Patents by Inventor Francis McGovern
Francis McGovern 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: 11972095Abstract: Various embodiments discussed herein enable client applications to be heavily integrated with a voice assistant in order to perform commands associated with voice utterances of users via voice assistant functionality and also seamlessly cause client applications to automatically perform native functions as part of executing the voice utterance. Such heavy integration also allows particular embodiments to support multi-modal input from a user for a single conversational interaction. In this way, client application user interface interactions, such as clicks, touch gestures, or text inputs are executed alternative or in addition to the voice utterances.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tudor Buzasu Klein, Viktoriya Taranov, Sergiy Gavrylenko, Jaclyn Carley Knapp, Andrew Paul McGovern, Harris Syed, Chad Steven Estes, Jesse Daniel Eskes Rusak, David Ernesto Heekin Burkett, Allison Anne O'Mahony, Ashok Kuppusamy, Jonathan Reed Harris, Jose Miguel Rady Allende, Diego Hernan Carlomagno, Talon Edward Ireland, Michael Francis Palermiti, II, Richard Leigh Mains, Jayant Krishnamurthy
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Publication number: 20230385554Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for supervised machine learning for automated assistants. An example method includes: receiving an automated assistant transcript comprising a plurality of records, wherein each record of the plurality of records comprises a query, a classification of the query, an intent associated with the query, and a responsive action associated with the intent; receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a user input indicating an approval of a new automated assistant transcript record; comparing the new automated assistant transcript record to one or more records of the plurality of records; and responsive to detecting a conflict of the new automated assistant transcript record with one or more records of the plurality of records, displaying, via the GUI, a notification of the conflict.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Prem Kumar Sivasankar, Vamsi Pola, Francis McGovern, Charles Gregory Starnes, Zsa-Zsa Porter, Tasneem Hajara, Jennifer Adelhardt, Daniel J. Gibbons, Scott Blandford, Michael Ilfeld, Peter Tsahalis, Justin Meyer, James Titus, Alysce Balbuena, Mehul Shah, Jeffrey Scola, Heather H. Gordon, Claudette Grose, Reena T. Khatwani, Reetu Sharma, Lisa R. Weil
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Patent number: 11832053Abstract: Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Mathew T. Abraham, David Grant Cason, John Casey Gibbs, Gregory William Lantz, Albert Francis McGovern, Jr., Brent Robert Shumard
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Patent number: 11783133Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for supervised machine learning for automated assistants. An example method includes: receiving an automated assistant transcript comprising a plurality of records, wherein each record of the plurality of records comprises a query, a classification of the query, an intent associated with the query, and a responsive action associated with the intent; receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a user input indicating an approval of a new automated assistant transcript record; comparing the new automated assistant transcript record to one or more records of the plurality of records; and responsive to detecting a conflict of the new automated assistant transcript record with one or more records of the plurality of records, displaying, via the GUI, a notification of the conflict.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of AmericaInventors: Prem Kumar Sivasankar, Vamsi Pola, Francis McGovern, Charles Gregory Starnes, Zsa-Zsa Porter, Tasneem Hajara, Jennifer Adelhardt, Daniel J. Gibbons, Scott Blandford, Michael Ilfeld, Peter Tsahalis, Justin Meyer, James Titus, Alysce Balbuena, Mehul Shah, Jeffrey Scola, Heather H. Gordon, Claudette Grose, Reena T. Khatwani, Reetu Sharma, Lisa R. Weil
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Publication number: 20220369028Abstract: Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Mathew T. Abraham, David Grant Cason, John Casey Gibbs, Gregory William Lantz, Albert Francis McGovern, JR., Brent Robert Shumard
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Patent number: 11310592Abstract: Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Mathew T. Abraham, David Grant Cason, John Casey Gibbs, Gregory William Lantz, Albert Francis McGovern, Jr., Brent Robert Shumard
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Patent number: 11303981Abstract: Housings and associated mechanical and ornamental design features directed to ceiling-mounted electro-acoustical components, such as array microphones, for example, for use in a suspended ceiling, are provided. In an embodiment, a housing for a ceiling array microphone is configured for mounting the microphone within a grid system of a suspended ceiling. The housing comprises a mounting element for mounting the housing within the grid system. The mounting element includes a lipped portion positioned approximate a periphery of the housing and configured to engage the grid when the housing is mounted with the grid system.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Gregory William Lantz, Mark Louis Coster, Albert Francis McGovern, Jr., Elizabeth Ahra Cho, John Matthew Miller, Stuart P. Bauman
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Publication number: 20210365834Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for supervised machine learning for automated assistants. An example method includes: receiving an automated assistant transcript comprising a plurality of records, wherein each record of the plurality of records comprises a query, a classification of the query, an intent associated with the query, and a responsive action associated with the intent; receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a user input indicating an approval of a new automated assistant transcript record; comparing the new automated assistant transcript record to one or more records of the plurality of records; and responsive to detecting a conflict of the new automated assistant transcript record with one or more records of the plurality of records, displaying, via the GUI, a notification of the conflict.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Prem Kumar Sivasankar, Vamsi Pola, Francis McGovern, Charles Gregory Starnes, Zsa-Zsa Porter, Tasneem Hajara, Jennifer Adelhardt, Daniel J. Gibbons, Scott Blandford, Michael Ilfeld, Peter Tsahalis, Justin Meyer, James Titus, Alysce Balbuena, Mehul Shah, Jeffrey Scola, Heather H. Gordon, Claudette Grose, Reena T. Khatwani, Reetu Sharma, Lisa R. Weil
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Patent number: 11109133Abstract: Embodiments of a modular array microphone system are disclosed, which may include one or more industrial design, mechanical connectivity, and/or acoustic features, components, or aspects.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Gregory William Lantz, John Matthew Miller, Albert Francis McGovern, Jr.
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Publication number: 20210044881Abstract: Housings and associated mechanical and ornamental design features directed to ceiling-mounted electro-acoustical components, such as array microphones, for example, for use in a suspended ceiling, are provided. In an embodiment, a housing for a ceiling array microphone is configured for mounting the microphone within a grid system of a suspended ceiling. The housing comprises a mounting element for mounting the housing within the grid system. The mounting element includes a lipped portion positioned approximate a periphery of the housing and configured to engage the grid when the housing is mounted with the grid system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Gregory William Lantz, Mark Louis Coster, Albert Francis McGovern, JR., Elizabeth Ahra Cho, John Matthew Miller, Stuart P. Bauman
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Publication number: 20200288237Abstract: Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Mathew T. Abraham, David Grant Cason, John Casey Gibbs, Gregory William Lantz, Albert Francis McGovern, JR., Brent Robert Shumard
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Publication number: 20200100009Abstract: Embodiments of a modular array microphone system are disclosed, which may include one or more industrial design, mechanical connectivity, and/or acoustic features, components, or aspects.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Gregory William Lantz, John Matthew Miller, Albert Francis McGovern, JR.
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Publication number: 20180338205Abstract: Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Mathew T. Abraham, David Grant Cason, John Casey Gibbs, Gregory William Lantz, Albert Francis McGovern, JR., Brent Robert Shumard
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Publication number: 20180140150Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus having a dirt collection container which is removable from a remainder of the apparatus. The dirt collection container is held in a stored position relative the remainder of the apparatus by a holding device. The holding device includes a first co-operating member provided in, provided on or connected to the dirt collection container, a second co-operating member provided in, provided on or connected to the remainder of the apparatus. Movement of the dirt collection container towards its stored position engages the first and second co-operating members with each other and effects either rotation of the first co-operating member relative to the dirt collection container and/or rotation of the second co-operating member relative to the remainder of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Daniel William Carter, Thomas Robert Harries, Francis McGovern, Simon Matthew Pougher, May Wilson, Darren David Holmes
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Patent number: 9565493Abstract: Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Mathew T. Abraham, David Grant Cason, John Casey Gibbs, Gregory William Lantz, Albert Francis McGovern, Jr., Brent Robert Shumard
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Patent number: D800980Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: AC (Macao Commercial Offshore) LimitedInventors: Daniel William Carter, Kwun Yin Chan, Simon Matthew Pougher, Luca Anthony Frondella, Francis McGovern, Sophie Nadia Benaissa Hyde
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Patent number: D812328Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: TTi (Macao Commercial Offshore) LimitedInventors: Christopher James Dunbar, Simon Matthew Pougher, Daniel Carter, Francis McGovern, Sophie Nadia Benaissa Hyde, Chloe Alice Scott, Matthew Cuthbert, Kwun Yin Chan
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Patent number: D840616Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: TTI (Macao Commercial Offshore) LimitedInventors: Daniel William Carter, Kwun Yin Chan, Simon Matthew Pougher, Luca Anthony Frondella, Francis McGovern, Sophie Nadia Benaissa Hyde
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Patent number: D859637Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Scott Health & Safety LimitedInventors: Darin Kyle Thompson, Alyssa Whitney Sabolis, Jeremy Maness, Erik John Hatinen, Jeff Scott Vogus, Paul Francis McGovern, Graham Peter Wilson
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Patent number: D1021299Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Techtronic Floor Care Technology LimitedInventors: Kevin Wolfe, Steve Davis, Yu-Jin Song, Francis McGovern, Richard David Waters