Patents by Inventor Sean Matthews

Sean Matthews 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).

  • Patent number: 11045601
    Abstract: An insulin infusion set (IIS) device with one or more features designed to achieve longevity in a patients continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) site viability. One exemplary feature is an adsorbent material configured to adsorb phenolic excipients (e.g., m-cresol or other preservatives) from the insulin formulation. The adsorbent material may be positioned along a fluid pathway specifically designed to increase and/or extend exposure between the insulin formulation and the adsorbent material. Another exemplary feature is a medicament configured to reduce the patients inflammation or slow the progression of the patients inflammatory response. Yet another exemplary feature is a diffusive catheter configured to deliver the insulin formulation in a diffuse manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Christopher John Demaria, Daniel Morris Hartmann, Graham Barry Jones, Christopher Kovalchick, Sean Matthew Pszenny, Rhea Sirkar, Monica Rixman Swinney
  • Publication number: 20210188685
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for making a contoured glass article and the resulting contoured glass article are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the method includes cold bending a flat glass sheet having first and second opposing major surfaces, at least one region having a first thickness, and at least one region having a second thickness that is less than the first thickness, to produce cold bent glass sheet having at least one bend region along a portion of the at least one region having the second thickness; and restraining the cold bent glass sheet to produce the contoured glass article. One or more embodiments pertain to the resulting contoured glass article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin Thomas Gahagan, Sean Matthew Garner, Michael James McFarland, Michael John Moore
  • Publication number: 20210176521
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented herein for recording portions of a media asset relevant to recording criteria. A media application receives input indicating the recording criteria and identifying a first keyword. The media application accesses a data structure to identify a first node associated with the first keyword. The data structure includes the first node and a plurality of nodes connected to the first node via a plurality of paths. The media application receiving audio component data for a portion of the media asset extracts a term from the audio component data, and identifies a second node in the data structure that is associated with the extracted term. The media application calculates a path score for the portion of the media asset based on a path size in the data structure between the first node and the second node. When the score is high enough, the portion of the media asset is recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Sean Matthews
  • Publication number: 20210152895
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically generating universal metadata for non-linear content when the non-linear content is determined to be viral. To this end, the systems and methods determine a first rate at which first users are consuming non-linear content from a first source. In response to determining that the first rate exceeds the threshold, the systems and methods determine a second source that from which second users are consuming the non-linear content, and a second rate at which the second users are consuming the non-linear content from the second source. In response to determining that the second rate exceeds the threshold, the systems and methods generate universal metadata for the non-linear content by automatically populating metadata fields of by scraping metadata fitting predefined criteria corresponding to the metadata fields from the first source and from the second source, and store the populated metadata fields to a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Maughan, Sean Matthews
  • Publication number: 20210146052
    Abstract: An injection device assembly including a housing, a syringe, a drive mechanism and a status sensing system and a module are described. The drive mechanism advances the syringe from a storage position to an injection position, and a plunger advances the syringe piston from an initial position to a final position. The status sensing system includes a light emitter that emits electromagnetic radiation into the housing transverse to the longitudinal axis, a light detector and a controller. The system determines a current status condition from at least three of the following five status conditions: 1) an injection ready state; 2) a needle insertion state; 3) a drug delivered state; 4) a needle guard present state; and 5) a needle retraction state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Lampros KOURTIS, Sean Matthew PSZENNY, Oliver Brian REGELE
  • Publication number: 20210142174
    Abstract: A method for training an endpointer model includes short-form speech utterances and long-form speech utterances. The method also includes providing a short-form speech utterance as input to a shared neural network, the shared neural network configured to learn shared hidden representations suitable for both voice activity detection (VAD) and end-of-query (EOQ) detection. The method also includes generating, using a VAD classifier, a sequence of predicted VAD labels and determining a VAD loss by comparing the sequence of predicted VAD labels to a corresponding sequence of reference VAD labels. The method also includes, generating, using an EOQ classifier, a sequence of predicted EOQ labels and determining an EOQ loss by comparing the sequence of predicted EOQ labels to a corresponding sequence of reference EOQ labels. The method also includes training, using a cross-entropy criterion, the endpointer model based on the VAD loss and the EOQ loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shuo-yiin Chang, Bo Li, Gabor Simko, Maria Corolina Parada San Martin, Sean Matthew Shannon
