Patents by Inventor Jack K. Zhang

Jack K. Zhang 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: 20230376901
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for monitoring use by a user of a portable research device in accordance with at least one predetermined use criterion are disclosed. The disclosed examples include passively gathering data for assessing an identity of a user of the portable research device, processing the passively gathered data to produce assessment data indicating a possibility that the user is not a predetermined correct user of the portable research device, based on the assessment data, displaying a message to the user requesting a response from which the user's identity may be determined, and processing a response to the message to produce data indicating whether the user is the predetermined correct user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan
  • Patent number: 11741431
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for monitoring use by a user of a portable research device in accordance with at least one predetermined use criterion are disclosed. The disclosed examples include passively gathering data for assessing an identity of a user of the portable research device, processing the passively gathered data to produce assessment data indicating a possibility that the user is not a predetermined correct user of the portable research device, based on the assessment data, displaying a message to the user requesting a response from which the user's identity may be determined, and processing a response to the message to produce data indicating whether the user is the predetermined correct user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan
  • Patent number: 11458329
    Abstract: The invention comprises componentry and devices for light therapy application to a patient in need thereof. The present invention relates to controllers for light therapy devices, light delivery elements, light guides, light guide arrangements configured to deliver personalized light therapy to one or more patients, with related componentry, dosage, and configurations of light therapy delivery elements (e.g., bandages, garments, braces, inserts etc.) suitable to deliver light therapy to one or more patient body areas and associated tissues, as well as sensors for monitoring treatment progress and dosage optimization. Methods of delivering light therapy to a patient and treatment of associated medical indications are also set out herein. Personalized LLLT dosage configurations and telemedicine LLLT treatment platforms and systems are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Jack K. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210196977
    Abstract: The invention comprises componentry and devices for light therapy application to a patient in need thereof. The present invention relates to controllers for light therapy devices, light delivery elements, light guides, light guide arrangements configured to deliver personalized light therapy to one or more patients, with related componentry, dosage, and configurations of light therapy delivery elements (e.g., bandages, garments, braces, inserts etc.) suitable to deliver light therapy to one or more patient body areas and associated tissues, as well as sensors for monitoring treatment progress and dosage optimization. Methods of delivering light therapy to a patient and treatment of associated medical indications are also set out herein. Personalized LLLT dosage configurations and telemedicine LLLT treatment platforms and systems are also provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Jack K. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210093888
    Abstract: The invention comprises componentry and devices for light therapy application to a patient in need thereof. The present invention relates to controllers for light therapy devices, light delivery elements, light guides, light guide arrangements configured to deliver personalized light therapy to one or more patients, with related componentry, dosage, and configurations of light therapy delivery elements (e.g., bandages, garments, braces, inserts etc.) suitable to deliver light therapy to one or more patient body areas and associated tissues, as well as sensors for monitoring treatment progress and dosage optimization. Methods of delivering light therapy to a patient and treatment of associated medical indications are also set out herein. Personalized LLLT dosage configurations and telemedicine LLLT treatment platforms and systems are also provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventor: Jack K. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190371462
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for monitoring use by a user of a portable research device in accordance with at least one predetermined use criterion are disclosed. The disclosed examples include passively gathering data for assessing an identity of a user of the portable research device, processing the passively gathered data to produce assessment data indicating a possibility that the user is not a predetermined correct user of the portable research device, based on the assessment data, displaying a message to the user requesting a response from which the user's identity may be determined, and processing a response to the message to produce data indicating whether the user is the predetermined correct user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan
  • Patent number: 10387618
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for monitoring use of a research device is disclosed. The disclosed example includes producing monitored data by monitoring at least one of the user's heart activity, the user's breathing activity, the user's borborygmus (gastrointestinal noise), the user's vascular pattern, the user's facial and/or ear patterns, the user's fingerprint and/or handprint, and the user's retinal and/or iris pattern, and determining the user's compliance with a predetermined criterion for use of the portable research device based on the monitored data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Publication number: 20190083809
