Patents by Inventor David Becker

David Becker 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: 12348292
    Abstract: A beamforming system for an antenna for satellite communications, where the antenna includes an array of radiating elements, the system including: a processor programmed to implement a set of averaging functions, the processor programmed to receive channel vectors representing responses from a center and other locations in each of a number of cells to be served, the averaging functions to produce an average channel vector for each cell based on an average of the channel vectors received from a corresponding cell; the processor further programmed to calculate a beam weight vector for each cell based on a corresponding average channel vector; and a beamformer to generate a beamforming matrix from the beam weight vectors and to use the beamforming matrix to drive the elements of the antenna to beamform a beam from the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Neal David Becker, Udaya Bhaskar
  • Patent number: 12341610
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) signals from a BICM transmitter to generate information bit estimates of information in the BICM signals, including a decoder to generate the information bit estimates of the information in the received BICM signals and a symbol a posteriori probability (APP) generator to generate first symbol a posteriori probabilities (APPs) by processing the BICM signals based on Euclidean distances derived from the BICM signals, and further based on symbol probability log-likelihood ratios (SPLLRs) provided to the symbol APP generator by an extrinsic-information-based symbol probability log-likelihood ratio (SPLLR) generator. The SPLLR generator generates the SPLLRs directly from extrinsic information based on updated symbol APPs output from the decoder, without converting the extrinsic information into log-likelihoods (LLs), and the decoder generates the information bit estimates based on the first symbol APPs output from the symbol APP generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Liping Chen, Rohit Iyer Seshadri, Neal David Becker, Mustafa Eroz
  • Publication number: 20250183972
    Abstract: A beamforming system for an antenna for satellite communications, where the antenna includes an array of radiating elements, the system including: a processor programmed to implement a set of averaging functions, the processor programmed to receive channel vectors representing responses from a center and other locations in each of a number of cells to be served, the averaging functions to produce an average channel vector for each cell based on an average of the channel vectors received from a corresponding cell; the processor further programmed to calculate a beam weight vector for each cell based on a corresponding average channel vector; and a beamformer to generate a beamforming matrix from the beam weight vectors and to use the beamforming matrix to drive the elements of the antenna to beamform a beam from the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Neal David BECKER, Udaya BHASKAR
  • Publication number: 20250157640
    Abstract: A communication system involves a medical device that collect data during a surgical or medical procedure and an edge communication device coupled to the medical device. The edge communication device is configured to receive, from a remote management server, a profile that defines control policies for the edge communication device. The control policies include a data collection policy configured to specify a type of the data that the edge communication device is allowed to collect from the medical device and a data communication policy to specify a condition for which the edge communication device is allowed to transmit the collected data to an external server. The edge communication device stores the profile in memory and implements to the control policies such that only the specified type of data is collected and such that the collected data is transmitted to the external server only in response to presence of the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: David Becker
  • Publication number: 20250141538
    Abstract: In beamforming with an antenna for satellite communications, the antenna includes an array of radiating elements. The beamforming method includes: formulating a matrix based on responses from all elements of the antenna to each of a number of users of a first satellite; augmenting the matrix by adding responses from the elements of the antenna to other users served by a different satellite; from the augmented matrix, generating a beamforming matrix; and with the beamforming matrix, beamforming a beam from the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Neal David BECKER, Udaya BHASKAR
  • Patent number: 12283372
    Abstract: A system for communication of data is provided. The system includes a medical device. A data consuming device is positioned at a first network layer. An edge communication device is positioned at a second network layer. The edge communication device is in communication with the medical device to receive data from the medical device. The edge communication device has a profile. The profile defines a data format for the data and a communication path for transmitting the data between the network layers. A gateway device is configured to route the data from the edge communication device to the data consuming device via the communication path. The edge communication device is also configured to modify the data format to correspond to the data consuming device and to format the data according to the data format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: David Becker
