Patents by Inventor Catherine Chih-Tzu YIN

Catherine Chih-Tzu YIN 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: 20210339246
    Abstract: Described are platforms, systems, media, and methods for maintaining a database of items associated with one or more skill requirements and a visit duration; maintaining a database of experts associated with one or more skill proficiencies, a location, and a schedule; receiving a request from a consumer for delivery by an expert of one or more items in the database to a consumer address; identifying experts in the database having skill proficiencies matching the skill requirements of the one or more items and available in a timeslot for the visit duration of the one or more items; presenting timeslots for which one or more experts are identified to the consumer and allowing the consumer to select a timeslot; and selecting an expert from among the identified experts in the selected timeslot based on shortest travel time; provided that utilization of the selected expert exceeds a predetermined utilization threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Qiong PAN, Ivan K. DIMOV, Nathaniel FERNHOFF, Lagnajeet PRADHAN, Colm HUNT, Aren Argisht NAZARIAN, Catherine Chih-Tzu YIN