Patents by Inventor Nicholas GOMEZ
Nicholas GOMEZ 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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Patent number: 11974935Abstract: A rear-entry ankle brace includes an elastomeric component defining an inside elbow channel configured to span an ankle joint. A channel opening extends the length of the elastomeric component for direct insertion on top of a leg. One or more leg straps are used to adjustably tension first and second rear edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the lower leg. Two foot straps are used to adjustably tension first and second bottom edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the mid-foot. The foot straps overlap on the bottom to define a plantar surface of the brace and cross over each other on the topside of the elastomeric component and are secured to a leg strap. A pair of stabilizing stirrups optionally are included on the inside surfaces of the elastomeric component and receive the malleoli.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: RUBBER CITY BRACING COMPANY LLCInventors: Annunziato Amendola, Anthony Perera, Bryan Den Hartog, David B. Kay, Nicholas Gomez, Ian D. Kovacevich, Nouphone J. Bansasine
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Publication number: 20240144006Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an encoder neural network configured to receive the input sequence and generate encoded representations of the network inputs, the encoder neural network comprising a sequence of one or more encoder subnetworks, each encoder subnetwork configured to receive a respective encoder subnetwork input for each of the input positions and to generate a respective subnetwork output for each of the input positions, and each encoder subnetwork comprising: an encoder self-attention sub-layer that is configured to receive the subnetwork input for each of the input positions and, for each particular input position in the input order: apply an attention mechanism over the encoder subnetwork inputs using one or more queries derived from the encoder subnetwork input at the particular input position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Noam M. Shazeer, Aidan Nicholas Gomez, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, Illia Polosukhin, Ashish Teku Vaswani
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Patent number: 11951027Abstract: A customizable knee brace for use in the treatment of osteoarthritis is provided. The customizable knee brace includes a lateral upright. The lateral upright includes at least a first semi-rigid support, a second semi-rigid support, and a hinge physically coupling the first semi-rigid support and the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a thigh cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the first semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a shin cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes an elastomeric web framework coupled to the lateral upright and configured to secure an area of a knee of a patient when wearing the customizable knee brace. The customizable knee brace further includes at least one tensioning element configured to adjust a tension of the elastomeric web framework.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: DJO, LLCInventors: Richard E Gildersleeve, Ian Kovacevich, Nicholas Gomez
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Publication number: 20240113425Abstract: An electronic device may include an antenna and a coaxial cable coupled to the antenna. The coaxial cable may have a signal conductor coupled to an antenna resonating element of the antenna and a ground conductor coupled to an antenna ground of the antenna. The ground conductor may include an ungrounded segment that is separated from the antenna ground by a gap. A capacitive coupling between the ground conductor in the ungrounded segment and the antenna ground via the gap may form an impedance matching component for the coaxial cable. A dielectric retention layer may overlap the coaxial cable and hold the coaxial cable in place relative to the antenna ground to maintain the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Panagiotis Theofanopoulos, David Garrido Lopez, Nicholas A Renda, Le Li, Xiangyu Wang, Emily Sheng, Jason Bakhshi, Harish Rajagopalan, Forhad Hasnat, Subramanian Ramalingam, Erik A Uttermann, Rodney A Gomez Angulo, Ozgur Isik
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Patent number: 11893483Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an encoder neural network configured to receive the input sequence and generate encoded representations of the network inputs, the encoder neural network comprising a sequence of one or more encoder subnetworks, each encoder subnetwork configured to receive a respective encoder subnetwork input for each of the input positions and to generate a respective subnetwork output for each of the input positions, and each encoder subnetwork comprising: an encoder self-attention sub-layer that is configured to receive the subnetwork input for each of the input positions and, for each particular input position in the input order: apply an attention mechanism over the encoder subnetwork inputs using one or more queries derived from the encoder subnetwork input at the particular input position.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Noam M. Shazeer, Aidan Nicholas Gomez, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, Illia Polosukhin, Ashish Teku Vaswani
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Patent number: 11865024Abstract: Support braces and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. A support brace includes a flexible fabric substrate and an elastomeric member disposed on the surface of the flexible fabric substrate. The elastomeric member is disposed so as to apply pressure non-uniformly about a limb or joint of the wearer, in a pattern selected to divert pain and/or reduce loads on the joint. The flexible fabric substrate can include regions having different levels of elasticity, to provide different levels of compression to different parts of the joint or limb in addition to the compression provided by the elastomeric member. The elastomeric member can be deposited, screen printed, injection molded, or otherwise applied to the fabric substrate, optionally without adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DJO, LLCInventors: Nicholas Gomez, Ian Kovacevich, Richard E Gildersleeve, John Patrick Martin, David Orr
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Patent number: 11803711Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for performing machine translation tasks. One method includes receiving an input text segment in an input language; processing the input text segment using an encoder neural network to generate an encoder neural network output, the encoder neural network comprising multiple depth wise separable convolutional neural network layers; processing the encoder neural network output using an autoregressive decoder neural network to generate a decoder neural network output; and processing the decoder neural network output to generate a predicted output text segment in a target natural language.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Aidan Nicholas Gomez, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Francois Chollet
