Patents by Inventor Steven A. Williams

Steven A. 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: 11981423
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear assembly comprising: a structural pin defining a first bore having a longitudinal insertion axis; a cap for covering the bore, the cap comprising: a base portion; a head portion; a body portion positioned between the base portion and the head portion; and a bolt which extends between the head portion and the base portion and comprises a threaded portion so that engagement of either the head portion or the base portion with the threaded portion moves either the head portion or the base portion relative to the other, the body being formed of an elastically deformable material such that upon tightening of the bolt, the base portion moves towards the head portion and the elastically deformable material moves radially outwards such that a contact surface of the elastically deformable material engages with an inner surface of the first bore in order to retain the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd
    Inventors: Lee Williams, Doug Wight, Peter Millington, Steven Lawson
  • Patent number: 11980300
    Abstract: A refrigerated display case chassis includes a first insulated panel and a second insulated panel. The first insulated panel has a first foam layer bounded by a first pair of thermally conductive sheets. The first insulated panel forms a first wall of the refrigerated display case chassis. The second insulated panel has a second foam layer bounded by a second pair of thermally conductive sheets. The second insulated panel forms a second wall of the refrigerated display case chassis. The second insulated panel mates with the first insulated panel to form a thermally insulated joint where, in cross-section, one sheet of the first pair of thermally conductive sheets terminates at a surface of the second foam layer. The thermally conductive sheets have a greater thermal conductivity than the first or second foam layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hill Phoenix, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence William Eget, Steven O. Stubblefield, Nicholas Jeffers, Daniela Guadalupe Medina
  • Publication number: 20240150593
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sealing composition for treating a metal substrate comprising: a polyolefin component; and a colloidal layered silicate. Also disclosed is a system for treating a metal substrate comprising: a cleaner composition; and/or a pretreatment composition for treating at least a portion of the substrate, the pretreatment composition comprising a Group IVB metal; and a sealing composition for treating at least a portion of the substrate treated with the cleaner composition and/or the pretreated composition, the sealing composition comprising a polyolefin component. Also disclosed is a method of treating a substrate comprising contacting at least a portion of a surface of the substrate with any of the compositions disclosed herein or any of the systems disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Corey James DeDomenic, Kristi Maree Allen, Elizabeth Stephenie Brown-Tseng, Peter Lawrence Votruba-Drzal, Silvia Bezer, Michael Gerard Olah, Steven Edward Bowles, Mary Lyn Chong Lim, Mark William McMillen
  • Publication number: 20240153501
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a standardized voice user interface (VUI) that enables voice to voice natural language understanding (NLU) processing are described. The standardized VUI may be added to speechlets to enable a customer to interact with a business via server(s) using NLU processing. For example, a first user may initiate a first voice interaction using NLU processing with the server(s) and the system may initiate a second voice interaction using NLU processing between the server(s) and a second user. This enables a customer to initiate a transaction (e.g., request information, place an order, make a reservation, etc.) with the business using the speechlet. Thus, the business may use the speechlet to offer services without requiring additional infrastructure or complicated programming to implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Saiprasad Satya Kapila, Antonio Melis, Manikya Pavan Kiran Pothukuchi, Steven Rabuchin, Robert Pulciani, Robert William Serr
  • Publication number: 20240147672
    Abstract: A data center cooling system, including a support structure having a lower portion and an upper portion, one or more fans supported by the support structure at a height that is equal to or greater than a height of the electronics cabinets, and a heat exchanger having one or more cooling coils supported at the upper portion of the support structure. In some embodiments, the cooling coils can be supported by the upper portion of the support structure so as to be above the top of and/or over one or more of the electronics cabinets. The fans can be configured to draw air from the one or two rows of electronics cabinets and to cause the air to be passed through the heat exchanger to cool the warmer air from the electronics cabinets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Steven William Dumas, Jason Wilfred Clark, Michael Streich
  • Patent number: 11969646
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, a user input device is provided. The user-input device may include non-contact magnetic, capacitive, or inductive components for translating movements of a joystick into angular positions. Magnets attached to axial shafts of a joystick assembly may cause changes in voltage in magnetometers on a PCB when the axial shafts are rotated, which may be translated into angular positions of the joystick. Conductors attached to axial shafts of a joystick assembly may cause changes in capacitive charge in capacitors on a PCB when the axial shafts are rotated, which may be translated into angular positions of the joystick. Anisotropic magnetically permeable material and/or excitation components attached to axial shafts of a joystick assembly may cause changes in inductance in inductors on a PCB when the axial shafts are rotated, which may be translated into angular positions of the joystick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Steven William Ranta, Ian Hartman Skop, Edoardo Gastelum Enriquez, Evan William Mattingly
