Patents by Inventor William A. Taylor

William A. Taylor 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: 11935127
    Abstract: This technology relates to providing a web-based digital claims platform to provide users with a simple and customized experience when filing insurance claims. The platform is enabled by a plurality of back-end application programming interface (API) resources. These API resources are event-driven (e.g., when an “event” associated with the claim occurs, the status of the claim changes and the API is provided with updated information indicative of the change). The platform includes a customized user interface (UI) that tailors the claim experience to a particular user's needs. The customization can be based off of stated user preferences and/or learned user preferences associated with the user's past behavior. A user can perform/request various services through the customized UI's self-service function (e.g., rent a car, find a hotel room, select a repair shop, etc.). Additionally, the customized UI can enable the user upload documents, track claim status, find relevant help topics, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: William Simonovich, Jordan Leach, Natalie Smith, Brittany Boyer, Yohan Santos, Kenrick Niedbalski, Richard Kim, Deborah Taylor, Jared Musil, Archy Ntabona, Abdul Wahab, Loubna Fassi, Mary Gonsalves, Benjamin Tarmann, Sam Yeargin
  • Publication number: 20240069323
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a viewing optic with an integrated display system. In one embodiment, the viewing optic has an active display system that generates and projects the image into a first focal plane of the optical system. In yet another embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic with a power pack or battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Sam Hamilton, Ian Klemm, Calen Havens, Tom Cody, Garrison Bollig, William Lowry, Cory Taylor, Tim Rue, Tony Palzkill, Alexander Lewis, Keegan Jauch, Zach Sausen
  • Publication number: 20240070259
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic with an integrated display system. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a enabler configured to provide or activate or unlock select software to a viewing optic having an integrated display system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Sam Hamilton, Ian Klemm, Calen Havens, Tom Cody, Garrison Bollig, William Lowry, Cory Taylor, Tim Rue, Tony Palzkill, Alexander Lewis, Keegan Jauch, Zach Sausen
  • Publication number: 20240065330
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a heating member that can be formed of a heating element conformed to a heater substrate configured as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods of forming an aerosol delivery device, which can include providing a shell, providing a heating member formed of a heating element conformed to a substrate, configuring the heating member as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size, and inserting the heating member within the shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC
    Inventors: Karen V. Taluskie, Stephen Benson Sears, Eric Taylor Hunt, William Robert Collett, Yi-ping Chang, Kristen Dodds Weight, Jeffrey A. Karg, Graham P. Eacock, Matthew C. Ebbs, Robert C. Uschold, Walker MacLaughlin Sloan, III
  • Publication number: 20240068776
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic with an active display and a mounting system for an enabler device. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic and an imaging enabler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Calen Havens, William Lowry, Sam Hamilton, Ian Klemm, Tom Cody, Garrison Bollig, Cory Taylor, Tim Rue, Tony Palzkill, Keegan Jauch, Zach Sausen, Alexander Lewis
  • Publication number: 20240068777
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a viewing optic with an integrated display system. In one embodiment, the viewing optic has an active display system that generates and projects the image into a first focal plane of the optical system. In yet another embodiment, the viewing optic has a system or device configured to track magnification setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Calen Havens, William Lowry, Sam Hamilton, Ian Klemm, Tom Cody, Garrison Bollig, Cory Taylor, Tim Rue, Tony Palzkill, Keegan Jauch, Zach Sausen, Alexander Lewis
  • Publication number: 20240061735
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing the resilience of an infrastructural system. The system includes a computer program product stored on non-transitory machine-readable media. The media includes machine executable instructions for implementing a method for assessing the resilience of an infrastructural system. The method includes receiving, from an interface, scenario specific data regarding conditions for the infrastructural system; processing the scenario specific data to determine a vulnerability metric for a probability of failure for a component of the infrastructural system; determining, based on the vulnerability metric, an in-situ failure risk of the infrastructural system incorporating a complexity of environmental conditions; determining, based on the vulnerability metric, a recommended maintenance task for the component of the infrastructural system; and providing the in-situ failure risk of the infrastructural system and the recommended maintenance task for the component to the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Watson, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Diego Cerrai, Wei Zhang, William Hughes, William Taylor, Amvrossios Bagtzoglou
