Patents by Inventor Bruce Williams

Bruce 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: 11813153
    Abstract: Feminine hygiene articles are disclosed herein. The feminine hygiene articles described herein can provide easily discernable placement and orientation guides which reduce the likelihood of misapplication by the user, facilitated attachment guides which can reduce the likelihood of misapplication of the feminine pad and can also reduce the likelihood of improper attachment of the feminine pad to a panty. The feminine hygiene articles disclosed include wings which can provide cues on proper attachment of the article to the panty, and wing adhesive distributed in a way which can provide sustained coverage of the feminine hygiene article to the panty which reduces the likelihood that the pad will become detached during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Henning Vohwinkel, Wolfgang Domeier, Rainer Hefele, Bruce William Lavash, Holger Wendt
  • Patent number: 11793298
    Abstract: A hair brush with an array of bristles (4). Each bristle extends from a base to a free end. Some or all of the bristles have relatively wide first portion, towards the base of the bristle, and a relatively narrow second portion, towards the free end of the bristle. The bristles are arranged in offset rows and centre lines of the rows are spaced apart such that at least part of the first portion of bristles in one row extends between adjacent bristles in an adjacent row and/or, when viewed perpendicular to the rows, the width of the first portion of the bristles in one row is, over part of their length, the same or greater than the space between adjacent bristles in an adjacent row so as to partially occlude the space between bristles in an adjacent row. The bristles are sized and arranged so that the first portion of the bristles serves to easily penetrate and divide hair between the bristles and the second portion of the bristles enables tension to be applied to the hair when hair flows between the bristles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Shaun Pulfrey, Cameron Bruce William Treeby
  • Patent number: 11786044
    Abstract: A foundation for a bed system can include an actuator, a deck mechanism operably related to the actuator so as to be actuated between raised and lowered positions in response to actuation by the actuator, and a controller operably connected to the actuator and configured to drive the actuator to actuate the deck mechanism between a lower position and an upper position. The deck mechanism can be configured to move to a service position that is further than the upper position. The deck mechanism can expose and permit access to a serviceable component when the deck mechanism is in the service position. A method of using a foundation having a service position is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sleep Number Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce William Gaunt
  • Publication number: 20230310232
    Abstract: Feminine hygiene articles are disclosed herein. The feminine hygiene articles described herein can provide easily discernable placement and orientation guides which reduce the likelihood of misapplication by the user, facilitated attachment guides which can reduce the likelihood of misapplication of the feminine pad, and can also reduce the likelihood of improper attachment of the feminine pad to a panty. The feminine hygiene articles disclosed include uniquely shaped wings which can provide cues on proper attachment of the article to the panty and may help in providing sustained coverage of the feminine hygiene article to the panty which reduces the likelihood that the pad will become detached during use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Henning Vohwinkel, Wolfgang Domeier, Rainer Hefele, Bruce William Lavash, Holger Wendt
  • Publication number: 20230311723
    Abstract: An infant car seat system includes an infant car seat with an integrated anchor system to conveniently secure the infant car seat to a vehicle seat, without using a detachable vehicle installation base and without using a vehicle seat belt. The anchor system is coupled to the infant car seat at one or more mechanical constraining points positioned based on the center of gravity of the infant car seat and respective anchor points at which the anchor system engages with vehicle lower anchors. The anchor system may be a rigid anchor system or a belted anchor system, and the system may include one or more of a release actuator for a quick disconnect mechanism, an adjustment foot to accommodate different vehicle seats and ensure a tight fit, and/or one or more storage compartments to store parts of the anchor system when unused. Such features render the infant car seat system particularly useful for ride-hailing and ridesharing services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kyle S. Mason, Nathaniel W. Keebler, Curtis Hartenstine, Bruce Williams, Brad Bickley
  • Publication number: 20230285913
    Abstract: Membrane Emulsification Apparatus with Refiner There is described a membrane emulsification apparatus for dispersing a first phase in a second phase, comprising: •a membrane defining a plurality of apertures connecting a first volume on a first side of the membrane to a second volume on a second, different, side of the membrane, the apparatus being arranged to receive a first phase containing a liquid in the first volume and to receive a second phase in the second volume the apparatus being adapted to generate an emulsion through egression of the first phase into the second phase via the plurality of apertures; •the apparatus also comprising a refiner (1) arranged to receive the emulsion from the membrane; and wherein said refiner comprises an inlet (4/5) and an outlet (5/4) wherein an opening (8) adapted to converge flow of the emulsion and to break up droplets of the emulsion into a refined emulsion is located between the inlet and the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: MICROPORE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Sam Trotter, Bruce Williams
  • Patent number: 11757703
    Abstract: A database service may distribute resources across different geographic locations or other infrastructures to increase availability of the resources and may provide multiple locations to access resources and isolate failure of resources to a respective location or infrastructure. The processing resources in differing fault tolerance zones may be able to continue operating in the event of an outage impacting an entire fault tolerance zone. The database service may generate a supporting processing cluster in the differing fault tolerance zone that handles at least a portion of the access requests of an initial processing cluster. The database service may provision the supporting processing cluster in a separate fault tolerance zone that has a similar capacity and may provision and maintain the cluster in order to preclude the potential of not having sufficient capacity to recover upon failure of a single fault tolerance zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Ray Hotinger, Kathiravan Kalimuthu, Arvind Jayasundar, Chao Duan, Ippokratis Pandis, Hitenkumar Sonani, Davide Pagano, Yousuf Hussain Syed Mohammad, Bruce William McGaughy, Bin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11752046
    Abstract: The absorbent article includes a topsheet having a body contacting surface, a backsheet joined to said topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the absorbent core has a first absorbent core having a first area and a second area, wherein the first absorbent core and the second absorbent core are vertically arranged, wherein the second absorbent core at least partially covers the second area of the first absorbent core, and wherein the first absorbent core and the second absorbent core have different compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Miguel Alvaro Robles, Bruce William Lavash, Sion Agami, John Lee Hammons
  • Patent number: 11744747
    Abstract: An absorbent article. The absorbent article includes a topsheet having a body contacting surface, a backsheet joined to said topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the absorbent core has an upper layer and a lower layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Miguel Alvaro Robles, Bruce William Lavash, Sion Agami
  • Publication number: 20230270603
    Abstract: Feminine hygiene articles are disclosed herein. The feminine hygiene articles described herein can provide easily discernable placement and orientation guides which reduce the likelihood of misapplication by the user, facilitated attachment guides which can reduce the likelihood of misapplication of the feminine pad and can also reduce the likelihood of improper attachment of the feminine pad to a panty. The feminine hygiene articles disclosed include uniquely shaped wings which can provide cues on proper attachment of the article to the panty, and may help in providing sustained coverage of the feminine hygiene article to the panty which reduces the likelihood that the pad will become detached during use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Henning Vohwinkel, Wolfgang Domeier, Rainer Hefele, Bruce William Lavash, Holger Wendt
  • Patent number: 11743271
    Abstract: A cyber security system includes a plurality of event sensors to detect events, a plurality of inference servers, and a server in communication with the plurality of inference servers. Each inference server of the plurality is in communication with a subset of event sensors of the plurality of event sensors. Each inference server has a portion of an event lattice and is to compare the event detected by the subset of event sensors to the event lattice. Each inference server is to identify an originator having a behavior pattern indicative of an attack and communicating an identifier associated with the originator. The server is to provide an interface indicating the behavior pattern indicative of an attack and the identifier of the originator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: COMPUTED FUTURE, INC
    Inventors: Frederick Johannes Venter, Jayendra Pathak, Bruce William Watson
  • Publication number: 20230242017
    Abstract: An infant car seat system includes an infant car seat with an integrated anchor system to conveniently secure the infant car seat to a vehicle seat, without using a detachable vehicle installation base and without using a vehicle seat belt. The anchor system is coupled to the infant car seat at one or more mechanical constraining points positioned based on the center of gravity of the infant car seat and respective anchor points at which the anchor system engages with vehicle lower anchors. The anchor system may be a rigid anchor system or a belted anchor system, and the system may include one or more of a release actuator for a quick disconnect mechanism, an adjustment foot to accommodate different vehicle seats and ensure a tight fit, and/or one or more storage compartments to store parts of the anchor system when unused. Such features render the infant car seat system particularly useful for ride-hailing and ridesharing services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Kyle S. Mason, Nathaniel W. Keebler, Curtis Hartenstine, Bruce Williams, Brad Bickley
  • Patent number: 11684525
    Abstract: Feminine hygiene articles are disclosed herein. The feminine hygiene articles described herein can provide easily discernable placement and orientation guides which reduce the likelihood of misapplication by the user, facilitated attachment guides which can reduce the likelihood of misapplication of the feminine pad, and can also reduce the likelihood of improper attachment of the feminine pad to a panty. The feminine hygiene articles disclosed include uniquely shaped wings which can provide cues on proper attachment of the article to the panty and may help in providing sustained coverage of the feminine hygiene article to the panty which reduces the likelihood that the pad will become detached during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Henning Vohwinkel, Wolfgang Domeier, Rainer Hefele, Bruce William Lavash, Holger Wendt
  • Patent number: 11684524
    Abstract: Feminine hygiene articles are disclosed herein. The feminine hygiene articles described herein can provide easily discernable placement and orientation guides which reduce the likelihood of misapplication by the user, facilitated attachment guides which can reduce the likelihood of misapplication of the feminine pad and can also reduce the likelihood of improper attachment of the feminine pad to a panty. The feminine hygiene articles disclosed include uniquely shaped wings which can provide cues on proper attachment of the article to the panty, and may help in providing sustained coverage of the feminine hygiene article to the panty which reduces the likelihood that the pad will become detached during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Henning Vohwinkel, Wolfgang Domeier, Rainer Hefele, Bruce William Lavash, Holger Wendt
  • Publication number: 20230169048
    Abstract: Idle periods may be for management actions at processing clusters for managed databases. A leader node of a processing cluster for a managed database may monitor a network endpoint at a proxy service associated with a database managed by the database service. An idle period for the database may be detected. A management action for the processing cluster may be determined to be performed during the detected idle period. The leader node may cause the determined management action to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ippokratis Pandis, Eric Ray Hotinger, Bruce William McGaughy, Naresh Chainani, Neeraja Rentachintala, Zhixing Ma, Pulkit Jagdishchandra Bhavsar, Chao Duan, William Michael McCreedy, Pavel Sokolov, Sanjay Wangoo
  • Patent number: 11661351
    Abstract: A structuring assembly for structuring water in a water treatment system. The structuring assembly comprising a body portion, a tubular first layer defining an interior channel for passage of water, a plurality of structuring bodies positioned in the channel and a dampening layer positioned about the first tubular layer. In application in the water treatment system, as water passes through the channel and over the structuring bodies, dissolved oxygen content of the water is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Wilton Water Solutions LLC
    Inventors: George Peter Klug, Bruce William Quast, William Russel Parker
  • Patent number: 11628746
    Abstract: A ground service system for an electric aircraft is disclosed. The system includes a charging module configured to charge a battery of an electric aircraft. The charging module includes a charging cable electrically connected to an energy source. The system includes a cooling module configured to regulate a temperature of the battery. The cooling module includes a cooling cable configured to carry a coolant. The system also includes a cabin soak module configured to provide a cabin soak coolant to a cabin of the electric aircraft. The cabin soak module includes a cabin soak cable configured to carry a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Jake Pill, Cole William Hanson, Edward Hall, Richard Donnelly, James Whitehill, Bruce Williams
  • Patent number: 11618353
    Abstract: An infant car seat system includes an infant car seat with an integrated anchor system to conveniently secure the infant car seat to a vehicle seat, without using a detachable vehicle installation base and without using a vehicle seat belt. The anchor system is coupled to the infant car seat at one or more mechanical constraining points positioned based on the center of gravity of the infant car seat and respective anchor points at which the anchor system engages with vehicle lower anchors. The anchor system may be a rigid anchor system or a belted anchor system, and the system may include one or more of a release actuator for a quick disconnect mechanism, an adjustment foot to accommodate different vehicle seats and ensure a tight fit, and/or one or more storage compartments to store parts of the anchor system when unused. Such features render the infant car seat system particularly useful for ride-hailing and ridesharing services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: WONDERLAND SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Kyle S. Mason, Nathaniel W. Keebler, Curtis Hartenstine, Bruce Williams, Brad Bickley
  • Patent number: 11614334
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing the collection and delivery of goods using mobile computing devices included a management system hosted on a server receiving a request from a first user through an application on a computing device for a pick-up of an item from a first location. A second user capable of fulfilling the pick-up request is identified. Details of the pick-up request are transmitted to an application on a second user computing device, wherein a visual map of the first location is displayed on the user computing device. At least one time-stamped, geo-located photograph of the item is uploaded to the application of the second user computing device. Delivery of the item to a second location is validated through at least one code identifier, wherein the code identifier is transmitted from the management system to the first user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: PUT CORP.
    Inventors: Bruce Williams, Caroline Kost Kamp
  • Publication number: 20230029251
    Abstract: A system for detecting Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on one or more user profiles collects a number of invalid sign-on attempts on the one or more user profiles during every time interval. The system determines a number of invalid sign-on attempts on every user profile since the start of the first time interval. The system detects a first DoS attack on a particular user profile if a first number of invalid sign-on attempts on the particular user profile exceeds a single-user profile. The system detects a second DoS attack on multiple user profiles during the first time interval if the increase in the total number of invalid sign-on attempts since the last time interval exceeds a scan-level threshold number. The system detects a third DoS attack on multiple user profiles if the total number of invalid sign-on attempts detected during combined time intervals exceeds a third threshold number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Xiao Jun Zhang, Neetika Singh, Jesse Deping Meng, Robert Bruce Williams, Joshua Samuel Drucker, Cynthia Diane Dieterich