Patents by Inventor Wayne Williams
Wayne 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: 11990770Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for receiving wireless power using a wireless power receiver client architecture are disclosed. A simplified wireless power receiver apparatus includes an energy storage device and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver including an antenna. Energy harvester circuitry is coupled to the energy storage device and the RF transceiver, and control circuitry is coupled to the energy storage device, the RF transceiver, and the energy harvester. The control circuitry causes the RF transceiver to: establish a connection with a wireless power transmitter (WPT), transmit a beacon signal to the WPT, and receive a wireless power signal from the WPT. The control circuitry causes the energy harvester to deliver at least a portion of energy of the wireless power signal to the energy storage device for storage therein. In some embodiments, a single antenna is utilized both for transmitting the beacon signal and for receiving the wireless power signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Ossia Inc.Inventors: Hatem Ibrahim Zeine, Douglas Wayne Williams, James J. Wojcik
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Patent number: 11989737Abstract: A method for determining the authenticity of an item, the method comprising: receiving, by an item, a seed; storing the seed in a block of non-volatile memory in the supply item follower component; calculating, by the item follower component, an output of a cryptographic function with the input based on the seed and storing the output in the block of non-volatile memory; iteratively calculating, by the item, the outputs of the cryptographic function wherein for each iteration the input for the cryptographic function is based on the seed and all previous outputs, and for each iteration storing the output in the block of non-volatile memory; and determining the authenticity of the item based on a selected output of the cryptographic function of the item, the selected output being one of the outputs stored in the block of non-volatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Zachary Nathan Fister, Nathan Wayne Foley, Timothy John Rademacher, Jennifer Topmiller Williams
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Publication number: 20240156509Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to controlling electrical power of an electrotherapeutic signal that is provided to a biological tissue engaged by an electrosurgical instrument during a medical procedure. Electrical power—a product of a voltage difference across and an electrical current conducted by the engaged biological tissue—is controlled according to a therapeutic schedule. The electrotherapeutic schedule can be reduced or terminated in response to a termination criterion being met. In some examples, the termination criterion is a current characteristic, such as, for example, a decrease in current conducted by the engaged biological tissue. In some examples, the termination criterion is a biological tissue resistance characteristic, such as, for example, an increase in the biological tissue resistance that exceeds a predetermined delta resistance value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Kester Julian Batchelor, Wayne Williams
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Publication number: 20240141471Abstract: A method of forming an Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coating on a steel strip includes dipping steel strip into a bath of molten Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy and forming a coating of the alloy on exposed surfaces of the steel strip. The method also includes controlling conditions in the molten coating bath and downstream of the coating bath so that there is a uniform Al/Zn ratio across the surface of the coating formed on the steel strip. An Al—Zn—Mg—Si coated steel strip includes a uniform Al/Zn ratio on the surface or the outermost 1-2 ?m of the Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: Bluescope Steel Limited, Nippon Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel Coated Sheet CorporationInventors: Wayne Andrew RENSHAW, Cat TU, Joe WILLIAMS, Jason HODGES, Shiro FUJII, Nobuyuki SHIMODA, Shuichi KONDO, Takashi HIRASAWA
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Publication number: 20240117480Abstract: An Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coated strip that has Mg2Si particles in the coating microstructure is disclosed. The distribution of Mg2Si particles is such that the surface of the coating has only a small proportion of Mg2Si particles or is at least substantially free of any Mg2Si particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Bluescope Steel LimitedInventors: Qiyang LIU, Wayne RENSHAW, Joe WILLIAMS
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Patent number: 11951717Abstract: A tile for reducing a radar wave reflection from a surface, the tile being a flexible surface sheet which is adhesively attachable to the surface, wherein the flexible surface sheet reduces the radar wave reflection from the surface at a frequency, the frequency being a frequency between 1 GHz and 12 GHz; and, wherein the flexible surface sheet is a laminate of layers, wherein at least one of a top surface and a bottom surface of the flexible surface sheet is adapted to be adhesively attachable to the surface, and wherein the laminate of layers comprises: a first layer comprising a polymer matrix into which a particulate filler is dispersed, wherein the particulate filler has radar absorbing properties; a second layer comprising a polymer matrix, the second layer adjoining the first layer, wherein the polymer matrix of at least one of the first and the second layer is thermoplastic polyurethane.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Trelleborg Retford LimitedInventors: Adam Christopher Nevin, Andrew Ian Williams, Philip Wayne Brindle, Paul Geary, Gary Critchlow, Sina Saremi-Yarahmadi
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Patent number: 11944368Abstract: A bipolar surgical instrument comprises a body, first and second opposed jaws located at the distal end of a shaft, the first jaw being movable with respect to the second jaw between an open position in which the first and second jaws are spaced apart from one another, and a closed position in which the first and second jaws are adjacent one another. The first and second elongate jaw members have respective first and second electrodes. A controller is operable to detect a short circuit between the first and second electrodes when in use.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GYRUS MEDICAL LIMITEDInventors: Wayne Williams, Lewis Jones
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Patent number: 11941071Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for a web-based process to generate electronic checklists and deploy electronic checklists. One method may include: receiving bulk data from a user device; parsing the bulk data to form a loadable database for an electronic procedure system of a vehicle; generating a rendering of an electronic checklist of one or more electronic checklists based on the loadable database; transmitting a first message to the user device, the first message including the rendering of the electronic checklist; iteratively performing an authoring process using a web-based tool to update the loadable database; receiving a second message from the user device, the second message including an instruction to transmit the updated loadable database to the electronic procedure system of the vehicle; and transmitting a third message to the vehicle, the third message including the updated loadable database.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Cody Ryan Conaway, Timothy R. DeWitt, Kevin Wayne Williams
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Publication number: 20240076769Abstract: Red rust staining of Al/Zn coated steel strip in “acid rain” or “polluted” environments can be minimised by forming the coating as an Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coating with an OT:SDAS ratio greater than a value of 0.5:1, where OT is the overlay thickness on a surface of the strip and SDAS is the measure of the secondary dendrite arm spacing for the Al-rich alpha phase dendrites in the coating. Red rust staining in “acid rain” or “polluted” environments and corrosion at cut edges in marine environments can be minimised in Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coatings on steel strip by selection of the composition (principally Mg and Si) and solidification control (principally by cooling rate) and forming Mg2Si phase particles of a particular morphology in interdendritic channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Bluescope Steel LimitedInventors: Ross McDowall SMITH, Qiyang LIU, Bryan Andrew SHEDDEN, Aaron Kiffer NEUFELD, Joe WILLIAMS, David James NOLAN, Wayne RENSHAW
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Patent number: 11918274Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to controlling electrical power of an electrotherapeutic signal that is provided to a biological tissue engaged by an electrosurgical instrument during a medical procedure. Electrical power—a product of a voltage difference across and an electrical current conducted by the engaged biological tissue—is controlled according to a therapeutic schedule. The electrotherapeutic schedule can be reduced or terminated in response to a termination criterion being met. In some examples, the termination criterion is a current characteristic, such as, for example, a decrease in current conducted by the engaged biological tissue. In some examples, the termination criterion is a biological tissue resistance characteristic, such as, for example, an increase in the biological tissue resistance that exceeds a predetermined delta resistance value.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc.Inventors: Kester Julian Batchelor, Wayne Williams
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Publication number: 20240065747Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to controlling electrical power of an electrotherapeutic signal that is provided to a biological tissue engaged by an electrosurgical instrument during a medical procedure. Electrical power—a product of a voltage difference across and an electrical current conducted by the engaged biological tissue—is controlled according to a therapeutic schedule. The electrotherapeutic schedule can be reduced or terminated in response to a termination criterion being met. In some examples, the termination criterion is a current characteristic, such as, for example, a decrease in current conducted by the engaged biological tissue. In some examples, the termination criterion is a biological tissue resistance characteristic, such as, for example, an increase in the biological tissue resistance that exceeds a predetermined delta resistance value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Kester Julian Batchelor, Riyad Moe, Wayne Williams
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Patent number: 11914731Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to securely performing cross-boundary backup operations. A service of a computing resource service provider may enable backup operations between a source account and a destination account of an organization based at least in part on a security policy allowing such operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ivan Velickovic, Alexander Sirotin, Christopher John Schilling, Steven Robert DeVos, Zhicong Wang, Wayne William Duso, Boo Boon Khoo
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Patent number: 11901366Abstract: A flat panel substrate with integrated antennas and wireless power transmission system for delivering power to a receiving device is presented herein. A method can comprise depositing, onto a flat panel substrate, an antenna layer comprising multiple adaptively phased antennas elements; and depositing, onto the flat panel substrate, respective thin film transistor (TFT)-based antenna management circuits for the multiple adaptively phased antenna elements—the respective TFT-based antenna management circuits being operable to measure respective first phases at which first signals are received at the multiple adaptively phased antenna elements, and based on the respective first phases, control respective second phases at which second signals are transmitted from the multiple adaptively phased antenna elements to facilitate delivery, via the second signals, of power to the receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Ossia Inc.Inventors: Hatem Ibrahim Munir Zeine, Douglas Wayne Williams, Adam W. Oster
