Patents by Inventor Mason Lee

Mason Lee 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: 20260054751
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect an occurrence of a condition in an environment based on sensor data captured by a vehicle. A determination is made whether the occurrence of the condition satisfies a threshold associated with a likelihood that a behavior associated with an object in the environment will occur based on an interaction between the condition and the object, wherein the likelihood is based on prior observations of one or more objects. Subsequent to determining that the threshold is satisfied, a vehicle operation that is associated with the likelihood that the behavior associated with the object will occur is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2025
    Publication date: February 26, 2026
    Applicant: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Agon, Nastaran Ghadar, Yunjian Jiang, Mason Lee, Carlos Alberto De Magalhaes Massera Filho, Carey Stover Nachenberg, Sammy Omari, Ana Sofia Rufino Ferreira, Meng Tao
  • Publication number: 20250376172
    Abstract: Determining positioning of a sensor system associated with a vehicle involves: (i) identifying a given time when the vehicle was driving in a lane having substantially-straight lane geometry, (ii) inferring that, because the lane had substantially-straight lane geometry at the given time, the vehicle was laterally positioned in alignment with a lateral centerline of the lane at the given time, (iii) detecting a lane boundary of the lane in which the vehicle was driving at the given time, (iv) determining, at the given time, a first lateral distance between the lane boundary and the vehicle's associated sensor system and a second lateral distance between the lane boundary and the lateral centerline of the lane, and (v) based on the first and second lateral distances, determining a given measure of a lateral offset between the vehicle's associated sensor system and the lateral center of the vehicle for the given time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Alan Agon, Michael Jared Benisch, Mason Lee, Sameer Qureshi, Luc Vincent
  • Publication number: 20250310098
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for selectively or fully protecting electronically or digitally signed electronic documents and specifying access thereof are provided. The documents are securely maintained throughout the entirety of an electronic signature service workflow by using a cryptographically-augmented private software as a service scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: Karim Eldefrawy, Benjamin Terner, Michael James Mullen, Mason Lee, Dana Charles Wheeler
  • Patent number: 12399496
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) identify, within a given period of operation of a vehicle having an associated sensor system for capturing sensor data, one or more times when the vehicle was driving in a lane having substantially-straight lane geometry, (ii) for each identified time, determine a respective measure of a lateral offset between the vehicle's associated sensor system and a lateral reference point of the vehicle, and (iii) based on the respective measure of the lateral offset that is determined for each of the one or more identified times, determine the lateral offset between the vehicle's associated sensor system and the lateral reference point of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Agon, Michael Jared Benisch, Mason Lee, Sameer Qureshi, Luc Vincent
  • Patent number: 12371065
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect an occurrence of a condition in an environment based on sensor data captured by a vehicle. A determination is made whether the occurrence of the condition satisfies a threshold associated with a likelihood that a behavior associated with an object in the environment will occur based on an interaction between the condition and the object, wherein the likelihood is based on prior observations of one or more objects. Subsequent to determining that the threshold is satisfied, a vehicle operation that is associated with the likelihood that the behavior associated with the object will occur is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Agon, Nastaran Ghadar, Yunjian Jiang, Mason Lee, Carlos Alberto De Magalhaes Massera Filho, Carey Stover Nachenberg, Sammy Omari, Ana Sofia Rufino Ferreira, Meng Tao
  • Publication number: 20220119012
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect an occurrence of a condition in an environment based on sensor data captured by a vehicle. A determination is made whether the occurrence of the condition satisfies a threshold associated with a likelihood that a behavior associated with an object in the environment will occur based on an interaction between the condition and the object, wherein the likelihood is based on prior observations of one or more objects. Subsequent to determining that the threshold is satisfied, a vehicle operation that is associated with the likelihood that the behavior associated with the object will occur is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Agon, Nastaran Ghadar, Yunjian Jiang, Mason Lee, Carlos Alberto De Magalhaes Massera Filho, Carey Stover Nachenberg, Sammy Omari, Ana Sofia Rufino Ferreira, Meng Tao
  • Publication number: 20210405641
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) identify, within a given period of operation of a vehicle having an associated sensor system for capturing sensor data, one or more times when the vehicle was driving in a lane having substantially-straight lane geometry, (ii) for each identified time, determine a respective measure of a lateral offset between the vehicle's associated sensor system and a lateral reference point of the vehicle, and (iii) based on the respective measure of the lateral offset that is determined for each of the one or more identified times, determine the lateral offset between the vehicle's associated sensor system and the lateral reference point of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Alan Agon, Michael Jared Benisch, Mason Lee, Sameer Qureshi, Luc Vincent
  • Publication number: 20200117256
    Abstract: A combined type AC/DC power supply includes a first circuit module containing a first printed circuit board (PCB), an AC power input circuit being set on the first PCB, a first structural portion of a detachable bobbin being set on the first PCB, a primary side winding being wound around the first structural portion of the detachable bobbin and electrically connected to the first PCB and the AC power input circuit, a second circuit module containing a second PCB, a DC power output circuit being set on the second PCB, a second structural portion of the detachable bobbin being set on the second PCB with a secondary side winding being wound around and electrically connected to the second PCB and the DC power output circuit, wherein the AC and the DC power output circuit are structurally connected through the first and the second structural portion of the detachable bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Banson Yang, Paul Liu, Krone Chiang, Mason Lee, Scott Lin, Jimmy Chen
  • Publication number: 20140324997
    Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for enhanced message handling are presented. A first message may be sent to a first identity. Thereafter, a second message may be sent to a second identity. Alternatively, a first message may be received from a first identity, and a second message may be received from a second identity. In either case, in response to determining, based on local address book data, that the first identity and the second identity are both associated with a first person, the first message and the second message may be displayed in a single conversation window. Subsequently sent and/or received messages may be similarly aggregated into the conversation window based on such messages being to and/or from one or more identities of the same person. Additionally, these subsequently aggregated messages may be sent and/or received via different communication services, such as email, SMS, and/or social networking services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BORANGE, INC.
    Inventors: Mason Lee, Loren Brichter
  • Patent number: 8769418
    Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for enhanced message handling are presented. A first message may be sent to a first identity. Thereafter, a second message may be sent to a second identity. Alternatively, a first message may be received from a first identity, and a second message may be received from a second identity. In either case, in response to determining, based on local address book data, that the first identity and the second identity are both associated with a first person, the first message and the second message may be displayed in a single conversation window. Subsequently sent and/or received messages may be similarly aggregated into the conversation window based on such messages being to and/or from one or more identities of the same person. Additionally, these subsequently aggregated messages may be sent and/or received via different communication services, such as email, SMS, and/or social networking services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Borange, Inc.
    Inventors: Mason Lee, Loren Brichter
  • Publication number: 20120278732
    Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for enhanced message handling are presented. A first message may be sent to a first identity. Thereafter, a second message may be sent to a second identity. Alternatively, a first message may be received from a first identity, and a second message may be received from a second identity. In either case, in response to determining, based on local address book data, that the first identity and the second identity are both associated with a first person, the first message and the second message may be displayed in a single conversation window. Subsequently sent and/or received messages may be similarly aggregated into the conversation window based on such messages being to and/or from one or more identities of the same person. Additionally, these subsequently aggregated messages may be sent and/or received via different communication services, such as email, SMS, and/or social networking services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: BORANGE, INC.
    Inventors: Mason Lee, Loren Brichter
  • Patent number: D704222
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Borange, Inc.
    Inventors: Mason Lee, Loren Brichter