Patents by Inventor Steve (Aihua) Chen

Steve (Aihua) Chen 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: 12175488
    Abstract: A system and method for omnichannel text-based routing, interaction transfer, and customer-to-enterprise communications. The system is a cloud-based network containing an interaction control server, a routing engine, a media translation server, a mobile application, a business entity portal, mobile and compute devices for business enterprise and customer, and an enterprise database. Taken together or in part, said system optimizes customer interactions by delivering context aware text message, chat or email to customers; and when requested by customer, optimally routes with context, based upon a multitude of variables, to best available resource to handle the customer interaction. The system may be accessed through web browsers or purpose-built computer and mobile phone applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TAPTEXT LLC
    Inventors: Steve Doumar, Paul Levasseur
  • Patent number: 12172214
    Abstract: The present application provides a container for use in manufacturing a metal billet from a metal powder in a hot isostatic pressing process. The container may include a top, a bottom, a wall extending between the top and the bottom, an enhanced directional consolidation feature in the wall, and a sleeve positioned about the enhanced directional consolidation feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Steve J. Buresh, Shenyan Huang
  • Patent number: 12175518
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a process for determining optimized communication rate plans for one or more communications devices across one or more communications networks. The present invention provides for assigning one or more devices operative on a communications network with one or more rate plans to an optimal rate plan. The present invention, in one or more embodiments provides of the one or more communication devices with a cost-effective rate plan solution based on usage profile of the one or more devices and available cost-savings programs available to the one or more devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Aeris Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungho Kim, Subramanian Balakrishnan, Jins George, Steve Dotolo
  • Patent number: 12174792
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for updating a catalog of assets. A scanning agent may scan for a set of assets in a data store. A scan validator may receive, from the scanning agent, a list of assets scanned in the data store and determine that a summary record is received from the scanning agent. The summary record may include an asset summary generated by the scanning agent corresponding to the list of scanned assets. In response to determining that the summary record is received, the scan validator may determine whether the asset summary in the summary record matches an asset summary generated from the list of assets. If a match is determined between the asset summaries, a match validation may be provided. In response to the match validation being provided, assets absent from the list of assets may be removed from the asset catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Boris Asipov, Guoyu Hao, Khaled Mohamed Morssi Ibrahim, Justin R. Dellamore, Steve P. Herbert
  • Patent number: 12174463
    Abstract: A lens comprises an internal cavity structure formed by dissolution of a soluble insert material. The internal soluble material may dissolve through a body of a lens such as a contact lens in order to form the cavity within the contact lens. The cavity within the lens can be shaped in many ways, and corresponds to the shape of the dissolved material, such that many internal cavity shapes can be readily fabricated within the contact lens. The insert can be placed in a mold with a pre-polymer material, and the pre-polymer material cured with the insert placed in the mold to form the lens body. The polymerized polymer may comprise a low expansion polymer in order to inhibit expansion of the lens when hydrated. The polymer may comprise a hydrogel when hydrated. The soft contact lens material comprises a sufficient amount of cross-linking to provide structure to the lens and shape the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: OneFocus Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Harant, Amelia Davenport, Neil Cramer, Steve Waite, Amitava Gupta, William J. Link, Gamil Alhakimi, Lisa Studnicki, Musa Alhakimi
  • Patent number: 12171871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to load a water insoluble phospholipid as nanoparticles to load into a hydrogel contact lens in autoclaving process during the hydrogel contact lens manufacturing process without an extra manufacturing step and without swelling the hydrogel contact lens with an organic solvent. The phospholipid nanoparticles loaded in hydrogel contact lens subsequently releases to the eye upon wearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Junhao Ge, Steve Yun Zhang, Daqing Wu, Jing Cheng, Yuan Chang, Feng Jing, Jang-Shing Chiou, Stephen Raymond Perreault
  • Patent number: 12172271
    Abstract: A portable crimping device and method of making such a crimping device is disclosed. A portable crimper transfers hydraulic forces back into the hydraulic cylinder and not just into a pinned or fixed connection supporting it. To withstand these forces, the cylinder is milled out of a single piece of source metal and the arm that transfers the forces is joined to the cylinder via pair of flanges extending the entire length of the cylinder to distribute them over a wider surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ojjo, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Kraft, Oleg Nashelskiy
  • Patent number: 12171726
