De Guzman, US
Cindy De Guzman, Foster City, CA US
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20130054689 | REDEEMABLE CONTENT SPECIFIC TO GROUPS - Information regarding a user may be indicative of membership in a group. Such information may be maintained for every user associated with a particular system or title. In instances, redeemable content may be offered exclusively to a group. Requests for such content may therefore be received and evaluated to determine whether the requesting user is a member of the particular group. The determination includes an evaluation of information associated with the requesting user. In some instances, the information associated with the requesting user is a user identifier that is indicative of the group membership, and the user identifier may be included in the request. If the user is indeed determined to be a member of the group, access to the redeemable content is granted. Alternatively, if the user is not determined to be a member of the group, access to the redeemable content is denied. | 02-28-2013 |
Cristina De Guzman, Brighton, MA US
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20160055756 | Methods and Software for Motivating a User to Partake in an Activity Using an Electronic Motivational Learning Tool and Visual Motivational Stimulus - Methods and software that motivate one or more users to partake in an activity using an electronic motivational learning tool. This functionality can allow students to remain motivated to study even when the subject matter is dry, such as in the case of rote memorization of vocabulary or mathematical concepts. Various corresponding and related methods and software are described. | 02-25-2016 |
Dawn Cindy De Guzman, Pleasant Hill, CA US
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20100261520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WAGERING BADGES - A method for wagering badges. The method includes establishing badges representing an associated event, such as a window of time that the badge was available. A predetermined criteria for the badges are established, such as an activity required for a gamer to obtain a particular badge, and a determination is made that a gamer is entitled to the badge, based on the predetermined criteria. Similarly, other gamers can also obtain badges by meeting the criteria for the badge. Each gamer, is associated with their badges and a wager or trade between gamers can be established whereby the gamers wager or trade chosen badges. Ownership of the wagered badges is then transferred based on the outcome of the wager or trade. | 10-14-2010 |
Dawn Cindy De Guzman, Danville, CA US
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20150045110 | METAGAME REWARD POINT SYSTEM - Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for instituting a metagame point system that may be integrated into an online video game network for one or more video game platforms. The metagame points system may increase or decrease a user's point total based upon user performance across a plurality of different video game titles. In some implementations, the points may be transferable between users based upon user performance during multiplayer video game play. In further implementations, the points earned by a user may be redeemable for various rewards. | 02-12-2015 |
Henry De Guzman, Chino Hills, CA US
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20150272351 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN AWARD RIBBON - Method and apparatus for displaying a ribbon by providing a fascia board that is mounted onto a mounting surface. The ribbon is wrapped around the fascia board so as to position a medallion to hang at the end of the ribbon. Once the ribbon and medallion are properly positioned, then a pin is used to secure the placement of the ribbon relative to the fascia board. | 10-01-2015 |
Kathleen De Guzman, New York, NY US
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20160055756 | Methods and Software for Motivating a User to Partake in an Activity Using an Electronic Motivational Learning Tool and Visual Motivational Stimulus - Methods and software that motivate one or more users to partake in an activity using an electronic motivational learning tool. This functionality can allow students to remain motivated to study even when the subject matter is dry, such as in the case of rote memorization of vocabulary or mathematical concepts. Various corresponding and related methods and software are described. | 02-25-2016 |
Michael De Guzman, New York, NY US
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20160055756 | Methods and Software for Motivating a User to Partake in an Activity Using an Electronic Motivational Learning Tool and Visual Motivational Stimulus - Methods and software that motivate one or more users to partake in an activity using an electronic motivational learning tool. This functionality can allow students to remain motivated to study even when the subject matter is dry, such as in the case of rote memorization of vocabulary or mathematical concepts. Various corresponding and related methods and software are described. | 02-25-2016 |
Neil De Guzman, Weston, MA US
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20080275594 | Apparatus And Method For An Autonomous Robotic System For Performing Activities In A Well - An autonomous robot performs maintenance and repair activities in oil and gas wells, and in pipelines. The robot uses the well and pipeline fluids to provide most of the energy required for its mobility, and to charge a turbine from which it may recharge batteries or power a motor for additional propulsion. A control system of associated systems controls the robot, enabling the robot to share plans and goals, situations, and solution processes with wells, pipelines, and external control systems. The control system includes decision aids in a series of knowledge bases that contain the expertise in appropriate fields to provide intelligent behavior to the control system. The intelligent behavior of the control system enables real time maintenance management of wells and pipelines, through actively collecting information, goal-driven system, reasoning at multiple levels, context sensitive communication, activity performing, and estimation of the operators' intent. | 11-06-2008 |
Neil De Guzman, Houston, TX US
