Inventor

J. David Schaffer

Inventor
Wappingers Falls, NY, US

Overview

42→
Patents
1995–2016
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 42 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

H04Nprimary
H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television21%
G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models15%
H04HBroadcast communication15%
G06FElectric digital data processing11%
H05KPrinted circuits10%
G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes5%
G16HHealthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical or healthcare data4%
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general2%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding2%
G07CTime or attendance registers2%
PatentTitleYear
9,367,817'Methods and systems for identifying patients with mild cognitive impairment at risk of converting to alzheimer\'s'20168,954,339'Detection of errors in the inference engine of a clinical decision support system'20158,843,965'Method and apparatus for generating recommendation scores using implicit and explicit viewing preferences'20148,798,937'Methods for optimizing and using medical diagnostic classifiers based on genetic algorithms'20148,578,439'Method and apparatus for presentation of intelligent, adaptive alarms, icons and other information'20138,494,871'Decision support system for acute dynamic diseases'20138,208,697'Method and apparatus for automatically developing a high performance classifier for producing medically meaningful descriptors in medical diagnosis imaging'20128,199,991'Method to automatically decode microarray images'20128,073,871'Nearest neighbor recommendation method and system'20117,937,725'Three-way media recommendation method and system'20117,721,310'Method and apparatus for selective updating of a user profile'20107,454,775'Method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on similarity metric'20087,337,455'Method, apparatus, and program for evolving algorithms for detecting content in information streams'20087,231,652'Adaptive sampling technique for selecting negative examples for artificial intelligence applications'20077,131,134'Evening planner'20067,130,866'Controlling the growth of a feature frequency profile by deleting selected frequency counts of features of events'20067,085,747'Real-time event recommender for media programming using “Fuzzy-Now” and “Personal Scheduler”'20067,051,352'Adaptive TV program recommender'20067,017,172'Recommender system using “fuzzy-now” for real-time events'20066,990,635'User interface for collecting viewer ratings of media content and facilitating adaption of content recommenders'20066,934,964'Electronic program guide viewing history generator method and system'20056,892,191'Multi-feature combination generation and classification effectiveness evaluation using genetic algorithms'20056,851,090'Method and apparatus for displaying program recommendations with indication of strength of contribution of significant attributes'20056,766,525'Method and apparatus for evaluating television program recommenders'20046,704,931'Method and apparatus for displaying television program recommendations'20046,650,953'Modular optimizer with precedence constraint-handling feature for optimization of component placement machines'20036,601,053'Optimized artificial neural networks'20036,594,531'Modular optimizer with foreign module learning feature for optimization of component placement machines'20036,553,357'Method for improving neural network architectures using evolutionary algorithms'20036,492,905'Object proximity/security adaptive event detection'20026,487,544'Method for optimizing a line of pick and place machines'20026,480,627'Image classification using evolved parameters'20026,467,088'Reconfiguration manager for controlling upgrades of electronic devices'20026,300,872'Object proximity/security adaptive event detection'20016,282,528'Method for optimizing the layout and charge maps of a flowline of pick and place machines'20016,275,815'Apparatus for optimizing the layout and charge maps of a flowline of pick and place machines'20016,260,031'Code compaction by evolutionary algorithm'20016,260,178'Component placement machine step size determination for improved throughput via an evolutionary algorithm'20016,196,917'Goal directed user interface'20015,909,674'Method for optimizing the layout and charge maps of a flowline of pick and place machines'19995,864,833'Apparatus for optimizing the layout and charge maps of a flowline of pick and place machines'19995,390,283'Method for optimizing the configuration of a pick and place machine'1995

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1995–2015Based in Wappingers Falls, NY, US· patent location history
1999–2001Patents assigned to PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NA (7)· patent assignee history
2002–2012Patents assigned to KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV (25)· patent assignee history
2007–2015Patents assigned to KONINKL PHILIPS NV (5)· patent assignee history
2011–2014Patents assigned to SCHAFFER J DAVID (4)· patent assignee history
2012–2016Patents assigned to SCHAFFER JAMES DAVID (5)· patent assignee history
2016Based in Vestal, NY, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV252002–2012
PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NA71999–2001
KONINKL PHILIPS NV52007–2015
SCHAFFER JAMES DAVIDself52012–2016
SCHAFFER J DAVIDself42011–2014
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Wappingers Falls, New York, US411995–2015
Vestal, New York, US12016