erich Tisch, Joyce Rosenbaum, Magnus Hansson, Ke Li, David Wurtz
  • Patent number: 11614916
    Abstract: Many headsets include automatic noise cancellation (ANC) which dramatically reduces perceived background noise and improves user listening experience. Unfortunately, the voice microphones in these devices often capture ambient noise that the headsets output during phone calls or other communication sessions to other users. In response, many headsets and communication devices provide manual muting circuitry, but users frequently forget to turn the muting on and/or off creating further problems as they communicate. To address this, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary headset that detects the absence or presence of user speech, automatically muting and unmuting the voice microphone without user intervention. Some embodiments leverage relationships between feedback and feedforward signals in ANC circuitry to detect user speech, avoiding the addition of extra hardware to the headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AVNERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiajin An, Michael Jon Wurtz, David Wurtz, Manpreet Khaira, Amit Kumar, Shawn O'Connor, Shankar Rathoud, James Scanlan, Eric Sorensen
  • Patent number: 11589178
    Abstract: An audio capture device selects between multiple microphones to generate an output audio signal depending on detected conditions. The audio capture device determines whether one or more microphones are wet or dry and selects one or more audio signals from the one or more microphones depending on their respective conditions. The audio capture device generates a mono audio output signal or a stereo output signal depending on the respective conditions of the one or more microphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Erich Tisch, Joyce Rosenbaum, Magnus Hansson, Ke Li, David Wurtz
  • Publication number: 20220225989
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Lindsay GORDON, Sylvie STACY, Johannah VAN DER PLAS, Anita R. KALRA, Eamon DOYLE, David WURTZ
  • Publication number: 20220225990
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Lindsay GORDON, Sylvie STACY, Johannah VAN DER PLAS, Anita R. KALRA, Eamon DOYLE, David WURTZ
  • Publication number: 20220211377
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Lindsay GORDON, Sylvie STACY, Johannah VAN DER PLAS, Anita R. KALRA, Eamon DOYLE, David WURTZ
  • Patent number: 11373665
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a voice isolation system comprising an acoustic echo-cancelation subsystem configured to receive a plurality of input signals, subtract an interference component from the input signals, and provide a plurality of output signals. The system also includes an adaptive beamformer subsystem configured to receive the plurality of output signals from the acoustic echo-cancelation subsystem and compute a signal-to-noise ratio enhanced signal based on the received output signals. The system also includes a residual noise suppressor subsystem configured to attenuate at least one portion of the SNR enhanced signal received from the adaptive beamformer subsystem based on the at least one portion having an SNR below a predetermined SNR threshold. The system also includes an automatic gain control subsystem configured to process a signal outputted from the residual noise suppressor subsystem and transmit a resulting signal as an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: AVNERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Wurtz, Michael Wurtz, Amit Kumar, Colin Doolittle
  • Patent number: 11311297
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Lindsay Gordon, Sylvie Stacy, Johannah Van Der Plas, Anita R. Kalra, Eamon Doyle, David Wurtz
  • Publication number: 20210250715
    Abstract: An audio capture device selects between multiple microphones to generate an output audio signal depending on detected conditions. The audio capture device determines whether one or more microphones are wet or dry and selects one or more audio signals from the one or more microphones depending on their respective conditions. The audio capture device generates a mono audio output signal or a stereo output signal depending on the respective conditions of the one or more microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Erich Tisch, Joyce Rosenbaum, Magnus Hansson, Ke Li, David Wurtz
  • Patent number: 11026036
    Abstract: An audio capture device selects between multiple microphones to generate an output audio signal depending on detected conditions. When the presence of wind noise or other uncorrelated noise is detected, the audio capture device selects, for each of a plurality of different frequency sub-bands, an audio signal having the lowest noise and combines the selected frequency sub-bands signals to generate an output audio signal. When wind noise or other uncorrelated noise is not detected, the audio capture device determines whether each of a plurality of microphones are wet or dry and selects one or more audio signals from the microphones depending on their respective conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Erich Tisch, Joyce Rosenbaum, Magnus Hansson, Ke Li, David Wurtz
  • Publication number: 20210081371
