Patents by Inventor Bradley Williams

Bradley 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: 9933625
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) may comprise an adjustable crown band, a crown band circumference adjusting mechanism coupled to the adjustable crown band and configured to adjust a crown band circumference to releasably secure the crown band to the user's crown, an armature including left and right arms, each of the left and right arms mounted at a respective proximal end to corresponding left and right HMD attachment structures, a display mounted at left and right sides to respective distal ends of the left and right arms, and an eye relief distance adjustment mechanism configured to move the left and right arms in a timed manner toward and away from the crown band along a substantially linear path, to thereby adjust an eye relief distance from the display to an eye of a the user when the crown band is fitted on the crown of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Errol Mark Tazbaz, Roy Joseph Riccomini, Andrew Bert Hodge, Bradley William Steiner, Michael James Basha, Azhar K. Meyer, Zoltan Laszlo, Christopher Bramley Fruhauf, Perry Q. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20180082260
    Abstract: A computer system comprising of a database that includes a plurality of sales campaign data records and a plurality of user records; and an application server programmed to: select a sales campaign from the plurality of sales campaigns and initiate the sales campaign, including: determine a campaign time period, a service time, and a vendor location associated with the sales campaign; identify consumers associated with the sales campaign including: identify user records having free time slots that are within the current campaign time period; determine a current location of a mobile computing device associated with the identified user record; determine a first travel time; determine a second travel time; determine a total event time period; generate a set of qualified consumers having a determined total event time period within a corresponding free time slot; and transmit a notification including a promotion to each mobile computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Bradley William Dunn, Kwame Kamau Beard, Jenna Hussein Hage-Hassan, Khalil Ibrahim Khalaf
  • Publication number: 20180043954
    Abstract: A trailer has a frame having frame-members configured to support a container, at least a pair of traction devices rotatably mounted on the frame, and a tongue configured to be mounted on a transportation device or an implement being towed by a transportation device. The frame-members may have a three-point mount configured to support a container. The container may be configured to be interchangeable with another container. The container may be an element of a seeding apparatus, the seeding apparatus mountable on the frame-members of the frame. The trailer may have a steering mechanism for the traction devices, and may be convertible between steerable and non-steerable modes. The steering mechanism may be guidance controlled. A transverse distance between the traction devices may be adjustable and/or height of the frame in relation to the ground may be adjustable. The trailer provides greater flexibility of operation under a greater variety of conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Salford Group Inc.
    Inventors: Geof J. Gray, John Mark Averink, Jacobus A. Rozendaal, Bradley William Baker, Chad Derek Pasma
  • Patent number: 9871771
    Abstract: Two endpoint devices communicate with one another in a secure session by negotiating encrypted communications at initial establishment of the session. Each endpoint device communicates its available security profiles to the other endpoint. A specific security profile is then selected that defines the data encryption and authentication used during the secure session between the two endpoint devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Stavros Antonakakis, Bradley William Corrion
  • Patent number: 9858902
    Abstract: A data processing system comprising a transpose system configured to receive video ordered pixel data and to generate bit plane blocks of data. A write buffer configured to receive the bit plane blocks of data and to generate bit plane data frames. A memory controller configured to receive the bit plane data frames and to write a first bit plane data frame to a memory while simultaneously reading a second bit plane data frame from memory. A read buffer configured to receive the second bit plane data frame and to convert the second bit plane data frame to a digital display device format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: BRASS ROOTS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew John Fritz, Bradley William Walker
  • Patent number: 9828051
    Abstract: A trailer has a frame having frame-members configured to support a container, at least a pair of traction devices rotatably mounted on the frame, and a tongue configured to be mounted on a transportation device or an implement being towed by a transportation device. The frame-members may have a three-point mount configured to support a container. The container may be configured to be interchangeable with another container. The container may be an element of a seeding apparatus, the seeding apparatus mountable on the frame-members of the frame. The trailer may have a steering mechanism for the traction devices, and may be convertible between steerable and non-steerable modes. The steering mechanism may be guidance controlled. A transverse distance between the traction devices may be adjustable and/or height of the frame in relation to the ground may be adjustable. The trailer provides greater flexibility of operation under a greater variety of conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Salford Group Inc.
    Inventors: Geof J. Gray, John Mark Averink, Jacobus A. Rozendaal, Bradley William Baker, Chad Derek Pasma
  • Publication number: 20170313414
    Abstract: A rod end of an actuator assembly is disclosed. The rod end may comprise a rod piston end having an outer profile, and a rod joint end opposite the rod piston end, wherein the outer profile comprises an elliptical shape comprising a major diameter and a minor diameter, wherein the major diameter may be larger than the minor diameter in length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bradley William Baird
  • Publication number: 20170311406
    Abstract: Systems and methods for illuminating and tracking a work area (21) is provided. Systems can include at least one lamp (14) to couple to an object, the at least one lamp (14, 24) to illuminate the work area (21), and a height module (50), the height module (50) in communication with the at least one lamp (14, 24) to provide an indication of a height of the work area. Methods can include the steps of determining a height data of the movable portion of the vehicle to be illuminated; communicating the determined height data of the movable portion to a stationary lamp (14, 24), the lamp including a microprocessor and plurality of light sources (20), each light source (20) controllable to illuminate an area at a predetermined height; and illuminating at least one of the plurality of light sources to correspond to the determined height data to illuminate the movable portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: CHARISSA QUINLAN, BRADLEY WILLIAM KAY
  • Patent number: 9751692
    Abstract: A trashcan assembly can include a body portion, a lid portion pivotably coupled with the body portion, and a sensor assembly configured to generate a signal when an object is detected within a sensing region. The sensor assembly can include a plurality of transmitters having a first subset of transmitters and a second subset of transmitters. A transmission axis of least one transmitter in the first subset of transmitters can be different from a transmission axis of at least one of the transmitters in the second subset of transmitters. An electronic processor can generate an electronic signal to a power-operated drive mechanism for moving the lid portion from a closed position to an open position when the sensor assembly detects the object within the sensing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: simplehuman, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Kenneth Yen, Guy Cohen, Frederick N. Bushroe, Perry Anderson, Michael James Basha, Christopher B. Fruhauf, Azhar Meyer, Bradley William Steiner, Brian Y. Tachibana, Jesse Dethman
  • Publication number: 20170182222
    Abstract: Implants including non-resorbable frameworks and resorbable components, as well as methods of use thereof are disclosed. The embodiments include different combinations of a non-resorbable framework (in some case structural and in other cases non-structural), and a resorbable component embedded within and/or around the framework (again, in some cases structural and in other cases non-structural). The disclosed implants provide an efficient means of providing structural support for the vertebral bodies post-implantation, as well as encouraging resorption of the implant and fusion of the associated vertebral bodies without negative side effects and/or failure, such as subsidence of the implant or cracking/fracturing of a portion of the implant when implanted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Bradley William Paddock, Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Adam Laurance Wollowick, Oliver Buchert, Matthew B. Havener, Robert Cipoletti, Steven Willis, Marc Gilles Long
  • Publication number: 20170139215
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) may comprise an adjustable crown band, a crown band circumference adjusting mechanism coupled to the adjustable crown band and configured to adjust a crown band circumference to releasably secure the crown band to the user's crown, an armature including left and right arms, each of the left and right arms mounted at a respective proximal end to corresponding left and right HMD attachment structures, a display mounted at left and right sides to respective distal ends of the left and right arms, and an eye relief distance adjustment mechanism configured to move the left and right arms in a timed manner toward and away from the crown band along a substantially linear path, to thereby adjust an eye relief distance from the display to an eye of a the user when the crown band is fitted on the crown of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Errol Mark Tazbaz, Roy Joseph Riccomini, Andrew Bert Hodge, Bradley William Steiner, Michael James Basha, Azhar K. Meyer, Zoltan Laszlo, Christopher Bramley Fruhauf, Perry Q. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20170129392
    Abstract: A light assembly and method for steering a vehicle headlight illumination pattern. In one aspect, a method includes providing a processor programmed to perform the steps of: illuminating a subset of consecutive LEDs in the line including LEDs associated with the first and second edge illumination fields; as the direction of the vehicle wheels changes: (i) fading the LED associated with one of the first and second illumination fields off while simultaneously fading the LED associated with the other of the first and second illumination fields on thereby changing the illumination pattern; and (ii) repeating step (i) so that the illumination pattern tracks the direction of the vehicle wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: BRADLEY WILLIAM KAY, KEVIN JAY MCWITHEY
  • Patent number: 9623794
    Abstract: Systems and methods for illuminating and tracking a work area is provided. Systems can include at least one lamp to couple to an object, the at least one lamp to illuminate the work area, and a height module, the height module in communication with the at least one lamp to provide an indication of a height of the work area. Methods can include the steps of determining a height data of the movable portion of the vehicle to be illuminated; communicating the determined height data of the movable portion to a stationary lamp, the lamp including a microprocessor and plurality of light sources, each light source controllable to illuminate an area at a predetermined height; and illuminating at least one of the plurality of light sources to correspond to the determined height data to illuminate the movable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: J.W. Speaker Corporation
    Inventors: Charissa Quinlan, Bradley William Kay
  • Patent number: 9591188
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a method for designing cascaded bit sequences for cascaded digital displays. The method avoids unwanted interactions between cascaded sequences in cascaded digital displays. By using sequences with a particular structure, cascaded sequences can be designed such that no sequence is affected by the others. The following rules must be followed in constructing the sequence. First, the display devices must be frame-locked, so that the timing relationship between the sequences is maintained throughout each frame. Second, for each display device, the ratio of bit plane weights must remain constant, regardless of the pixel data displayed on the other display device(s). Third, the amount of bit plane skew must remain constant, regardless of the pixel data displayed on the other display device(s). Fourth, bit plane phased leakage must be compensated for or avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: BASS ROOTS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley William Walker
  • Publication number: 20170043822
    Abstract: A trailer has a frame having frame-members configured to support a container, at least a pair of traction devices rotatably mounted on the frame, and a tongue configured to be mounted on a transportation device or an implement being towed by a transportation device. The frame-members may have a three-point mount configured to support a container. The container may be configured to be interchangeable with another container. The container may be an element of a seeding apparatus, the seeding apparatus mountable on the frame-members of the frame. The trailer may have a steering mechanism for the traction devices, and may be convertible between steerable and non-steerable modes. The steering mechanism may be guidance controlled. A transverse distance between the traction devices may be adjustable and/or height of the frame in relation to the ground may be adjustable. The trailer provides greater flexibility of operation under a greater variety of conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Salford Group Inc.
    Inventors: Geof J. Gray, John Mark Averink, Jacobus A. Rozendaal, Bradley William Baker, Chad Derek Pasma
  • Patent number: 9557569
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) may comprise an adjustable crown band, a crown band circumference adjusting mechanism coupled to the adjustable crown band and configured to adjust a crown band circumference to releasably secure the crown band to the user's crown, an armature including left and right arms, each of the left and right arms mounted at a respective proximal end to corresponding left and right HMD attachment structures, a display mounted at left and right sides to respective distal ends of the left and right arms, and an eye relief distance adjustment mechanism configured to move the left and right arms in a timed manner toward and away from the crown band along a substantially linear path, to thereby adjust an eye relief distance from the display to an eye of a the user when the crown band is fitted on the crown of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Errol Mark Tazbaz, Roy Joseph Riccomini, Andrew Bert Hodge, Bradley William Steiner, Michael James Basha, Azhar K. Meyer, Zoltan Laszlo, Christopher Bramley Fruhauf, Perry Q. Anderson
  • Patent number: 9520066
    Abstract: A routing tool is disclosed. The routing tool is configured to determine a landing site for an aircraft by receiving flight data. The routing tool identifies at least one landing site proximate to a flight path and generates a spanning tree between the landing site and the flight path. According to some embodiments, the landing sites are determined in real-time during flight. Additionally, the landing sites may be determined at the aircraft or at a remote system or device in communication with the aircraft. In some embodiments, the routing tool generates one or more spanning trees before flight. The spanning trees may be based upon a flight plan, and may be stored in a data storage device. Methods and computer readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Charles B. Spinelli, Bradley William Offer, Alan Eugene Bruce, Robert Lusardi, Steven Furman Cuspard
  • Patent number: D791397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: J.W. SPEAKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dragoslav Popovic, Bradley William Kay, Eric Deering
  • Patent number: D798893
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Nicholas V. King, Stephen O. Lemay, Hoan K. Pham, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: D803238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Chanaka Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Daamun Mohseni, Hoan K. Pham, William McMillan Tyler, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes