Patents by Inventor Sergio Martinez
Sergio Martinez 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).
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Publication number: 20240100978Abstract: A charger includes multiple rails, each rail having a power factor correction (PFC) module, a direct current (DC) link capacitor, and a DC-to-DC voltage converter. The charger also includes a controller that deactivates a subset of the rails in response to an electrical load having a power consumption less than a threshold power, where deactivation of the subset of rails includes deactivation of the PFC module and the DC-to-DC voltage converter of each rail of the subset of rails. For each rail of the deactivated subset of the plurality of rails, the controller activates the PFC module when a voltage of the DC link capacitor equals a threshold voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Jordi BATLLE PORTO, Adria MARCOS PASTOR, Sergio MARTINEZ PORRAS
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Employing controlled illumination for hyperspectral or multispectral imaging of food in an appliance
Patent number: 11928769Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by an electromagnetic device, emitting optical radiation on one or more objects disposed inside an interior of the electronic device, where the optical radiation is emitted by one or more radiation sources, capturing a set of 2D images of the one or more objects illuminated by the optical radiation, where variation of illumination or of an imaging process permits the set of 2D images to be combined into a representation of the one or more objects, determining whether the set of images comprises a representation of the one or more objects as imaged, in response to determining that the set of images comprises a representation of the one or more objects as imaged, generating a three-dimensional (3D) spectral data cube of the one or more first objects based on spectral information of the first set of images, and storing the 3D spectral data cube for processing by the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ian David Parker, Brian R. Patton, Pedro Martinez Lopez, Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez, Sajid Hassan Sadi -
Patent number: 11878600Abstract: An on-board charger is provided with a first stage for converting an alternating current (AC) voltage from an external power supply to a direct current (DC) voltage. A capacitor is coupled to the first stage to receive the DC voltage and to provide a DC-Link voltage. A second stage is coupled to the capacitor to boost the DC-Link voltage and to supply the boosted DC-Link voltage to charge a battery. A processor is programmed to adjust the DC-Link voltage between a first setpoint and a second setpoint based on a battery voltage value.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Adria Marcos Pastor, Victor Saborido Rodriguez, Sergio Martinez Porras, Joel Aaron Storr, Josep Maria Bosque Moncusi
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Publication number: 20230238805Abstract: An on-board battery charger (OBC) includes a converter (e.g., a DC/DC converter) and a controller. An output port of the converter is connectable to a battery (e.g., a traction battery of an electric vehicle (EV)) via a voltage network (e.g., a high-voltage (HV) network of the EV). The converter converts an input power into an output power and outputs the output power onto the voltage network for charging the battery. The controller, upon detecting a transitory disconnection in the voltage network, controls the converter to stop converting the input power into the output power. In stopping the converter, the controller stops the converter prior to a corresponding reconnection in the voltage network. The controller may detect the transitory disconnection upon detecting a switching frequency of a power switch of the converter decreasing below a pre-defined threshold as the switching frequency decreases due to effects of the transitory disconnection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Adria MARCOS PASTOR, Antonio MARTINEZ PEREZ, Sergio MARTINEZ PORRAS
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Publication number: 20230146409Abstract: An automated ironing apparatus has a flexible steaming head for applying steam to a supported article. The flexible steaming head includes a device for shaping the flexible steaming head in at least two dimensions. A method of operating this apparatus for smoothing a garment includes a step of closing at least one opening in the garment, thereby to restrict gas flow through the at least one opening and introducing gas inside the garment thereby to smooth the garment. The step of closing at least one of the openings to be closed is effected by engaging the flexible steaming head with a surface of the garment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Eren Erturk, Rohan Kamdar, Christos Markides, Sergio Martinez, Michael Parrott
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Publication number: 20230044782Abstract: A plan authoring tool can receive user input describing parameters of benefits of a benefit plan. The plan authoring tool can convert the user input into a machine structured plan description (MSPD) that defines the benefit plan. The MSPD can be used by a plan documentation generator to generate one or more plan documents that explain the benefits and/or indicate how to manually adjudicate claims submitted in association with the benefit plan. The MSPD can also be used to automatically adjudicate claims. Plan analysis tools can be used to evaluate an MSPD to validate a new or edited benefit plan and/or provide user feedback on the benefit plan so that users, if desired, can revise the MSPD via the plan authoring tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Henning Chiv, Michelle Alicia Gard, Emma Louise Wise
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Publication number: 20230010687Abstract: A claim adjudication system including an automatic adjudication pipeline that uses pipeline rules to automatically adjudicate a claim associated with a benefit plan at one or more stages. The automatic adjudication pipeline can redirect the claim to a user interface for manual review when a pipeline rule associated with a manual review condition is triggered. The user interface can present information about the claim relevant to the manual review condition in an integrated format, including highlighting the reasons for the manual review. A user can evaluate the claim in the user interface and provide user input that addresses the manual review condition, and the claim can be routed back to the automatic adjudication pipeline. The user input can also be used as training data for machine learning to adjust pipeline rules that are used to automatically process claims and to redirect future claims for manual review.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Nicholas Halpern-Manners, Thomas Bedington, Andrew Chang, Yulia Eskin, Erica Leigh Horowitz, Chetan Subramanya Ithal, Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Raphael N’Gouan, John George O’Leary, Izac Benjamin Milstein Ross, Xiaowen Ye, Heather Grates, Irene Victoria Tollinger, Henning Chiv
