Patents by Inventor Richard A. Metzler
Richard A. Metzler 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: 20230269832Abstract: Systems and methods for user configurable cooking appliances include receiving system resources having associated budgets, facilitating user allocation the system resources to a plurality of heating elements without exceeding the associate budgets, applying the system resources to the heating elements to heat one or more food substances within a cooking chamber, and selectively regulating delivery of the system resources to the heating elements such that no more than the associated budget of each of the system resources is delivered to the heating elements. Computing components can execute a heating algorithm to cook at least one food substance in the cooking chamber, detect a state change of the food substance, and modify the heating algorithm to reconfigure the system resources supplied to the heating elements in response to the state change and in accordance with user configured allocation and associated budgets for the system resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Shih-Yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, John Pleasants, Dan Yue, Taylor Adams, Dennis Denker
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Patent number: 11672050Abstract: Systems and methods for user configurable cooking appliances include receiving system resources having associated budgets, facilitating user allocation the system resources to a plurality of heating elements without exceeding the associate budgets, applying the system resources to the heating elements to heat one or more food substances within a cooking chamber, and selectively regulating delivery of the system resources to the heating elements such that no more than the associated budget of each of the system resources is delivered to the heating elements. Computing components can execute a heating algorithm to cook at least one food substance in the cooking chamber, detect a state change of the food substance, and modify the heating algorithm to reconfigure the system resources supplied to the heating elements in response to the state change and in accordance with user configured allocation and associated budgets for the system resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Brava Home, Inc.Inventors: Shih-Yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, John Pleasants, Dan Yue, Taylor Adams, Dennis Denker
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Patent number: 11257394Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can select a food cooking recipe and identify relative areas in a cooking chamber to place at least two portions of food. The relative areas would match the food cooking recipe. The cooking instrument can display information associated with an instruction to place the at least two portions of food over the relative areas. The cooking instrument can then determine a heating sequence in accordance with the food cooking recipe and control, based on the heating sequence, a heating system to directionally transfer heat under different heating characteristics respectively to the at least two portions of the food at the identified relative areas in the cooking chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: BRAVA HOME, INC.Inventors: Shih-yu Cheng, Dan Yue, Richard Metzler, Mark Janoff
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Publication number: 20210227637Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Shih-yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, Dan Yue
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Patent number: 10904951Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: BRAVA HOME, INC.Inventors: Shih-yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, Dan Yue
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Publication number: 20190139446Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can select a food cooking recipe and identify relative areas in a cooking chamber to place at least two portions of food. The relative areas would match the food cooking recipe. The cooking instrument can display information associated with an instruction to place the at least two portions of food over the relative areas. The cooking instrument can then determine a heating sequence in accordance with the food cooking recipe and control, based on the heating sequence, a heating system to directionally transfer heat under different heating characteristics respectively to the at least two portions of the food at the identified relative areas in the cooking chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Shih-Yu Cheng, Dan Yue, Richard Metzler, Mark Janoff
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Patent number: 10223933Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can select a food cooking recipe and identify relative areas in a cooking chamber to place at least two portions of food. The relative areas would match the food cooking recipe. The cooking instrument can display information associated with an instruction to place the at least two portions of food over the relative areas. The cooking instrument can then determine a heating sequence in accordance with the food cooking recipe and control, based on the heating sequence, a heating system to directionally transfer heat under different heating characteristics respectively to the at least two portions of the food at the identified relative areas in the cooking chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: BRAVA HOME, INC.Inventors: Shih-Yu Cheng, Dan Yue, Richard Metzler, Mark Janoff
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Publication number: 20190051211Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can select a food cooking recipe and identify relative areas in a cooking chamber to place at least two portions of food. The relative areas would match the food cooking recipe. The cooking instrument can display information associated with an instruction to place the at least two portions of food over the relative areas. The cooking instrument can then determine a heating sequence in accordance with the food cooking recipe and control, based on the heating sequence, a heating system to directionally transfer heat under different heating characteristics respectively to the at least two portions of the food at the identified relative areas in the cooking chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Shih-Yu Cheng, Dan Yue, Richard Metzler, Mark Janoff
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Publication number: 20190053332Abstract: Systems and methods for user configurable cooking appliances include receiving system resources having associated budgets, facilitating user allocation the system resources to a plurality of heating elements without exceeding the associate budgets, applying the system resources to the heating elements to heat one or more food substances within a cooking chamber, and selectively regulating delivery of the system resources to the heating elements such that no more than the associated budget of each of the system resources is delivered to the heating elements. Computing components can execute a heating algorithm to cook at least one food substance in the cooking chamber, detect a state change of the food substance, and modify the heating algorithm to reconfigure the system resources supplied to the heating elements in response to the state change and in accordance with user configured allocation and associated budgets for the system resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Shih-Yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, John Pleasants, Dan Yue, Taylor Adams, Dennis Denker