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding an infant in a vertical position is described. The apparatus includes a shoulder support component and a flexible component. The shoulder support component generally has a U-shape with a first side disposed opposite a second side. The second side of the shoulder support component is configured to contact shoulders of a caregiver. The flexible component has a first end disposed opposite a second end. The first end of the flexible component is affixed to the first side of the shoulder support component and the second end includes a bottle holding portion that supports a bottle for feeding an infant in a vertical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SLS INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Steve Liss, Sabina Liss
  • Patent number: 12171919
    Abstract: A renal therapy system is disclosed. In an example, the renal therapy system includes a home renal therapy machine that stores, to a log file, dates of when renal therapies were performed and a type of each renal therapy that was performed. The system also includes a server that receives the log file from the home renal therapy machine. The server compares the dates and types of performed renal therapies stored in the log file to a device program that specifies dates for performing renal therapies and the types of renal therapies to be performed. The server displays a flag in a user interface of a clinician computer when there is a deviation from the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Neil Tiwari, Joshua James Miller, Marc Steven Minkus, Matthew R. Muller, Derek Wiebenson, Douglas L. Wilkerson, Timothy G. Robinson, Anders J. Wellings, Kathryn Louise Hansbro, Borut Cizman, Brian S. Kunzeman, Robin D. Cooper, Timothy L. Kudelka, Angelo A. Sarto, Steve Joseph Lindo, Jostein Baustad, Duston Mounts, Shafali Hill
  • Patent number: 12172740
    Abstract: A system receives data from a submersible remote operated vehicle (ROV), the data being about the operation of an arm of the ROV. The system automatically controls, based on the data, movement of the arm in docking the arm to a tool holder. In certain instances, the system implements an image based control. In certain instances, the system implements a force accommodation control. In certain instances, the system implements both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FMC Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Leonhardt, Bijou Abraham, Peter Boissiere, Steve Cohan, Kevin Hjelden, Doug Mayne, Tim Ranstrom, Sean Rogers, Kevin Schell, Spencer Slam, Adwait Jayant Gandhe
  • Patent number: 12172792
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method for filling multiple containers with a pharmaceutical product is disclosed, which comprises decontaminating sealed nested materials in a transfer chamber, removing from the sealed nested materials one or both of a container nest holding the multiple containers and a closure nest holding multiple closures, transferring from the transfer chamber to a controlled environment enclosure the removed nest, aseptically filling the containers with the pharmaceutical product, and closing the containers with the multiple closures. The nests are configured to allow multiple closures and containers to be simultaneously aligned concentrically, and closed simultaneously. Spring-loaded retaining structures on the closure nest allow it to releasably retain multiple closures above the corresponding multiple containers. In some embodiments the spring-loaded features are monolithically integrated with the closure nest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: VANRX PHARMASYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Ross M. Gold, Jeroen Immerzeel, Christopher Procyshyn, Nick Broadbent, Steve Sang Joon Park
  • Patent number: 12171384
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for wet cleaning includes a heated fluid delivery system that dispenses heated liquid and steam vapor. The heated fluid delivery system can include a heated liquid outlet and a steam vapor outlet. The apparatus can further include a liquid delivery system, and/or a recovery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BISSELL Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell J. DeJonge, Ryan J. Alt, Steve M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12174905
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for search engine optimization, comprising: determining at least one keyword for which a webpage is ranked by a search engine; determining if at least one missing keyword exists by comparing to webpage content; determining a webpage score based on a cost per click of each missing keyword and an impression count for each missing keyword; and either or both: displaying at least one user interface component representing the webpage score and, if at least one missing keyword exists, at least one missing keyword; and updating the webpage content based on at least one missing keyword. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving search result data retrieved based on at least one keyword; generating at least one natural language processing entity based on the search result data; and displaying a user interface component representing the at least one natural language processing entity as at least one suggested keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventor: Steve Marton Toth
  • Patent number: 12176996
    Abstract: A portable antenna terminal includes a deck on which is mounted a storage frame, and on which there is also supported an antenna that includes a kingpost shaft and a modular reflector that is formed from a plurality of reflector panels and a central reflector hub. The storage frame defines a storage space for storing the plurality of reflector panels and a receptacle for secured reception of the reflector hub. When fully loaded with all terminal components, the terminal has a total weight of equal to or less than 10,000 lbs., preferably equal to or less than 7,500 lbs., and more preferably equal to or less than 5,000 lbs. In a storage configuration, with the modular antenna components secured in stored positions, the terminal has dimensions equal to or less than 84 in. L×104 in. W×92 in. H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: DATAPATH, INC.
