Patents by Inventor Christopher Andrews

Christopher Andrews 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: 12282503
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining an intent of a user based on an intent model to attach a file to a document, prompting the user to confirm the intent using a predetermined character in an inline nudge, generating and displaying an inline menu with an interactive list of ranked files as a suggestion for attachment. The disclosed technology uses the intent for specifying a scope of the inline search. The intent model for attaching content maintained by third-party applications uses a combination of an embeddings model and an N-gram model with limited seed queries and determines the intent based on intent scores associated with respective third-party applications. The present disclosure ranks respective candidate content based on a degree of relevance to the intent. The user selects one or more content from the list for attaching to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Constantin, Matthew Sledge Epstein, TszYan C Zogg, Lutfi Ilke Kaya, Christopher Andrews Jung, Ragavenderan Venkatesan, Ming Wu, Zhiguo Yu
  • Patent number: 12279775
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward an occlusive device comprising a coil having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The coil may be formed of an elongated member wound about the longitudinal axis of the coil in a series of contiguous loops, wherein each of the loops extend around the longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end. The second end may be disposed at generally the same angular position as the first end about to the longitudinal axis of the coil. The elongated member may undulate along its longitudinal axis between the first and second ends of at least some of the individual loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Christopher Andrews, Etelvina Rivas, Hieu Dang
  • Publication number: 20250090185
    Abstract: Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to the removal device. The removal device can have a core assembly that includes a hypotube coupled to a first electrical terminal and a pushwire coupled to a second electrical terminal, the pushwire extending through the hypotube lumen. An insulating layer separates the hypotube and the pushwire, and an interventional element is coupled to a distal end of the pushwire. The interventional element can be disposed adjacent to a thrombus. An electrical signal is delivered to the interventional element to promote adhesion of the thrombus to the interventional element. The electrical signal can optionally be a periodic waveform, and the total energy delivered can be between 0.75-24,000 mJ and the peak current delivered via the electrical signal can be between 0.5-5 mA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Gaurav Girdhar, Hoai Nguyen, Andyanhdzung Huynh, Ashok Nageswaran, Christopher Andrews
  • Patent number: 12144517
    Abstract: Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to the removal device. The removal device can have a core assembly that includes a hypotube coupled to a first electrical terminal and a pushwire coupled to a second electrical terminal, the pushwire extending through the hypotube lumen. An insulating layer separates the hypotube and the pushwire, and an interventional element is coupled to a distal end of the pushwire. The interventional element can be disposed adjacent to a thrombus. An electrical signal is delivered to the interventional element to promote adhesion of the thrombus to the interventional element. The electrical signal can optionally be a periodic waveform, and the total energy delivered can be between 0.75-24,000 mJ and the peak current delivered via the electrical signal can be between 0.5-5 mA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Gaurav Girdhar, Hoai Nguyen, Andyanhdzung Huynh, Ashok Nageswaran, Christopher Andrews
  • Patent number: 12047338
    Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leeviana Peng Gray, Sebastien Rene Vandenberghe, Kyle P. Curlett, Yan Zhong Leigh, Brian D. Meersma, Benjamin G. Wilde, Natalie Ann Mionis, Sophia Isabel Vennix, Christopher Andrews Jung, Humberto Lezama Guadarrama
  • Patent number: 11931041
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes an occlusive device comprising a mesh having a low-profile state for intravascular delivery to the aneurysm and a deployed state, the mesh comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a length extending between the first and second end portions, and a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, and a width extending between the first and second lateral edges. The mesh may have a predetermined shape in the deployed state in which (a) the mesh is curved along its width, (b) the mesh is curved along its length, and (c) the mesh has an undulating contour across at least a portion of one or both of its length or its width. The mesh is configured to be positioned within the aneurysm in the deployed state such that the mesh extends over the neck of the aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Gregory Hamel, Patrick Quinn, Arturo Rosqueta, Stephen Sosnowski, Christopher Andrews, Hieu Dang, Dinh Nguyen, Robert Pecor, Minh Q. Dinh, Ahramahzd Tatavoosian
  • Publication number: 20240074772
    Abstract: Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to the removal device. The removal device can have a core assembly that includes a hypotube coupled to a first electrical terminal and a pushwire coupled to a second electrical terminal, the pushwire extending through the hypotube lumen. An insulating layer separates the hypotube and the pushwire, and an interventional element is coupled to a distal end of the pushwire. The interventional element can be disposed adjacent to a thrombus. An electrical signal is delivered to the interventional element to promote adhesion of the thrombus to the interventional element. The electrical signal can optionally be a periodic waveform, and the total energy delivered can be between 0.75-24,000 mJ and the peak current delivered via the electrical signal can be between 0.5-5 mA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Gaurav Girdhar, Hoai Nguyen, Andyanhdzung Huynh, Ashok Nageswaran, Christopher Andrews
