Patents by Inventor David Darrell Williams

David Darrell 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).

  • Mass spectrometer
    Patent number: 10553413
    Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
  • Mass spectrometer data acquisition
    Patent number: 10403486
    Abstract: A data acquisition system for a TOF mass spectrometer comprises a processing module and a data collection module. The processing module generates a stream of data comprising, for each respective transient of a first scan, a set of time-intensity related parameter pairs. For each new set of data, the data collection module reads out a previous set of data from a previous memory bank, merges that previous set of data with the new set of data, and writes that latest merged set of data into a memory bank other than the previous memory bank. The data acquisition system provides a convenient way to merge sequential sets of time-intensity related parameter pairs for respective transients as a stream of data for a first scan is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Garry Michael Scott, David Darrell Williams, Peter Gerard Spreadbury, Martin Raymond Green, Anthony James Gilbert, Keith George Richardson, Jason Lee Wildgoose
  • MASS SPECTROMETER
    Publication number: 20180308673
    Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
  • Mass spectrometer
    Patent number: 9953814
    Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
  • Mass Spectrometer
    Publication number: 20170148615
    Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
  • Mass Spectrometer Data Acquisition
    Publication number: 20170053786
    Abstract: A data acquisition system for a TOF mass spectrometer comprises a processing module and a data collection module. The processing module generates a stream of data comprising, for each respective transient of a first scan, a set of time-intensity related parameter pairs. For each new set of data, the data collection module reads out a previous set of data from a previous memory bank, merges that previous set of data with the new set of data, and writes that latest merged set of data into a memory bank other than the previous memory bank. The data acquisition system provides a convenient way to merge sequential sets of time-intensity related parameter pairs for respective transients as a stream of data for a first scan is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Garry Michael Scott, David Darrell Williams, Peter Gerard Spreadbury, Martin Raymond Green, Anthony James Gilbert, Keith George Richardson, Jason Lee Wildgoose
  • Mass spectrometer
    Patent number: 9412570
    Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny