Patents by Inventor Robert Alexander
Robert 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).
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Publication number: 20250252176Abstract: A method includes sending a notification to a user device of a user that a password reset is required. A hash of a password is received from the user device at a reset date and a reset time. A default expiration date and a default expiration time are determined for the password based on the reset date and the reset time. Excluded dates, excluded time intervals, allowable dates, and allowable time intervals are determined. In response to determining that the default expiration date falls on a first excluded date, a first allowable date that is before or after the first excluded date is set as the expiration date. In response to determining that the default expiration time falls within a first excluded time interval, a time that falls within a first allowable time interval is set as the expiration time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Harry Douglas Kirby, Robert Alexander Levandowski, JR., Olga Caroline Kocharyan
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Patent number: 12353580Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to building annotated models based on eyes-off data. Specifically, a synthetic data generation model is trained and used to further train a target model. The synthetic data generation model is trained within an eyes-off environment using an anonymity technique on confidential data. The synthetic data generation model is then used to create synthetic data that closely represents the confidential data but without any specific details that can be linked back to the confidential data. The synthetic data is then annotated and used to train the target model within an eyes-on environment. Subsequently, the target model is deployed back within the eyes-off environment to classify the confidential data.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Benjamin Levitan, Robert Alexander Sim, Julia S. McAnallen, Huseyin Atahan Inan, Girish Kumar, Xiang Yue
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Publication number: 20250209281Abstract: Natural language generators (NLGs), including large language models, are powerful technologies that are in widespread use. However, typically, as NLGs become more powerful and sophisticated, their correspondingly increased complexity requires substantial processing resources. The present disclosure provides automated techniques for dynamically routing queries between at least two NLGs based on an assessment of query difficulty. Less difficult queries can be routed to a less resource intensive NLG, while more difficult queries are routed to a more sophisticated, but more resource intensive NLG. Routing less difficult queries to a less resource intensive model can thus conserve computing resources, while providing little to no drop in response quality, and in some cases providing improved response quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ankur MALLICK, Daniel Eduardo MADRIGAL DIAZ, Chi WANG, Robert Alexander SIM, Victor RÜHLE, Ahmed AWADALLAH, Dujian DING
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Patent number: 12312279Abstract: In some examples, a method including depositing a plurality of particles on a ceramic or ceramic matrix composite (CMC) substrate to form a barrier coating on the ceramic or CMC substrate, the plurality of particles including a silica-rich rare earth (RE) disilicate material and a second material, wherein the silica-rich RE disilicate material includes excess silica compared to a stoichiometric RE disilicate material, wherein the barrier coating includes a first domain including the silica-rich RE disilicate material and a second phase, the second phase being disposed at grain boundaries, splat boundaries, or both of the barrier coating.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Robert Alexander Sean Golden, Matthew T. Kush
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Patent number: 12314998Abstract: A processor-implemented method of providing a customizable virtual representation for selection and purchase of construction products and associated installation products, using a computing device is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: TilingMyWayInventor: Robert Alexander
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Publication number: 20250128555Abstract: A gateway device of a trailer includes a processing circuit configured to enable bi-directional communication between electrical devices at the trailer and an electrical system of the tractor; and a housing encompassing the processing circuit and coupled to an underside of the trailer, the housing including a terminal configured to be electrically coupled to an electrical socket at a front side of the trailer via a single cable that passes through a kingpin plate at the underside of the trailer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: James Epler, Robert Alexander Phillips, Daniel William Forthoffer, Clifford Creech, Gil Israel Winograd
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Publication number: 20250124227Abstract: A personalized natural language processing system tokenizes a plurality of sets of raw text data to generate a plurality of sets of tokenized text data for the plurality of users, respectively. The tokenized text data includes a sequence of tokens corresponding to the raw text data, the tokens at least identifying distinct words or portions of words in the raw text. The system appends predetermined user-specific tokens to the sets of tokenized text data from the users, respectively. Each predetermined user-specific token corresponds to one of the users. The system processes the sets of tokenized text data using the NLP model in accordance with the appended predetermined user-specific tokens to predict a personalized classification for the sets of tokenized text data from each of the users, and outputs the personalized classifications of the tokenized text data for each of the users.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dimitrios Basile DIMITRIADIS, Vaishnavi SHRIVASTAVA, Milad SHOKOUHI, Robert Alexander SIM, Fatemehsadat MIRESHGHALLAH
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Publication number: 20250099621Abstract: Disclosed herein are lipid nanoparticle (LNP) compositions encapsulating nucleic acid constructs for systemically delivering muscle proteins or protein complexes to muscle tissues.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Allen T. Horhota, Robert Alexander Wesselhoeft, Shobu Odate, Tatiana Fontelonga, Junghoon Yang
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Publication number: 20250064386Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for evaluating a sleep quality of a user using wearable-based data are described. The sleep quality of a user may be evaluated by combining physiological data collected via a wearable device, along with environmental sound data collected via one or more external devices. For example, a microphone on a device may monitor environmental sounds while a user sleeps, and the environmental sounds may be used to improve sleep stage classification. Additionally, or alternatively, sound instances occurring throughout a sleep interval may be identified. In some examples, sound data may be combined with other data, such as physiological data, to determine relationships between the sleep sound data and sleep quality. An indication of the sleep stages and transitions between the sleep stages, the sound instances, the sleep quality, or a combination thereof, may be presented to the user via an application.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Miska Mikael Viljami Valkonen, Robert Alexander Singleton, Antti Oskari Laitala, Dmitry Sergeev, Harry Tily, Matias Valtteri Kukka, Mats Kyyrö
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Patent number: 12227464Abstract: An article may include a substrate, such as a silicon-containing ceramic matrix composite, an environmental barrier coating (EBC) layer on the substrate, and a CMAS-resistant EBC layer on the EBC layer. The EBC layer may include at least one rare-earth disilicate (REDS). The CMAS-resistant EBC layer may include at least one rare-earth monosilicate (REMS) configured to react with CMAS to form crystalline reaction products. The CMAS-resistant EBC layer may include a plurality of vertical cracks extending from a surface of the CMAS-resistant EBC layer at least partially into the CMAS-resistant EBC layer. Additionally, or alternatively, the EBC layer may include a plurality of vertical cracks extending from a surface of the EBC layer into at least a portion of the EBC layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Li Li, Matthew T. Kush, Robert Alexander Sean Golden, Jun Shi
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Publication number: 20250053445Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an interactive, intelligent hub built around the completion of a task. This hub brings together resources, information, suggested steps, and other automated assistance to facilitate the completion of the task. AI-based assistance may indicate which steps can be completed by automated processes, and dispatch those processes, or suggest resources to assist in the completion of other steps. The hub displays the current status of the task, and lives until the completion of the task, or abandonment by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Ryen William WHITE, Omar SHAYA, Bernd Ingo PLONTSCH, Elnaz NOURI
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Publication number: 20250029811Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sensor substrate for a charged particle optical device and/or a charged particle assessment apparatus, the sensor substrate comprising: at least one distance sensor configured to generate a measurement signal representative of a distance between the distance sensor and a facing surface of a target; and at least one charged particle optical component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Arthur Eduard OVERLACK, Ronald KROON, Richard Michel VAN LEEUWEN, Andre Luis RODRIGUES MANSANO, Herre Tjerk STEENSTRA, Erwin Robert Alexander VISSER
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Patent number: 12180138Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel lipids that can be used in combination with other lipid components, such as helper lipids, structural lipids, and cholesterols, to form lipid nanoparticles for delivery of therapeutic agents, such as nucleic acids (e.g., circular polynucleotides), both in vitro and in vivo.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Orna Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Allen T. Horhota, Junghoon Yang, Kevin J. Kauffman, Thomas Barnes, Robert Alexander Wesselhoeft, Amy M. Becker, Gregory Motz
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Patent number: 12182511Abstract: A personalized natural language processing system tokenizes a plurality of sets of raw text data to generate a plurality of sets of tokenized text data for the plurality of users, respectively. The tokenized text data includes a sequence of tokens corresponding to the raw text data, the tokens at least identifying distinct words or portions of words in the raw text. The system appends predetermined user-specific tokens to the sets of tokenized text data from the users, respectively. Each predetermined user-specific token corresponds to one of the users. The system processes the sets of tokenized text data using the NLP model in accordance with the appended predetermined user-specific tokens to predict a personalized classification for the sets of tokenized text data from each of the users, and outputs the personalized classifications of the tokenized text data for each of the users.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Robert Alexander Sim, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah
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Publication number: 20240417225Abstract: A lifting column has five column elements that are arranged in a nested manner, at least in portions, as well as a first screw drive for the movement of the three innermost column elements relative to one another and a second screw drive for the movement of the three outermost column elements relative to one another. A coupling tube arrangement is provided which operatively connects the first screw drive with the second screw drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: Marcel Soltermann, Martin Vögelin, Robert Alexander
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Publication number: 20240405584Abstract: A battery power supply (BPS) circuit to power an intermittently powered load, optimized to maximize battery capacity utilization and extend battery life, while offering low temperature performance. The BPS includes a voltage converter connected to a battery for generating a voltage greater or less than the battery voltage, a current limiter configured to limit current in a current limiting mode and to provide a shunt in a noncurrent limiting mode, a capacitor tank for providing an output voltage to the load and first charged to a voltage up to 95 or 100% (depending upon the operation of the BPS) of a desired output voltage, and second charged to the desired output voltage when the current limiter is shunted. Optionally, a relaxation/stabilization period is then applied before the load is enabled to maximize battery life. The BPS also provides a low power mode of operation while the load is disabled or in a sleep mode of operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Andrii Isachenkov, Robert Alexander Williams
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Patent number: 12153956Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an interactive, intelligent hub built around the completion of a task. This hub brings together resources, information, suggested steps, and other automated assistance to facilitate the completion of the task. AI-based assistance may indicate which steps can be completed by automated processes, and dispatch those processes, or suggest resources to assist in the completion of other steps. The hub displays the current status of the task, and lives until the completion of the task, or abandonment by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Ryen William White, Omar Shaya, Bernd Ingo Plontsch, Elnaz Nouri
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Publication number: 20240360803Abstract: An engine comprises an air intake arrangement configured to receive air; a heat exchanger arrangement arranged downstream of the air intake arrangement, configured to cool the air, and comprising a plurality of heat exchanger modules; and one or more turbomachinery components configured to receive cooled air from the heat exchanger arrangement. The plurality of heat exchanger modules are arranged to be generally centred on and to be arranged along a longitudinal axis of the engine. At least one of the plurality of heat exchanger modules is arranged to at least partially overlap with at least one other one of the plurality of heat exchanger modules relative to the longitudinal axis of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: Reaction Engines LimitedInventors: Robert Alexander Bond, Kathryn Rebecca Evans, Russell Geoffrey Payne, Martin Christopher Johnson
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Publication number: 20240354713Abstract: A system and method to provide computer support for a meeting of invitees comprises accessing one or more sensory data streams providing digitized sensory data responsive to an activity of one or more of the invitees during the meeting, the one or more sensory data streams including at least one audio stream. The method also comprises subjecting the at least one audio stream to phonetic and situational computer modeling to recognize a sequence of words in the audio stream and to assign each word to an invitee, subjecting the sequence of words to semantic computer modeling to recognize a sequence of directives in the sequence of words, and releasing one or more output data streams based on the sequence of directives, the one or more output data streams including one or more notifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Marcello MENDES HASEGAWA, Ryen William WHITE, Mudit JAIN, Tomer HERMELIN, Adi GERZI ROSENTHAL, Sagi HILLELI
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Publication number: 20240339291Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provides a detector inspection device for interrogating at least part of a detector comprised in a charged particle-optical assessment apparatus, the detector inspection device comprising: a coupler configured to be positioned proximate to a detector element of a detector; and a device controller configured to apply a stimulating signal to the coupler to stimulate a response signal in the detector for interrogating at least part of the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2024Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Herre Tjerk STEENSTRA, Marco Jan-Jaco WIELAND, Alexius Otto LOOIJE, Richard Michel VAN LEEUWEN, Erwin Robert Alexander VISSER, Andre Luis RODRIGUES MANSANO, Gretchen Renée VAN T VEEN, Duije SEEKLES, Roelof Albert MARISSEN