Patents by Inventor Christopher Williams

Christopher 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: 11401766
    Abstract: A versatile flying lead (VHL) termination head system comprises an underwater vehicle interface, an interface plate, a termination frame, and an adjuster, disposed proximate the termination frame's connection end, which is configured to provide a configurable declination angle which sets a hang-off angle of a device connected to the interface plate with respect to the underwater vehicle interface. A subsea termination head may be manufactured and assembled by obtaining a predetermined set of standardized structural building blocks that fit together to form a complete termination frame which is as described herein, using the predetermined set of standardized structural building blocks to construct a subsea termination head from the predetermined set of standardized structural building blocks substantially in parallel and connecting the underwater vehicle interface to the frame at a predetermined angle using the adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Lu, Jason Duncan, Sunil Prakash, Christopher Williams
  • Patent number: 11403379
    Abstract: A keyboard is disclosed. The keyboard may comprise a biometric sensor configured for authenticating a user; a docking station configured for receiving a security device; and a processor configured for facilitating communication between the biometric sensor and the security device docked in the docking station with a computing device coupled to the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Bloomberg Finance L.P.
    Inventors: Helmars E. Ozolins, Masamichi Udagawa, Sean Roarty, Avram Kaufman, Christopher William Zimman, Stanislaw Skowronek, Emmanuel Patychakis
  • Patent number: 11405396
    Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that securely track, manage, and provision elements of interaction data within a computing environment in accordance with encrypted permissioning data recorded onto a permissioned distributed ledger. For example, an apparatus may obtain query data that includes an identifier of a computing system and a query term, and access one or more ledger blocks of a permissioned distributed ledger that include encrypted permissioning data and interaction data. The apparatus may decrypt the encrypted permissioning data using a master cryptographic key of a centralized authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: John Michael Collinson, Christopher William Cooney, Russell Voutour, Marie-Julie Demers, Arun Victor Jagga
  • Publication number: 20220234267
    Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 11395887
    Abstract: A device for delivering a compound to the olfactory region of the nasal cavity includes an actuator body and a tip that removably couples to the actuator body. The actuator body includes a propellant channel in fluid communication with a propellant canister. The tip includes an exit channel, an inlet interface, one or more grooves, and an outlet orifice. The exit channel extends between a proximal end and a distal end of the tip. The inlet interface is positioned about a distal end of the exit channel, and the inlet interface couples to a compound container containing the compound. The grooves are positioned about the inlet interface and direct propellant from the propellant channel into the compound container, thereby agitating and entraining the compound in the compound container with the released propellant. The compound and the propellant then travel through the exit channel and out the outlet orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Frederick Kohring, Christopher William Fuller
  • Publication number: 20220230120
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for remotely managing a cleaning quality for an indoor location being cleaned. The method includes accessing a training dataset including a plurality of plot points and associated signal strengths of a predefined signal received from a fixed network device, where at least one plot point is preselected based on a predefined cleaning attribute associated with a physical spot corresponding to the at least one plot point; receiving the predefined signal at a position in the indoor location from the fixed network device, where the received signal has a second signal strength and the position is determined proximate to the plot point based on the second signal strength and each of the signal strengths; and calculating a cumulative duration spent at the determined position based on a predefined cleaning schedule to assess the cleaning quality for the physical spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Anram Holdings
    Inventors: Prakash Valentino RAMANAND, Manjinder Singh DHILLON, Pratik Jitendrakumar SHAH, Christopher William RAMANAND
  • Publication number: 20220225835
    Abstract: A micro puree machine including a housing, a power shaft, a bowl assembly and a platform. The power shaft extends from the housing. The bowl assembly including at least one locking bowl element. The platform includes at least one complementary locking platform element that is configured to engage the at least one locking bowl element such that rotation of the bowl assembly relative to the platform is prevented at times the bowl assembly is positioned thereon. The platform is rotatable from a first position to a second position relative to the housing such that the platform raises the bowl assembly towards the power shaft during the rotation of the bowl assembly and platform. The raising of the bowl assembly facilitates connection between the power shaft and a blade assembly that is positioned in a lid assembly on the bowl assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Jared James Proulx, Christopher William Hedges, Pierce James Barnard, Ming Li Shi, Xu Sheng Deng
  • Patent number: 11392171
    Abstract: A holder (101) for a mobile electronic device includes a case portion (102), a connection member (107), and a handle (106). The case portion is configured for holding the mobile electronic device. The handle is rotatable about the connection member. The connection member includes a first flange (112) on a first side of the connection member and a second flange (113) on a second side of the connection member opposite the first side of the connection member. The first flange is spaced from the second flange such that a first portion of the handle is held in an axial position relative to the case portion by the combination of and between the first flange and the second flange. The connection member is a single body. An entirety of the connection member is removable from the rest of the holder through the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Speculative Product Design, LLC
    Inventors: Darrick Del Moral, Alan Yu Tung Ng, Ryan Klauer, Christopher William Ledesma, Bryan Hynecek, Logan Price, Sean Ng Pack, Monica Elizabeth Wright
  • Publication number: 20220211154
    Abstract: A wallet kit for a mobile electronic device or a mobile electronic device case. The wallet kit includes a wallet with a housing defined by walls of the housing. A wallet pocket configured to hold a card is formed by the walls. A wallet opening is formed in one of the walls and is configured to accept insertion of the card into the wallet pocket. An elastomeric bumper is arranged inside the wallet pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Speculative Product Design, LLC
    Inventors: Darrick Albert Del Moral, Bryan Lee Hynecek, Eric Lo, Patrick Christian, Christopher William Ledesma
  • Patent number: 11382231
    Abstract: A socket connector assembly for a communication system includes a socket connector having a socket housing holding socket contacts having deflectable spring beams. The socket connector assembly includes a cable assembly coupled to the socket connector having an outer housing holding a paddle card with paddle card contacts interfacing with the separable mating interfaces of the socket contacts. The cable assembly includes cables terminated to the paddle card coupled to corresponding paddle card contacts. The socket connector assembly includes a spring plate coupled to the outer housing secured to the host circuit board to press the cable assembly downward toward the host circuit board to compress the deflectable spring beams of the socket contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K., TE Connectivity Services GmbH
    Inventors: Junya Tsuji, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Christopher William Blackburn
  • Publication number: 20220202252
    Abstract: A bowl assembly for a micro puree machine including an inner beaker and an outer bowl. The inner beaker is configured to receive ingredients and has an exterior bottom surface that includes a beaker alignment feature. The outer bowl is configured to receive the inner beaker therein. The outer bowl includes an interior bottom surface that includes a bowl alignment feature and an exterior bottom surface that includes a bowl securing element. The beaker alignment feature of the inner beaker exterior bottom surface is complementary to the bowl alignment feature of the outer bowl interior bottom surface such that, at times the inner beaker is positioned in the outer bowl, the complementary bowl alignment feature and inner beaker alignment feature prevent rotation of the inner beaker relative to the outer bowl. The bowl securing element is configured to receive and attach to a platform of a micro puree machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Jared James Proulx, Christopher William Hedges, Pierce James Barnard, Ming Li Shi, Xu Sheng Deng
  • Patent number: 11371918
    Abstract: In mass spectrometry significant error is introduced during sample preparation (sample-to-sample error), during ion generation (ion suppression), and during ion transmission (ion transmission losses). We demonstrate the ability to correct for ion suppression and ion transmission losses, and that once corrected for ion losses, a sample-to-sample normalization of the analytical sample to the internal standard is possible. By normalizing to a standard sample the analytical sample becomes completely comparable to any similarly treated sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Iroa Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher William Ward Beecher, Felice de Jong
  • Patent number: 11370918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to relates to a method of producing an improved asphalt. This method includes providing an asphalt binder and providing a compound of formula (I): as described herein. The asphalt binder is mixed with the compound of formula (I) under conditions effective to produce an improved asphalt. Also disclosed are an asphalt product and a method of making asphalt material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald Christopher Williams, Joseph H. Podolsky, Nacu Hernandez, Eric W. Cochran, Austin Hohmann, Mohamed Elkashef
  • Publication number: 20220196926
    Abstract: An optoelectronic assembly includes an optical module assembly including a fiber optic connector and an optical engine on an optical engine substrate. The fiber optic connector has a ferrule holding optical fibers optically coupled to the optical engine. The optical engine substrate includes a contact array of optical engine contacts at a bottom of the optical engine substrate. The optical module assembly includes a heat transfer element thermally coupled to the optical engine. The optical module assembly includes a backshell configured to be coupled to a circuit board. The backshell holds the heat transfer element in thermal contact with the optical engine. The optoelectronic assembly includes an interposer assembly electrically connected to the contact array of optical engine contacts having compressible interposer contacts with separable mating interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
  • Publication number: 20220196692
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a modular transport plane with a plurality of transport module units, each transport module unit comprising an actuator assembly with a back iron, and with an infrastructure system arranged below the transport module units and supporting the transport module units on a floor, characterized in that the transport module units are floatingly connected to the infrastructure system to allow a relative horizontal movement between the transport module units and the infrastructure system, wherein neighboring transport module units are connected via the back irons for a horizontal force transmission between neighboring transport module units in response to a relative horizontal movement between neighboring transport module units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher William Bates, Thomas Martin
  • Publication number: 20220187435
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods for distributed signal processing of indoor localization signals wherein statistical algorithms and machine learning are used in place of a fingerprint map. The disclosure relates to calculation of angle and distance based on measurements of an indoor localization signal, followed by energy-efficient distribution of signal processing. Local signal processing is performed using any of multiple eigen structure algorithms or a linear probabilistic inference, before cloud-based signal processing is performed using a nonlinear probabilistic inference and machine learning that's been trained with historical data transmitted by the base stations and time-of-day location patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Jon Siann, Christopher Williams
  • Patent number: 11360276
    Abstract: An optoelectronic assembly includes an optical module assembly including a fiber optic connector and an optical engine on an optical engine substrate. The fiber optic connector has a ferrule holding optical fibers optically coupled to the optical engine. The optical engine substrate includes a contact array of optical engine contacts at a bottom of the optical engine substrate. The optical module assembly includes a heat transfer element thermally coupled to the optical engine. The optical module assembly includes a backshell configured to be coupled to a circuit board. The backshell holds the heat transfer element in thermal contact with the optical engine. The optoelectronic assembly includes an interposer assembly electrically connected to the contact array of optical engine contacts having compressible interposer contacts with separable mating interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
  • Patent number: 11361566
    Abstract: In an aspect, a method includes: receiving, via a communications module and from a computing device, a signal comprising image data representing a first document; automatically analyzing text in the first document based on stored classification data to identify a first parameter from the text in the first document; comparing the first parameter to a second parameter, the second parameter being obtained from a data store and being associated with a second document; determining annotation data based on the comparison, the annotation data determined based on the first parameter and the second parameter; and providing a signal that includes an instruction to cause the annotation data to be overlaid on a display of the computing device, the instruction including marker data identifying a location associated with the first document and influencing a location of the annotation in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: John Michael Collinson, Christopher William Cooney, Russell Voutour, Marie-Julie Demers, Arun Victor Jagga, John Jong-Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 11353590
    Abstract: A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may have an effective field of view created by individual sensors with overlapping fields of view. The sensor pod system may include sensors of different types and modalities. Sensor pods of the sensor pod system may be modularly installed on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle and collect and provide data of the environment during operation of the vehicle. A combination of techniques may be used to calibrate a sensor pod prior to installation in the vehicle and may be used to determine if the sensor pod is compatible with other sensor pods and may also be used to calibrate other sensors when integrating the sensor pod into the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Adams, Daniel Glenn Johnson, Christopher William Labadie, Ryan McMichael, Daniel Miller, Peter Thomas Mitros, Anubhav Thakur, Joseph Patrick Warga, Austin In-Jei Yi
  • Patent number: D958536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Speculative Product Design, LLC
    Inventors: Darrick Del Moral, Scott Hunter Goard, Christopher William Ledesma, Bryan Lee Hynecek, Monica Elizabeth Wright