Patents by Inventor Keith Williams
Keith 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).
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Patent number: 11984768Abstract: A plumbing system for generating electrical power, including a hydroelectric generator assembly configured to generate power, a power source arranged in parallel with the hydroelectric generator assembly, and an interconnecting power harness in communication with the hydroelectric generator assembly and the power source. The plumbing system additionally includes a plumbing fixture in communication with the interconnecting power harness. The plumbing fixture includes a valve and a sensor configured to detect the presence of a user. The hydroelectric generator assembly is configured to provide power to the valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ZURN WATER, LLCInventors: Chadwick Williams, Jack Salay, Cesar Leon, Matt Gjertson, Dan Danowski, Glen Trickle, Karthik Sundaramoorthy, Keith Mercer, Long Le, Jon Huddle, Robert Weaver, Robert Saadi, Vipresh Jain, Keith Boucher, Brandon Feil
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Publication number: 20240152817Abstract: A contextual awareness subsystem extracts information about the environment around a device from audio data. An adaptive learning model may be applied to the contextual information to generate a recommendation of a change to the configuration of the device. The recommendation may be automatically implemented or presented to the user for verification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Shrishail Baligar, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Keith William Godin
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Patent number: 11975805Abstract: A marine vessel and method for carbon capture and sequestration are described. The marine vessel includes a buoyant hull, a cryogenic storage tank within the hull, and a gaseous carbon dioxide loading manifold. The marine vessel also includes a carbon dioxide liquefaction system in fluid communication with the cryogenic storage tank downstream of the carbon dioxide liquefaction system and with the gaseous carbon dioxide loading manifold upstream of the carbon dioxide liquefaction system. Finally, the marine vessel includes a carbon dioxide supercritical system in fluid communication with the cryogenic storage tank. In operation, the marine vessel moves between multiple locations, where gaseous carbon dioxide is onboarded, liquified and stored. Thereafter, the marine vessel transports the liquified carbon dioxide to a location adjacent an offshore geological reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: StoreCo2 UK LimitedInventor: Keith William Hutchinson
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Publication number: 20240144402Abstract: A dynamic vending system includes a vending manager and a delivery vehicle. The vending manager is configured to receive and evaluate a plurality of dynamic conditions from the delivery vehicle and to provide instructions including a planned route to the delivery vehicle based on the dynamic conditions. The delivery vehicle includes a plurality of products available for sale, and is configured to execute the instructions including the planned route. The delivery vehicle is further configured to receive requests from consumers to stop along the planned route and to execute a transaction with the consumer for one of the products available for sale. The transaction includes the selection of one of the products available for sale, receipt of payment for the product, and dispensing the selected product to the consumer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Keith Faigin, R. William Kneifel, II, Kent A. Deemter, Stuart De Geus, Rick Moreno, David Scrivano, Jaime Pescia, Christopher P. Ilitch
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Patent number: 11969286Abstract: A system for visualization and quantification of ultrasound imaging data according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include a display unit, and a processor communicatively coupled to the display unit and to an ultrasound imaging apparatus for generating an image from ultrasound data representative of a bodily structure and fluid flowing within the bodily structure. The processor may be configured to estimate axial and lateral velocity components of the fluid flowing within the bodily structure, determine a plurality of flow directions within the image based on the axial and lateral velocity components, differentially encode the flow directions based on flow direction angle to generate a flow direction map, and cause the display unit to concurrently display the image including the bodily structure overlaid with the flow direction map.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Hua Xie, Shiying Wang, Sheng-Wen Huang, Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon, Keith William Johnson, Liang Zhang, David Hope Simpson
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Publication number: 20240133586Abstract: A fluid heating system for heating a production fluid using a thermal transfer fluid, the production fluid being contained in a vessel includes an electric blower configured to receive ambient air and electrical input power and to provide output source air, a combustion system configured to receive the source air from the electric blower and to receive fuel and to provide the thermal transfer fluid, a heat exchanger configured to receive the thermal transfer fluid from the combustion system and configured to provide heat exchange from the thermal transfer fluid to the production fluid, and to provide output exhaust gas, and wherein the electric fan provides a predetermined volume flow rate of the output source air at a predetermined blower efficiency such that the fluid heating system has a Bulk Heat Flux of at least about 14.7 kBTU/Hr/ft2 and a Pressure Drop of at least about 0.7 psi.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Alexander Thomas Frechette, Carl Nicholas Nett, Thomas William Tighe, Keith Richard Waltz