  • Publication number: 20240058011
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward an occlusive device comprising a coil having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The coil may be formed of an elongated member wound about the longitudinal axis of the coil in a series of contiguous loops, wherein each of the loops extend around the longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end. The second end may be disposed at generally the same angular position as the first end about to the longitudinal axis of the coil. The elongated member may undulate along its longitudinal axis between the first and second ends of at least some of the individual loops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Andrews, Etelvina Rivas, Hieu Dang
  • Publication number: 20230403246
    Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content —without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leeviana Peng GRAY, Sebastien Rene VANDENBERGHE, Kyle P. CURLETT, Yan Zhong LEIGH, Brian D. MEERSMA, Benjamin G. WILDE, Natalie Ann MIONIS, Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Humberto LEZAMA GUADARRAMA
  • Patent number: 11832836
    Abstract: Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to the removal device. The removal device can have a core assembly that includes a hypotube coupled to a first electrical terminal and a pushwire coupled to a second electrical terminal, the pushwire extending through the hypotube lumen. An insulating layer separates the hypotube and the pushwire, and an interventional element is coupled to a distal end of the pushwire. The interventional element can be disposed adjacent to a thrombus. An electrical signal is delivered to the interventional element to promote adhesion of the thrombus to the interventional element. The electrical signal can optionally be a periodic waveform, and the total energy delivered can be between 0.75-24,000 mJ and the peak current delivered via the electrical signal can be between 0.5-5 mA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Gaurav Girdhar, Hoai Nguyen, Andyanhdzung Huynh, Ashok Nageswaran, Christopher Andrews
  • Patent number: 11812967
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward an occlusive device comprising a coil having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The coil may be formed of an elongated member wound about the longitudinal axis of the coil in a series of contiguous loops, wherein each of the loops extend around the longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end. The second end may be disposed at generally the same angular position as the first end about to the longitudinal axis of the coil. The elongated member may undulate along its longitudinal axis between the first and second ends of at least some of the individual loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Christopher Andrews, Etelvina Rivas, Hieu Dang
  • Publication number: 20230338036
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes an occlusive device comprising a mesh having a low-profile state for intravascular delivery to the aneurysm and a deployed state, the mesh comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a length extending between the first and second end portions, and a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, and a width extending between the first and second lateral edges. The mesh may have a predetermined shape in the deployed state in which (a) the mesh is curved along its width, (b) the mesh is curved along its length, and (c) the mesh has an undulating contour across at least a portion of one or both of its length or its width. The mesh is configured to be positioned within the aneurysm in the deployed state such that the mesh extends over the neck of the aneurysm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory Hamel, Patrick Quinn, Arturo Rosqueta, Stephen Sosnowski, Christopher Andrews, Hieu Dang, Dinh Nguyen, Robert Pecor, Minh Q. Dinh, Ahramahzd Tatavoosian
  • Patent number: 11793523
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward an occlusive device having a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The occlusive device may comprise an elongated member wound about the longitudinal axis to form a series of loops, wherein along at least some of the loops, the elongated member includes a first peak and a second peak axially offset from the first peak, the first peak being axially between the second peak and the proximal end. The first peak may be convex towards the distal end, and the second peak may be convex towards the proximal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Christopher Andrews, Etelvina Rivas, Hieu Dang
  • Publication number: 20230334073
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining an intent of a user based on an intent model to attach a file to a document, prompting the user to confirm the intent using a predetermined character in an inline nudge, generating and displaying an inline menu with an interactive list of ranked files as a suggestion for attachment. The disclosed technology uses the intent for specifying a scope of the inline search. The intent model for attaching content maintained by third-party applications uses a combination of an embeddings model and an N-gram model with limited seed queries and determines the intent based on intent scores associated with respective third-party applications. The present disclosure ranks respective candidate content based on a degree of relevance to the intent. The user selects one or more content from the list for attaching to the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas CONSTANTIN, Matthew Sledge EPSTEIN, TszYan C ZOGG, Lutfi Ilke KAYA, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Ragavenderan VENKATESAN, Ming WU, Zhiguo YU
