Patents by Inventor Mark A. Alexander

Mark A. 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: 20240413968
    Abstract: Aspects and implementations are directed to systems and techniques for protecting cryptographic operations against side-channel attacks by masking a ciphertext data using one or more masks randomly sampled from a null space associated with a tensor representation of a secret data and generating a plaintext data using the masked ciphertext data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Evan Marson, Michael Alexander Hamburg, Helena Handschuh
  • Patent number: 12164832
    Abstract: Media input audio data corresponding to a media stream and microphone input audio data from at least one microphone may be received. A first level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the media input audio data, as well as a second level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the microphone input audio data, may be determined. Media output audio data and microphone output audio data may be produced by adjusting levels of one or more of the first and second plurality of frequency bands based on the perceived loudness of the microphone input audio data, of the microphone output audio data, of the media output audio data and the media input audio data. One or more processes may be modified upon receipt of a mode-switching indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alexander, Chunjian Li, Joshua Brandon Lando, Alan J. Seefeldt, C. Phillip Brown, Dirk Jeroen Breebaart
  • Publication number: 20240390613
    Abstract: A valved holding chamber includes a holding chamber adapted to contain a substance and having an input end adapted to receive a dry powder inhaler, an output end and an interior volume defined between the input end and output end. An inhalation valve is disposed at the output end of the holding chamber and is moveable to an open position in response to an inhalation flow through the interior space. A vacuum generator, expandable volume and/or positive pressure may be used to draw medication from the dry powder inhaler into the holding chamber. Methods of using and assembling the system are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Trudell Medical International Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Costella, Matthew Gravett, Sean Alexander Marshall, Mark Nagel, Britton Sprickerhoff, Jason Suggett, Heather Young
  • Publication number: 20240390580
    Abstract: In one aspect, a drug delivery device is provided herein including: a monolithic body having a plurality of fluid ducts and at least one outlet duct formed therein; a plurality of drug cartridges attached to the body, the drug cartridges each including a reservoir for accommodating at least one drug wherein, the plurality of fluid ducts is arranged to convey the drugs from the drug cartridges to the at least one outlet duct; and, a needle support spaced from the body, the needle support including a needle configured for insertion into a patient for drug delivery, the needle support including adhesive for releasable securement to a patient, wherein, the needle support is connected to the body by a flexible tether through which passes at least one fluid passageway formed to convey drug from the at least one outlet duct to the needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Martin John McLoughlin, Mark Steven Howansky, George Tyler Currier, Peter William Heyman, Yuhong Wu, Erinc Sahin, Shreya Shashank Kulkarni, Ankur Sagar Kulshrestha, Xiaodong Chen, Haresh Tukaram More, Krishna Jagdish Patel, John Christian Knutsen, James William Kidner Bradford, Simon Francis Brereton, Timothy Donald Barrow-Williams, Christopher William Rosier, Jeffrey Nicholas Philippson, Ryan Anthony McGinley, Francesco Giuseppe Sasia, Holly Charlotte Palmer, Tomas Alexander Ogg Correa, Carys Eleri Lee, Paul Antony Merritt, Terence Zhi Seow
  • Patent number: 12153818
    Abstract: A storage system stores objects in a bucket at a storage device of the storage system. Each of the objects has a corresponding version. A processing device generates a snapshot of the bucket. The snapshot captures the corresponding version of each of the objects at a time associated with the generation of the snapshot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Shao-Ting Chang, Richard A. Hankins, Cary A. Sandvig, Mark Alexander Hugh Emberson, Keshav Sethi Attrey, Andrew Kutner, Karthikeyan Srinivasan, Puneet Venkatraman Shenoy
  • Patent number: 12155665
    Abstract: Methods and system for monitoring and assessing employee moods are disclosed. A proposed enterprise employee monitoring system includes surveillance cameras, a facial recognition module, an emotional analyzer module, and an employee database. The surveillance cameras capture image data including employee individuals within the enterprise. The facial recognition module identifies the individuals in the image data, and the emotional analyzer module determines an emotional state of the individuals based upon the image data. The employee database stores employee information and the emotional state information from the emotional analyzer module, based upon the identification performed by the facial recognition module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Alexander Ainsworth, Ian C. Westmacott, Martin J. Donaghy, Derek Boyes, Terry Neill, John McKenna, Anne Gallagher, Mark Paterson, Ashish Italiya
  • Patent number: 12149086
