Patents by Inventor David An

David An 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: 20210405402
    Abstract: A method for displaying an image using a wearable display system including directing display light from a display towards a user through an eyepiece to project images in the user's field of view, determining a relative location between an ambient light source and the eyepiece, and adjusting an attenuation of ambient light from the ambient light source through the eyepiece depending on the relative location between the ambient light source and the eyepiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hui-Chuan Cheng, David Manly, Vaibhav Mathur, Joshua Naaman Haddock, Kevin Messer, Clinton Carlisle
  • Publication number: 20210405727
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to obtain first parameters characterizing an operating state of information technology (IT) resources of a data center and second parameters characterizing an operating state of cooling systems of the data center, to determine an overall operating state of the data center by aggregating the first and second parameters, to identify a power consumption profile based on the overall operating state, and to perform a joint training of first and second reinforcement learning agents based on the overall operating state and the power consumption profile. The processing device is also configured to generate first controls for the heterogeneous IT resources utilizing the first reinforcement learning agent and second controls for the cooling systems utilizing the second reinforcement learning agent, the first and second controls being configured to reduce power consumption while maintaining specified performance benchmarks for workloads executing in the data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ashutosh Singh, Michael David Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20210402240
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to adjustable and/or foldable play surfaces, that may include climbing surfaces, sliding surfaces, and/or other play structure surfaces. A foldable slide may comprise a slide surface; at least one side rail attached to the slide surface via at least one hinge, wherein the at least one side rail is configured to rotate with respect to the slide surface about the at least one hinge from a first position of the foldable slide to a second position of the foldable slide; and at least one attachment element configured to secure the at least one side rail into the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: KidKraft, Inc.
    Inventors: David Barr, Frederick Rieber, Duoc Le, John Vura, Jeffrey Trondsen, Christopher Gillespie
  • Publication number: 20210403047
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a current state of a traffic light may be determined. One of a plurality of yellow light durations may be selected based on the current state of the traffic light. When the traffic light will turn red may be predicted based on the selected one. The prediction may be used to control the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Edward Hsiao, Maoqing Yao, David Margines, Yosuke Higashi
  • Publication number: 20210409260
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to an overlay network for an industrial Internet of Things. The overlay network has multiple main components: (1) a security component, such as a cloaked network, (2) a digital twin component that operates as digital simulations of the physical devices, (3) a communications mesh, and (4) a resource provisioning matrix for adjusting the resources used by the digital twin. The overlay network is a virtual network that is Software Defined—it sits on top of the existing Internet physical hardware of servers, routers, etc. The overlay network is sometimes referred to herein as a Software Defined Secure Content/Context Aware Network (SD-SCAN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: David M. Sherr
  • Publication number: 20210403844
    Abstract: Provided are multi-layer bioreactors for growing, maintaining, stimulating, monitoring and testing organoids and tissues derived from or representing hollow organs in organoid chambers. Also provided are uses of those bioreactors in modeling a disease process for monitoring disease progress and/or for assessing a biological effect, such as therapeutic efficacy and/or toxicity, e.g., organotoxicity. Also disclosed are bioreactors comprising organoid chambers that are useful as systems for measuring the volume, pressure, contractility, pump function, or electrophysiology of an organoid chamber as well as systems for controlling the pressure experienced by an organoid or tissue in an organoid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin D. Costa, Yosuke Kurokawa, Eugene K. Lee, David D. Tran, Bernard Fermini
  • Publication number: 20210401696
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition, typically, including about 0.01 to about 3 wt. % of retinol; about 0.5 to about 10 wt. % of sodium polyacrylate; about 0.25 to about 10 wt. % of one or more nonionic emulsifier; about 3.5 to about 12 wt. % of a fatty phase, wherein the fatty phase comprises one or more fatty compound; and water, wherein all weight percentages are based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition. The cosmetic composition may be an oil-in-water emulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan James FAIG, David CHAN, Mariana MONTOYA, Susan HALPERN CHIRCH
  • Publication number: 20210404375
