Patents by Inventor Timothy A. Williams
Timothy 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).
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Publication number: 20240090086Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cartridge for an aerosol delivery device such as a smoking article. The cartridge may include a base, a reservoir substrate, and an atomizer. The reservoir substrate may define a cavity therethrough. The atomizer may comprise a liquid transport element and a heating element extending at least partially about the liquid transport element. The atomizer may extend through the cavity through the reservoir substrate such that the heating element is positioned proximate an end of the reservoir substrate. Ends of the liquid transport element may extend to an opposing end of the reservoir substrate. A related method for assembling a cartridge for a smoking article is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: John DePiano, David Smith, Charles Jacob Novak, III, Frank S. Silveira, Steven Lee Alderman, Grady Lance Dooly, Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Timothy Brian Nestor, Quentin Paul Guenther, JR., Stephen Benson Sears, John William Wolber, Michael Laine
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Publication number: 20240086660Abstract: A computer can comprise a housing, a microprocessor disposed within the housing, a display, and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the microprocessor. The computer can be configured, responsive to locating decodable indicia within content viewable on the display, to decode the decodable indicia to produce at least one decoded message. The computer can be further configured to display the content with decoded message data being embedded into the content. The decoded message data can be provided by at least one decoded message, data derived from the decoded message.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Timothy WILLIAMS, Timothy MEIER
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Publication number: 20240084636Abstract: This disclosure relates to motorized hinge-lift system designed for integration and use with physical vapor deposition (PVD) chambers, enabling efficient and precise control of the chamber's lid assembly. PVD technology plays a critical role in thin film deposition processes for various industries, including semiconductor manufacturing, optical coatings, and advanced materials research. The proposed motorized hinge-lift systems contemplated and discussed herein significantly enhances the functionality and performance of PVD chambers by addressing key challenges associated with their operation. Among other related benefits, embodiments of such motorized hinge-lift system may provide for simple retrofitting of existent PVD chambers, and may allow seamless and reliable lid lifting and lid lowering operations, thereby minimizing the risk of operator injury or damage to sensitive substrates within the chamber or to the PVD chamber itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Advanced Refurbishment Technologies LOLC d/b/a ARTSemi LLCInventors: Christopher William Lewis, Timothy H. Ickes
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Patent number: 11928551Abstract: A computer can comprise a housing, a microprocessor disposed within the housing, a display, and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the microprocessor. The computer can be configured, responsive to locating decodable indicia within content viewable on the display, to decode the decodable indicia to produce at least one decoded message. The computer can be further configured to display the content with decoded message data being embedded into the content. The decoded message data can be provided by at least one decoded message, data derived from the decoded message.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Timothy Williams, Timothy Meier
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Patent number: 11920441Abstract: Systems and methods for using stratigraphic heat maps to steer a well being drilled. Data from one or more offset wells can be provided to a computer system and used with data from a well being drilled to generate one or more stratigraphic heat maps during the drilling of the subject well. The stratigraphic heat maps can be displayed and used to determine the location of the wellbore relative to one or more geological formations, including one or more target formations or within a target formation. Based on the use of the heat maps and the location of the wellbore relative to a target, the drill plan can be adjusted or updated and/or one or more drilling parameters or operations may be adjusted to drill the wellbore, such as to drill the wellbore to the target or to maximize the length of the wellbore within a target zone.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Magnetic Variation Services, LLCInventors: Timothy William Gee, Stefan Maus, Kenneth Robert McCarthy, Alexander Michael Mitkus, Jin Sun
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Patent number: 11921427Abstract: Imaging layers on the surface of a substrate may be patterned using next generation lithographic techniques, and the resulting patterned film may be used as a lithographic mask, for example, for production of a semiconductor device.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Timothy William Weidman, Katie Nardi, Chenghao Wu
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Patent number: 11922284Abstract: There is a need for solutions that generates a temporally dynamic prediction for a particular prediction input. This need can be addressed by, for example, processing the prediction input using each of a plurality of temporally trained machine learning models to generate a corresponding model-specific prediction inference of a plurality of model-specific prediction inferences and processing the plurality of model-specific prediction inferences using an ensemble model to generate the temporally dynamic prediction for the prediction input.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Timothy Jonathan Pirozzi, Peter William Dowling, Amarnauth Sukhu, Peter Alexander Salem, Jr., Ryan Patrick O'Neill, Lindsey Marie Marley
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Patent number: 11918333Abstract: The exemplified intrinsic phase space tomography methods and systems facilitate the analysis and evaluation of complex, quasi-periodic system by generating computed phase-space tomographic images as a representation of the dynamics of the quasi-periodic cardiac systems. The computed phase-space tomographic images can be presented to a physician to assist in the assessment of presence or non-presence of disease. In some embodiments, the phase space tomographic images are used as input to a trained neural network classifier configured to assess for presence or non-presence of significant coronary artery disease.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Analytics For Life Inc.Inventors: Paul Grouchy, Meng Lei, Ian Shadforth, Sunny Gupta, Timothy William Fawcett Burton, Shyamlal Ramchandani
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Patent number: 11923638Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald, Douglas Edward Shirk
