Patents by Inventor Alan Williams

Alan 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).

  • Patent number: 8596403
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a right side member and a left side member with a motor compartment disposed therebetween, a motor compartment cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, the motor compartment cross member coupled to the left side member and the right side member, a front cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, wherein the front cross member is spaced apart from the motor compartment cross member in a vertical direction, and a motor mount member extending between the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, wherein the motor mount member is coupled to the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, the motor mount member comprising an attachment point for receiving a corresponding coupler of an electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: James Dennis Cunningham, Taichi Yamashita, Alan Williams
  • Patent number: 8594478
    Abstract: A laser optical fiber storage system (10) and method for temporarily storing a proximal section (12) of an elongated flexible optical fiber (14). The system and method include a storage housing (16) having a closed end (18) and an open end (20). A plug stopper (22) being laser energy impermeable is disposed within the open end of the elongated storage housing to prevent the escape of laser light from within the storage housing. The plug stopper has an access port (24) adapted to enable the proximal section of the optical fiber to be loaded into and withdrawn from the housing. The storage housing is configured to temporarily retain the proximal section of the elongated flexible optical fiber in an elongated configuration or in a spiral configuration. Structure (29) within the storage housing prevents laser light from passing through walls of the storage housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Patient Pocket, LLC
    Inventors: Allen D. Seftel, Stephen T. Pastor, Richard Alan Williams
  • Patent number: 8591154
    Abstract: A biased clamping device for use with a cart carrier that includes a cart support and a clamping channel moveable between an open position and a clamped position is disclosed. The biased clamping device includes a biasing member associated with the clamping channel that biases the clamping channel to the clamped position. The biasing member includes a first end attached to the cart support and a second end attached to the clamping channel. The biasing member loads when the clamping channel is moved between the clamped position and the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: The Raymond Corporation
    Inventor: Alan William Bartels
  • Patent number: 8566454
    Abstract: This application describes how Session Description Protocol (SDP) preconditions signaling can be enhanced to support lead role negotiation, precondition capability exchange, premature precondition attempts and concatenated preconditions processing. The application describes the use of send and receive tags in an SDP message for a given media line. In a given message, a success or failure tag may be associated with a send or receive tag in addition to an optional or mandatory condition indicator tag. A lead role indicator may also be associated with a send or receive tag to indicate a desired preference with regard to the sender or receiver taking the lead role. These additions lead to a greater chance of successful session set-up completion, reduce the number of signaling exchanges in general, and enable precondition attempts to be started earlier and to be executed in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Alan William O'Neill
  • Patent number: 8564492
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a housing having a plurality of printed circuit board (PCB) panels connected together with folded joints therebetween to define a polyhedral shape having a first open end. Each of the PCB panels includes a dielectric substrate and an electrically conductive layer thereon inside of the housing. Wireless communication circuitry is mounted on at least one of the plurality of PCB panels outside the housing, and an antenna feed is connected to the wireless communication circuitry adjacent a second end opposite the first open end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Alan William Mast, Gregory M. Jandzio
  • Publication number: 20130271469
    Abstract: Implementations provide methods including actions of processing patient data to generate one or more graphical representations of the patient data, at least one graphical representation of the one or more graphical representations including a waveform, displaying at least one waveform segment of the waveform, and displaying calipers associated with the at least one waveform segment, each caliper being associated with an interval, where displaying the calipers includes, for each caliper: receiving a measurement value of the interval associated with the caliper, determining respective positions of a first handle and a second handle of the caliper based on the measurement, and displaying the first handle and the second handle in the respective positions relative to the at least one waveform segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen Trey Moore, Thomas Scott Wade, Lloyd Kory Brown, William Cameron Powell, Daniel Lee Blake, Neil R. McQueen, Augustine Vidal Pedraza, IV, Alan Williams Portela
  • Publication number: 20130271470
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying at least one graphical representation as a stacked waveform strip, the stacked waveform strip including: a first strip segment, the first strip segment being associated with a first time period, a second strip segment, the second strip segment being associated with a second time period earlier than the first time period and being displayed beneath the first strip segment, and a third strip segment, the third strip segment being associated with a third time period earlier than the second time period and being displayed beneath the second strip segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen Trey Moore, Thomas Scott Wade, Lloyd Kory Brown, William Cameron Powell, Daniel Lee Blake, Neil R. McQueen, Augustine Vidal Pedraza, IV, Alan Williams Portela