  • Publication number: 20240135020
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for allowing parents to view and track smart phone activities of their children can include one or more child software modules. The module can be installed on each child's smart phone. The module can access and extract data from or about more than one of the smart phone's other software applications, including at least two of the following: a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application. The module can further send the extracted data to an analysis server. The module can also monitor location data. Moreover, the system can include an analysis server that can identify potentially harmful language, images, and websites. Further, the system can include a parent portal. The parent portal can receive results from the analysis server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Rowland William Day, II, Eric John Wise, Tienshiao Ma, Manuel Calaycay Palafox, Kelly Chu, Steven Sigler
  • Publication number: 20240132828
    Abstract: Some fluid coupling devices described herein are configured for use in fluid systems. For example, some embodiments described in this document are single-use, aseptic fluid coupling devices that can be coupled to create a sterile flow path therethrough. Some such aseptic couplings are genderless couplings such that two identical aseptic couplings can be coupled together and then latched to form a robust connection between the aseptic couplings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Gregory Casura, Jonathan Steven Van Loon, Randall S. Williams
  • Patent number: 11966519
    Abstract: An instrument panel includes a frame defining an opening, a plurality of cards, and an HMI. The cards have a front face, a rear face, one or more circuits, and a data interface on the rear face in communication with the circuits. The cards include one or more first cards and one or more second cards. The first cards front face have a vertical dimension approximately equal to a vertical dimension of the opening. The second cards have a body, a nose projecting from the body defining the second cards front face, and a recess between the nose and body. The HMI includes a front face received within the opening. The first cards are positioned with the front face visible within the opening. The second cards are positioned with the nose visible within the opening and a depth of the HMI received within the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Steven William Fisher, Kevin Doan, Malgorzata Anna Blachnicka, Bryan Shadel
  • Patent number: 11966629
    Abstract: A distributed data storage system can be configured with a host connected to a first device and an initialization module that performs a default initialization procedure on the first device in response to detecting the first device has an unknown manufacturing origin. Conducting the default initialization procedure may allow the first device to service data access requests from the host. In response to the connection of a second device to the host and initialization module, a manufacturing origin of the second device is identified with the initialization module before the initialization module customizes the default initialization procedure to a custom procedure that is executed to allow the second device to satisfy a background operation prescribed by the initialization module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Hemant Vitthalrao Mane, Jason Matthew Feist, Praveen Viraraghavan, Robert W. Dixon, Marc Timothy Jones, Steven Williams
  • Patent number: 11968732
    Abstract: A method of managing a wireless communication between a plurality of accessory devices and a host device includes, at the host device, establishing a data connection with a plurality of accessory devices, obtaining a radio ID for each accessory device of the plurality of accessory devices, grouping the plurality of accessory devices into at least one OFDMA device and at least one non-OFDMA device based at least partially on the radio IDs, sending a trigger signal to the at least one OFDMA device; and after receiving a first response signal from the at least one OFDMA device in response to the trigger signal, receiving a second response signal from the at least one non-OFDMA device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Perry Victor Lea, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Steven William Ranta, Gopala Srihari Narlanka, Stanley William Adermann
  • Publication number: 20240126676
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and articles for determining compatibility of a mobile application and operating system on a mobile device. In some aspects, a method includes receiving one or more data values from a mobile device having a mobile medical software application installed thereon, the data value(s) characterizing a version of the software application, a version of an operating system installed on the mobile device, and one or more attributes of the mobile device; determining whether the mobile medical software application is compatible with the operating system by at least comparing the received data value(s) to one or more test values in a configuration file; and sending a message to the mobile device based on the determining, the message causing the software application to operate in one or more of a normal mode, a safe mode, and a non-operational mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Issa Sami SALAMEH, Douglas William BURNETTE, Tifo Vu HOANG, Steven David KING, Stephen M. MADIGAN, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Andrew Attila PAL, Michael Ranen TYLER
  • Publication number: 20240129573
    Abstract: A processing system receives a user-generated media recording, and metadata associated with the user-generated feedback, from a first device. The user-generated media recording is a recording of the public end-user captured during a live media broadcast using a public-user interface on the first device. The metadata includes information linking the user-generated media recording to the live media broadcast. The system stores the user-generated media recording and the first metadata in one or more storage devices, and transmits a version of the user-generated media recording and at least a portion of the first metadata to a private-user interface on a second device. The private-user interface is configured to receive input from a private end-user selecting the version of the user-generated media recording for broadcast during the same live media broadcast during which the user-generated media recording was created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Curtis Mitchell, Michael Scott Woodruff, Adam Michael Roberts, Steven Douglas Wight, Siu Leung Chan, Jacob Earl Bolton, Stephen William Bain, Qian Chang, Davis Scott Harlan
  • Patent number: 11959381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multipurpose drill system, the multipurpose drill system comprising: a drilling rig adapted to drive a drilling assembly; and two or more power sources, wherein at least one of the two or more power sources is a high pressure power source, wherein the drilling assembly is adapted to be in communication with either or both of the two or more power sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intelligent Drilling Applications & Technology Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeff William Branson, Warren Barry Fair, Steven John Payne, James Daniel Chomley, John Edward Kennedy, David Bruce Carnegie-Smith
  • Patent number: 11957714
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to non-natural NKG2D receptors attached to mammalian cell surfaces wherein the non-natural receptors do not directly signal or directly activate the cell when the receptor is bound by cognate non-natural ?1-?2 domains of NKG2D ligands modified to specifically bind the non-natural NKG2D receptors. The non-natural ?1-?2 domains of NKG2D ligands may be attached to heterologous atoms or molecules including polypeptides, in some embodiments cytokines or modified cytokines, antibodies or fragments of antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: XYPHOS BIOSCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Kaman C. Kim, David W. Martin, Jr., Steven Williams
  • Publication number: 20240122059
    Abstract: A compound of Formula I, is provided. In Formula I, one of Z1, Z2, and Z3 is N and the remainder are C; each of L1 and L2 is independently selected from a direct bond and a linking group; at least one of R1, R2, RA, RB, RC, RD, and RE comprises a group R* having a structure selected form the group consisting of Formula II, -Q(R3)(R4)a(R5)b, Formula III, and Formula IV, Each R, R?, R?, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, RA, RB, RC, RD, RE, RF, RG, and RH is independently hydrogen or a General Substituent, with the proviso that group R* is not adamantyl. Formulations, OLEDs, and consumer products containing the compound are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiao-Fan CHEN, Geza SZIGETHY, Rasha HAMZE, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Hojae CHOI, Weiye GUAN, Raghupathi NEELARAPU, Charles J. STANTON, Douglas WILLIAMS, Ving Jick LEE, Joseph A. MACOR, Dmitry ANDRIANOV, Chao LIANG, Steven Kit CHOW, Tyler FLEETHAM, Peter WOLOHAN, Morgan C. MACINNIS
  • Publication number: 20240119205
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for recommending design changes in designing a digital integrated circuit. An analysis of the digital integrated circuit being designed is performed, where the result of such an analysis involves violations being identified and stored. A stored violation, such as a cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and multi-cycle violation, may then be analyzed to identify a root cause of the violation using a rule. Such a rule may be used for triaging various failures in the cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and/or multi-cycle violation of the digital integrated circuit. A design change in the design of the digital integrated circuit may then be recommended based on the identified root cause of the violation. In this manner, the root cause of failures are effectively identified in the design of digital integrated circuits using an offline analysis of cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and/or multi-cycle violations using a rules-based approach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: SheshaShayee K Raghunathan, Charles Gates, Kerim Kalafala, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Morgan D. Davis, Debra Dean, Chris Cavitt, Chaitra M Bhat, Richard William Taggart
  • Patent number: 11953284
    Abstract: A modular quiver system and method of use may include, first, a base portion configured to be attachable to a bow and configured to removably hold a first arrow, and second, a detachable portion configured to removably hold a plurality of second arrows and configured to be removably attachable with the base portion by hand without the use of any tools, regardless whether or not the base portion is attached to the bow, and regardless whether arrows are in the quiver. A quick-release bracket system allows the modular quiver system to be removed from and attached with a bow in different predetermined positions without the use of any tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUICK DRAW LLC
    Inventor: Steven William Davis
  • Patent number: 11954505
    Abstract: A data storage system may connect a host to a device and a hardware module that are utilized to satisfy at least one host-generated data access request to the device. A portion of the device is set as dormant by the hardware module prior to identifying an origin of the device with the hardware module during the satisfaction of the at least one host-generated data access request. In response to the identified origin, the previously dormant portion of the device is activated and subsequently utilized to execute a task assigned by the hardware module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Hemant Vitthalrao Mane, Jason Matthew Feist, Praveen Viraraghavan, Robert W. Dixon, Marc Timothy Jones, Steven Williams
  • Patent number: D1022661
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Security Enhancement Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Malone, Matthew Frank Trapani, Philip J. Ufkes, Thomas Hoke, Brian Searfoss, Mark Williams, Andrew Yarbro