Patents by Inventor Gregory D. Williams

Gregory D. 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: 11910856
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to an upper-body garment that facilitates upright sleeping. The garment includes an inner hood with a mesh elastic panel that is adapted to be positioned across the wearer's forehead helping to anchor the inner hood on to the wearer's head. The inner hood includes a low stretch or no stretch center panel. The center panel extends from the mesh elastic panel, down the center back of the inner hood, and further extends on to a back aspect of a torso portion of the garment where it forms a center portion of the back of the upper-body garment. Because the center panel has low stretch or no stretch, the wearer's head and neck are held in an upright or generally upright position when the inner hood is donned. The upper-body garment further includes a large volume outer hood positioned external to the inner hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Dickson, Tobie D. Hatfield, Hee Ji, Daniel A. Judelson, Peter P. Williams, II
  • Patent number: 11834918
    Abstract: Systems and methods for proper orientation of the connections of a tubing hanger and a subsea assembly in a wellhead or tree are provided. The alignment is accomplished with the use of an orientation spool adaptor equipped with positional sensors and an orientation helix. Calibration of the positional sensors at the surface allows for orientation with simple vertical deployment. Positional sensors may provide real time data such as location, speed of installation and orientation back to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dril-Quip, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. McLaughlin, Gregory D. Williams, Eleazar Herrera, Morris B. Wade, Todd Scaggs
  • Publication number: 20210238937
    Abstract: Systems and methods for proper orientation of the connections of a tubing hanger and a subsea assembly in a wellhead or tree are provided. The alignment is accomplished with the use of an orientation spool adaptor equipped with positional sensors and an orientation helix. Calibration of the positional sensors at the surface allows for orientation with simple vertical deployment. Positional sensors may provide real time data such as location, speed of installation and orientation back to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel J. McLaughlin, Gregory D. Williams, Eleazar Herrera, Morris B. Wade, Todd Scaggs
  • Publication number: 20110246267
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards methods and systems for attribution of a conversion to an impression via a demand side service executing on one or more servers. The demand side service may match conversion events that occurred within a period of time of advertisements to impressions corresponding to the advertisements. The demand side service may identify a plurality of event records for the conversion events matched to the impressions. The demand side service may match an event of an event record from the plurality of event records corresponding to an advertiser and a user, to a plurality of impressions matched by the demand side service for the advertiser and the user. The demand side service may select an impression from the plurality of impressions with a time stamp less than a time stamp of a conversion event of the event record. The demand side service may further store an attribution of the selected impression with the conversion event of the event record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Gregory D. Williams, Paul M. Mason, Yehuda Ari Buchalter, Leo T. Craig, Roland C. Cozzolino
  • Publication number: 20110246298
    Abstract: The present solution is directed to methods and systems for maintaining anonymity of segment data from a third party provider while performing segment targeting via a demand side platform (DSP). The DSP receives one or more segment identifiers for segment data from a data supplier. The DSP may provide a pixel for segmented targeting of an impression opportunity for an advertisement exchange. The DSP may receive from the data supplier, a tracking agent to associate data collected via the demand side platform with the segment identifier. A bidder of the DSP provides a placement of an advertisement matched to an impression opportunity, the placement including the tracking agent and the pixel. The DSP may receive segment data from the data supplier based on execution of the tracking agent, the segment data corresponding to the segment identifier for the placement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Gregory D. Williams, Leo T. Craig, Joseph M. Zawadzki, Paul M. Mason, Roland G. Cozzolino
  • Patent number: 7284616
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an assembly for installing and selectively retrieving a wear bushing in the bore of a subsea or surface wellhead. The assembly includes a bit sub, which is adapted for attachment to a drill string, a drill string adapter removably coupled to the bit sub, and a wear bushing removably coupled to the drill string adapter and adapted to be recoupled to the drill string adapter for selective retrieval from the bore of the wellhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Dril-Quip, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Williams, Christopher L. Ognoskie, John A. Beleski
  • Patent number: 7090027
    Abstract: A casing hanger support assembly supports an inner casing string within a well containing an outer casing string and a production tubing string. The casing hanger support housing supports the casing hanger in the well, with a casing hanger being secured to an upper end of the inner casing string. One or more of a rupture disk and a blowout plug are provided in a wall of the casing hanger support housing for maintaining the desired pressure differential between an annulus within the outer casing string and an annulus exterior of the outer casing string, thereby preventing casing collapse or burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Dril—Quip, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory D. Williams
  • Patent number: 7028777
    Abstract: A running tool 10, a lockdown sleeve 27, and a seal ring 24 are provided for axially fixing upward movement of a tubular hanger with respect to a subsea wellhead. The running tool 10 includes a tool latching and unlatching mechanism 51 for axially connecting the running tool to the subsea wellhead housing, a tool force applicator 64 for exerting a downward setting force, and a sleeve latching mechanism 73 for securing the lockdown sleeve to the subsea wellhead housing 20. The seal 24 is provided between the lockdown sleeve and one of the tubular hanger and the wellhead housing. The method of the invention includes running the tool and sleeve in open water to the subsea wellhead housing, locking the tool to the housing, setting the seal, locking the sleeve to the housing, then retrieving the tool in open water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Dril-Quip, Inc.
