Patents by Inventor Stefan A. Scherer

Stefan A. Scherer 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: 12197876
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing conversations between a robot computing device and a user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: initiate a first-time user experience sequence with the user; teach the user the robot computing capabilities and/or characteristics; initiate, utilizing a dialog manager, a conversation with the user; receive, one or more command files from the user via one or more microphones; and generate conversation response files and communicating the generated conversation files to the dialog manager in response to the one or more received user global command files to initiate an initial conversation exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Embodied, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan A Scherer, Mario E Munich, Paolo Pirjanian, Kevin D Saunders, Wilson Harron, Marissa Kohan
  • Patent number: 12019993
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing conversations between a robot computing device and a user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: initiate a first-time user experience sequence with the user; teach the user the robot computing capabilities and/or characteristics; initiate, utilizing a dialog manager, a conversation with the user; receive, one or more command files from the user via one or more microphones; and generate conversation response files and communicating the generated conversation files to the dialog manager in response to the one or more received user global command files to initiate an initial conversation exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan A. Scherer, Mario E Munich, Paolo Pirjanian, Kevin D Saunders, Wilson Harron, Marissa Kohan
  • Publication number: 20240152705
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing conversations between a robot computing device and a user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: initiate a first-time user experience sequence with the user; teach the user the robot computing capabilities and/or characteristics; initiate, utilizing a dialog manager, a conversation with the user; receive, one or more command files from the user via one or more microphones; and generate conversation response files and communicating the generated conversation files to the dialog manager in response to the one or more received user global command files to initiate an initial conversation exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan A. Scherer, Mario E. Munich, Paolo Pirjanian, Kevin D. Saunders, Wilson Harron, Marissa Kohan
  • Publication number: 20220241985
    Abstract: Exemplary implementations may: receive one or more inputs including parameters or measurements regarding a physical environment from the one or more input modalities; identify a user based on analyzing the received inputs from the one or more input modalities; determine if the user shows signs of engagement or interest in establishing a communication interaction by analyzing a user's physical actions, visual actions, and/or audio actions, the user's physical actions, visual actions and/or audio actions determined based at least in part on the one or more inputs received from the one or more input modalities; and determine whether the user is interested in an extended communication interaction with the robot computing device by creating visual actions of the robot computing device utilizing the display device or by generating one or more audio files to be reproduced by one or more speakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan A. Scherer, Mario E Munich, Paolo Pirjanian, Caitlyn Clabaugh, Wilson Harron, Asim Naseer, Albert Ike Macoco, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20220092270
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing conversations between a robot computing device and a user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: initiate a first-time user experience sequence with the user; teach the user the robot computing capabilities and/or characteristics; initiate, utilizing a dialog manager, a conversation with the user; receive, one or more command files from the user via one or more microphones; and generate conversation response files and communicating the generated conversation files to the dialog manager in response to the one or more received user global command files to initiate an initial conversation exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan A. Scherer, Mario E Munich, Paolo Pirjanian, Kevin D Saunders, Wilson Harron, Marissa Kohan