  • Publication number: 20250055598
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) signals from a BICM transmitter to generate information bit estimates of information in the BICM signals, including a decoder to generate the information bit estimates of the information in the received BICM signals and a symbol a posteriori probability (APP) generator to generate first symbol a posteriori probabilities (APPs) by processing the BICM signals based on Euclidean distances derived from the BICM signals, and further based on symbol probability log-likelihood ratios (SPLLRs) provided to the symbol APP generator by an extrinsic-information-based symbol probability log-likelihood ratio (SPLLR) generator. The SPLLR generator generates the SPLLRs directly from extrinsic information based on updated symbol APPs output from the decoder, without converting the extrinsic information into log-likelihoods (LLs), and the decoder generates the information bit estimates based on the first symbol APPs output from the symbol APP generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Liping CHEN, Rohit Iyer SESHADRI, Neal David BECKER, Mustafa EROZ
  • Patent number: 12183001
    Abstract: Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are commonly used to assess patients with known or suspected pathologies of the lungs and liver. In particular, identification and quantification of possibly malignant regions identified in these high-resolution images is essential for accurate and timely diagnosis. However, careful quantitative assessment of lung and liver lesions is tedious and time consuming. This disclosure describes an automated end-to-end pipeline for accurate lesion detection and segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Arterys Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Irving Golden, Fabien Rafael David Beckers, John Axerio-Cilies, Matthieu Le, Jesse Lieman-Sifry, Anitha Priya Krishnan, Sean Patrick Sall, Hok Kan Lau, Matthew Joseph Didonato, Robert George Newton, Torin Arni Taerum, Shek Bun Law, Carla Rosa Leibowitz, Angélique Sophie Calmon
  • Patent number: 12101389
    Abstract: An apparatus for synchronizing frequency to a symbol timing, the apparatus including: a master oscillator to generate a master clock signal; an interpolator to accumulate a frequency error estimate between a symbol timing frequency and the master clock signal; and a frequency controller to transfer a portion of the frequency error estimate to the master oscillator to obtain a lock between the symbol timing and the master clock signal of the master oscillator in a manner that zeros-out the frequency error estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Neal David Becker
  • Patent number: 11915821
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a medical image viewer for incorporating multi-user collaboration features, such as in-image commenting and workspace sharing. An example method includes receiving a comment location including image coordinates and comment information associated with the comment from a user device. The comment information includes a text body, identify identity information related to the user, and a comment creation date. The example method further includes determining world coordinates based on the image coordinates, and storing the world coordinates and the comment information as a subset of header attributes of the DICOM image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ARTERYS INC.
    Inventors: Fabien Rafael David Beckers, John Axerio-Cilies, Maud Josee Caroline Benaddi, Patrick Ross Corless, Shek Bun Law, Justin Reid, Derek John Scherger, Kendall Wu
  • Publication number: 20240022390
    Abstract: An apparatus for synchronizing frequency to a symbol timing, the apparatus including: a master oscillator to generate a master clock signal; an interpolator to accumulate a frequency error estimate between a symbol timing frequency and the master clock signal; and a frequency controller to transfer a portion of the frequency error estimate to the master oscillator to obtain a lock between the symbol timing and the master clock signal of the master oscillator in a manner that zeros-out the frequency error estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Neal David Becker
  • Publication number: 20240013903
    Abstract: A system for communication of data is provided. The system includes a medical device. A data consuming device is positioned at a first network layer. An edge communication device is positioned at a second network layer. The edge communication device is in communication with the medical device to receive data from the medical device. The edge communication device has a profile. The profile defines a data format for the data and a communication path for transmitting the data between the network layers. A gateway device is configured to route the data from the edge communication device to the data consuming device via the communication path. The edge communication device is also configured to modify the data format to correspond to the data consuming device and to format the data according to the data format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: David Becker
  • Patent number: 11791039
    Abstract: A system for communication of data is provided. The system includes a medical device. A data consuming device is positioned at a first network layer. An edge communication device is positioned at a second network layer. The edge communication device is in communication with the medical device to receive data from the medical device. The edge communication device has a profile. The profile defines a data format for the data and a communication path for transmitting the data between the network layers. A gateway device is configured to route the data from the edge communication device to the data consuming device via the communication path. The edge communication device is also configured to modify the data format to correspond to the data consuming device and to format the data according to the data format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: David Becker
  • Publication number: 20230301977
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to the field of wound healing. In one embodiment is a method for generating a delayed wound model in an animal, the method comprising contacting a wound with a composition comprising an electrospun scaffold, wherein the scaffold is made from 80% PCL and 20% rat tail collagen and has been soaked in a biofilm conditioned media from Staphylococcus aureus or a small molecular drug FK866.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: David Becker, Jiah Shin Chin, Leigh Madden, Li Ling Mandy Tan
  • Patent number: 11770737
    Abstract: A system and method for beamforming beams including: matching weights T to a distribution of resources for each of the beams based on a traffic variation for each of the beams; calculating, with a signal processor for each of the beams based on the weights T, a power scalar ? and a weighted minimum mean squared error (WMMSE) matrix WWMSE; and transmitting/receiving the beams based on the power scalar ? and the WMMSE matrix WWMSE, where the power scalar ? satisfies a total power constraint of an antenna subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Udaya Bhaskar, Stanley Kay, Neal David Becker
  • Patent number: 11757505
    Abstract: A system and method for beamforming includes providing an antenna including feeds, a coverage area including service areas and data streams for each of the service areas; selecting a cluster of M feeds from the feeds; computing, with a GBBF processor (ground based beam former), M×N weights; generating M feed excitations by distributing the N data streams per the M×N weights; switching an array to transfer a respective one of the M feed excitations to a respective one of the M feeds; and beamforming, with the M feeds of the antenna, N beams. In the method, the N beams are each focused on a respective service area of each of the N data streams, the M×N weights improve the transmitting into the respective service area of each of the N data streams, and at least one of the N beams includes a portion of a plurality of the M feed excitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stanley E. Kay, Uday R. Bhaskar, Neal David Becker
  • Patent number: 11632167
    Abstract: A system and method for scheduling a variable stayout distance when beam hopping, the method including providing an illumination area of a satellite and candidate beam centers disposed in the illumination area; measuring a respective scan angle from an antenna boresight to a respective beam center of the candidate beam centers; and determining a reuse factor k for each of the candidate beam centers, based on a proportion of the respective scan angle to a maximum scan angle. Each candidate beam center may be processed sequentially. Prior to adding each candidate beam center to a current beam center set, checking whether a candidate beam center meets the stayout distance criteria from all beam centers already in the beam center set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stanley Kay, Udaya Bhaskar, Neal David Becker
  • Patent number: 11551353
    Abstract: Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are commonly used to assess patients with known or suspected pathologies of the lungs and liver. In particular, identification and quantification of possibly malignant regions identified in these high-resolution images is essential for accurate and timely diagnosis. However, careful quantitative assessment of lung and liver lesions is tedious and time consuming. This disclosure describes an automated end-to-end pipeline for accurate lesion detection and segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Arterys Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Irving Golden, Fabien Rafael David Beckers, John Axerio-Cilies, Matthieu Le, Jesse Lieman-Sifry, Anitha Priya Krishnan, Sean Patrick Sall, Hok Kan Lau, Matthew Joseph Didonato, Robert George Newton, Torin Arni Taerum, Shek Bun Law, Carla Rosa Leibowitz, Angélique Sophie Calmon
  • Publication number: 20220200696
    Abstract: A system and method for scheduling a variable stayout distance when beam hopping, the method including providing an illumination area of a satellite and candidate beam centers disposed in the illumination area; measuring a respective scan angle from an antenna boresight to a respective beam center of the candidate beam centers; and determining a reuse factor k for each of the candidate beam centers, based on a proportion of the respective scan angle to a maximum scan angle. Each candidate beam center may be processed sequentially. Prior to adding each candidate beam center to a current beam center set, checking whether a candidate beam center meets the stayout distance criteria from all beam centers already in the beam center set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stanley KAY, Udaya BHASKAR, Neal David BECKER
  • Patent number: D974400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: David Becker, Karen L. Smit, Daniel J. Martinson, Rebecca S. Paalman, Jon Anderson, Kimberly K. Leopold