Patents by Inventor J. Sanchez

J. Sanchez 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).

  • Publication number: 20250134495
    Abstract: Ultrasound devices are disclosed. The ultrasound devices have an elevational dimension. Different percentages of the aperture of the ultrasound device corresponding to different percentages of the elevational dimension are utilized in different applications. The resolution of imagine may be adjusted in connection with usage of different percentages of the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Sewook Hwang, Jungwook Yang, Kailiang Chen, Nevada J. Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20250117049
    Abstract: An information handling system hinge has a modular and selectively separable core that couples to hinge mounts in an interchangeable manner so that core selection defines hinge characteristics, such as torque, detent orientation and stop orientation. A standardized mount accepts cores with different rotational characteristics for streamlined manufacture of information handling systems and improved reuse and recycling of hinge components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Sanchez, John Trevor Morrison, Jace W. Files
  • Publication number: 20250117048
    Abstract: An information handling system hinge has a modular and selectively separable core that couples to hinge mounts in an interchangeable manner so that core selection defines hinge characteristics, such as torque, detent orientation and stop orientation. A standardized mount accepts cores with different rotational characteristics for streamlined manufacture of information handling systems and improved reuse and recycling of hinge components. A wire bale couples to a latching assembly and over the hinge mount to couple the hinge mount to the housing in a removeable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Sanchez, John Trevor Morrison, Jace W. Files
  • Publication number: 20250117050
    Abstract: An information handling system hinge has a modular and selectively separable core that couples to hinge mounts in an interchangeable manner so that core selection defines hinge characteristics, such as torque, detent orientation and stop orientation. A standardized mount accepts cores with different rotational characteristics for streamlined manufacture of information handling systems and improved reuse and recycling of hinge components. A stop included with the hinge limits hinge rotation to a defined orientation, such as 135 degrees, and is released by engagement with a tool form exterior the housing to allow rotation past the defined orientation and thereby release a display from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Sanchez, John Trevor Morrison, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 12271952
    Abstract: A method of training and using a machine learning model that controls for consideration of undesired factors which might otherwise be considered by the trained model during its subsequent analyses of new data. For example, the model may be a neural network trained on a set of training images to evaluate an insurance applicant based upon an image or audio data of the insurance applicant as part of an underwriting process to determine an appropriate life or health insurance premium. The model is trained to probabilistically correlate an aspect of the applicant's appearance with a personal and/or health-related characteristic. Any undesired factors, such as age, sex, ethnicity, and/or race, are identified for exclusion. The trained model receives the image (e.g., a “selfie”) of the insurance applicant, analyzes the image without considering the identified undesired factors, and suggests the appropriate insurance premium based only on the remaining desired factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Myers, Kenneth J. Sanchez, Michael L. Bernico
  • Publication number: 20250083561
    Abstract: A drain detection system for a vehicle includes: a sensor configured to detect parameters of a low-voltage battery of the vehicle and collect battery data including the parameters when the vehicle is OFF; a telematics module; and a control module configured to i) receive the battery data from the sensor when the vehicle is ON, ii) transmit via the telematics module the battery data to a network device, which is remotely located from the vehicle, iii) receive an alert message from the network device indicative of a parasitic drain on the low-voltage battery, and iv) perform a first countermeasure in response to the alert message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Joshua J. Sanchez, Trupti R. KALE, Carl J. HERING, Ibnul Farabi KHAN, Philip Arthur DOOLEY, John HAASE
  • Patent number: 12246737
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle by comparing current image feature data to previously classified image features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12245888
    Abstract: An ultrasound system includes: an ultrasound device having a two-dimensional array of ultrasound transducers; and a smartphone or tablet in operative communication with the ultrasound device. The ultrasound system is configured to: collect multiple sets of ultrasound data from multiple regions within the subject; detect fetal heartbeat signals and uterine contraction signals; monitor a fetal heartbeat signal among the fetal heartbeat signals by automatically steering an ultrasound beam to a first region among the multiple regions within the subject to collect first further ultrasound data from the first region based on a quality of the fetal heartbeat signal; and monitor a uterine contraction signal among the uterine contraction signals by automatically steering the ultrasound beam to a second region among the multiple regions within the subject to collect second further ultrasound data from the second region based on a quality of the uterine contraction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc
    Inventor: Nevada J. Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20250072810
    Abstract: A medical device comprises a sensing circuit configured to sense at least one cardiac electrical signal, sense first ventricular event signals from the at least one cardiac electrical signal according to a sensitivity setting set to a first amplitude; and a control circuit in communication with the sensing circuit, the control circuit configured to determine that the at least one cardiac electrical signal meets suspected undersensing criteria, in response to determining that the suspected undersensing criteria are met, perform a morphology analysis of a first cardiac signal segment acquired from a first cardiac electrical signal of the at least one cardiac electrical signal sensed by the sensing circuit over a first predetermined time interval, determine that the first cardiac signal segment is a first tachyarrhythmia segment based on the morphology analysis, and adjust the sensitivity setting from the first amplitude to a second amplitude less than the first amplitude in response to determining that the firs
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael W. HEINKS, Alfonso ARANDA HERNANDEZ, Timothy A. EBELING, Saul E. GREENHUT, Scott R. HAWKINSON, Troy E. JACKSON, Yuanzhen LIU, Irving J. SANCHEZ, James VANDER HEYDEN, Xusheng ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250061330
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for improving compression of predictive models can include providing a labeled data set. The computer-implemented method also can include training, using the labeled data set, a neural network model associated with one or more training parameters to create a trained neural network model. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Quanata, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20250057505
