Patents by Inventor Alejandro Perez
Alejandro Perez 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: 20210042727Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for operating with an Automated Teller Machine by means of a portable communications device of a user, wherein the ATM is configured to send instructions to the application of the portable communications device in order to be followed by the user, and through the communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Jose Angel Fernandez Freire, Carlos Salazar Lopez, Alvaro Rodriguez Bravo, Pedro Pascual Felip Mezcua, Alejandro Perez De La Bella, Ignasi Barri Vilardell, Francisco Jose Amador Lopez
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Publication number: 20210034820Abstract: Conversation flow is adapted based on user interactions in a cognitive interaction between a user and a machine carried out at a gateway to a cognitive interaction service. A series of cognitive interactions are received during a conversation flow. A determination is made that a pattern of user cognitive interactions meets a defined pattern and that a plurality of machine responses meets a defined threshold of a maximum repetition of responses to the defined pattern. An indication is provided to the cognitive interaction service to adapt a type of subsequent response according to a defined action for the defined pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Ignacio Perez Gonzalez, Fernando Pedrazzoli, Alejandro A. Delgado Sánchez, Ana Patricia Garcia Guerrero, Maria Jose Alvarez
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Patent number: 10911964Abstract: A method for presenting network connectivity data is provided. The method comprises: testing a plurality of communications components and communications links of a network, wherein each of the plurality of components and communications links is communicatively coupled to a computing device, where the plurality of communications components and communications links is configured to provide the computing device access to a ground network; determining operational capability of each of the plurality of components and communications links; and presenting an indication of the operational capability for each of the plurality of components and communications links based upon results of the testing.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: David Reese, Alejandro Perez Avila
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Patent number: 10851382Abstract: The present invention relates with the technical field of biotechnology, and particularly provides a promoter inducible under abiotic stress conditions, which is used to regulate expression of a nucleotide sequence encoding a product of interest under these conditions. The invention also refers to a genetic construction containing said promoter, the plant cells transformed with said construction as well as the transgenic plants that can be regenerated from said cells, and which are capable of growing and developing properly, keeping high levels of productive yield under abiotic stress conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA, INVERSIONES Y ASESORÏA OLIVARES Y MELOSSI LTDA., INVESTIGACIONES AGRÍCOLAS Y FORESTALES DEL MAULE S.A., FERMELO S.AInventors: Simön Aurelio Ruiz Lara, Enrique Ramón Gonzalez Villanueva, Jorge Luis Pérez Díaz, José Ricardo Pérez Díaz, Mónica Loreto Yañez Chävez, Isabel Alejandra Verdugo Bastías, Sebastián Alejandro González Díaz, Ricardo Javier Chilian
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Patent number: 10821363Abstract: A computer device providing a computer implemented game, said computer device comprising: a user interface configured to detect user input from a player of said game; at least one processor; and a display, said at least one processor being configured to: cause a game area to be displayed on said display, said game area comprising a plurality of third game objects; cause at least one second game object to move along a trajectory, wherein when said second game object hits one or more of said third game objects, said respective third game object is removed; and cause an angle of a trajectory of said second game object to be altered to cause said second game object to hit one or more third game objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KING.COM LTD.Inventors: Julian Perez, Alejandro Moreno, Hugo Lanchares
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Publication number: 20200214751Abstract: A bone plate including a main bone plate body having two opposing curved sections adapted for a clavicle; a bendable waist portion narrower than the main body of the bone plate; and a node at each end of the main body connected to the main body by a bridge portion which is narrower than the main body, wherein the bridge includes a cut-out relief portion on a bottom side of the bone plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Robert Sixto, Andrea Suarez, Juergen A. Kortenbach, Alejandro Perez
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Publication number: 20200206337Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for the production of live attenuated bacterial strains, suitable as vaccine candidates, comprising the steps of: A. providing a bacterial strain capable of expressing glutamate racemase and possibly D-amino acid transaminase and comprising a peptidoglycan cell wall, and B. inactivating the gene or genes encoding for the glutamate racemase enzyme and, if needed, the gene or genes encoding for the enzyme D-amino acid transaminase in such way that the bacterial strain is no longer capable of expressing a functional glutamate racemase and/or a functional D-amino acid transaminase; wherein the inactivation of said genes causes said bacterial strain to be auxotrophic for D-glutamate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Germán Bou Arévalo, María Clara Póvoa Cabral, Astrid Pérez Gómez, María Merino Carballeira, Alejandro Beceiro Casas, Patricia García Fernández
