Patents by Inventor Daniel Sanders

Daniel Sanders 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: 20260108457
    Abstract: Described herein, according to an embodiment, is an intra-oral composition for delivery of active agents comprising: a core, the core having at least one active agent, a phase change material, an exothermic material, and optionally a permeation enhancer, optionally a bitterness blocker, sweeteners and flavorings; where the core comprising less than 5% water. Further described herein according to embodiments, are methods for treatment comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, an intra-oral composition for intra-oral delivery of active agents comprising: a core, the core having at least one active agent, a phase change material, and an exothermic material, the core comprising less than 5% water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2025
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Applicant: ULTRAORAL LTD.
    Inventor: DANIEL SANDERS
  • Patent number: 12572783
    Abstract: Ideographic contrastive autoencoder for large language model fine-tuning is disclosed, including: obtaining a set of user activities according to a specified task; obtaining respective sets of input features from the set of user activities; using an encoder network of an autoencoder to encode the respective sets of input features into a set of words; prompting a machine learning model to perform the specified task using the set of words, wherein the machine learning model has been fine-tuned using a custom lexicographical vocabulary associated with the autoencoder; and presenting, at a user interface, a message determined based at least in part on an output result from the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Strava, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo Neat, Daniel Sanders
  • Publication number: 20260018283
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2025
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba
  • Patent number: 12444500
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba
  • Publication number: 20250177293
    Abstract: Described herein, according to an embodiment, is an intra-oral composition for delivery of active agents comprising: a core, the core having at least one active agent, a phase change material, an exothermic material, and optionally a permeation enhancer, optionally a bitterness blocker, sweeteners and flavorings; where the core comprising less than 0.5% water. Further described herein according to embodiments, are methods for treatment comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, an intra-oral composition for intra-oral delivery of active agents comprising: a core, the core having at least one active agent, a phase change material, and an exothermic material, the core comprising less than 0.5% water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: ULTRAORAL LTD.
    Inventor: DANIEL SANDERS
  • Patent number: 12198805
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba
  • Publication number: 20240412880
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for configuring, managing, and/or using a health utility network. A system includes a health utility platform configured to execute collaboration services and distributed ledger services. The system also includes a health network including a private network interconnect configured to provide access, routing and service discovery. The health network is communicatively coupled to the health utility platform. The system also includes landing zones communicatively coupled to the health utility platform via the health network. Each landing zone is configured to run applications for a participant. The applications are configured to consume data and/or provide services on the health network. The collaboration services and the distributed ledger services are configured to provide context or facilitate data exchanges between different landing zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Gerald Bortis, Aaron Jones, Calin Alexandru Morar, Gabriela Pelin, Daniel Sanders, Gary Brian Word
  • Publication number: 20240345040
    Abstract: An ion mobility spectrometer has a tubular ionization chamber which includes a sample gas inlet and a gas outlet, an ionization device disposed inside the ionization chamber, and a tubular drift chamber which is separated from the ionization chamber by an ion shutter grid, the drift chamber having an ion detector and a drift gas inlet on the end remote from the ion shutter grid. The ionization device has a planar contact surface, which is oriented parallel and at a minimal distance from the ion shutter grid transversely to the longitudinal axis of the ionization chamber, the sample gas inlet having a sample gas feed line, the sample discharge end of which opens directly in the region of the contact surface of the ionization device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: G.A.S. Gesellschaft für analytische Sensorsysteme m.b.H.
