Patents by Inventor David Mason
David Mason 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).
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Patent number: 11969594Abstract: A method to provide skin care treatment is provided. The method includes receiving, by an electrical stimulator apparatus, programmable instructions from an external device for a skin care treatment. The electrical stimulator apparatus delivers an electric current to an area of skin through a plurality of electrodes. The electric current is controlled based on the skin care treatment. The external device presents guidance corresponding with the skin care treatment. The guidance is configured to aid a user in operating the electrical stimulator apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ziip, Inc.Inventors: David Mason, Melanie Simon, Ron Lisiecki
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Patent number: 11963842Abstract: Appliances for intraoral delivery of agents are provided. In some embodiments, an appliance includes a shell having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining a plurality of tooth-receiving cavities configured to apply a repositioning force to a patient's teeth, and the outer surface oriented away from the patient's teeth. The appliance can also include a reservoir integrally formed in the outer surface of the shell, the reservoir being configured to store at least one agent. The appliance can further include a membrane covering at least a portion of the reservoir to control release of the agent into an intraoral cavity of the patient. The membrane can include a plurality of pores that are configured to open based at least in part on a temperature of the patient's intraoral cavity to allow the at least one agent to pass therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: David Mason, Shiva Sambu, Chunhua Li, Yan Chen
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Patent number: 11937074Abstract: The present document relates to methods and apparatus for rendering input audio for playback in a playback environment. The input audio includes at least one audio object and associated metadata, and the associated metadata indicates at least a location of the audio object. A method for rendering input audio including divergence metadata for playback in a playback environment comprises creating two additional audio objects associated with the audio object such that respective locations of the two additional audio objects are evenly spaced from the location of the audio object, on opposite sides of the location of the audio object when seen from an intended listener's position in the playback environment, determining respective weight factors for application to the audio object and the two additional audio objects, and rendering the audio object and the two additional audio objects to one or more speaker feeds in accordance with the determined weight factors.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International ABInventors: Michael William Mason, Juan Felix Torres, Antonio Mateos Sole, Daniel Arteaga, Adam J. Mills, Mark David de Burgh, Andrew Robert Owen
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Publication number: 20240084808Abstract: A ceiling fan includes a motor housing and a motor enclosed by the motor housing. A set of blades can extend from the motor housing and be operably coupled to the motor. The motor can include a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The motor housing can include an upper housing and a lower housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Charles William Botkin, Michael Paul Conti, Jason Matthew McPherson, Charles David McKee, Arvind G. Ramani, Douglas Troy Mason, Nicholas Dakota Vongprachanh
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Publication number: 20240062661Abstract: Example methods and systems for contingency landing a UAV are provided, comprising sensors configured to detect a position of the UAV and a command module. The command module receives a mission profile comprising a travel path mapped out in multidimensional space over time from an origin to a destination, a first boundary circumscribing at least a portion of the travel path, a second boundary circumscribing the first boundary, and contingent landing sites. The command module sends instructions to the UAV to fly according to the mission profile and determines a position of the UAV relative to the first and the second boundaries. Responsive to determining that the UAV is positioned at the first boundary, the command module sends instructions to land at a contingent landing site, and responsive to determining that the UAV is positioned at the second boundary, the command module sends instructions to land immediately.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Brandon Brown, David Mason, Eric Hathaway
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Publication number: 20240016592Abstract: Dental appliances having ornamental designs and associated methods are provided. In some embodiments, a method of providing a design on a dental appliance having a geometry configured to receive teeth includes providing the appliance, and altering an appearance of at least a portion of the appliance to provide the design on the appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: David Mason, Shiva Sambu, Chunhua Li, Yan Chen