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Publication number: 20220340304Abstract: A single AI system for monitoring and controlling in real time performance of the production area. It connects production elements designed to be connected and embracing, as well, the non-connectable ones, boosting productivity and product quality in a safer workplace. The AI system includes information extracting device for capturing physical information from the production components and convert the physical information into digital information, gateways to send the digital information to the digital environment of the IoT for computing and to be shared in a cloud storage, and an electronic processor using AI algorithms of the digital environment configured to process the shared digital information and information associated with a production task in the production line stored in a manufacturing execution system (MES), and to generate actions based on the processed information, the AI algorithms being configured to send the generated actions to the physical production environment or to external systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Mercedes Ruiz Moreno, Sergio Martinez Calvo, Alberto Álvarez Lopez
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Patent number: 11481846Abstract: A claim adjudication system including an automatic adjudication pipeline that uses pipeline rules to automatically adjudicate a claim associated with a benefit plan at one or more stages. The automatic adjudication pipeline can redirect the claim to a user interface for manual review when a pipeline rule associated with a manual review condition is triggered. The user interface can present information about the claim relevant to the manual review condition in an integrated format, including highlighting the reasons for the manual review. A user can evaluate the claim in the user interface and provide user input that addresses the manual review condition, and the claim can be routed back to the automatic adjudication pipeline. The user input can also be used as training data for machine learning to adjust pipeline rules that are used to automatically process claims and to redirect future claims for manual review.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: CollectiveHealth, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Halpern-Manners, Thomas Bedingten, Andrew Chang, Yulia Eskin, Erica Leigh Horowitz, Chetan Subramanya Ithal, Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Raphael N'Gouan, John George O'Leary, Izac Benjamin Milstein Ross, Xiaowen Ye, Heather Grates, Irene Victoria Tollinger, Henning Chiv
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Publication number: 20220314823Abstract: An on-board charger is provided with a first stage for converting an alternating current (AC) voltage from an external power supply to a direct current (DC) voltage. A capacitor is coupled to the first stage to receive the DC voltage and to provide a DC-Link voltage. A second stage is coupled to the capacitor to boost the DC-Link voltage and to supply the boosted DC-Link voltage to charge a battery. A processor is programmed to adjust the DC-Link voltage between a first setpoint and a second setpoint based on a battery voltage value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Adria MARCOS PASTOR, Victor SABORIDO RODRIGUEZ, Sergio MARTINEZ PORRAS, Joel Aaron STORR, Josep Maria BOSQUE MONCUSI
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Publication number: 20220242245Abstract: An on-board battery charger (OBC) includes (i) rail circuits having respective rail controllers and (ii) a main controller. The rail controllers sample voltages supplied to their rail circuits and transmit a fault signal to the main controller upon a comparison between a sampled voltage and a threshold being affirmative of an improper voltage condition (overvoltage or undervoltage) of the sampled voltage. The main controller controls all of the rail controllers to stop operation of all of the rail circuits in response to receiving the fault signal from any of the rail controllers. In a variation, the main controller samples the voltages supplied to the rail circuits and stops operation of all of the rail circuits upon a comparison between a sampled voltage and the threshold being affirmative.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Victor SABORIDO RODRIGUEZ, Sergio MARTINEZ PORRAS, Antonio MARTINEZ PEREZ, Adria MARCOS PASTOR
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Patent number: 11393038Abstract: A plan authoring tool can receive user input describing parameters of benefits of a benefit plan. The plan authoring tool can convert the user input into a machine structured plan description (MSPD) that defines the benefit plan. The MSPD can be used by a plan documentation generator to generate one or more plan documents that explain the benefits and/or indicate how to manually adjudicate claims submitted in association with the benefit plan. The MSPD can also be used to automatically adjudicate claims. Plan analysis tools can be used to evaluate an MSPD to validate a new or edited benefit plan and/or provide user feedback on the benefit plan so that users, if desired, can revise the MSPD via the plan authoring tool.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Collective Health, Inc.Inventors: Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Michelle Alicia Gard, Henning Chiv
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Patent number: 11393039Abstract: A plan authoring tool can receive user input describing parameters of benefits of a benefit plan. The plan authoring tool can convert the user input into a machine structured plan description (MSPD) that defines the benefit plan. The MSPD can be used by a plan documentation generator to generate one or more plan documents that explain the benefits and/or indicate how to manually adjudicate claims submitted in association with the benefit plan. The MSPD can also be used to automatically adjudicate claims. Plan analysis tools can be used to evaluate an MSPD to validate a new or edited benefit plan and/or provide user feedback on the benefit plan so that users, if desired, can revise the MSPD via the plan authoring tool.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Collective Health, Inc.Inventors: Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Henning Chiv, Michelle Alicia Gard, Emma Louise Wise
