Patents by Inventor Daniel A. Williams

Daniel A. 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).

  • Publication number: 20230241168
    Abstract: Provided herein are immunomodulatory proteins that exhibit neutralizing activity of BAFF and APRIL (or BAFF/APRIL heterotrimers) alone, or also coupled with inhibition of T cell costimulation. The immunomodulatory proteins provided herein include variant domains of B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) alone, or multi-domain immunomodulatory protein that inhibit B cell responses and also can inhibit T cell costimulation. Also provided are nucleic acids molecules encoding the immunomodulatory proteins. The immunomodulatory proteins provide therapeutic utility for a variety of immunological diseases or conditions. Also provided are compositions and methods for making and using such proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Stacey DILLON, Mark RIXON, Lawrence EVANS, Daniel William DEMONTE, Joseph L. KUIJPER, Stanford L. PENG, Ryan SWANSON
  • Publication number: 20230227092
    Abstract: A child transport carrier includes a lower frame, an upper frame, a rear frame, and a first upper seat support. The lower frame includes a first end and a second end. The upper frame includes a first end and a second end. The rear frame extends from the second end of the lower frame to the second end of the upper frame. The first upper seat support includes a cross-member extending transversely across the first upper seat support and having a first end and a second end. The cross-member is configured to move the first upper seat support between a first seat position and a second seat position. The upper frame extends from an upper end of the rear frame and the lower frame extends from a lower end of the rear frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel William BRITTON, Matthew STENGLER, Paramjit SINGH
  • Publication number: 20230219501
    Abstract: A backup camera system includes a housing configured to be mounted to a back of a trailer at a location of a center marker light of the trailer and having a rear surface offset from and facing away from the trailer, a camera at the housing and configured to capture a rear view of the trailer, a first light at a center of the rear surface of the housing, a second light at the rear surface of the housing and offset from the first light, and a controller within the housing and configured to selectively couple the first light or the second light to a wiring of the center marker light of the trailer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Reid, Daniel William Forthoffer, Peter John Pless
  • Publication number: 20230220039
    Abstract: Provided herein are immunomodulatory proteins comprising variant PD-L1 and nucleic acids encoding such proteins. The immunomodulatory proteins provide therapeutic utility for a variety of immunological and oncological conditions. Compositions and methods for making and using such proteins are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan SWANSON, Michael KORNACKER, Mark F. MAURER, Dan ARDOUREL, Daniel William DEMONTE, Joseph L. KUJIPER
  • Publication number: 20230211638
    Abstract: A harness tracking system includes a main body, a first connector at a first end of the main body and including a plurality of terminals configured to transmit electrical signals, a plurality of wires at a second end of the main body opposite the first end, the plurality of wires being electrically connected to the plurality of terminals of the first connector, and a tracking circuit embedded within the main body and configured to track a position of the harness tracking system and to communicate the position to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel William Forthoffer, Thomas Dale Peterson
  • Publication number: 20230213330
    Abstract: A video measurement system for measuring a test object comprising an imaging system comprising an imager having an imaging pupil, the imager arranged for viewing at least a portion of a silhouette of the test object by receiving light transmitted by the test object over a first angular extent; and an illumination system comprising (i) an illumination source; (ii) output having a second angular extent in object space that is larger than the first angular extent received by the imaging pupil; and (iii) a substrate arranged to diffuse light from the illumination source, the substrate having an axial centerline and a light obscuration element, wherein the light obscuration element is at least approximately coaxial to the axial centerline of the substrate, and wherein the pupils of the illumination and imaging systems are in at least approximately conjugate image planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Daniel Williams
  • Publication number: 20230206511
    Abstract: Mechanisms for generating compressed images are provided. More particularly, methods, systems, and media for capturing, reconstructing, compressing, and rendering view-dependent immersive light field video with a layered mesh representation are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Ryan Overbeck, Michael Joseph Broxton, John Flynn, Daniel William Erickson, Lars Peter Johannes Hedman, Matthew Nowicki DuVall, Jason Angelo Dourgarian, Jessica Lynn Busch, Matthew Stephen Whalen, Paul Debevec
  • Publication number: 20230207121
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and processes are disclosed herein relating to the collection, transmission, and/or use of physiological condition information (e.g., blood glucose information) for a remote healthcare determination. One embodiment includes a physiological condition information system. This system embodiment includes a physiological condition management device and a remote server. The physiological condition management device can be at a first location (e.g., accompanying a patient at the first location) and the remote server can be at a second location that is different from the first location. The physiological condition management device and remote server can be in data communication over a transmission link. The physiological condition management device is configured to collect physiological condition information associated with the patient and send this information over the transmission link to the remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: LONNY STORMO, DANIEL WILLIAM DAVIS, CURTIS JEROME CHRISTENSEN, JENNIFER E. ENGLUND, TIMOTHY BALDER
  • Publication number: 20230191082
    Abstract: A medical device, which may be adapted for delivering and/or recapturing an implantable implant, includes an elongate sheath and a rigid member that is secured relative to the elongate sheath. The elongate sheath includes an inner polymeric liner, an outer polymeric sheath and a reinforcing braid that extends within the outer polymeric sheath. The reinforcing braid includes a plurality of wire ends that extend beyond a distal edge of the rigid member in order to protect the implantable implant from being damaged by the rigid member in the event that the inner polymeric liner becomes damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel William Pasche, Austin Farrell Ost, Daniel James Viola
  • Patent number: 11680554
    Abstract: A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Brian Lee Moffat, Daniel William Place
  • Publication number: 20230167798
    Abstract: A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Brian Lee Moffat, Daniel William Place
  • Publication number: 20230169822
    Abstract: Systems and methods for use in providing a random reward associated with at least one game are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, by a gaming server, data representative of gaming activity of a player of the at least one game, providing, by the gaming server, a code associated with the random reward, wherein the code is representative of an entry to win the random reward, receiving, by the gaming server, data representative of a text message including the code, determining whether the player won the random reward based on the received code, and providing a notification indicating whether the player won the random reward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher John Thacker, Daniel William Milligan
  • Publication number: 20230157803
    Abstract: An embolic protection system may include a delivery catheter, a core wire slidably disposed within a lumen of the delivery catheter, an expandable support frame, and a filter element coupled to the expandable support frame. The filter element is a material configured to allow blood flow therethrough while blocking a passage of embolic debris. The embolic protection device may be positioned within the ascending aorta with a distal end located between the aortic valve and the coronary arteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel William Pasche
  • Publication number: 20230154274
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a base, a columnar pedestal extending vertically from the base, and a button deck adjustably coupled to the pedestal. The button deck includes an upper surface including a transparent touchscreen element, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and a button deck body extending therebetween. At least one of the lower surface and the body include one or more transparent display elements, the one or more transparent display elements are configured to generate images of gaming machine control actuators viewable on the upper surface. The transparent touchscreen element is configured to receive touches and gestures indicating control inputs. The gaming machine also includes a player tracking card reader positioned within the button deck and accessible through a slot in a front edge of the button deck, the player tracking card reader communicatively coupled to a player tracking display area of the gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: William Douglas Lamb, Daniel William Rice, Victor Brent McClearen, Charles Stanley Curbbun, Arvin Grande Abadilla, Matthew Kranz, Julian Groeli, Blake Chuanlun Wang, Jin Chen, William John Leach
  • Publication number: 20230141862
    Abstract: A patient monitoring system includes a camera that selectively delivers a video feed to a monitoring station. A processor evaluates the video feed, and converts the video feed into a plurality of data points for an elopement detection system. The plurality of data points correspond at least to a combination of facial features and components of clothing for each person within the video feed. The processor is further configured to associate the combination of facial features and the components of clothing for each person to define a confirmed association, to identify whether the person is a patient or a non-patient, to verify the confirmed association of the patient by comparing updated data points from the video feed with the confirmed association, and to activate an alert when the confirmed association of the patient is unverified based upon a comparison with the updated data points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: AvaSure, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Eadelman, Adam Jamison Whitmore, James Zampa, Daniel William Michaels, Scott Priolo
  • Patent number: 11646868
    Abstract: An autonomous driving controller includes a plurality of parallel processors operating on common input data received from the plurality of autonomous driving sensors. Each of the plurality of parallel processors includes communication circuitry, a general processor, a security processor subsystem (SCS), and a safety subsystem (SMS). The communication circuitry supports communications between the plurality of parallel processors, including inter-processor communications between the general processors of the plurality of parallel processors, communications between the SCSs of the plurality of parallel processors using SCS cryptography, and communications between the SMSs of the plurality of parallel processors using SMS cryptography, the SMS cryptography differing from the SCS cryptography. The SCS and/or the SMS may each include dedicated hardware and/or memory to support the communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Thaddeus Fortenberry, Samuel Douglas Crowder, Patryk Kaminski, Daniel William Bailey, David Glasco
  • Patent number: 11644882
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system and method for predicting network power usage associated with workloads. During operation, the system configures a simulator to simulate operations of a plurality of network components, which comprises embedding one or more event counters in each simulated network component. A respective event counter is configured to count a number of network-power-related events. The system collects, based on values of the event counters, network-power-related performance data associated with one or more sample workloads applied to the simulator; and trains a machine-learning model with the collected network-power-related performance data and characteristics of the sample workloads as training data 1, thereby facilitating prediction of network-power-related performance associated with a to-be-evaluated workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Harumi Kuno, Alan Davis, Torsten Wilde, Daniel William Dauwe, Duncan Roweth, Ryan Dean Menhusen, Sergey Serebryakov, John L. Byrne, Vipin Kumar Kukkala, Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti
  • Publication number: 20230135212
    Abstract: Systems and methods are configured for correcting the orientation of an image data object subject to optical character recognition (OCR) by receiving an original image data object, generating initial machine readable text for the original image data object via OCR, generating an initial quality score for the initial machine readable text via machine-learning models, determining whether the initial quality score satisfies quality criteria, upon determining that the initial quality score does not satisfy the quality criteria, generating a plurality of rotated image data objects each comprising the original image data object rotated to a different rotational position, generating a rotated machine readable text data object for each of the plurality of rotated image data objects and generating a rotated quality score for each of the plurality of rotated machine readable text data objects, and determining that one of the plurality of rotated quality scores satisfies the quality criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Rahul BHASKAR, Daryl Seiichi FURUYAMA, Daniel William JAMES
  • Patent number: 11640733
    Abstract: A vehicular autonomous driving system includes a fault prediction unit, including a processor and memory, configured to predict a potential future fault condition by: monitoring performance data associated with the plurality of autonomous driving components; comparing the performance data associated with the plurality of autonomous driving components to a plurality of performance thresholds; and determining the potential future fault condition for one of the plurality of autonomous driving components, when the performance data associated with the one of the plurality of autonomous driving components compares unfavorably to a corresponding one of the plurality of performance thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Atchyuth Gorti, David Glasco, Daniel William Bailey
  • Patent number: D988760
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FiGPiN Collect Awesome, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Williams, Amado Batour, Erik Haldi