    Abstract: The invention comprises componentry and devices for light therapy application to a patient in need thereof. The present invention relates to controllers for light therapy devices, light delivery elements, light guides, light guide arrangements configured to deliver personalized light therapy to one or more patients, with related componentry, dosage, and configurations of light therapy delivery elements (e.g., bandages, garments, braces, inserts etc.) suitable to deliver light therapy to one or more patient body areas and associated tissues, as well as sensors for monitoring treatment progress and dosage optimization. Methods of delivering light therapy to a patient and treatment of associated medical indications are also set out herein. Personalized LLLT dosage configurations and telemedicine LLLT treatment platforms and systems are also provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jack K. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180008837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to light therapy devices and related methods to treat the female genitalia and areas proximal thereto, including the vaginal cavity and vulvar regions in cisgender females or transgender females who have undergone sex reassignment, in particular for post-surgical indications, vaginal rejuvenation, or other medical conditions suitable for treatment with light therapy. The devices and methods are configured to provide a therapeutic amount of low level light therapy to a patient in need of treatment thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Jack K. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170039337
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for monitoring use of a research device is disclosed. The disclosed example includes producing monitored data by monitoring at least one of the user's heart activity, the user's breathing activity, the user's borborygmus (gastrointestinal noise), the user's vascular pattern, the user's facial and/or ear patterns, the user's fingerprint and/or handprint, and the user's retinal and/or iris pattern, and determining the user's compliance with a predetermined criterion for use of the portable research device based on the monitored data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Patent number: 9489640
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring use by a user of a portable research device based on one or more kinds of monitored data. Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring use by a user of a portable research device in accordance with at least one predetermined use criterion using actively and/or passively gathered data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Patent number: 9132689
    Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh
  • Publication number: 20150242864
    Abstract: Methods and systems for setting up, promoting, operating, maintaining and/or terminating a research operation carried out with the use of a portable user appliance (PUA) are disclosed. An example method to collect user feedback includes detecting, via a portable device worn by a user, an external environmental stimulus fixedly located proximate to a location of the portable device. The example method includes presenting via the portable device a survey sent to the portable device from a mobile telecommunication device carried by the user. The survey requests feedback associated with the environmental stimulus. The example method also includes receiving a user response associated with the survey at the portable device. The example method further includes sending the user response from the portable device to the mobile telecommunication device carried by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Vijoy K. Gopalakrishnan, Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang
  • Patent number: 9092804
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed to map locations of wireless transmitters for use in gathering market research data. A disclosed example method involves displaying a representation of a commercial establishment on a portable device, obtaining transmitter data via the portable device from a wireless transmitter located within the commercial establishment, and in response to the portable device receiving a user selection of a first location on the representation of the commercial establishment, associating the first location with the transmitter data and location information generated by the portable device representative of a physical location in the commercial establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jack K. Zhang, James M. Jensen
  • Patent number: 8849182
    Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Patent number: 8799054
    Abstract: Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying a group of persons receiving communication services pursuant to the single agreement, and demographic data of the PUA user is associated with the data identifying the PUA user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Vijoy K. Gopalakrishnan, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Publication number: 20140156350
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed to map locations of wireless transmitters for use in gathering market research data. A disclosed example method involves displaying a representation of a commercial establishment on a portable device, obtaining transmitter data via the portable device from a wireless transmitter located within the commercial establishment, and in response to the portable device receiving a user selection of a first location on the representation of the commercial establishment, associating the first location with the transmitter data and location information generated by the portable device representative of a physical location in the commercial establishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Jack K. Zhang, James M. Jensen
  • Publication number: 20130346149
    Abstract: Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying a group of persons receiving communication services pursuant to the single agreement, and demographic data of the PUA user is associated with the data identifying the PUA user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Arbitron Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Vijoy K. Gopalakrishnan, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Patent number: 8527320
    Abstract: Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying a group of persons receiving communication services pursuant to the single agreement; and demographic data of the PUA user is associated with the data identifying the PUA user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Arbitron, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang
  • Patent number: 8444180
    Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Arbitron Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III