Patents by Inventor Mark A. Williams

Mark A. 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).

  • Publication number: 20240147631
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for making and using highly sustainable circuit assemblies are disclosed herein. In various aspects, the highly sustainable circuit assembly includes a substrate layer; and a pattern of contact points supported by the substrate layer. The pattern of contact points can be configured to correspond to at least one terminal of an electrical component. The pattern of contact points can include a deformable conductive material. The deformable conductive material can be a non-hazardous, readily reclaimable, readily recyclable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Liquid Wire, LLC
    Inventors: Jorge E. Carbo, JR., Sai Srinivas Desabathina, Michael Adventure Hopkins, Charles J. Kinzel, Mark S. Kruskopf, Jesse Michael Martinez, Katherine M. Nelson, Taylor V. Neumann, Trevor Antonio Rivera, Mark William Ronay, Michael Jasper Wallans, Austin Michael Clarke
  • Publication number: 20240143382
    Abstract: An example virtualized computing system includes: a host cluster having hosts and a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of the hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs); an orchestration control plane integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server executing in a first VM of the VMs; guest cluster infrastructure software (GCIS) executing in the master server, the GCIS configured to create a set of objects defining a container orchestration cluster, and manage lifecycles of second VMs of the VMs based on state of the set of objects; and guest software executing in the second VMs to implement the container orchestration cluster as a guest cluster of the host cluster, the guest software having components that interface with the GCIS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Zachary James SHEPHERD, Derek William BEARD, George Gregory HICKEN, Mark Russell JOHNSON, Jared Sean ROSOFF, Joseph Stephen BEDA, Konstantinos ROUSSOS
  • Publication number: 20240141574
    Abstract: A washing machine appliance includes a tub and a rotatable basket therein. Methods of operating the washing machine appliance may include, and/or the washing machine appliance may be configured for, measuring a first inertia of a load of articles in the basket by rotating the basket at rotational speeds outside of a resonance speed zone. A water extraction operation is performed after measuring the first inertia of the load of articles. The water extraction operation includes rotating the basket at speeds outside of the resonance speed zone. A second inertia of the load of articles after the water extraction operation is measured by rotating the basket at rotational speeds outside of the resonance speed zone. A load type of the load of articles is determined based on the second inertia. The basket is rotated at speeds within the resonance speed zone only once prior to the water extraction operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Darrin R. Smith, Mark William Thomas Worley, Ryan Ellis Leonard
  • Publication number: 20240143724
    Abstract: Techniques for authorization are disclosed. In an example, client software executed by a client device receives a first request to access an application within the client software. The client software obtains, from a user of the client device, an authorization to access one or more resources. The client software transmits the authorization to a virtual conference provider. The authorization is associated with the application. The client software launches the application within the client software. The client software receives a second request for authorization from the application. The client software transmits the second request for authorization to the virtual conference provider. The client software receives an authorization response from the virtual conference provider. The client software provides the authorization response to the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Mark William Eklund, Kaiyi Lei, Shishir Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240141593
    Abstract: Disclosed are multi-ply tissue products comprising a non-crosslinked binder that are durable and dispersible. The products generally have a Slosh time less than 2 minutes, such as less than about 60 seconds, such as less than about 45 seconds. Surprisingly, the foregoing Slosh times are achieved despite the tissue products having relatively high cross-machine direction (CD) wet tensile strength, such as greater than about 100 g/3?. Typically, increasing wet tensile strength, particularly wet CD tensile strength, negatively effects dispersability and increases Slosh time. Despite this trend, the present invention surprisingly provides a tissue product having a relatively high degree of wet strength and good dispersability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Joseph Vogt, Mark William Sachs, Erin Ann McCormick, Devon Gaynelle Curley, Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt, Nathan John Vogel, Christopher Steven LeCount
  • Publication number: 20240138573
    Abstract: A body support structure includes a base, a seat and a backrest, with the backrest connected to the base with a torsion leaf spring. The torsion leaf spring may be configured with a plurality of fingers, and/or one or more flex regions. One or more struts may be connected between the seat or backrest and the base. In another aspect, the seat and/or backrest may be supported with one or more links that provide a counter-intuitive motion. In another aspect, a link may be coupled to a support with a flexible blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gary Karsten, Mark Spoelhof
  • Publication number: 20240144126
    Abstract: Embodiments of the current disclosure provide systems and methods for tagging data for efficient deployment of cloud services to a company. In some embodiments, cloud service data may be obtained by a system. The cloud service data may be tagged by the system in a standard tagging system and organized according to tag categories. The tagged data may then be analyzed to determine resource provisioning by the cloud service provider and compared to consumption by the company utilizing the cloud services to find services that are not used or not used efficiently. New policies may be generated and uploaded to the cloud service provider to optimize resource allocation based on the analysis results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Mark Williams
  • Patent number: 11973268
    Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for a multi-layer air waveguide with layer-to-layer connections. Each pre-formed layer of the air waveguide is attached to at least one other pre-formed layer by a mechanical interface. The mechanical interface may be a stud-based interface, a snap fastener-based interface, a ball-and-socket based interface, or a pressure contact interface utilizing irregular roughed surfaces of each pre-formed layer. The mechanical interfaces of the pre-formed layers structurally hold the air waveguide together and electrically couple all of the pre-formed layers. In this manner, the cost of manufacturing the air waveguide antennas may be less expensive than previous manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Scott D. Brandenburg, David Wayne Zimmerman, Mark William Hudson
  • Patent number: 11972577
    Abstract: Present embodiments pertain to systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing and reporting the movements in mechanical structures, inanimate physical structures, machinery, and machine components, including automatically detecting aliased frequencies of a component on the structure which exhibits frequencies higher than the maximum frequency of the FFT spectrum calculated from the acquired data. To automatically detect the presence of aliased frequencies, a second virtually identical recording is acquired using a slightly different sampling rate and this provides the basis for detecting frequencies which are greater than the Nyquist sampling rate of the video recording and calculating the true frequency value of the aliased peaks in the frequency spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Ralph Piety, Jeffrey R. Hay, Mark William Slemp
  • Patent number: 11970789
    Abstract: Filaments that contain a filament-forming material and an additive, nonwoven webs, and methods for making such filaments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, Robert Wayne Glenn, