Patents by Inventor Francis Ma

Francis Ma 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).

  • Patent number: 11957760
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to nanoparticle drug conjugates (NDC) that comprise ultrasmall nanoparticles, folate receptor (FR) targeting ligands, and linker-drug conjugates, and methods of making and using them to treat cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Elucida Oncology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Ma, Aranapakam M. Venkatesan, Feng Chen, Fei Wu, Melik Ziya Türker, Thomas Courtney Gardinier, II, Geno J. Germano, Jr., Gregory Paul Adams, Francis Y. F. Lee
  • Patent number: 9628576
    Abstract: A system and method for suggesting to a first user about a second user who is available to have social interactions with the first user at a specific time based at least in part on user context for activities associated with habits of users. A habit engine determines habits of the first user and the second user to identify when each user is available for the social interactions. A context engine determines user context for a group of activities performed by the first user and the second user. A suggestion module identifies a time when the first user and the second user are available for the social interactions associated with a first activity having a matching context. The suggestion module provides a first suggestion that the first user join the second user in the first activity in a social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ayush Agarwal, Francis Ma, Seth Sternberg
  • Patent number: 9614920
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a suggestion to a first user about adding a second user to a social group of the first user based at least in part on the context of an interaction between the first user and the second user. A connection application receives first user and second user activity on the third-party website responsive to authenticating the first user and the second user on the third-party website. The connection application identifies an interaction between the first user and the second user on the third-party website and determines the context for the interaction between the first user and the second user on the third-party website. The connection application identifies a group that the first user created on the social network based on the identified context and provides a suggestion to the first user that the first user add the second user to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ayush Agarwal, Francis Ma, Seth Sternberg
  • Patent number: 9391947
    Abstract: A system and method for delivering a message to one or more users from a sender disclosed. The channel application includes a habit engine, a context engine and a channel suggestion module. The habit engine determines habits of a user to identify when the user is available for interactions and categorizes user consumption of information as being a channel including push, queue or pull. The context engine determines a group of contexts for activities when the user is available for interactions. The channel suggestion module identifies a first context and a time of a message and provides the message to the user based on the time corresponding to the user's habits, the first context corresponding to one of the contexts in the group of contexts and the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ayush Agarwal, Francis Ma, Seth Sternberg
  • Publication number: 20150195708
    Abstract: A method and computing system for receiving a notification from a first website of a user signing into the first website. A determination is made concerning whether a compatible mobile application is available for the first website. If a compatible mobile application is available for the first website, a determination is made concerning whether the user has the compatible mobile application installed on a mobile device associated with the user. If the user does not have the compatible mobile application installed on the mobile device associated with the user, a determination is made concerning whether the compatible mobile application may be installed on the mobile device associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan W. Terleski, Ujjwal Singh, Francis Ma
  • Publication number: 20130347078
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for automatically authorizing data transfer from a third party service to a user device. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive a request for data from a user of a user device; receive information associated with the user and information associated with the user device; determine whether the user has previously provided authorization for a particular application available on the third party site; determine whether the user has previously provided authorization for the user device; and if the user has previously provided authorization for a particular application available on the third party site or has previously provided authorization for the user device, send data to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Google Inc
    Inventors: Ayush Agarwal, David Glazer, Samuel Shoji Fukujima Goto, Jennifer W. Lin, Francis Ma, Scott Robert McMullan, Joseph Robert Smarr, Seth Jason Sternberg