Patents by Inventor Kevin Williams

Kevin 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).

  • Publication number: 20210295859
    Abstract: This specification describes computer-implemented methods and systems. One method includes receiving, by a neural network of a speech recognition system, first data representing a first raw audio signal and second data representing a second raw audio signal. The first raw audio signal and the second raw audio signal describe audio occurring at a same period of time. The method further includes generating, by a spatial filtering layer of the neural network, a spatial filtered output using the first data and the second data, and generating, by a spectral filtering layer of the neural network, a spectral filtered output using the spatial filtered output. Generating the spectral filtered output comprises processing frequency-domain data representing the spatial filtered output. The method still further includes processing, by one or more additional layers of the neural network, the spectral filtered output to predict sub-word units encoded in both the first raw audio signal and the second raw audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ehsan Variani, Kevin William Wilson, Ron J. Weiss, Tara N. Sainath, Arun Narayanan
  • Publication number: 20210277343
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for the production of renewable natural gasses are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin William HARRISON, Nancy Sue FARMER
  • Publication number: 20210241891
    Abstract: A system and method is described for printing a label with an RFID tag. The system includes an RFID reader that queries a first RFID tag coupled to a first medicinal container that includes a medication. In response, the system receives a first unique identifier and uses the first unique identifier to determine a status of the medication, associate the first medicinal container with a medical provider and print a second label that includes a second RFID tag for a second medicinal container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Jennifer Ashley Gitchell, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Kevin William MacDonald, Nicholas Bastien Petersen, Julie Christina Meloni, Christian Lee Doyle, Michael David Waud, David Mario Pedra, Nicholas Ward Stocchero, Michael Christopher Wimpee, Steven Shyu, Mahesh Murali
  • Patent number: 11073344
    Abstract: A tube for a thermal transfer device can include a wall having a length and having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface forms a cavity. The tube can also include at least one first dimple pressed into the wall toward the cavity at a first location along the length of the wall, where the inner surface of the wall at the at least one first dimple is separated from itself by a first distance. The tube can further include at least one second dimple pressed into the wall toward the cavity at a second location along the length of the wall, where the inner surface of the wall at the at least one second dimple is separated from itself by a second distance. The cavity can be configured to receive a fluid that flows continuously along a length of the at least one wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Kevin Williams, Amin Akbarimonfared
  • Patent number: 11062725
    Abstract: This specification describes computer-implemented methods and systems. One method includes receiving, by a neural network of a speech recognition system, first data representing a first raw audio signal and second data representing a second raw audio signal. The first raw audio signal and the second raw audio signal describe audio occurring at a same period of time. The method further includes generating, by a spatial filtering layer of the neural network, a spatial filtered output using the first data and the second data, and generating, by a spectral filtering layer of the neural network, a spectral filtered output using the spatial filtered output. Generating the spectral filtered output comprises processing frequency-domain data representing the spatial filtered output. The method still further includes processing, by one or more additional layers of the neural network, the spectral filtered output to predict sub-word units encoded in both the first raw audio signal and the second raw audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ehsan Variani, Kevin William Wilson, Ron J. Weiss, Tara N. Sainath, Arun Narayanan
  • Patent number: 11061880
    Abstract: A system is provided including a memory in communication with a processor. The memory is to store a value of an attribute. The processor is to obtain from a source data structure the value. The processor is also to store in a further data structure the value in association with a descriptor identifying the source data structure. Moreover, the processor is to store in the further data structure an identifier in association with the value. The identifier is incrementable and unique to the value among values associated with the descriptor. In addition, the processor is to output the further data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Williams, Amit Kumar Singh, Gaurav Roy
  • Publication number: 20210200730
    Abstract: An example of an apparatus including a network interface to receive enrollment data from a device, wherein the device is identified by a device identifier. The apparatus further includes a memory storage unit connected to the network interface. The memory storage unit receives device history data associated with the device identifier while the device is enrolled. The memory storage unit is also to maintain a database to store the device history data associated with the device identifier. The apparatus also includes a processor to receive a de-enrollment command associated with the device via the network interface. The de-enrollment command causes the processor to modify the device identifier stored in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin WILLIAMS, Amit Kumar SINGH, Gaurav ROY
  • Publication number: 20210191805
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes: a storage having a storage interface and addressable bytes, the storage interface coupled to first and second sets of peripheral terminals; control circuitry having control circuitry inputs and control circuitry outputs, the control circuitry inputs coupled to the storage interface and configured to receive configuration bits provided by the storage responsive to a control circuitry update trigger, and the control circuitry outputs coupled to first and second sets of peripheral outputs; and a cyclic-redundancy check (CRC) engine coupled to the storage interface, the CRC engine configured to distinguish between purposeful updates to the data in the storage and bit errors in the data in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin William Brandon, Jacco van Oevelen
  • Publication number: 20210192390
    Abstract: A system is provided including a memory in communication with a processor. The memory may store status data for a module of a device. The processor may generate a module score based on the status data, and generate a device score by applying a transformation to the module score. Moreover, the processor may assign the device to a status group based on the device score. The status group may include one of a healthy group and an unhealthy group. Furthermore, the processor may output the status group associated with an identifier of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Aravind Iyengar, Gaurav Roy, Madhurya Sarma, Kevin Williams, Amit Kumar Singh, Nileshkumar Gawali, Sonal Jagdish Jambhule, Chetan Satpute
