Patents by Inventor Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams 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).

  • Patent number: 11941941
    Abstract: Systems and methods for use in providing a random reward associated with at least one game are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, by a gaming server, data representative of gaming activity of a player of the at least one game, providing, by the gaming server, a code associated with the random reward, wherein the code is representative of an entry to win the random reward, receiving, by the gaming server, data representative of a text message including the code, determining whether the player won the random reward based on the received code, and providing a notification indicating whether the player won the random reward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VIDEO GAMING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher John Thacker, Daniel William Milligan
  • Patent number: 11939321
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (0): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, N-oxide or tautomer thereof; wherein: n is 1 or 2; X is CH or N; Y is selected from CH and C—F; Z is selected from C—Rz and N; R1 is selected from: -(Alk1)t-Cyc1; wherein t is 0 or 1; Optionally substituted C1-6 acyclic hydrocarbon groups R2 is selected from hydrogen; halogen; and C1-3 hydrocarbon groups optionally substituted with one or more fluorine atoms; R3 is hydrogen or a group L1-R7; R4 is selected from hydrogen; methoxy; and optionally substituted C1-3 alkyl; and R4a is selected from hydrogen and a C1-3 alkyl group; wherein Rz, Alk1, Cyc1, L1 and R7 are defined herein; provided that the compound is other than 6-benzyl-3-{2-[(2-methylpyrimidin-4-yl)amino]pyridin-4-yl}-7,8-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-5(6H)-one and 3-{2-[(2-methylpyrimidin-4-yl)amino]pyridin-4-yl}-7,8-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-5(6H)-one and salts and tautomers thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Valerio Berdini, Ildiko Maria Buck, James Edward Harvey Day, Charlotte Mary Griffiths-Jones, Thomas Daniel Heightman, Steven Howard, Christopher William Murray, David Norton, Marc O'Reilly, Alison Jo-Anne Woolford, Michael Liam Cooke, David Cousin, Stuart Thomas Onions, Jonathan Martin Shannon, John Paul Watts
  • Patent number: 11939911
    Abstract: A clutched pulley assembly mountable to the shaft of a motor-generator unit (MGU) has a first sheave, with first spline teeth, rotatably mounted to the MGU shaft, and a second sheave, with second spline teeth, fixed to the MGU shaft. A slider gear with slider gear spline teeth is axially moveable between a torque transfer position, where the slider gear spline teeth simultaneously intermesh with the spline teeth of the first and second sheaves to operatively connect the sheaves to each other, and a torque cut-off position, where the slider gear spline teeth intermesh with the second sheave spline teeth but not the first sheave spline teeth so as to operatively disconnect the sheaves. An actuator drives the slider gear between the torque transfer and cut-off positions. The pulley assembly can be used in a stand-cooling mode wherein the engine is stopped but the MGU powers a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LITENS AUTOMOTIVE PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Kody A. Orr, Geoffrey William Ryeland, Andrew Malcolm Boyes, Reza Farshidi, Christopher Nyholm, Jun Xu, Ercong Ji
  • Patent number: 11943886
    Abstract: An electronic assembly includes an electronic package having an integrated circuit component and interposer assemblies with compressible interposer contacts electrically connected thereto. Cable connector modules are coupled to the interposer assemblies. A cover assembly is coupled to the upper surface of the electronic package over the cable connector modules. The cover assembly includes bridge assemblies having plates in a plate stack that are independently movable. A load plate engages upper edges of the plates of the bridge assemblies and press against the plates to drive the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules using compression hardware. The cable connector modules compress the interposer contacts of the interposer assemblies when the load plate presses the plates of the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Brian Patrick Costello, Alex Michael Sharf
  • Patent number: 11942247
    Abstract: Increasing the chromium content of an electrical steel substrate to a level greater than or equal to about 0.45 weight percent (wt %) produced a much improved forsterite coating having superior and more uniform coloration, thickness and adhesion. Moreover, the so-formed forsterite coating provides greater tension potentially reducing the relative importance of any secondary coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry William Schoen, Kimani Tirawa Partin, Christopher Mark Wilkins
  • Patent number: 11941351
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a graphical user interface to a computing device are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: John Michael Collinson, Christopher William Cooney, Russell Voutour, Marie-Julie Demers, Arun Victor Jagga, John Jong-Suk Lee
  • Publication number: 20240091442