    Abstract: A method of sharing and synchronizing a plurality of electronically stored resources between a cloud file system and a client file system is provided. The method includes receiving one or more change events wherein each change event indicates an independent change to one or more electronically stored files in a first client file system, holding the received change events for a period of time, and determining whether any of the held change events are combinable with other held change events indicating one or more independent changes to one or more electronically stored files in one or more client file systems comprising the first client file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Besen, Hwi Cheong, Hendrik Mueller, Frank Pape, David Wurtz
  • Patent number: 10846269
    Abstract: A method of sharing and synchronizing a plurality of electronically stored resources between a cloud file system and a client file system is provided. The method includes identifying the plurality of electronically stored resources, which are stored in the cloud file system and have identical names in the cloud file system. The method also includes generating in the client file system a replicate of a first resource of the plurality of electronically stored resources, and generating in the client file system a replicate of a second resource of the plurality of electronically stored resources. The method further includes naming the replicate of the second resource of the plurality of electronically stored resources with an incremental counter to create a unique name for the replicate of the second resource of the plurality of electronically stored resources in the client file system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Adam Besen, Hwi Cheong, Hendrik Mueller, Frank Pape, David Wurtz
  • Publication number: 20200348901
    Abstract: Many headsets include automatic noise cancellation (ANC) which dramatically reduces perceived background noise and improves user listening experience. Unfortunately, the voice microphones in these devices often capture ambient noise that the headsets output during phone calls or other communication sessions to other users. In response, many headsets and communication devices provide manual muting circuitry, but users frequently forget to turn the muting on and/or off creating further problems as they communicate. To address this, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary headset that detects the absence or presence of user speech, automatically muting and unmuting the voice microphone without user intervention. Some embodiments leverage relationships between feedback and feedforward signals in ANC circuitry to detect user speech, avoiding the addition of extra hardware to the headset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Jiajin AN, Michael Jon WURTZ, David WURTZ, Manpreet KHAIRA, Amit KUMAR, Shawn O'CONNOR, Shankar RATHOUD, James SCANLAN, Eric SORENSEN
  • Patent number: 10564925
    Abstract: Many headsets include automatic noise cancellation (ANC) which dramatically reduces perceived background noise and improves user listening experience. Unfortunately, the voice microphones in these devices often capture ambient noise that the headsets output during phone calls or other communication sessions to other users. In response, many headsets and communication devices provide manual muting circuitry, but users frequently forget to turn the muting on and/or off, creating further problems as they communicate. To address this, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary headset that detects the absence or presence of user speech, automatically muting and unmuting the voice microphone without user intervention. Some embodiments leverage relationships between feedback and feedforward signals in ANC circuitry to detect user speech, avoiding the addition of extra hardware to the headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventors: Jiajin An, Michael Jon Wurtz, David Wurtz, Manpreet Khaira, Amit Kumar, Shawn O'Connor, Shankar Rathoud, James Scanlan, Eric Sorensen
  • Patent number: 10516960
    Abstract: An audio speaker system for a home theater including a number of microphones, a number of speakers, each speaker located at a different location in a room, and a processor electrically connected to the plurality of microphones and wirelessly connected to the plurality of speakers. The processor is configured to generate an audio signal to send to each speaker of the plurality of speakers, output audio from each speaker of the plurality of speakers based on the audio signal, receive the audio at each microphone from each speaker of the plurality of speakers, determine a location of each speaker relative to the plurality of microphones based on the received audio at each microphone, and assign an audio channel to each speaker based on the determined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: AVNERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Colin Doolittle, Amit Kumar, David Wurtz, Michael Wurtz, Manpreet Khaira, Meenakshi Barjatia
  • Publication number: 20190343523
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Lindsay GORDON, Sylvie STACY, Johannah VAN DER PLAS, Anita R. KALRA, Eamon DOYLE, David WURTZ
  • Patent number: 10441284
    Abstract: Devices for approximating multiple tissue edges internal to a body are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Lindsay Gordon, Sylvie Stacy, Johannah Van Der Plas, Anita R. Kalra, Eamon Doyle, David Wurtz