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Publication number: 20230320884Abstract: A customizable knee brace for use in the treatment of osteoarthritis is provided. The customizable knee brace includes a lateral upright. The lateral upright includes at least a first semi-rigid support, a second semi-rigid support, and a hinge physically coupling the first semi-rigid support and the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a thigh cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the first semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a shin cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes an elastomeric web framework coupled to the lateral upright and configured to secure an area of a knee of a patient when wearing the customizable knee brace. The customizable knee brace further includes at least one tensioning element configured to adjust a tension of the elastomeric web framework.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Richard E. Gildersleeve, Ian Kovacevich, Nicholas Gomez
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Patent number: 11690747Abstract: A rear-entry ankle brace includes an elastomeric component defining an inside elbow channel configured to span an ankle joint. A channel opening extends the length of the elastomeric component for direct insertion on top of a leg. One or more leg straps are used to adjustably tension first and second rear edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the lower leg. Two foot straps are used to adjustably tension first and second bottom edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the mid-foot. The foot straps overlap on the bottom to define a plantar surface of the brace and cross over each other on the topside of the elastomeric component and are secured to a leg strap. A pair of stabilizing stirrups optionally are included on the inside surfaces of the elastomeric component and receive the malleoli.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: RUBBER CITY BRACING COMPANY LLCInventors: Annunziato Amendola, Anthony Perera, Bryan Den Hartog, David B. Kay, Nicholas Gomez, Ian D. Kovacevich, Nouphone J. Bansasine
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Publication number: 20230201017Abstract: Support braces and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. A support brace includes a flexible fabric substrate and an elastomeric member disposed on the surface of the flexible fabric substrate. The elastomeric member is disposed so as to apply pressure non-uniformly about a limb or joint of the wearer, in a pattern selected to divert pain and/or reduce loads on the joint. The flexible fabric substrate can include regions having different levels of elasticity, to provide different levels of compression to different parts of the joint or limb in addition to the compression provided by the elastomeric member. The elastomeric member can be deposited, screen printed, injection molded, or otherwise applied to the fabric substrate, optionally without adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Nicholas Gomez, Ian Kovacevich, Richard E Gildersleeve, John Patrick MARTIN, David Orr
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Publication number: 20230190506Abstract: A rear-entry ankle brace includes an elastomeric component defining an inside elbow channel configured to span an ankle joint. A channel opening extends the length of the elastomeric component for direct insertion on top of a leg. One or more leg straps are used to adjustably tension first and second rear edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the lower leg. Two foot straps are used to adjustably tension first and second bottom edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the mid-foot. The foot straps overlap on the bottom to define a plantar surface of the brace and cross over each other on the topside of the elastomeric component and are secured to a leg strap. A pair of stabilizing stirrups optionally are included on the inside surfaces of the elastomeric component and receive the malleoli.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Annunziato Amendola, Anthony Perera, Bryan Den Hartog, David B. Kay, Nicholas Gomez, Ian D. Kovacevich, Nouphone J. Bansasine
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Patent number: 11630869Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining at least two documents, wherein one of the at least two documents comprises a revision different than another of the at least two documents; identifying, within each of the at least two documents, portions corresponding to groups of text containing a conceptual unit; assigning at least a subset of the identified portions to a category type corresponding to a topic of a given portion, wherein the assigning comprises (i) generating a semantic tag for the identified portions in the subset and (ii) tagging the identified portions in the subset with the semantic tag; and determining changes between the at least two documents, wherein the determining comprises (iii) aligning given portions across the at least two documents based upon a relationship between the given portions across the at least two documents, (iv) identifying semantic differences between the aligned portions, and (v) identifying any remaining unaligned portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Arvind Agarwal, Vitobha Munigala, Mitesh H. Vasa, Shanmukha Guttula, Ankush Gupta, Nicholas Gomez Phan
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Patent number: 11617671Abstract: A customizable knee brace for use in the treatment of osteoarthritis is provided. The customizable knee brace includes a lateral upright. The lateral upright includes at least a first semi-rigid support, a second semi-rigid support, and a hinge physically coupling the first semi-rigid support and the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a thigh cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the first semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a shin cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes an elastomeric web framework coupled to the lateral upright and configured to secure an area of a knee of a patient when wearing the customizable knee brace. The customizable knee brace further includes at least one tensioning element configured to adjust a tension of the elastomeric web framework.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: DJO, LLCInventors: Richard E Gildersleeve, Ian Kovacevich, Nicholas Gomez
