Patents by Inventor Nghia Nguyen
Nghia Nguyen 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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Publication number: 20240087144Abstract: A weight sensor includes a plurality of load cells. A first load cell is configured to produce a first electric current based on a force experienced by the first load cell. A second load cell is configured to produce a second electric current based on a force experienced by the second load cell. A third load cell is configured to produce a third electric current based on a force experienced by the third load cell. And a fourth load cell is configured to produce a fourth electric current based on a force experienced by the fourth load cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Madan Mohan Chinnam, Caleb Austin Boulio, Deepanjan Paul, Fahad Mirza
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Patent number: 11914357Abstract: A method for diagnosing faults includes receiving a description of a component of a thermal hydraulic system, where the description also indicates one or more sensors of the component. The method also includes constructing, based on a physical conservation law and using the description, a physics-based model describing operation of the component, the physics-based model including one or more unknown parameters. The method further includes calibrating the physics-based model by calculating the one or more unknown parameters using historical measurements to produce a calibrated model. Further, the method includes receiving sensor measurements captured by the one or more sensors, and calculating residuals corresponding to differences between measurements predicted by the calibrated model and the sensor measurements. The method also includes determining, based on the calculated residuals, a fault of the component or of a sensor of the one or more sensors, and generating an alert indicating the fault.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: Tat Nghia Nguyen, Richard B. Vilim, Roberto Ponciroli
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Publication number: 20240005389Abstract: An apparatus to create a virtual layout of a virtual store to emulate a physical layout of a physical store includes a memory and a processor. The processor receives a physical position and orientation associated with a physical rack located in the physical store. In response, the processor places a virtual rack at a virtual position and orientation on the virtual layout, to represent the physical position and orientation of the physical rack on the physical layout. The processor receives virtual items associated with physical items located on physical shelves of the physical rack. In response, the processor places the virtual items on virtual shelves of the virtual rack, the virtual shelves representing the physical shelves of the physical rack. The processor assigns a rack camera, which captures video that includes the physical rack, to the virtual rack and stores the virtual layout in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Matthew Raymond MAGEE, Joshua E. BERRY, Trong Nghia NGUYEN, Ravi Kumar KURVA
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Patent number: 11823396Abstract: A scalable tracking system includes a camera subsystem, a weight subsystem, and a central server. The camera subsystem includes cameras that capture video of a space, camera clients that determine local coordinates of objects in the captured videos, and a camera server that determines the physical positions of objects in the space based on the determined local coordinates. The weight subsystem determines when items were removed from shelves. The central server determines which object in the space removed the items based on the physical positions of the objects in the space and the determination of when items were removed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Madan Mohan Chinnam, Caleb Austin Boulio, Deepanjan Paul, Fahad Mirza
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Patent number: 11798065Abstract: An apparatus to create a virtual layout of a virtual store to emulate a physical layout of a physical store includes a memory and a processor. The processor receives a physical position and orientation associated with a physical rack located in the physical store. In response, the processor places a virtual rack at a virtual position and orientation on the virtual layout, to represent the physical position and orientation of the physical rack on the physical layout. The processor receives virtual items associated with physical items located on physical shelves of the physical rack. In response, the processor places the virtual items on virtual shelves of the virtual rack, the virtual shelves representing the physical shelves of the physical rack. The processor assigns a rack camera, which captures video that includes the physical rack, to the virtual rack and stores the virtual layout in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Matthew Raymond Magee, Joshua E. Berry, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Ravi Kumar Kurva
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Patent number: 11740157Abstract: A method for diagnosing faults includes receiving a system description of a thermal hydraulic system, the system description indicating a plurality of components and sensors. The method also includes constructing, based on physical conservations laws and using the system description, a plurality of physics-based models for the plurality of components, each of the plurality of physics-based models including unknown parameters. The method further includes receiving historical measurements and calibrating the physics-based models by calculating the unknown parameters of each of the physics-based models using the historical measurements to produce calibrated models. The method also includes receiving sensor measurements of the sensors, and calculating residuals corresponding to differences between measurements predicted by the plurality of calibrated models and the sensor measurements.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: Tat Nghia Nguyen, Richard B. Vilim, Roberto Ponciroli
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Publication number: 20230235407Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for detecting the presence of cancer DNA in blood and for identifying the cancer origin in a test subject. Also provided are systems and methods for monitoring likelihood of cancer recurrence in a subject previously treated for cancer, systems and methods for assessing the efficacy of a cancer treatment in a subject suffering from cancer, and systems and methods for treating cancer in a subject in need thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Hoai Nghia NGUYEN, Hoa Giang, Minh Duy Phan, Le Son Tran
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Patent number: 11659139Abstract: A system includes sensors and a tracking subsystem. The subsystem receives frames of top-view images generated by the sensors. The subsystem tracks a first and second object, based on received frames. The subsystem detects that the first object is within a threshold distance of the second object. In response, the subsystem determines a probability that the first object switched identifiers with the second object and updates candidate lists accordingly for the first and second objects. The updated first candidate list includes a probability that the first object is associated with a first identifier and a probability that the first object is associated with a second identifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Trong Nghia Nguyen
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Patent number: 11657584Abstract: An apparatus includes a display, interface, and processor. The interface receives a live camera feed from a camera directed at a first physical structure located in a physical space. The processor receives an indication of an event associated with the first physical structure and accordingly displays a first virtual structure corresponding to the first physical structure. The first virtual structure includes virtual items that emulate physical items located on the first physical structure. The processor additionally displays a recording of the live camera feed, which depicts the event associated with the first physical structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Matthew Raymond Magee, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Franklin Philips