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20080270328 | Building and Using Intelligent Software Agents For Optimizing Oil And Gas Wells - A system and method for monitoring processes in the production of oil and gas uses intelligent software agents employing associative memory techniques that receive data from sensors in the production environment and from other sources and perform pattern matching operations to identify normal and abnormal behavior of the well production. The agents report the behaviors to human operators or other software systems. The abnormal behavior may consist of any behavior of the production processes that is other than the desired behavior of the well. The intelligent software agents are trained to identify both specific behaviors and behaviors that have never before been observed and recognized in the well. | 10-30-2008 |
20090276094 | Apparatus And Method For An Autonomous Robotic System For Performing Activities In A Well - An autonomous robot performs maintenance and repair activities in oil and gas wells, and in pipelines. The robot uses the well and pipeline fluids to provide most of the energy required for its mobility, and to charge a turbine from which it may recharge batteries or power a motor for additional propulsion. A control system of associated systems controls the robot, enabling the robot to share plans and goals, situations, and solution processes with wells, pipelines, and external control systems. The control system includes decision aids in a series of knowledge bases that contain the expertise in appropriate fields to provide intelligent behavior to the control system. The intelligent behavior of the control system enables real time maintenance management of wells and pipelines, through actively collecting information, goal-driven system, reasoning at multiple levels, context sensitive communication, activity performing, and estimation of the operators' intent. | 11-05-2009 |
Patrick De Guzman, Orange, CA US
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20160067095 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL LASER INCISIONS - Embodiments of this invention generally relate to ophthalmic laser procedures and, more particularly, to systems and methods for creating synchronized three-dimensional laser incisions. In an embodiment, an ophthalmic surgical laser system comprises a laser delivery system for delivering a pulsed laser beam to a target in a subject's eye, an XY-scan device to deflect the pulsed laser beam, a Z-scan device to modify a depth of a focus of the pulsed laser beam, and a controller configured to synchronize an oscillation of the XY-scan device and an oscillation of the Z-device to form an angled three-dimensional laser tissue dissection. | 03-10-2016 |
Peter Patrick De Guzman, Aliso Viejo, CA US
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20160095515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING POSITION AND BOUNDARY OF LENS CAPSULE AND IMPLANTED INTRAOCULAR LENS IN EYE IMAGING - Embodiments of this invention generally relate to systems and methods for eye imaging, and more particularly to measuring the size and position of the lens capsule and of the implanted intraocular lens. In one embodiment, a method for measuring the size and position of the lens capsule and of the implanted intraocular lens comprises generating and emitting one or more light beams at an angle adjacent to the eye, generating one or more eye images, and detecting the position and/or boundary of a lens capsule from its shadow casted by reflected light on the iris. | 04-07-2016 |
Peter-Patrick De Guzman, Orange, CA US
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20090042319 | Biosensor Detection By Means Of Droplet Driving, Agitation, and Evaporation - Methods of improving microfluidic assays are disclosed. Assays can be improved (better signal to noise ratio) by using sessile drop evaporation as an analyte concentration step (enhanced signal) and repeated passes of wash droplets as a means to reduce non-specific binding (noise reduction). In addition multiple massively parallel analyses improve the statistical precision of the analyses. | 02-12-2009 |
20090280251 | Mitigation of Biomolecular Adsorption with Hydrophilic Polymer Additives - Molecular adsorption to the microfluidic device surfaces can be passively and actively mitigated by mixing certain hydrophilic polymers (organic polymers with repeating hydrophilic groups—the preferred polymers being amphipathic surfactants—with the sample liquid during or prior to relevant microfluidic operations. Nonionic surfactants such as polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate and polyoxyethylene octyl phenyl ether are especially effective. High molecular weight polyethylene polymers are also effective. The hydrophilic polymers appear to prevent binding of the fouling molecules to the microfluidic by occupying the surface sites in place of the fouling molecules or by interacting with the fouling molecules to prevent binding of the fouling molecules the surface. When surface adsorption is thus mitigated, microfluidic devices can readily handle samples containing biomolecules to enable active sample concentration, filtering, washing, transport, mixing and other sample handling operations. | 11-12-2009 |
20140104576 | OPHTHALMIC RANGE FINDING - Systems and methods for analyzing the anatomy of a patient's eye with circular or rotated polarized laser beams, or with laser beams of different wavelengths are disclosed. One system includes a polarization beam-splitter and a quarter-wave plate, wherein the quarter-wave plate is configured to circularly rotate a laser beam received from a laser that is transmitted and passes through the polarization beam-splitter, and to transform a circularly rotated back-reflected beam to a linearly polarized laser beam that is perpendicular to the beam that was transmitted through the polarization beam-splitter. Substantially all of the back-reflected beam is directed to a photo-detector for analysis. A Faraday rotator subsystem may be substituted for a polarization beam-splitter. An optical system including a laser that generates a laser beam of a first wavelength for therapeutic treatment, and another laser that generates a laser beam of a second wavelength for measurement is also disclosed. | 04-17-2014 |
