Patents by Inventor Lewis Williams
Lewis 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).
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Patent number: 11944368Abstract: A bipolar surgical instrument comprises a body, first and second opposed jaws located at the distal end of a shaft, the first jaw being movable with respect to the second jaw between an open position in which the first and second jaws are spaced apart from one another, and a closed position in which the first and second jaws are adjacent one another. The first and second elongate jaw members have respective first and second electrodes. A controller is operable to detect a short circuit between the first and second electrodes when in use.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GYRUS MEDICAL LIMITEDInventors: Wayne Williams, Lewis Jones
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Patent number: 11932161Abstract: A novel securing device includes a frame having an anchor, a tether coupled to the anchor, and an attachment device coupled to the frame. The attachment device is configured to facilitate selective attachment to a planar surface. In a particular embodiment, the attachment device is a magnetic attachment device. Optionally, the magnetic attachment device is encased between the frame and a cover that prevents scratching of the planar surface to which the device is secured. In another particular embodiment, the attachment device is a suction cup. The magnetic attachment device and the suction cup may be interchangeable.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventor: Lewis William James, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240043638Abstract: Multilayer composites laminates comprising continuous fibers and a polymer matrix including a thermoplastic polymer and an impact modifier are disclosed. The invention further relates to articles incorporating the thermoplastic composites laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicants: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS USA, LLC, Cytec Industies, Inc.Inventors: Glenn P. Desio, Lewis Williams
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Patent number: 11871823Abstract: A novel thermally insulated enclosure includes an insulated wall and a magnet assembly coupled thereto for mounting the insulated enclosure to ferromagnetic structures. In a particular embodiment, the magnet assembly includes a plurality of magnets coupled to the insulated wall. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnetic device that can be connected and disconnected from the insulated enclosure. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnet carrier that can be incorporated into the structure of the insulated enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventor: Lewis William James, Jr.
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Publication number: 20230073434Abstract: A novel securing device includes a frame having an anchor, a tether coupled to the anchor, and an attachment device coupled to the frame. The attachment device is configured to facilitate selective attachment to a planar surface. In a particular embodiment, the attachment device is a magnetic attachment device. Optionally, the magnetic attachment device is encased between the frame and a cover that prevents scratching of the planar surface to which the device is secured. In another particular embodiment, the attachment device is a suction cup. The magnetic attachment device and the suction cup may be interchangeable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventor: Lewis William James, JR.
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Patent number: 11314916Abstract: An effective spacing is calculated for each physical spacing between two or more neighbor nets of a target net. Segment boundaries are determined based on the calculated effective spacing to define segments for the target net and one of the segments is selected. A metal configuration for the selected segment is identified and a table of capacitance per-unit-length is accessed for the identified metal configuration to return an above capacitance value, a below capacitance value, a left-side capacitance value, and a right-side capacitance value for the corresponding segment, the table comprising at least a two-dimensional (2D) table. The capacitance values are scaled based on a corresponding segment length determined from the calculated effective spacing. The selecting, identifying, accessing and scaling operations are repeated for each remaining segment of the target net. Optionally, the above, below, left, and right capacitance values for all segments of the target net are summed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David J. Widiger, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Lewis William Dewey, III, Susan Elizabeth Cellier, Ronald Dennis Rose
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Publication number: 20220035983Abstract: An effective spacing is calculated for each physical spacing between two or more neighbor nets of a target net. Segment boundaries are determined based on the calculated effective spacing to define segments for the target net and one of the segments is selected. A metal configuration for the selected segment is identified and a table of capacitance per-unit-length is accessed for the identified metal configuration to return an above capacitance value, a below capacitance value, a left-side capacitance value, and a right-side capacitance value for the corresponding segment, the table comprising at least a two-dimensional (2D) table. The capacitance values are scaled based on a corresponding segment length determined from the calculated effective spacing. The selecting, identifying, accessing and scaling operations are repeated for each remaining segment of the target net. Optionally, the above, below, left, and right capacitance values for all segments of the target net are summed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: David J. Widiger, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Lewis William Dewey, III, Susan Elizabeth Cellier, Ronald Dennis Rose
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Patent number: 11176308Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a target wiring layer, a first adjacent wiring layer above the target wiring layer, and a second adjacent wiring layer below the target wiring layer. Each adjacent wiring layer including crossing wires orthogonal to the target wiring layer. Modify a putative design of the integrated circuit by selecting a target wire; identifying lateral neighbors of the target wire; defining regions of the target wire where the lateral neighbors are homogeneous in cross-section; for each region of the target wire, calculating a wire pattern for the crossing wires; identifying segments within above and below portions of the wire pattern; for each above and below segment pair, obtaining a per-unit-length capacitance from a reduced pattern database; extracting a total parasitic capacitance from the per-unit-length pattern capacitances; and in response to an assessment of the impact of the total parasitic capacitance on circuit performance, producing a modified design.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David J. Widiger, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Susan Elizabeth Cellier, Lewis William Dewey, III, Ronald Dennis Rose
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Patent number: 11167684Abstract: A novel securing device includes a frame having an anchor, a tether coupled to the anchor, and an attachment device coupled to the frame. The attachment device is configured to facilitate selective attachment to a planar surface. In a particular embodiment, the attachment device is a magnetic attachment device. Optionally, the magnetic attachment device is encased between the frame and a cover that prevents scratching of the planar surface to which the device is secured. In another particular embodiment, the attachment device is a suction cup. The magnetic attachment device and the suction cup may be interchangeable.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Inventor: Lewis William James, Jr.
