Patents by Inventor Nathan Alexander

Nathan 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: 20240152267
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device detects an activity event associated with a user of the electronic device and displays a prompt that facilitates creation of a journaling entry based on the activity event, displays suggested content for inclusion in a journal entry of a journaling application, and/or displays one or more lookbacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph-Alexander P. WEIL, Daniel J. ZIGMOND, Mariah W. WHITMORE, Adeeti V. ULLAL, Nadaleen F. TEMPELMAN-KLUIT, Nathan A. Russak, Joanna M. Newman
  • Publication number: 20240148623
    Abstract: Compound formulations include gadusol or gadusporine that can be used as topicals, such as sunscreens or filters that protect human and animal skin against harmful light like UVA, and UVB, cosmetics, and skin care products. In some examples, gadusol or gadusporine are ?0.5% w/w, 0.5-2.0% w/w of the compound formulation. Other compound formulations include gadusol or gadusporine at >2.0% w/w of the compound formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Alan T. Bakalinsky, Khaled H. Almabruk, Kathryn Pettinger, Irwin Palefsky, Atchara Sripeng, Nathan Alexander
  • Patent number: 11974818
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, surgical tracking devices, and systems that facilitate improved tracking in surgical environments are disclosed. With this technology, a fiber optic shape sensing (FOSS) device is rigidly attached to patient anatomy and/or surgical instrument(s) to facilitate location and/or flexibility tracking. The data provided by the FOSS device can be analyzed and registered to preoperative or intraoperative 3D anatomy model(s). The FOSS device can be attached to a surgical instrument to provide intraoperative guidance, used to locate a hollow needle for tracking bones in a minimally invasive manner, and/or used to detect bending in an instrument such as an arthroscope or tissue removing burr shaft, for example. The tracked location and/or flexibility data provided by the FOSS device can also be used to automatically control the location and/or operation of a surgical instrument during a surgical proceeding to facilitate improved surgical accuracy and patient outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Nathan Anil Netravali, Paul Alexander Torrie
  • Publication number: 20240138665
    Abstract: An imaging system, optionally an intra-oral camera, includes a blue light source and a barrier filter over a camera sensor. Optionally, the imaging system can also take white light images. Optionally, the system includes positively charged nanoparticles with fluorescein. The fluorescent nanoparticles can be identified on an image of a tooth by machine vision or machine learning algorithms on a pixel level basis. Either white light or fluorescent images can be used, with machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithms, to score the lesions. However, the white light image is not useful for determining whether lesions, particularly ICDAS 0-2 lesions, are active or inactive. A fluorescent image, with the fluorescent nanoparticles, can be used to detect and score active lesions. Optionally using a white light image and a fluorescent image together allows for all lesions, active and inactive, to be located and scored, and for their activity to be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kai Alexander JONES, Nathan A. JONES, Steven BLOEMBERGEN, Scott Raymond PUNDSACK, Yu Cheng LIN, Helmut NEHER, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240110206
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to biosynthesis of cannabinoids and cannabinoid precursors in recombinant cells and in vitro. Specifically, the disclosure is directed to a prenyltransferase variant, a chimeric prenyltransferase comprising one or more portions of at least two different prenyltransferase proteins, and a fusion polypeptide comprising a CBG-type producing prenyltransferase and farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Alexander Carlin, Brian Carvalho, Nicholas Flores, Katrina Forrest, Gabriel Rodriguez, Nathan W. Schmidt, Michelle Spencer
  • Publication number: 20240102024
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides host cells, e.g., bacterial cells, that comprise a methionine decarboxylase enzyme for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with methionine metabolism in a subject. The disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating disorders associated with methionine metabolism, such as homocystinuria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Dylan Alexander Carlin, Vincent M. Isabella, Jonathan McMurry, Theodore Carlton Moore, III, Mylene Perreault, Nathan Schmidt, Mark Simon
  • Publication number: 20240077465
    Abstract: A system, device, and method for sensing air quality with a sensor platform is disclosed. The method includes (i) directing a set of mobile sensors to a coarse region wherein the coarse region has coarse size based on variance of prior air quality measurements taken at locations within a vicinity of the coarse region, and (ii) directing the set of mobile sensors to a fine region wherein the fine region has a fine size based on variance of prior air quality measurements taken at locations within a vicinity of the fine region. The variance of air quality measurements associated with the fine region is greater than a variance of air quality measurements associated with the coarse region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Sankary, Walker Alexander, Michael Browning, Jessica Jenkins, Tobe Corazzini, Meghan Elizabeth Thurlow, Zachary Kent Smith, Davida Herzl
  • Publication number: 20240077326
    Abstract: A system, device, and method for sensing air quality with a sensor platform is disclosed. The method includes (i) directing an air quality measurement system to a predicted high information region wherein the predicted high information region is determined based on high variance of prior air quality measurements taken at different times, (ii) directing the air quality measurement system to a predicted low information region wherein the predicted low information region is determined based on low variance of prior air quality measurements taken at different times. The air quality measurement system is preferentially directed to the predicted high information region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Sankary, Walker Alexander, Michael Browning, Jessica Jenkins, Tobe Corazzini, Meghan Elizabeth Thurlow, Zachary Kent Smith, Davida Herzl
  • Publication number: 20240031243
    Abstract: A system for predicting an anomalous request comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to generate a first set of data objects associated with a first user profile. The processor is configured to compare the first set of the data objects to approved data and audit data to generate a second set of data objects with a set of anomalous data indicators for the first user profile. The processor is further configured to process the second set of the data objects through an anomaly learning model to determine a predictive degree of approval associated with the user profile. The processor is further configured to determine to how to process the user profile based on the predictive degree of approval. The processor is further configured to assign a profile indicator to the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Jack Williams, Richard Scot, Rebecca Lynn Pietro, John Shelton, Abelardo Espinoza, Nathan Alexander Dalpini, Vani Reddy Nareddy
  • Publication number: 20230393101
    Abstract: A UT scanner interface may include a main body that includes an inner chamber including a UT scanner facing toward an opening on a bottom side, a couplant injection port, and a fluid evacuation port. During operations, a couplant is injected into the inner chamber via the couplant injection port while couplant and any contaminants may be removed from the inner chamber via the fluid evacuation port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Fred Melvelle BRIGGS, IV, Brandon Pollett WERNICK, Nathan Alexander LLOYD, Ernest Wardell SAMOTSHOZO
  • Patent number: 11811616
    Abstract: A system for predicting an anomalous request comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to parse a user profile from a plurality of user profiles to generate a first set of data objects associated with the first user profile. The processor is configured to compare the first set of the data objects to approved data and audit data to generate a second set of data objects with a set of anomalous data indicators for the first user profile. The processor is further configured to process the second set of the data objects through an anomaly learning model to determine a predictive degree of approval associated with the user profile. The processor is further configured to determine to approve, flag or disapprove the user profile based on the predictive degree of approval. The processor is further configured to assign a profile indicator to the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Jack Williams, Richard Scot, Rebecca Lynn Pietro, John Shelton, Abelardo Espinoza, Nathan Alexander Dalpini, Vani Reddy Nareddy
  • Patent number: 11724804
    Abstract: A male part and a female part can reversibly couple aircraft to one another using an attachment mechanism. The male part includes a wall forming a shaft and is operable to attach to a first aircraft. The female part includes a wall forming a cavity and is operable to attach to a second aircraft. The attachment mechanism can regulate a mechanical engagement between the shaft on the male part and the cavity on the female part while the first aircraft and the second aircraft are airborne or on land. The attachment mechanism is operable to switch between an engaged position and a disengaged position. In the engaged position, the attachment mechanism initiates the mechanical engagement to rigidly attach the first and the second aircraft to one another. In the disengaged position, the attachment mechanism discontinues the mechanical engagement to detach the first and the second aircraft from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Alexander Mills, Nitin Susendran, Monty Don Bruckman, II, Adam Bergamini
  • Publication number: 20230157935
    Abstract: Embodiments of sunscreen formulations are disclosed herein. In one example, a sunscreen formulation includes a) a physical/inorganic sunscreen active ingredient at from about 5% to about 25% on a weight/weight (w/w) basis, wherein the physical/inorganic sunscreen active ingredient generates a first sun protection factor (“SPF”) value to a sunscreen formulation; b) gadusol; and c) a plurality of ingredients configured to deliver ingredients a) and b) in the sunscreen formulation, wherein the gadusol is present in the sunscreen formulation in an amount sufficient to generate a SPF booster effect in the sunscreen formulation to provide an enhanced SPF value for the sunscreen formulation that is at least 1.5 times the first SPF value generated by the physical/inorganic sunscreen active ingredient when the physical/inorganic sunscreen active ingredient is present at a same amount in a formulation that does not contain gadusol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Khaled H. Almabruk, Alan T. Bakalinsky, Atchara Sripeng, Nathan Alexander, Jennifer Cookson, Margaret Sullivan, Kimberly Biedermann, Irwin Palefsky, Kathryn Pettinger
  • Patent number: 11657058
    Abstract: A computer system comprises a memory, a network interface, and at least one processor is provided. The memory stores a plurality of user profile records and a plurality of skill profile records. The at least one processor is configured to receive a request to recommend a skill to improve mental health of a user; retrieve, from the plurality of user profile records, a user profile record associated with the user and the skill, the user profile record including a first weight; retrieve, from the plurality of skill profile records, a skill profile record associated with the skill, the skill profile record including a second weight; determine a third weight based on the first weight and the second weight; generate a response to the request, the response including an identifier of the skill and the third weight; and transmit the response to a virtual assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Sheerin, Ellen Rose Wootten, Nathan Alexander Burn, Ronan Lewis Diver
