Patents by Inventor William Powers
William Powers 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: 20210072316Abstract: A method for identifying and mapping a maximum instantaneous stall torque capability of a fuel cell cathode valve includes: maintaining a temperature of an electric motor at a predetermined temperature, wherein the predetermined temperature is equal to or less than a freezing point of water (0° C.), and the electric motor includes motor brushes, commutator poles, a stator, a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator, and a shaft coupled to the rotor; locking the shaft of the electric motor such that the shaft is incapable of rotating, thereby fixing the shaft at a locked position; mounting the shaft of the electric motor to a dynamometer; supplying electrical energy to the electric motor; monitoring an instantaneous stall torque of the electric motor; and monitoring a rotor electrical resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: William A. Powers, JR., Rajeev Vyas, Stephen G. Poulos, Ashish V. Gadre
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Publication number: 20200184435Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for an interconnected resource distribution and retention network. The invention is structured for centralized or de-centralized network processing. In this way, the invention creates a network of interconnected agnostic resource distribution machines as nodes across a distributed network allowing resource distribution to customers across various entities. The system stores entity specific resource distribution machine interactive software. Upon user authentication into a resource distribution machine associated with the network, the system presents the user's entity specific resource distribution machine interactive software for user visualization and resource distribution completion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Benjamin Castinado, Bryan Lee Card, Robert William Powers, Richard Huw Thomas
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Patent number: 10667814Abstract: A surgical stapling apparatus including a releasable buttress material includes a cartridge assembly, an anvil assembly, a knife, and a buttress material. The cartridge assembly includes a plurality of staples and a tissue contacting surface defining staple retaining slots. The anvil assembly includes a tissue contacting surface defining staple pockets for forming staples expelled from the staple retaining slots of the cartridge assembly. The knife is disposed within a knife slot formed in the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The buttress material includes at least one weld joining the buttress material to the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The at least one weld is positioned across the knife slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Gerald Hodgkinson, William Powers
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Publication number: 20200038019Abstract: A cartridge assembly is disclosed. The cartridge assembly includes a channel and a removable assembly in releasable engagement with the channel. The removable assembly includes a cartridge body and a support plate. The cartridge body includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The support plate is configured to mechanically engage the cartridge body and includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The engagement structure of the cartridge body is configured for longitudinal alignment with the engagement structure of the support plate. The engagement structures of the cartridge body and the engagement structure of the support plate are configured to mechanically engage the engagement structure of the channel when the removable assembly is engaged with the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Stanislaw Kostrzewski, Ernie Aranyi, Paul Scirica, William Powers
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Patent number: 10463367Abstract: A cartridge assembly is disclosed. The cartridge assembly includes a channel and a removable assembly in releasable engagement with the channel. The removable assembly includes a cartridge body and a support plate. The cartridge body includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The support plate is configured to mechanically engage the cartridge body and includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The engagement structure of the cartridge body is configured for longitudinal alignment with the engagement structure of the support plate. The engagement structures of the cartridge body and the engagement structure of the support plate are configured to mechanically engage the engagement structure of the channel when the removable assembly is engaged with the channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Stanislaw Kostrzewski, Ernie Aranyi, Paul Scirica, William Powers
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Patent number: 10462252Abstract: A content delivery network has at least a first tier of servers. A content delivery method includes, at a first server in the first tier of servers, obtaining a request from a client for a resource. If the resource is available at the first server or at a peer of the first server, then the resource is served to the client from the first server. Otherwise, it is determined whether the resource is popular, and if the resource is determined to be popular, then the first server obtains the resource and the first server serves the resource to the client. If the resource is determined not to be popular, the server contacts a second server to obtain the resource, not in the first tier of servers, and the second server provides the resource to the first server. The first server is instructed not to cache the unpopular content.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, Kevin Johns, William Power