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Publication number: 20230404711Abstract: Embodiments are provided for digital dental modeling. One method embodiment includes receiving a three-dimensional data set including a first jaw and a second jaw of a three-dimensional digital dental model and receiving a two-dimensional data set corresponding to at least a portion of the first jaw and the second jaw. The method includes mapping two-dimensional data of the two-dimensional data set to the three-dimensional digital dental model by transforming a coordinate system of the two-dimensional data to a coordinate system of the three-dimensional data set. The method includes positioning the first jaw with respect to the second jaw based on the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set. The method includes using at least a portion of the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set as a target of movement of the first jaw with respect to the second jaw in the three-dimensional digital dental model.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Anatoliy BOLTUNOV, Yury BRAILOV, Fedor CHELNOKOV, Roman ROSCHIN, David MASON
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Patent number: 11843679Abstract: Techniques to provide for reducing the time for rendering a web page by efficiently and optimally aggregating various resources transmitted to the browser during the page load (e.g., loading of the web page). Some example implementations include, upon receipt of a request for a web page, identifying a plurality of page features for displaying the web page, where each of the page features being associated with a respective manifest of dependencies on resources. Example implementations may also include aggregating dependencies of said plurality of page features to generate an optimized set of dependencies for the web page, resolving dependencies in accordance with the optimized set of dependencies, and render the web page by rendering the plurality of page features using the resolved dependencies.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: WP Company LLCInventors: Gregory Franczyk, Timothy Kim, Lucas David Mason
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Patent number: 11822615Abstract: Exemplary embodiments allow contextual editing to proceed in real time while the editor views the actual web page (or other page) being edited. The editing may change the underlying content without changing the look and feel of the web page. Example embodiments enable an editor or web page developer to make changes to already published content by changing cached or locally stored content without changing the original content stored in databases.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: WP Company LLCInventors: Gregory Franczyk, Timothy Kim, Lucas David Mason
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Patent number: 11810463Abstract: Example methods and systems for contingency landing a UAV are provided, comprising sensors configured to detect a position of the UAV and a command module. The command module receives a mission profile comprising a travel path mapped out in multidimensional space over time from an origin to a destination, a first boundary circumscribing at least a portion of the travel path, a second boundary circumscribing the first boundary, and contingent landing sites. The command module sends instructions to the UAV to fly according to the mission profile and determines a position of the UAV relative to the first and the second boundaries. Responsive to determining that the UAV is positioned at the first boundary, the command module sends instructions to land at a contingent landing site, and responsive to determining that the UAV is positioned at the second boundary, the command module sends instructions to land immediately.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Brandon Brown, David Mason, Eric Hathaway
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Patent number: 11751977Abstract: Embodiments are provided for digital dental modeling. One method embodiment includes receiving a three-dimensional data set including a first jaw and a second jaw of a three-dimensional digital dental model and receiving a two-dimensional data set corresponding to at least a portion of the first jaw and the second jaw. The method includes mapping two-dimensional data of the two-dimensional data set to the three-dimensional digital dental model by transforming a coordinate system of the two-dimensional data to a coordinate system of the three-dimensional data set. The method includes positioning the first jaw with respect to the second jaw based on the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set. The method includes using at least a portion of the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set as a target of movement of the first jaw with respect to the second jaw in the three-dimensional digital dental model.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Anatoliy Boltunov, Yury Brailov, Fedor Chelnokov, Roman Roschin, David Mason
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Publication number: 20230200961Abstract: Personal dental scanning systems for treatment of teeth are provided. These dental scanning systems may be configured for use by a user (e.g., patient) without requiring a dental professional and may include a scanner, a user input a user output, and one or more local or remote processors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: David MASON, William G. BECKER
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Publication number: 20230018058Abstract: A dental appliance having an integrally formed reservoir and/or an ornamental design integrated thereon. The ornamental design can be selected or customized by a patient. The design can be created by directing energy to the dental appliance to alter a material property of at least a portion of the appliance to create the design. Alternatively, a groove or recess can be formed on a surface of the appliance to either mechanically retain an ornamental design or the groove or recess can be filled with ink to form the design. The appliance, including the integrally formed reservoir, can be formed using direct fabrication techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: David MASON, Shiva SAMBU, Chunhua LI, Yan CHEN
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Publication number: 20220331064Abstract: Embodiments are provided for digital dental modeling. One method embodiment includes receiving a three-dimensional data set including a first jaw and a second jaw of a three-dimensional digital dental model and receiving a two-dimensional data set corresponding to at least a portion of the first jaw and the second jaw. The method includes mapping two-dimensional data of the two-dimensional data set to the three-dimensional digital dental model by transforming a coordinate system of the two-dimensional data to a coordinate system of the three-dimensional data set. The method includes positioning the first jaw with respect to the second jaw based on the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set. The method includes using at least a portion of the two-dimensional data mapped to the three-dimensional data set as a target of movement of the first jaw with respect to the second jaw in the three-dimensional digital dental model.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Anatoliy BOLTUNOV, Yury BRAILOV, Fedor CHELNOKOV, Roman ROSCHIN, David MASON
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Patent number: 11464899Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for the wireless communication of medical devices in a subcutaneous fluid delivery system are disclosed. A system for subcutaneous fluid delivery includes a primary patch pump adapted to attach a first infusion cannula to a user and to perform a plurality of primary patch pump functions, and a secondary patch pump adapted to attach a second infusion cannula to a user. The secondary patch pump is further adapted to perform a plurality of secondary patch pump functions substantially similar to the plurality of primary patch pump functions if an error condition associated with the primary patch pump is determined.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Gary Searle, Deborah Burns, Bruce Burns, David Mason, Charles Hwang
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Publication number: 20220319015Abstract: A system (1) is configured to determine a first level of dynamicity in video frames, determine a second level of dynamicity in each of a plurality of analysis areas (52,73) in the video frames, compare each of the second dynamicity levels with the first dynamicity level, select a subset (73) of the analysis areas based on the comparisons, determine image characteristics from the subset of analysis areas in the video content, determine one or more light effects based on the image characteristics, and control one or more lighting device to render the one or more light effects and/or store a light script specifying the one or more light effects. The light effects are to be rendered while the video content is rendered on a display device (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: DZMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALIAKSEYEU, JONATHAN DAVID MASON
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Publication number: 20220269740Abstract: Exemplary embodiments allow contextual editing to proceed in real time while the editor views the actual web page (or other page) being edited. The editing may change the underlying content without changing the look and feel of the web page. Example embodiments enable an editor or web page developer to make changes to already published content by changing cached or locally stored content without changing the original content stored in databases.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Gregory FRANCZYK, Timothy KIM, Lucas David MASON
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Patent number: 11419710Abstract: A dental appliance having an integrally formed reservoir and/or an ornamental design integrated thereon. The ornamental design can be selected or customized by a patient. The design can be created by directing energy to the dental appliance to alter a material property of at least a portion of the appliance to create the design. Alternatively, a groove or recess can be formed on a surface of the appliance to either mechanically retain an ornamental design or the groove or recess can be filled with ink to form the design. The appliance, including the integrally formed reservoir, can be formed using direct fabrication techniques.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: David Mason, Shiva Sambu, Chunhua Li, Yan Chen
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Publication number: 20220257347Abstract: The present invention relates to orthodontic positioning appliances that represent teeth in desired positions and related systems and methods. An appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth. An appliance can include an outer component having a surface representing teeth in desired positions. An outer component can be integral with an appliance. An outer component can be separate and configured to couple with an appliance main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: David Mason, Eric KUO
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Patent number: 11412601Abstract: A method comprises detecting that a light device (61) which has not been commissioned into a lighting system has been added to the lighting system. The method further comprises determining whether the entertainment mode is active, adding the light device to the entertainment group (51,52,53) upon detecting that the light device has been added to the lighting system in dependence on the entertainment mode being active, and controlling the light device to render one or more light effects synchronized to the media content in the entertainment mode after the light device has been added to the entertainment group. The method further comprises detecting that the light device is unavailable and removing the light device from the entertainment group upon detecting that the light device is unavailable.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Jonathan David Mason