Patents by Inventor Ben (Wen-Pin) Chuang

Ben (Wen-Pin) Chuang 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).

  • Patent number: 12280925
    Abstract: Drink containers include a liquid container and a cap assembly removably coupled to the liquid container. Cap assemblies include a switch, a trigger and seal bar. Upon actuating the trigger the seal bar slides back to form a drink outlet opening in the cap assembly. To hold the seal bar in an open state without additional external force from the user, the switch is slid from an unlocked position to a locked position, thereby keeping the drink outlet and a vent formed in the cap assembly open in order to cool down a warm beverage in the liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CamelBak Products, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas R. Luhrs, Ben Vierck
  • Patent number: 12283822
    Abstract: A hybrid energy system is configured to carry a power load for a generator configured to output a first AC signal. The hybrid energy system includes a battery bank, a DC/DC converter, an AC/DC converter, and a DC/AC converter. The battery bank includes a plurality of batteries and outputs a first DC signal. The DC/DC converter, operating in a first mode, receives and converts the first DC signal into a second DC signal, which is output to a DC bus. The AC/DC converter receives and converts the first AC signal into a third DC signal. The second DC signal and the third DC signal are tied together on the DC bus. The DC/AC converter receives and converts the second DC signal from the DC bus into a plurality of second AC signals, which are output to an AC outlet interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: Alliance North Amerca, Inc., SPOC Grid Inverter Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Yin, Brian Quock, Stacey Brooks, Christian Mason, Ben Gully, Andrew Williams
  • Patent number: 12282411
    Abstract: Some embodiments generate prompts and submit them in queries to a language model trained on code to perform automated program repair. Some embodiments fix syntactic mistakes and semantic mistakes by combining multimodal prompts, iterative querying, test-case-based selection of few-shots, and program chunking. In some cases, edit distance is minimized between an initial flawed program and the automatically created improved version of that program. The initial flawed program is obtained from a programming student, or from a source code generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jialu Zhang, José Pablo Cambronero Sánchez, Gustavo Araujo Soares, Vu Minh Le, Sumit Gulwani, Gust Ben Anneloes Verbruggen
  • Patent number: 12281005
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a user-operable beverage dispenser having a beverage dispensing mechanism that enables dispensing of beverage by a hands-free or hands-contactless operation. A vessel-supporting shelf is pivotably articulated to the housing and is displaceable about a pivot axis between an open state in which the shelf is parallel to a base of the housing and configured to support a removable vessel thereon below a dispensing outlet, and a closed state in which the shelf is substantially parallel to a sidewall portion of the housing, a beverage dispensing actuation element located on a sidewall portion of the housing; and when in the closed state of the shelf, a section of the shelf is aligned and in contact with the beverage dispensing actuation element, and when in the open state of the shelf, the beverage dispensing actuation element is user-accessible by the vessel directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: STRAUSS WATER LTD.
