Patents by Inventor Nicholas J. Witchey

Nicholas J. Witchey 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: 10664518
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems of providing AR content are disclosed. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter can obtain an initial map of an area, derive views of interest, obtain AR content objects associated with the views of interest, establish experience clusters and generate a tile map tessellated based on the experience clusters. A user device could be configured to obtain and instantiate at least some of the AR content objects based on at least one of a location and a recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: David McKinnon, Kamil Wnuk, Jeremi Sudol, Matheen Siddiqui, John Wiacek, Bing Song, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20200155944
    Abstract: Techniques including data collection, organization and usage are provided, including in connection with computer-based gaming. Methods and systems are provided for establishing a set of data chronicling at least a portion of a duration of a computer-based gaming event that includes at least one user engaging in gaming using a computer or a computer-based device. Event data is obtained for chronicling chronologically ordered in-game events. Hardware and software related data is obtained that relates to the computer or the computer-based device and is relevant to the chronicling of the portion of the gaming event. Utilizing a distributed ledger technology or blockchain, the event data and the hardware and software related data are recorded in establishing the set of data chronicling at least a portion of the duration of the gaming event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Witchey, John Wiacek, Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 10629296
    Abstract: A system for mobile carrier-centric data record custodians is provided and includes cellular network interfaces that transmit and receive wireless communication over a cellular network, an electronic medical record (EMR) database that stores EMRs, and a mobile account management server coupled with the cellular network interfaces and the EMR database, the mobile account management server receiving an EMR request associated with a mobile user account over the cellular network, querying the EMR database for a results set having EMRs satisfying the query, generating a plurality of EMR responses to the EMR request as a function of the results set and state information associated with the cellular network, and transmitting the plurality of EMR responses over the plurality of cellular network interfaces to the mobile device via the cellular network, the plurality of EMR responses being formatted for wireless protocols of the cellular network interfaces over which they are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: NANTHEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, Ravi Seshadri, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20200099666
    Abstract: A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme, receiving a query at the data custodian server from a data consumer device concerning a portion of the encrypted data, initiating a secure homomorphic work session between the data custodian server and the data consumer device, generating a homomorphic work space associated with the homomorphic work session, compiling, by the data custodian server, a results set satisfying the query, loading the results set into the homomorphic work space, and building an application programming interface (API) compatible with the results set, the API facilitating encrypted analysis on the results set in the homomorphic work space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: NANTHEALTH, INC
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, Harsh Kupwade-Patil, Ravi Seshadri, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20200096511
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention allow for verifying the destruction of cells by another party. The destruction of cells can be verified by generating a value of an indicator (e.g., a bar code), where the value depends on some feature of the destruction. The party destroying the cells provides the value of the indicator as evidence that the cells have been destroyed. Embodiments may include a method of verifying the destruction of a cell. The method may include running a medium including a dead cell through an assay using a system. Running the medium through the assay may generate a value of an indicator to signify that the assay has been run. The value may identify the system, the cell, or the destruction mode of the cell. The method may further include receiving a verification code to acknowledge that the value is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20200095122
    Abstract: Contemplated systems and methods for hydrogen production use a solar heliostat system as an energy source to produce hydrogen during daytime, and employ molten salt as an energy source to produce hydrogen during nighttime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Witchey, John Wiacek
  • Patent number: 10572724
    Abstract: An activity recognition system is disclosed. A plurality of temporal features is generated from a digital representation of an observed activity using a feature detection algorithm. An observed activity graph comprising one or more clusters of temporal features generated from the digital representation is established, wherein each one of the one or more clusters of temporal features defines a node of the observed activity graph. At least one contextually relevant scoring technique is selected from similarity scoring techniques for known activity graphs, the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique being associated with activity ingestion metadata that satisfies device context criteria defined based on device contextual attributes of the digital representation, and a similarity activity score is calculated for the observed activity graph as a function of the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique, the similarity activity score being relative to at least one known activity graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kamil Wnuk, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20200058127
    Abstract: A device includes software instructions for a circular plot analysis agent and at least one circular plot definition. The circular plot analysis agent obtains a digital image of a circular plot, detects a perimeter of the circular plot within the digital image, detects a plurality of edges within the perimeter, identifies a set of endpoints on the perimeter as a function of the plurality of edges, generates a plot descriptor from the set of endpoints, and initiates a transaction with a second device as a function of the plot descriptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Carla W. Balch, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 10535042
    Abstract: Usages of language are analyzed in ways that are at least partially language independent. In preferred embodiments, portions of a document are hashed, and the resulting hash values are compared with each other and with those of other documents in real-time. Analyses can be used to gauge conformity of a document to one or more standards utilizing a hash triplet consisting of a hash for each document word and two involving the word and its preceding and following words, to provide suggestions to the author, and to filter email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: VANAV HOLDINGS
    Inventors: David T. Lorenzen, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20200011868
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting an immune response against a tumor in a patient having the tumor are provided. The relative mass or changes of mass of tumor cells or immune cell in the tumor can be ex vivo observed, and an immune status of the tumor can be determined based on the mass of tumor cells or immune cell. The immune status can provide a guidance to predict the immune response against the tumor in the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Kayvan NIAZI, Shahrooz RABIZADEH, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20190381441
