Patents by Inventor Marc Alexander

Marc Alexander 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: 20210374345
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing a machine learning task on a tuple of respective input sequences to generate an output. In one aspect, one of the systems includes a neural network comprising a plurality of encoder neural networks and a head neural network, each encoder neural network configured to: receive a respective input sequence from the tuple; process the respective input sequence using one or more encoder network layers to generate an encoded representation comprising a sequence of tokens; and process each of some or all of the tokens in the sequence of tokens using a projection layer to generate a lower-dimensional representation, and the head neural network configured to: receive lower-dimensional representations of a respective proper subset of the sequence of tokens generated by the encoder neural network; and process the lower-dimensional representations to generate the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Karthik Raman, Liu Yang, Mike Bendersky, Jiecao Chen, Marc Alexander Najork
  • Patent number: 11166144
    Abstract: A power outlet for controlling power to an external device and transmitting data to the external device, the power outlet including: a housing containing at least one alternating-current power input connection; a power output connection; a data connector; a sensor module; a wireless communication module, including an antenna; a processing unit configured to receive data and control an electrically connected device through the power output connection and/or data connector based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20210319130
    Abstract: The disclosed may include various systems and methods for improving the efficiency and scalability of large-scale systems. For example, the disclosed may include systems and methods for automatic privacy enforcement using privacy-aware infrastructure, scalable general-purpose low cost integer motion search, efficient scaler filter coefficients layout for flexible scaling quality control with limited hardware resources, hardware optimization for power saving with both different codecs enabled, optimizing storage overhead and performance for large distributed data warehouse, mass and volume efficient integration of intersatellite link terminals to a satellite bus, and overcoming retention limit for memory-based distributed database systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Wenlong Dong, Marc Alexander Celani, Xianliang Zha, Yunqing Chen, Harikrishna Madadi Reddy, Junqiang Lan, Chien Cheng Liu, Raghuvardhan Moola, Haluk Ucar, Sujith Srinivasan, Handong Li, Xing Cindy Chen, Tuo Wang, Zhao Wang, Baheerathan Anandharengan, Gaurang Chaudhari, Prahlad Rao Venkatapuram, Srikanth Alaparthi, James Alexander Morle, Vincent Matthew Malfa, Yassir Azziz, Chien-Chung Chen, Yan Cui, Pedro Eugenio Rocha Pedreira, Stavros Harizopoulos
  • Patent number: 11110766
    Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle wheel for damping NVH effects, wherein the NVH effects are transmitted from an automatic transmission to the driven wheel via the drive train at idle. The NVH effects can potentially be transmitted from the wheel to the vehicle structure via the wheel suspension. The wheel suspension having at least one elastic element, the stiffness of which in a vertical direction of deflection has a softer stiffness characteristic in a deflection range close to the zero point than in deflection ranges more remote from the zero point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Egemen Altinova, Marc Alexander Mendel, Michael Roehrig
  • Patent number: 11083827
    Abstract: A medical fluid delivery system includes: a medical fluid delivery machine including a component having at least one of associated output data or associated test data; at least one of a (i) component output replacement limit and a component output soft limit for the component or (ii) a component testing replacement limit or a component testing soft limit for the component; and a computer programmed to store at least one of (i) or (ii), and for (i) analyze the output data to provide a first indication of how well the component is performing relative to the component output replacement limit and the component output soft limit, and for (ii) analyze the test data to provide a second indication of how well the at least one component is testing relative to the component testing replacement limit and the component testing soft limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Shawn Collin Oppegard, Marc Alexander Barten
  • Publication number: 20210235250
    Abstract: A power outlet for controlling power to an external device and transmitting data to the external device, the power outlet including: a housing containing at least one alternating-current power input connection; a power output connection; a data connector; a sensor module; a wireless communication module, including an antenna; a processing unit configured to receive data and control an electrically connected device through the power output connection and/or data connector based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Phillip Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20210192936
    Abstract: A lighting system, including: a substrate defining a first broad face; a first set of light emitting elements configured to emit visible light having a fixed first color parameter; a second set of light emitting elements configured to emit visible light having a fixed second color parameter different from the first color parameter; a diffuser cooperatively enclosing the first and second sets of light emitting elements with the substrate; a communication module including an antenna; and a processor operatively connected to the communication module, the first set of light emitting elements, and the second set of light emitting elements, the processor configured to independently control relative intensities of the first and second set of light emitting elements to cooperatively emit light having a target color parameter value, wherein the target color parameter value is received from the communication module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Phillip Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20210153318
    Abstract: A controllable dynamic lighting system including a lighting element device with a set of controllable zone and a controlling means. A method for controlling a lighting system including: receiving lighting system operation inputs, determining operation instructions for one more controllable zones based on the operation inputs, and controlling controllable zone operation based on the respective operation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Marc Alexander, John Cameron
  • Patent number: 11006262
    Abstract: A power outlet for controlling power to an external device and transmitting data to the external device, the power outlet including: a housing containing at least one alternating-current power input connection; a power output connection; a data connector; a sensor module; a wireless communication module, including an antenna; a processing unit configured to receive data and control an electrically connected device through the power output connection and/or data connector based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20210125108