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Publication number: 20240138061Abstract: A method of forming a flexible electronic component includes treating a flexible fluoroelastomer substrate to increase the surface energy of the substrate to a specified surface energy. After the treatment, a layer of conductive material is printed with an inkjet printer onto the substrate. After the printing, an encapsulant layer comprising a fluoroelastomer is applied onto the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Sahil P. Wankhede, Xian Du, Ali Al Shehri, Keith William Brashler, Mohammad Al-Ba’adani, Doru Catalin Turcan
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Patent number: 11965959Abstract: The present disclosure describes ultrasound systems configured to enhance flow imaging and analysis by adaptively adjusting one or more imaging parameters in response to acquired flow measurements. Example systems can include an ultrasound transducer and one or more processors. Using the system components, mean flow velocity magnitude and acceleration can be determined within a target region during an acquisition phase, which may include a cardiac cycle. One or more adjusted flow imaging parameters, such as adjusted ensemble length, temporal smoothing filter length and/or step size, can be determined based on the acquired flow measurements to increase the signal quality of newly acquired ultrasound echo signals. The adjusted flow imaging parameters can then be applied by the ultrasound transducer during a second acquisition phase.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Shiying Wang, Sheng-Wen Huang, Hua Xie, Keith William Johnson, Liang Zhang, Thanasis Loupas, Truong Huy Nguyen
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Publication number: 20240127241Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for electronic resource transfer authentication via a user characteristic data verification engine. The system receives a request to transfer electronic resources from a first endpoint device of a merchant. The system then identifies a resource vehicle owner associated with the electronic resource transfer, identifies at least one second endpoint device, then transmits a request for verification from the entity to the at least one second endpoint device, utilizing an application programming interface. The user characteristic feedback hardware of the at least one second endpoint device collects identifier data from the user of the at least one second endpoint device, and a user characteristic data verification engine is initiated and thereafter determines a binary identification output. An entirety of the electronic resources are distributed to the merchant based on the binary identification output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher Daniel Birch, Sophie Morgan Danielpour, Susan R. Hart, Son Huynh, Tyler Keith Prothro, Shannon Sabina Rolinger, Amado Jose Martinez Suarez, Stephen Jack Williams
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Patent number: 11941426Abstract: An example operation may include a method comprising one or more of creating a VNFC monitor, starting a VNFC monitor, sending VNFCI state change notifications which includes a status of one or more VNFC modules, stopping a VNFC monitor, and destroying a VNFC monitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Keith William Melkild
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Publication number: 20240077138Abstract: An edge seal for sealing an outer surface of a lower electrode assembly configured to support a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing chamber, the lower electrode assembly including an annular groove defined between a lower member and an upper member of the lower electrode assembly. The edge seal includes an elastomeric band configured to be arranged within the groove, the elastomeric band having an annular upper surface, an annular lower surface, an inner surface, and an outer surface. When the elastomeric band is in an uncompressed state, the outer surface of the elastomeric band is concave. When the upper and lower surfaces are axially compressed at least 1% such that the elastomeric band is in a compressed state, an outward bulging of the outer surface is not greater than a predetermined distance. The predetermined distance corresponds to a maximum outer diameter of the elastomeric band in the uncompressed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: David SCHAEFER, Ambarish Chhatre, Keith William Gaff, Sung Je Kim, Brooke Mesler Lai
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Publication number: 20240065564Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting and treating relapses for neurological conditions in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for predicting and treating a clinical neurological condition relapse. The method includes steps for selecting a threshold heart rate variability value for a patient suffering from a clinical neurological condition, monitoring, using a cardiac monitor, the heart rate variability of the patient over time, providing an indicator that a relapse is imminent when the heart rate variability of the patient falls below the threshold heart rate variability value, and treating the patient using a transcranial magnetic stimulation device by applying an accelerated theta burst stimulation protocol where the transcranial magnetic stimulation target is the left prefrontal dorsolateral cortex.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Nolan Williams, Keith Sudheimer
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Publication number: 20240072312Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may provide control and/or sensing circuit configurations for electrochemical energy storage systems, such as metal-air battery systems. Various embodiments may include systems, methods, and devices supporting terminal switching between a charge cathode and a discharge cathode of a metal-air battery, bypass switching for the metal-air battery, and/or electrolyte low level detection for the metal-air battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Tuan Minh Truong, Tyler Grandahl, Keith William Johnston, Jhalak Joshipura Vasavada, Grant Harrison Friesen
