Patents by Inventor Patrick Williams
Patrick 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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Publication number: 20240091442Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: 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
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Patent number: 11932601Abstract: Compounds that modulate the oxidoreductase enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, and compositions containing the compounds, are described herein. The use of such compounds and compositions for the treatment and/or prevention of a diverse array of diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancer- and immune-related disorders, that are mediated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Flexus Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Hilary Plake Beck, Juan Carlos Jaen, Maksim Osipov, Jay Patrick Powers, Maureen Kay Reilly, Hunter Paul Shunatona, James Ross Walker, Mikhail Zibinsky, James Aaron Balog, David K. Williams, Weiwei Guo
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Publication number: 20240082742Abstract: A portable tailgate slide is disclosed. The portable tailgate slide includes a slide portion, having a smooth top surface for sliding, sidewalls, and a bottom surface, wherein the slide portion includes a top end portion comprising at least one aperture, and wherein the bottom surface of the slide portion includes a handle protruding from therefrom, and at least one strap configured to loop around a tailgate of a truck, wherein the strap is configured to attach to the tailgate slide from the aperture to the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Patrick William Dunstan, Tristin Janel Dunstan
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Publication number: 20240067078Abstract: A lamp body to be releasably coupled to a mounting surface. The lamp body comprises a mount post and a cantilevered lock. The mount post is configured to be received in a mounting hole in the mounting surface, where the mount post is configured to slide between a releasing portion of the mounting hole and a locking portion of the mounting hole. The cantilevered lock is configured to releasably engage with a stop on the mounting surface when the mount post slides into the locking portion of the mounting hole to retain the mount post within the locking portion of the mounting hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Kevin Koyle, Patrick Condon, Mark Williams, Timothy Chadderdon, Jeffrey Leverton, Mark Pruss
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Patent number: 11915075Abstract: A transaction card that includes a card body that can include a ceramic material. The card body can include a primary surface and a secondary surface, a laser marked feature disposed on the card body and a laser etched feature disposed on the card body. A method of making a transaction card can include forming a ceramic material slurry comprising a ceramic material and a binder, forming a green body from the ceramic material slurry, firing the green body at a firing temperature to create a fired ceramic body, grinding the fired ceramic body into a card body, and polishing a primary surface of the card body.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Troy Patrick Williams, Peter Bates
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Patent number: 11904121Abstract: A negative pressure therapy system is provided for inducing negative pressure in a portion of a urinary tract of a patient, the system including: (a) at least one ureteral catheter configured to be positioned within a ureter and/or kidney of a patient; (b) one or more sensor(s) configured to determine information about urine produced within a urinary tract of the patient; and (c) a controller configured to increase urine production of the patient by adjusting one or more operating parameters of a negative pressure source for inducing negative pressure through the at least one ureteral catheter into the urinary tract of the patient, based at least in part upon the information determined by the one or more sensor(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Roivios LimitedInventors: John R. Erbey, II, Jacob L. Upperco, Michael Alan Fisher, Patrick William Strane, Lance Michael Black
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Patent number: 11889877Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to garments with adaptive ventilation. The garment has one or more flaps that open and close in response to the presence or absence of an external stimulus such as, for example, moisture. The one or more flaps remain closed in the absence of the external stimulus and open in the presence of the external stimulus thereby increasing or decreasing ventilation between an interior cavity of the garment and an external environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Grant H. Simmons, Patrick Williams
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Patent number: 11890488Abstract: Magnetic particle actuating systems may include a magnet system configured to generate a magnetic field that includes a field-free region. A corresponding control system can be configured to control the magnet system to create a field-free region at least partially matching a target region. An excitation system can be configured to generate an excitation field to cause actuation of magnetic nanoparticles in an actuation region.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MAGNETIC INSIGHT, INC.Inventors: Daniel Westbrook Hensley, Matthias Weber, Elaine Yuiyi Yu, Robert Blayne Kettlewell, Kyle David Fields, Patrick William Goodwill
