Patents by Inventor Francois Callewaert

Francois Callewaert 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: 11940775
    Abstract: A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Koray Aydin, Francois Callewaert, Alan Varteres Sahakian
  • Patent number: 11830010
    Abstract: Techniques performed by a data processing system for matching a customer service ambassador (CSA) with a customer include receiving a service request for technical assistance from the customer, analyzing estimated working hours information for the customer and estimated working hours information for each of the plurality of CSAs to produce a compatibility score for each CSA, the compatibility score for a respective one of the CSAs providing an indication of how closely the working hours of the customer and of the respective one of the CSAs align, reordering an available CSA queue identifying the plurality of CSAs based on the compatibility scores of each of the CSAs, and selecting a CSA from the queue to provide technical assistance to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Francois Callewaert, Cheng Wu, Dean Avila, Sumit Manchanda, Syed Masroor Hussain
  • Publication number: 20220253038
    Abstract: A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Koray Aydin, Francois Callewaert, Alan Varteres Sahakian
  • Patent number: 11340585
    Abstract: A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Koray Aydin, Francois Callewaert, Alan Varteres Sahakian
  • Publication number: 20210209612
    Abstract: Techniques performed by a data processing system for matching a customer service ambassador (CSA) with a customer include receiving a service request for technical assistance from the customer, analyzing estimated working hours information for the customer and estimated working hours information for each of the plurality of CSAs to produce a compatibility score for each CSA, the compatibility score for a respective one of the CSAs providing an indication of how closely the working hours of the customer and of the respective one of the CSAs align, reordering an available CSA queue identifying the plurality of CSAs based on the compatibility scores of each of the CSAs, and selecting a CSA from the queue to provide technical assistance to the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Francois CALLEWAERT, Cheng WU, Dean AVILA, Sumit Manchanda, Syed Masroor Hussain
  • Publication number: 20200174449
    Abstract: A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Koray Aydin, Francois Callewaert, Alan Varteres Sahakian