  • Patent number: 11002099
    Abstract: A system for generating pressure pulses in drilling fluid includes a concentric drive power section. The power section includes a stator and a rotor rotatably disposed in the stator. The rotor is coaxially aligned with the stator. The system also includes a valve. The valve includes a first valve member coupled to the stator and a second valve member coupled to the rotor. The second valve member is configured to rotate with the rotor relative to the first valve member and the stator. The rotation of the second valve member relative to the first valve member is configured to generate pressure pulses in drilling fluid flowing through the concentric drive power section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL DHT, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffery Ronald Clausen, Nicholas Ryan Marchand, Sean Matthew Donald
  • Patent number: 10992490
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for controlling playback and/or recording of media assets at a media device based on the state of a secondary device. Specifically, while displaying a media asset, a media device receives a signal from the secondary device indicating a change of state of the secondary device. The media device displays a notification of the signal, and the user can interact with the notification. If the user interacts with the notification for more than a threshold amount of time, the media device may begin recording the media asset. Once the user has finished interacting with the notification, the media device may stop recording and the user can see content that they may have missed by reviewing the recorded portion of the media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean Matthews
  • Publication number: 20210120293
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for enabling multiple users' digital rights to be applied as needed to access media while those users are present to consume media. In particular, a media guidance application may receive a selection of a media asset and determine that the user equipment device does not allow access to the media asset. In response, the media guidance application may identify all the users consuming content from that user equipment device and retrieve digital rights for each user. The media guidance application may compare the digital rights of each user with digital rights required to access the media asset. The media guidance application may, based on the comparison, identify a set of digital rights (e.g., for another user present) that enable access to the media asset, and use those digital rights to access the media asset for consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin Bruce Lenhart, Sean Matthews, Benjamin Holms Maughan
  • Patent number: 10979778
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for identifying viewers who are engaged in a media asset but unlikely to consume secondary content, and presenting, to the identified viewers, some secondary content designed to incentivize the identified viewers to consume secondary content. These systems and methods determine that a viewer is engaged in a media asset upon determining level of engagement of the viewer in the media asset is greater than a threshold value. These systems and methods determine that the viewer is unlikely to consume secondary content upon determining level of engagement of the viewer in secondary content is less than a threshold value. These systems and methods, upon determining that the viewer is engaged in the media asset but unlikely to consume secondary content, generate for display secondary content related to the media asset during breaks in the media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Matthews, Paul T. Stathacopoulos, Benjamin H. Maughan
  • Patent number: 10958970
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented herein for recording portions of a media asset relevant to recording criteria. A media application receives input indicating the recording criteria and identifying a first keyword. The media application accesses a data structure to identify a first node associated with the first keyword. The data structure includes the first node and a plurality of nodes connected to the first node via a plurality of paths. The media application receiving audio component data for a portion of the media asset extracts a term from the audio component data, and identifies a second node in the data structure that is associated with the extracted term. The media application calculates a path score for the portion of the media asset based on a path size in the data structure between the first node and the second node. When the score is high enough, the portion of the media asset is recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean Matthews
  • Patent number: 10937431
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for identifying users based on voice data and media consumption data. A media guidance application may generate a voice signature from the user's input and based on that signature identify some demographic characteristics of the user (e.g., age, gender, and other suitable characteristics). The media guidance application may retrieve user data for users that are associated with a household of the user and attempt to identify which of the users spoke the command. If multiple users are identified, based on the demographic characteristics, the media guidance application may use the content of the voice command (e.g., a type of media requested) to identify the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Matthews, Benjamin H. Maughan, Kevin B. Lenhart
  • Patent number: 10929754
