Patents by Inventor Emily Williams

Emily 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: 11983010
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicle test trips are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes obtaining, by a computing system, data indicative of a test trip index associated with an autonomous vehicle. The test trip index includes a plurality of test trips for the autonomous vehicle and each test trip is associated with one or more test trip parameters. The method includes obtaining, by the computing system, data indicating that the autonomous vehicle is available to travel in accordance with at least one of the test trips of the test trip index. The method includes selecting, by the computing system and from the test trip index, at least one selected test trip for the autonomous vehicle. The method includes causing, by the computing system, the autonomous vehicle to travel in accordance with the test trip parameters associated with the at least one selected test trip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Sunil Kumar Garg, Todd William Sifleet, Venkata Sathya Praveen Gorthy, Lili Kan, Emily Anna Weslosky
  • Publication number: 20240108347
    Abstract: Surgical staplers and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical stapler includes a tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a handle extending from the proximal end of the tubular shaft, a head assembly extending from the distal end of the tubular shaft, and an insertion guide configured to extend through the head assembly. The insertion guide includes an expandable member configured to move between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration and a camera configured to be positioned at least partially within the expandable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: James S. Franklin, SR., Emily Williams, Christian Sorensen, John Tipton, Jason Weiss
  • Publication number: 20240103184
    Abstract: A method for global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based navigation may include retrieving terrain data for a geographical region and satellite orbit data for a GNSS comprising a plurality of satellites. Then, for of a plurality of time steps in a time period and for each of a plurality of lateral positions in the geographic region, a minimum height at which each satellite is visible from the lateral position at the time step may be determined. Unique combinations of satellites visible from the lateral position at the time step may be identified and error objects indicating GNSS performance quality corresponding to the unique combination of satellites may be generated. Performance quality information may be produced based on the one or more unique combinations of satellites and the respective one or more error objects. At least one aircraft may be operated based on this performance quality information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: The MITRE Corporation, NASA Langley Research Center
    Inventors: Arthur K. SCHOLZ, Emily V. Bates, Kenneth William Schmitt, Evan Tyler Dill, Julian Gutierrez
  • Publication number: 20240076123
    Abstract: A sanitary product disposal container includes a container housing having a movable housing top cover. A cover hinge assembly allows the top cover to pivot between open and closed positions. Accordingly, a used feminine hygiene product may be placed in the interior space of the container housing in the open position of the housing top cover while minimizing touching the container housing to open the housing top cover. The housing may be selectively opened to facilitate removal of the used feminine hygiene products from the interior space all without exposure to the used products or the escape of unpleasant odors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Richard R. Bing, Megan Kathryn Helms, David Steven Mesko, Emily Yeager, Pil Ho Chung, Joshua Meador, Marco Perry, Brooke Williams
  • Publication number: 20240037469
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to managing interactions between disparate resource types to complete tasks in an organization. For example, a method described herein can include identifying a task for achieving a task result, with task resources combining to complete the task including, communication resources, worker resources, and computer hardware resources. The method can further include mapping interactions between ones of the task resources to the task result. Further, the method can include, based on analyzing the interactions, allocate, for another task, additional interactions between selected ones of the task resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kelly Dowd, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt, Prateek Baranwal, Ni An, Emily Williams
  • Publication number: 20240037007
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to allocating a resource to perform a task based on a predicted capacity of the resource. For example, a method described herein can include identifying a selected capacity associated with completion of tasks of a particular task type. Further, the method can include, evaluating a result of work by a worker resource performing a task of the particular task type. The method can further include, based on the result, predicting that the worker resource has the selected capacity and, based on this prediction, assign the worker resource to perform another task of the particular task type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Ni An, Prateek Baranwal, Kelly Dowd, James Pratt, Emily Williams
  • Publication number: 20240013104
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to automated optimization of events by engagement and format. According to one aspect disclosed herein, an event management system can create an event for a specified topic based upon input provided, at least in part, by an event creator. The input can identify initial event content, a plurality of event attendees, a location for the event, and an event presenter. The event management system can receive a selection of a desired audience for the event. The event management system can accept the initial event content to be presented during the event and can determine a time for the event. The event management system can perform engagement sampling during the event. The event management system can utilize the selection, the time, and the engagement sampling to optimize the event. The event management system can determine a follow-up action to be performed after the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Emily Williams, Ni An, Prateek Baranwal, Kelly Dowd, James Pratt, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20230402128
    Abstract: A system and method of selecting genes for a gene panel, includes retrieving gene-disease associations of genes associated with diseases at a given level in the disease hierarchy from a disease association database. The disease association database stores disease information, gene information, phenotype information, associations between diseases in the disease hierarchy, gene-disease associations and strength parameters related to the gene-disease associations. For each gene associated with the diseases at the given level, the strength parameters are weighted and combined to determine a rank score for the each gene. The genes are ranked based on the rank scores to provide ranked gene information. The ranked gene information is linked with diseases at the higher levels of the disease hierarchy based on hierarchical relationships. The ranked gene information for gene-disease associations can be used to select genes for a gene panel design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Corina SHTIR, Yuan TIAN, Emily WILLIAMS, Yun ZHU
  • Patent number: 11800186
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining image information via a communication network from equipment of a video producer; analyzing the image information to identify video content segments, to detect one or more objects, and/or to determine a tonality of at least one of the video content segments; obtaining preferences regarding editing the video content segments; editing the video content segments in accordance with the preferences using an algorithm executing on a processing system; generating an edited video based on the editing; providing the edited video to equipment of audience members, generating success metrics for the edited video; and modifying the algorithm in accordance with the success metrics. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Emily Williams, James H. Pratt
  • Publication number: 20230005125
    Abstract: A computer vision-based system may assist in wire installation. The system may use computer vision techniques to assess the quality of service wire installations. The system may generate text descriptions of the image of service installation work, assessing the quality of the work to facilitate searching and summarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ni An, Michael Charo, Hector Tejada, Kaijuan Xing, Emily Williams, Prateek Baranwal
  • Publication number: 20220335933
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system loads into cloud storage items of information for potential delivery to a customer, and receives a customer inquiry that includes text, audio, and/or image data. The system generates input for a natural language processing (NLP) model. The input corresponds to the customer inquiry, and the generating comprises converting a format of the customer inquiry to a text format, using a cloud service. The system also analyzes the input using the NLP model, to predict a set of items of information to be included in a customer solution; the items of information are associated with identifying codes. The system also performs searching, using the identifying codes, the cloud storage to retrieve the predicted items of information, resulting in a customer solution for delivery to equipment of the customer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yunmiao Wang, Kaijuan Xing, Emily Williams, Martin Patrick McEnroe
  • Publication number: 20210391053
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a computing system, at least one health metric associated with a patient; receiving, at the computing system, information from a patient computing device corresponding to a meal box fulfillment method; categorizing the patient into a nutritional needs category based, at least in part, on the at least one health metric, the nutritional needs category being defined by nutritional criteria; determining a list of meals meeting the nutritional criteria of the nutritional needs category; providing the list of meals to the patient computing device; receiving, at the computing system, information from the patient computing device corresponding to selected meals from the list of meals; and based, at least in part, on receiving information corresponding to the selected meals, providing the information corresponding to the selected meals to a meal box fulfillment center computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew DePalo, Emily Williams
  • Publication number: 20210219978
    Abstract: Surgical staplers and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical stapler includes a tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a handle extending from the proximal end of the tubular shaft, a head assembly extending from the distal end of the tubular shaft, and an insertion guide configured to extend through the head assembly. The insertion guide includes an expandable member configured to move between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration and a camera configured to be positioned at least partially within the expandable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: James S. Franklin, Sr., Emily Williams, Christian Sorensen, John Tipton, Jason Weis
  • Publication number: 20180171559
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to coated substrates including a substrate having first and second major surfaces and a compostable coating disposed on at least one of the first and second major surfaces of the substrate. The substrate includes a cellulosic material. The compostable coating includes at least one compostable polymer and a dispersant and may disposed on the substrate at a coat weight less than about 20 grams per square meter. The coated substrate has a grease resistance ranging from about 4 to about 12 as measured in accordance with the TAPPI 559 kit test. In some embodiments, the compostable coating is formed from an aqueous dispersion of the compostable polymer and the dispersant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Jesse Hipps, SR., Frederick L. Stokes, Emily Williams, Patrick Joseph Conrad
  • Publication number: 20170351807
    Abstract: A system and method of selecting genes for a gene panel, includes retrieving gene-disease associations of genes associated with diseases at a given level in the disease hierarchy from a disease association database. The disease association database stores disease information, gene information, phenotype information, associations between diseases in the disease hierarchy, gene-disease associations and strength parameters related to the gene-disease associations. For each gene associated with the diseases at the given level, the strength parameters are weighted and combined to determine a rank score for the each gene. The genes are ranked based on the rank scores to provide ranked gene information. The ranked gene information is linked with diseases at the higher levels of the disease hierarchy based on hierarchical relationships. The ranked gene information for gene-disease associations can be used to select genes for a gene panel design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Corina Shtir, Yuan Tian, Emily Williams, Yun Zhu
  • Patent number: 8361409
    Abstract: A system for disinfecting and purifying aqueous solutions and water for drinking purposes comprising an outer pouch, a disinfectant generating device, and an inorganic coagulant. The disinfectant generating device is provided with a membrane shell defining at least two compartments which house a first reactant, a second reactant, and an inorganic coagulant. The disinfectant generating device is capable of producing a disinfectant when exposed to water or moisture and the disinfectant exits the compartment through the membrane shell. The inorganic coagulant aid the formation of flocs of the suspended dispersed particles in the aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Odorstar Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Bernardo N. Rico, James Liang-Hiong Chia, Margaret Emily Williams
  • Publication number: 20090142235
    Abstract: A system for disinfecting and purifying aqueous solutions and water for drinking purposes comprising an outer pouch, a disinfectant generating device, and an inorganic coagulant. The disinfectant generating device is provided with a membrane shell defining at least two compartments which house a first reactant, a second reactant, and an inorganic coagulant. The disinfectant generating device is capable of producing a disinfectant when exposed to water or moisture and the disinfectant exits the compartment through the membrane shell. The inorganic coagulant aid the formation of flocs of the suspended dispersed particles in the aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: AVANTEC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bernardo N. Rico, James Liang-Hiong Chia, Margaret Emily Williams