Patents by Inventor A. Lerner

A. Lerner 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: 20240025926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) wherein E1 to E6 are independently Si or Ge; X1 to X4 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, SiH3, halogen and Si(Y)3; Y is independently selected from C1 to C20 alkyl and halogen; R1 to R12 are independently selected from the group consisting of C1 to C20 alkyl, C2 to C20 alkenyl, C2 to C20 alkynyl, C3 to C20 cycloalkyl, C6 to C20 aryl, C7 to C20 arylalkyl, C7 to C20 alkylaryl and Z; and Z is independently selected from the group consisting of H, halogen and C1 to C20 alkyl; a process for their preparation; and the use of the compound for preparing the Si- and Ge-containing solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
    Inventors: Matthias WAGNER, Benedikt KÖSTLER, Hans-Wolfram LERNER
  • Publication number: 20240028429
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to audio output for time-based notifications. Enhanced alerts for time-based notifications based on various notification conditions provides users with clarity about which notifications are being output, thereby providing an improved user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Hugo VERWEIJ, Mitchell LERNER, David Chance GRAHAM
  • Patent number: 11880858
    Abstract: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods to predict a vehicle preference of a customer of a rental vehicle agency. An example method to do so involves a computer executing a prediction procedure to obtain and evaluate information associated with a customer. The information can include vehicle ownership history and/or monitoring data obtained from vehicles used by the customer (a personal vehicle, a taxi, and/or a ride share service vehicle, for example). The information may be evaluated by the computer to determine a personal profile of the customer. The personal profile can include items such as physical attributes of the customer, family size, driving characteristics, and/or past vehicle ownership. The personal profile of the customer may then be used by the computer to predict a type of vehicle preferred by the customer and to select, from a vehicle fleet, a vehicle that matches the preferred type of vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Lerner, Paige Wong, Scott Huggins, Xingping Chen, Taylor Hawley
  • Publication number: 20240019359
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for estimating water turbidity using image data, comprising analyzing a plurality of images of one or more objects submerged in water captured under water from a plurality of distances, calculating a luma value for each of a plurality of pixels along one or more gradient lines across the object(s) in each of the plurality of images, calculating, for each image, a respective maximal intensity change between a lowest luma value and a highest luma value of the pixels along the gradient line(s) in the respective image, evaluating a turbidity of the water based on mapping of the respective maximal intensity change to each of the plurality of distances, and initiating one or more actions in case the turbidity exceeds a certain threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Maytronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Nachum LERNER, Gilad GOLDENBERG
  • Publication number: 20240010152
    Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more sensors and engages at least one of the one or more sensors to evaluate at least one of a count or location of vehicle occupants prior to an incident. The vehicle determines that an incident has occurred and that at least one of an evaluated count or location of at least one vehicle occupant has changed following the incident. Also, the vehicle engages at least one of the one or more sensors to detect a presence of a prior occupant outside the vehicle following the incident, responsive to determining that the at least one of the evaluated count or location of the at least one vehicle occupant changed and, responsive to detecting the presence of the prior occupant outside the vehicle following the incident, reports the presence to a 3rd party response entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Walter Neal, Jeremy Lerner, Mohammad Abouali, Ali Abdallah, Xingping Chen, Scott Huggins
  • Publication number: 20240012823
    Abstract: Computing systems, computing apparatuses, computing methods, and computer program products are disclosed for machine learning ranking. An example computing method includes receiving a search query and determining a plurality of machine learning model execution engines based on the search query and a plurality of search result types. The example computing method further includes generating a plurality of subsets of search results based on the search query and the plurality of machine learning model execution engines. The example computing method further includes generating a set of search results comprising at least one search result from each of the plurality of subsets of search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Joaquin Delgado, Roger Henry Castillo, Boris Lerner, Ramesh Maddula, Emma Sawin, Alvaro Viloria, Jikai Lei
  • Patent number: 11865039
