Patents by Inventor William Joseph Sullivan

William Joseph Sullivan 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).

  • SPACECRAFT SERVICING DEVICES AND RELATED ASSEMBLIES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20240158103
    Abstract: Spacecraft servicing devices or pods and related methods may include a body configured to be deployed from a host spacecraft at a location adjacent a target spacecraft and at least one spacecraft servicing component configured to perform at least one servicing operation on the target spacecraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: James Garret Nicholson, Daniel Carl Treachler, Oliver Benjamin Ortiz, James Dulin Reavill, Benjamin Michael Hekman, Robert Bryan Sullivan, Carlos Guillermo Niederstrasser, Mark Lieberbaum, Michael Joseph Glogowski, William A. Llorens, Kenneth Siu-Kin Chow, Peter Michael Cipollo
  • Integrated motor driver/controller with sensorless or sensored commutation
    Patent number: 9748882
    Abstract: A motor controller configured to control different types of electronically commutated motors (ECMs) includes a range of different rotor orientation signal inputs to accommodate differences between ECM motor types. The motor controller includes a control unit that receives motor operation commands and controls operation of the ECM in accordance with the motor operation commands. The control unit receives and stores data designating ECM type and estimates rotor position based on the designated ECM type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Hugh Breheny, Shaun Steven Hayward, Kevin John Trenholme, Sean Garcen, William Joseph Sullivan
  • Use of effect pigments in ingested drugs products
    Publication number: 20040018232
    Abstract: Ingestible drugs contain an effect pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: ENGELHARD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gabriel E. Uzunian, William Joseph Sullivan
  • Use of effect pigments in ingested drugs
    Patent number: 6627212
    Abstract: Ingestible drugs contain an effect pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel E. Uzunian, William Joseph Sullivan
  • Use of effect pigments in ingested drugs
    Publication number: 20030008002
    Abstract: Ingestible drugs contain an effect pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Applicant: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel E. Uzunian, William Joseph Sullivan
  • Precious metal color effect materials and production thereof
    Patent number: 6325847
    Abstract: A precious metal color effect material is composed of a plurality of encapsulated substrate platelets in which each platelet is encapsulated with a first layer selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, iridium and the alloys thereof, which acts as a reflector to light directed thereon, a second layer encapsulating the first layer in which the second layer provides an optically variable reflection of light impinging thereon and a third layer encapsulating the second layer and being selectively transparent to light directed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: James Douglas Christie, Daniel Stevenson Fuller, William Joseph Sullivan, Curtis James Zimmermann