20140268042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EYE ORIENTATION - Systems and methods for locating the center of a lens in the eye are provided. These systems and methods can be used to improve the effectiveness of a wide variety of different ophthalmic procedures. In one embodiment, a system and method is provided for determining the center of eye lens by illuminating the eye with a set of light sources, and measuring the resulting first image of the light sources reflected from an anterior surface of the lens and the resulting second image of the light sources reflected from a posterior surface of the lens. The location of the center of the lens of the eye is then determined using the measurements. In one embodiment, the center of the lens is determined by interpolating between the measures of the images. Such a determination provides an accurate location of the geometric center of the lens. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268045 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING POSITION AND BOUNDARY OF LENS CAPSULE AND IMPLANTED INTRAOCULAR LENS IN EYE IMAGING - Embodiments of this invention generally relate to systems and methods for eye imaging, and more particularly to measuring the size and position of the lens capsule and of the implanted intraocular lens. In one embodiment, a method for measuring the size and position of the lens capsule and of the implanted intraocular lens comprises generating and emitting one or more light beams at an angle adjacent to the eye, generating one or more eye images, and detecting the position and/or boundary of a lens capsule from its shadow casted by reflected light on the iris. | 09-18-2014 |
20140276674 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGERY EMPLOYING EYE TRACKING WITHOUT EYE DOCKING - A system and method for performing ophthalmic surgery using an ultra-short pulsed laser is provided. The system includes a laser engine configured to provide an ultra-short pulsed laser beam, optics configured to direct the laser beam to an undocked eye of a patient, an eye tracker configured to measure five degrees of freedom of movement of the undocked eye, an optical coherence tomography module configured to measure depth of the undocked eye, and a controller configured to control laser beam position on the undocked eye toward a desired laser pattern based on depth and the five degrees of freedom of movement of the undocked eye. Adaptive optics are also provided. Also disclosed are a scleral ring including fiducial markings and a compliant contact lens and fluid fillable contact lens configured to facilitate ultra-short pulsed laser surgery while reducing or eliminating eye docking requirements. | 09-18-2014 |
20140276677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ANATOMICAL FLAP CENTRATION FOR AN OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of this invention relate to systems and methods for providing anatomical flap centration for an ophthalmic laser treatment system. In one embodiment, the laser surgery system, having an imaging system and a suction ring coupled with a patient interface, captures a digital image of a subject's eye and identifies an optimum treatment placement of the corneal flap using anatomical markers as reference points. | 09-18-2014 |
20140276679 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DEPTH DETECTION IN LASER-ASSISTED OPHTHALMIC PROCEDURES - Embodiments of this invention relate to systems and methods for automatic depth (or Z) detection before, during, or after laser-assisted ophthalmic surgery. When performing ophthalmic laser surgery, the operator (or surgeon) needs to make accurate and precise incisions using the laser beam. With the automatic depth detection systems and methods, the same laser used for the surgical procedure may be used for depth measurement of the surgical incisions. The surgical laser system may include a laser delivery system for delivering a pulsed laser beam to photoalter an eye, a mirror to transmit at least a portion of reflected light of the pulsed laser beam, a lens positioned to focus the transmitted reflected lighted on to a detector, (such as a CCD), and a depth encoder configured to automatically detect depth according to one or more of color, intensity, or shape of the focused spot on the CCD. | 09-18-2014 |
Rhet C. De Guzman, Detroit, MI US
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20140329150 | COMPOSITE ANODE FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES - A composite anode for a lithium-ion battery is manufactured from silicon nanoparticles having diameters mostly under 10 nm; providing an oxide layer on the silicon nanoparticles; dispersing the silicon nanoparticles in a polar liquid; providing a graphene oxide suspension; mixing the polar liquid containing the dispersed silicone nanoparticles with the graphene oxide suspension to obtain a composite mixture; probe-sonicating the mixture for a predetermined time; filtering the composite mixture to obtain a solid composite; drying the composite; and reducing the composite to obtain graphene and silicon. | 11-06-2014 |
Veronica S. De Guzman, Palo Alto, CA US
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20100291221 | Method of administering dose-sparing amounts of formoterol fumarate-budesonide combination particles by inhalation - Disclosed are methods, and related compositions, that include administering a dose-sparing amount of a formulation that includes inhalation particles to a subject by inhalation; wherein the inhalation particles comprise formoterol fumarate and budesonide, the formoterol fumarate and budesonide being in a distributed encapsulated morphology with respect to one another within said inhalation particles and the formoterol fumarate being in a predetermined mass ratio with regard to the budesonide within said inhalation particles. | 11-18-2010 |
20100319694 | Delivery of powdered drug via inhalation - Described herein are hand-held inhalation devices for use with tidal breathing that deliver powdered active agents to the respiratory system. The inhalation devices deliver a unit dose of the powdered active agent over a series of inhalations during tidal breathing. Methods for using the inhalation devices and kits for inhalation delivery of various active agents are also described. | 12-23-2010 |