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Patent number: 10348848Abstract: A content delivery network has at least a first tier of servers. A content delivery method includes, at a first server in the first tier of servers, obtaining a request from a client for a resource. If the resource is available at the first server or at a peer of the first server, then the resource is served to the client from the first server. Otherwise, it is determined whether the resource is popular, and if the resource is determined to be popular, then the first server obtains the resource and the first server serves the resource to the client. If the resource is determined not to be popular, the server contacts a second server to obtain the resource, not in the first tier of servers, and the second server provides the resource to the first server. The first server is instructed not to cache the unpopular content.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, Kevin Johns, William Power
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Patent number: 10293553Abstract: A surgical buttress for use in a surgical stapling apparatus is provided. The surgical buttress includes an elongate rectangular body portion defining a width; a nose portion integrally formed with and extending from a distal end of the body portion, the nose portion defining a width that is less than the width of the body portion; a neck portion integrally formed with and extending from a distal end of the nose portion, the neck portion defining a width; a head portion integrally formed with and connected to a distal end of the neck portion, the head portion defining a width; and a tail portion integrally formed with and extending from a proximal end of the body portion, the tail portion defining a width that is less that the width of the body portion. The surgical buttress is formed from a material having filaments. The surgical buttress include radioactive material.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: David Racenet, Gerald Hodgkinson, William Powers
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Patent number: 9957690Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for controlling the operation of an industrial machine including one or more components. A method of controlling the industrial machine includes determining a position of at least one of the one or more components of the industrial machine during a digging operation, determining a hoist bail pull setting based on the position of the at least one of the one or more components and a relationship between component position and hoist bail pull, and setting a level of hoist bail pull to the hoist bail pull setting. The level of hoist bail pull early in the digging operation is greater than the level of hoist bail pull later in the digging operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Harnischfeger Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Colwell, William Powers, John Burant
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Patent number: 9932233Abstract: A continuous reaction system (CRS) allows a method to prepare quantum dots (QDs) in a continuous manner with high precision. The CRS pumps a plurality of reagent fluids into one or more mixing sites to form a reaction fluid that is carried through a heating chamber at elevated pressures to carry out hydrothermal growth of the QDs. The pumps and heating chamber are controlled with a high precision by employing a detector downstream of the heating chamber to provide a signal that is dependent on the composition and size of the QDs. The signal is provided to a signal processor that provides a signal that control the flow rates and temperature parameters in the system. The QDs produced in this manner are consistent in size and composition and can be of a single semiconductor composition or can be core-shell QDs with a shell semiconductor formed on a core semiconductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Kevin William Powers, Jiaqing Zhou, Parvesh Sharma, Spyros A. Svoronos, Brij M. Moudgil, Gary Wayne Scheiffele, Ajoy K. Saha, Paul Louis Carpinone
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Publication number: 20180077258Abstract: A content delivery network has at least a first tier of servers. A content delivery method includes, at a first server in the first tier of servers, obtaining a request from a client for a resource. If the resource is available at the first server or at a peer of the first server, then the resource is served to the client from the first server. Otherwise, it is determined whether the resource is popular, and if the resource is determined to be popular, then the first server obtains the resource and the first server serves the resource to the client. If the resource is determined not to be popular, the server contacts a second server to obtain the resource, not in the first tier of servers, and the second server provides the resource to the first server. The first server is instructed not to cache the unpopular content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Christopher Newton, Kevin Johns, William Power
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Publication number: 20180026259Abstract: A composite electrode is a composite of conductive materials of at least a first material and a second material, wherein the first material undergoes a parasitic reaction in a region where the second material is stable, and the first material and second material are stable at the first material's nominal voltage. An exemplary electrode is a cathode comprising lithium manganese oxide (LMO) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Kevin William Powers, Michael D. Kellar, Jon K. West, Julius O. Regalado
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Devices for thermally induced transformations controlled by irradiation of functionalized fullerenes
