Patents by Inventor William Van Osdol

William Van Osdol 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: 20240144340
    Abstract: A system and method for remote SKU on-boarding of products for identification and sale which can include collecting image data in an environment; triggering computer vision detection of an item; processing the image data for item detection; relaying item related image data to a product mapping tool upon detection of item detection exception; presenting image data in the product mapping tool and receiving product identifier input; and updating a computer vision monitoring system in response to the product identifier input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240144352
    Abstract: A system and method for a dynamic customer checkout experience within an automated shopping environment that includes generating a virtual cart for the customer through an automatic checkout system; tracking location of the customer; generating an assessment of the virtual cart; and selecting a processing mode for the customer based in part on the assessment and executing the processing mode within at least one computing device in coordination with the location of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240135435
    Abstract: A system and method for computer vision driven applications in an environment that can include collecting image data across an environment; maintaining an environmental object graph from the image data whereby maintaining the environmental object graph is an iterative process that includes: classifying objects, tracking object locations, detecting interaction events, instantiating object associations in the environmental object graph, and updating the environmental object graph by propagating change in at least one object instance across object associations; and inspecting object state for at least one object instance in the environmental object graph and executing an action associated with the object state. The system and method can be applied to automatic checkout, inventory management, and/or other system integrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240134950
    Abstract: A system and method for linking observed human activity on video to a user account of a preferred embodiment that includes: through a computer vision monitoring system, detecting and tracking a human as a computer vision modeled person within an environment, the computer vision monitoring system being part of a computing platform managing a user interaction experience; through at least one associative mechanism, establishing an association between the computer vision modeled person and at least one associative element and thereby associating the computer vision modeled person and a user-record linked through the associative element; and directing the user interaction experience at least in part based on the combination of the modeled person and at least the user-record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240129643
    Abstract: An imaging system comprising of a set of cameras, the cameras having a configured relative camera arrangement; and each camera of the set of cameras comprising at least one corrective optical system. The system and method may comprise of multi-camera variations for coordinated alignment in multi-camera variations and/or split-field optical systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240121360
    Abstract: A system and method for visually automated interface integration that includes collecting image data; detecting a device interface source in the image data; processing the image data associated with the device interface source into an extracted interface representation; and exposing at least one access interface to the extracted interface representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240121361
    Abstract: A system and method for a remote state following device that includes an electronic device with a controllable operating state; an imaging device; and control system that when targeted at a control interface interprets a visual state from the control interface, and modifies the operating state in coordination with the visual state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240112135
    Abstract: System and method for dynamic marketing of products that can include collecting image data; identifying a set of product instances within the environment; for each product instance of the set of product instances, analyzing image data of the product instance and thereby determining a product presentation variation associated with the product instance; detecting user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances; and analyzing user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances according to the product presentation variations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20240112138
    Abstract: A system and method for sensor-enabled automated inventory stocking management that can include: operating a computer vision monitoring system comprising collecting image data, and identifying, by processing the image data, products and shelf space locations of the products; maintaining a shelving property map based on the products and shelf space locations identified through the computer vision monitoring system; in association with at least one request, allocating a shelf space usage option within a shelf space management database system, wherein each shelf space usage option specifies fulfillment parameters including at least one product identity and a set of shelf space placement parameters; confirming, based on processing of updated image data from the computer vision monitoring system, fulfillment of conditions defined through the fulfillment parameters of the a shelf space usage option and, in response, performing reactionary actions in the computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11922390
    Abstract: A system and method for vehicle facilitated commerce comprising: collecting a payment mechanism associated with a vehicle station at a vehicle service site; collecting image data in a defined region containing the vehicle station and a defined commerce region; initializing monitoring of at least one detected user associated with the vehicle station; monitoring commerce activity of the user, which comprises of: through CV processing of image data, detecting at least one commerce activity event involving the user and updating a checkout list associated with the user based on the commerce activity event; and executing a transaction with the payment mechanism for the checkout list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Grabango Co
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Patent number: 11914785
    Abstract: A system and method for an associative interaction framework used for user input within an interaction platform used in an environment that includes collecting image data in the environment; through computer vision analysis of the image data, classifying objects in the environment wherein a plurality of the objects are detected users; for at least one user, detecting an associative interaction event, which includes: through computer vision analysis of the image data, detecting a first object association of the one user with a first object, and initiating an associative interaction event with a set of interaction properties including properties of the user and the first object association; and executing an action response based on the associative interaction event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Grabango Co.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Brian Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20230165964
