Patents by Inventor Alexander Yeh
Alexander Yeh 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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Patent number: 12220589Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein can be for validating a position of a wirelessly powered electrostimulation device while the device is implanted in body tissue. A method can include situating the electrostimulation device in tissue and before an affixation mechanism of the electrostimulation device is deployed to maintain an implanted position of the electrostimulation device, and while electrodes of the device are in contact with the tissue, performing electrical testing of the electrostimulation device to determine whether the electrostimulation from the electrostimulation device evokes a specified response from the body that contains the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL, INCInventors: Alexander Yeh, Timothy A. Fayram, Brad Holinski, Thomas Burpee Ellsworth, III, Shivkumar Sabesan, Stephen James Schellenberg, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco
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Patent number: 12205338Abstract: A segmentation method and segmentation apparatus are provided, where the segmentation method includes receiving image frames comprising a current frame and an adjacent frame to the current frame, determining a feature map to aggregate the image frames based on temporal information between the current frame and the adjacent frame, extracting a feature of a region of interest (ROI) corresponding to instances included in the current frame from the feature map, predicting a class of an object corresponding to the ROI based on the feature of the ROI, and segmenting the instances by correcting an amodal mask predicted corresponding to the class of the object based on the feature of the ROI.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignees: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jihye Kim, Raymond Alexander Yeh, Alexander Gerhard Schwing, Yuan-Ting Hu
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Publication number: 20250001188Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Timothy A. Fayram
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Patent number: 11986662Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Timothy A. Fayram
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Patent number: 11964151Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Elia Junco
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Publication number: 20240009464Abstract: Embodiments regard innovations for implantable electrostimulation devices and corresponding systems that operate using or contain the implantable electrostimulation devices. A system can include an implantable electrostimulation device. The system can further include an introducer configured to deliver the electrostimulation device to a target location inside a patient body. The introducer can comprise a migration mitigation component configured to couple with the electrostimulation device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Frank W. Wang, Stephen James Schellenberg, Anastacia Armstrong, Shivkumar Sabesan
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Publication number: 20230388269Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for software defined branch single IP orchestration. An example method can include establishing, by a controller, a secure tunnel agent to an orchestrator, generating, by the controller, a single IP address on a virtual router for a virtual branch site, and monitoring, by the controller, reachability of the single IP address on the virtual router.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Alexander YEH, Yanping Qu, Kaushik Pratap Biswas
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Patent number: 11743232Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for software defined branch single IP orchestration. An example method can include establishing, by a controller, a secure tunnel agent to an orchestrator, generating, by the controller, a single IP address on a virtual router for a virtual branch site, and monitoring, by the controller, reachability of the single IP address on the virtual router.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Yanping Qu, Kaushik Pratap Biswas
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Patent number: 11596794Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed herein for wirelessly transmitting power and/or data to an implanted device, such as an implanted electrostimulator device. In an example, the subject matter includes a layered transmitter device with multiple conductive planes and excitation features. The transmitter device can be tuned to identify and apply device parameters for efficient wireless communication with a deeply implanted device. The transmitter is generally configured for midfield powering applications by providing signals that give rise to propagating signals inside of body tissue.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Hui Zhang, Thomas Burpee Ellsworth, III
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Patent number: 11521044Abstract: Techniques regarding action detection based on motion in receptive fields of a neural network model are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a motion component that can extract a motion vector from a plurality of adaptive receptive fields in a deformable convolution layer of a neural network model. The computer executable components can also comprise an action detection component that can generate a spatio-temporal feature by concatenating the motion vector with a spatial feature extracted from the deformable convolution layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISInventors: Khoi-Nguyen C. Mac, Raymond Alexander Yeh, Dhiraj Joshi, Minh N. Do, Rogerio Feris, Jinjun Xiong
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Publication number: 20220329563Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for software defined branch single IP orchestration. An example method can include establishing, by a controller, a secure tunnel agent to an orchestrator, generating, by the controller, a single IP address on a virtual router for a virtual branch site, and monitoring, by the controller, reachability of the single IP address on the virtual router.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Yanping Qu, Kaushik Pratap Biswas
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Publication number: 20220314008Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein can be for validating a position of a wirelessly powered electrostimulation device while the device is implanted in body tissue. A method can include situating the electrostimulation device in tissue and before an affixation mechanism of the electrostimulation device is deployed to maintain an implanted position of the electrostimulation device, and while electrodes of the device are in contact with the tissue, performing electrical testing of the electrostimulation device to determine whether the electrostimulation from the electrostimulation device evokes a specified response from the body that contains the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Timothy A. Fayram, Brad Holinski, Thomas Burpee Ellsworth, III, Shivkumar Sabesan, Stephen James Schellenberg, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco
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Publication number: 20220148284Abstract: A segmentation method and segmentation apparatus are provided, where the segmentation method includes receiving image frames comprising a current frame and an adjacent frame to the current frame, determining a feature map to aggregate the image frames based on temporal information between the current frame and the adjacent frame, extracting a feature of a region of interest (ROI) corresponding to instances included in the current frame from the feature map, predicting a class of an object corresponding to the ROI based on the feature of the ROI, and segmenting the instances by correcting an amodal mask predicted corresponding to the class of the object based on the feature of the ROI.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicants: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL), SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jihye KIM, Raymond Alexander Yeh, Alexander Gerhard Schwing, Yuan-Ting Hu
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Publication number: 20220062651Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Timothy A. Fayram
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Patent number: 11198011Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Timothy A. Fayram
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Publication number: 20210361940Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein include wireless midfield transmitters and implantable receiver devices. A midfield transmitter can be configured to provide signals outside of tissue that give rise to propagating signals inside of tissue. The present subject matter includes a protection circuit for a transmitter device, a layered transmitter device, an implantable receiver device, implantation and extraction methods, test and assembly methods, and the like. In an example, a protection circuit includes a first control circuit to receive an RF drive signal and conditionally provide an output signal to an antenna. A second control circuit can generate a control signal based on the antenna output signal and/or information about the RF drive signal. A gain circuit can provide the RF drive signal to the first control circuit. The gain circuit can change an amplitude of the RF drive signal based on the control signal from the second control circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Hui Zhang, Thomas Burpee Ellsworth, III, Elia Junco, Stephen James Schellenberg, Carl Lance Boling
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Publication number: 20210316142Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Timothy A. Fayram, Alexander Yeh, Gary Shaw, Randolph Kerry Armstrong, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco, Brad Holinski
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Publication number: 20210308469Abstract: Systems, devices and methods to facilitate wireless interaction between an implantable therapy delivery device and an external transmitter device are provided. In an example, the systems, devices, and methods discussed herein include or use a garment for receiving and positioning an external transmitter device proximal to an implanted device, and the external transmitter device includes a midfield device configured to provide one or more signals to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate a propagating and focused field in the tissue. In an example, the garment includes a receptacle configured to receive and retain the external transmitter device near a tissue interface, and the garment further includes a dielectric portion provided between the receptacle and the tissue interface. In an example, the dielectric portion has a relative permittivity that is approximately the same as the relative permittivity of air.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Brad Holinski, Alexander Yeh, Elia Junco, Timothy Edward Ciciarelli
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Patent number: 11129985Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Timothy A. Fayram, Alexander Yeh, Gary Shaw, Randolph Kerry Armstrong, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco
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Patent number: 10994140Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided. A system can include an external power source that propagates a field within tissue and an at least partially implantable device configured to receive the propagated field from the external power source, the implantable device including circuitry, a first antenna electrically coupled to the circuitry, a second antenna electrically coupled to the first antenna, and an electrode electrically connected to the circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Alexander Yeh, Elia Junco