    Abstract: Operating an engine system includes feeding a flow of exhaust to a turbine in a turbocharger, receiving a load step request, and increasing a speed of rotation of the turbocharger based on an increase in a fueling rate initiated in response to the load step request. Operating the engine system further includes limiting dissipation of heat energy of the flow of exhaust to the turbine to hasten an increase in the speed of rotation of the turbocharger, and increasing dissipation of heat energy from the flow of exhaust after satisfaction of the load step request. Varying of the dissipation of heat energy can be achieved by displacing an insulating fluid in the exhaust manifold with a heat exchange fluid such as water and/or engine coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Sai Keat Wang, Jaswinder Singh, David Ginter
  • Publication number: 20210401575
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are described herein to provide improved steerability for delivering a prosthesis to a body location, for example, for delivering a replacement valve to a native valve location in a heart. Disclosed are a number of features that can improve steerability or release of the prosthesis into the body location. In one preferred delivery system, a proximal handle can be manipulated to apply tension to a pair of diametrically opposed axial runner wires extending through lumens in a wall of a flexible tubular shaft. By applying tension to a pair of axial runner wires, the tubular shaft can be stiffened along a plane extending substantially through the pair of axial runner wires, while the shaft is permitted to freely bend in a perpendicular plane. This feature advantageously provides the ability to adjust the steerability and flexibility of a tubular shaft to meet the requirements of a particular procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: David Robert Landon, Alexander H. Cooper, Julio Cesar Sanchez, Glen T. Rabito, J. Brent Ratz, Tarannum Ishaq Gutierrez, Ramon Aguilar, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210403762
    Abstract: A reversible adhesive apparatus includes a base and an adhesive layer. The base is configured with a series of concave and convex shapes at a top surface of the base according to some embodiments. The base is configured with a raised portion and a surrounding portion at a top surface of the base according to some other embodiments. The adhesive layer is disposed on top of the base. The adhesive layer configured to provide reversible adhesion on a top surface of the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kyle A. Crum, Robert H. Schmidt, David A. Vasko, Neil R. Bentley, Tracy M. Clark, Michael D. Cook
  • Publication number: 20210406330
    Abstract: The management server obtains address information indicating a user's address and evaluation information indicating evaluation of a food or a restaurant performed by the user. A food search screen is provided with, as one of search filters, a search filter for filtering foods or restaurants on the basis of results of evaluation of foods or restaurants performed by residents of a certain area. If the user's address indicated by the address information is included in the certain area, the evaluation information indicating the evaluation of the food or the restaurant performed by the user is included in the results of the evaluation of the foods or the restaurants performed by the residents of the certain area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: HIROSHI YAHATA, TAKAHIRO NISHI, TADAMASA TOMA, TOSHIYASU SUGIO, CHRISTOPHER JOHN WRIGHT, BERNADETTE ELLIOTT BOWMAN, DAVID MICHAEL DUFFY
  • Publication number: 20210402199
    Abstract: To disrupt mitochondrial function in certain cells, controlling hardware causes a magnet to oscillate so as to generate an oscillating magnetic field. The oscillating magnetic field is applied to a volume of tissue including cells with degraded mitochondria to trigger apoptosis in the cells with degraded mitochondria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Santosh Anand Helekar, David Stuart Baskin, Martyn Alun Sharpe, Kumar Pichumani
  • Publication number: 20210405075
    Abstract: A method of treatment of liver diseases and comorbid diseases is disclosed wherein an oral dose of lipids in an amount effective to trigger the release of cholecystokinin (CCK) into the duodenum to generate a major release of bile phospholipids from remodeled stores of triglycerides (TAG) in the liver, is administered to a patient in need thereof, thereby causing the formation of sequestered and aggregated mixed micelles and vesicles (SAMMVs) in the intestines of the patient which are then eliminated via the bowels of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Nanoveson LLC
    Inventor: David K. Barker
  • Publication number: 20210409349
    Abstract: A storage system switching mediators within a storage system synchronously replicating data, where the switching between mediators includes: determining, among one or more of the plurality of storage systems, a change in availability of a first mediator service, wherein one or more of the plurality of storage systems are configured to request mediation from the first mediator service; communicating, among the plurality of storage systems and responsive to determining the change in availability of the first mediator service, a second mediator service to use in response to a fault; and switching, in dependence upon the change in availability of the first mediator service, from the first mediator service to the second mediator service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: DAVID GRUNWALD, RONALD KARR, THOMAS GILL