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides complexes including a pharmaceutically active agent and a functionalized polymer, wherein the functionalized polymer includes repeat units, the repeat units including ionizable repeat units having at least one ionizable side group and/or ionizable end group, a plurality of the at least one ionizable groups forming non-covalent bonds with the pharmaceutically active agent. Polymers which may be used to form such complexes as well as methods of making and using the complexes and related compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Sekar, Felix Theeuwes, Keith E Branham, John W Gibson, James Matriano, Whitney Moro, John Tipton, William Van Osdol, Su Il Yum
  • Patent number: 11529420
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides complexes including a pharmaceutically active agent and a functionalized polymer, wherein the functionalized polymer includes repeat units, the repeat units including ionizable repeat units having at least one ionizable side group and/or ionizable end group, a plurality of the at least one ionizable groups forming non-covalent bonds with the pharmaceutically active agent. Polymers which may be used to form such complexes as well as methods of making and using the complexes and related compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: DURECT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Sekar, Felix Theeuwes, Keith Edward Branham, John W Gibson, James Matriano, Whitney Moro, John Tipton, William Van Osdol, Su Il Yum
  • Publication number: 20210322517
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a biodegradable drug delivery composition including a vehicle and an insoluble component comprising beneficial agent dispersed in the vehicle. In some cases, the composition includes sucrose acetate isobutyrate, biodegradable polymer, hydrophobic solvent, and a complex comprising a counterion and beneficial agent, such as protein, peptide, nucleic acid, or small molecular weight compound. Also provided, are kits including the biodegradable drug delivery composition or components thereof, as well as methods of making and using the biodegradable drug delivery composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: DURECT CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Van Osdol, Su Il Yum, Felix Theeuwes, Michael Sekar, John W Gibson, Keith Edward Branham, Huey-Ching L. Su
  • Publication number: 20210128598
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of making a composition by combining a vehicle, e.g., a single phase vehicle, and an insoluble component comprising a beneficial agent, and sterilizing the composition using ionizing radiation prior to use, wherein the beneficial agent is stable following exposure to a sterilizing dose of ionizing radiation. Related compositions and methods are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Durect Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Sekar, SuIl Yum, Felix Theeuwes, William Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20210038731
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides complexes including a pharmaceutically active agent and a functionalized polymer, wherein the functionalized polymer includes repeat units, the repeat units including ionizable repeat units having at least one ionizable side group and/or ionizable end group, a plurality of the at least one ionizable groups forming non-covalent bonds with the pharmaceutically active agent. Polymers which may be used to form such complexes as well as methods of making and using the complexes and related compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Durect Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Sekar, Felix Theeuwes, Keith Edward Branham, John W. Gibson, James Matriano, Whitney Moro, John Tipton, William Van Osdol, Su Il Yum
  • Patent number: 10758623
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides complexes including a pharmaceutically active agent and a functionalized polymer, wherein the functionalized polymer includes repeat units, the repeat units including ionizable repeat units having at least one ionizable side group and/or ionizable end group, a plurality of the at least one ionizable groups forming non-covalent bonds with the pharmaceutically active agent. Polymers which may be used to form such complexes as well as methods of making and using the complexes and related compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: DURECT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Sekar, Felix Theeuwes, Keith E Branham, John Gibson, James Matriano, Whitney Moro, John Tipton, William Van Osdol, Su Il Yum
  • Publication number: 20190209654
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a biodegradable drug delivery composition including a vehicle and an insoluble component comprising beneficial agent dispersed in the vehicle. Typically, the composition is not an emulsion, but has a low viscosity and further provides for minimized initial burst and sustained release of the beneficial agent over time. Also provided, are kits including the biodegradable drug delivery composition or components thereof, as well as methods of making and using the biodegradable drug delivery composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Durect Corporation
    Inventors: William Van Osdol, SuIl Yum, Felix Theeuwes, Michael Sekar, John W Gibson, Keith Edward Branham, Huey Ching Su
  • Publication number: 20190070206
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of making a composition by combining a vehicle, e.g., a single phase vehicle, and an insoluble component comprising a beneficial agent, and sterilizing the composition using ionizing radiation prior to use, wherein the beneficial agent is stable following exposure to a sterilizing dose of ionizing radiation. Related compositions and methods are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Sekar, Su Il Yum, Felix Theeuwes, William Van Osdol
  • Publication number: 20180256727
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides complexes including a pharmaceutically active agent and a functionalized polymer, wherein the functionalized polymer includes repeat units, the repeat units including ionizable repeat units having at least one ionizable side group and/or ionizable end group, a plurality of the at least one ionizable groups forming non-covalent bonds with the pharmaceutically active agent. Polymers which may be used to form such complexes as well as methods of making and using the complexes and related compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Durect Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Sekar, Felix Theeuwes, Keith E Branham, John Gibson, James Matriano, Whitney Moro, John Tipton, William Van Osdol, Su Il Yum