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Patent number: 10686384Abstract: A partial power converter (PPC) in an electrical power system, comprising an input capacitor connected in parallel to a power source vpv and connected to a primary winding of a transformer, wherein the primary winding is connected in series to a M1 transistor of the MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) type, wherein two secondary windings Ns1 and Ns2—both with the same number of turns, are connected, each one, in series by means of a terminal, with diodes D1 and D2, respectively, and the diodes D1 and D2 are connected to the respective ends of a capacitor Cdc output; the other terminal of the secondary winding Ns1 of the transformer is connected to one of the terminals of the primary winding, whereas the other terminal of the secondary winding Ns2 is connected to one of the terminals of transistor M1, and wherein the output capacitor Cdc serves as a link to connect to a next stage.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍAInventors: Marcelo Alejandro Perez Leiva, Jaime Wladmir Zapata Amores, Samir Kouro Ranaer
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Publication number: 20200148135Abstract: A method of aligning a first component and a second component with elastic averaging includes offsetting a first part and a second part of the first component and creating a shut-off slot between the first part and the second part of the first component by offsetting the first part and the second part. The shut-off slot has a slot vector that is not parallel to a main die vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Alejandro Perez-Ruiz, Steven Morris
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Patent number: 10617456Abstract: A pair of plate benders is provided for bending a bone plate having a plurality of screw holes and a plurality of tubular drill guides removably preassembled into the screw holes. Each plate bender has a first end, a second end, and a handle extending between the first and second ends. The first end has a lower table on which the plate is received, an upper retaining structure which is adapted to engage the tubular drill guides, a recess defined between the lower table and upper retaining structure into which a portion of the plate is received such that the plate extends over a portion of the table and below a portion of the retaining structure. The retaining structure engages the periphery of the tubular drill guides to secure the plate relative to the bending tool.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Biomet C.V.Inventors: Alejandro Perez, Priya Prasad, Driany F. Alfonso, Sanjoy Chouduri
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Publication number: 20200040957Abstract: Elastic joint comprising:—an inner ring (1) provided with an axial opening (11) for being mounted on a shaft “E” and with an outer surface having: two opposite intermediate sections (13) having a decreasing cross-section towards opposite ends of said inner ring (1) and forming supporting zones for the metal wire cushions (3), and two end sections (14) having a smaller cross-section than the central section;—an outer ring (2) provided with an outer cylindrical surface (21) for mounting the ring to on a support (S) and with an inner surface with two intermediate portions (22) having a decreasing cross-section towards opposite ends of the outer ring (2), facing the intermediate sections (13) of the inner ring (2); and—metal wire cushions (3) arranged between the inner ring and the outer ring (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Juan José MARTÍN HERNÁNDEZ, Alejandro PÉREZ NÚÑEZ
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Patent number: 10548649Abstract: A bone plate including a main bone plate body having two opposing curved sections adapted for a clavicle; a bendable waist portion narrower than the main body of the bone plate; and a node at each end of the main body connected to the main body by a bridge portion which is narrower than the main body, wherein the bridge includes a cut-out relief portion on a bottom side of the bone plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Robert Sixto, Andrea Suarez, Juergen A Kortenbach, Alejandro Perez
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Publication number: 20200006971Abstract: Disclosed herein are regulated power supplies. The power source delivers power to a system load and includes battery units. The power source also includes power flow devices coupled to the battery units that are configured to provide power from the battery units to the system load. Each power flow device corresponds to a respective one of the battery units, and includes a one direction current flow device connected in series with a current regulator between the respective battery unit and the system load.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Gerald Nilles, Russell Douglas Patton, Raul Alejandro Perez, Patrick Timothy Mcsweeney Simons
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Patent number: 10517939Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for the production of live attenuated bacterial strains, suitable as vaccine candidates, comprising the steps of: A. providing a bacterial strain capable of expressing glutamate racemase and possibly D-amino acid transaminase and comprising a peptidoglycan cell wail, and B. inactivating the gene or genes encoding for the glutamate racemase enzyme and, if needed, the gene or genes encoding for the enzyme D-amino acid transaminase in such way that the bacterial strain is no longer capable of expressing a functional glutamate racemase and/or a functional D-amino acid transaminase; wherein the inactivation of said genes causes said bacterial strain to be auxotrophic for D-glutamate.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignees: SERVICIO GALEGO DE SAÚDE (SERGAS), FUNDACIÓN PROFESOR NOVOA SANTOSInventors: Germán Bou Arévalo, María Clara Póvoa Cabral, Astrid Pérez Gómez, María Merino Carballeira, Alejandro Beceiro Casas, Patricia García Fernández
