Patents by Inventor Jose A. Rivera
Jose A. Rivera 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: 11987287Abstract: A method for autonomously parking a vehicle-trailer system is provided. The method includes receiving sensor system data from a sensor system supported by the vehicle. The sensor system data includes images of surroundings along a driving path of the vehicle-trailer system. The method includes determining a local map based on the sensor system data. The local map includes surroundings along the driving path. The method includes receiving a user selection of an image location within the images. The image location representing a position in the local map associated with a selected location within the surroundings. The method includes determining a parking path from a current location of the vehicle-trailer system to the position based on the local map and instructing a drive system to execute an autonomous parking behavior causing the vehicle-trailer system to autonomously drive along the parking path and autonomously park in the selected location.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLCInventors: Eduardo Jose Ramirez Llanos, Dhiren Verma, Xin Yu, Matthew Donald Berkemeier, Julien Ip, Kyle P Carpenter, Francisco Alejandro Fuentes Perez, Joseph Zagroba, Victor Manuel Camacho Ruiz, Andrew Phillip Bolduc, Erick Daniel Rivera Gutierrez, William Nichols, Isemany Angelica Leal Martinez
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Publication number: 20240151965Abstract: Head-mounted display systems with power saving functionality are disclosed. The systems can include a frame configured to be supported on the head of the user. The systems can also include a head-mounted display disposed on the frame, one or more sensors, and processing electronics in communication with the display and the one or more sensors. In some implementations, the processing electronics can be configured to cause the system to reduce power of one or more components in response to at least in part on a determination that the frame is in a certain position (e.g., upside-down or on top of the head of the user). In some implementations, the processing electronics can be configured to cause the system to reduce power of one or more components in response to at least in part on a determination that the frame has been stationary for at least a threshold period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Carlos A. Rivera Cintron, Gregory Link, Jeffrey Scott Sommers, Matthew Thomas Hull, Jose Felix Rodriguez, Ricardo Martinez Perez
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Publication number: 20240087351Abstract: It is provided a method, device and system to facilitate the design or and architecture of a computer project and its subsequent automatic implementation, based on a hand-written/drawn draft (e.g. on paper). This draft directly becomes the tool that will be used, automatically, as the basis for the final computer project implementation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Jose Francisco RAMIREZ VICENTE, Pablo GONZALEZ PEREZ, Eduardo Luis ALVAREZ MARTINEZ, Pablo SAUCEDO DE MIGUEL, Marcos RIVERA MARTINEZ
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Publication number: 20230126447Abstract: This disclosure provides an ocular tissue depot of a selected complement factor D (CFD) inhibitor for the extended treatment of an ocular disorder mediated by complement factor D. In particular, the disclosure includes the creation of a drug depot within the choroid-retina pigmented epithelium (C-RPE) and/or the iris-ciliary body (I-CB) of the eye by means of the systemic (oral or parenteral) administration of the compound, where the compound accumulates in ocular tissue and is released over an extended period for the treatment of a posterior and/or anterior eye disorder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Mingjun Huang, Steven Zelenkofske, David Boyer, Jose Rivera, Jason Allan Wiles
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Publication number: 20210308215Abstract: A previously uncharacterized gene and gene product are disclosed herein that increase blood glucose clearance independent of insulin. Also described is a methodology for enriching for mRNAs transcribing excreted and membrane bound proteins as well as a non-human animal expressing a labeled SEC61b protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Jose Rivera-Feliciano, Edwin Rosado-Olivieri, Douglas A. Melton
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Patent number: 10720747Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes opposing mirrors arranged substantially parallel to each other and separated to confine reflections for gain. A gain medium is between the opposing mirrors. A pump pumps the gain medium. At least one microrefractive element, or tens, hundreds, thousands, millions or more, stabilizes the resonator. The refractive element is disposed between the opposing mirrors and is configured to support a laser beam at a position of the refractive element. A method for producing laser light directs pump light onto one or a plurality of microrefractive elements. Reflections from the one or a plurality of microrefractive elements are confined in a resonator volume. Gain is provided in the resonator volume. Laser energy is emitted from the resonator volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Jose A. Rivera, Tom Galvin, J. Gary Eden
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Patent number: 10620449Abstract: A light source for an imaging system. The light source includes a microresonator laser array having opposing mirrors arranged substantially parallel to one another. A laser gain medium is between the opposing mirrors. An array of microrefractive elements is arranged to stabilize the microresonator. A pump laser's output is shaped by a lens that directs it toward the micro-resonator laser array. An output lens directs a plurality of laser beams from the microresonator laser array to be incoherently combined at an object to be illuminated.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Jose A. Rivera, Austin Steinforth, J. Gary Eden
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Publication number: 20190252843Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes opposing mirrors arranged substantially parallel to each other and separated to confine reflections for gain. A gain medium is between the opposing mirrors. A pump pumps the gain medium. At least one microrefractive element, or tens, hundreds, thousands, millions or more, stabilizes the resonator. The refractive element is disposed between the opposing mirrors and is configured to support a laser beam at a position of the refractive element. A method for producing laser light directs pump light onto one or a plurality of microrefractive elements. Reflections from the one or a plurality of microrefractive elements are confined in a resonator volume. Gain is provided in the resonator volume. Laser energy is emitted from the resonator volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Jose A. Rivera, Tom Galvin, J. Gary Eden
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Patent number: 10315615Abstract: A child restraint system for restraining a child in a vehicle in lieu of a child car seat includes a vehicle that has a seat. A child is selectively seated on the seat and the seat has a backrest and a base that is positioned in front of the backrest. A first attachment is coupled to the vehicle and the first attachment is positioned behind the backrest. A second attachment is coupled to the vehicle and the second attachment is positioned between the base and the backrest. A harness unit is removably coupled between the first attachment and the second attachment. Moreover, the harness unit restrains the child in the seat in lieu of a child car seat.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Inventor: Jose Rivera
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Publication number: 20190094564Abstract: A light source for an imaging system. The light source includes a microresonator laser array having opposing mirrors arranged substantially parallel to one another. A laser gain medium is between the opposing mirrors. An array of microrefractive elements is arranged to stabilize the microresonator. A pump laser's output is shaped by a lens that directs it toward the micro-resonator laser array. An output lens directs a plurality of laser beams from the microresonator laser array to be incoherently combined at an object to be illuminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Jose A. Rivera, Austin Steinforth, J. Gary Eden
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Patent number: 10181120Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an EMV certification system including a credit card simulator configured to program a probe with credit card data, a point of sale simulator configured to send transaction data to a payment terminal, a robotic arm configured to perform an action on the payment terminal, and a robot controller communicatively coupled to the robotic arm. The robot controller is configured to instruct the robotic arm to perform the action. The EMV certification system further includes a test coordinator communicatively coupled to the credit card simulator, the point of sale simulator, and the robot controller. The test coordinator is configured to request the robot controller instruct the robotic arm based on reading a response from the payment terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: U.S. Bancorp, National AssociationInventors: Elizabeth Holmes, Utthej Nukala, Jose Rivera, Terron Hyde, James Cantrell
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Publication number: 20180361983Abstract: A child restraint system for restraining a child in a vehicle in lieu of a child car seat includes a vehicle that has a seat. A child is selectively seated on the seat and the seat has a backrest and a base that is positioned in front of the backrest. A first attachment is coupled to the vehicle and the first attachment is positioned behind the backrest. A second attachment is coupled to the vehicle and the second attachment is positioned between the base and the backrest. A harness unit is removably coupled between the first attachment and the second attachment. Moreover, the harness unit restrains the child in the seat in lieu of a child car seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventor: Jose Rivera
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Patent number: 9734797Abstract: Controlling a user interface in a computer system, including: displaying a window in a user interface displayed on a display device, wherein the window includes a player section and a non-player section, and the non-player section is displayed according to a display parameter at a standard level, wherein the standard level is a first level as set in a device setting for the display parameter; receiving a play command for content; changing the display parameter for the non-player section of the window to a playback level, wherein the playback level is a second level for the display parameter that is different than the first level; displaying the non-player section of the window according to the playback level of the display parameter; and displaying the content in the player section of the window. Key words include display parameter and playback level.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: CRACKLE, INC.Inventors: Tarik Didomenico, Jose Rivera Font, Maria Isabel Figueroa, Juan Alejandro Silva, Victor Thompson, Eduardo Arias
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Publication number: 20160148547Abstract: A marketing display device may comprise a simulated helmet or hat that is compressed in the lateral direction. The device may be stabilized against tip-over by having a thickness-to-height ratio that decreases from the crest to the base yielding low center of gravity. The device may include one or more display surfaces for displaying, e.g. advertising information, graphics, or other printed matter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventor: Jose Rivera
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Publication number: 20150370984Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for outpatient VAD management. The present invention can assist individuals with an implanted VAD, whether indicated as a bridge to recovery or transplantation or as destination therapy, and their associated caregives in the management of lifestyle modifications and long-tem management issues associated with VAD use.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Betty RUSSELL, Terry JOHNSON, Michelle ENGLAND, Jose RIVERA
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Publication number: 20150046823Abstract: Controlling a user interface in a computer system, including: displaying a window in a user interface displayed on a display device, wherein the window includes a player section and a non-player section, and the non-player section is displayed according to a display parameter at a standard level, wherein the standard level is a first level as set in a device setting for the display parameter; receiving a play command for content; changing the display parameter for the non-player section of the window to a playback level, wherein the playback level is a second level for the display parameter that is different than the first level; displaying the non-player section of the window according to the playback level of the display parameter; and displaying the content in the player section of the window. Key words include display parameter and playback level.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Tarik Didomenico, Jose Rivera Font, Maria Isabel Figueroa, Juan Alejandro Silva, Victor Thompson, Eduardo Arias
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Patent number: 8796394Abstract: The invention provides an antifouling hydrogel comprising an effective amount of antifouling polymer modified with a compound containing catechol functional groups to yield a modified antifouling polymer comprising at least one catechol functional end group; and an effective amount of at least one oxidizing reagent, wherein the at least one oxidizing reagent reacts with the modified antifouling polymer to provide a modified antifouling polymer comprising at least one oxidized catechol end group, wherein an antifouling hydrogel is provided. Methods of synthesis, methods of use and kits of the antifouling hydrogel are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Phillip B. Messersmith, Jose Rivera, Yong-Kuang Gong
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Publication number: 20110052788Abstract: The invention provides an antifouling hydrogel comprising an effective amount of antifouling polymer modified with a compound containing catechol functional groups to yield a modified antifouling polymer comprising at least one catechol functional end group; and an effective amount of at least one oxidizing reagent, wherein the at least one oxidizing reagent reacts with the modified antifouling polymer to provide a modified antifouling polymer comprising at least one oxidized catechol end group, wherein an antifouling hydrogel is provided. Methods of synthesis, methods of use and kits of the antifouling hydrogel are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Phillip B. Messersmith, Jose Rivera, Yong-Kuang Gong
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Publication number: 20080039103Abstract: Multiple access internet portals with wireless market place systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a wireless internet server and a wireless market place system. The wireless internet server routes internet content from a content provider to a plurality of platform gateways, while the wireless market place system receives a set of rules from a third party vendor, and translates the set of rules into a format operable to be routed by the wireless internet server. Methods and other systems for providing access to wireless customers are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATIONInventors: Douglas O'Neil, Jose Rivera
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Patent number: D758495Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventor: Jose Rivera