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Publication number: 20240017667Abstract: A brake pedal pressure indication assembly and method for indicating a pressure level applied to the brake includes a processor being integrated within a vehicle. The vehicle has a brake pedal and the processor has a pressure sensor being in mechanical communication with the brake pedal. The processor determines the amount of force applied to the pressure sensor relative to a set of levels. The set of levels further includes a low level tier, a high level tier, and a mid level tier. A pair of brake lights is in electric communication with the processor. Each of the brake lights has a bulb having a color-changing capability. A strip is in electric communication with the processor as well. The strip has a plurality of light emitting diodes having the color-changing capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Breydon Buehler, Patrick Williams
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Patent number: 11858214Abstract: A build chamber for a 3D printer includes a heated build space in an interior of the build chamber and a thermal isolator configured to insulate 3D printer components from the heated build space. The thermal isolator includes a first baffle section and a second baffle section. Each of the first baffle section and the second baffle section includes an accordion-pleated panel having a length, a width, a first end and a second end, wherein the panel comprises a parallel alternating top folds and bottom folds along the width forming a series of pleats, and each pleat within the series being configured to expand and contract, and wherein the panel is constructed of a heat-resistant material. Each baffle section also includes support rods affixed to the accordion-pleated panel in parallel to the pleats and at intervals along the length of the panel, the support rods substantially spanning the width of the panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Stratasys, Inc.Inventors: Kyra Elizabeth Neal, Colin Adam Schiel, Patrick Williams Anderson, Bryan Daniel Migliori
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Publication number: 20230413933Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to garments that incorporate adaptive stand-off structures in the form of fluid-filled bladders that transition from a first shape to a second shape when exposed to moisture in the form of, for example, perspiration. When the fluid-filled bladders are in the first shape, the fluid-filled bladders are generally planar with a surface plane of a textile layer forming the garment so that the garment comes into contact or near contact with the wearer's body surface. When the fluid-filled bladders are in the second shape, they extend in a z-direction away from the surface plane of the textile layer forming the garment such that the textile layer is spaced apart from the wearer's body surface by the stand-off structures to reduce cling and facilitate the evaporation of perspiration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Karen A. Hawkinson, Joshua Patrick Williams
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Publication number: 20230422052Abstract: Disclosed is a system and methods for creating and maintaining a virtual subnetwork of telecommunication base stations within a wider telecommunication network. In an LTE-based example, the subnetwork includes a connection aggregator that is coupled between the plurality of eNodeBs internal to the subnetwork and one or more MMEs in the outer network. The connection aggregator intercepts all control plane messages between the MMEs and the internal eNodeBs, remaps eNodeB identifiers, and transmits repackaged messages so that the outer network sees the entire subnetwork as a single “giant” eNodeB. The disclosed system and methods enables the operator of the virtual subnetwork to add and shut down eNodeBs as demand for connectivity fluctuates, and to do so such that all changes are unseen by the outer network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Courington, Vishal Agrawal, Sasi Eswaravaka, Massimo Notargiacomo, Stephen Turner, Patrick William Henkle
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Patent number: 11812807Abstract: Various aspects disclosed relate to structures such as a textile, a garment, a garment component, footwear, or a footwear component. The present disclosure includes the structure having a first region having one of more first fibers. An individual first fiber includes co-extruded first and second filaments, the first filament formed of a first thermoplastic polymeric material. Due to expansion or contraction of the one or more first fibers, the first region contracts or expands on a change in relative humidity, relative to an equilibrium state of the first region prior to the change in relative humidity.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: NIKE, INC.Inventors: Eduardo Alberto Gonzalez De Los Santo, David M. Litton, Romesh Patel, Christopher J. Ranalli, Joshua Patrick Williams
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Publication number: 20230342181Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by: retrieving metadata of a base image based on a first input that specifies a version of the base image, metadata of an add-on image based on a second input that specifies a server of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in which the virtualization software is to be installed, and metadata of drivers and agents based on a third input that specifies a firmware package for the server of the OEM; validating a desired image of the virtualization software by extracting dependencies and conflicts defined in metadata of all payloads of the desired image of the virtualization software, and confirming there are no violations of the extracted dependencies and conflicts; and upgrading the current image of the virtualization software to the desired image and upgrading the current version of the firmware to the desired version.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Aravinda Haryadi, Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Naga Ullas Vankayala Harinathagupta, Ashish Kaila, Mukund Gunti, Suresh Sundriyal
