Patents by Inventor Miguel Alvarez

Miguel Alvarez 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: 20240144676
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for providing responses to queries regarding store observation images. An example computer readable medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least obtain first metadata associated with a set of store dictionaries, select ones of the set of store dictionaries for use based on the associated first metadata, obtain second metadata associated with a set of question templates, select ones of the set of question templates for use based on the associated second metadata, generate question-answer pairs using the selected ones of the set of store dictionaries and the selected ones of the set of question templates, train a machine-learning model using the question-answer pairs, and provide query responses using the trained machine-learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Roberto Arroyo, Sergio Álvarez Pardo, Aitor Aller, Miguel Eduardo Ortiz, Luis Miguel Bergasa
  • Publication number: 20240137276
    Abstract: A User Plane Function, UPF (35), sends a load report to a Session Management Function, SMF (45). Responsive to receiving the load report from the UPF (35), the SMF (45) installs a load reduction policy rule in the UPF (35). The load reduction policy rule comprises a criterion for identifying one or more users subject to the load reduction policy rule. The UPF (35) selectively applies the load reduction policy rule to user plane traffic of the one or more users based on the criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña, Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez, Göran Rune
  • Publication number: 20240137290
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems performed and configured to operate in a wireless communication network are presented. In example implementations, a request to register or update a Network Function, NF, profile of an NF in a Network Repository Function, NRF, is sent from the NF to the NRF. The NF profile signaled via the request comprises one or more parameters relating to one or more of a hardware characteristic of hardware comprised in the wireless communication network, a latency characteristic of the wireless communication network, and a throughput characteristic of the wireless communication network. An acknowledgement of the request may be sent from the NRF to the NF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Rodrigo ALVAREZ DOMINGUEZ, Miguel Angel MUÑOZ DE LA TORRE ALONSO
  • Publication number: 20240130001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an application server providing a service to a multipath enabled mobile entity connected to the application server with a first bearer of a first access network of a first mobile communications network, wherein the application server is external to the mobile communications network, whereas the method comprises the steps of receiving an indication that the mobile entity has an option to use another bearer not belonging to the first mobile communications network for accessing the application server, and of transmitting a request message towards a policy control entity of the first mobile communications network requesting the policy control entity to disconnect the first bearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rodrigo ALVAREZ DOMINGUEZ, Marc MOLLA, Miguel Angel MUÑOZ DE LA TORRE ALONSO, Alfonso de Jesus PEREZ MARTINEZ
  • Patent number: 11948824
    Abstract: A pellicle removal tool including a stage that holds a photomask and an associated pellicle, two or more arms positioned around the stage and configured to engage pellicle side wells of the pellicle, and two or more actuators each configured to adjust at least a vertical position of a corresponding one of the two or more arms so as to apply a lifting force to the pellicle for removal of the pellicle from the photomask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PHOTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hilario Ar-Miguel Alvarez, Spencer Allen Mullens, Jesse Eugene Williams, II
  • Publication number: 20240106934
    Abstract: A communication network (10) tracking usage information for each of two or more components of traffic associated with the same application identifier provides a basis for differentiating charging with respect to the two or more components. For example, traffic carried by a communication network (10) for a social media application running on a User Equipment (UE) (12) may be identified by a corresponding application identifier. However, the so-identified traffic may include multiple components, such as traffic providing the social-media service(s) and traffic constituting advertising or other ancillary or supplementary content. Tracking and reporting the network usage associated with respective components, i.e., at a granularity finer than that provided by the overall application or traffic flow identifier, provides an advantageous basis for differentiated charging as between the respective components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña, Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez
  • Publication number: 20240081441
    Abstract: A first subject of the present invention has an antiviral formulation with metallic copper particles in an unoxidized form and having a median particle diameter inferior or equal to 200 nm, graphene oxide or reduced graphene oxide, and a bonding matrix material. A second subject of the invention has an antiviral filtering material with a layer of textile and at least one layer of an antiviral coating comprising metallic copper particles in an unoxidized form and having a median particle diameter inferior or equal to 200 nm, graphene oxide or reduced graphene oxide, and a bonding matrix into which both metallic copper particles and graphene oxide or reduced graphene oxide are anchored. The invention also concerns methods of preparation of the antiviral formulation and of the antiviral filtering material. Finally, the invention includes an antiviral face mask with a layer of textile coated with the antiviral formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Abel ALVAREZ-ALVAREZ, Alvaro MANJON FERNANDEZ, Luis Miguel SANZ MORAL, David NORIEGA PEREZ, Jorge RODRíGUEZ GARCíA, Laura MEGIDO FERNANDEZ, Sivasambu BOHM, Roberto SUAREZ SANCHEZ, Marcos PEREZ RODRIGUEZ
  • Patent number: 11917713
    Abstract: The use of multipath enabled mobile entities accessing a service outside the network in a multipath connection. The invention relates to a method for operating an application server (100) providing a service to a multipath enabled mobile entity (10) connected to the application server with a first bearer of a first access network of a first mobile communications network, wherein the application server is external to the mobile communications network, whereas the method comprises the steps of receiving an indication that the mobile entity (10) has an option to use another bearer not belonging to the first mobile communications network for accessing the application server, and of transmitting a request message towards a policy control entity (50) of the first mobile communications network requesting the policy control entity to disconnect the first bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez, Marc Molla, Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Alfonso de Jesus Perez Martinez
  • Patent number: 11913305
    Abstract: A seal arrangement includes a body having a face seal, and a flexible arm extending from the body. The arm includes a contact seal. A flapper valve, includes a housing, a flapper and a flapper seat. The flapper seat includes a body having a face seal positioned to make sealing contact with the flapper in selected flapper positions A method for sealing a flapper valve includes closing a flapper toward a seat and making a seal, by deflecting a flexible arm of the flapper seat that supports a contact seal. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a seal arrangement disposed within or as a part of the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Miguel Alvarez, Joshua Raymond Snitkoff, John Burris, Chad Yates
  • Publication number: 20230274965
    Abstract: A pellicle removal tool including a stage that holds a photomask and an associated pellicle, two or more arms positioned around the stage and configured to engage pellicle side wells of the pellicle, and two or more actuators each configured to adjust at least a vertical position of a corresponding one of the two or more arms so as to apply a lifting force to the pellicle for removal of the pellicle from the photomask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Hilario Ar-Miguel Alvarez, Spencer Allen Mullens, Jesse Eugene Williams, II
  • Patent number: 11682573
    Abstract: A pellicle removal tool including a stage that holds a photomask and an associated pellicle, two or more arms positioned around the stage and configured to engage pellicle side wells of the pellicle, and two or more actuators each configured to adjust at least a vertical position of a corresponding one of the two or more arms so as to apply a lifting force to the pellicle for removal of the pellicle from the photomask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: PHOTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hilario Ar-Miguel Alvarez, Spencer Allen Mullens, Jesse Eugene Williams, II
  • Patent number: 11498278
    Abstract: A three dimensional printing system, the system including: a printhead; and a removable tray comprising a reservoir, the tray located in a print bed of the three dimensional printing system such that liquid purged from the printhead is deposited in the reservoir, wherein prior to the system purging liquid from the printhead, the system confirms that the tray is in place using a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Miguel Alvarez, Warren Scott Martin, Joshua Schmale
  • Publication number: 20210384057
    Abstract: A pellicle removal tool including a stage that holds a photomask and an associated pellicle, two or more arms positioned around the stage and configured to engage pellicle side wells of the pellicle, and two or more actuators each configured to adjust at least a vertical position of a corresponding one of the two or more arms so as to apply a lifting force to the pellicle for removal of the pellicle from the photomask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Hilario Ar-Miguel Alvarez, Spencer Allen Mullens, Jesse Eugene Williams, II
  • Patent number: 11189421
    Abstract: A current sensing modular system, which allows sensing the phase current and/or the around-fault or zero-sequence current, having to that end at least a first module having at least one phase current sensor embedded therein and a second module having a zero-sequence current sensor embedded therein. The first module is independent of the second module, both modules being installed directly in the connection elements, i.e., in the connection point between at least one bushing and at least one connector of at least one grid cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: ORMAZABAL PROTECTION & AUTOMATION, S.L.U., ORMAZABAL Y CIA., S.L.U.
    Inventors: Luis Ranedo Torres, Miguel Alvarez Escalona, Jose Luis Sabas Fernandez, Juan Antonio Sanchez Ruiz
  • Patent number: 11183410
    Abstract: A pellicle removal tool including a stage that holds a photomask and an associated pellicle, two or more arms positioned around the stage and configured to engage pellicle side wells of the pellicle, and two or more actuators each configured to adjust at least a vertical position of a corresponding one of the two or more arms so as to apply a lifting force to the pellicle for removal of the pellicle from the photomask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: PHOTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hilario Ar-Miguel Alvarez, Spencer Allen Mullens, Jesse Eugene Williams, II
  • Publication number: 20210331463
    Abstract: A drop detector calibration system may include a fluid ejection bar, a drop detector movable along the fluid ejection bar at different spacings from the fluid ejection bar and a controller to determine a location of the fluid ejection bar based upon interaction between the fluid ejection bar and the drop detector during movement of the drop detector along the fluid ejection bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Erikk A. Ojala, Miguel Alvarez, Warren S. Martin
  • Publication number: 20210213734
    Abstract: A printer and method for ejecting fluid through nozzles of the printer to a surface of a service station of the printer to perform drop detection of the nozzles. A rotation device of the service station turns the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Warren Scott MARTIN, Miguel ALVAREZ, Michael GRAHAM
  • Publication number: 20210206063
    Abstract: A print head assembly for a printer is described. The print head assembly includes a print die and an offset shim to protect the print die when the print head assembly is disposed on a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Warren Scott MARTIN, Miguel ALVAREZ, Steven E. REINHART
  • Publication number: 20210197474
    Abstract: A three dimensional printing system, the system including: a printhead; and a removable tray comprising a reservoir, the tray located in a print bed of the three dimensional printing system such that liquid purged from the printhead is deposited in the reservoir, wherein prior to the system purging liquid from the printhead, the system confirms that the tray is in place using a sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Miguel ALVAREZ, Warren Scott MARTIN, Joshua SCHMALE
  • Patent number: 10908185
    Abstract: The lead-in insulating device (1) of the present invention allows the passage of a live conductor (5) through a wall (18) of high-voltage electrical equipment (14), and in turn allows sensing voltage and current, for which purpose it comprises at least two electric shields (6, 7) and at least one current measurement element (12, 13), installed such that they allow detecting the presence/absence of voltage and precisely measuring the voltage and current, as well as a simple and rapid installation/removal thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: ORMAZABAL PROTECTION & AUTOMATION, S.L.U., ORMAZABAL Y CIA, S.L.U.
    Inventors: Juan Antonio Sanchez Ruiz, Miguel Alvarez Escalona, Jose Maria Rua Sanchez, Jose Luis Sabas Fernandez, Luis Ranero Torres