    Inventors: Andre GROSSE BLEY, Daniel SANDERS, Cengiz SIRKECI
  • Patent number: 12100519
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for configuring, managing, and/or using a health utility network. A system includes a health utility platform configured to execute collaboration services and distributed ledger services. The system also includes a health network including a private network interconnect configured to provide access, routing and service discovery. The health network is communicatively coupled to the health utility platform. The system also includes landing zones communicatively coupled to the health utility platform via the health network. Each landing zone is configured to run applications for a participant. The applications are configured to consume data and/or provide services on the health network. The collaboration services and the distributed ledger services are configured to provide context or facilitate data exchanges between different landing zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: The Health Utility Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Bortis, Aaron Jones, Calin Alexandru Morar, Gabriela Pelin, Daniel Sanders, Gary Brian Word
  • Publication number: 20240210138
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment may include a cover which can be secured to an item such as a firearm. The cover may be placed over the lower receiver of a rifle. The cover may connect to and snap over the lower receiver in order to provide protection from outside forces or debris. In some embodiments the cover may include a magnet that can magnetically attach to a metal firearm. In another exemplary embodiment, a cover may be formed from a strap that can wrap around a portion of a firearm and elastically grip over the lower receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Steeldriver Engineering
    Inventor: Daniel SANDERS
  • Patent number: 11927416
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment may include a cover which can be secured to an item such as a firearm. The cover may be placed over the lower receiver of a rifle. The cover may connect to and snap over the lower receiver in order to provide protection from outside forces or debris. In some embodiments the cover may include a magnet that can magnetically attach to a metal firearm. In another exemplary embodiment, a cover may be formed from a strap that can wrap around a portion of a firearm and elastically grip over the lower receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Steeldriver Engineering
    Inventor: Daniel Sanders
  • Publication number: 20240071633
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for configuring, managing, and/or using a health utility network. A system includes a health utility platform configured to execute collaboration services and distributed ledger services. The system also includes a health network including a private network interconnect configured to provide access, routing and service discovery. The health network is communicatively coupled to the health utility platform. The system also includes landing zones communicatively coupled to the health utility platform via the health network. Each landing zone is configured to run applications for a participant. The applications are configured to consume data and/or provide services on the health network. The collaboration services and the distributed ledger services are configured to provide context or facilitate data exchanges between different landing zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Gerald Bortis, Aaron Jones, Calin Alexandru Morar, Gabriela Pelin, Daniel Sanders, Gary Brian Word
  • Patent number: 11903783
    Abstract: A device, method, and system are provided for aiding the whitening of teeth. The device includes a mouthpiece suitable for implementing a dental treatment, wherein the mouthpiece includes one or more stock elastomeric dental cover layers suitable for forming and maintaining a treatment cavity having a vacuum fluid seal, wherein the dental cover layers includes a layer over the upper teeth and surrounding gums and/or a layer over the lower teeth and surrounding gums, wherein each of the layers includes one or more hardened sections for enabling selected/differential collapsibility when exposed to vacuum pressure; and one or more treatment supply layers wherein the treatment supply layer incorporates a heating unit for heating treatment materials and one or more flow channels in fluid communication with the treatment cavity so that the treatment supply layer can deliver and/or remove one or more treatment fluids from the one or more fluid sealed treatment cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MAVRIK DENTAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Daniel Sanders
  • Publication number: 20240044605
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment may include a cover which can be secured to an item such as a firearm. The cover may be placed over the lower receiver of a rifle. The cover may connect to and snap over the lower receiver in order to provide protection from outside forces or debris. In some embodiments the cover may include a magnet that can magnetically attach to a metal firearm. In another exemplary embodiment, a cover may be formed from a strap that can wrap around a portion of a firearm and elastically grip over the lower receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Steeldriver Engineering
    Inventor: Daniel SANDERS
  • Patent number: 11801128
    Abstract: A device, method, and system are provided for treating the oral cavity. The device includes a mouthpiece suitable for implementing a dental treatment, wherein the mouthpiece includes one or more stock elastomeric dental cover layers suitable for forming and maintaining a treatment cavity having a vacuum fluid seal, wherein the dental cover layers includes a layer over all the surfaces of the upper teeth and surrounding gums and/or a layer over all the surfaces of the lower teeth and surrounding gums, wherein each of the layers includes one or more hardened rigid or semi-rigid sections for enabling selected and/or differential collapsibility of the cover layers when exposed to vacuum pressure; and one or more treatment supply layers, and one or more flow channels in fluid communication with the treatment cavity so that the treatment supply layer can deliver and/or remove one or more treatment fluids from the one or more fluid sealed treatment cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mavrik Dental Systems, LTD.
    Inventor: Daniel Sanders
  • Publication number: 20230307124
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba
  • Publication number: 20230298748
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba
  • Patent number: 11699523
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba
  • Patent number: 11694798
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba
  • Publication number: 20220044807
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Sanders, Brett S. Kirby, David Clark, Clifton W. Bynum, Bradley W. Wilkins, Philip F. Skiba