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Gary A. MORRIS, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Esteban CABRERA, JR., Anna Leigh DAVIS, Rian W. DRAEGER, Laura J. DUNN, Timothy Joseph GOLDSMITH, Hari HAMPAPURAM, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Patrick Wile MCBRIDE, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Francis William PASCUAL, Philip Mansiel PELLOUCHOUD, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Philip Thomas PUPA, Kevin SHOEMAKER, Brian Christopher SMITH, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Atiim Joseph WILEY
  • Publication number: 20240091999
    Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 11931166
    Abstract: A system and method of generating an enhanced Lund and Browder chart and total body surface area burn score is described herein. In some embodiments, a plurality of images is obtained from of a patient using a camera system. The images may be taken by aligning the patient's body with pose templates presented on a display of the camera system. The non-skin portions of the images may be removed, and skin analysis performed on the skin portion to determine burn location, coverage, and depth. Further, landmarks may be detected in the images to morph and align the images with the pose templates to obtain standard poses. The plurality of images may be combined and presented in two-dimensional and three-dimensional models with labels and the total surface area burn score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Research Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Argenta, Aaron Williams, Greg Foderaro, Thomas Paniagua
  • Publication number: 20240090349
    Abstract: There is provided an electrical switch comprising a length of superconducting material. In some forms the electrical switch is configured to be controlled between a low-resistance state and a higher-resistance state by the selective application of one or more switching mechanisms. In the higher-resistance state, current flowing through the length of superconducting material may approach the critical current of the length of superconducting material, may be substantially equal to the critical current or may be greater than the critical current. In some forms, the length of superconducting material is a length of high temperature superconducting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Rodney Alan Badcock, Christopher William Bumby, Jianzhao Geng, James Hamilton Palmer Rice
  • Publication number: 20240084636
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to motorized hinge-lift system designed for integration and use with physical vapor deposition (PVD) chambers, enabling efficient and precise control of the chamber's lid assembly. PVD technology plays a critical role in thin film deposition processes for various industries, including semiconductor manufacturing, optical coatings, and advanced materials research. The proposed motorized hinge-lift systems contemplated and discussed herein significantly enhances the functionality and performance of PVD chambers by addressing key challenges associated with their operation. Among other related benefits, embodiments of such motorized hinge-lift system may provide for simple retrofitting of existent PVD chambers, and may allow seamless and reliable lid lifting and lid lowering operations, thereby minimizing the risk of operator injury or damage to sensitive substrates within the chamber or to the PVD chamber itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Advanced Refurbishment Technologies LOLC d/b/a ARTSemi LLC
    Inventors: Christopher William Lewis, Timothy H. Ickes
  • Publication number: 20240086742
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for creating and executing a decision network that includes a number of stations configured to operate with respect to an instance of a document, container or other object. A user interface may be presented to a user that includes selectable options for configuring and connecting stations within the decision network, and for establishing executable logic for each station to modify or create data within fields of a container instance. Different stations in the decision network may be assigned different permissions with respect to the container. Individual stations in the decision network may be configured to determine a prediction or probability based on data accessible to the given station, where the prediction or probability of one station may be based in part on an earlier prediction or probability determined at another station of the decision network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Worsley, Ryan William Johnson, Jeffery Theodore Stockett, David Roy Watson, Jr., Austin Paul Bagley, Logan Brent Uibel
  • Publication number: 20240087852
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and apparatuses for the cleaning of HDP chambers, and more specifically, for remote plasma source (“RPS”) systems used for the generation and delivery of cleaning radicals to the interior of such chambers for the purposes of reacting with and removing materials deposited therein during the chambers' normal operation, wherein the plasma source and the power supply of the RPS system are decoupled from one another, the form factor of the plasma source is such that it may be mounted in immediate proximity to the target chamber, and wherein the plasma source uses variable capacitors in order to tune the RF signals it generates to the impedance of the conductive coil, such as may be due to changes in gas pressures inside of the system, so that the RF load in the coil may be balanced in near-real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Advanced Refurbishment Technologies LLC d/b/a ARTSemi LLC