  • Patent number: 11023503
    Abstract: A user can request suggestions for text to insert at a position in an electronic input document. A set of annotations is obtained from the input document and contextual information associated with the document. A set of candidate texts from source documents are identified for the suggested text and evaluated. Each evaluation may indicate a likelihood that the corresponding candidate text is suitable to insert at the requested position of the input document. One or more of the candidate texts are presented to the client device as the suggested text to insert at the requested position of the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Textio, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Clay Satterfield, Jensen Michael Harris, Christopher William Harland, Dawn Marie Wright, Kevin William Humphreys, Martin David McClellan, Orion Buckminster Montoya, Olivia Ann Gunton, Laurie Lee Dermer
  • Patent number: 11017352
    Abstract: A pharmacy kit is managed by defining multiple rules for determining whether a segment of a pharmacy kit is satisfactorily stocked, selecting at least one rule among the multiple rules according to a kit stocking contingency, an prompting a user to stock the segment of the pharmacy kit according to the selected at least one rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Kit Check, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin William MacDonald, David Mario Pedra, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Christian Lee Doyle, Eric Brody
  • Publication number: 20210129873
    Abstract: Modifying railcar embodiments convert the dead weight of empty railcars to productive use. Battery embodiments are charged by regenerative brakes, solar panels, and wind turbines. Freight car wheels, have a plurality of regenerative brakes. A plurality of airfoils, with solar panels, are installed on shipping containers, to counteract drag created by a plurality of wind turbines. Railcar embodiments are used in a mix and match fashion, as desired. Storage battery banks, are shipped and/or charged to replace existing hazardous transmission lines. Storage battery banks, are shipped and/or charged to avoid constructing new transmission lines for solar or wind farms. Factory installed EV batteries, EV batteries, and/or other rechargeable batteries, are shipped and/or charged. After battery embodiment charging is complete, power generated is diverted to train engines. Provisions are made for embodiments not connected to train engines. Embodiment operations are monitored with data displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Kevin William Cook
  • Publication number: 20210102730
    Abstract: A water heater can include a baffle and a slab heat exchanger with at least two rows of heat exchanger tubes, each row comprising a plurality of heat exchanger tubes. At least one of the heat exchanger tubes comprises a tube and a plurality of fins on the exterior of the tube circumscribing the tube, wherein the outer edge of each fin of the plurality of fins is bent at least at the same three areas of each fin such that the bends form at least three flat or concave areas running along the length of the heat exchanger tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Satya Gullapalli, Bruce Hotton, Juan Garcia, Amin Akbarimonfared, Juan Carlos Montanez, Kevin Williams
  • Patent number: 10949407
    Abstract: An example of an apparatus including a network interface to receive enrollment data from a device, wherein the device is identified by a device identifier. The apparatus further includes a memory storage unit connected to the network interface. The memory storage unit receives device history data associated with the device identifier while the device is enrolled. The memory storage unit is also to maintain a database to store the device history data associated with the device identifier. The apparatus also includes a processor to receive a de-enrollment command associated with the device via the network interface. The de-enrollment command causes the processor to modify the device identifier stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Williams, Amit Kumar Singh, Gaurav Roy
  • Patent number: 10930270
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing audio waveforms. In some implementations, a time-frequency feature representation is generated based on audio data. The time-frequency feature representation is input to an acoustic model comprising a trained artificial neural network. The trained artificial neural network comprising a frequency convolution layer, a memory layer, and one or more hidden layers. An output that is based on output of the trained artificial neural network is received. A transcription is provided, where the transcription is determined based on the output of the acoustic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tara N. Sainath, Ron J. Weiss, Andrew W. Senior, Kevin William Wilson
  • Patent number: 10930393
    Abstract: A system and method is described for printing a label with an RFID tag. The system includes an RFID reader that queries a first RFID tag coupled to a first medicinal container that includes a medication. In response, the system receives a first unique identifier and uses the first unique identifier to determine a status of the medication, associate the first medicinal container with a medical provider and print a second label that includes a second RFID tag for a second medicinal container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Kit Check, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Ashley Gitchell, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Kevin William MacDonald, Nicholas Bastien Petersen, Julie Christina Meloni, Christian Lee Doyle, Michael David Waud, David Mario Pedra, Nicholas Ward Stocchero, Michael Christopher Wimpee, Steven Shyu, Mahesh Murali
  • Publication number: 20210043291
    Abstract: Methods and systems relate to providing varying levels of detail about a pharmacy item to a patient information system based on the capabilities of the patient information system. An intercept device can receive an identifier associated with a pharmacy item based on a scanner reading a computer-readable code. The intercept device can recognize or determine the storage capabilities or limitations of the patient information system, for example by determining various medication data fields that the patient information system uses to store pharmacy item information. The intercept device can use the machine readable code to obtain pharmacy item information that is compatible with the patient information system based on those storage capabilities or limitations and can distribute that pharmacy item information to the patient information system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Kevin William MacDonald, Nicholas Bastien Petersen
  • Patent number: D910190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ogosport LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Dominic Nimes, Kevin Williams
  • Patent number: D910499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ogosport LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Williams
  • Patent number: D911161
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kevin Williams