  • Patent number: 11901139
    Abstract: A remote control device may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may be configured to be mounted over an installed mechanical switch having a paddle actuator and may include a base and a control unit that is configured to be removably attached to the base. The base may include a frame, a clamp arm, a screw, and/or a sleeve. The clamp arm may be configured to secure the base to a protruding portion of the paddle actuator. The clamp arm may be attached to the frame at a pivot joint. The clamp arm may be configured to pivot about the pivot joint. The pivot joint may be located proximate to an endpoint or a midpoint of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: William Taylor Shivell
  • Patent number: 11898390
    Abstract: In one example, a double jointed hinge connects a blow molded plastic door and a blow molded plastic wall panel. The double jointed hinge includes a first hinge element that defines a first axis of rotation, and the first hinge element is connected to the blow molded plastic wall panel, a second hinge element that defines a second axis of rotation and is connected to the blow molded plastic door, and the second hinge element is spaced apart from the first hinge element, and a first link and a second link, the first link and the second link connecting the first hinge element to the second hinge element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Craig Branch, Clarissa Mae Stuart, Neil Ben Watson, Kenneth William Taylor
  • Publication number: 20240044204
    Abstract: A motorized window treatment may include a roller tube, a flexible material, a motor drive unit, and mounting brackets. The roller tube may be configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis that defines a longitudinal direction to operate the flexible material between a raised position and a lowered position. The motor drive unit may include a housing that defines a cavity that receives a motor and one or more batteries for powering the motor drive unit. The motor drive unit may include a printed circuit board to which a control circuit is mounted. The control circuit may comprise a switch. The motor drive unit may comprise an actuation member configured to transfer a first force applied in a first direction at an end portion of the motor drive unit to a second force in a second direction within the cavity of the housing to actuate the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: William Taylor Shivell
  • Patent number: 11891139
    Abstract: A trailer includes a trailer frame using suspension cables supported from vertically extending towers on opposite sides of the trailer frame and connected to distal ends of the trailer frame for supporting distal portions of the trailer frame. The trailer bed frame comprises a plurality of folding frame sections which can be unfolded into planar alignment to form the trailer frame and folded into an overlapping or stacked alignment for storage. Left and right wheels are rotatably mounted on left and right suspensions which are removably securable to left and right sides of the trailer frame. The suspensions may comprise quarter elliptical leaf spring suspensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Joseph William Taylor
  • Publication number: 20240038057
    Abstract: A remote control device may be configured to be mounted over the toggle actuator of a light switch and to control a load control device. The remote control device may include a mounting assembly and a control unit that is removably attachable to the mounting assembly. The mounting assembly may include a release tab that is configured to be operated from a locking position in which the control unit is secured to the mounting assembly, to a release position in which the control unit may be detached from the mounting assembly. The mounting assembly may include a clamp that is configured to engage with the toggle actuator of a mechanical switch to which the remote control device is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Chris Dimberg, Matthew Philip McDonald, William Taylor Shivell
  • Patent number: 11883064
    Abstract: An access device for accessing an intervertebral disc having an outer shield comprising an access shield with a larger diameter (˜16-30 mm) that reaches from the skin down to the facet line, with an inner shield having a second smaller diameter (˜5-12 mm) extending past the access shield and reaches down to the disc level. This combines the benefits of the direct visual microsurgical/mini open approaches and the percutaneous, “ultra-MIS” techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Medos International Sarl
    Inventors: Daniel Thommen, Joern Richter, Michael Wang, Richard Assaker, Richard Fessler, Christoph Mehren, Seang Beng Tan, William Taylor, Eric Buehlmann, Michael White
  • Patent number: 11889602
    Abstract: A wall-mounted keypad may include a light detector circuit located inside the keypad that is configured to measure an ambient light level in a space. The light detector circuit may receive ambient light through an aperture that is hidden from view by the keypad. The keypad may include a reflector for directing ambient light onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include an enclosure that houses the light detector circuit. The enclosure may define a recess that exposes at least a portion of the light detector circuit. The enclosure may include a reflector that may focus ambient light received through the aperture onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include a control circuit that may be configured to illuminate the indicia of respective buttons of the control device in response to actuations of the one or more buttons, in accordance with the measured ambient light level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: William Taylor Shivell, Matthew Philip McDonald
