Patents by Inventor William Lopez

William Lopez 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).

  • Publication number: 20240160701
    Abstract: A central asset registry and associated satellite registries tie Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories and satellite repositories into a unified enterprise system. The system removes rights and asset relationship tracking from the DAMs and the satellites by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing digital asset rights and relationships between assets to improve speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of rights and relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry and the satellite registries use a pluggable architecture and track and store multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy and rights model depicts rights and relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties for addition of new assets, new asset types, and new rights without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Beth JACKSON, William C. HURST, Chris GOODACRE, Melissa ROBERTS, Lisa SEETO, Pedro LOPEZ, Jarrod CLIFT, Brant BOEHMANN, Dennis KILLINGSWORTH
  • Patent number: 11943488
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles for assigning content, such as advertisements, to similar content breaks, such as advertisement placement opportunities, across multiple content providers. The systems disclosed herein automatically identify similar advertisement placement opportunities, such as advertisement placement opportunities occurring at the same time, across a plurality of media content providers, and assign an indicated advertisement spot to as many of the identified advertisement placement opportunities as possible. This is achieved by re-assigning advertisement spots which are already assigned to a slot in one of the advertisement placement opportunities to another slot in order to allow the indicated advertisement spot to be assigned to the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WideOrbit LLC
    Inventors: Trevan Zosel, Brian Edward Thoman, Francisco Lopez Alvarez, William E. Offeman
  • Publication number: 20210035693
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved predictive analytics, such as patient scoring and hospitalization prediction, as described herein. An ensemble classifier may be implemented to predict a hospitalization event for a patient based on healthcare records and demographic information associated with the patient. The ensemble classifier may represent a plurality of machine learning models/classifiers. The prediction generated by the ensemble classifier may be indicative or a range or likelihood that the patient will, or will not, experience a hospitalization event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Naqi Mohammad, Avinash S. Raju, MD Mahbubur Rahman, William Lopez, Ramachandran A. Ganesh, Digvijay Yeola
  • Patent number: 9603603
    Abstract: A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Medtronic PS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Xinghai Wang, Hung Van Bach, Donna J. Burnette, Walter Raymond Blackwell, Weiguo Chen, S. Shane Dexter, Vikram August Garadi, Kevin L. Haney, Joseph William Lopez, R. Mitchell Sherry, Paul Cihak, Durrell Tidwell
  • Publication number: 20160055300
    Abstract: Provided are systems and method for dynamically maintaining a healthcare data mart and providing a healthcare report in response to receiving a request for a healthcare report from a client device. The maintaining including receiving healthcare data from a plurality of data sources, integrating the healthcare data to generate integrated healthcare data, and storing the integrated healthcare data in a healthcare database. The providing including generating (using the integrated healthcare data) a healthcare report responsive to the request, and serving the healthcare report to the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Ramachandran A. Ganesh, William Lopez
  • Publication number: 20150128402
    Abstract: A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: John Xinghai WANG, Hung Van BACH, Donna J. BURNETTE, Walter Raymond BLACKWELL, Weiguo CHEN, S. Shane DEXTER, Vikram August GARADI, Kevin L. HANEY, Joseph William LOPEZ, R. Mitchell SHERRY, Paul CIHAK, Durrell TIDWELL
  • Patent number: 8936597
    Abstract: A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Medtronic PS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Xinghai Wang, Hung Van Bach, Donna J. Burnette, Walter Raymond Blackwell, Weiguo Chen, S. Shane Dexter, Vikram August Garadi, Kevin L. Haney, Joseph William Lopez, R. Mitchell Sherry, Paul Cihak, Durrell Tidwell
  • Publication number: 20130204256
    Abstract: A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Medtronic PS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Xinghai Wang, Hung Van Bach, Donna J. Burnette, Walter Raymond Blackwell, Weiguo Chen, S. Shane Dexter, Vikram August Garadi, Kevin L. Haney, Joseph William Lopez, R. Mitchell Sherry, Paul Cihak, Durrell Tidwell
  • Patent number: 7407142
    Abstract: A hair collection device for collecting hair from the hand of user to remove hair from the head left on the hand of the user during a shower. The hair collection device includes a collection member being designed for being selectively coupled to a wall of the shower. The collection member is designed for receiving the hair from the hand of the user to allow the user to collect the hair at a later time to be thrown out when the hand of the user is wiped across the collection member. At least one mounting member is coupled to the collection member. The mounting member is designed for selectively engaging the wall of the shower to secure the collection member to the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Inventor: William Lopez
  • Publication number: 20060199143
    Abstract: A mandible alignment system for aligning a model of a mandible relative to an axis of rotation to substantially replicate the orientation of the mandible relative to an axis of rotation. The mandible alignment system may include aligning an axis formed between a point on a first retro molar pad of a model of a mandible with a point on a second retro molar pad of the model with an axis of rotation of a device. The axis formed between the retro molar pads of the mandible may be oriented to be parallel, or substantially parallel, to the axis of rotation of the device along the Z-axis and the X-axis. The mandible alignment system also includes numerous devices for facilitating alignment of the model of the mandible with the axis of rotation of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventor: William Lopez