    Inventors: Omer Ben Baruch, Eyal Krystal, Dany Ascher, Orly Nahum
  • Patent number: 12281634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (100), a system (10) and a method for modifying the cross section of a tower section (1) of a wind turbine, wherein the tower section comprises a flange (4) located at an end (3) of the tower section having a plurality of through holes (5) spaced around its circumference for securing said tower section to another wind turbine section. The method comprises securing tensioning mechanism (14) to each of a pair of said plurality of through holes in the flange of the tower section, said pair of holes being generally opposed; and applying a tensile force between said pair of holes in the flange of the tower section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventor: Ben Møller Nielsen
  • Patent number: 12283046
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, perform computational fluid dynamics analysis, facilitate assessment of risk of heart disease and coronary artery disease, enhance drug development, determine a CAD risk factor goal, provide atherosclerosis and vascular morphology characterization, and determine indication of myocardial risk, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Shant Malkasian, Ben Hootnick
  • Patent number: 12282546
    Abstract: A system to detect an abnormal classic authorizations, such as in a classic authorization system of a resource access management system, and take action is described. The system determines an anomaly score in from a model applied to a classic assignment event. An indicator score is determined from the classic assignment event applied to domain-based rules. The security action is taken based on a combination of the anomaly score and the indicator score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Idan Hen, Ilay Grossman, Avichai Ben David
  • Patent number: 12282175
    Abstract: An imaging lens structure and method of imaging are presented. The imaging lens structure comprising a lens region defining an effective aperture of the lens structure. The lens region comprises an arrangement of lens zones distributed within the lens region and comprising zones of at least two different optical functions differently affecting light passing therethrough. The zones of at least two different optical functions are arranged in an interlaced fashion along said lens region corresponding to a surface relief of the lens region such that adjacent lens zones of different optical functions are spaced apart from one another along an optical axis of the lens structure a distance larger than a coherence length of light at least one spectral range for which said lens structure is designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited
    Inventors: Zeev Zalevsky, Alex Zlotnik, Shai Ben-Yaish, Ofer Limon, Ido Raveh
  • Publication number: 20250120664
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Ben Hootnick
  • Publication number: 20250123078
    Abstract: A Laser Designator Pod (LDP) protective system, the LDP protective system comprising: a protective hood a laser detector arranged within the protective hood to generate a signal when exposed to laser radiation within a predefined range of wavelengths; and a computing device to record the generated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Ben Anthony Murphy, Adrian Duncan Lees
  • Publication number: 20250125885
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to an excitation source system configured to transmit a first signal to a first device, for example a reader device, and a second signal to a second device, for example a backscatter device containing data to be collected by the reader device. The second signal is configured to excite the second device to generate a backscatter signal receivable by the first device. The source excitation system is configured to receive a feedback signal from the first device. The feedback signal may enable the excitation source system to determine feedback information based on reception of the first excitation signal and the backscatter signal at the first device. The excitation source system may further be configured to determine one or more adjustment parameters, based on the feedback information, for an adjusted first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Ben Charles Emmanuel MEUNIER, David Michael DUFFY, Harry Michael CRONIN
  • Publication number: 20250123952
    Abstract: A computer system for rendering a graphical user interface for visualising runs of a driving scenario in which an ego agent navigates a road layout, comprising an input configured to receive a map of the road layout and run data comprising a sequence of timestamped ego agent states and a time-varying numerical score quantifying the performance of the ego agent with respect a set of run evaluation rules; and a rendering component configured to cause a graphical user interface to display, for each rule: a plot of the time-varying numerical score, and a marker denoting a selected time index of the plot, the marker movable along the time axis to change the selected time index; and a scenario visualization comprising a visualization of the run at the selected time index, whereby moving the marker along the time axis causes the scenario visualisation to update as the time index is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Five Al Limited
    Inventors: Iain Whiteside, Marco Ferri, Ben Graves, Jamie Cruickshank
  • Publication number: 20250122739
    Abstract: A skimmer box for a pool having a body portion and a conduit portion extending from the body portion. The conduit portion is receivable by an aperture of the pool to fluidly connect an inside of the pool with a cavity inside the body portion. The conduit portion has connectors to operatively connect with a corresponding connector in the pool, preferably via a mounting component embedded in the pool wall, to mount the skimmer box thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Mayer JUNG, Ben PETERSEN, Aiden THOMLINSON
  • Publication number: 20250124748
