Patents by Inventor William Isaac
William Isaac 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: 20240150172Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of producing a gas at a controlled rate, the methods comprising directing air through a layered bed to produce a gas. The layered bed comprises alternating layers of a layer of dry particles comprising a precursor and a layer of dry particles comprising a proton-generating species. The gas is produced at a rate that is controlled by controlling the presence or absence of air flowing though the layered bed, the amount of time the air flows through the layered bed, the total number of layers in the layered bed, the average thickness of each of the layers of dry particles comprising the precursor in the layered bed, the average thickness of each of the layers of dry particles comprising the proton-generating species in the layered bed, the temperature the method is performed at, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: William Ernst, Thomas Isaac
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Patent number: 11960910Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for declaratively configuring a process and a page for a particular service provider. User interface(s) can be displayed at a user system and include options for declaratively configuring different log in processes and log in pages for the particular service provider. After receiving a selection of one of the options to configure the log in process and the log in page, inputs can be received that specify a type of identifiers associated with a user to be verified as part of the log in process, and an identity verification process to define how the user will be verified as part of the log in process for the service provider.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventors: Sergio Isaac Koren, Alan Vangpat, William C. Mortimore, Jr., Ian Glazer
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Patent number: 11950031Abstract: Systems and methods for performing impairment compensation in point-to-multi-point communication systems are described. In a data snapshot mode, a hub node can send instructions to each communication node connected to the hub node to send a data snapshot of data being received and processed by the communication nodes at a particular time. In a trench line mode, a hub node sends instructions to each communication node to send trench line data back to the hub node. The hub node uses the data snapshot or trench line data to determine how to tune filter coefficients in the hub node to perform impairment compensation and improve performance of the communication system.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Infinera CorporationInventors: Syed Muhammad Bilal, Christopher Fludger, Scott Pringle, Mehdi Karimi, William Isaac
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Patent number: 11912568Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of producing a gas at a controlled rate, the methods comprising directing air through a layered bed to produce a gas. The layered bed comprises alternating layers of a layer of dry particles comprising a precursor and a layer of dry particles comprising a proton-generating species. The gas is produced at a rate that is controlled by controlling the presence or absence of air flowing though the layered bed, the amount of time the air flows through the layered bed, the total number of layers in the layered bed, the average thickness of each of the layers of dry particles comprising the precursor in the layered bed, the average thickness of each of the layers of dry particles comprising the proton-generating species in the layered bed, the temperature the method is performed at, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ICA TriNova, LLCInventors: William Ernst, Thomas Isaac
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Patent number: 11875796Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving information streams on a meeting server from a set of multiple distributed devices included in a meeting, receiving audio signals representative of speech by at least two users in at least two of the information streams, receiving at least one video signal of at least one user in the information streams, associating a specific user with speech in the received audio signals as a function of the received audio and video signals, and generating a transcript of the meeting with an indication of the specific user associated with the speech.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lijuan Qin, Nanshan Zeng, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Zhuo Chen, Andreas Stolcke, Takuya Yoshioka, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang
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Publication number: 20230205985Abstract: A transcription of audio speech included in electronic content associated with a meeting is created by an ASR model trained on speech-to-text data. The transcription is post-processed by modifying text included in the transcription, for example, by modifying punctuation, grammar, or formatting introduced by the ASR model and by changing or omitting one or more words that were included in both the audio speech and the transcription. After the transcription is post-processed, output based on the post-processed transcription is generated in the form of a meeting summary and/or template.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Chenguang ZHU, Yu SHI, William Isaac HINTHORN, Nanshan ZENG, Rouchen XU, Liyang LU, Xuedong HUANG
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Patent number: 11615799Abstract: A transcription of audio speech included in electronic content associated with a meeting is created by an ASR model trained on speech-to-text data. The transcription is post-processed by modifying text included in the transcription, for example, by modifying punctuation, grammar, or formatting introduced by the ASR model and by changing or omitting one or more words that were included in both the audio speech and the transcription. After the transcription is post-processed, output based on the post-processed transcription is generated in the form of a meeting summary and/or template.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chenguang Zhu, Yu Shi, William Isaac Hinthorn, Nanshan Zeng, Ruochen Xu, Liyang Lu, Xuedong Huang
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Patent number: 11543922Abstract: Techniques enabling improved classification of touch or hover interactions of objects with a touch sensitive surface of a device are presented. A speaker of the device can emit an ultrasonic audio signal comprising a first frequency distribution. A microphone of the device can detect a reflected audio signal comprising a second frequency distribution. The audio signal can be reflected off of an object in proximity to the surface to produce the reflected audio signal. A classification component can determine movement status of the object, or classify the touch or hover interaction, in relation to the surface, based on analysis of the signals. The classification component also can classify the touch or hover interaction based on such ultrasound data and/or touch surface or other sensor data. The classification component can be trained, using machine learning, to perform classifications of touch or hover interactions of objects with the surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: QEEXO, CO.Inventors: Taihei Munemoto, William Isaac Levine
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Patent number: 11468895Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving audio streams at a meeting server from two distributed devices that are streaming audio captured during an ad-hoc meeting between at least two users, comparing the received audio streams to determine that the received audio streams are representative of sound from the ad-hoc meeting, generating a meeting instance to process the audio streams in response to the comparing determining that the audio streams are representative of sound from the ad-hoc meeting, and processing the received audio streams to generate a transcript of the ad-hoc meeting.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Takuya Yoshioka, Andreas Stolcke, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Nanshan Zeng, Lijuan Qin, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang
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Publication number: 20220256877Abstract: Described herein are composition and method for manufacturing a cultured plant-based dairy alternative based on fermenting ancient grains. In one aspect, the composition contains flour of one or more ancient grains, one or more plant seed butters, one or more plant-based creams, one or more texturizers or stabilizers, and water that is cultured to form a hypoallergenic plant-based dairy alternative containing no added monosaccharides or disaccharides.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Scott William Myers, William Isaac Myers
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Publication number: 20220230642Abstract: A computer implemented method processes audio streams recorded during a meeting by a plurality of distributed devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Takuya Yoshioka, Andreas Stolcke, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Nanshan ZENG, Lijuan QIN, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong HUANG
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Patent number: 11345956Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for detecting biological molecules and biomarkers associated with prostate cancer. Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for detecting biological molecules and biomarkers associated with castration-resistant prostate cancer wherein such biological molecules and biomarkers comprise androgen-receptor splice variants that can be used to develop effective therapeutic regimens for prostate cancer patients. Disclosed herein are methods of using biological molecules and biomarkers related to androgen-receptor splice variants for assessing therapeutic resistance to drugs such as enzalutamide and abiraterone.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYInventors: Jun Luo, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Changxue Lu, William Isaacs
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Patent number: 11322148Abstract: A computer implemented method processes audio streams recorded during a meeting by a plurality of distributed devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Takuya Yoshioka, Andreas Stolcke, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Nanshan Zeng, Lijuan Qin, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang
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Publication number: 20220100298Abstract: Techniques enabling improved classification of touch or hover interactions of objects with a touch sensitive surface of a device are presented. A speaker of the device can emit an ultrasonic audio signal comprising a first frequency distribution. A microphone of the device can detect a reflected audio signal comprising a second frequency distribution. The audio signal can be reflected off of an object in proximity to the surface to produce the reflected audio signal. A classification component can determine movement status of the object, or classify the touch or hover interaction, in relation to the surface, based on analysis of the signals. The classification component also can classify the touch or hover interaction based on such ultrasound data and/or touch surface or other sensor data. The classification component can be trained, using machine learning, to perform classifications of touch or hover interactions of objects with the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: QEEXO, CO.Inventors: Taihei MUNEMOTO, William Isaac Levine
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Publication number: 20220095023Abstract: Systems and methods for performing impairment compensation in point-to-multi-point communication systems are described. In a data snapshot mode, a hub node can send instructions to each communication node connected to the hub node to send a data snapshot of data being received and processed by the communication nodes at a particular time. In a trench line mode, a hub node sends instructions to each communication node to send trench line data back to the hub node. The hub node uses the data snapshot or trench line data to determine how to tune filter coefficients in the hub node to perform impairment compensation and improve performance of the communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Syed Muhammad Bilal, Christopher Fludger, Scott Pringle, Mehdi Karimi, William Isaac
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Patent number: 11231815Abstract: Techniques enabling improved classification of touch or hover interactions of objects with a touch sensitive surface of a device are presented. A speaker of the device can emit an ultrasonic audio signal comprising a first frequency distribution. A microphone of the device can detect a reflected audio signal comprising a second frequency distribution. The audio signal can be reflected off of an object in proximity to the surface to produce the reflected audio signal. A classification component can determine movement status of the object, or classify the touch or hover interaction, in relation to the surface, based on analysis of the signals. The classification component also can classify the touch or hover interaction based on such ultrasound data and/or touch surface or other sensor data. The classification component can be trained, using machine learning, to perform classifications of touch or hover interactions of objects with the surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: QEEXO, CO.Inventors: Taihei Munemoto, William Isaac Levine
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Publication number: 20210407516Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving audio signals representative of speech via multiple audio streams transmitted from corresponding multiple distributed devices, performing, via a neural network model, continuous speech separation for one or more of the received audio signals having overlapped speech, and providing the separated speech on a fixed number of separate output audio channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Takuya Yoshioka, Andreas Stolcke, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Nanshan Zeng, Lijuan Qin, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang
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Publication number: 20210375289Abstract: A transcription of audio speech included in electronic content associated with a meeting is created by an ASR model trained on speech-to-text data. The transcription is post-processed by modifying text included in the transcription, for example, by modifying punctuation, grammar, or formatting introduced by the ASR model and by changing or omitting one or more words that were included in both the audio speech and the transcription. After the transcription is post-processed, output based on the post-processed transcription is generated in the form of a meeting summary and/or template.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Chenguang Zhu, Yu Shi, William Isaac Hinthorn, Nanshan Zeng, Ruochen Xu, Liyang Lu, Xuedong Huang
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Patent number: 11138980Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving audio signals representative of speech via multiple audio streams transmitted from corresponding multiple distributed devices, performing, via a neural network model, continuous speech separation for one or more of the received audio signals having overlapped speech, and providing the separated speech on a fixed number of separate output audio channels.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Takuya Yoshioka, Andreas Stolcke, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Nanshan Zeng, Lijuan Qin, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang
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Patent number: 11023690Abstract: Systems and methods for providing customized output based on a user preference in a distributed system are provided. In example embodiments, a meeting server or system receives audio streams from a plurality of distributed devices involved in an intelligent meeting. The meeting system identifies a user corresponding to a distributed device of the plurality of distributed devices and determines a preferred language of the user. A transcript from the received audio streams is generated. The meeting system translates the transcript into the preferred language of the user to form a translated transcript. The translated transcript is provided to the distributed device of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Takuya Yoshioka, Andreas Stolcke, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Nanshan Zeng, Lijuan Qin, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang