Patents by Inventor Francisco Quintero

Francisco Quintero 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).

  • Method and apparatus for detecting key-on and key-off states using time-to-frequency transforms
    Patent number: 9248789
    Abstract: A key state detector for a vehicle collects a sequence of battery voltage samples and applies a time-domain to frequency-domain transform (TFT) to the collected samples. The results of the TFT are then applied to an artificial neural network (ANN) to determine if they represent a key-on or key-off state. The ANN is trained based on data collected from the vehicle and is periodically retrained so that the detection of key-on and key-off states conforms to the particular vehicle and tracks the aging of vehicle components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Francisco Quintero
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING KEY-ON AND KEY-OFF STATES USING TIME-TO-FREQUENCY TRANSFORMS
    Publication number: 20150191138
    Abstract: A key state detector for a vehicle collects a sequence of battery voltage samples and applies a time-domain to frequency-domain transform (TFT) to the collected samples. The results of the TFT are then applied to an artificial neural network (ANN) to determine if they represent a key-on or key-off state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Francisco Quintero
  • Transgenic evaluation of activated mutant alleles of SOS2 reveals a critical requirement for its kinase activity and C-terminal regulatory domain for salt tolerance in arabidoposis thaliana
    Publication number: 20060168698
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of increasing salt tolerance in a plant by overexpressing a gene encoding a mutant SOS2 protein in at least one cell type in the plant. The present invention also provides for transgenic plants expressing the mutant SOS2 proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicants: Arizona Bd of Regents/Behalf of Univ. of Arizona, CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
    Inventors: Jian-Kang Zhu, Francisco Quintero-Toscano, Jose Pardo-Prieto, Quansheng Qiu, Karen Shumaker, Masaru Ohta, Changqing Zhang, Yan Guo