Patents by Inventor Brian Spear

Brian Spear 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: 20240070749
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an artificial intelligence approach to digital content recommendation where the recommendation mechanics differ based on the amount of information available. In one aspect, a user is identified as an above-threshold user who has consumed at least a threshold number of digital artifacts or a below-threshold user who has consumed fewer digital artifacts and different recommendation engines are used for above-threshold users and below-threshold users. In another aspect, users are bifurcated into low-data users and high-data users. For high-data users, digital artifacts are directly selected, and for low-data users, digital artifacts are indirectly selected by first selecting a digital artifact property criteria and then selecting digital artifacts that satisfy the selected digital artifact property criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kexin CHEN, Madelyn Johnston, Dongwoo Kang, Brian Nguyen, Hannah Boulakia, Alex Brandimarte, Viktor Iakovenko, Behrad Borhani, Sarah Spear
  • Patent number: 7825534
    Abstract: A relay assembly for a fog light is disclosed which comprises a relay housing having a first terminal adapted to being connected to a switch for operating another light and operation of the switch for illuminating a fog light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventor: Brian Spear
  • Publication number: 20080290802
    Abstract: A relay assembly for a fog light is disclosed which comprises a relay housing having a first terminal adapted to being connected to a switch for operating another light and operation of the switch for illuminating a fog light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventor: Brian Spear
  • Publication number: 20070219739
    Abstract: A mixer measurement system and method use a chaotic signal to characterize a mixer under test. The mixer measurement system includes a chaotic reference source, an excitation source at an input end of the mixer under test and an inverse system at an output end of the mixer under test. The inverse system removes a chaotic component from a response signal from the stimulated mixer under test to produce a recovered signal having an included distortion that is characteristic of the mixer under test. The method of characterizing a mixer includes applying the chaotic stimulation to the mixer under test to obtain a response signal and employing the inverse system to remove the chaotic component from the response signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Brian Spears, John Wood, Nicholas Tufillaro