    Inventors: Brad Majeres, Chris Chechele, Michael Hicks, Steve Kovar, Thomas Holman
  • Patent number: 12171151
    Abstract: An agricultural system comprising includes a support assembly having one or more support structures and one or more propulsion units coupled to the one or more support structures. The agricultural system includes one or more actuatable work tool assemblies having one or more measurement attachments configured to perform one or more measurements of at least one of one or more objects or one or more regions within an environment. The one or more actuatable work tool assemblies may be actuated by one or more actuation systems. The agricultural system may include a controller configured to cause one or more processors to direct the one or more actuation systems to actuate the one or more actuatable work tool assemblies position to perform one or more measurements of at least one of one or more objects or one or more regions within the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: REALMFIVE, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve R. Tippery, Brant Burkey, Kyle Gerber, Heath Roehr, Tim Adkins
  • Patent number: 12171801
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions useful for human health, e.g., for targeting one or more microorganisms resident in a host insect (e.g., arthropod, e.g., insect, e.g., pathogen vector), the modulation resulting in a decrease in the fitness of the host. The invention features a composition that includes a modulating agent (e.g., phage, peptide, small molecule, antibiotic, or combinations thereof) that can alter the host's microbiota in a manner that is detrimental to the host. By disrupting microbial levels, microbial activity, microbial metabolism, or microbial diversity, the modulating agent described herein may be used to decrease the fitness of a variety of insects that carry vector-home pathogens that cause disease in humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Flagship Pioneering Innovations V, Inc.
    Inventors: Ignacio Martinez, Zachary Garo Armen, Christine Cezar, Barry Andrew Martin, Maier Steve Avendano Amado
  • Patent number: 12177351
    Abstract: Systems as described herein may include authorizing the sharing of data and sharing data between a variety of systems. A request to share data may be provided to a first system. The system may create sharing session data using smart contracts executed by a distributed network system. Sharing session data may be stored using a smart contract. A second system may obtain the sharing session data and verify the sharing session based on the execution of the smart contract. On verification of the sharing session, a variety of data may be shared between the systems identified in the sharing session data. The sharing session data may be established between two systems and/or a number of systems. Smart contracts may provide a variety of functions for authorizing the sharing of data between systems. Additionally, encrypted data may be stored and/or obtained using a smart contract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Qiaochu Tang, Steve Frensch, Taras Kuzin, John Santoro
  • Publication number: 20240419255
    Abstract: A sensing and display apparatus, comprising: a first phenomenon interface configured to operatively interface with a first augmediated-reality space, and a second phenomenon interface configured to operatively interface with a second augmediated-reality space, is implemented as an extramissive spatial imaging digital eye glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Meron GRIBETZ, W. Steve G. MANN
  • Publication number: 20240419349
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and product for allowing access to a partially replicated dataset, including: detecting, by a target storage system, that a dataset will be replicated from a source storage system to the target storage system; exposing, by the target storage system, the dataset for user operations prior to receiving the entire dataset; receiving, by the target storage system, a request to read a portion of the dataset that has not been received by the target storage system; and retrieving, by the target storage system, the portion of the dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: ETHAN L. MILLER, JOHN COLGROVE, CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN, STEVE HODGSON, MALCOLM SHARPE
  • Patent number: D1054949
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Wheel Pros LLC
    Inventor: Steve Hetrick