Patents by Inventor Anthony Nguyen
Anthony Nguyen 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: 11954990Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring a physical location to determine and/or predict anomalous activities. One or more machine learning algorithms may be used to analyze inputs from one or more sensors, cameras, audio recording equipment, and/or any other types of sensors to detect anomalous measurements/patterns. Notifications may be sent one or more devices in a network based on the detection.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: George Anthony Albero, Nathalie Elizabeth Conley, Elizabeth Jordan Knight, Lauren Thanh Nguyen-Lo, Robert Jon Armstrong
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Publication number: 20240070092Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a processor, a management controller; and a programmable device to provide input/output (I/O) expansion emulation to support communication with a plurality of I/O devices of a subsystem coupled to the system, where the programmable device provides a plurality of virtual registers as part of the I/O expansion emulation, the virtual registers associated with respective I/O devices of the plurality of I/O devices. The processor writes a value to a first virtual register of the plurality of virtual registers to trigger an output event relating to a first I/O device of the plurality of I/O devices at the subsystem. The management controller reads the first virtual register and, in response to the value written to the first virtual register, interact with the subsystem to issue the output event relating to the first I/O device at the subsystem.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Binh Q. Nguyen, David F. Heinrich, Paul Anthony Kaler
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Publication number: 20240058002Abstract: An apparatus includes first and second elongate members having first and second stapling surfaces and being configured to releasably couple together. A clamp member is movable from a first position to a second position to approximate the stapling surfaces for clamping tissue. A latch member is transitionable from an unlatched state to a latched state to releasably retain the clamp member in the second position. A firing assembly is actuatable from a home position to fire staples into the clamped tissue. The latch member is transitionable from the unlatched state to the latched state when the clamp member is in the second position while the firing assembly is in the home position. The latch member is inhibited from transitioning from the unlatched state to the latched state when the clamp member is in the second position while the firing assembly is displaced from the home position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Andrew C. Deck, Benjamin A. Bialorucki, Kevin A. Larson, Anthony Nguyen, Brian D. Schings, Richard M. Harper, Kevin J. Zylka, Caterina E. Esposito
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Patent number: 11896232Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a stapling assembly and an anvil configured to cooperate to compress, staple, and cut tissue. The stapling assembly includes a deck member having a deck surface that faces distally and includes a plurality of staple openings configured to receive a plurality of staples, and a knife member having a distal end that defines a cutting edge. The anvil includes an anvil surface having a plurality of staple forming pockets configured to form the staples, and a washer positioned adjacent to the anvil surface and having a proximal face. The cutting edge of the knife member is configured to cut through the tissue and the proximal face when the surgical instrument is fired. The proximal face includes a tissue gripping feature configured to stabilize and inhibit the tissue from translating across the washer and the anvil surface during firing.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Ryan J. Laurent, Bradley A. Arnold, Taylor W. Aronhalt, Sean M. Starrett, Logan R. Rose, Anthony Nguyen
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Publication number: 20240037205Abstract: A system and method for interacting with a voice-assisted member interface hosted by a provider backend server of a provider using a voice enabled-apparatus hosted by an apparatus vendor separate and distinct from the provider, the voice-enabled apparatus including a microphone unit, a speaker and a processor coupled to the microphone unit and the speaker, the processor configured to cause the voice-enabled apparatus to perform one or more functions in response to audio signals received at the microphone unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Anil Bhatt, Widya Harianto, Elizabeth Basnight, Narasimha Adapa, Kennis Dees, Trupti Doshi, Elizabeth Kwo, Anthony Nguyen, Alicia Staffier, Kiran Kumar Simhadri
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Publication number: 20230397911Abstract: An apparatus includes first and second elongate members having first and second stapling surfaces and being configured to releasably couple together. A clamp member is movable from a first position to a second position to approximate the stapling surfaces for clamping tissue. A latch member is transitionable from an unlatched state to a latched state to releasably retain the clamp member in the second position. A firing assembly is actuatable from a home position to fire staples into the clamped tissue. The latch member is transitionable from the unlatched state to the latched state when the clamp member is in the second position while the firing assembly is in the home position. The latch member is inhibited from transitioning from the unlatched state to the latched state when the clamp member is in the second position while the firing assembly is displaced from the home position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Andrew C. Deck, Brian D. Schings, Anthony Nguyen, William J. White, Jason D. Jones, Carol J. Wynn, Todd P. Omaits
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Publication number: 20230157693Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a stapling assembly and an anvil configured to cooperate to compress, staple, and cut tissue. The stapling assembly includes a deck member having a deck surface that faces distally and includes a plurality of staple openings configured to receive a plurality of staples, and a knife member having a distal end that defines a cutting edge. The anvil includes an anvil surface having a plurality of staple forming pockets configured to form the staples, and a washer positioned adjacent to the anvil surface and having a proximal face. The cutting edge of the knife member is configured to cut through the tissue and the proximal face when the surgical instrument is fired. The proximal face includes a tissue gripping feature configured to stabilize and inhibit the tissue from translating across the washer and the anvil surface during firing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Ryan J. Laurent, Bradley A. Arnold, Taylor W. Aronhalt, Sean M. Starrett, Logan R. Rose, Anthony Nguyen
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Publication number: 20230150840Abstract: An agricultural processing system includes a process that uses water and produces wastewater having insoluble solids, a pump configured to receive and pressurize the wastewater from the process, and a plurality of centrifugal separators connected in parallel and configured to receive the wastewater from the pump. The separators are each configured to separate out the insoluble solids from the wastewater to produce a cleaned wastewater.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Steve Huff, Todd Coleman, Douglas M. Dawson, Anthony Nguyen
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Publication number: 20220246286Abstract: An example method includes obtaining, by a computing system, audio data representing sounds generated by a user; applying, by the computing system, a machine learning (ML) model that generates output data based on non-semantic content of the audio data; and generating, by the computing system, based on the output data generated by the ML model, a recommended healthcare provider list for the user, the recommended healthcare provider list for the user including one or more healthcare providers recommended for the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Meihua S. Eddy, Ronald Matthew Hoffner, Kelsey Isenberg, Melissa Jeanne Umenhofer, Damian Kelly, Anthony A. Nguyen
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Publication number: 20220151621Abstract: An apparatus includes a handle assembly having a body, a shaft assembly having an outer tube member, an end effector, an anvil, a first trocar closure system, and a second trocar closure system. The end effector has having a staple deck fixed relative to the body, a staple driver operable to actuate relative to the staple deck between an unfired position and a fired position, and the trocar configured to selectively couple with the anvil and actuate relative to the staple dreck. The first trocar closure assembly can actuate in a first motion to drive the trocar between a distal position and a first closed position. The second trocar closure assembly can actuate in a second motion between the first closed position and a second closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Gregory J. Bakos, Michael J. Stokes, Michael A. Jacobs, Disha V. Labhasetwar, Gregory G. Scott, Anthony Nguyen
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Patent number: 11207071Abstract: An apparatus includes a handle assembly having a body, a shaft assembly having an outer tube member, an end effector, an anvil, a first trocar closure system, and a second trocar closure system. The end effector has having a staple deck fixed relative to the body, a staple driver operable to actuate relative to the staple deck between an unfired position and a fired position, and the trocar configured to selectively couple with the anvil and actuate relative to the staple dreck. The first trocar closure assembly can actuate in a first motion to drive the trocar between a distal position and a first closed position. The second trocar closure assembly can actuate in a second motion between the first closed position and a second closed position. The staple drive is inoperable at least until the first trocar closure assembly actuates the trocar to the first closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Gregory J. Bakos, Michael J. Stokes, Michael A. Jacobs, Disha V. Labhasetwar, Gregory G. Scott, Anthony Nguyen
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Publication number: 20210357886Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that facilitate an initiation and a performance of one or more trustless transactions between counterparty devices operating within a trusted, secure computer-networking environment. For example, an apparatus may receive, through a touchscreen display unit, first data that identifies a session identifier associated with a transaction session, and may determine a validity of the session identifier based on the received first data. The apparatus may establish the transaction session in response to the determined validity of the session identifier. The transaction session may be associated with first and second operations characterized by values of corresponding parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Stephen John McCANN, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Arthur Carroll Chow, Eddie Cheuk Long Law, Haituyen Anthony Nguyen, Paul Mon-Wah Chan, John Jong Suk Lee, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa
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Patent number: 11155267Abstract: Provided is a disclosure for a mobile sensor platform including various hardware and software to perform sensing operations of various occupants in the mobile sensor platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: John Absmeier, David Anderson, Rafel Fors Perez, Yosi Levi, Anthony Nguyen, Eunsung Park, Divya Shah, Euan Thomson
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Patent number: 11107050Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that facilitate an initiation and a performance of one or more trustless transactions between counterparty devices operating within a trusted, secure computer-networking environment. For example, an apparatus may receive, through a touchscreen display unit, first data that identifies a session identifier associated with a transaction session, and may determine a validity of the session identifier based on the received first data. The apparatus may establish the transaction session in response to the determined validity of the session identifier. The transaction session may be associated with first and second operations characterized by values of corresponding parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: Stephen John McCann, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Arthur Carroll Chow, Eddie Cheuk Long Law, Haituyen Anthony Nguyen, Paul Mon-Wah Chan, John Jong Suk Lee, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa
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Patent number: 11102303Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that perform operations consistent with services provisioned to a device based on real-time sensor data indicative of and characterizing a user's operation of the device and additionally or alternatively, a system or apparatus that includes the device. For example, the device may obtain stored data identifying a provisioned service, and may obtain sensor data captured by an on-board or external sensor during an operation of the device. Based on the sensor data, the device may generate a usage parameter that characterizes the operation of the device during a temporal period, and perform an operation consistent with the provisioned service in accordance with the generated usage parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: Arthur Carroll Chow, Paul Mon-Wah Chan, Perry Aaron Jones Haldenby, Rakesh Thomas Jethwa, Eddie Cheuk Long Law, John Jong Suk Lee, Stephen John McCann, Haituyen Anthony Nguyen
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Patent number: 10934794Abstract: A setting tool for actuating a downhole plug in a wellbore includes a housing including a central passage, a piston slidably disposed in the housing and including a central passage, and wherein the piston includes a first position in the housing and a second position the housing spaced from the first position in a first axial direction, and an atmospheric chamber filled with compressible fluid formed radially between the piston and the housing, and wherein the atmospheric chamber is sealed from an environment surrounding the setting tool when the piston is in the first position, wherein, in response to a pressurization of the central passage of the piston, the setting tool is configured to displace the piston from the first position to the second position and compress the compressible fluid within the atmospheric chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LPInventors: Benjamin Vascal Knight, Joe Noel Wells, Steven Zakharia, Anthony Nguyen
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Publication number: 20200411297Abstract: A substrate processing system includes a processing chamber including a dielectric window and a substrate support arranged therein to support a substrate. A coil is arranged outside of the processing chamber adjacent to the dielectric window. A Faraday shield is arranged between the coil and the dielectric window. An RF generator is configured to supply RF power to the coil. The coil is coupled by stray capacitance and/or directly coupled to the Faraday shield. A capacitor is connected to one of the coil and the Faraday shield to adjust a position of a voltage standing wave along the coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Shen PENG, Tamarek PANDHUMSOPORN, Anthony NGUYEN, Dan MAROHL
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Patent number: 10768989Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide virtualized vector processing are described. In one embodiment, one or more operations corresponding to a virtual vector request are distributed to one or more processor cores for execution.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Anthony Nguyen, Engin Ipek, Victor Lee, Daehyun Kim, Mikhail Smelyanskiy
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Publication number: 20200248516Abstract: A setting tool for actuating a downhole plug in a wellbore includes a housing including a central passage, a piston slidably disposed in the housing and including a central passage, and wherein the piston includes a first position in the housing and a second position the housing spaced from the first position in a first axial direction, and an atmospheric chamber filled with compressible fluid formed radially between the piston and the housing, and wherein the atmospheric chamber is sealed from an environment surrounding the setting tool when the piston is in the first position, wherein, in response to a pressurization of the central passage of the piston, the setting tool is configured to displace the piston from the first position to the second position and compress the compressible fluid within the atmospheric chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LPInventors: Benjamin Vascal Knight, Joe Noel Wells, Steven Zakharia, Anthony Nguyen
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Publication number: 20200113566Abstract: An apparatus includes a handle assembly having a body, a shaft assembly having an outer tube member, an end effector, an anvil, a first trocar closure system, and a second trocar closure system. The end effector has having a staple deck fixed relative to the body, a staple driver operable to actuate relative to the staple deck between an unfired position and a fired position, and the trocar configured to selectively couple with the anvil and actuate relative to the staple dreck. The first trocar closure assembly can actuate in a first motion to drive the trocar between a distal position and a first closed position. The second trocar closure assembly can actuate in a second motion between the first closed position and a second closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Gregory J. Bakos, Michael J. Stokes, Michael A. Jacobs, Disha V. Labhasetwar, Gregory G. Scott, Anthony Nguyen