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Publication number: 20190329665Abstract: The invention relates to a cable bearing arrangement for a winding structure of system for inductive power transfer, wherein the winding structure has at least a first cable, wherein the cable bearing arrangement comprises or provides at least one cable guiding means for holding at least the first cable, wherein the cable bearing arrangement is provided by a cable chain, wherein the cable chain can adopt an unrolled state and a rolled-up state and a method of installing a cable bearing arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Éanna Curran, Sergio Alejandro Perez Romero
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Publication number: 20190308216Abstract: A method of manufacturing an arrangement for transferring energy from a primary unit conductor arrangement by a magnetic or an electromagnetic field to a secondary unit conductor arrangement in which the field induces an electric voltage, wherein the method comprises the steps: arranging a conductor arrangement selected from the primary unit conductor arrangement and the secondary unit conductor arrangement in a first layer of the arrangement and providing a second layer, so that the second layer is located on a back side of the first layer opposite to a front side of the first layer on which the magnetic or electromagnetic field is transferred or received during operation, wherein the second layer is made of a constituent material, comprising magnetic and/or magnetizable particles dispersed within the constituent material and wherein the magnetic or magnetizable particles are moved with respect to their positions and/or orientations within the constituent material before the constituent material is hard andType: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Sergio Alejandro Perez Romero, Éanna Curran, Federico Garcia
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Patent number: 10363891Abstract: A clip assembly includes a support defining an opening and a clip attachable to the support. The clip includes a body configured to retain a conduit and a retention member extending from the body and having a first portion inserted through the opening to attach the clip to the support and a second portion engaging the support inside the opening to prevent rotation of the clip relative to the support. The retention member is movable between an initial position from which the first portion of the retention member elastically deforms as the first portion is inserted into the opening and a final position at which the first portion of the retention member has elastically deformed back toward an original configuration once the first portion has passed beyond the opening such that the second portion engages the support inside the opening to prevent rotation of the clip relative to the support.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Laura Nathaly Zaldivar Ortiz, Alejandro Perez-Ruiz, Steven E. Morris, Fausto Eleazar Vazquez Flores, Joel Mejia Arriaga, Marcos Rodriguez Lopez
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Publication number: 20190217740Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement (1) of a first slab assembly (2, 2a) and at least one further slab assembly (2, 2b, 2c), wherein each slab assembly (2, 2a, 2b, 2c) comprises a cable bearing element (20) and a section of at least one electric line (3a, 3b, 3c), wherein the at least one electric line (3a, 3b, 3c) extends from the first to the further slab assembly (2, 2a, 2b, 2c), wherein a length of the section of the at least one electric line (3a, 3b, 3c) between the first and the further slab assembly (2, 2a, 2b, 2c) is larger than zero, wherein the first and the further slab assembly (2, 2a, 2b, 2c) are foldably connected by the at least one electric line (3a, 3b, 3c).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Sergio Alejandro Perez Romero, Éanna Curran
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Publication number: 20190192601Abstract: The invention provides a method for extracting active therapeutic components from plant materials of the cyclanthera pedata plant which comprises immersing said plant material containing active components and selected from the group consisting of fruits, flowers, leaves, stems, twigs, bark, wood, buds, seeds, roots, and pods in a solvent for a period of time of about 30 minutes to about 10 hours to achieve transfer of active components from the plant material to the solvent, separating the solvent containing active components from the plant material, and evaporating or distilling the solvent to produce a concentrated fraction containing active components. The invention further includes compositions and therapeutic formulations of such extracts to treat hypercholesterolemia and other high lipid related diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Alejandro Mario Díaz Rebolledo, Carlos Perez Rebolledo
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Publication number: 20190190392Abstract: A partial power converter (PPC) in an electrical power system, comprising an input capacitor connected in parallel to a power source vpv and connected to a primary winding of a transformer, wherein the primary winding is connected in series to a M1 transistor of the MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) type, wherein two secondary windings Ns1 and Ns2—both with the same number of turns, are connected, each one, in series by means of a terminal, with diodes D1 and D2, respectively, and said diodes D1 and D2 are connected to the respective ends of a capacitor Cdc output; the other terminal of the secondary winding Ns1 of the transformer is connected to one of the terminals of the primary winding, whereas the other terminal of the secondary winding Ns2 is connected to one of the terminals of transistor M1, and wherein the output capacitor Cdc serves as a link to connect to a next stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Marcelo Alejandro Pérez Leiva, Jaime Wladimir Zapata Amores