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Patent number: 11916358Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a power distribution unit may include: multiple power distribution module (PDM) receptacles, in which each PDM receptacle is configured to receive a PDM along a longitudinal axis of the PDM receptacle and is configured with multiple conductors disposed along a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis; first multiple power outlets coupled to a first PDM receptacle of the multiple PDM receptacles, in which the first multiple power outlets are configured to provide first single-phase power to first multiple information handling systems housed by a rack; and second multiple power outlets coupled to a second PDM receptacle of the multiple PDM receptacles, in which the second multiple power outlets are configured to provide second single-phase power to second multiple information handling systems housed by the rack. In one or more embodiments, a monitoring device of the power distribution unit may monitor one or more environmental attributes.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Francis William French, Kanu Dhiru Patel, Keith Clifford Johnson
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Patent number: 11898404Abstract: Drill string components having at least two threads extending around a body. The leading end of each thread can have a configuration having increased strength and resistance to jamming and cross-threading. In particular, the leading end of each thread can comprise a planar surface normal to the body. The leading end of each thread can provide an abrupt transition to full thread depth that helps reduce or eliminate cross-threading and can be oriented at an angle relative to the axis of the drill string component. Each thread can further provide at least one of a variable thread width and a variable thread pitch configured to create an axial progressive fit. Each thread can also provide a cylindrical thread root and a thread crest that circumscribes a frusta-cone over at least a portion of the axial length of the threads configured to create a radial progressive fit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Boart Longyear CompanyInventors: Christopher L. Drenth, Keith William Littlely
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Publication number: 20240043677Abstract: A composition, made from recycled solid surface material or articles, that is suitable for making solid surface materials or articles, and a solid surface material or article made therefrom, the composition comprising a matrix resin of unsaturated polyester resin, inorganic filler particles, ground solid surface primary particles, ground solid surface secondary particles, and, optionally, solid surface dust particles. The composition is especially useful in making three-dimensional, rigid-surface, polymeric solid surface material and articles that are free of objectionable surface voids and have a smooth and stable continuous surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION, INC.Inventors: Thi Hoang Ha Nguyen, Keith William Pollak
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Publication number: 20240034444Abstract: A marine vessel and method for carbon capture and sequestration are described. The marine vessel includes a buoyant hull, a cryogenic storage tank within the hull, and a gaseous carbon dioxide loading manifold. The marine vessel also includes a carbon dioxide liquefaction system in fluid communication with the cryogenic storage tank downstream of the carbon dioxide liquefaction system and with the gaseous carbon dioxide loading manifold upstream of the carbon dioxide liquefaction system. Finally, the marine vessel includes a carbon dioxide supercritical system in fluid communication with the cryogenic storage tank. In operation, the marine vessel moves between multiple locations, where gaseous carbon dioxide is onboarded, liquified and stored. Thereafter, the marine vessel transports the liquified carbon dioxide to a location adjacent an offshore geological reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventor: Keith William Hutchinson
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Patent number: 11888762Abstract: An example operation may include a system comprising one or more of receiving a heartbeat failure notification in a VNFCI when the VNFCI is in standby state, sending to a Virtual Network Function Manager (VNFM), by an operational state machine, a next state request message, determining if a peer VNFCI is online when an administrative state of the peer VNFCI is online, determining an operational state of the peer VNFCI when the peer VNFCI is online, sending a first next state response message with a standby state to the VNFCI when the peer VNFCI operational state is active, sending a second next state response with an active state to the VNFCI when the peer VNFCI operational state is not active, examining, in the VNFCI, a next state attribute in a received next state response message, staying in a standby state when the next state attribute is standby, and transitioning to active state when the next state attribute is active.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Keith William Melkild
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Publication number: 20240003356Abstract: A vertical molten sulfur pump assembly includes a pump motor disposed in a top portion and an impeller disposed in a bottom portion, within an impeller casing. A pump inlet is disposed at the second end below the impeller casing. The vertical molten sulfur pump assembly is configured to pump molten sulfur into the inlet and upwards through a discharge passageway by rotation of the impeller. A vibration sensor and a temperature sensor are disposed on an external surface of the bottom portion, on or proximate to the impeller casing and the pump inlet. A temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperature of the molten sulfur proximate to the pump inlet. A vibration sensor includes a substrate comprising a polymer and a resonant layer, and resonant layer includes an electrically conductive nanomaterial and is configured to produce a resonant response in response to receiving a radio frequency signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Keith William Brashler, Doru Catalin Turcan, Ali Al Shehri
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Publication number: 20230420957Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may include battery string arrangements for power systems, such as dynamic battery string configurations, inter-module connections, and other configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Tyler GRANDAHL, Amelie Nina KHAREY, Nicholas MCKIBBEN, Keith William JOHNSTON