Patents by Inventor J. Torres

J. Torres 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: 20210149993
    Abstract: At least one processor may obtain a document comprising text tokens. The at least one processor may determine, based on a pre-trained language model, word embeddings corresponding to the text tokens. The at least one processor may determine, based on the word embeddings, named entities corresponding to the text tokens; and one or more accuracy predictions corresponding to the named entities. The at least one processor may compare the one or more accuracy predictions with at least one threshold. The at least one processor may associate, based on the comparing, the named entities with one or more confidence levels. The at last one processor may deliver the named entities and the one or more confidence levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Terrence J. TORRES
  • Patent number: 11003339
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements to manage transparent windows are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to select one or more windows to make transparent and to switching the active window between source and target windows via the position of the mouse. Many embodiments provide a right click, pop-up menu (i.e., pressing the right mouse button generates a pop-up menu), a pull-down menu, or a button associated with windows. These features may allow a user to select individual or all windows to be transparent. A transparent window provides some view of windows or objects below the transparent window while providing some view of the contents such as graphics and/or text in the transparent window. Embodiments may also include management logic such as hardware and/or code to facilitate selection of a transparent window to make the window active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brown, Jehan Moghazy, James R. Rudd, Robert J. Torres
  • Publication number: 20210073532
    Abstract: A document extraction system executed by a processor, may process documents using manual and automated systems. The document extraction system may efficiently route tasks to the manual and automated systems based on a predicted probability that the results generated by the automated system meet some baseline level of accuracy. To increase document processing speed, documents having a high likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to an automated system. To ensure a baseline level of accuracy, documents having a smaller likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to a manual system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Terrence J. TORRES, Venkatesh Coimbatore RAVICHANDRAN, Karen Kraemer LOWE
  • Patent number: 10915746
    Abstract: Systems and methods here may include utilizing a computer with a processor and a memory for receiving a pixelated image of an original size, converting the pixelated image to grayscale, calculating a magnitude of spatial gradients in the received pixelated grayscale image, downscaling the received pixelated grayscale image, computing a multiplicative gain correction for the downscaled received pixelated grayscale image, re-enlarging a gain multiplication for the original image, and applying the gain multiplication to the image to generate a processed image with higher contrast than the received pixelated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventor: Terrence J. Torres
  • Publication number: 20210034700
    Abstract: A processor may generate a plurality of intermediate feature layers of an image using convolutional neural network (CNN) processing. For each intermediate feature layer, the processor may generate a plurality of text proposals using a region proposal network (RPN). Each text proposal may comprise a portion of the intermediate feature layer that is predicted to contain text. The processor may perform OCR processing on image data within a plurality of regions of the image to generate a text result for each region. Each region may comprise at least one of the text proposals. The processor may assemble the text results into a text string comprising the text results ordered according to a spatial order in which the plurality of regions appear within the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Torrence J. TORRES, Homa FOROUGHI
  • Publication number: 20210034856
    Abstract: Arbitrary image data may be transformed into data suitable for optical character recognition (OCR) processing. A processor may generate a plurality of intermediate feature layers of an image using convolutional neural network (CNN) processing. For each intermediate feature layer, the processor may generate at least one text proposal using a region proposal network (RPN). The at least one text proposal may comprise a portion of the intermediate feature layer that is predicted to contain text. The processor may merge the text proposals with one another to form a patch of the image that is predicted to contain text. The processor may determine outer coordinates of the patch. The outer coordinates may comprise at least leftmost, rightmost, topmost, and bottommost coordinates. The processor may generate a quadrilateral of the image that is a smallest quadrilateral including the leftmost, rightmost, topmost, and bottommost coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Terrence J. TORRES, Homa FOROUGHI
  • Publication number: 20210023120
    Abstract: In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a nanoparticle composition comprising tRNA and an aminolipid delivery compound. The aminolipid delivery compound may be a dendrimer, dendron, or dendritic lipid, a polymer such as a polyamide or polyester, or a lipid with one or more hydrophobic components. In some embodiments, these compositions may be administered to a patient to treat a genetic disease or disorder such as cystic fibrosis, Duchene muscular dystrophy, or cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Daniel J. Siegwart, Philip J. Thomas, Arthur E. Johnson, Michael J. Torres, Jason B. Miller
  • Publication number: 20210009664
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treating and preventing Staphylococcus aureus infection and/or a condition resulting from a S. aureus infection in a subject that involves administering compositions that inhibit S. aureus interaction with CXCR1/CXCR2 and DARC cellular receptors. The present invention further relates to novel compositions for carrying out these and other methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Victor J. TORRES, Tamara REYES-ROBLES, Francis ALONZO, III
  • Publication number: 20200392211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for preventing and treating Staphylococcus aureus in a subject. Therapeutic compositions of the present invention comprise leukocidin E and/or D proteins or polypeptides and anti-leukocidin E and/or D antibodies. The invention further relates to methods of identifying inhibitors of LukE/D cytotoxicity and inhibitors of LukE/D-leukocyte binding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Victor J. TORRES, Francis ALONZO, III
  • Publication number: 20200317758
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to antibodies that bind to Staphylococcus aureus bi-component leukotoxins and/or gamma-hemolysins. Other aspects of the disclosure are directed to pharmaceutical compositions and diagnostic kits containing the leukotoxin and hemolysin antibodies, and therapeutic and diagnostic methods utilizing the leukotoxin and hemolysin antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Victor J. TORRES, Anthony S. LYNCH, Peter T. BUCKLEY, Nathan MAJEWSKI
  • Patent number: 10781246
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to staphylococcal leukotoxin and hemolysin binding molecules and fusion constructs. The present disclosure is further directed to methods of treating, preventing, and diagnosing staphylococcal infection in a subject using the binding molecules and fusion constructs described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, JANSSEN BIOTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Randall J. Brezski, Anthony S. Lynch, Peter T. Buckley, Jeffrey Fernandez, Jinquan Luo, Thomas J. Malia, Sheng-Jiun Wu, Victor J. Torres
  • Publication number: 20200250417
    Abstract: A system and method for information extraction character level features. The system and method may be used for data extraction for various types of content including a receipt or a tax form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Terrence J. TORRES, Homa FOROUGHI
  • Publication number: 20200250415
    Abstract: Systems and methods here may be used for pre-processing images, including using a computer for receiving a pixelated image of a paper document of an original size, downscaling the received pixelated image, employing a neural network algorithm to the downscaled image to identify four corners of the paper document in the received pixelated image, re-enlarging the downscaled image to the original size, identifying each of four corners of the paper document in the pixelated image, determining a quadrilateral composed of lines that intersect at four angles at the four corners of the paper document in the pixelated image, defining a projective plane of the pixelated image, and determining an inverse transformation of the pixelated image to transform the projective plane quadrilateral into a right angled rectangle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventor: Terrence J. TORRES
  • Publication number: 20200173172
    Abstract: An acoustical building panel is disclosed that comprises a fibrous panel comprising: a central portion having a first major surface; a perimeter portion surrounding the central portion; a recess press-formed into the perimeter portion, the recess circumscribing the first major surface and comprising a recess floor surface; a second major surface opposite the first major surface; and side edge surfaces that define a perimeter of the fibrous panel and extend from the second major surface to the recess floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Eric D KRAGNESS, Alexandra G WALTEMYER, Jason T CAVANAUGH, John E HUGHES, Lori Jo L SHEARER, Bartolo J TORRE
  • Patent number: 10669329
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for preventing and treating Staphylococcus aureus in a subject. Therapeutic compositions of the present invention comprise leukocidin E and/or D proteins or polypeptides and anti-leukocidin E and/or D antibodies. The invention further relates to methods of identifying inhibitors of LukE/D cytotoxicity and inhibitors of LukE/D-leukocyte binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Victor J. Torres, Francis Alonzo, III
  • Publication number: 20190330847
    Abstract: Described herein is a building panel comprising a body, the body comprising: a fiber; a latex binder present in an amount ranging from about 3 wt. % to about 10 wt. % based on the total weight of the body; and an inorganic particle having an average particle size ranging from about 1 micron to about 13 microns; wherein the inorganic particle and the binder are present in a weight ratio ranging from about greater than 1:1 to about 6:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Charles G KRICK, Bartolo J TORRE, Anthony L WIKER, James D PAPE
  • Publication number: 20190330284
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are isolated and purified Staphylococcus aureus bi-component leukocidin, referred to herein as LukAB, and its components LukA and LukB, antibodies specific to LukA, antibodies specific to LukB, therapeutic compositions containing LukA and/or LukB, or anti-LukA and/or anti-LukB antibodies, uses of the compositions to treat acute inflammatory conditions or S. aureus infection, methods for identifying inhibitors of LukAB-mediated cytotoxicity of human phagocytes, and methods for using LukAB as a marker to predict severity of S. aureus infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Victor J. TORRES, Ashley L. DUMONT
  • Patent number: 10419966
    Abstract: A system is described that includes a computer programmed: for each of a plurality of terminals, to receive inroute data via one of a plurality of respective inroute channels; using the plurality of respective inroute channels, to determine a first super inroute group (SIG) and a second SIG based on symbol rates of respective inroute channels; to determine a channel quality value of a first inroute channel, of a first terminal, wherein the first inroute channel is one of the plurality of respective inroute channels; to determine a backlog volume of one of the first SIG or the second SIG; and based on determining the channel quality value of the first terminal and the backlog volume of the first or second SIGs, to transmit, to the first terminal, outroute data comprising an instruction to change to a different inroute channel of the first or second SIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jun Xu, Robert J. Torres, John L. Border, Matthew Baer, Szuyuan Huang
  • Publication number: 20190258387
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements to manage transparent windows are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to select one or more windows to make transparent and to switching the active window between source and target windows via the position of the mouse. Many embodiments provide a right click, pop-up menu (i.e., pressing the right mouse button generates a pop-up menu), a pull-down menu, or a button associated with windows. These features may allow a user to select individual or all windows to be transparent. A transparent window provides some view of windows or objects below the transparent window while providing some view of the contents such as graphics and/or text in the transparent window. Embodiments may also include management logic such as hardware and/or code to facilitate selection of a transparent window to make the window active.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brown, Jehan Moghazy, James R. Rudd, Robert J. Torres
  • Publication number: 20190248876
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treating and preventing Staphylococcus aureus infection and/or a condition resulting from a S. aureus infection in a subject that involves administering compositions that inhibit S. aureus interaction with CXCR1/CXCR2 and DARC cellular receptors. The present invention further relates to novel compositions for carrying out these and other methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Victor J. TORRES, Tamara REYES-ROBLES, Francis ALONZO, III