  • Publication number: 20210404917
    Abstract: Milling with ultraviolet excitation (MUVE) realizes high-throughput multiplex imaging of large three-dimensional samples. The instrumentation may comprise a UV-source attachment, precision stage attachment, and/or a blade assembly, and the instrumentation may overcome several constraints inherent to current state-of-the-art three-dimensional microscopy. MUVE offers throughput that is orders of magnitude faster than other technology by collecting a two-dimensional array of pixels simultaneously. The proposed instrumentation also utilizes serial ablation and provides the opportunity for true whole-organ imaging at microscopic resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: University of Houston System
    Inventors: David Mayerich, Jason Eriksen
  • Publication number: 20210406081
    Abstract: A method for detecting system problems in a distributed control system including a plurality of computational devices is suggested. The method includes:—deploying one or more software agents on one or more devices of the system;—monitoring, via the one or more software agents, a system configuration and/or a system functionality;—detecting a problem in the monitored system configuration and/or a system functionality;—adding one or more new software agents and deploying the one or more new software agents on one or more devices of the system associated with the problem;—collecting data associated with the problem, via the added software agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Raphael EIDENBENZ, Mallikarjun KANDE, Andrea MACAUDA, Alexandru MOGA, Robert BIRKE, Thanikesavan SIVANTHI, David KOZHAYA, Ognjen VUKOVIC
  • Publication number: 20210404718
    Abstract: A method of controlling a transport climate control system includes detecting for leaking of working fluid from a climate control circuit. The method also includes isolating a high-pressure side of the climate control circuit when leaking of the working fluid is detected. A method of controlling a transport climate control circuit includes detecting for overcharge and/or an undercharge of the climate control circuit. A transport climate control system includes a climate control circuit and a climate controller that is configured to detect for working fluid leaking from the climate control circuit. The climate controller configured to isolate a high-pressure side of the climate control circuit when leaking of the working fluid is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: David J. Renken, Tony Spetz
  • Publication number: 20210404768
    Abstract: A weapons system is comprised of a plurality of weapon subsystems, wherein the plurality of weapon subsystems are comprised of at least one human transported weapon subsystem and at least one other weapon subsystem; control logic, a targeting subsystem, computational logic, a positioning subsystem, and firing logic. The plurality of weapon subsystems, each has a respective field of view, each said weapon subsystem providing for firing a munitions from the respective said weapon subsystem, wherein the plurality of weapon subsystems are comprised of at least one human transported weapon subsystem and at least one other weapon subsystem. The control logic, links communications among multiple of the weapon subsystems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: David H. Sitrick, Brett C. Bilbrey
  • Publication number: 20210405594
    Abstract: An electronic watch includes a housing, a user-operable watch crown mounted to the housing, an electromagnetic radiation source emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation toward a watch crown surface, and a sensor. The beam of electromagnetic radiation depends on a coherent mixing of electromagnetic radiation within a resonant cavity of the electromagnetic radiation source. The coherent mixing includes a mixing of a first amount of electromagnetic radiation generated by the electromagnetic radiation source and a second amount of electromagnetic radiation redirected into the resonant cavity by the watch crown surface. The sensor measures a first parameter of the beam of electromagnetic radiation and determines, using the measurement of the first parameter, a value of a second parameter characterizing movement of the watch crown. The second parameter may include a direction of rotation or speed of rotation of the watch crown, or other parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Prashanth S. Holenarsipur, Mark T. Winkler, Mehmet Mutlu, David D. Dashevsky
  • Publication number: 20210406512
    Abstract: A method for assessing risk to a marine hydrocarbon recovery operation involves collecting a set of training images and labeling sea surface anomalies on the set of training images. The set of training images and associated labels are used to train a model via backpropagation. A set of non-training images is collected and the trained model is applied to identify a potentially disruptive sea surface anomaly on the set of non-training images. Any risk to the marine hydrocarbon recovery operation by the potentially disruptive sea surface anomaly is then assessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: David A. LAVALLEE, Russell David POTTER, Oliver MUELLENHOFF, Benjamin Thomas KING, Stephen Edward KEEDWELL, Jason Dane MCCONOCHIE, Paul Henry GARDNER