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Patent number: 11883088Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to controlling electrical power of an electrotherapeutic signal that is provided to a biological tissue engaged by an electrosurgical instrument during a medical procedure. Electrical power—a product of a voltage difference across and an electrical current conducted by the engaged biological tissue—is controlled according to a therapeutic schedule. The electrotherapeutic schedule can be reduced or terminated in response to a termination criterion being met. In some examples, the termination criterion is a current characteristic, such as, for example, a decrease in current conducted by the engaged biological tissue. In some examples, the termination criterion is a biological tissue resistance characteristic, such as, for example, an increase in the biological tissue resistance that exceeds a predetermined delta resistance value.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc.Inventors: Kester Julian Batchelor, Wayne Williams
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Patent number: 11868765Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for automatically presenting a visualization of information within a terminal for interfacing with a distributed version control system, an input is received at a command line interface of a terminal for interfacing with a distributed version control system, the input including an operation to be performed by the distributed version control system. The operation to be performed by the distributed version control system is identified based on the input. The operation is executed to generate output of the operation. The output is displayed within the command line interface. A graphical visualization of the output is automatically displayed within a visualization pane of the terminal, wherein the graphical visualization is interactive.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Axosoft, LLCInventors: James Pitts, Justin Roberts, Michael Swindell, Wayne Williams, Hamid Shojaee
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Patent number: 11864813Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to controlling electrical power of an electrotherapeutic signal that is provided to a biological tissue engaged by an electrosurgical instrument during a medical procedure. Electrical power—a product of a voltage difference across and an electrical current conducted by the engaged biological tissue—is controlled according to a therapeutic schedule. The electrotherapeutic schedule can be reduced or terminated in response to a termination criterion being met. In some examples, the termination criterion is a current characteristic, such as, for example, a decrease in current conducted by the engaged biological tissue. In some examples, the termination criterion is a biological tissue resistance characteristic, such as, for example, an increase in the biological tissue resistance that exceeds a predetermined delta resistance value.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc.Inventors: Kester Julian Batchelor, Riyad Moe, Wayne Williams
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Publication number: 20240000501Abstract: A bipolar surgical instrument comprises a body first and second opposed jaws located at the distal end of a shaft, the first jaw being movable with respect to the second jaw between an open position in which the first and second jaws are spaced apart from one another, and a closed position in which the first and second jaws are adjacent one another. The first and second elongate jaw members have respective first and second electrodes. A controller is operable to determine a boiling point for tissue between the jaws using a measure of impedance therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: GYRUS MEDICAL LIMITEDInventors: Wayne WILLIAMS, Lewis JONES
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Publication number: 20240000495Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to controlling electrical power of an electrotherapeutic signal that is provided to a biological tissue engaged by an electrosurgical instrument during a medical procedure. Electrical power—a product of a voltage difference across and an electrical current conducted by the engaged biological tissue—is controlled according to a therapeutic schedule. The electrotherapeutic schedule can be reduced or terminated in response to a termination criterion being met. In some examples, the termination criterion is a current characteristic, such as, for example, a decrease in current conducted by the engaged biological tissue. In some examples, the termination criterion is a biological tissue resistance characteristic, such as, for example, an increase in the biological tissue resistance that exceeds a predetermined delta resistance value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Kester Julian Batchelor, Maureen Julian Batchelor, Wayne Williams
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Patent number: 11816964Abstract: This invention relates to cellulose ester compositions cable of being calendered. The invention also relates to calendered films or sheets comprising the cellulose ester compositions and processes for calendering the cellulose compositions.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: David Wayne Compton, Michael Eugene Donelson, James Collins Maine, Marcus David Shelby, Freddie Wayne Williams, Robert Erik Young
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Patent number: 11810056Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for routing data by transferring a physical storage device for at least part of a route between source and destination locations. In one example, a computing resource service provider, may receive a request to transfer data from a customer center to a data center. The service provider may determine a route, which includes one or more of a physical path or a network path, for the data loaded onto a physical storage device to reach the data center from the customer center. Determining the route may include associating respective cost values to individual physical and network paths between physical stations between the customer and end data centers, and selecting one or more of the paths to reduce a total cost of the route. Route information may then be associated with the physical storage device based on the route.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Michael Eccles, Siddhartha Roy, Vaibhav Tyagi, Wayne William Duso, Danny Wei