Patents by Inventor Andrew Wills

Andrew Wills 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: 12179601
    Abstract: A wheel assembly bushing for in-wheel electric motors where the bushing includes a hydraulic chamber positioned within a resilient sleeve of the bushing and a helical fluid channel that extends helically about an inner bushing member between first and second fluid channel ends, which are arranged in fluid communication with the hydraulic chamber. An outer body extends annularly about the resilient sleeve, which permits relative movement between the inner bushing member and the outer body. The fluid channel is configured to produce inertance. This inertance, when combined with other damping and stiffness effects of the wheel assembly bushing, provides phase and magnitude shifts between force and velocity, which ultimately reduce magnetic gap deformation in the in-wheel electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DRiV Automotive Inc.
    Inventors: Zheng Jiang, Nicholas Joseph Wills, Yi-Yuan Li, Miguel Dhaens, Simon Andrew Neild, Thomas Lewis Hill
  • Patent number: 12058090
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for discovery of organizational telemetry within a group-based communication system and rendering representations thereof. An interaction signal trends interface is generated based in part on an ordered interaction signal data structures list that is generated based in part on predicted short term interaction signal tallies, actual short term interaction signal tallies, and predicted long term interaction signal tallies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime DeLanghe, Andrew Schmidt, Joseph Delgado, Jonathan Katzur, Japinder Singh, Joshua Wills, Simon Favreau-Lessard, Noah Weiss, Luis Tandalla, Ashoke Chakrabarti
  • Publication number: 20240200715
    Abstract: A support for a computing device display includes an upper arm, a lower arm, and a joint connecting the upper arm and the lower arm. The upper arm and the lower arm are rotatable with respect to one another about a longitudinal axis of the joint. The upper arm is rotatable with respect to the joint about a first axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the joint. The lower arm is rotatable with respect to the joint about a second axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: 11446629
    Abstract: Current chemical batch processing technology is based on batch reactors, which typically consist of a vessel, in which reactants are processed. The batch reactor comprises a reactor vessel having at least one first thermal transfer element; a removable top cover for sealing the reactor vessel; a baffle component having at least one second thermal transfer element; and an agitator component, wherein each of the at least one first thermal transfer element and the at least one second thermal transfer element is independently controllable, and wherein the batch reactor comprises a thermal transfer surface-to-volume ratio of at least 6:1. This increases the thermal transfer potential and the thermal energy transfer efficiency of the batch reactor, thereby to increase production speed and throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: William Henry Fryers, Andrew Wills
  • Publication number: 20210113986
    Abstract: Current chemical batch processing technology is based on batch reactors, which typically consist of a vessel, in which reactants are processed. The batch reactor comprises a reactor vessel having at least one first thermal transfer element; a removable top cover for sealing the reactor vessel; a baffle component having at least one second thermal transfer element; and an agitator component, wherein each of the at least one first thermal transfer element and the at least one second thermal transfer element is independently controllable, and wherein the batch reactor comprises a thermal transfer surface-to-volume ratio of at least 6:1. This increases the thermal transfer potential and the thermal energy transfer efficiency of the batch reactor, thereby to increase production speed and throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: William Henry Fryers, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: 10767809
    Abstract: A support arm for supporting a load such as a display device. The support arm includes a housing defining an indicator window, a balancing mechanism in the housing, and an adjustment mechanism to adjust a counterbalancing force or torque provided by the balancing mechanism to counterbalance the weight of the load. The support arm further includes an indicator arrangement visible in the indicator window to provides a visual indication of the relative force or torque provided by the balancing mechanism. The indicator arrangement may include a lens in the indicator window. The indicator arrangement may include indicia to facilitate the visual indication of relative force or torque. The indicator arrangement may include a portion of the adjustment mechanism or balancing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: COLEBROOK BOSSON & SAUNDERS (PRODUCTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: 10554719
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for managing streamed communication (such as video, audio, or audio-visual communication) between client devices and remote devices via a digital data communication network in situations where the data communication network comprises one or more routers operable to receive streamed data from one or more client devices and/or from one or more other routers, and to forward such streamed data to one or more remote devices and/or to one or more other routers such as to enable the client device and potentially-varying subsets of the one or more remote devices to participate in a communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Timothy Stevens, Ian Kegel, Andrew Wills
  • Publication number: 20170264665
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for managing streamed communication (such as video, audio, or audio-visual communication) between client devices and remote devices via a digital data communication network in situations where the data communication network comprises one or more routers operable to receive streamed data from one or more client devices and/or from one or more other routers, and to forward such streamed data to one or more remote devices and/or to one or more other routers such as to enable the client device and potentially-varying subsets of the one or more remote devices to participate in a communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Timothy STEVENS, Ian KEGEL, Andrew WILLS
  • Patent number: 9572269
    Abstract: A support arm system for a load such as a display device. The system includes a support arm rotatable at its proximal end about a mid joint axis, monitor supporting head at the distal end of the support arm has an internal slider element and compression spring, and an arrangement of links and pivots which create a torque to oppose the torque created by a load on the head and keep a monitor plate in the same viewing plane relative to the vertical as the arm moves through its range of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Colebrook Bosson Saunders (Products) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Publication number: 20160186923
    Abstract: A support arm for supporting a load such as a display device. The support arm includes a housing defining an indicator window, a balancing mechanism in the housing, and an adjustment mechanism to adjust a counterbalancing force or torque provided by the balancing mechanism to counterbalance the weight of the load. The support arm further includes an indicator arrangement visible in the indicator window to provides a visual indication of the relative force or torque provided by the balancing mechanism. The indicator arrangement may include a lens in the indicator window. The indicator arrangement may include indicia to facilitate the visual indication of relative force or torque. The indicator arrangement may include a portion of the adjustment mechanism or balancing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: 9330164
    Abstract: An electronic platform allowing users to form and organize groups of member profiles, which contain a number of biographical categories (e.g., name, address, etc.) and a personal photo. The electronic platform incorporates many different methods of testing the user to assist in the memorization of the faces and biographical information of the members of the group, i.e., electronic flash cards (one sided or two sided), multiple choice quizzes, etc. The users then may either create their own custom tests or they may use predesigned quizzes generated by the electronic platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Inventor: Andrew Wills Edwards
  • Patent number: 9316346
    Abstract: A mounting system for pivotally mounting a load such as display device to a support arm including a device mounting element for supporting a display, a hoop element defined by a portion of the circumference of a circle, and a support arm mount slidable along relative to, and rotatable about relative to, the hoop. A support system for supporting a load such as a display device includes a mount for a load, a base element and a support arm coupling the mount and base element at, respectively, distal and proximal portions of the support arm, and pivotally connected to at least the base element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Colebrook Bosson Saunders (Products) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Publication number: 20160037663
    Abstract: A support arm system for a load such as a display device. The system includes a support arm rotatable at its proximal end about a mid joint axis, monitor supporting head at the distal end of the support arm has an internal slider element and compression spring, and an arrangement of links and pivots which create a torque to oppose the torque created by a load on the head and keep a monitor plate in the same viewing plane relative to the vertical as the arm moves through its range of movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: 9074721
    Abstract: A support arm system for a load such as a display device. The system includes a support arm (4) rotatable at its proximal end about a mid-joint axis X?, monitor supporting head (5) at the distal end of the support arm (4) has an internal slider element and compression spring, and an arrangement of links and pivots which create a torque to oppose the torque created by a load on the head (5) and keep a monitor plate (6) in the same viewing plane relative to the vertical as the arm (4) moves through its range of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: 8640998
    Abstract: An assembly to attach a display device to a support includes a body attachable to a display device support and a mounting member to which a display device is mountable, the mounting member including a collar that defines an axis about which the mounting member is rotatable relative to the body, the collar having a curved inwardly facing seat, the assembly further comprising a biasing member and a resiliently deformable friction element on the body, the biasing member and the friction element being received in the collar with the mating surface facing the seat when the assembly is assembled such that, when the biasing member is moved in an axial direction into the friction element, the biasing member acts on the friction element and the friction element is resiliently deformed by the biasing member to urge its mating surface against the seat to increase the frictional force therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Colebrook Bosson Saunders Products Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills, Seiyo Ezure
  • Publication number: 20130161466
    Abstract: A support arm system for a load such as a display device. The system includes a support arm (4) rotatable at its proximal end about a mid-joint axis X?, monitor supporting head (5) at the distal end of the support arm (4) has an internal slider element and compression spring, and an arrangement of links and pivots which create a torque to oppose the torque created by a load on the head (5) and keep a monitor plate (6) in the same viewing plane relative to the vertical as the arm (4) moves through its range of movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: D688674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Colebrook Bosson Saunders (Products) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: D1005984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: COLEBROOK BOSSON & SAUNDERS (PRODUCTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Andrew Wills
  • Patent number: D1048077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Pani Page
  • Patent number: D1055917
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Guillaume P. Barlier, Kevin Will Chen, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Hanwen Fan, Lynnette Lucille Galloway, Aurelio Guzmán, Andre Ricardo Jointe, Gilbert Esrome Kuruneri, Bobby Cole Martin, Jr., Dana R. Mason, Jr., Michael Tettey Nartey, Oladapo Onikuyide, Clement Tissandier, Vincenzo Vuono