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Patent number: 11920814Abstract: A method of controlling an agricultural facility for housing a plurality of animals includes the step of regulating the environment within the agricultural facility with an automated building operational system. An automated thermal event controller is operationally coupled with the automated building operational system and generates a thermal event signal in response to a thermal event in progress, whereby the automated thermal event controller, upon receipt of the thermal event signal indicating that the thermal event is in progress, activates an alarm state. In the alarm state, the automated thermal event controller: sends an alarm signal to a system administrator; places the automated building operational system in a safety-mode condition for a first predetermined time interval; and places the automated building operational system in a normal-mode operational condition after the first predetermined time interval and if a confirmatory signal is not yet then received from the system administrator.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PRISM CONTROLS INC.Inventors: Sean Patrick Ryan, Kyle E. Forbush, Nikhil Kailas Shinde, Sylvester John Bentley, Timothy Paul Gess, Eric William Hansen, Douglas S. Powell
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Publication number: 20240070075Abstract: A lower-level cache managing cross-core invalidation (XI) snapshots in a shared-memory multiprocessing system, wherein the management of XI snapshots reduces an amount of required snapshots while allowing shared lower-level caches, comprising: the lower-level cache maintaining respective response sync state for at least one processor in a plurality of processors signifying that a line may have been changed by another processor since last fetched by a requesting processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Richard Joseph Branciforte, Gregory William Alexander, Timothy Bronson, Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Akash V. Giri, Aaron Tsai
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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: 11916341Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Chad William Morgan, David Allison Trout, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
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Patent number: 11912063Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ZOOX, INC.Inventors: Christopher William Labadie, Timothy David Kentley-Klay
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Publication number: 20240036483Abstract: Dry development or dry removal of metal-containing extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV) photoresist is performed in atmospheric conditions or performed in process tools without vacuum equipment. Dry removal of the metal-containing EUV photoresist may be performed under atmospheric pressure or over-atmospheric pressure. Dry removal of the metal-containing EUV photoresist may be performed with exposure to an air environment or with non-oxidizing gases. A process chamber or module may be modified or integrated to perform dry removal of the metal-containing EUV photoresist with baking, wafer cleaning, wafer treatment, or other photoresist processing function. In some embodiments, the process chamber for dry removal of the metal-containing EUV photoresist includes a heating assembly for localized heating of a semiconductor substrate and a movable discharge nozzle for localized gas delivery above the semiconductor substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Dries DICTUS, Timothy William WEIDMAN
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Patent number: 11888870Abstract: Embodiments detect cyberattack campaigns against multiple cloud tenants by analyzing activity data to find sharing anomalies. Data that appears benign in a single tenant's activities may indicate an attack when the same or similar data is also found for additional tenants. Attack detection may depend on activity time frames, on how similar certain activities of different tenants are to one another, on how unusual it is for different tenants to share an activity, and on other factors. Sharing anomaly analysis may utilize hypergeometric probabilities or other statistical measures. Detection avoidance attempts using entity randomization are revealed and thwarted. Authorized vendors may be recognized, mooting anomalousness. Although data from multiple tenants is analyzed together for sharing anomalies while monitoring for attacks, tenant confidentiality and privacy are respected through technical and legal mechanisms. Mitigation is performed in response to an attack indication.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yaakov Garyani, Moshe Israel, Hani Hana Neuvirth, Ely Abramovitch, Amir Keren, Timothy William Burrell
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Patent number: 11880446Abstract: Systems and methods for decryption of payloads are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, systems and methods herein are configured for decrypting thousands of transactions per second. Further, in particular embodiments, the systems and methods herein are scalable, such that many thousands of transactions can be processed per second upon replicating particular architectural components.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Bluefin Payment Systems LLCInventors: Timothy William Barnett, Alexander I. Kasatkin, Christopher Hozumi Miyata, Daniel Ruehle
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Publication number: 20240020497Abstract: A computer can comprise a housing, a microprocessor disposed within the housing, a display, and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the microprocessor. The computer can be configured, responsive to locating decodable indicia within content viewable on the display, to decode the decodable indicia to produce at least one decoded message. The computer can be further configured to display the content with decoded message data being embedded into the content. The decoded message data can be provided by at least one decoded message, data derived from the decoded message.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Timothy WILLIAMS, Timothy MEIER
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Publication number: 20240021435Abstract: A method for etching a metal containing material is provided. The metal containing material is exposed to a halogen containing fluid or plasma to convert at least some of the metal containing material into a metal halide material. The metal halide material is exposed to a ligand containing fluid or plasma, wherein at least some of the metal halide material is formed into a metal halide ligand complex. At least some of the metal halide ligand complex is vaporized.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Yiwen FAN, Wenbing YANG, Ran LIN, Samantha SiamHwa TAN, Timothy William WEIDMAN, Tamal MUKHERJEE
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Publication number: 20230414236Abstract: Retrieval assemblies configured to capture an obstruction located in a bodily duct of a patient and associated methods are provided. According to one implementation a retrieval assembly is provided that includes a proximal collar, a distal collar and a plurality of elongate clot capturing elements that each has proximal and distal ends that are respectively coupled to the proximal and distal collars. The retrieval device is mounted on an elongate wire with at least one of the proximal collar and distal collar being slideable along a portion of the length of the elongate wire to enable the retrieval device to transition from an unexpanded state to an expanded state. At least a portion of one or both of proximal and distal end sections of the elongate clot capturing elements being arranged curved about a longitudinal axis of the retrieval device when the retrieval device is in the unexpanded state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventor: Timothy William Ingraham Clark