  • Patent number: 11877860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and related methods for performing neurophysiologic assessments during surgical procedures. A method includes the steps of delivering a first transcutaneous, trans-abdominal stimulation signal to a spinal nerve root superior to a surgical target site; and determining a first neuromuscular response data set, based on transmission of said first transcutaneous, trans-abdominal stimulation signal, of a muscle located inferior to said surgical target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nuvasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Eric Finley, Adam Azzara, Dmitry Novikov, William Taylor
  • Publication number: 20240015873
    Abstract: Remote control devices may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may be mounted over a mechanical switch that is installed in a wallbox. The remote control device may include a control unit and a faceplate assembly. The faceplate assembly may include a mounting frame, an adapter plate, and a faceplate. The mounting frame may be configured to abut a bezel of the mechanical switch such that that the faceplate is spaced away from the bezel of the mechanical switch to enable the mounting ring to extend through respective openings in the adapter plate and the faceplate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: William Taylor Shivell
  • Patent number: 11869710
    Abstract: A control device includes a moving portion, a magnetic element coupled to the moving portion, at least one magnetic sensing circuit responsive to magnetic fields, and at least one magnetic flux pipe structure. The magnetic element may comprise alternating positive and negative sections configured to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic element may be any shape, such as circular, linear, etc. The magnetic sensing circuit may be radially offset from the magnetic element, and the magnetic flux pipe structure may be configured to conduct the magnetic field generated by the magnetic element towards the magnetic sensing circuit. The magnetic element may generate the magnetic field in a first plane, and the magnetic sensing may be responsive to magnetic fields in a second direction that is angularly offset from the first plane. The magnetic flux pipe structure may redirect the magnetic field towards the magnetic sensing circuit in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Wade Gage, Stephen M. Ludwig, Jr., Robert C Newman, Jr., William Taylor Shivell
  • Publication number: 20230420162
    Abstract: Bundled cables and methods for preparing bundled cable are disclosed herein. In the method, a plurality of subunits is wound about a central member. The subunits include a subunit jacket made of a first thermoplastic composition and has a first outer surface, and the central member includes a central member jacket made of a second thermoplastic composition and has a second outer surface. A metal element is provided at an interface of the second outer surface and the first outer surface of the subunits. The metal element is heated such that at least one of the first thermoplastic composition or the second thermoplastic composition forms bonds with the other of the first thermoplastic composition or the second thermoplastic composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: David Ralph Maack, Lars Kristian Nielsen, James Arthur Register, III, William Taylor Rowell
  • Patent number: 11823561
    Abstract: A remote control device may be configured to be mounted over the toggle actuator of a light switch and to control a load control device. The remote control device may include a mounting assembly and a control unit that is removably attachable to the mounting assembly. The mounting assembly may include a release tab that is configured to be operated from a locking position in which the control unit is secured to the mounting assembly, to a release position in which the control unit may be detached from the mounting assembly. The mounting assembly may include a clamp that is configured to engage with the toggle actuator of a mechanical switch to which the remote control device is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Chris Dimberg, Matthew Philip McDonald, William Taylor Shivell
  • Patent number: 11817257
    Abstract: A provided wireless wallbox dimmer may accommodate a plurality of button configurations. The dimmer may be configured to contain a variable number of controllably conductive devices. The dimmer may include a yoke that defines a first plane and an antenna that defines a second plane that is substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the first plane. The yoke may have a flange that is oriented angularly offset relative to the first plane and provides a plurality of mounting locations for controllably conductive devices. The antenna may provide the dimmer with a first wireless transmission range. The dimmer may include a faceplate that cooperates with the antenna to provide the dimmer with a second wireless transmission range that is broader than the first wireless transmission range. The dimmer may include a button assembly that is supported independently of the yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Bhutani, Nikhil Vithal Bhate, William Taylor Shivell, Sean R. Pearson