  • Publication number: 20130248275
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a right side member and a left side member with a motor compartment disposed therebetween, a motor compartment cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, the motor compartment cross member coupled to the left side member and the right side member, a front cross member extending transversely across the motor compartment, wherein the front cross member is spaced apart from the motor compartment cross member in a vertical direction, and a motor mount member extending between the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, wherein the motor mount member is coupled to the front cross member and the motor compartment cross member, the motor mount member comprising an attachment point for receiving a corresponding coupler of an electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: James Dennis Cunningham, Taichi Yamashita, Alan Williams
  • Patent number: 8528917
    Abstract: A wheel support assembly for use with a vehicle is disclosed that comprises a vehicle mount coupleable to the vehicle, a recess formed in the vehicle mount, a bearing seated at least partially within the recess, an axle engaged with the bearing and extending away from the bearing, and a wheel supported by the axle. To inhibit the transfer of heat from the bearing to the wheel the bearing is in thermal communication with the vehicle mount and the wheel is spaced apart from the bearing along a longitudinal axis of the axle. The vehicle mount is configured as a heat sink such that a larger portion of the heat generated by the bearing is transferred to the heat sink as compared to the portion transferred to the axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: The Raymond Corporation
    Inventor: Alan William Bartels
  • Patent number: 8504728
    Abstract: A network interface system includes a memory system for managing data obtained via a system bus that supports split transactions. The memory system comprises a first memory for storing outgoing assembled data frames and associated control information prior to transfer of the outgoing data to the network, and an assembly memory that stores unassembled outgoing data from the bus. A memory control system stores the control information associated with pending bus read requests and also transfers outgoing data from the assembly memory to the first memory when all the outgoing data for a corresponding read request has been assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Alan Williams, Jeffrey Dwork, Hung Duy Vo, Kevin Pond
  • Publication number: 20130198549
    Abstract: To preserve power and increase the overall efficiency of the CPU, the platform idle driver causes the power gate controller to cut power to the idle core. Such power gating is autonomous, i.e., the operating system and the other cores are not involved. In operation, the platform idle driver first prepares the core and the power gate controller for power gating the core. The platform idle driver then triggers the power gating. The power gate controller monitors interrupts released by the interrupt controller, and if any on the released interrupts are associated with the power gated core, the power gate controller resumes dispersing power to the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Matthew Raymond LONGNECKER, Scott Alan Williams, Sagheer Ahmad, Robert Alan Bignell, Venkata Krishna Reddy Dumpa
  • Publication number: 20130189046
    Abstract: A biased clamping device for use with a cart carrier that includes a cart support and a clamping channel moveable between an open position and a clamped position is disclosed. The biased clamping device includes a biasing member associated with the clamping channel that biases the clamping channel to the clamped position. The biasing member includes a first end attached to the cart support and a second end attached to the clamping channel. The biasing member loads when the clamping channel is moved between the clamped position and the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventor: Alan William Bartels
  • Publication number: 20130141299
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a housing having a plurality of printed circuit board (PCB) panels connected together with folded joints therebetween to define a polyhedral shape having a first open end. Each of the PCB panels includes a dielectric substrate and an electrically conductive layer thereon inside of the housing. Wireless communication circuitry is mounted on at least one of the plurality of PCB panels outside the housing, and an antenna feed is connected to the wireless communication circuitry adjacent a second end opposite the first open end of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Alan William MAST, Gregory M. Jandzio
  • Patent number: 8457099
    Abstract: MIP Home Agent (HA) architectures are described that decompose, e.g., split, packet forwarding control functionality from actual data packet forwarding operations performed by a conventional MIP HA. This places MIP routing control in a node which is distinct from the tunnel end-points which perform packet forwarding operations to direct packets including a mobile's Home Address. Tunneling establishment and control functionality is implemented by what is referred to herein as decomposed HA (DHA) while data packet forwarding and redirection is performed, under the control of the DHA, by a tunneling agent (TA) node. The tunneling agent node serves as the data packet redirection node for a mobile as it moves from one location to another and may be located outside of a firewall used to protect the DHA. Tunnel endpoint nodes (Mobile Nodes and/or Access Nodes) send tunnel packets to the tunnel agent whilst directing control signaling packets to the DHA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Alan William O'Neill
  • Patent number: 8457041
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are directed to, among other things, an access node which is used in providing enhanced functionality and fault tolerance in a system which distributes home agent functionality between a home agent control node and a tunneling node, referred to herein as a home agent tunneling node, which performs packet forwarding under direction of the home agent control node. The distributed home agent approach is enhanced in some embodiments to provide redundancy of home agent control nodes and/or home agent tunneling nodes. Thus, in accordance with some embodiments if a home agent control node fails, the secondary home agent control node can take over the home agent control function. Various embodiments describe various methods, apparatus, and/or messages in addition to system configurations, which can be used to maintain primary and secondary home agent control and facilitate a rapid transfer of functions between primary and secondary nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Alan William O'Neill
  • Patent number: 8437147
    Abstract: An equipment cabinet (2) includes an equipment rack (3) for mounting equipment (20), and includes organizational elements for organizing cables within the cabinet. The cables may be organized to reduce impeding airflow to or from the equipment, and/or to reduce unwanted bending of the cables themselves. The organizational elements may include one or more of: a trunk cable (40) including a furcation plug (45) and universal clip (47); a furcation bracket—either vertical (60) or horizontal (80); a termination panel (100); a trunk cable manager (140, 200); and/or an accessory bracket (180). The organizational elements may be used in various combinations with one another, and may be provided in a kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lee Dean, Jr., David Brian Donowho, Richard Evans Lewis, II, Karl Theodore Messmer, Alan William Ugolini
  • Patent number: 8432903
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are directed to providing enhanced functionality and fault tolerance in a system which distributes home agent functionality between a home agent control node and a tunneling node, referred to herein as a home agent tunneling node, which performs packet forwarding under direction of the home agent control node. The distributed home agent approach is enhanced in some embodiments to provide redundancy of home agent control nodes and/or home agent tunneling nodes. Thus, in accordance with some embodiments if a home agent control node fails, the secondary home agent control node can take over the home agent control function. Various embodiments describe various methods, apparatus, and/or messages in addition to system configurations, which can be used to maintain primary and secondary home agent control and facilitate a rapid transfer of functions between primary and secondary nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Alan William O'Neill
  • Patent number: 8423460
    Abstract: A method whereby vendors and purchasers settle invoices and account for sales taxes, integrated with the drawing, accepting, guaranteeing, endorsing, discounting, presenting, and cash settlement of electronic bills of exchange in all traded currencies (Ebill). Ebills are activated automatically as a direct consequence of the approval of one or more invoices for payment. Acceptance is against a guarantee with a managed credit risk limit or endorsed Ebills. Settlement is also activated by matching a purchase order to a goods received or delivery note or bill of lading. A single instance of each invoice and Ebill is held for all functions required by vendors, purchasers, risk managers, Ebill traders, discounters, guarantors and banks. Trading accounts are represented by a single ledger instance with automated updating of their back-office ledgers. Settlement reconciliation is supported by messages related to individual transactions and by quantified debit advice notes reconciled with credit notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Obilisk Supplier Finance (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alan William Kay, Roy David Hatfield, Jonathan Nicholas Kay, Anthony Alan Harte, Michael Steven Hirst
  • Patent number: 8411465
    Abstract: An equipment cabinet (2) includes an equipment rack (3) for mounting equipment (20), and includes organizational elements for organizing cables within the cabinet. The cables may be organized to reduce impeding airflow to or from the equipment, and/or to reduce unwanted bending of the cables themselves. The organizational elements may include one or more of: a trunk cable (40) including a furcation plug (45) and universal clip (47); a furcation bracket—either vertical (60) or horizontal (80); a termination panel (100); a trunk cable manager (140, 200); and/or an accessory bracket (180). The organizational elements may be used in various combinations with one another, and may be provided in a kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lee Dean, Jr., David Brian Donowho, Richard Evans Lewis, II, Karl Theodore Messmer, Alan William Ugolini
  • Publication number: 20130060482
    Abstract: A method for nucleic acid sequencing includes receiving a plurality of observed or measured signals indicative of a parameter observed or measured for a plurality of defined spaces; determining, for at least some of the defined spaces, whether the defined space comprises one or more sample nucleic acids; processing, for at least some of the defined spaces, the observed or measured signal to improve a quality of the observed or measured signal; generating, for at least some of the defined spaces, a set of candidate sequences of bases for the defined space using one or more metrics adapted to associate a score or penalty to the candidate sequences of bases; and selecting the candidate sequence leading to a highest score or a lowest penalty as corresponding to the correct sequence for the one or more sample nucleic acids in the defined space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marcin SIKORA, Melville DAVEY, Christian KOLLER, Simon CAWLEY, Alan WILLIAMS, David KULP