Patents by Inventor Lauren Mayer

Lauren Mayer 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).

  • AUTOMATIC TONE DETECTION AND SUGGESTION
    Publication number: 20230259713
    Abstract: A method and system for providing tone detection for a content may include receiving a request to detect a tone for a content, retrieving user data and data about the content, detecting a content environment for the content based on at least one of the user data and the data about the content, detecting the tone for the content based on the content and the content environment, inputting the content and the detected tone into a machine-learning (ML) model for modifying the tone from the detected tone to a modified tone, obtaining at least one rephrased content segment as an output from the ML model, the rephrased content segment modifying the tone of the content from the detected tone to the modified tone, and providing at least one of the detected tone or the at least one rephrased content segment for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tomasz Lukasz RELIGA, Zhang LI, Christine Lauren MAYER, Max WANG, Huitian JIAO, Weixin CAI, Cheng YANG, Christie CHAN, Siqing CHEN
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING AND DISTINGUISHING BLOOD VESSELS
    Publication number: 20140257106
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are disclosed for displaying, on a confidence gauge comprising a set of lights, a confidence level of whether a blood vessel is an artery or a vein, wherein a number of illuminated lights of the set of lights indicates the confidence level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Smok Signals LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Smok, Sheela Blaise, Sean James Coyle, Lauren Mayer, Matt Schurmann, Daniel Velez, Bruce McNair, Vikki Hazelwood
  • Method and apparatus for locating and distinguishing blood vessel
    Patent number: 8764663
    Abstract: A apparatus and a method are disclosed for transmitting a signal directed to a blood vessel via a Doppler ultrasound waveform apparatus, receiving, by the Doppler ultrasound waveform apparatus, a reflected signal from the blood vessel; and determining, by a processing device, whether the blood vessel is an artery or a vein based on a blood flow velocity in the blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Inventors: Jeffrey Smok, Sheela Blaise, Sean James Coyle, Lauren Mayer, Matt Schurmann, Daniel Velez, Bruce McNair, Vikki Hazelwood
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING AND DISTINGUISHING BLOOD VESSEL
    Publication number: 20130197367
    Abstract: A apparatus and a method are disclosed for transmitting a signal directed to a blood vessel via a Doppler ultrasound waveform apparatus, receiving, by the Doppler ultrasound waveform apparatus, a reflected signal from the blood vessel; and determining, by a processing device, whether the blood vessel is an artery or a vein based on a blood flow velocity in the blood vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Jeffrey Smok, Sheela Blaise, Sean James Coyle, Lauren Mayer, Matt Schurmann, Daniel Velez, Bruce McNair, Vikki Hazelwood