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Publication number: 20230091998Abstract: A rear-entry ankle brace includes an elastomeric component defining an inside elbow channel configured to span an ankle joint. A channel opening extends the length of the elastomeric component for direct insertion on top of a leg. One or more leg straps are used to adjustably tension first and second rear edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the lower leg. Two foot straps are used to adjustably tension first and second bottom edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the mid-foot. The foot straps overlap on the bottom to define a plantar surface of the brace and cross over each other on the topside of the elastomeric component and are secured to a leg strap. A pair of stabilizing stirrups optionally are included on the inside surfaces of the elastomeric component and receive the malleoli.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Annunziato Amendola, Anthony Perera, Bryan Den Hartog, David B. Kay, Nicholas Gomez, Ian D. Kovacevich, Nouphone J. Bansasine
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Patent number: 11607331Abstract: A rear-entry ankle brace includes an elastomeric component defining an inside elbow channel configured to span an ankle joint. A channel opening extends the length of the elastomeric component for direct insertion on top of a leg. One or more leg straps are used to adjustably tension first and second rear edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the lower leg. Two foot straps are used to adjustably tension first and second bottom edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the mid-foot. The foot straps overlap on the bottom to define a plantar surface of the brace and cross over each other on the topside of the elastomeric component and are secured to a leg strap. A pair of stabilizing stirrups optionally are included on the inside surfaces of the elastomeric component and receive the malleoli.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: RUBBER CITY BRACING COMPANY LLCInventors: Annunziato Amendola, Anthony Perera, Bryan Den Hartog, David B. Kay, Nicholas Gomez, Ian D. Kovacevich, Nouphone J. Bansasine
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Patent number: 11494561Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for training a machine learning model to perform multiple machine learning tasks from multiple machine learning domains. One system includes a machine learning model that includes multiple input modality neural networks corresponding to respective different modalities and being configured to map received data inputs of the corresponding modality to mapped data inputs from a unified representation space; an encoder neural network configured to process mapped data inputs from the unified representation space to generate respective encoder data outputs; a decoder neural network configured to process encoder data outputs to generate respective decoder data outputs from the unified representation space; and multiple output modality neural networks corresponding to respective different modalities and being configured to map decoder data outputs to data outputs of the corresponding modality.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Noam M. Shazeer, Aidan Nicholas Gomez, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, Ashish Teku Vaswani
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Publication number: 20220280322Abstract: A rear-entry ankle brace includes an elastomeric component defining an inside elbow channel configured to span an ankle joint. A channel opening extends the length of the elastomeric component for direct insertion on top of a leg. One or more leg straps are used to adjustably tension first and second rear edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the lower leg. Two foot straps are used to adjustably tension first and second bottom edges of the channel opening toward one another and secure the brace to the mid-foot. The foot straps overlap on the bottom to define a plantar surface of the brace and cross over each other on the topside of the elastomeric component and are secured to a leg strap. A pair of stabilizing stirrups optionally are included on the inside surfaces of the elastomeric component and receive the malleoli.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Annunziato Amendola, Anthony Perera, Bryan Den Hartog, David B. Kay, Nicholas Gomez, Ian D. Kovacevich, Nouphone J. Bansasine
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Patent number: 11413179Abstract: Support braces and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. A support brace includes a flexible fabric substrate and an elastomeric member disposed on the surface of the flexible fabric substrate. The elastomeric member is disposed so as to apply pressure non-uniformly about a limb or joint of the wearer, in a pattern selected to divert pain and/or reduce loads on the joint. The flexible fabric substrate can include regions having different levels of elasticity, to provide different levels of compression to different parts of the joint or limb in addition to the compression provided by the elastomeric member. The elastomeric member can be deposited, screen printed, injection molded, or otherwise applied to the fabric substrate, optionally without adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: DJO, LLCInventors: Nicholas Gomez, Ian Kovacevich, Richard Gildersleeve, John Patrick Martin, David Orr
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Publication number: 20220051099Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an encoder neural network configured to receive the input sequence and generate encoded representations of the network inputs, the encoder neural network comprising a sequence of one or more encoder subnetworks, each encoder subnetwork configured to receive a respective encoder subnetwork input for each of the input positions and to generate a respective subnetwork output for each of the input positions, and each encoder subnetwork comprising: an encoder self-attention sub-layer that is configured to receive the subnetwork input for each of the input positions and, for each particular input position in the input order: apply an attention mechanism over the encoder subnetwork inputs using one or more queries derived from the encoder subnetwork input at the particular input position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Noam M. Shazeer, Aidan Nicholas Gomez, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, Illia Polosukhin, Ashish Teku Vaswani
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Publication number: 20210282954Abstract: A customizable knee brace for use in the treatment of osteoarthritis is provided. The customizable knee brace includes a lateral upright. The lateral upright includes at least a first semi-rigid support, a second semi-rigid support, and a hinge physically coupling the first semi-rigid support and the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a thigh cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the first semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes a shin cuff constructed of formable material and coupled to the second semi-rigid support. The customizable knee brace further includes an elastomeric web framework coupled to the lateral upright and configured to secure an area of a knee of a patient when wearing the customizable knee brace. The customizable knee brace further includes at least one tensioning element configured to adjust a tension of the elastomeric web framework.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Richard E Gildersleeve, Ian Kovacevich, Nicholas Gomez