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a ranking machine learning model. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving training data for a ranking machine learning model, the training data including training examples, and each training example including data identifying: a search query, result documents from a result list for the search query, and a result document that was selected by a user from the result list, receiving position data for each training example in the training data, the position data identifying a respective position of the selected result document in the result list for the search query in the training example; determining, for each training example in the training data, a respective selection bias value; and determining a respective importance value for each training example from the selection bias value for the training example, the importance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Donald Arthur Metzler, JR., Xuanhui Wang, Marc Alexander Najork, Michael Bendersky
  • Patent number: 10970293
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to using document feature(s) of a document that is responsive to a query, and optionally query feature(s) of the query, to determine a presentation characteristic for presenting a search result that corresponds to the document. In some implementations, measures associated with the document feature(s) and/or query feature(s) may be used to determine the presentation characteristic. The measures may be based on past interactions, by corresponding users, with other documents that share one or more of the document features with the document, where a plurality of the other documents are different from the document (and optionally each different from one another). In some implementations, the document and/or the other documents include, or are restricted to, documents that are access restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mike Bendersky, Marc Alexander Najork, Donald Metzler, Xuanhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20210094819
    Abstract: A cup holder assembly includes a plurality of contacts that are configured to contact a cup so that a majority of an opening into the cup is uncovered by the cup holder, and the plurality of contacts are connectable to one or more cup holder guide rods of an assembly that dispenses and mixes or blends beverages
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kenneth L. LUNDBERG, Marc-Alexander LANGE, Dennies BERGMAN, Joseph KNAUSS
  • Patent number: 10952296
    Abstract: A controllable dynamic lighting system including a lighting element device with a set of controllable zone and a controlling means. A method for controlling a lighting system including: receiving lighting system operation inputs, determining operation instructions for one more controllable zones based on the operation inputs, and controlling controllable zone operation based on the respective operation instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Alexander, John Cameron
  • Publication number: 20210054973
    Abstract: A lighting assembly including a shell, wherein the shell includes an inner wall defining an inner lumen, an outer wall encircling the inner wall, a set of radial fins connecting the inner and outer walls, the set of fins cooperatively defining a set of cooling channels between adjacent fins, the inner wall, and the outer wall; an insert removably mounted within the inner lumen, the insert defining a power storage lumen; a power storage unit arranged within the power storage lumen; a circuit board coupled to the power storage unit, the circuit board comprising a processor and communication module; a lighting module electrically connected to the circuit board, wherein the lighting module includes a substrate and a set of light emitting elements mounted to a first broad face of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Phillip Anthony Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20210049165
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate identification of additional trigger-terms for a structured information card. In one aspect, the method includes actions of accessing data associated with a template for presenting structured information, wherein the accessed data references (i) a label term and (ii) a value. Other actions may include obtaining a candidate label term, identifying one or more entities that are associated with the label term, identifying one or more of the entities that are associated with the candidate label term, and for each particular entity of the one or more entities that are associated with the candidate label term, associating, with the candidate label term, (i) a label term that is associated with the particular entity, and (ii) the value associated with the label term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Najork, Sujith Ravi, Michael Bendersky, Peter Shao-sen Young, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mingyang Zhang, Thomas Nelson, Xuanhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20200389951
    Abstract: The method of spatial lightbulb operation includes determining the position of the lightbulb relative to a physical space, detecting a contextual event, determining a spatial lighting pattern associated with the contextual event, and selectively controlling lightbulb light emitting elements based on the position of the lightbulb and the spatial lighting pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Phillip Anthony Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Patent number: 10851950
    Abstract: A lighting assembly including a shell, wherein the shell includes an inner wall defining an inner lumen, an outer wall encircling the inner wall, a set of radial fins connecting the inner and outer walls, the set of fins cooperatively defining a set of cooling channels between adjacent fins, the inner wall, and the outer wall; an insert removably mounted within the inner lumen, the insert defining a power storage lumen; a power storage unit arranged within the power storage lumen; a circuit board coupled to the power storage unit, the circuit board comprising a processor and communication module; a lighting module electrically connected to the circuit board, wherein the lighting module includes a substrate and a set of light emitting elements mounted to a first broad face of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Anthony Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20200374997
    Abstract: A lighting module, including: a baseboard configured to receive a user signal indicating a user lighting preference; a communication submodule configured to receive the user signal and convert the user signal to machine readable data indicating the user lighting preference; a control submodule communicably coupled to the wireless communication submodule for receiving the machine readable data, wherein the microcontroller submodule comprises: memory configured to store a lighting parameter provided by a provider, and a processor configured to generate lighting driver instructions based on the user lighting preference and the lighting parameter; and a lighting mode output submodule configured to output the lighting driver instructions to a lighting driver module of a lighting assembly for controlling light emitting elements of the lighting assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20200375013
    Abstract: A connected downlight including: a housing module including a first housing end and a second housing end; a lighting module mounted to the first housing end; and a wireless communication module including an antenna and arranged within the housing interior proximal the second housing end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Marc Alexander
  • Patent number: D914106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Enova Design Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Murphy, Marc Alexander