    Inventors: Morris B. Wade, Gregory D. Williams, Lionel J. Milberger, Timothy A. Pillow
  • Publication number: 20040238175
    Abstract: A running tool 10, a lockdown sleeve 27, and a seal ring 24 are provided for axially fixing upward movement of a tubular hanger with respect to a subsea wellhead. The running tool 10 includes a tool latching and unlatching mechanism 51 for axially connecting the running tool to the subsea wellhead housing, a tool force applicator 64 for exerting a downward setting force, and a sleeve latching mechanism 73 for securing the lockdown sleeve to the subsea wellhead housing 20. The seal 24 is provided between the lockdown sleeve and one of the tubular hanger and the wellhead housing. The method of the invention includes running the tool and sleeve in open water to the subsea wellhead housing, locking the tool to the housing, setting the seal, locking the sleeve to the housing, then retrieving the tool in open water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Morris B. Wade, Gregory D. Williams, Lionel J. Milberger, Timothy A. Pillow
  • Publication number: 20020016118
    Abstract: A laminate is disclosed for high strength, low weight gas enclosure applications such as aerostats or airships. The laminate is formed of at least one woven fabric layer with an aggregate strength greater than 10 grams per denier. The yarns in the fabric have sufficient twist to provide the desired tensile conversion but less than the amount of twist that would produce unsatisfactory flex fatigue. The fabric has a yarn to fabric strength ratio sufficient to impart tear resistance to the fabric, but less than the coarseness ratio at which flex fatigue performance is unsatisfactory, and the fabric has the minimal number of crossing points among the woven yarns that will impart sufficient integrity for the fabric to be manufactured into the laminate. A gas barrier material is then laminated to the fabric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: W. Neal Bebber, Charles A. Howland, Gregory D. Williams
  • Patent number: 5523118
    Abstract: A microporous membrane structure is disclosed that comprises a microporous membrane formed of a synthetic polymer and a substantially continuous porous coating on the membrane. The coating is formed from a urethane-based polymer, and provides a permeable barrier that does not interfere with the function of the membrane, and which will prevent further materials that are applied to or adjacent the membrane from interfering with the function of the membrane when those further materials are applied to the porous coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Rexam Industries Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory D. Williams
  • Patent number: 5447784
    Abstract: A transparent static dissipative adhesive tape is disclosed. The tape comprises a transparent polymer substrate having opposed first and second surfaces, a transparent static dissipative coating on the first surface of the substrate, and a transparent static dissipative adhesive coating on the second surface of the substrate. The adhesive coating comprises a transparent conductive layer on the second surface formed of conductive particles in a polymer matrix, and a transparent adhesive layer without any conductive particles over the conductive layer. The exposed surface of the adhesive layer exhibits conductivity substantially the same as the conductivity of the underlying conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Rexham Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Williams, Leonard Holley, Jeffrey D. Lovelace
  • Patent number: 4986929
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an isocyanate blend having an isocyanate group content of from about 16 to about 25% by weight and consisting essentially of:(A) a modified isocyanate having an isocyanate group content of from about 18 to about 25% by weight and prepared by reacting 1 mole of methylenebis(phenyl isocyanate) with from about 0.1 to about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Mobay Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory D. Williams
  • Patent number: 4902044
    Abstract: There is disclosed a subsea wellhead connector comprised of a lower tubular member mounted on the upper end of a lower wellhead member, and an upper tubular member suspended from an upper wellhead member for lowering into end-to-end connection with the lower tubular member. Locking teeth are formed about the ends of the tubular members, and circumferentially spaced locking segments are carried by the upper tubular member for movement radially into or out of locking engagement with the grooves about the upper and lower tubular members. The locking segments are moved inwardly to locking position by means of a cam ring which surrounds them, and are withdrawn from locking position by spreader dogs carried by the cam ring and extending between the ends of adjacent locking segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Drill-Quip, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. Williams, Larry E. Reimert
  • Patent number: 4897428
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an internal mold release agent, a composition containing the mold release agent, and a method of using such agent. The mold release broadly comprises zinc oleate or zinc laurate and a specific fatty amine derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Mobay Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Dewhurst, Gregory D. Williams, Robert M. Loring