    Abstract: Ultrasound devices are described. The ultrasound devices may be flexibly configured to output a certain number of multilines per channel of ultrasound data and to process certain channels of ultrasound data per processing cycle. The ultrasound device may then be configured to either output more multilines per channel and process fewer channels per processing cycle, or output fewer multilines per channel and process more channels per processing cycle. In other words, the circuitry may be configured to change to a configuration with increased resolution and increased processing time or to a configuration with decreased resolution and decreased processing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hamid Soleimani, Nevada J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12231097
    Abstract: A variable current trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) for an ultrasound device is described. The TIA may be coupled to an ultrasonic transducer to amplify an output signal of the ultrasonic transducer representing an ultrasound signal received by the ultrasonic transducer. During acquisition of the ultrasound signal by the ultrasonic transducer, one or more current sources in the TIA may be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Kailiang Chen, Keith G. Fife, Nevada J. Sanchez, Andrew J. Casper, Tyler S. Ralston
  • Publication number: 20250053567
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing recommendations includes identifying a set of locations that are of interest to a user and that are within a geographic area. The computer-implemented method also includes identifying one or more businesses based on the set of locations that are of interest to the user, each one of the one or more businesses being within a threshold geographic range of the geographic area. The computer-implemented method further includes transmitting, to an electronic device of the user, indications of the one or more businesses based on the set of locations. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Quanata, LLC
    Inventors: Kayla Drozd, Theobolt N. Leung, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20250044431
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein related to controlling, using control circuitry, modulation circuitry to modulate and delay first ultrasound data generated by first ultrasound transducers positioned at a first azimuthal position of an ultrasound transducer array of an ultrasound device and second ultrasound data generated by second ultrasound transducers positioned at a second azimuthal position of the ultrasound transducer array of the ultrasound device, such that the first ultrasound data is delayed by a first delay amount and the second ultrasound data is delayed by a second delay amount that is different from the first delay amount. The first and second ultrasound data received from the modulation circuitry may be filtered and summed. The ultrasound transducer array, the control circuitry, the modulation circuitry, the filtering circuitry, and the summing circuitry may be integrated onto a semiconductor chip or one or more semiconductor chips packaged together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Nevada J. Sanchez, Liewei Bao, Tyler S. Ralston
  • Publication number: 20250046186
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method including receiving an image for evaluation, the image includes video and/or still image data; analyzing the image to extract profile features using a pattern recognition or a facial recognition algorithm, an object recognition, and/or an object character recognition, the profile features include first profile features related to a vehicle and second profile features related to an image verification indicator, the second profile features include one or more features related to an identity of a user; generating an image verification score including a first comparison and a second comparison of at least a portion of one or more of the first profile features and at least a portion of one or more of the second profile features, respectively, and the image verification indicator; and updating a vehicle profile when the image verification score satisfies a threshold of similarity based on the comparisons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Quanata, LLC
    Inventors: Theobolt N. Leung, Vinay Kumar, Holger Struppek, Scott Howard, Kenneth J. Sanchez, John Minichiello
  • Patent number: 12207972
    Abstract: Ultrasound devices are disclosed. The ultrasound devices have an elevational dimension. Different percentages of the aperture of the ultrasound device corresponding to different percentages of the elevational dimension are utilized in different applications. The resolution of imagine may be adjusted in connection with usage of different percentages of the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Sewook Hwang, Jungwook Yang, Kailiang Chen, Nevada J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12210968
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using collecting and analyzing device sensor data to determine whether an individual is an operator or a passenger of a vehicle are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device associated with the individual may collect or access sensor data that is indicative of or associated with an operation of the vehicle. The electronic device may transmit pertinent portion(s) of the sensor data to a backend server, which may input the portion(s) into a neural network for analysis. The neural network may output a probability metric(s) indicative of whether the individual is a passenger or an operator of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUANATA, LLC
    Inventors: Vinay Kumar, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12203894
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to built-in self-testing (BIST) of circuitry (e.g., a pulser or receive circuitry) and/or transducers in an ultrasound device. A BIST circuit may include a transconductance amplifier coupled between a pulser and receive circuitry, a capacitor network coupled between a pulser and receive circuitry, and/or a current source couplable to the input terminal of receive circuitry to which a transducer is also couplable. The collapse voltages of transducers may be characterized using BIST circuitry, and a bias voltage may be applied to the membranes of the transducers based at least in part on their collapse voltages. The capacitances of transducers may also be measured using BIST circuitry and a notification may be generated based on the sets of measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Chao Chen, Youn-Jae Kook, Jihee Lee, Kailiang Chen, Leung Kin Chiu, Joseph Lutsky, Nevada J. Sanchez, Sebastian Schaetz, Hamid Soleimani
  • Publication number: 20240407759
    Abstract: To implement a single-chip ultrasonic imaging solution, on-chip signal processing may be employed in the receive signal path to reduce data bandwidth and a high-speed serial data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as digital data stream. The digitization of received signals on-chip allows advanced digital signal processing to be performed on-chip, and thus permits the full integration of an entire ultrasonic imaging system on a single semiconductor substrate. Various novel waveform generation techniques, transducer configuration and biasing methodologies, etc., are likewise disclosed. HIFU methods may additionally or alternatively be employed as a component of the “ultrasound-on-a-chip” solution disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Keith G. Fife, Tyler S. Ralston, Gregory L. Charvat, Nevada J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12156762
    Abstract: Ultrasound devices are described. The ultrasound devices may be flexibly configured to output a certain number of multilines per channel of ultrasound data and to process certain channels of ultrasound data per processing cycle. The ultrasound device may then be configured to either output more multilines per channel and process fewer channels per processing cycle, or output fewer multilines per channel and process more channels per processing cycle. In other words, the circuitry may be configured to change to a configuration with increased resolution and increased processing time or to a configuration with decreased resolution and decreased processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Hamid Soleimani, Nevada J. Sanchez