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Alexander H. Cooper, Newport Beach, CA US
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20140067054 | Heart Valve Sealing Devices - This disclosure pertains generally to prosthetic devices and related methods for helping to seal native heart valves and prevent or reduce regurgitation therethrough, as well as devices and related methods for implanting such prosthetic devices. In some cases, a spacer having a single anchor can be implanted within a native heart valve. In some cases, a spacer having dual anchors can be implanted within a native heart valve. In some cases, devices can be used to extend the effective length of a native heart valve leaflet. | 03-06-2014 |
Alexander H. Cooper, Costa Mesa, CA US
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20150238315 | PROSTHESIS, DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE - Devices, systems and methods are described herein a prosthesis for implantation within a lumen or body cavity and delivery devices for delivering the prosthesis to a location for implantation. A delivery system can include a plurality of components which are moveable relative to each other. The delivery system can include a nose cone which can cover at least a first end of the prosthesis, an outer elongate member which can cover at least a second end of the prosthesis, and a tether which can at least partially restrain the prosthesis from deployment. | 08-27-2015 |
Alexander H. Gruenstein, Mountain View, CA US
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20110184730 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DISAMBIGUATION OF VOICE COMMANDS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing voice commands. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an audio signal at a server, performing, by the server, speech recognition on the audio signal to identify one or more candidate terms that match one or more portions of the audio signal, identifying one or more possible intended actions for each candidate term, providing information for display on a client device, the information specifying the candidate terms and the actions for each candidate term, receiving from the client device an indication of an action selected by a user, where the action was selected from among the actions included in the provided information, and invoking the action selected by the user. | 07-28-2011 |
20110246944 | APPLICATION-INDEPENDENT TEXT ENTRY - A text processing module can allow a user to compose text prior to selecting another application with which to use or communicate the text. A device can include the text processing module, which receives text input from a user via text input means. The device can display the text in a user interface, along with one or more icons associated with software applications with which the text can be used or communicated. After the user has entered text, the user can activate a displayed icon to select the applications. The text processing module receives the selection and interacts with the selected application to display the text in the selected application and/or communicate the text to another person using the selected application. The text processing module can interact with user contacts to identify possible recipients for the text based on information in the text. | 10-06-2011 |
20110301955 | Predicting and Learning Carrier Phrases for Speech Input - Predicting and learning users' intended actions on an electronic device based on free-form speech input. Users' actions can be monitored to develop of a list of carrier phrases having one or more actions that correspond to the carrier phrases. A user can speak a command into a device to initiate an action. The spoken command can be parsed and compared to a list of carrier phrases. If the spoken command matches one of the known carrier phrases, the corresponding action(s) can be presented to the user for selection. If the spoken command does not match one of the known carrier phrases, search results (e.g., Internet search results) corresponding to the spoken command can be presented to the user. The actions of the user in response to the presented action(s) and/or the search results can be monitored to update the list of carrier phrases. | 12-08-2011 |
20130346078 | MIXED MODEL SPEECH RECOGNITION - In one aspect, a method comprises accessing audio data generated by a computing device based on audio input from a user, the audio data encoding one or more user utterances. The method further comprises generating a first transcription of the utterances by performing speech recognition on the audio data using a first speech recognizer that employs a language model based on user-specific data. The method further comprises generating a second transcription of the utterances by performing speech recognition on the audio data using a second speech recognizer that employs a language model independent of user-specific data. The method further comprises determining that the second transcription of the utterances includes a term from a predefined set of one or more terms. The method further comprises, based on determining that the second transcription of the utterance includes the term, providing an output of the first transcription of the utterance. | 12-26-2013 |
20150127346 | SELECTING ALTERNATES IN SPEECH RECOGNITION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting alternates in speech recognition. In some implementations, data is received that indicates multiple speech recognition hypotheses for an utterance. Based on the multiple speech recognition hypotheses, multiple alternates for a particular portion of a transcription of the utterance are identified. For each of the identified alternates, one or more features scores are determined, the features scores are input to a trained classifier, and an output is received from the classifier. A subset of the identified alternates is selected, based on the classifier outputs, to provide for display. Data indicating the selected subset of the alternates is provided for display. | 05-07-2015 |
Alexander H. Gruenstein, Sunnyvale, CA US
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20130110492 | Enhanced stability prediction for incrementally generated speech recognition hypotheses | 05-02-2013 |
20150095027 | KEY PHRASE DETECTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for key phrase detection. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of audio frame vectors that each model an audio waveform during a different period of time, generating an output feature vector for each of the audio frame vectors, wherein each output feature vector includes a set of scores that characterize an acoustic match between the corresponding audio frame vector and a set of expected event vectors, each of the expected event vectors corresponding to one of the scores and defining acoustic properties of at least a portion of a keyword, and providing each of the output feature vectors to a posterior handling module. | 04-02-2015 |