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Patent number: 11785999Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to garments that incorporate adaptive stand-off structures in the form of fluid-filled bladders that transition from a first shape to a second shape when exposed to moisture in the form of, for example, perspiration. When the fluid-filled bladders are in the first shape, the fluid-filled bladders are generally planar with a surface plane of a textile layer forming the garment so that the garment comes into contact or near contact with the wearer's body surface. When the fluid-filled bladders are in the second shape, they extend in a z-direction away from the surface plane of the textile layer forming the garment such that the textile layer is spaced apart from the wearer's body surface by the stand-off structures to reduce cling and facilitate the evaporation of perspiration.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Karen A. Hawkinson, Joshua Patrick Williams
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Patent number: 11762651Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: in response to a user input, generating a software specification that specifies a desired state of the virtualization software and a desired state of the firmware; based on the software specification, preparing a desired image of the virtualization software that includes software components of a desired version of the firmware; and coordinating an upgrade to the desired image of the virtualization software and the desired version of the firmware in the hosts. The upgrade includes an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired version of the firmware, and an upgrade in each of the hosts to the desired image of the virtualization software that includes the software components of the desired version of the base image and the software components of the desired version of the firmware.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Aravinda Haryadi, Mukund Gunti, Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Naga Ullas Vankayala Harinathagupta
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Publication number: 20230284891Abstract: A medical device reduces the risk of operating room fires caused by light sources by shielding the illuminated light cable from directly interacting with surgical drapes or patient skin. The device includes a silicone housing that mates circumferentially over existing endoscopic light cables and a thermal insulator can be positioned over the light emitting tip of the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Kamil Makhnejia, James K. Rains, Patrick William Strane, Lance Michael Black
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Publication number: 20230272890Abstract: A representative embodiment of a lighting system includes a carrying bag having a first opening with a control panel cover; a mounting bracket arranged in the carrying bag; a power supply coupled to or arranged on the mounting bracket; a control panel arranged within the first opening and coupled to the mounting bracket; a first flexible light strip; a second flexible light strip; and a power cable coupleable within the carrying bag to the control panel, the first flexible light strip, and the second flexible light strip. The first and second flexible light strips are coupleable to the power cable to receive DC power from the control panel, and may be extended throughout a structure, such as a tent, using a plurality of hangers. In a representative embodiment, the first flexible light strip provides white light and the second flexible light strip provides blackout light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Darrell Frank Marroncelli, Patrick William Maloney, James J. Levante, Anthony James Simons, Jeffrey Thomas Saunders
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Patent number: 11720386Abstract: An image of a virtualization software and firmware in a plurality of hosts are upgraded by performing the steps of: validating a desired image of the virtualization software by extracting dependencies and conflicts defined in metadata of all payloads of the desired image of the virtualization software, and confirming there are no violations of the extracted dependencies and conflicts; performing a pre-check of the desired image of the virtualization software against a current image of the virtualization software and a pre-check of the desired version of the firmware against a current version of the firmware; and upon determining from results of the pre-check that the virtualization software can be upgraded to the desired image and the firmware can be upgraded to the desired version, upgrading the current image of the virtualization software to the desired image and upgrading the current version of the firmware to the desired version.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Aravinda Haryadi, Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Naga Ullas Vankayala Harinathagupta, Ashish Kaila, Mukund Gunti, Suresh Sundriyal
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Patent number: D1015992Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Yakima Products, Inc.Inventors: Kirk William Turner, Jason Attfield Sagen, Patrick T. McKinney