Alexander L Chen

US Patent:

6945532, Sep 20, 2005

Filed:

Aug 25, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/647151

Inventors:

Jonathan Isaac Orner - Los Angeles CA, US
Alexander Chen - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

A63F009/04

US Classification:

273272, 273429, 273146, 273243

Abstract:

A word game relating to verbal communication and word association. The present invention comprises several six sided dice with letters, a six sided die with numbers, a game board, 4 pawns, one or more timers, and a deck of cards. Each set of lettered dice comprise 4 dice, each with six faces, each face thereof containing one letter of the alphabet, covering the full 26 letter alphabet, excluding X and Z. 100 or more cards are in the deck each card containing a title and sequentially numbered answers. Each team is assigned a pawn to move about the board. The numbered die is used to determine the number of spaces to move a pawn forward. A timer is used to limit time during various turns. The board comprises spaces with colors, numbers and indicia. The colors determine which teams are allowed to participate in a turn. Each pawn color is represented on the board.

US Patent:

20050269779, Dec 8, 2005

Filed:

Jun 2, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/858716

Inventors:

Jonathan Orner - Los Angeles CA, US
Alexander Chen - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

A63F001/00

US Classification:

273292000, 273303000

Abstract:

A casino card game that can be played by any amount of players, and one bank, with the only skill required being the knowledge of addition and recognition of a standard deck of playing cards. The game is substantially similar to “Pan 9,” with the object being to obtain a three-card hand with a sum total of nine or the closest thereto, and the players win if they beat the bank's hand. The game differs from “Pan 9” in that when the initial cards are dealt, four cards are dealt to each player and four cards are dealt to the bank, and no further cards may be dealt. Each player then must choose three of his four cards to create a sum total closest to nine. The remaining fourth card becomes the “kicker.” If a player's hand has a sum total greater than the bank's hand, the player wins. The kicker is not counted in the hand, and the kicker is used as a tie-breaking card, in the event of a player's hand being equal in value to the bank's hand. In the event that the bank's hand and a player's hand are equal, the greater valued kicker card wins.

US Patent:

20050285344, Dec 29, 2005

Filed:

Jun 29, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/878930

Inventors:

Jonathan Orner - Los Angeles CA, US
Alexander Chen - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

A63F001/00

US Classification:

273292000

Abstract:

A casino card game that can be played by any amount of players, and one bank, with the only skill required being the knowledge of addition and recognition of a standard deck of playing cards. The game is substantially similar to “Pan 9,” with the object being to obtain a three-card hand with a sum total of nine or the closest thereto, and the players win if they beat the bank's hand. The game differs from “Pan 9” in that when the initial cards are dealt, four cards are dealt to each player and four cards are dealt to the bank, and no further cards may be dealt. Each player then must choose three of his four cards to create a sum total closest to nine. The remaining fourth card becomes the “kicker.” If a player's hand has a sum total greater than the bank's hand, the player wins. The kicker is not counted in the hand, and the kicker is used as a tie-breaking card, in the event of a player's hand being equal in value to the bank's hand. In the event that the bank's hand and a player's hand are equal, the greater valued kicker card wins.

US Patent:

20130045709, Feb 21, 2013

Filed:

Aug 20, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/589970

Inventors:

Alexander Chen - Irvine CA, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/26

US Classification:

455406

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method and system for managing billable hours, the method including the selecting a client from an electronic client directory upon receiving the client's contact for a service; the launching a digital timer for the selected client to record time spent for the requested service; stopping the timer when the service provided for said contact is done; an updating the client's account with the recorded time.

US Patent:

20220284737, Sep 8, 2022

Filed:

May 23, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/751037

Inventors:

- Cheltenham, GB
Alexander S. Chen - Long Beach CA, US
Peter H. Tu - Niskayuna NY, US

International Classification:

G06V 40/20
A61B 5/18
G10L 25/63

Abstract:

A method of assessing an operator emotional state and sending an alert based on the emotional state . The method includes tracking during a time period, using at least one sensor , one of an image sensor data, voice data or a biometric parameter of an operator. Determining , using a controller that is operatively connected to at least one sensor , a probability of a likely emotional state from a list of emotional states of an operator based on one of the image sensor data, voice data or the biometric parameter. Comparing , using a processor, the probability of one of the likely emotional states of the operator with a baseline emotional state of the operator. Sending , using the controller , an alert if most likely emotional state deviates from the baseline emotional state by a predetermined threshold.

US Patent:

20210325849, Oct 21, 2021

Filed:

Jun 28, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/360790

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
Alexander CHEN - Cypress CA, US
Xiaohu PING - Niskayuna NY, US
John Erik HERSHEY - Ballston Lake NY, US

International Classification:

G05B 19/4099
B33Y 50/00
B29C 64/386

Abstract:

According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided comprising receiving, via a communication interface of a part parameter dictionary module comprising a processor, geometry data for a plurality of geometric structures forming a plurality of parts, wherein the parts are manufactured with an additive manufacturing machine; determining, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, a feature set for each geometric structure; generating, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, one of a coupon and a coupon set for the feature set; generating an optimized parameter set for each coupon, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, via execution of an iterative learning control process for each coupon; mapping, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, one or more parameters of the optimized parameter set to one or more features of the feature set; and generating a dictionary of optimized scan parameter sets to fabricate geometric structures with a material used in additive manufacturing. Numerous other aspects are provided.

US Patent:

20210295102, Sep 23, 2021

Filed:

Mar 20, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/824917

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
Tao Gao - Los Angeles CA, US
Alexander S-Ban Chen - Cypress CA, US
Jilin Tu - Campbell CA, US

International Classification:

G06K 9/62
G06F 16/55
G06N 3/08
G06K 9/00

Abstract:

An analogy generating system includes one or more image databases that include a first set of images depicting a first symbolic class and a second set of images depicting a second symbolic class and an autoencoder that receive images from the first set of images and the second set of images; determines a first characteristic shared between the first symbolic class and the second symbolic class using a first node from multiple nodes on a neural network; determine a second characteristic shared between the first symbolic class and the second symbolic class using a second node from multiple nodes on the neural network; and exchange the first characteristic and the second characteristic between the first node and the second node to establish an analogy between the first symbolic class and the second symbolic class.

US Patent:

20200272127, Aug 27, 2020

Filed:

Feb 25, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/284409

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
Alexander CHEN - Cypress CA, US
Xiaohu PING - Niskayuna NY, US
John Erik HERSHEY - Ballston Lake NY, US

International Classification:

G05B 19/4099
B33Y 50/00
B29C 64/386

Abstract:

According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided comprising receiving, via a communication interface of a part parameter dictionary module comprising a processor, geometry data for a plurality of geometric structures forming a plurality of parts, wherein the parts are manufactured with an additive manufacturing machine; determining, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, a feature set for each geometric structure; generating, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, one of a coupon and a coupon set for the feature set; generating an optimized parameter set for each coupon, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, via execution of an iterative learning control process for each coupon; mapping, using the processor of the part parameter dictionary module, one or more parameters of the optimized parameter set to one or more features of the feature set; and generating a dictionary of optimized scan parameter sets to fabricate geometric structures with a material used in additive manufacturing. Numerous other aspects are provided.