Patents by Inventor Kevin Williams

Kevin 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: 11936981
    Abstract: Security systems and methods. In one example, a method includes operating a camera in a first mode, based on detection of an alarm condition at a location of the camera, adjusting the camera from the first mode to a second mode, including increasing a sensitivity setting of at least one sensor of the camera, and disabling use of object detection within the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary William Rose, Kevin Klemm
  • Patent number: 11934413
    Abstract: A system, processes, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided method includes receiving a search query including one or more of a textual phrase, a document, or data including metadata from a user. For example, a processor may execute a theme-generating machine learning algorithm to generate a theme of the search query. Profiles of other users are identified as similar to a profile of the user may be located. A search history of each of the located other users may be located in the collected search history. Content in the searchable content that corresponds to the generated theme of the search query and according to a result of the evaluation of the located search history of each of the other users may be obtained. The obtained content may be scored based on a scoring algorithm and output a set of scored search results to the input/output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Piper Alexandra Coble, Natalie Kuhn, Paul Cho, Ryan M. Parker, Sergey Petrunin, Gary B. Williams, Eric Campbell, Lin Ni Lisa Cheng, Matthew Kevin Sullivan, Chris Demchalk
  • Publication number: 20240085148
    Abstract: The bear spray holster with sound alarm is intended to prevent bear attacks on humans. The holster includes a cylindrical body for securing an aerosol canister and a portable alarm. In addition, the holster includes a pull strap that is configured to connect the canister to the detachable pull ring on the portable alarm. By securing both ends of the pull strap, the portable alarm activates when the canister is removed from the cylindrical body. During a bear encounter, the user can easily remove the canister from the holster and activate the portable alarm, all in one motion. Although bears typically hold their breath during a short-range charge or assault, the sound of the alarm disrupts the bear's breathing pattern. This disruption gives the user the best opportunity to spray in the direction of the bear, causing the bear to inhale more of the chemical repellant and retreat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin William Ernst, Jordan Carter
  • Patent number: 11928953
    Abstract: A garage door opener system includes a garage door opener having one or more sensors configured to monitor the status of a garage door as it moves between first and second positions. The garage door opener system may detect one or more anomalies in a profile generated from information from the one or more sensors and alert a user to the presence of those anomalies. The garage door opener system may allow a user to find and contact a service provider to address the one or more anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Residential Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett Lovejoy, David P. Bresson, Vickie Lents, Mark Caterino, Jason Williams, Kevin C. Kraus
  • Patent number: 11927762
    Abstract: A display system comprising a steerable display having a monocular field of view of at least 1 degree, positioned within a scannable field of view of at least 20 degrees, the steerable display positioned for a user. In one embodiment, the steerable display is positioned for the user's fovea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Andrew John Gross, Christopher David Westra, D. Scott Dewald, Edward Chia Ning Tang, Joseph Roger Battelle, Kevin William King, Warren Cornelius Welch, III, Eric Richard David Frasch, David A. Henderson, Qin Xu
  • Patent number: 11918748
    Abstract: A respiratory assistance apparatus has a gases inlet configured to receive a supply of gases, a blower unit configured to generate a pressurised gases stream from the supply of gases; a humidification unit configured to heat and humidify the pressurised gases stream; and a gases outlet for the heated and humidified gases stream. A flow path for the gases stream extends through the respiratory device from the gases inlet through the blower unit and humidification unit to the gases outlet. A sensor assembly is provided in the flow path before the humidification unit. The sensor assembly has an ultrasound gas composition sensor system for sensing one or more gas concentrations within the gases stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Dean Antony Barker, Mikael Douglas Stewart, Peter Geoffrey Hawkins, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Russel William Burgess
  • Patent number: 11921821
    Abstract: A system and method is described for labelling data for trigger identification. The system and method comprising receiving data, transforming the data, extracting content from the data, processing data content through a classification machine learning model to receive a label, and trigger a secondary system based on the label. The system and method may further include maintaining a database of labeled data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TRUIST BANK