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for assessing autonomous vehicle performance comprising receiving, at an input, performance data of at least one autonomous driving run, the performance data comprising at least one time series of perception errors and at least one time series of driving performance results; and generating, at a rendering component, rendering data for rendering a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface for visualizing the performance data and comprising: a perception error timeline, and a driving assessment timeline, wherein the timelines are aligned in time, and divided into multiple time steps of the at least one driving run, wherein, for each time step: the perception timeline comprises a visual indication of whether a perception error occurred at that time step, and the driving assessment timeline comprises a visual indication of driving performance at that time step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Five AI Limited
    Inventors: Tim Young, Ben Graves, Maurizio Morriello, Jamie Cruickshank
  • Publication number: 20250122023
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, and systems for facilitating movement of material in at least one stockpile, for example to minimize variability and/or ensure a target level of one or more constituents of a product comprising material obtained from at least one stockpile. At least one computing device may receive pickup signal(s) indicating a plurality of pickup events associated with respective portions of the material. In response, the computing device may identify respective locations of the pickup events. At least one property of the material associated with the pickup events may be estimated. In response, the computing device may associate estimations of the at least one property with respective regions of the material associated with the pickup events. In response, the computing device may transmit respective locations of future pickup events. The computing device, in response, may receive future pickup signal(s) indicating the future pickup events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: TECK RESOURCES LIMITED
    Inventors: Daniel Levi MYCK, Esaias Engelbertus SCHALEKAMP, Keith Edward MAYHEW, Felipe Camilo e Silva MARTINS, Ben DANIC, Nicola BORN
  • Publication number: 20250126353
    Abstract: Techniques guiding users in capturing vehicle images and video are provided. Some techniques involve: obtaining a three-dimensional model of a vehicle; generating a part-annotated 3D model of the vehicle; obtaining portions of the vehicle to be imaged by the user; generating overlays corresponding to the portions of the vehicle to be imaged by the user; and outputting the overlays for use in guiding the capturing images of the vehicle. Some techniques involve: obtaining a video of a vehicle; obtaining frames from the video; analyzing the frames to identify portions of the vehicle the user is to video, the analyzing comprising for each particular frame: determining whether the particular frame complies with one or more image quality criteria; and identifying at least one portion of the vehicle captured in the particular frame; and generating instructions for guiding the user to video the identified portions of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Ramzi Ben Hariz, Raphaël Bonaque, Mathis Chenuet, Auriane Riou, Robin Vogel
  • Publication number: 20250121944
    Abstract: A magnetic locking system and methods for restricting movement of an electric aircraft motor is provided. A locking system may include a magnetic lock, which includes a first magnetic component and a second magnetic component. First and second magnetic components may be configured to attract each other and thus lock rotor in a certain position. The first or second magnetic component may include an electromagnet so that magnetic lock may be engaged or disengaged based on one or more parameters, such as a detection by a sensor or a signal generated by a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Ben Colbourn, Shawn Cimonetti
  • Publication number: 20250121487
    Abstract: An accessory mounting platform for a tool, the accessory mounting platform including: a body configured to be removably coupled to the tool; a first rail coupled to the body, the first rail including a rail head configured to slidably receive an accessory and couple the accessory to the tool; and a locking component configured to selectively retain the accessory on the first rail, wherein the locking component automatically moves from a locked state to an unlocked state when the accessory is slid along the first rail over the locking component in a first direction, and wherein the locking component automatically moves to the locked state once the accessory reaches a locked position on the first rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Jeremy Fedrigon, Joseph Purdin, Thomas Evatt, Cam Craig, Colton Faddis, Allison Chesser, Trevor Fauss, Christopher Heintz, Charles M. Wacker, II, Jeffrey Groves, Ben Pollite, Emily Costelow, Keith Saporsky, Nate Hill, Keith Lombardi, Drew Dahill, Ashley Antley
  • Publication number: 20250122010
    Abstract: A refuse vehicle includes a chassis coupled to a wheel, a body assembly coupled to the chassis and defining a refuse compartment, a lift assembly, a user interface including a display, and a vehicle control system having a sensor and a controller in communication with the lift assembly, the user interface, and the sensor. The controller including a processor and at least one memory and is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor, determine, based on the sensor data, that the lift assembly is in a collection mode, and update the user interface to display a collection view on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Amanda Miller, Brendan Chan, Jon Zeamer, Greg Steffens, James Tebbe, Jeremy Andringa, Jon Branson, Ryan Wolf, Sam Mueller, Ben Fischer, Jeff Verhagen
  • Publication number: 20250126061
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides example network devices and communication methods. One example method includes transmitting, by a first network device, according to a network protocol, a packet to a second network device. The packet includes loopback request information in a header of a layer of a network model. A loopback reply packet is received. The loopback reply packet includes, in a payload, at least a portion of the packet including at least one header of the packet. The loopback request information requests the second network device to transmit the loopback reply packet to the first network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Tal MIZRAHI, Reuven COHEN, Ben-Shahar BELKAR