Patents by Inventor Michael Katz

Michael Katz 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).

  • Patent number: 11271611
    Abstract: Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include a wireless power transmission system and a wireless power receiver system. The wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna configured to couple with a receiver antenna to transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the receiver antenna. Antenna coupling may be inductive and may operate in conformance to a wireless power and data transfer protocol. A transmission controller drives the transmitter antenna at an operating frequency, and either the wireless power transmission system or the wireless power receiver system may damp the wireless power transmission to create a data signal containing a serial asynchronous data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Melone, Michael Katz
  • Patent number: 11239703
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, an amplifier, and a transmitter controller. The transmitter antenna is configured to transmit wireless power signals and wireless data signals. The amplifier is configured to receive a driving signal at a gate of the at least one transistor and invert a direct power (DC) input power signal to generate the AC wireless signal at the operating frequency. The transmitter controller is configured to configure the driving signal based, at least, on an operating frequency and an initial beaconing process, the initial beaconing process for determining presence of a wireless receiver system at a coupling between the transmitter antenna and a receiver antenna of the wireless receiver system, determine amplifier voltage instructions for the amplifier based on the initial beaconing process, and drive the amplifier by providing the driving signal and the amplifier voltage instructions to the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Peralta, Michael Katz
  • Patent number: 11239884
    Abstract: Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include a wireless power transmission system and a wireless power receiver system. The wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna configured to couple with a receiver antenna to transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the receiver antenna. Antenna coupling may be inductive and may operate in conformance to a wireless power and data transfer protocol. A transmission controller drives the transmitter antenna at an operating frequency, and either the wireless power transmission system or the wireless power receiver system may damp the wireless power transmission to create a data signal containing a serial asynchronous data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Melone, Michael Katz
  • Publication number: 20220029472
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information associated with AC wireless signals, the electrical information including, at least, a voltage of the AC wireless signals. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, detect a change in the electrical information, determine if the change in the electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold, if the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, generate an alert, and output a plurality of data alerts. The transmitter controller is configured to receive the plurality of data alerts from the demodulation circuit, and decode the plurality of data alerts into the wireless data signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Alberto Peralta, Michael Katz, Md. Nazmul Alam
  • Publication number: 20220029473
    Abstract: A wireless receiver system includes a receiver antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a receiver controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information associated with AC wireless signals, the electrical information including, at least, a voltage of the AC wireless signals. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, detect a change in the electrical information, determine if the change in the electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold, if the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, generate an alert, and output a plurality of data alerts. The receiver controller is configured to receive the plurality of data alerts from the demodulation circuit, and decode the plurality of data alerts into the wireless data signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Alberto Peralta, Michael Katz, Md. Nazmul Alam
  • Patent number: 11233427
    Abstract: Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include a wireless power transmission system and a wireless power receiver system. The wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna configured to couple with a receiver antenna to transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the receiver antenna. Antenna coupling may be inductive and may operate in conformance to a wireless power and data transfer protocol. A transmission controller drives the transmitter antenna at an operating frequency, and either the wireless power transmission system or the wireless power receiver system may damp the wireless power transmission to create a data signal containing a serial asynchronous data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Melone, Michael Katz
  • Patent number: 11233428
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information associated with AC wireless signals, the electrical information including, at least, a voltage of the AC wireless signals. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, detect a change in the electrical information, determine if the change in the electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold, if the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, generate an alert, and output a plurality of data alerts. The transmitter controller is configured to receive the plurality of data alerts from the demodulation circuit and decode the plurality of data alerts into the wireless data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Kasireddy, Alberto Peralta, Michael Katz, Md. Nazmul Alam
  • Patent number: 11233424
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information superimposed on an AC wireless signal. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, apply automatic bias control and gain control to generate modified electrical information, detect a change in the modified electrical information and determine if the change in the modified electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold. If the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, an alert is generated. Alerts are decoded into the electrical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Peralta, Anna Oleksiewicz, Michael Katz, Md. Nazmul Alam
  • Patent number: 11229222
    Abstract: An expanded extruded high protein product comprising an extrudate of a composition comprising about 10-50% by dry weight of egg white and about 50-90% by dry weight of an edible starch, wherein the product has a moisture content of less than 8%, a protein content of at least 10%, and a density of less than 100 grams per liter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Saskatchewan Egg Producers
    Inventors: Michael Katz, Naiyee Jay, Sara Lui, Dan Prefontaine
  • Publication number: 20210244827
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to the use of an Anc80 viral vector that encodes a sphingolipid-metabolizing protein such as acid ceramidase to achieve expression of the sphingolipid-metabolizing protein in a mammalian cell or group of cells. Expression of the protein from the Anc80 vector reduces high levels of ceramide in the cell that lead to cell death or senescence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Efrat ELIYAHU, Adam VINCEK, Michael KATZ
  • Patent number: 11069507
    Abstract: A sample carrier for in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has a dielectric substrate with a conductive layer that forms a coplanar waveguide. The coplanar waveguide has a first and second leads formed by the conductive layer. The first lead is between an adjacent pair of second leads and is spaced from the second leads by a respective gap. The coplanar waveguide is configured to transmit an electrical signal to a specimen held by the sample carrier, in particular, an electrical signal having a frequency in the radio-frequency (RF) regime (3 kHz-300 GHz), for example, up to 100 GHz. The sample carrier may be mounted to a TEM sample holder, which supports the sample carrier within a vacuum chamber of the microscope and provides electrical connection between the leads of the sample carrier and an RF source external to the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: University of Maryland, College Park, Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Inventors: Michael Katz, Karl Schliep, June Lau, Jason J. Gorman
  • Publication number: 20210216879
    Abstract: Embodiments for improving heuristic searching in artificial intelligence (AI) planning are provided. At least one planning task within a planning domain is identified. The at least one planning task is solved to generate a plurality of plans. The plurality of plans include a plurality of state-action pairs. A neural network is trained utilizing the plurality of state-action pairs. Preferred actions for states within the planning domain are determined utilizing the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael KATZ, Patrick Christoph FERBER
  • Publication number: 20210142197
    Abstract: Embodiments for creating planning tasks are provided. A plurality of atoms are generated. The plurality of atoms are partitioned into a plurality of variables. A casual graph is generated based on the plurality of variables. A layered graph including interchanging variable value layers and action layers is created based on the casual graph. A planning task is generated based on the layered graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael KATZ, Shirin SOHRABI ARAGHI
  • Publication number: 20210004741
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for providing top-K quality plans streaming applications in a computing environment. A set of top-K quality plans using a quality bound for a planning problem. The planning problem may be reformulated in one or more subsequent iterations and forbidding use one or more of the set of top-K quality plans. Identifying one or more of the set top-K quality plans having a quality less than the quality bound during the one or more subsequent iterations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael KATZ, Octavian UDREA, Shirin SOHRABI ARAGHI
  • Publication number: 20200401910
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for intelligent causal knowledge analysis from data sources in a computing system by a processor. Multiple communications may be identified from one or more data sources. One or more causal statements having a cause-effect relationship may be extracted from the plurality of communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oktie HASSANZADEH, Michael PERRONE, Shirin SOHRABI ARAGHI, Mark FEBLOWITZ, Debarun BHATTACHARJYA, Michael KATZ, Kavitha SRINIVAS
  • Publication number: 20200286706
    Abstract: A sample carrier for in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has a dielectric substrate with a conductive layer that forms a coplanar waveguide. The coplanar waveguide has a first and second leads formed by the conductive layer. The first lead is between an adjacent pair of second leads and is spaced from the second leads by a respective gap. The coplanar waveguide is configured to transmit an electrical signal to a specimen held by the sample carrier, in particular, an electrical signal having a frequency in the radio-frequency (RF) regime (3 kHz-300 GHz), for example, up to 100 GHz. The sample carrier may be mounted to a TEM sample holder, which supports the sample carrier within a vacuum chamber of the microscope and provides electrical connection between the leads of the sample carrier and an RF source external to the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Michael KATZ, Karl SCHLIEP, June LAU, Jason J. GORMAN
  • Publication number: 20200175382
    Abstract: Performance of a computer running a plan recognition application is improved by obtaining, with a user interface implemented on the computer, a specification of a plan recognition problem, including a plurality of candidate observations; formulating at least one planning problem, with the computer, based on the specification; solving the at least one planning problem, with the computer, to determine at least one plan. The at least one plan is post-processed, with the computer, to determine at least one of the candidate observations which should be selected to solve the plan recognition problem; and the plan recognition problem is solved, with the computer, using the at least one of the candidate observations which should be selected to solve the plan recognition problem. Less CPU time is typically required for the solution as compared to techniques without guidance for selecting the observations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Shirin Sohrabi Araghi, Michael Katz
  • Patent number: 10635982
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for solving a plurality of spatiotemporal planning problems. The method may include creating a domain model. The method may also include assigning a solution bound associated with the created domain model to infinity. The method may further include calculating a solution to the created domain model based on the assigned solution bound using at least one of a best-first search algorithm. The method may also include updating the assigned solution bound based on the calculated solution. The method may further include presenting the calculated solution to a user based on the updated solution bound not equaling infinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Bnayahu, Michael Katz, Dany Moshkovich
  • Publication number: 20200104769
    Abstract: A method for natural language instantiation of a planning problem includes receiving, by a computer, a natural language representation of a user's schedule, the user's schedule including a plurality of activities, associating a plurality of biomedical parameters of the user with execution of the plurality of activities to determine an effect of each activity on the plurality of biomedical parameters, based on the association of the plurality of biomedical parameters with the execution of the plurality of activities and a predefined evaluation criteria, calculating a quality score for the user's schedule, optimizing the user's schedule by performing a local search, based on a generic ontology, automatically constructing an ontology including information associated with the plurality of activities and the plurality of biomedical parameters of the user, and based on the constructed ontology, processing the natural language representation of the user's schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Bnayahu, Michael Katz, Dany Moshkovich, Muhammed Salamah, Yan Tsitrin
  • Publication number: 20200104782
    Abstract: A method for developing an automated scheduling application includes receiving, by a computer, a user's schedule including a plurality of activities, each activity in the plurality of activities is associated with one or more constraints, associating biomedical parameters of the user with execution of the plurality of activities to determine an effect over time of each activity on the biomedical parameters, the associating is performed using a first application programming interface, based on the association of the biomedical parameters with the execution of the plurality of activities, identifying one or more evaluators including a predefined evaluation criteria to calculate a score for the user's schedule, the determining is performed using a second application programming interface, and performing a local search heuristic to modify and optimize the user's schedule, where the local search heuristic is performed using a third application programing interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Katz, Dany Moshkovich, Alexander Tuisov