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Patent number: 11645698Abstract: An object tracking system includes a sensor, a weight sensor, and a tracking system. The sensor is configured to capture a frame of at least a portion of a rack within a global plane for a space. The tracking system is configured to detect a weight decrease on the weight sensor. The tracking system is further configured to receive the frame of the rack, to determine a pixel location for a person, to determine the person is within a predefined zone associated with the rack. The tracking system is further configured to identify the item associated with the weight sensor and to add the identified item to a digital cart associated with the person.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Sarath Vakacharla, Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Deepanjan Paul
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Publication number: 20230129899Abstract: Disclosed are a compound, a photosensitizer including the compound, a composition for mitochondria-targeted diagnosis or therapy of tumors including the compound, and a photodynamic therapy using the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: KYTECBIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Ju Young YOON, Van Nghia NGUYEN, Na Hyun KWON, Sujie QI
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Patent number: 11625918Abstract: An object tracking system includes a sensor and a tracking system. The sensor is configured to capture a frame of at least a portion of a physical space within a global plane for a space. The tracking system is configured to receive the frame, to detect an object within a zone of the frame, and to determine a pixel location for the object. The tracking system is further configured to identify a zone of the physical structure based on the pixel location, to identify an item based on the identified zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Sarath Vakacharla, Trang Nghia Nguyen, Crystal Maung, Deepanjan Paul
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Patent number: 11580748Abstract: A scalable tracking system processes video of a space to track the positions of objects within a space. The tracking system determines local coordinates for the objects within frames of the video and then assigns these coordinates to time windows based on when the frames were received. The tracking system then combines or clusters certain local coordinates that have been assigned to the same time window to determine a combined coordinate for an object during that time window.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Madan Mohan Chinnam, Caleb Austin Boulio
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Patent number: 11580749Abstract: A scalable tracking system processes video of a space to track the positions of people within a space. The tracking system determines local coordinates for the people within frames of the video and then assigns these coordinates to time windows based on when the frames were received. The tracking system then combines or clusters certain local coordinates that have been assigned to the same time window to determine a combined coordinate for a person during that time window.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Madan Mohan Chinnam, Caleb Austin Boulio
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Patent number: 11568554Abstract: A system includes a sensor and a client. The client receives a set of frames of top-view depth images generated by the sensor. The client identifies a frame of the received frames in which a first contour associated with a first object is merged with a second contour associated with a second object. The client determines, at a first depth in the identified frame, a merged-contour region which is associated with the merged contours. The client detects a third contour at a second depth that is less than the first depth and determines a first region associated with the third contour. The client detects a fourth contour at the second depth and determines a second region associated with the fourth contour. If criteria are satisfied, the client associates the first region with a position of the first object and associates the second region with a position of the second object.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Trong Nghia Nguyen, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sarath Vakacharla
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Patent number: 11501453Abstract: A camera array for a scalable tracking system includes cameras that are communicatively coupled to camera clients. The cameras are arranged in a grid such that no camera is directly adjacent in the same row or column of the grid to another camera that is communicatively coupled to the same camera client. Cameras that are arranged along a diagonal of the grid are communicatively coupled to the same camera client.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Caleb Austin Boulio, Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Shahmeer Ali Mirza
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Patent number: 11494454Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for searching a schema to identify and visualize corresponding data. The system may be configured to receive a search query and search the schema for columns that correspond to one another. Individual ones of the corresponding columns may have different labels or different data types. Results for the search query may be determined. The results may include a first set of columns that satisfy the search query including a first column and a second column that correspond to each other but have one or more different labels or different data types. The system may be configured to generate a graphical representation of a data distribution for the first column responsive to receiving a selection of the first column.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Katherine Gordon, Aaron Stromberg, Jacquelyn Sanchez, Katherine Karg, Nghia Nguyen
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Publication number: 20220319132Abstract: An apparatus includes a display, interface, and processor. The interface receives a live camera feed from a camera directed at a first physical structure located in a physical space. The processor receives an indication of an event associated with the first physical structure and accordingly displays a first virtual structure corresponding to the first physical structure. The first virtual structure includes virtual items that emulate physical items located on the first physical structure. The processor additionally displays a recording of the live camera feed, which depicts the event associated with the first physical structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Matthew Raymond Magee, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Franklin Philips
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Patent number: 11386631Abstract: An apparatus includes a display, interface, and processor. The interface receives a camera feed from a camera directed at a first physical rack located in a physical store. The processor displays virtual racks assigned to physical racks. The processor receives an indication of an event associated with the first physical rack and accordingly displays a first virtual rack, which includes first and second virtual shelves. The first and second virtual shelves include virtual items that emulate physical items located on physical shelves of the first physical rack. The processor additionally displays a recording of the camera feed, which depicts the event associated with the first physical rack.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.Inventors: Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Matthew Raymond Magee, Sarath Vakacharla, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Franklin Philips
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Publication number: 20220180424Abstract: An apparatus includes a display, interface, and processor. The interface receives video from a camera located in a physical store and directed at a first physical rack. The camera captures video of the rack during a shopping session. The processor displays a first virtual rack that emulates the first physical rack and includes first and second virtual shelves. The virtual shelves include virtual items, which include graphical representations of physical items located on the physical rack. The processor displays the rack video, which depicts an event including the person interacting with the first physical rack. The processor also displays a virtual shopping cart. The processor receives information associated with the event, identifying the first virtual item. The rack video depicts that the person selected the first physical item while interacting with the first physical rack. The processor then stores the first virtual item in the virtual shopping cart.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Matthew Raymond Magee, Shahmeer Ali Mirza, Joshua E. Berry, Trong Nghia Nguyen, Ravi Kumar Kurva, Sarath Vakacharla, Ranganathan Mohan, Maninder Singh Suri, Jonathan Christopher Hodge