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: 11920361
    Abstract: A docking station for a medical device is described. In some examples, the docking station includes a frame and a base plate coupled to the frame. At least a portion of the base plate is coupled to a lower portion of the frame. In some examples, an electronic connector of the docking station is configured to couple to the medical device and to provide power to the medical device when the medical device is docked to the docking station. In some examples, a docking mechanism is coupled to an upper portion of the frame and configured to retain the medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Barry D. Curtin, Alexander Hamilton, Kristina Edmonson, David Andrews, Christopher G. Alviar, Neal Stanley Clark, Benjamin Danziger, Christopher William Egbert, Jason Fouts, Matthew Malone, Joshua Berndt, Brigitta M. Suwandana, Jeremy Edward Brummett
  • Patent number: 11920347
    Abstract: A joist assembly system that is structured for dynamic retrieval of components, dynamic and precise positioning and location of retrieved components, assembly of the components to form a joist, and delivery of the assembled joist. The joist assembly system has a plurality of material handling systems, a plurality of welding systems, and a rigging table system. The material handling systems are structured to load and position the components such as chords and webs onto the rigging table. The rigging table in turn supports the chords or webs. Subsequently, the plurality of welding systems weld the webs to the chords to form the joist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NUCOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason Alan Freidenberger, Joseph Patrick Cagle, Christopher Ray Couch, Richard Thomas Erickson, Travis Marshall Fuhrman, John Lyman Hale, Matthew Glenn Hire, Christopher William Martin, James E. Ogburn, III, Jonathan Pressley Poston, Peter Michael Puglisi, Phillip Murray Sylvester, Jr., Adam Taylor Watkins
  • Patent number: 11924045
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a plurality of data center assets with a respective plurality of data center asset client modules; establishing a connection between the respective plurality of data center asset client modules and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; discovering interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets; and, generating a topological map of the plurality of data center assets based upon the interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Damon G. Earley, Dominique Prunier, Susan E. Young
  • Patent number: 11922738
    Abstract: Systems and methods to fuse aviation-related data systems for comprehensive aircraft system health monitoring are provided. One example method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, fault data indicative of a plurality of fault indications provided by a first plurality of components of an aircraft. The method includes obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, condition indicators describing the respective operational conditions of a second plurality of components of the aircraft. The method includes fusing, by the one or more computing devices, the fault data with the condition indicators to form a comprehensive data set. The method includes identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more causes of the plurality of fault conditions based at least in part on the comprehensive data set. One example system includes a data fuser, a cause identifier, and an alert generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Taleris Limited
    Inventors: Maria Louise Watson, Robert William Horabin, Christopher Catt, Frank Beaven, Olivier Paul Jacques Thuong, Thomas Antoine Raymond Bermudez, Aishwarya Coffey
  • Patent number: 11924285
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a connectivity management system client; establishing a secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a provisioning request; and, providing provisioning information to the data center asset via the secure communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Elie A. Jreij, Eric Williams, Dominique Prunier, Michael E. Brown, Kirk Frey, Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson
  • Patent number: 11920881
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for identifying gun events. A gun event may include a nominal event, such as the discharging of a projectile or the ejecting of a cartridge shell, or an anomalous event, such as a misfire or a failure to feed. An apparatus may include a sensor that measures motion of a gun along multiple axes. The apparatus may identify a gun event based on the measured motion of the gun satisfying a motion condition. The motion condition may include an acceleration threshold value, and the measured motion of the gun may satisfy the motion condition based on a measured acceleration value exceeding the threshold acceleration value. The apparatus may transmit an electrical signal based on the measured motion of the gun satisfying the motion condition. The electrical signal may reset a charging circuit, increment a shot count, or decrement a round count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Benjamin William Dwyer, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Christopher James Owens
  • Patent number: 11920453
    Abstract: A method of dynamically allocating a total amount of produced water (PW) from a reservoir during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) via a low salinity or softened water EOR flood by receiving measurement data; receiving reservoir configuration information comprising: an EOR injection rate associated with one or more EOR injection zones, a disposal zone injection rate associated with one or more disposal injection zones, and a non-reinjection disposal rate associated with one or more non-reinjection disposal routes; determining a blending rate comprising at least a portion of the PW production rate and at least a portion of the low salinity or softened water injection rate to provide a blended injection fluid; blending at least a portion of the PW with at least a portion of the low salinity or softened water at the blending rate; and dynamically allocating the PW production rate among injection and/or non-reinjection routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BP EXPLORATION OPERATING COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Stuart William Day, Christopher Kylie Mair
  • Publication number: 20240071098
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a controller configured to: analyze image data within an area; determine an object is present in the area based on the image data; determine if the object is a potential hazard based on the image data; and in response to determining the object is a potential hazard, emitting a projection beam onto a surface of the area to illuminate the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene Wolfe, Neal Wiggerman, Robert Mark Zerhusen, Nicholas Mann, Christopher Nelson, Angela Williams
  • Publication number: 20240070256
    Abstract: In certain aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented includes generating a unique code for display on a managed device, and authorizing a manager device to selectively initiate at least one workflow on the managed device. The method includes, responsive to the manager device scanning the unique code, verifying the manager device is authorized. The method includes displaying on the manager device, based on verification that the manager device is authorized, an option corresponding to the at least one workflow. The method includes receiving, from the manager device, a selected workflow. The method includes, responsive to receiving the selected workflow, transmitting a message to a push notification server initiating the managed device to communicate with an MDM server. The method includes transmitting a command to the managed device causing performance of the selected workflow on the managed device. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron Maxim, Adam Mahmud, Christopher Ball, Jonathan William Yuresko, Tim Knox