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Patent number: 10192099Abstract: Systems and methods for detection, grading, scoring and tele-screening of cancerous lesions are described. A complete scheme for automated quantitative analysis and assessment of human and animal tissue images of several types of cancers is presented. Various aspects of the invention are directed to the detection, grading, prediction and staging of prostate cancer on serial sections/slides of prostate core images, or biopsy images. Accordingly, the invention includes a variety of sub-systems, which could be used separately or in conjunction to automatically grade cancerous regions. Each system utilizes a different approach with a different feature set. For instance, in the quantitative analysis, textural-based and morphology-based features may be extracted at image- and (or) object-levels from regions of interest.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Board of Regents of The University of Texas SystemInventors: Sos S. Agaian, Clara M. Mosquera Lopez, Ali Almuntashri, Richard Metzler
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Publication number: 20180295676Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Shih-yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, Dan Yue
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Patent number: 10064244Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Brava Home, Inc.Inventors: Shih-yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, Dan Yue
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Publication number: 20170223774Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Shih-yu Cheng, Mark Janoff, Richard Metzler, Dan Yue
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Publication number: 20170169276Abstract: Systems and methods for detection, grading, scoring and tele-screening of cancerous lesions are described. A complete scheme for automated quantitative analysis and assessment of human and animal tissue images of several types of cancers is presented. Various aspects of the invention are directed to the detection, grading, prediction and staging of prostate cancer on serial sections/slides of prostate core images, or biopsy images. Accordingly, the invention includes a variety of sub-systems, which could be used separately or in conjunction to automatically grade cancerous regions. Each system utilizes a different approach with a different feature set. For instance, in the quantitative analysis, textural-based and morphology-based features may be extracted at image- and (or) object-levels from regions of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Sos S. Agaian, Clara M. Mosquera Lopez, Ali Almuntashri, Richard Metzler
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Publication number: 20140233826Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for detection, grading, scoring and tele-screening of cancerous lesions. A complete scheme for automated quantitative analysis and assessment of human and animal tissue images of several types of cancers is presented. Various aspects of the invention are directed to the detection, grading, prediction and staging of prostate cancer on serial sections/slides of prostate core images, or biopsy images. Accordingly, the invention includes a variety of sub-systems, which could be used separately or in conjunction to automatically grade cancerous regions. Each system utilizes a different approach with a different feature set. For instance, in the quantitative analysis, textural-based and morphology-based features may be extracted at image- and (or) object-levels from regions of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Sos S. Agaian, Clara M. Mosquera Lopez, Ali Almuntashri, Richard Metzler
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Publication number: 20100236599Abstract: The photovoltaic arrangement for producing electric current from light has a photovoltaic installation with a predetermined area, which has a plurality of photovoltaic modules and a number N of reflectors, each reflector having a area which is greater than the area of the photovoltaic installation and being arranged to reflect at least part of the light incident on the reflector onto the photovoltaic installation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventor: Richard Metzler
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Publication number: 20100029048Abstract: Field effect semiconductor diodes and improved processing techniques for forming the field effect semiconductor diodes having semiconductor layers forming a source, a body and a drain of a field effect device, the semiconductor layers forming pedestals having an insulating layer and a gate on sides thereof vertically spanning the body and a part of the source and drain layers, and a conductive contact layer over the pedestals making electrical contact with the drain and the gate, the conductive layer being in contact with the body at least one position on each pedestal. The conductive layer may be in contact with the body through at least one opening in the source layer, or the source layer may be a discontinuous doped layer, the body layer extending between the discontinuous doped layer forming the source layer to be in electrical contact with the conductive layer. Other aspects and variations of the invention are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2009Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: INTEGRATED DISCRETE DEVICES, LLCInventors: Richard A. Metzler, Frederick A. Flitsch
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Patent number: 7615812Abstract: Field effect semiconductor diodes and improved processing techniques for forming the field effect semiconductor diodes having semiconductor layers forming a source, a body and a drain of a field effect device, the semiconductor layers forming pedestals having an insulating layer and a gate on sides thereof vertically spanning the body and a part of the source and drain layers, and a conductive contact layer over the pedestals making electrical contact with the drain and the gate, the conductive layer being in contact with the body at least one position on each pedestal. The conductive layer may be in contact with the body through at least one opening in the source layer, or the source layer may be a discontinuous doped layer, the body layer extending between the discontinuous doped layer forming the source layer to be in electrical contact with the conductive layer. Other aspects and variations of the invention are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Integrated Discrete Devices, LLCInventors: Richard A. Metzler, Frederick A. Flitsch
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Patent number: 7462553Abstract: Ultra thin back-illuminated photodiode array fabrication methods providing backside contact by diffused regions extending through the array substrate. In accordance with the methods, a matrix is diffused into one surface of a substrate, and at a later stage of the substrate processing, the substrate is reduced in thickness and a similar matrix is diffused into the substrate from the other side, this second diffusion being aligned with the first and contacting the first within the substrate. These two contacting matrices provide good electrical contact to a conductive diffusion on the backside for a low resistance contact to the backside. Various embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: SemicoaInventors: Richard A. Metzler, Alexander O. Goushcha
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Publication number: 20070241377Abstract: Back-illuminated photo-transistor arrays for computed tomography and other imaging applications. Embodiments are disclosed that use bipolar transistors and JFETs, either with a single photo-sensor and transistor per pixel, or multiple photo-sensors and transistors per pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Inventors: Alexander O. Goushcha, Richard A. Metzler