Patents by Inventor Andrew Beers

Andrew Beers 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: 20240289338
    Abstract: A method is provided for reusing custom concepts in visual analytics workflows. The method includes displaying a data visualization for a data source. The method also includes receiving a natural language input directed to the visualization. The method also includes parsing the natural language input to data fields and/or data values. The method also includes executing queries to data sources for retrieving results, based on the data fields and/or the data values. The method also includes generating and storing a named concept from the results, including either (i) saving underlying data as the named concept or (ii) querying the results and saving resulting data as the named concept. Saving the underlying data corresponds to saving data in an attribute. Querying the results is performed when a referenced attribute is not part of the results so a new query is issued that adds data from the referenced attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Vidya Raghavan SETLUR, Andrew BEERS
  • Patent number: 12048349
    Abstract: An article of footwear can include provisions for facilitating the installation of various components such as a lighting apparatus. During manufacture of the article of footwear, the upper and/or sole structure can include a chamber designed to receive the lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus can be installed in the chamber after manufacture of the article of footwear. In some cases, the lighting apparatus can include provisions for facilitating the installation of the lighting apparatus in the chamber, including a removable handle portion that can help guide the lighting apparatus within the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Tiffany A. Beers, Andrew A. Owings
  • Publication number: 20220152746
    Abstract: Reclamation or recycling of a semiconductor workpiece includes vaporizing the structures and materials deposited, implanted, or formed in or on the substrate with minimally acceptable damage to the crystalline substrate through direct ionic vaporization rather than thermal ablation. The purity of the substrate therefore remains substantially free from heavy metal surface contamination and has a surface roughness that may be polished back to a mirror-like finish using chemical mechanical polishing or lapping processes. The process includes focusing coherent light on a surface of the substrate with a predetermined wavelength, power, pulse width, and pulse rate or number of pulses per unit area that causes direct ionic vaporization of material formed in or on the surface of the substrate up to a predetermined penetration depth. Advantageously, patterned, previously used test, and out of specification wafers may be reclaimed for reuse or recycled without risk of the unintended disclosure of intellectual property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Beers, Ronald Macklin
  • Publication number: 20220121460
    Abstract: A method displays a first data visualization according to user association of data fields with displayed data visualization properties. The data visualization includes visual data marks corresponding to data values for data fields in a dataset. A user selects a subset of the visual data marks. A popup summary is displayed that includes data value distributions for several data fields from the dataset. In the popup summary, a second user input is detected corresponding to a first data field whose data value distribution is displayed in the popup summary. The second user input associates the first data field with a first visualization property of the displayed data visualization properties. In response, a second data visualization is displayed according to association of data fields, including the first data field, with displayed data visualization properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ginger Gloystein, Sean Boon, Bora Beran, Justin Talbot, Andrew Beers
  • Patent number: 11210115
    Abstract: A method displays a first data visualization according to user placement of data fields in shelves of a user interface. Each shelf specifies a property of the data visualization and the data visualization includes visual data marks corresponding to data values for data fields in a dataset. A user selects a subset of the visual data marks. A popup summary is displayed that includes data value distributions for several data fields. In the popup summary, a second user input is detected corresponding to a first data field whose data value distribution is displayed in the popup summary. In response, the method displays a moveable icon corresponding to the first data field. The method detects a third user input to place the interactive moveable icon in a shelf in the user interface. In response, a second data visualization is displayed according to placement of data fields, including the first data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Ginger Gloystein, Sean Boon, Bora Beran, Justin Talbot, Andrew Beers
  • Publication number: 20180129513
    Abstract: A method displays a first data visualization according to user placement of data fields in shelves of a user interface. Each shelf specifies a property of the data visualization and the data visualization includes visual data marks corresponding to data values for data fields in a dataset. A user selects a subset of the visual data marks. A popup summary is displayed that includes data value distributions for several data fields. In the popup summary, a second user input is detected corresponding to a first data field whose data value distribution is displayed in the popup summary. In response, the method displays a moveable icon corresponding to the first data field. The method detects a third user input to place the interactive moveable icon in a shelf in the user interface. In response, a second data visualization is displayed according to placement of data fields, including the first data field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Ginger Gloystein, Sean Boon, Bora Beran, Justin Talbot, Andrew Beers
  • Patent number: 9220579
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system and computing an occlusion based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Andrew Beers
  • Publication number: 20150351871
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which the teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Kelsey Wirth, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander Benton, Timothy N. Jones, Ross J. Miller, Brian Freyburger
  • Patent number: 9161824
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which the teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Kelsey Wirth, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander Benton, Timothy N. Jones, Ross J. Miller, Brian Freyburger
  • Patent number: 9029728
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus for measuring a plasma process parameter for processing a workpiece. The sensor apparatus includes a base, an information processor supported on or in the base, and at least one sensor supported on or in the base. The at least one sensor includes at least one sensing element configured for measuring an electrical property of a plasma and may include a transducer coupled to the at least one sensing element. The transducer can be configured to receive a signal from the sensing element and convert the signal into a second signal for input to the information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: KLA-TENCOR Corporation
    Inventors: Randall S. Mundt, Paul Douglas MacDonald, Andrew Beers, Mason L. Freed, Costas J. Spanos
  • Publication number: 20140312916
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus for measuring a plasma process parameter for processing a workpiece. The sensor apparatus includes a base, an information processor supported on or in the base, and at least one sensor supported on or in the base. The at least one sensor includes at least one sensing element configured for measuring an electrical property of a plasma and may include a transducer coupled to the at least one sensing element. The transducer can be configured to receive a signal from the sensing element and convert the signal into a second signal for input to the information processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Randall S. Mundt, Paul Douglas MacDonald, Andrew Beers, Mason L. Freed, Costas J. Spanos
  • Patent number: 8858227
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system and computing an occlusion based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Andrew Beers
  • Publication number: 20140288894
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander
  • Patent number: 8780106
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander Benton
  • Publication number: 20140180463
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which the teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Kelsey Wirth, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander Benton, Timothy N. Jones, Ross J. Miller, Brian Freyburger
  • Patent number: 8698037
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus for measuring a plasma process parameter for processing a workpiece. The sensor apparatus includes a base, an information processor supported on or in the base, and at least one sensor supported on or in the base. The at least one sensor includes at least one sensing element configured for measuring an electrical property of a plasma and may include a transducer coupled to the at least one sensing element. The transducer can be configured to receive a signal from the sensing element and convert the signal into a second signal for input to the information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Randall S. Mundt, Paul Douglas MacDonald, Andrew Beers, Mason L. Freed, Costas J. Spanos
  • Publication number: 20130302743
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which the teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Kelsey Wirth, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander Benton, Timothy N. Jones, Ross J. Miller, Brian Freyburger
  • Patent number: 8562340
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which the teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Brian Freyburger, Kelsey Wirth, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander Benton, Timothy N. Jones, Ross J. Miller
  • Patent number: 8496474
    Abstract: A computer is used to create a plan for repositioning an orthodontic patient's teeth. The computer receives an initial digital data set representing the patient's teeth at their initial positions and a final digital data set representing the teeth at their final positions. The computer then uses the data sets to generate treatment paths along which the teeth will move from the initial positions to the final positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Brian Freyburger, Kelsey Wirth, Andrew Beers, Huafeng Wen, Phillips Alexander Benton, Timothy N. Jones, Ross J. Miller
  • Publication number: 20130085721
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system and computing an occlusion based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Andrew Beers