Patents by Inventor William D. Carter

William D. Carter 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: 11917421
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to configuring carrier aggregation zones based on transmission information in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include identifying, by carrier aggregation equipment including a processor, carrier transmission information corresponding to a first carrier signal and a second carrier signal. The method can further include analyzing, by the carrier aggregation equipment, the carrier transmission information to determine first overlap zone information representative of a first carrier overlap zone for the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal. Further, based on the first overlap zone information, the method includes facilitating configuring transmission parameter information representative of a transmission parameter applicable to transmission of the first carrier signal, to enable carrier aggregation by network equipment within the first carrier overlap zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Shomik Pathak, Cecilia N. Nguyen, Harry Liu, James P. Daves, William D. Turczyn, Yang Wang, Mark Butler, Murari Lamsal, Jason E. Carter, Iftekhar Alam
  • Patent number: 7502155
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a first layer of dielectric material disposed upon an upper surface of a substrate of a semiconductor device and a first non-conductive layer of metal disposed upon an upper surface of the dielectric material. The first layer of dielectric material and the first non-conductive layer of metal act as an optical trap for electromagnetic radiation received by the first non-conductive layer of metal. In particular embodiments, the semiconductor device may further comprise a second layer of dielectric material disposed upon an upper surface of the first non-conductive layer of metal and a second non-conductive layer of metal disposed upon an upper surface of the second layer of dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul G. Sudak, Robert L. Adams, Jason M. Neidrich, Simon Joshua Jacobs, Lisa Ann Wesneski, Linda M. Wills, William D. Carter, Judith C. Frederic
  • Patent number: 5376043
    Abstract: A holder usable to hold various food items, such as ham, chicken, etc., but particularly efficacious as a combined catfish killer and holder for skinning. The device includes a longitudinally extended, base platform (1); an upwardly extended, fish positioning, holding plate (2) at one end of the platform having a "V" shaped opening into which the fish's head is positioned; a killing spike (4) carried by a sleeve (5), which is carried by a laterally extending, "floating" top bar (6) slidingly mounted on the exterior sides of the diverging "V" legs (21); a laterally extended, stop railing (7) provided at the other end of the platform extending below its bottom (11); and a lateral trough (8) across the top (12) of the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Inventor: William D. Carter
  • Patent number: 4356945
    Abstract: A motion picture printing machine is equipped with separate printing modules for the picture track and the sound track. Each module can be removed from the machine. It is therefore possible to use one set of printing modules for printing one size of film, and then to change to a different set of printing modules for printing a different size of film.More specifically, the machine has a vertical frame member with drive and control mechanisms that are supported on its rear side, while the removable printing modules are attached to its front side. Each printing module includes at least one driven sprocket that is carried on a sprocket drive shaft. The sprocket drive shaft is aligned concentric with, but not directly attached to, a driven shaft that is rotatably supported on the rear side of the frame member. The two plates of a friction clutch are carried on the adjacent ends of these two shafts. A means for activating the clutch is a permanent part of the machine carried on the rear side of the frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Carter Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Carter
  • Patent number: 4310848
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for colorimetric evaluation of photographic film by passing light through the film to form a visual image, determining corrections to be made to provide a desired color corrected version of the image, and providing such corrections by adjusting the intensities of separate light beams of different primary colors which are used to form the visual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1982
    Assignee: Carter Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Carter, Martin S. Mueller
  • Patent number: 4274731
    Abstract: A closed container or tank containing a body of liquid within which is totally immersed an endless loop of flexible web material such as motion picture film, with said flexible web material wound in a multiple loop within the container, and provisions for an extended loop portion of said flexible web material to enter and exit the tank at the same rate of speed. The extended loop portion of said flexible web is designed to run through a second apparatus such as a motion picture printing machine in a continuous and uninterrupted path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: Carter Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Carter, Martin S. Mueller
  • Patent number: 4269370
    Abstract: An improved method and an improved apparatus for automatic spooling for continuous accumulation of flexible web materials such as a motion picture print film that is fed from a film printing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Assignee: Carter Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Carter, Martin S. Mueller
  • Patent number: 4223985
    Abstract: A film passing by an aperture of a film gate for purpose of projection or exposure is immersed in a liquid in order to minimize the effect of optical imperfections in or upon the film. When changing from one reel or roll of film to the next sufficient liquid is withdrawn so that the new film can be threaded into the film gate in a dry state; however, the interior glass surfaces of the gate are not permitted to become dry, but instead are continuously washed with liquid so as to prevent the accumulation of particulate matter or other foreign material that would tend to degrade the quality of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Assignee: Carter Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Carter, Martin S. Mueller
  • Patent number: 4105329
    Abstract: A printing tank contains a body of transparent liquid within which a main printing sprocket is totally immersed. Mechanism is provided for feeding one edge of a master strip of film onto the sprocket and in a curved path around a portion of the circumference of the sprocket. A curved support is provided to support the other edge of the master strip of film in a parallel relationship. An illuminated window is positioned between the sprocket and the curved support. A space between the window and the master strip of film is filled with the transparent liquid.In operation, the master strip of film is sprocket-registered while passing the printing aperture effected by the illuminated window. Means are also provided for transporting an unexposed strip of film in sprocket registry with the master strip of film at the aperture.PRIOR ARTContinuously driven printing machines for transferring photographic images from one moving strip of film to another are well-known, one being shown, for example, in the Jeapes Pat. No.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Assignee: Carter Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Carter, Martin S. Mueller