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in harvesting airborne moisture includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a woven mesh, supported by the UAV, for collecting liquid droplets upon contact with a fog bank, a camera, a processor, a non-transitory, tangible computer readable memory storing software instructions executable by the processor, a fog identification engine, and a flight controller on board the UAV. The fog identification engine is executable on the processor according to the software instructions and is configurable to capture a digital image via the camera, detect an absence of features in the digital image, and identify a fog bank as a function of the absence of features in the digital image. The flight controller directs the UAV to enter a fog bank identified by the fog identification engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20190369096
    Abstract: Contemplated systems and methods verify a patient's likely immune response to a neoepitope-based treatment by (a) assessing whether or not the patient's immune system is ready to mount an immune response, (b) determining prior response by patient immune-competent cells, and (c) determining the capability for patient immune-competent cells to respond to a future immune stimulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kayvan NIAZI, Shahrooz RABIZADEH, Nicholas J. WITCHEY
  • Publication number: 20190371427
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of validating a predicted pathway activity of a pathway in a solid tumor of a subject, with a digital computer, the method comprising: a) obtaining a tumor associated sample from the subject; b) obtaining omics data from the tumor associated sample obtained in (a); c) applying the omics data obtained in (b) to a digital computer programmed with a pathway analysis engine configured to generate predicted tumor cell pathway activities in silico, to provide a prediction of one or more pharmaceutically active anticancer compounds effective for treating the subject's tumor; d) obtaining enriched viable tumor cells from the subject, and interrogating the enriched viable tumor cells with at least one pharmaceutically active compound known to interact with a pathway element of one or more of the pathways predicted by (c), to measure anticancer activity of the at least one pharmaceutically active compound with respect to the subject's enriched viable tumor cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicants: NantBio, Inc., Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kayvan NIAZI, Shahrooz RABIZADEH, Nicholas J. WITCHEY
  • Patent number: 10491467
    Abstract: A device configured to or programmed to instantiate an isolated sub-fabric is presented. A network configuration device uses a virtual air gap policy to instantiate a sub-fabric from a fabric of networking nodes. The sub-fabric is configured with an internal routing policy that respects the nature of the defined isolation. Further, the fabric is provisioned with a virtual air gap that ensures the external networking nodes respect the isolation of the sub fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Wittenschlaeger, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 10476853
    Abstract: A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme, receiving a query at the data custodian server from a data consumer device concerning a portion of the encrypted data, initiating a secure homomorphic work session between the data custodian server and the data consumer device, generating a homomorphic work space associated with the homomorphic work session, compiling, by the data custodian server, a results set satisfying the query, loading the results set into the homomorphic work space, and building an application programming interface (API) compatible with the results set, the API facilitating encrypted analysis on the results set in the homomorphic work space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: NANTHEALTH, INC
    Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong, Harsh Kupwade-Patil, Ravi Seshadri, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20190342269
    Abstract: Based on a hidden service address table stored in a memory, a virtual circuit related to a hidden service is mapped to a corresponding port-level channel based on the hidden service's address. Data associated with the hidden service is routed between the virtual circuit and the port-level channel. This enables binding of high level anonymity protocols to low level communication services of a network fabric and ensures that other nodes in the network fabric can leverage fabric-hosted hidden services without requiring updates to an existing anonymity protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Wittenschlaeger, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20190332833
    Abstract: An asset management system comprises a memory storing software instructions enabling control of a set of network devices having a corresponding allocated rack space, the set being sparsely distributed over multiple cabinets, wherein an aggregate rack space occupied by the set of network devices does not exceed the allocated rack space. A processor coupled with the memory and that executes, based on the software instructions stored in the memory, operations comprising generating a virtual representation representing the set of network devices residing in at least one virtual cabinet corresponding to the allocated rack space. The virtual representation is used to enable configuration of a functionality of at least one network device in the set of network devices residing in the virtual cabinet based on asset data of the at least one network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: David Hochhalter, David Bigelow, Nicholas J Witchey, Chad Milam
  • Patent number: 10460446
    Abstract: A device includes software instructions for a circular plot analysis agent and at least one circular plot definition. The circular plot analysis agent obtains a digital image of a circular plot, detects a perimeter of the circular plot within the digital image, detects a plurality of edges within the perimeter, identifies a set of endpoints on the perimeter as a function of the plurality of edges, generates a plot descriptor from the set of endpoints, and initiates a transaction with a second device as a function of the plot descriptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Carla W. Balch, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Publication number: 20190321481
    Abstract: A chimeric immune modulator is provided, that comprises a first immune modulating portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion comprises an epitope; and the modulating portion and the second portion of the moiety are coupled together via a linker. Methods of making and using the chimeric immune modulator are also provided. Methods of making and using the chimeric immune modulator are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicants: NantBio, Inc., Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kayvan NIAZI, Nicholas J. WITCHEY
  • Publication number: 20190318816
    Abstract: Healthcare transaction validation systems and methods are presented. Healthcare transactions associated with a stakeholder are compiled into a chain of healthcare transaction blocks. The chain can be considered a chronicle of person's healthcare path through life. When a transaction is conducted, the corresponding healthcare parameters (e.g., inputs, outputs, clinical evidence, outcomes, etc.) are sent to one or more validation devices. The devices establish a validity of the transaction and generate a new block via a proof-of-work principle. Once the new block has been calculated it can be appended to the stakeholder's health care blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Witchey