Patents by Inventor Colin J. Williams

Colin J. 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: 12003800
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine headphone adjustment for portable people meter listening to encoded audio streams are disclosed. An example system disclosed herein includes meter data analyzer circuitry to determine an audience estimate for streaming media based on media data measured by a media meter, the media meter to measure the streaming media based on an identification of the streaming media in ambient audio collected by a microphone of the media meter, and data analyzer circuitry to calculate at least one headphone adjustment factor based on a first determined proportion of an audience that listens to streaming media via headphones and a second determined proportion of the audience that listens to streaming media without headphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kelly Dixon, Francis C. Fasinski, Robin J. Gentry, Edward Murphy, Jacob Martin, Colin King, Emily Neuhoff, Katherine T. Williams, Christopher Heider, Rachel Szabo, Khaldoon Abu-Hakmeh
  • Patent number: 4183294
    Abstract: A stone fruit cutting apparatus for slicing apricots, this apparatus having a pair of substantially vertical belts defining a channel to guide and carry the fruit therealong to the cutting position. The cutter comprises a pair of vertical disc cutters displaced one above the other to give an upper and lower cutter, so that during cutting the fruit is supported by the belts and rotated to produce a cut around its circumference to the depth of the stone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1980
    Assignee: J.A. & A.M. Williams Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: James A. Williams, deceased, Colin J. Williams