  • Patent number: 11658881
    Abstract: A system for predicting an anomalous request comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to parse a user profile from a plurality of user profiles to generate a first set of data objects associated with the first user profile. The processor is configured to compare the first set of the data objects to approved data, audit data, disapproved data to generate a second set of data objects with a set of anomalous data indicators for the first user profile. The processor is further configured to process the second set of the data objects through an anomaly learning model to determine a predictive degree of approval associated with the user profile. The processor is further configured to determine to approve, flag or disapprove the user profile based on the predictive degree of approval. The processor is further configured to assign a profile indicator to the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Jack Williams, Richard Scot, Rebecca Lynn Pietro, John Shelton, Abelardo Espinoza, Nathan Alexander Dalpini, Vani Reddy Nareddy
  • Patent number: 11620472
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying individuals with a user-requested expertise are provided. For example, the system can include a processor configured to receive a user input and extract one or more keywords from the input. The processor can generate search requests based upon the one or more keywords, each search request identifying at least one application programming interface (API) call configured to invoke at least one API function as exposed by a software application. The processor can transmit the search requests to the software applications and receive search responses. The processor can determine a plurality of software application users and a set of associated evidence, each set of associated evidence including user interactions with each of the software applications. The processor can aggregate the evidence into an aggregated data set and configure the aggregated data set as an input to a machine learning classifier for ranking the sets of evidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Christopher John Plant, Nathan Alexander Burn, John Matthew Dilley, Ellen Rose Wootten, Nilpa Madhusudan Shah
  • Publication number: 20230080885
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for detecting a synthetic identity. The method includes receiving an identity verification request relating to an individual. The identity verification request includes one or more individual identifiers of the individual. The method also includes comparing at least one of the one or more individual identifiers to one or more known synthetic indicators. The one or more known synthetic indicators including at least one of a synthetic identifier type or a synthetic identifier value that correspond to one or more known synthetic identities. The method further includes determining a synthetic identity determination based on the comparison of the at least one of the one or more individual identifiers to the one or more known synthetic indicators. The synthetic identity determination indicates whether an identity verification request is a potential synthetic identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nathan Alexander Dalpini, Tomas M. Castrejon III, James J. Siekman
  • Publication number: 20230075953
    Abstract: Embodiments of sunscreen formulations are disclosed herein. In one example, a sunscreen formulation includes a) a physical/inorganic sunscreen active ingredient at from about 5% to about 25% on a weight/weight (w/w) basis, wherein the active ingredient generates a first sun protection factor (“SPF”) value to a sunscreen formulation; b) gadusol; and c) a plurality of ingredients configured to deliver ingredients a) and b) in the sunscreen formulation, wherein the gadusol is present in the sunscreen formulation in an amount sufficient to generate a SPF booster effect in the sunscreen formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Khaled H. Almabruk, Alan T. Bakalinsky, Atchara Sripeng, Nathan Alexander, Jennifer Cookson, Margaret Sullivan, Kimberly Biedermann, Irwin Palefsky, Kathryn Pettinger
  • Publication number: 20220388650
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises a propulsion assembly that includes a rotor system configured to swivel about a pivot axis and a flight control system in communication with the propulsion assembly. In one embodiment, the pivot axis is fixedly oriented at an angle relative to a lateral axis of the vehicle in a plane defined by a longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The flight control system is configured to activate a particular operational mode of the propulsion assembly, in which the rotor system is configured to swivel about the pivot axis to move a rotor axis of the rotor system from a first gimbal angle to a second gimbal angle. In various embodiments, the gimbal angle is configured to change a center of gravity, or direction of thrust vectors, or attitude of the vehicle. The operational mode may comprise a one engine inoperative (OEI) mode in an example embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Nathan Alexander Mills, Joshua Allan Edler
  • Publication number: 20220195980
    Abstract: The present invention relates to airfoils having surface treatments to reduce trailing edge noise. The surface treatment is designed to reduce trailing edge noise by modifying the boundary layer turbulence as it approaches the trailing edge. The surface treatment accomplishes its function by breaking up spanwise-oriented turbulence approaching the trailing edge, thereby reducing the spanwise correlation lengthscales; deflecting the boundary layer turbulence away from the edge; and/or creating spanwise vortices or instability waves to reduce the turbulence-edge interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: William Nathan Alexander, William J. Devenport, Ian A. Clark, Justin W. Jaworski, Stewart Glegg, Nigel Peake, Conor Daly