    Abstract: Injection devices for delivering pharmaceutical compositions into the eye are described. Some devices include a resistance component for controllably deploying an injection needle through the eye wall. The resistance component may be disposed on the injector device, or on a portion of the injection device housing, or on a drug reservoir. Some devices may be removably attached to a drug reservoir, for example, through a luer connector. Other devices may comprise internal luer seal for securely connecting a drug conduit of the device to the luer cavity of a drug reservoir. Yet other devices may comprise a priming-enabling element to facilitate the drug priming of a shielded needle. Related methods and systems comprising the devices are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OcuJect, LLC
    Inventor: Leonid E. Lerner
  • Patent number: 11866037
    Abstract: Vehicle alerts can be presented to the driver of a vehicle based on behaviors. It can be determined whether the driver will avoid an identified risk at a current location of the vehicle. Such a determination can be based on the past driving behavior of the driver and/or a general driving behavior of one or more other drivers. It can be determined whether to present an alert about the identified risk based on whether the driver will avoid the identified risk. In response to determining to that an alert about the identified risk should be presented, an intensity level for the alert can be determined. The alert can be caused to be presented to the driver at the determined intensity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan M. Wiesenberg, Emily S. Lerner
  • Publication number: 20240000080
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions comprising at least one strobilurin fungicide, polar aprotic solvent, non-ionic emulsifier selected from a group comprising polyoxyethylated aromatics, polyalkoxylated alkyl ethers and any combination thereof, optionally one or more additional fungicides selected from the group comprising triazoles in the presence of at least one polyhydric alcohol compound. The compositions of the invention are novel and have high storage stability at high and low temperatures. The invention also relates to method of controlling phytopathogenic harmful fungi in crop protection and to the use thereof as crop protection agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jenny LERNER YARDENI, Eliyahu SHMOELI
  • Patent number: 11858912
    Abstract: The invention provides novel heterocyclic compounds having the general formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X, D, R1 to R4, and R6 to R10 are as described herein. Further provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, processes of manufacturing the compounds and methods of using the compounds as medicaments, in particular methods of using the compounds as antibiotics for the treatment or prevention of bacterial infections and resulting diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Mathis Braendlin, Sandra Marie Joseph Grall-Ulsemer, Xingchun Han, Christian Lerner, Mingming Li, Yongqiang Liu, Sébastien Schmitt, Jianhua Wang, Yongguang Wang, Min Wang, Song Yang, Chengang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11859510
    Abstract: A turbine blade tip, turbine blade and method where improved cooling is made possible by an improved cooling structure with cooling air holes inside a depression in a blade tip and a special arrangement of multiple cooling air holes which are supplied by a single cooling air channel inside a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Björn Anders, Reiner Anton, Kay Krabiell, Christian Lerner
  • Publication number: 20230416308
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to oncolytic virus derived replicons and capsidation of the same. The disclosure also relates to the incorporation of one or more transgenes encoding payload molecules into the replicon. The disclosure further relates to the encapsulation of the replicon and/or recombinant RNA molecules encoding oncolytic viruses into particles and the use of the replicon and/or particles for the treatment and prevention of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Lorena LERNER, Edward M. KENNEDY, Jennifer S. LEE
  • Publication number: 20230414381
    Abstract: Disclosed are powered gait assistance systems that include a controller, sensors, and a torque applicator (motor, spring, etc.) coupled to a patient's hips, thighs, knee, lower leg, ankle, and/or foot and operable to apply assistive torque to the patient's leg joint(s) to assist the patient's volitional joint actuating muscle output during selected stages of the patient's gait cycle, such that the applied torque improves the patient's leg posture, muscle output, range of motion, and/or other parameters over the gait cycle. The sensors can include a torque sensor that measures torque applied, one or more joint angle sensors, a ground contact sensor that measures ground contact of the patient's foot, and/or other sensors. The controller can determine what stage of the patient's gait cycle the patient's leg is in based on sensor signals and cause the torque applicator to apply corresponding torque to the joint(s) based on the gait cycle stage, sensor inputs, and known patient characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: The United States of America,as represented by the Secretary,Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Thomas Bulea, Zachary Lerner, Diane Damiano, Andrew Gravunder
  • Patent number: 11851342
    Abstract: A process can be used for the preparation of tris(trichlorosilyl)dichlorogallylgermane, which is a chlorinated, uncharged substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Wagner, Julian Teichmann, Hans-Wolfram Lerner
  • Publication number: 20230408269
    Abstract: A system includes a processor that determines a route. The processor determines a plurality of nodes along the route and alternative paths from one node to a successive node along the route through another node. The processor defines the route based on the plurality of nodes and removes at least one node between second and third nodes on the basis that the removed node lies along a least-cost path between the second and third nodes. The processor repeats removal of nodes until a set of minimum nodes to define the route with all non-least-cost path decisions is achieved as a compressed route and transmits the compressed route to at least one second processor that decompresses the compressed route through inclusion of removed nodes, the removed nodes being re-included on the basis of being nodes lying on a least-cost path between two nodes included sequentially in the compressed route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Omar Makke, Jeremy Lerner
  • Publication number: 20230408510
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a sensor chip fabricated on a semiconductor wafer, the sensor chip may include a graphene channel patterned in a graphene layer disposed on a dielectric substrate. The sensor chip may include a first electrode formed in electrode material so as to form one or more of an edge side contact or a top side contact in electrical contact with a first end of the graphene channel. The sensor chip may include a second electrode formed in electrode material so as to form one or more of an edge side contact or a top-side contact in electrical contact with a second end of the graphene channel. The sensor chip may include an insulation layer that is layered above at least of portion of the graphene layer and is selected from an inorganic oxide layer and an organic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Brett R. Goldsmith, Mitchell Lerner, Paul Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11847176
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for correcting entity names. One method includes receiving texts and deriving a plurality of name-context pairs from the texts. The method further includes calculating a context consistency measure for each name-context pair and storing context-entity name data representing the name-context pairs. Another method includes identifying an entity name and one or more context terms from a query and generating candidate names for the entity name. The method further includes determining a score for each of the candidate names, selecting a number of top scoring candidate names, and using the selected candidate names to respond to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Brunsman, Matthieu Devin, Uri N. Lerner, Simon Tong
  • Patent number: 11841058
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to extend brake life cycle are disclosed herein. An example vehicle disclosed herein includes a brake including a rotor and a brake pad and a brake controller to detect a request to determine a wear level of the brake pad, activate the brake to cause contact between the brake pad and the rotor, and determine, based on a latency between the activation of the brake and the contact between the brake pad and the rotor, the wear level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Edward Toy, Jeremy Lerner, Taylor Hawley, Mohammad Abouali, Ali Abdallah
  • Publication number: 20230394886
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to personalized spatial audio profiles and providing personalized spatial audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Taylor G. CARRIGAN, Patrick L. COFFMAN, Amy E. DEDONATO, Charles C. HOYT, Christine A. FRANCO, Mitchell L. LERNER, Camille MOUSSETTE, Pavel PIVONKA, Christopher J. SANDERS, Hugo D. VERWEIJ
  • Publication number: 20230390094
    Abstract: An assistive ankle foot orthosis is described. The AFO has a vertical shank member arranged laterally to a user's limb. The member carries a rotational bearing and a rotational element such as a pulley. The rotational bearing is lateral to a user's ankle. The pulley is connected to a footplate. The footplate can be actuated to provide joint movement assistance or resistance to the user upon rotation of the pulley. The AFO includes an ankle angle and angular velocity sensor and a pressure sensor located under the user's forefoot. The AFO includes a controller that computes an estimate of the user's peak joint power on the basis of a series of products of measurements of foot pressure and angular velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary F. LERNER, Emmanuella TAGOE, Chancelor CUDDEBACK