  • Patent number: 11777884
    Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leeviana Peng Gray, Sebastien Rene Vandenberghe, Kyle P. Curlett, Yan Zhong Leigh, Brian D. Meersma, Benjamin G. Wilde, Natalie Ann Mionis, Sophia Isabel Vennix, Christopher Andrews Jung, Humberto Lezama Guadarrama
  • Patent number: 11748557
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing operations that generate and present personalized content suggestions to assist a user with document creation. Machine learning modeling may be trained and implemented to evolve pre-canned suggestions for document creation into highly personalized content suggestions, thereby improving the document creation process and user interface experience for users of applications/services that are utilized to create digital documents. As an example, signal data may be detected and analyzed, identifying a specific user's intent to create a digital document. Machine learning modeling may be implemented to evaluate different aspects of collected signal data and identify content from previously created documents, associated with a user account, that may be most relevant to the real-time document creation experience of the user. Personalized contextual suggestions may be presented to a user through a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Marian Kimberley Chua, Michael Schreiber, Christopher Andrews Jung
  • Patent number: 11730485
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes an occlusive device comprising a mesh having a low-profile state for intravascular delivery to the aneurysm and a deployed state, the mesh comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a length extending between the first and second end portions, and a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, and a width extending between the first and second lateral edges. The mesh may have a predetermined shape in the deployed state in which (a) the mesh is curved along its width, (b) the mesh is curved along its length, and (c) the mesh has an undulating contour across at least a portion of one or both of its length or its width. The mesh is configured to be positioned within the aneurysm in the deployed state such that the mesh extends over the neck of the aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Gregory Hamel, Patrick Quinn, Arturo Rosqueta, Stephen Sosnowski, Christopher Andrews, Hieu Dang, Dinh Nguyen, Robert Pecor, Minh Q. Dinh, Ahramahzd Tatavoosian
  • Patent number: 11695723
    Abstract: An email system detects a user interaction to interact with a social media application, within the email system. The email system accesses a social media component that renders a user interface from the social media system and detects interactions with the user interface to generate content for the social media application. The social media component calls the social media application, with the content, and provides a response indicating that the content has been sent to the social media application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ravin Sachdeva, Amy Huyen Phuoc Nguyen, Anne O'Neill, Garett Yoshiharu Sakamoto, Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes, Giovannah Lizette Webb, Gustavo Santos, Haroon Dawood Barri, Dianne Patricia Lobo, Tricia Lybrook, Humberto Lezama Guadarrama, Izis de Melo Moreira, Charles Scott Walker, Suzanne Tocco, Christopher Andrews Jung, Vanessa Harris, Daniel F. Holme
  • Patent number: 11678887
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes an occlusive device comprising a mesh having a low-profile state for intravascular delivery to the aneurysm and a deployed state, the mesh comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a length extending between the first and second end portions, and a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, and a width extending between the first and second lateral edges. The mesh may have a predetermined shape in the deployed state in which (a) the mesh is curved along its width, (b) the mesh is curved along its length, and (c) the mesh has an undulating contour across at least a portion of one or both of its length or its width. The mesh is configured to be positioned within the aneurysm in the deployed state such that the mesh extends over the neck of the aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Gregory Hamel, Patrick Quinn, Arturo Rosqueta, Stephen Sosnowski, Christopher Andrews, Hieu Dang, Dinh Nguyen, Robert Pecor, Minh Q. Dinh, Ahramahzd Tatavoosian
  • Publication number: 20230134691
    Abstract: An email system detects a user interaction to interact with a social media application, within the email system. The email system accesses a social media component that renders a user interface from the social media system and detects interactions with the user interface to generate content for the social media application. The social media component calls the social media application, with the content, and provides a response indicating that the content has been sent to the social media application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Ravin SACHDEVA, Amy Huyen Phuoc NGUYEN, Anne O'NEILL, Garett Yoshiharu SAKAMOTO, Luiz Gustavo Bustamante MAGALHAES, Giovannah Lizette WEBB, Gustavo SANTOS, Haroon Dawood BARRI, Dianne Patricia LOBO, Tricia LYBROOK, Humberto LEZAMA GUADARRAMA, lzis de Melo MOREIRA, Charles Scott WALKER, Suzanne TOCCO, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Vanessa HARRIS, Daniel F. HOLME