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Patent number: 11074632Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed for compiling a virtual transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes acquiring, using at least one visual sensor, first image information including a person. The method further includes identifying the at least one person from the first image information by classifying the person into a class. The method also includes acquiring second image information including the person and an item. The method further includes identifying a behavior of the person relative to the item, and updating, based on the identified behavior, the virtual transaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings CorporationInventors: John David Landers, Jr., Dean Frederick Herring, Brad Matthew Johnson, Ankit Singh, Bobby Lewis Williams, Jr., David John Steiner, Phuc Ky Do, Neil Andrew Girard, Michael Schaefer, Erin Kendall Dorshorst, Craig Walton Turner
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Publication number: 20210047460Abstract: The present invention relates to rapid-curing resin formulations as well as fiber-reinforced composite materials comprising the same and their use in the manufacture of molded articles, particularly where the manufacturing process requires high throughput and where resin formulations having consistent handling characteristics (e.g., tack and flexibility) would be preferable across normal to elevated laminating environments (as defined by temperatures between 20° C. and 60° C.). The present invention further relates to a manufacturing process for preparing an article, particularly a molded article, from a fiber-reinforced composite material comprising a rapid-curing resin formulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Andrew GIBBS, Lewis WILLIAMS, Stephen CORDEN
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Publication number: 20190159564Abstract: A novel thermally insulated enclosure includes an insulated wall and a magnet assembly coupled thereto for mounting the insulated enclosure to ferromagnetic structures. In a particular embodiment, the magnet assembly includes a plurality of magnets coupled to the insulated wall. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnetic device that can be connected and disconnected from the insulated enclosure. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnet carrier that can be incorporated into the structure of the insulated enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventor: Lewis William James, JR.
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Patent number: 10279980Abstract: A novel thermally insulated enclosure includes an insulated wall and a magnet assembly coupled thereto for mounting the insulated enclosure to ferromagnetic structures. In a particular embodiment, the magnet assembly includes a plurality of magnets coupled to the insulated wall. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnetic device that can be connected and disconnected from the insulated enclosure. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnet carrier that can be incorporated into the structure of the insulated enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Inventor: Lewis William James, Jr.
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Patent number: 10221005Abstract: A novel thermally insulated enclosure includes an insulated wall and a magnet assembly coupled thereto for mounting the insulated enclosure to ferromagnetic structures. In a particular embodiment, the magnet assembly includes a plurality of magnets coupled to the insulated wall. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnetic device that can be connected and disconnected from the insulated enclosure. In another particular embodiment, the magnet assembly is a removable magnet carrier that can be incorporated into the structure of the insulated enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Lewis William James, Jr.
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Patent number: 9932126Abstract: System and method of integrity checking digitally displayed data in a display system having a display comprising a pixel array with a viewable area, including rendering a known value into a QR code graphic, generating an image onto the display including drawing the QR code graphic in the viewable area of the pixel array, monitoring the generated image for the drawn QR code graphic and determining the integrity of the drawn graphical information.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITEDInventor: Lewis William Catton
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Patent number: 9892551Abstract: The avionics display system is for displaying a scene in an aircraft cockpit. The avionics display system includes a central processing unit CPU, a graphics processing unit GPU operably coupled to the CPU, and a display. The GPU comprises at least one vertex shader, and the CPU is configured to provide vertex data representing at least one graphics primitive to the at least one vertex shader and to call the at least one vertex shader in order to render the at least one graphics primitive, representing at least a part of the scene, into a frame buffer. The display is operably coupled to the frame buffer and displays the scene. The system architecture of the avionics display system simplifies the coding process for the developer and also speeds up image processing in comparison to conventional systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITEDInventor: Lewis William Catton
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Publication number: 20170308942Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed for compiling a virtual transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes acquiring, using at least one visual sensor, first image information including a person. The method further includes identifying the at least one person from the first image information by classifying the person into a class. The method also includes acquiring second image information including the person and an item. The method further includes identifying a behavior of the person relative to the item, and updating, based on the identified behavior, the virtual transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: John David LANDERS, JR., Dean Frederick HERRING, Brad Matthew JOHNSON, Ankit SINGH, Bobby Lewis WILLIAMS, JR., David John STEINER, Phuc Ky DO, Neil Andrew GIRARD, Michael SCHAEFER, Erin Kendall DORSHORST, Craig Walton TURNER
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Patent number: 9618213Abstract: A cooking oven with an air diffuser disposed in the oven cavity to diffuse circulating air prior to entering an air inlet to a fan. The oven cavity comprises a wall with the air inlet aligned with the fan that draws the circulating air from the oven cavity. The air diffuser is installed in front of the wall and diffuses the circulating air evenly across food in the oven cavity and into the fan return without reducing an overall mass flow rate of the air.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: MANITOWOC FOODSERVICE COMPANIES, LLCInventors: Philip John Radford, Lewis William James Bannochie, Matthew David Underwood
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Publication number: 20160292914Abstract: The avionics display system is for displaying a scene in an aircraft cockpit. The avionics display system includes a central processing unit CPU, a graphics processing unit GPU operably coupled to the CPU, and a display. The GPU comprises at least one vertex shader, and the CPU is configured to provide vertex data representing at least one graphics primitive to the at least one vertex shader and to call the at least one vertex shader in order to render the at least one graphics primitive, representing at least a part of the scene, into a frame buffer. The display is operably coupled to the frame buffer and displays the scene. The system architecture of the avionics display system simplifies the coding process for the developer and also speeds up image processing in comparison to conventional systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Lewis William CATTON
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Publication number: 20160185463Abstract: System and method of integrity checking digitally displayed data in a display system having a display comprising a pixel array with a viewable area, including rendering a known value into a QR code graphic, generating an image onto the display including drawing the QR code graphic in the viewable area of the pixel array, monitoring the generated image for the drawn QR code graphic and determining the integrity of the drawn graphical information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventor: Lewis William CATTON