Patents by Inventor Daniel Crouse

Daniel Crouse 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: 11954735
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital property protection are disclosed. For example, indication may be received that an entity has applied for an insurance policy to insure against theft of digital property. The digital property may be registered and a valuation of the digital property may be generated. Due diligence processes may be performed, including assessment of physical and/or network security mechanisms to prevent theft of the digital property. A recommendation to issue the insurance policy may be generated and sent in examples where the due diligence processes return favorable results. Terms generation and/or identification may be performed, and claims processing based at least in part on loss matrixes may also be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Chmielewski, Jeffrey Scott Dwoskin, Paul Kim, Daniel Crouse
  • Publication number: 20240112270
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intellectual property (IP) asset protection are disclosed. For example, by analyzing characteristic information associated with a user, along with feedback from one or more potential insurers, the system may determine various terms of an insurance policy for protecting the user against claims of IP infringement. The policy may provide for financial reimbursement for costs incurred while taking active measures to mitigate losses and/or defend against such claims. In addition, the system may analyze the characteristic information to identify various users having a low exposure of an infringement claim being asserted. The identified users may be actively targeted to acquire an IP protection policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Chmielewski, Derek Charles Lietz, Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse
  • Patent number: 11941714
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to analyzing intellectual-property data according to provide various intellectual property related services to organizations. In particular implementations, information related to products and/or services may be obtained from a number of data sources. Additionally, information related to intellectual-property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how, may be obtained. In various situations, the intellectual-property assets may be mapped to respective products and/or services. The mappings between the products and/or services and intellectual-property assets may be used to provide intellectual property related services that correspond to the intellectual-property assets, such as valuation services, strategy-related services, or risk-related services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming
  • Publication number: 20240087066
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital property authentication and management are disclosed. A document representing a trade secret may be requested to be registered with a trade secret registry. A document obfuscation value corresponding to the document may be generated and may be registered with a blockchain. A record of the registration may be generated for the trade secret registry. The registry may be searchable and/or offer functionality such as valuation, insurance provision, and/or verification, among other benefits and functionalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming
  • Patent number: 11887201
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to analyzing intellectual-property data according to provide various intellectual property related services to organizations. In particular implementations, information related to products and/or services may be obtained from a number of data sources. Additionally, information related to intellectual-property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how, may be obtained. In various situations, the intellectual-property assets may be mapped to respective products and/or services. The mappings between the products and/or services and intellectual-property assets may be used to provide intellectual property related services that correspond to the intellectual-property assets, such as valuation services, strategy-related services, or risk-related services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming
  • Patent number: 11816740
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intellectual property (IP) asset protection are disclosed. For example, by analyzing characteristic information associated with a user, along with feedback from one or more potential insurers, the system may determine various terms of an insurance policy for protecting the user against claims of IP infringement. The policy may provide for financial reimbursement for costs incurred while taking active measures to mitigate losses and/or defend against such claims. In addition, the system may analyze the characteristic information to identify various users having a low exposure of an infringement claim being asserted. The identified users may be actively targeted to acquire an IP protection policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Chmielewski, Derek Charles Lietz, Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse
  • Patent number: 11803927
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to analyzing intellectual-property data according to provide various intellectual property related services to organizations. In particular implementations, information related to products and/or services may be obtained from a number of data sources. Additionally, information related to intellectual-property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how, may be obtained. In various situations, the intellectual-property assets may be mapped to respective products and/or services. The mappings between the products and/or services and intellectual-property assets may be used to provide intellectual property related services that correspond to the intellectual-property assets, such as valuation services, strategy-related services, or risk-related services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming
  • Patent number: 11776079
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital property authentication and management are disclosed. A document representing a trade secret may be requested to be registered with a trade secret registry. A document obfuscation value corresponding to the document may be generated and may be registered with a blockchain. A record of the registration may be generated for the trade secret registry. The registry may be searchable and/or offer functionality such as valuation, insurance provision, and/or verification, among other benefits and functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming
  • Patent number: 11734782
    Abstract: Manual human processing of documents often generates results that are subjective and include human-error. The cost and relatively slow speed of manual, human analysis makes it effectively impossible or impracticable to perform document analysis at the scale, speed, and cost desired in many industries. Accordingly, it may be advantageous to employ objective, accurate rule-based techniques to evaluate and process documents. This application discloses data processing equipment and methods specially adapted for a specific application: analysis of the breadth of documents. The processing may include context-dependent pre-processing of documents and sub-portions of the documents. The sub-portions may be analyzed based on word count and commonality of words in the respective sub-portions. The equipment and methods disclosed herein improve upon other automated techniques to provide document processing by achieving a result that quantitatively improves upon manual, human processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: William Michael Edmund, John E. Bradley, III, Daniel Crouse
  • Patent number: 11699203
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital property authentication and management are disclosed. A document representing a trade secret may be requested to be registered with a trade secret registry. A document obfuscation value corresponding to the document may be generated and may be registered with a blockchain. A record of the registration may be generated for the trade secret registry. The registry may be searchable and/or offer functionality such as valuation, insurance provision, and/or verification, among other benefits and functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming, Samuel John Desmond, Lewis Brendan Lee
  • Patent number: 11676204