    Abstract: A method for training an endpointer model includes short-form speech utterances and long-form speech utterances. The method also includes providing a short-form speech utterance as input to a shared neural network, the shared neural network configured to learn shared hidden representations suitable for both voice activity detection (VAD) and end-of-query (EOQ) detection. The method also includes generating, using a VAD classifier, a sequence of predicted VAD labels and determining a VAD loss by comparing the sequence of predicted VAD labels to a corresponding sequence of reference VAD labels. The method also includes, generating, using an EOQ classifier, a sequence of predicted EOQ labels and determining an EOQ loss by comparing the sequence of predicted EOQ labels to a corresponding sequence of reference EOQ labels. The method also includes training, using a cross-entropy criterion, the endpointer model based on the VAD loss and the EOQ loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shuo-yiin Chang, Bo Li, Gabor Simko, Maria Carolina Parada San Martin, Sean Matthew Shannon
  • Patent number: 10924819
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically generating universal metadata for non-linear content when the non-linear content is determined to be viral. To this end, the systems and methods determine a first rate at which first users are consuming non-linear content from a first source. In response to determining that the first rate exceeds the threshold, the systems and methods determine a second source that from which second users are consuming the non-linear content, and a second rate at which the second users are consuming the non-linear content from the second source. In response to determining that the second rate exceeds the threshold, the systems and methods generate universal metadata for the non-linear content by automatically populating metadata fields of by scraping metadata fitting predefined criteria corresponding to the metadata fields from the first source and from the second source, and store the populated metadata fields to a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Maughan, Sean Matthews
  • Publication number: 20210035551
    Abstract: A system for generating an output audio signal includes a context encoder, a text-prediction network, and a text-to-speech (TTS) model. The context encoder is configured to receive one or more context features associated with current input text and process the one or more context features to generate a context embedding associated with the current input text. The text-prediction network is configured to process the current input text and the context embedding to predict, as output, a style embedding for the current input text. The style embedding specifies a specific prosody and/or style for synthesizing the current input text into expressive speech The TTS model is configured to process the current input text and the style embedding to generate an output audio signal of expressive speech of the current input text. The output audio signal has the specific prosody and/or style specified by the style embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Daisy Stanton, Eric Dean Battenberg, Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan, Soroosh Mariooryad, David Teh-Hwa Kao, Thomas Edward Bagby, Sean Matthew Shannon
  • Publication number: 20210010031
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to packagable RNA constructs with minimal intervening viral sequences. These constructs can be used to generate lentiviral viruses encoding large genes capable of transducing primary human cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Jeremy Luban, Kyusik Kim, Sean Matthew McCauley
  • Publication number: 20200410066
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for intelligently accessing media content based on rights. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application that generates a DRM score associated with a first copy of the media asset. The media guidance application determines that plurality of alternative copies of a media asset are available from other sources and determines DRM scores for the alternative copies. The media guidance application determines that one of the alternative copies has a lower digital rights management score as compared to the first copy of the media asset and stores the alternative copy instead of the first copy of the media asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Maughan, Kevin B. Lenhart, Sean Matthews
  • Patent number: 10879182
    Abstract: Various embodiments are related to substrates having one or more well structures with a trapezoidal cylinder shaped through hole via extending from the bottom of the well structure though the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean Matthew Garner, Tian Huang, Tammy Lynn Petriwsky
  • Publication number: 20200399174
    Abstract: A method of performing ion exchange of a thin, flexible glass substrate having an average thickness equal to or less than about 0.3 mm to chemically strengthen the glass substrate is disclosed. The chemically strengthened glass substrate comprises a first compressive stress layer having a first depth of layer, and a second compressive stress layer having a second depth of layer, the first and second stress layers being separated by a layer of tensile stress. A laminated article comprising the chemically strengthened glass substrate is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: SEAN MATTHEW GARNER, Michael Lesley Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20200395021
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for identifying users based on voice data and media consumption data. A media guidance application may generate a voice signature from the user's input and based on that signature identify some demographic characteristics of the user (e.g., age, gender, and other suitable characteristics). The media guidance application may retrieve user data for users that are associated with a household of the user and attempt to identify which of the users spoke the command. If multiple users are identified, based on the demographic characteristics, the media guidance application may use the content of the voice command (e.g., a type of media requested) to identify the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Sean Matthews, Benjamin H. Maughan, Kevin B. Lenhart