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Publication number: 20220176838Abstract: An on-board battery charger (OBC) of an electric vehicle (EV) receives AC electrical power from a charge station and outputs a DC output current for charging a traction battery of the EV. In response to transients in the AC electrical power while the OBC is receiving the AC electrical power from the charge station and outputting the DC output current, a controller controls the OBC to (i) stop processing the AC electrical power from the charge station and reduce the DC output current and (ii) after the transients have passed, resume processing the AC electrical power from the charge station and increase the DC output current. For instance, at a zero-crossing event of the AC electrical power after the transients have passed, the OBC is controlled to resume processing the AC electrical power from the charge station and increase the DC output current.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Victor SABORIDO RODRIGUEZ, Cesar RUANO ALVAREZ, Adria MARCOS PASTOR, Sergio MARTINEZ PORRAS
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Publication number: 20220062044Abstract: Glaucoma implant device with an elongate member with two tube-like sections of different diameter, the tube of larger diameter being provided with holes and at least one fixation flange. The smaller diameter tube can be cut at an appropriate length during the operation, and is introduced directly into the anterior chamber and fixed with surgical tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: William Eric SPONSEL, Eva LARRA MATEOS, Sergio MARTINEZ EZKURRA, Ivan ÁLVAREZ PÉREZ
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Publication number: 20200364797Abstract: A claim adjudication system including an automatic adjudication pipeline that uses pipeline rules to automatically adjudicate a claim associated with a benefit plan at one or more stages. The automatic adjudication pipeline can redirect the claim to a user interface for manual review when a pipeline rule associated with a manual review condition is triggered. The user interface can present information about the claim relevant to the manual review condition in an integrated format, including highlighting the reasons for the manual review. A user can evaluate the claim in the user interface and provide user input that addresses the manual review condition, and the claim can be routed back to the automatic adjudication pipeline. The user input can also be used as training data for machine learning to adjust pipeline rules that are used to automatically process claims and to redirect future claims for manual review.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Nicholas Halpern-Manners, Thomas Bedington, Andrew Chang, Yulia Eskin, Erica Leigh Horowitz, Chetan Subramanya Ithal, Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Raphael N'Gouan, John George O'Leary, Izac Benjamin Milstein Ross, Xiaowen Ye, Heather Grates, Irene Victoria Tollinger, Henning Chiv
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Patent number: 10818395Abstract: Techniques for identifying data for use in a healthcare application are described. In an example, a server can receive, via a graphical user interface (GUI), first instructions defining rule(s) associated with an outcome that is relevant to a healthcare application and second instructions defining a schema for translating the rule(s) into logical expression(s). The server can access a plurality of data entries and can apply the logical expression(s) to the plurality of data entries to identify a first data entry that satisfies the rule(s). At a substantially same time, the server can apply a model to the plurality of data entries to identify a second data entry that is predicted to be associated with the outcome. The server can generate an output identifying the first data entry and the second data entry and can utilize the output for the healthcare application.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: CollectiveHealth, Inc.Inventors: Asif Khalak, Dara Strauss-Albee, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno
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Patent number: 10696999Abstract: The present specification discloses methods of detecting a pathogen of interest, components useful in carrying out these methods, including a pre-enrichment media, and enrichment media and a detection solution and kits thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Integrated Microsystems For Quality of Life, S.L.Inventors: Cristina Perez Girona, Pablo Lozano Sánchez, Gemma Freixes Prous, Sergio Martinez Montequín, Anna Pallares Lleo, Bruno Teixeira Dias, Katia Uliaque Cugat
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Publication number: 20200134736Abstract: A plan authoring tool can receive user input describing parameters of benefits of a benefit plan. The plan authoring tool can convert the user input into a machine structured plan description (MSPD) that defines the benefit plan. The MSPD can be used by a plan documentation generator to generate one or more plan documents that explain the benefits and/or indicate how to manually adjudicate claims submitted in association with the benefit plan. The MSPD can also be used to automatically adjudicate claims. Plan analysis tools can be used to evaluate an MSPD to validate a new or edited benefit plan and/or provide user feedback on the benefit plan so that users, if desired, can revise the MSPD via the plan authoring tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Henning Chiv, Michelle Alicia Gard, Emma Louise Wise
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Publication number: 20200065907Abstract: A plan authoring tool can receive user input describing parameters of benefits of a benefit plan. The plan authoring tool can convert the user input into a machine structured plan description (MSPD) that defines the benefit plan. The MSPD can be used by a plan documentation generator to generate one or more plan documents that explain the benefits and/or indicate how to manually adjudicate claims submitted in association with the benefit plan. The MSPD can also be used to automatically adjudicate claims. Plan analysis tools can be used to evaluate an MSPD to validate a new or edited benefit plan and/or provide user feedback on the benefit plan so that users, if desired, can revise the MSPD via the plan authoring tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Asif Khalak, Sergio Martinez-Ortuno, Michelle Alicia Gard, Henning Chiv