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a process for configuring or commissioning a solar power system includes receiving, at a controller, hardware identifiers of a plurality of power electronics modules to be configured. Each of the plurality of power electronics modules of at least a portion of the plurality of power electronics modules is associated with a corresponding photovoltaic panel. A hub is configured to wirelessly communicate with the plurality of power electronics modules. The controller is physically connected to the hub and communicates with the hub via wiring that also carries power from photovoltaic panels to an inverter. The process includes configuring, by the controller, the plurality of power electronics modules using the received hardware identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Breuning Evans, Sebastian Wolf, Mark Holveck, Hai-Yue Han, Craig Patrick Timms, Paul Chapman, Christopher Wright, Ryan Pflaum, Manuel Alejandro Valenzuela Acosta, César Pecharromán Arribas, James Alexander Stewart Carragher, Jesús Prieto Colomina
  • Publication number: 20240369283
    Abstract: A portable cooler container with active temperature control includes a container body with an insulated chamber to receive medicines, vaccines, biological samples or other medical goods. A control system is at least partially disposed between an outer wall and an inner wall of the container body. An electronic display screen on one of the lid and the container body configured to display shipping address information for the portable cooler container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Clayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Jacob William Emmert, Joseph Lyle Koch, Frank Victor Baumann, Clifton Texas Lin, Farzam Roknaldin, Mark Channing Stabb
  • Publication number: 20240369284
    Abstract: A portable cooler container with active temperature control includes a container body with an insulated chamber to receive medicines, vaccines, biological samples or other medical goods. A control system is at least partially disposed between an outer wall and an inner wall of the container body. An electronic display screen on one of the lid and the container body configured to display shipping address information for the portable cooler container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Clayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Jacob William Emmert, Joseph Lyle Koch, Frank Victor Baumann, Clifton Texas Lin, Farzam Roknaldin, Mark Channing Stabb
  • Publication number: 20240362595
    Abstract: A method of determining service provider appointments is provided. The method can include providing, by a data processor of a multi-provider scheduling platform, at least one conversational agent configured to receive query inputs and generate response outputs associated with scheduling target assignments performed by at least one service provider. First data characterizing a query input provided to the at least one conversational agent can be received. The query input can include a request for at least one service provider to perform target assignment at a target assignment time. Second data characterizing a response output contextually relevant to the query input can be determined. The response output can include one or more appointments corresponding to the target assignment and the target assignment time and the response output including the one or more appointments can be provided to the conversational agent. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventor: Mark Alexander Gustafson
  • Patent number: 12128103
    Abstract: Methods are provided for the adjuvant treatment of operable HER2-positive primary breast cancer in human patients by administration of pertuzumab in addition to chemotherapy and trastuzumab. The methods reduce the risk of recurrence of invasive breast cancer or death for a patient diagnosed with HER2-positive early breast cancer (eBC) compared to administration of trastuzumab and chemotherapy, without pertuzumab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Genentech, Inc., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Benyunes, Graham Alexander Ross
  • Patent number: 12133005
    Abstract: One example system comprises a LIDAR sensor that rotates about an axis to scan an environment of the LIDAR sensor. The system also comprises one or more cameras that detect external light originating from one or more external light sources. The one or more cameras together provide a plurality of rows of sensing elements. The rows of sensing elements are aligned with the axis of rotation of the LIDAR sensor. The system also comprises a controller that operates the one or more cameras to obtain a sequence of image pixel rows. A first image pixel row in the sequence is indicative of external light detected by a first row of sensing elements during a first exposure time period. A second image pixel row in the sequence is indicative of external light detected by a second row of sensing elements during a second exposure time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Blaise Gassend, Benjamin Ingram, Andreas Wendel, Mark Alexander Shand
  • Publication number: 20240354687
    Abstract: A control system is for a container terminal with containers. The control system includes a server, and a terminal tractor operable within the container terminal. The terminal tractor comprises onboard tractor sensors configured to generate sensor data of at least some of the containers, a geolocation device configured to generate a geolocation value for the terminal tractor, a wireless transceiver, and a controller coupled to the onboard tractor sensors, the geolocation device, and the wireless transceiver. The controller is configured to transmit the sensor data and the geolocation value for the terminal tractor to the server. The server is in communication with the terminal tractor and is configured to generate a database associated with the sensor data, the database comprising, for each container, a container type value, a container logo image, and a vehicle classification value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: MARK D. MILLS, ARTEM DAVTYAN, MATTHEW MICHAEL MCDERMOTT, JORGE A. PEREZ RINCON, CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
  • Publication number: 20240354690
    Abstract: A control system is for a container terminal with containers. The control system includes a server, and a terminal tractor operable within the container terminal. The terminal tractor comprises onboard tractor sensors configured to generate sensor data of at least some of the containers, a geolocation device configured to generate a geolocation value for the terminal tractor, a wireless transceiver, and a controller coupled to the onboard tractor sensors, the geolocation device, and the wireless transceiver. The controller is configured to transmit the sensor data and the geolocation value for the terminal tractor to the server. The server is in communication with the terminal tractor and is configured to generate a database associated with the sensor data, the database comprising, for each container, a container type value, a container logo image, and a vehicle classification value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Mark D. Mills, Artem Igorevich Davtyan, Matthew Michael McDermott, Jorge A. Perez Rincon, Christopher Alexander
  • Publication number: 20240356479
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electric drive system (1) comprising power electronics (2), in particular an electric current converter, and comprising an electric machine (3) which can be controlled by the power electronics (2), wherein: the drive system (1) can be operated at least in one working mode and in a freewheeling mode as operating modes; the power electronics (2) have at least three electrical phases for controlling the electric machine (3); at least one current value of an electric current of one of the phases is monitored; the current value is compared to a predefined threshold value; and an active short circuit is activated as a safe operating state of the power electronics (2) if the current value exceeds the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Schweiker, Benjamin Lechner, Dominik Alexander Ruoff, Kay Hindorf, Marco Salvatore Costa, Mark Damson
  • Publication number: 20240331412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of automatically determining the content of images. In particular, the present invention relates to a process for assigning images to predefined categories depending on their content. Subject matter of the present invention is a computer-implemented method of automatically determining to which part of an object the content depicted in one or more images belongs to, a computer system configured to execute the computer-implemented method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising processor-executable instructions with which to perform the computer-implemented method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerard SANROMA GÜELL, Markus BLANK, Mark Alexander KLEMENS
  • Publication number: 20240320997
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to a systems and methods for a digital asset generation platform. The digital asset generation platform may ingest an ingest input. The digital asset generation platform may utilize a document identification engine corresponding to a first stage of a multi-stage convolutional neural network for identifying document types of documents. The digital asset generation platform may utilize an object detector engine corresponding to a second stage of the multi-stage convolutional neural network for detecting a dynamic mapping in the digital file. The digital asset generation platform may utilize a post-processing engine for classifying the dynamic mapping in the at least one digital file. The digital asset generation platform may dynamically generate a digital asset representative of the document based on the key value data pairs extracted from the dynamic mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: James Toffey, Frank Dimarco, Coby Dodd, Shayan Hemmatiyan, Venkat Naidu, Edmond Costantini, Mark Alexander, Vishal Panchamia
  • Patent number: 12099112
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for managing the operation of sensors in an electronic device. According to certain aspects, the electronic device may detect a change in motion from a set of lower-sensitivity sensor data generated by a sensor(s) operating in a lower-sensitivity mode. When the change in motion is detected and during a timeout window, the sensor(s) may generate an additional set of lower-sensitivity sensor data and a set of higher-sensitivity sensor data. The electronic device may initially confirm the change in motion based on analyzing the set of higher-sensitivity sensor data. Further, the electronic device may determine that the additional set of lower-sensitivity does not indicate an additional change in motion, and may deem the confirmation of the change in motion as a false positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Felch, Christopher Findeisen, JinJie Chen, Mark Alexander, Shang Shi, Zhuo Wang
  • Patent number: 12099622
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve implementations that may be used to protect neural network models against adversarial attacks by obfuscating neural network operations and architecture. Obfuscation techniques include obfuscating weights and biases of neural network nodes, obfuscating activation functions used by neural networks, as well as obfuscating neural network architecture by introducing dummy operations, dummy nodes, and dummy layers into the neural networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Cryptography Research, Inc
    Inventors: Mark Evan Marson, Michael Alexander Hamburg, Helena Handschuh
  • Publication number: 20240307358
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents to Schlemm's canal (SC) endothelial cells. Also provided are methods for using the systems to treat glaucoma or reduce intraocular pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Amir Vahabikashi, Trevor Stack, Michael Patrick Vincent, Evan Alexander Scott