    Inventor: Christopher William Lewis
  • Patent number: 11925298
    Abstract: A bowl assembly for a micro puree machine including an inner beaker and an outer bowl. The inner beaker is configured to receive ingredients and has an exterior bottom surface that includes a beaker alignment feature. The outer bowl is configured to receive the inner beaker therein. The outer bowl includes an interior bottom surface that includes a bowl alignment feature and an exterior bottom surface that includes a bowl securing element. The beaker alignment feature of the inner beaker exterior bottom surface is complementary to the bowl alignment feature of the outer bowl interior bottom surface such that, at times the inner beaker is positioned in the outer bowl, the complementary bowl alignment feature and inner beaker alignment feature prevent rotation of the inner beaker relative to the outer bowl. The bowl securing element is configured to receive and attach to a platform of a micro puree machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARKNINJA OPERATING LLC
    Inventors: Jared James Proulx, Christopher William Hedges, Pierce James Barnard, Ming Li Shi, Xu Sheng Deng
  • Patent number: 11927364
    Abstract: An air handling unit (AHU) for a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system includes a housing and a combustion heater disposed within the housing. The housing includes a combustion section with a first channel and a second channel. The combustion heater includes heat exchanger tubes and a tube support that supports heat exchanger tubes within the combustion section. The tube support slidably disposed in the first channel and the second channel. The combustion heater configured to be slidably removable from the AHU. An AHU for an HVACR system includes a housing with a fan section and a fan assembly disposed within the housing. The fan assembly including a pair of grooves slidably disposed on a pair of rails of the housing. The fan assembly configured to be both slidably removable from the AHU and liftably removable from the AHU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Daniel, Jason William Parks, Gregory L. Meeuwsen, Nathan Wagers, Chasity Webb, Anthony Chiles, Gregory Edmund Beltran, Aaron Allison Stevens, Stephen Kowalski, Jason Harpst
  • Patent number: 11929844
    Abstract: Various arrangements for using captured voice to generate a custom interface controller are presented. A vocal recording from a user may be captured in which a spoken command and multiple smart-home devices are indicated. One or more common functions that map to the multiple smart-home devices may be determined. A custom interface controller may be generated that controls the one or more common functions of each smart-home device of the multiple smart-home devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Brown, Da Huang, Christopher Conover, Lisa Williams, Henry Chung
  • Patent number: 11927762
    Abstract: A display system comprising a steerable display having a monocular field of view of at least 1 degree, positioned within a scannable field of view of at least 20 degrees, the steerable display positioned for a user. In one embodiment, the steerable display is positioned for the user's fovea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Andrew John Gross, Christopher David Westra, D. Scott Dewald, Edward Chia Ning Tang, Joseph Roger Battelle, Kevin William King, Warren Cornelius Welch, III, Eric Richard David Frasch, David A. Henderson, Qin Xu
  • Patent number: 11927382
    Abstract: A portable cooler container with active temperature control includes a double-walled insulated container body with a chamber to receive and hold temperature sensitive products. A control system is at least partially disposed between an outer wall and an inner wall of the container body. An electronic display screen on one of the lid and the container body configured to display shipping address information for the portable cooler container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ember Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Jacob William Emmert, Joseph Lyle Koch, Frank Victor Baumann, Clifton Texas Lin, Farzam Roknaldin, Mark Channing Stabb
  • Publication number: 20240076540
    Abstract: Compositions comprising a neutral surfactant or a reaction product thereof and a reaction product of a saccharide polymer and a fatty acid may be obtained in the presence of water and a hydroxide base (optionally in the presence of the neutral surfactant), the saccharide polymer comprising a dextran, a dextrin compound, or any combination thereof. The reaction product of the saccharide polymer and the fatty acid may be present at a concentration effective to lower surface tension of the neutral surfactant. Depending on the fatty acid identity, among other factors, the compositions may promote emulsification or de-emulsification. In addition, the compositions may promote foam formation under appropriate conditions. Treatment fluids comprising the compositions, including foamed treatment fluids, may be introduced into a subterranean formation to perform a treatment operation in which fluid emulsification or de-emulsification may occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Integrity Bio-Chemicals, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher P. GARDNER, Stephen William ALMOND
  • Patent number: D1019391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Natsume, Sarah Hoit, James William Palmer, Daniel Marcelo Gamez Castillejos, Christopher G. Palmer