  • Publication number: 20240066415
    Abstract: An apparatus, for assisting at least a first user in communicating with one or more other users via a network, includes: a storage unit configured to store: phrase data corresponding to one or more phrases, where each phrase comprises one or more words, tag data corresponding to one or more tags, where each tag comprises at least part of one word, and first association data corresponding to one or more associations between one or more of the phrases and one or more of the tags; an input unit configured to receive one or more audio signals from the at least first user; a recognition unit configured to recognise one or more spoken words included within the received audio signals; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate whether a given recognised spoken word corresponds to a given tag; and if so, a transmission unit configured to transmit one or more of the phrases associated with the given tag to one or more of the other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jesus Lucas Barcias, Christopher William Henderson, Lazaros Michailidis
  • Patent number: 11912063
    Abstract: An arrangement of wheels for a bi-directional vehicle may decrease the drag coefficient for the vehicle regardless of a direction of travel of the vehicle. A pair of wheels, each wheel of the pair having a configuration of fins to promote a desired aerodynamic effect, when located at a leading end of the vehicle promotes airflow laterally outboard of the vehicle body. In contrast, the same pair of wheels, when located at a trailing end of the vehicle promotes airflow laterally inboard of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZOOX, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher William Labadie, Timothy David Kentley-Klay
  • Patent number: 11913744
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an attachment that can be fastened to a gun. The attachment may include a top surface having a longitudinal axis and an aiming sight that is parallel with the longitudinal axis, a front surface having a latitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the front surface including a muzzle aperture, a left surface, a right surface, and a fastening system. The fastening system may include a first mounting aperture of the left surface, a second mounting aperture of the right surface, and a locking pin capable of being positioned in the first mounting aperture and in the second mounting aperture such that the locking pin fastens the attachment to the gun. The attachment may be fastened to the gun such that the longitudinal axis is parallel with a longitudinal bore axis of the gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin William Dwyer, Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Bryan Edward Rogers, Donna Kelley, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Christopher James Owens
  • Patent number: 11914731
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to securely performing cross-boundary backup operations. A service of a computing resource service provider may enable backup operations between a source account and a destination account of an organization based at least in part on a security policy allowing such operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Velickovic, Alexander Sirotin, Christopher John Schilling, Steven Robert DeVos, Zhicong Wang, Wayne William Duso, Boo Boon Khoo
  • Patent number: 11915423
    Abstract: An image of a sample collection device is captured. The image of the sample collection device is analyzed to determine whether the sample collection device includes a sufficient amount of fluid sample. The image of the sample collection device is validated based on a result of the image analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Everly Well, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wesley Allen, Claudia Carrillo Gomez, Emma Todd LaPorte, Matthew William Meyer, Nini Luyuan Nathan, Nicholas Mattsson Parker, Jason Michael Pepas, James Joseph Vanaria
  • Patent number: 11913918
    Abstract: A chromatography system for at least one of tangential flow chromatography and lateral flow chromatography comprising: an inlet; a functionalised adsorbent chromatography medium downstream of the inlet; an outlet downstream of the adsorbent chromatography medium; and a flow guide downstream of the inlet and upstream of the adsorbent chromatography medium and configured to distribute a flow of a liquid from the inlet across a width of the adsorbent chromatography medium; wherein the flow guide comprises a pattern of channels providing flow paths from the inlet to different parts of the adsorbent chromatography medium along the width of the adsorbent chromatography medium, wherein the pattern of channels is provided so as to reduce a difference in arrival time and/or flow velocity of liquid reaching the adsorbent chromatography medium across the width of the adsorbent chromatography medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PURIDIFY LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Williams, Iwan Roberts, Oliver Hardick, Matthew Townsend, Christopher Morris, Shameer Subratty
  • Publication number: 20240061642
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include playback devices configured to operate in one or more playback configurations including configurations individual playback devices play back one or more corresponding channels of multichannel audio content. An audio parameter can be determined based on a distance between playback devices. In some examples, the audio parameter comprises a filter such as a low frequency filter that varies based on at least the distance between the playback devices. After the audio parameter is determined, the playback devices can play back audio content according to the determined audio parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Jerad Lewis, Douglas John Button, Kylie Beth Muntean, Daniel Jones, Adib Mehrabi, Christopher William Pike
  • Publication number: 20240045195
    Abstract: An optical arrangement for oblique plane microscopy, comprising: an illumination generator arranged to provide abeam of illumination through a first objective lens to illuminate or excite an oblique plane of a sample in use, wherein the first objective lens is also arranged to receive abeam of emitted light from the oblique plane of the sample in use; first and second relay lenses and a second objective lens sequentially arranged to receive the beam of emitted light from the first objective lens and to form, at the focal plane of the second objective lens, an intermediate image having a tilted plane conjugate to that of the oblique plane of the sample; a first mirror located at said focal plane of the second objective lens, arranged to receive and reflect the beam of emitted light; a third relay lens; and an image detector; wherein the second objective lens and the third relay lens are arranged to relay the intermediate image from the first mirror to the image detector; wherein the first minor is also arrange
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Christopher William DUNSBY
  • Patent number: D1015871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Natsume, Sarah Hoit, James William Palmer, Daniel Marcelo Gamez Castillejos, Christopher G. Palmer
  • Patent number: D1016501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Kioma, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Gay, Christopher William Wischkowsky
  • Patent number: D1016853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Gary Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Nathan De Vries, Christopher Foss, Aled Williams, Christopher Wilson