Patents by Inventor Ed Chen

Ed Chen 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: 20240134092
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for manufacturing energy relays for energy directing systems. Methods and devices are disclosed for forming random and non-random patterns of energy relay materials with energy localization properties. Methods and devices are disclosed for forming energy relays of different shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, Ed Ibe, Jared Perez, Xudong Chen, Joseph W. Rickwalder
  • Patent number: 10003840
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for streaming digital media content, such as music, video, or television content. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for watch-now functionality. A media play logic at a media device controls playback of media content and advertisements as received from a media server, and can be configured for regular media play, or extended media play. Periodically, for example when input is received from a user to skip to a next media option for playback, the user can be prompted to watch an advertisement, in return for extended media play. Upon receiving an election by the user to watch the advertisement in return for extended media play, the media application plays the advertisement, and configures the media play logic for an extended period of advertisement-free media play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SPOTIFY AB
    Inventors: Jason Richman, Will Meyer, Ed Chen, Alex Sarkesian, Colin McLeod, Samwoo E
  • Publication number: 20170183786
    Abstract: This patent describes an invention which fixes nitrogen from the air for agricultural systems. It produces Ammonia, Nitrates, and other NOx from nitrogen, oxygen, and, water vapor by reaction these substances with a metal with current running through it, which has a circuit that generates random spikes in electricity on a metal surface such as a nanostructure mounted catalyst or a catalyst on metal mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: IT (Ed) Chen, Tara Ann Cronin
  • Publication number: 20160122883
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a photocatalytic and electrolytic catalyst includes in various aspects one or more catalysts, a method for forming a catalyst, an electrolytic cell, and a reaction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Tara Cronin, Ed Chen
  • Publication number: 20150289023
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for streaming digital media content, such as music, video, or television content. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for watch-now functionality. A media play logic at a media device controls playback of media content and advertisements as received from a media server, and can be configured for regular media play, or extended media play. Periodically, for example when input is received from a user to skip to a next media option for playback, the user can be prompted to watch an advertisement, in return for extended media play. Upon receiving an election by the user to watch the advertisement in return for extended media play, the media application plays the advertisement, and configures the media play logic for an extended period of advertisement-free media play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Jason Richman, Will Meyer, Ed Chen, Alex Sarkesian, Colin McLeod, Samwoo E