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated digital-property analysis are disclosed. A document representing a digital property may be received and the document, or key elements and/or language characterizations representing the document, may be utilized to search one or more databases for similar documents. The search results may be ranked and displayed for review. If an indication that the search results do not correspond to the document is received, that indication may be utilized to promote registration of the document with a trade-secret registry, for provision of insurance policies, etc. Scheduled auditing may be established and utilized to confirm the digital property has not be disclosed and/or to determine a potential misappropriation event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Samuel Cameron Fleming, Daniel Crouse
  • Patent number: 11676231
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for performing automatic document analysis. For instance, one or more computing devices may obtain a plurality of documents for analysis. The one or more computing devices may then analyze the documents to determine a respective comparative breadth score representing a breadth of each document, a respective comparative portion count score representing a number of documents portions included in each document, and a respective comparative differentiation score representing differentiation between the documents portions included in each document. In some instances, the one or more computing devices determine each of the scores based on comparing the respective breadth, respective number of document portions, and respective differentiation for each of the documents under analysis. The one or more computing devices can then determine a comprehensive score for each document using the respective scores, and generate a user interface that includes the overall scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Daniel Crouse, John E. Bradley, III, Lewis C. Lee
  • Publication number: 20230169600
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intellectual property (IP) asset protection are disclosed. For example, by analyzing characteristic information associated with a user, along with feedback from one or more potential insurers, the system may determine various terms of an insurance policy for protecting the user against claims of IP infringement. The policy may provide for financial reimbursement for costs incurred while taking active measures to mitigate losses and/or defend against such claims. In addition, the system may analyze the characteristic information to identify various users having a low exposure of an infringement claim being asserted. The identified users may be actively targeted to acquire an IP protection policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Chmielewski, Derek Charles Lietz, Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse
  • Publication number: 20230087206
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) analysis platform architectures are disclosed. A scoring component may be utilized to produce scores for IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The scoring component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the scoring of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the of IP assets. The scoring component may utilize data from a coverage component, an opportunity component and/or an exposure component to assess a comprehensive score associated with a group of IP assets of a targeted entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, Adam Parish, David Craig Andrews
  • Publication number: 20230089425
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) analysis platform architectures are disclosed. A scoring component may be utilized to produce scores for IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The scoring component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the scoring of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the of IP assets. The scoring component may utilize data from a coverage component, an opportunity component and/or an exposure component to assess a comprehensive score associated with a group of IP assets of a targeted entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, Adam Parish, Samuel Cameron Fleming
  • Publication number: 20230080680
    Abstract: Systems and methods for model-based analysis of intellectual property (IP) collateral are disclosed. For example, IP asset data is analyzed utilizing various predictive models to generate IP assessment data and IP valuation data. This data is then utilized to facilitate the issuance of a loan that is secured utilizing the IP assets as collateral and where an insurance policy is issued to insure the lender against default by the borrower/owner of the IP assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Cochrane, Nicholas Joseph Chmielewski, Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, Giles Humphrey ffolliott Harlow, Nicholas J. Surges
  • Patent number: 11514529
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intellectual property (IP) asset protection are disclosed. For example, by analyzing characteristic information associated with a user, along with feedback from one or more potential insurers, the system may determine various terms of an insurance policy for protecting the user against claims of IP infringement. The policy may provide for financial reimbursement for costs incurred while taking active measures to mitigate losses and/or defend against such claims. In addition, the system may analyze the characteristic information to identify various users having a low exposure of an infringement claim being asserted. The identified users may be actively targeted to acquire an IP protection policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Chmielewski, Derek Charles Lietz, Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse
  • Patent number: 11508006
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital property collateral protection are disclosed. For example, a pre-underwriting analysis may be performed to ascertain the quality of a given borrower and the intellectual property associated with the borrower. If the borrower passes the pre-underwriting analysis, an underwriting analysis including an intellectual property valuation may be performed. If the borrower passes the underwriting analysis and the terms of a loan and insurance policy are otherwise agreed upon, a lender may issue a loan to the borrower with the intellectual property as collateral, and an insurer may issue an insurance policy to the lender to insure against covered events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Peter Gerard Cross, Nicholas Joseph Chmielewski, Daniel Crouse, Brian Hinman, Giles Humphrey ffolliott Harlow, Martyn Frank Chattey
  • Publication number: 20220343445
    Abstract: Manual human processing of documents often generates results that are subjective and include human-error. The cost and relatively slow speed of manual, human analysis makes it effectively impossible or impracticable to perform document analysis at the scale, speed, and cost desired in many industries. Accordingly, it may be advantageous to employ objective, accurate rule-based techniques to evaluate and process documents. This application discloses data processing equipment and methods specially adapted for a specific application: analysis of the breadth of documents. The processing may include context-dependent pre-processing of documents and sub-portions of the documents. The sub-portions may be analyzed based on word count and commonality of words in the respective sub-portions. The equipment and methods disclosed herein improve upon other automated techniques to provide document processing by achieving a result that quantitatively improves upon manual, human processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: William Michael Edmund, John E. Bradley, III, Daniel Crouse
  • Patent number: 11348195
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to analyzing intellectual-property data according to provide various intellectual property related services to organizations. In particular implementations, information related to products and/or services may be obtained from a number of data sources. Additionally, information related to intellectual-property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how, may be obtained. In various situations, the intellectual-property assets may be mapped to respective products and/or services. The mappings between the products and/or services and intellectual-property assets may be used to provide intellectual property related services that correspond to the intellectual-property assets, such as valuation services, strategy-related services, or risk-related services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Lewis C. Lee, Daniel Crouse, David Craig Andrews, Samuel Cameron Fleming