Alexander H. Hoon, Jr., Ellicott City, MD US
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20110270345 | FOCAL NONINVASIVE STIMULATION OF THE SENSORY CORTEX OF A SUBJECT WITH CEREBRAL PALSY - Disclosed are methods and related devices for use with subjects with cerebral palsy or periventricular leukomalacia. In preferred embodiments, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is used to identify neural areas and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is used to stimulate neural pathways. | 11-03-2011 |
Alexander H. Kuehling, St. Louis, MO US
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20130117122 | Methods and Systems for Providing A Location-Based Legal Information and Imaging Service - A method, system, apparatus, and computer product is presented for a location-based legal information and advertising service. A user of this service is assumed to have a mobile data device whose location may be determined by geolocation technology or user input. Once a particular location of interest has been determined, the device can display a variety of categories or fields of law that a user may select from. Upon user selection, data regarding the user can be stored in a database and information based upon the user's selection of a category or field of law and particular locations, and can be further retrieved and displayed. Additionally, the method, system, apparatus, and computer product may retrieve and display an advertisement or an image based upon the user's selection of a category or field of law and particular location of interest. | 05-09-2013 |
Alexander H. O'Hanley, Bristol, RI US
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20120167293 | Method and apparatus for unclogging a toilet - A toilet unclogging device rests on top of a toilet bowl rim and a user actuating a diaphragm or expandable central portion generates a temporary vacuum that repositions or reshapes an obstruction located below a water line to unclog the toilet without submerging any items beneath the water line of the toilet bowl. | 07-05-2012 |
Alexander H. Plache, Wayne, PA US
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20110185650 | Pre-Assembled Hip, Ridge or Rake Shingle - A hip, ridge or rake shingle is provided, in which a pair of substantially rigid panel portions are connected by a hinge portion, and wherein the shingle is pre-assembled, but can conform to a variety of different angles to accommodate different angular relationships between surfaces of a hip, ridge or rake of a roof. The substantially rigid panel portions are connected by a hinge and may or may not have a reinforcement member, and all of the panels, hinges and reinforcement members are of synthetic thermoplastic polymeric construction and are welded together by ultrasonic or vibratory welding techniques. | 08-04-2011 |
20120210661 | Pre-Assembled Hip, Ridge or Rake Shingle - A hip, ridge or rake shingle is provided, in which a pair of substantially rigid panel portions are connected by a hinge portion, and wherein the shingle is pre-assembled, but can conform to a variety of different angles to accommodate different angular relationships between surfaces of a hip, ridge or rake of a roof. The substantially rigid panel portions are connected by a hinge and may or may not have a reinforcement member, and all of the panels, hinges and reinforcement members are of synthetic thermoplastic polymeric construction and are welded together by ultrasonic or vibratory welding techniques. | 08-23-2012 |
Alexander H. Slocum, Jr., Huntington, WV US
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20140052265 | ROLLING-CONTACT KNEE PROSTHESIS - A custom knee prosthetic includes a polycentric rolling contact joint, whose instantaneous center of rotation coincides with the instantaneous center of rotation of a patient's knee joint. | 02-20-2014 |
20150066152 | Orthopaedic Joints Providing Enhanced Lubricity - The present disclosure provides, among other things, prosthetic joint components having textured surface(s) for improving lubrication and increasing the useful life of the prosthetic joint components. The textured surface includes solid features configured to stably contain a biological fluid or a synthetic biological fluid therebetween or therewithin for a non-zero residence time. | 03-05-2015 |
Alexander H. Slocum, Jr., Bow, NH US
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20090315557 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING THE TEMPORAL RESOLUTION OF AN IMAGING DEVICE - A system and method for determining the temporal resolution of a tomographic imaging device uses an apparatus to drive one or more dynamic phantoms composed of multiple materials. The apparatus is placed at or near the isocenter of the imaging device and the one or more phantoms are moved to produce a plurality of dynamic features, each having a specified frequency. The dynamic features are imaged with the device and the acquired image data corresponding to the dynamic features is analyzed to determine a temporal modulation transfer value at each of the known specified frequencies. The temporal resolution of the imaging device is determined using these temporal modulation transfer values. | 12-24-2009 |
20130019689 | TAPERED SPIRAL BELLOWS PRESSURE SENSOR - A pressure measuring device includes a resilient expandable pressure sensor element having an open end and an opposite closed end. The pressure sensor element includes spiral flutes extending between the open and closed ends defining spiral bellows. The pressure sensor element is tapered over at least a portion of its length from the open end to the closed end. The pressure measuring device also includes a supporting structure having a pressure indicating scale. The supporting structure holds the pressure sensor element such that the open end of the pressure sensor element is in communication with a fluid whose pressure is to be measured and pressure applied by the fluid causes the pressure sensor element to expand axially and be visibly displaced relative to the pressure indicating scale by a distance related to the pressure applied by the fluid. | 01-24-2013 |
Alexander H. Slocum, Sr., Bow, NH US
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20090315557 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING THE TEMPORAL RESOLUTION OF AN IMAGING DEVICE - A system and method for determining the temporal resolution of a tomographic imaging device uses an apparatus to drive one or more dynamic phantoms composed of multiple materials. The apparatus is placed at or near the isocenter of the imaging device and the one or more phantoms are moved to produce a plurality of dynamic features, each having a specified frequency. The dynamic features are imaged with the device and the acquired image data corresponding to the dynamic features is analyzed to determine a temporal modulation transfer value at each of the known specified frequencies. The temporal resolution of the imaging device is determined using these temporal modulation transfer values. | 12-24-2009 |