    Inventors: Brian Franklin Kramer, Kevin Green, Kenneth William Cluff, Rinku Saha
  • Publication number: 20240067078
    Abstract: A lamp body to be releasably coupled to a mounting surface. The lamp body comprises a mount post and a cantilevered lock. The mount post is configured to be received in a mounting hole in the mounting surface, where the mount post is configured to slide between a releasing portion of the mounting hole and a locking portion of the mounting hole. The cantilevered lock is configured to releasably engage with a stop on the mounting surface when the mount post slides into the locking portion of the mounting hole to retain the mount post within the locking portion of the mounting hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Koyle, Patrick Condon, Mark Williams, Timothy Chadderdon, Jeffrey Leverton, Mark Pruss
  • Patent number: 11907902
    Abstract: A pharmacy kit is managed by defining multiple rules for determining whether a segment of a pharmacy kit is satisfactorily stocked, selecting at least one rule among the multiple rules according to a kit stocking contingency, an prompting a user to stock the segment of the pharmacy kit according to the selected at least one rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Bluesight, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin William MacDonald, David Mario Pedra, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Christian Lee Doyle, Eric Brody
  • Patent number: 11894014
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for audio-visual speech separation. A method includes: obtaining, for each frame in a stream of frames from a video in which faces of one or more speakers have been detected, a respective per-frame face embedding of the face of each speaker; processing, for each speaker, the per-frame face embeddings of the face of the speaker to generate visual features for the face of the speaker; obtaining a spectrogram of an audio soundtrack for the video; processing the spectrogram to generate an audio embedding for the audio soundtrack; combining the visual features for the one or more speakers and the audio embedding for the audio soundtrack to generate an audio-visual embedding for the video; determining a respective spectrogram mask for each of the one or more speakers; and determining a respective isolated speech spectrogram for each speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Inbar Mosseri, Michael Rubinstein, Ariel Ephrat, William Freeman, Oran Lang, Kevin William Wilson, Tali Dekel, Avinatan Hassidim
  • Publication number: 20240039009
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a depassivating circuit includes a battery, a resistive load coupled to the battery, and a magnetic field sensor. The magnetic field sensor detects a presence of a magnetic field. The magnetic field sensor depassivates the battery by causing current from the battery to flow through the resistive load, in response to the presence of the magnetic field. The magnetic field sensor detects removal of the magnetic field. The magnetic field sensor ends depassivation of the battery, in response to the removal of the magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin William Holcomb, Auman Kwok Lee
  • Patent number: 11884288
    Abstract: A method for classifying a weight of a vehicle includes determining a system enablement state of the vehicle load detection and classification system, monitoring a vehicle weight, determining a change in the vehicle weight, comparing the change in the vehicle weight to a first predefined weight change threshold, and categorizing the change in the vehicle weight in response to determining that the change in the vehicle weight exceeds the first predefined weight change threshold. The method also includes determining if a weight has been left in the vehicle after key-off and determining if a weight has been placed in a cargo compartment of the vehicle which exceeds the weight rating of the cargo compartment. The method also includes optimizing a route to a destination based at least on the change in the vehicle weight and displaying the optimized route to the destination using a human machine interface of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Dhruv Patel, Joseph F. Szczerba, Abbas Mohammed, Kevin William Rypstra
  • Publication number: 20240027771
    Abstract: A display system comprising a foveal display having a monocular field of view of at least 1 degree is positioned within a scannable field of view of at least 20 degrees, the foveal display positioned for a user. In one embodiment, the foveal display is positioned for the user's fovea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Andrew John Gross, Edward Chia Ning Tang, D. Scott Dewald, Joseph Roger Battelle, Kevin William King, Warren Cornelius Welch, III
  • Publication number: 20240020856
    Abstract: A system for processing video of a sporting activity is disclosed. The system comprises: a plurality of portable electronic devices, each of which comprises at least one camera for capturing video of the sporting activity; and one or more aggregated data processing devices. Each portable electronic device is configured to: generate, using its camera(s), video data representative of the sporting activity; perform processing of the video data to generate video analysis data; and transfer the video analysis data to the aggregated data processing device(s). The aggregated data processing device(s) are configured to perform processing of the video analysis data, so as to generate activity analysis data. Apparatus for holding a portable electronic device is also disclosed, which comprises a housing, within which the portable electronic device can be mounted and enclosed, and an active cooling system for cooling the portable electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin William KING, Rajiv Tharmeswaran MAHESWARAN, Tracey Chui Ping HO, Yu-Han CHANG, Alexa Chen Lan CHANG, Jeffrey Wayne SU
