Patents by Inventor Marwan Hassoun
Marwan Hassoun 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: 11817637Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power harvesting circuit that operates generate power for the RFID tag from a continuous wave of a radio frequency (RF) signal. The RFID tag further includes a tuning circuit that is tuned based on a capacitance setting, where the capacitance setting is indicative of a power level of the power. The RFID tag further includes a processing module operably coupled to the tuning circuit, where the processing module operates to generate the capacitance setting to obtain a desired power level for the power.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20230307841Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power harvesting circuit that operates generate power for the RFID tag from a continuous wave of a radio frequency (RF) signal. The RFID tag further includes a tuning circuit that is tuned based on a capacitance setting, where the capacitance setting is indicative of a power level of the power. The RFID tag further includes a processing module operably coupled to the tuning circuit, where the processing module operates to generate the capacitance setting to obtain a desired power level for the power.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20220109240Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power harvesting circuit that operates generate power for the RFID tag from a continuous wave of a radio frequency (RF) signal. The RFID tag further includes a tuning circuit that is tuned based on a capacitance setting, where the capacitance setting is indicative of a power level of the power. The RFID tag further includes a processing module operably coupled to the tuning circuit, where the processing module operates to generate the capacitance setting to obtain a desired power level for the power.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 11250524Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: COSTA EXPRESS LTD.Inventors: John Serafino Craparo, Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Jeffrey William Mulhausen, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 11205851Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power harvesting circuit that operates generate power for the RFID tag from a continuous wave of a radio frequency (RF) signal. The RFID tag further includes a tuning circuit that is tuned based on a capacitance setting, where the capacitance setting is indicative of a power level of the power. The RFID tag further includes a processing module operably coupled to the tuning circuit, where the processing module operates to generate the capacitance setting to obtain a desired power level for the power.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10966565Abstract: An automated frothing assembly. The automated frothing assembly has a wand module that includes an elongate member having an inlet, one or more outlets, and a fluid passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets. At least one of the one or more outlets extends parallel to a vertical plane that includes the centerline of the elongate member and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to both the vertical plane and the centerline of the elongate member. The assembly further includes an actuator configured to be operatively coupled to the wand module and to drive the movement of at least a portion of the wand module along an axis, and an electronic controller configured to be electrically coupled to the actuator and to control the operation of the actuator to control the movement of the wand module.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: BRIGGO, INC.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Brent Clafferty, Stephen A. Miller, Marwan Hassoun, Pete P. Garcia, Lynn Warren Hamrick
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Publication number: 20200365993Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power harvesting circuit that operates generate power for the RFID tag from a continuous wave of a radio frequency (RF) signal. The RFID tag further includes a tuning circuit that is tuned based on a capacitance setting, where the capacitance setting is indicative of a power level of the power. The RFID tag further includes a processing module operably coupled to the tuning circuit, where the processing module operates to generate the capacitance setting to obtain a desired power level for the power.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10734727Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power harvesting circuit, an RF front-end, and a processing module. The power harvesting circuit generates power for the RFID tag from a continuous wave of an inbound radio frequency (RF) signal. The RF front-end receives the inbound RF signal and transmits an outbound RF signal. The RF front-end includes a tuning circuit that is tuned based on a capacitance setting. The tuning of the tuning circuit effects a characteristic of the RF front-end. The processing module generate the capacitance setting to adjust the characteristic of the RF front-end to a desired characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10638870Abstract: A system that generates brewed beverages may receive requests to produce specified brewed beverages. The system may include a scheduler that initiates and controls the performance of one or more chemical or mechanical processes to produce the beverages. While one chemical or mechanical process for producing a beverage is being performed, other processes may be performed for production of the beverage or another beverage. The scheduler may determine the time at which to perform each process, the time at which a beverage should be presented, the resources to be used to perform the processes, or the time at which to perform a cleaning process, dependent on an actual or expected demand for beverages, or dependent on a target time for beverage retrieval. Shared resources may be applied to the production of beverages for high priority orders, while partially completed beverages for lower priority orders are staged for subsequent advancement.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20190315614Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Charles F. STUDOR, Raymond William HUDY, John S. CRAPARO, Marwan HASSOUN
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Patent number: 10315908Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: BRIGGO, INCInventors: Charles F. Studor, Raymond William Hudy, John S. Craparo, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10271680Abstract: An automated frothing assembly. The automated frothing assembly has a wand module that includes an elongate member having an inlet, one or more outlets, and a fluid passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets. At least one of the one or more outlets extends parallel to a vertical plane that includes the centerline of the elongate member and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to both the vertical plane and the centerline of the elongate member. The assembly further includes an actuator configured to be operatively coupled to the wand module and to drive the movement of at least a portion of the wand module along an axis, and an electronic controller configured to be electrically coupled to the actuator and to control the operation of the actuator to control the movement of the wand module.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: BRIGGO, INC.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Brent Clafferty, Stephen A. Miller, Marwan Hassoun, Pete P. Garcia, Jr., Lynn Warren Hamrick
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Publication number: 20190097323Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power harvesting circuit, an RF front-end, and a processing module. The power harvesting circuit generates power for the RFID tag from a continuous wave of an inbound radio frequency (RF) signal. The RF front-end receives the inbound RF signal and transmits an outbound RF signal. The RF front-end includes a tuning circuit that is tuned based on a capacitance setting. The tuning of the tuning circuit effects a characteristic of the RF front-end. The processing module generate the capacitance setting to adjust the characteristic of the RF front-end to a desired characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10243479Abstract: A power harvesting circuit, a rectifier circuit and a capacitor. The rectifier circuit includes a diode circuit and a diode voltage reduction circuit. The diode circuit passes a current when a received RF signal has a first polarity and to substantially blocks the current when the received RF signal has a second polarity. The diode voltage reduction circuit is operably coupled to reduce a voltage drop of the diode circuit. The capacitor is operably coupled to convert the rectified signal into a DC supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Brian David Young, Shahriar Rokhsaz, Ahmed Younis, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10243255Abstract: A method begins by a first radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor, that is associated with a first object element, receiving a first data request signal from an RFID reader and sending a first radio frequency (RF) signal that includes first data to the RFID reader in response to the first data request signal. The method continues with a second RFID sensor receiving a second data request signal from, and sending second data to, the RFID reader. The method continues with the RFID reader sending a representation of the first and second data to a data processing unit, which processes the representation of the first and second data to determine a first and second data point regarding first and second object elements. The method continues by the data processing unit processing the first and second data points to determine an environmental relationship between the first and second object elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Ahmed Younis, John J. Paulos, Abhay Misra, Benjamin Cooke, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20180342022Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: John Serafino Craparo, Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Jeffrey William Mulhausen, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10069205Abstract: A wireless sensor includes environment sensing structure, a radio frequency (RF) front-end, and a processing module. When the wireless sensor is positioned proximal to an object, a portion of the environment sensing structure senses an environmental condition in a remote area of the object that effects a characteristic of the RF front-end. The processing module generates a reference value representative of a known environmental condition in the remote area based on the effect on the characteristic of the RF front-end. The processing module generates a sensed value representative of an unknown environmental condition in the remote area based on the effect on the characteristic of the RF front-end when the environment sensing structure is sensing the unknown environmental condition. The processing module transmits, via the RF front-end, at least one of the reference value, the sensed value, or a difference between the reference value and the sensed value.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Brian David Young, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10043226Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventors: John Serafino Craparo, Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Jeffrey William Mulhausen, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20180208449Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Charles F. STUDOR, Raymond William HUDY, John S. CRAPARO, Marwan HASSOUN
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Publication number: 20180132654Abstract: An automated frothing assembly. The automated frothing assembly has a wand module that includes an elongate member having an inlet, one or more outlets, and a fluid passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets. At least one of the one or more outlets extends parallel to a vertical plane that includes the centerline of the elongate member and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to both the vertical plane and the centerline of the elongate member. The assembly further includes an actuator configured to be operatively coupled to the wand module and to drive the movement of at least a portion of the wand module along an axis, and an electronic controller configured to be electrically coupled to the actuator and to control the operation of the actuator to control the movement of the wand module.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Brent Clafferty, Stephen A. Miller, Marwan Hassoun, Pete P. Garcia, Lynn Warren Hamrick