Patent number: 9731013Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation activated device comprises a property changing material and at least one functionalized fullerene that upon irradiation of the functionalized fullerenes with electromagnetic radiation of one or more frequencies a thermally activated chemical or physical transformation occurs in the property changing material. The thermal activated transformation of the property changing material is triggered by the heating or combustion of the functionalized fullerenes upon their irradiation. The device can include a chemical agent that is embedded in the property changing material and is released when the material is heated by the functionalized fullerenes upon irradiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Vijay Krishna, Karl R. Zawoy, Brij M. Moudgil, Benjamin L. Koopman, Nathanael Ian Stevens, Kevin William Powers -
Patent number: 9675351Abstract: A surgical stapling apparatus including a releasable buttress material includes a cartridge assembly, an anvil assembly, a knife, and a buttress material. The cartridge assembly includes a plurality of staples and a tissue contacting surface defining staple retaining slots. The anvil assembly includes a tissue contacting surface defining staple pockets for forming staples expelled from the staple retaining slots of the cartridge assembly. The knife is disposed within a knife slot formed in the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The buttress material includes at least one weld joining the buttress material to the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The at least one weld is positioned across the knife slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Gerald Hodgkinson, William Powers
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Patent number: 9662770Abstract: Multi-purpose cooking tongs that are configured to grasp food and bars of a cooking grate.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Inventor: William Powers Gross
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Publication number: 20170095250Abstract: A cartridge assembly is disclosed. The cartridge assembly includes a channel and a removable assembly in releasable engagement with the channel. The removable assembly includes a cartridge body and a support plate. The cartridge body includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The support plate is configured to mechanically engage the cartridge body and includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The engagement structure of the cartridge body is configured for longitudinal alignment with the engagement structure of the support plate. The engagement structures of the cartridge body and the engagement structure of the support plate are configured to mechanically engage the engagement structure of the channel when the removable assembly is engaged with the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Stanislaw Kostrzewski, Ernie Aranyi, Paul Scirica, William Powers
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Patent number: 9540839Abstract: An adjustable pole cap that includes a peripheral rim that defines an adjustable opening that may be adjusted to receive different sized pole tops, and blanks for forming such caps.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Inventor: William Powers Gross
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Patent number: 9526499Abstract: A cartridge assembly is disclosed. The cartridge assembly includes a channel and a removable assembly in releasable engagement with the channel. The removable assembly includes a cartridge body and a support plate. The cartridge body includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The support plate is configured to mechanically engage the cartridge body and includes an engagement structure disposed adjacent a proximal end thereof. The engagement structure of the cartridge body is configured for longitudinal alignment with the engagement structure of the support plate. The engagement structures of the cartridge body and the engagement structure of the support plate are configured to mechanically engage the engagement structure of the channel when the removable assembly is engaged with the channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Stanislaw Kostrzewski, Ernie Aranyi, Paul Scirica, William Powers
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Publication number: 20160348337Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for controlling the operation of an industrial machine including one or more components. A method of controlling the industrial machine includes determining a position of at least one of the one or more components of the industrial machine during a digging operation, determining a hoist bail pull setting based on the position of the at least one of the one or more components and a relationship between component position and hoist bail pull, and setting a level of hoist bail pull to the hoist bail pull setting. The level of hoist bail pull early in the digging operation is greater than the level of hoist bail pull later in the digging operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Joseph Colwell, William Powers, John Burant
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Publication number: 20160249923Abstract: A surgical stapling apparatus including a releasable buttress material includes a cartridge assembly, an anvil assembly, a knife, and a buttress material. The cartridge assembly includes a plurality of staples and a tissue contacting surface defining staple retaining slots. The anvil assembly includes a tissue contacting surface defining staple pockets for forming staples expelled from the staple retaining slots of the cartridge assembly. The knife is disposed within a knife slot formed in the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The buttress material includes at least one weld joining the buttress material to the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly. The at least one weld is positioned across the knife slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Gerald Hodgkinson, William Powers