  • Patent number: 11873588
    Abstract: A woven geotextile fabric utilizes a plurality of yarns including machine direction field yarns, cross machine direction field yarns, machine direction rib yarns, and cross machine direction rib yarns. The plurality of yarns is integrally woven together. The machine direction rib yarns and the cross machine direction rib yarns cooperatively define an integrated geotextile grid integrally within the woven geotextile fabric. The machine direction field yarns and the cross machine direction field yarns cooperatively define fabric areas in a field of the integrated geotextile grid generally between the machine direction rib yarns and the cross machine direction rib yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Willacoochee Industrial Fabrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin William Ray, Eric Lee Booth
  • Publication number: 20240010541
    Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and related equipment are provided, comprising: delivering a molten material into a forming and sizing assembly, processing the molten glass via the at least one pair of forming and sizing rollers to form a glass ribbon having a width and a thickness; imparting, at least one pinch region into the cross-sectional thickness of the glass ribbon to provide a pinched glass ribbon, rolling a pressure roller over the pinched glass ribbon on the sequentially spaced mold surfaces to impart a characteristic into the pinched glass ribbon to form a glass ribbon product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Douglas Dale Bressler, David Alan Deneka, William Edward Lock, Joel Andrew Schultes, Thomas Matthew Sonner, Kevin William Uhlig
  • Publication number: 20230398557
    Abstract: In a decanting three-phase centrifuge, the position of the paring disc within a paring pump chamber defined by a rotatable bowl is radially adjustable to provide a cut point between a heavy fluid phase and a light fluid phase of a slurry and thereby separate the two phases. At least one sensor senses a fluid parameter of the separated heavy fluid phase and/or the separated light fluid phase and outputs a fluid parameter signal representative of the sensed fluid parameter. The control unit is programmed to, on the fly; receive the fluid parameter signal; determine from the received fluid parameter signal whether the cut point is to be adjusted; and if the cut point is to be adjusted, automatically drive the actuator to radially adjust the paring disc and thereby reset the cut point on the fly while the centrifuge is operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Kevin William BELL
  • Publication number: 20230402146
    Abstract: Methods and systems relate to providing varying levels of detail about a pharmacy item to a patient information system based on the capabilities of the patient information system. An intercept device can receive an identifier associated with a pharmacy item based on a scanner reading a computer-readable code. The intercept device can recognize or determine the storage capabilities or limitations of the patient information system, for example by determining various medication data fields that the patient information system uses to store pharmacy item information. The intercept device can use the machine readable code to obtain pharmacy item information that is compatible with the patient information system based on those storage capabilities or limitations and can distribute that pharmacy item information to the patient information system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Kevin William MacDonald, Nicholas Bastien Petersen
  • Patent number: 11825875
    Abstract: A container for storing and transporting elongated objects, such as smoker's articles, or other small objects, which container has a container lid or closure and a container receptacle. The container lid is mounted on the receptacle for pivoting movement relative thereto and is openable to provide full access to the interior of the container and the object stored therein, and is closable to prevent access thereto. The container incorporates a child-resistant opening mechanism, and a seal which cooperates between the container lid and the receptacle in the closed position of the container lid to prevent odors from escaping the container interior, to preserve freshness of objects stored in the interior of the container and/or to seal the container interior from moisture or other contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GREEN WORLD PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Gene Lafler, Jr., Michael Richard Shane Vandenbosch, Matthew John Wheelright, Steve Allen Shoemaker, Kevin William Murphy
  • Patent number: D1016853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Gary Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Nathan De Vries, Christopher Foss, Aled Williams, Christopher Wilson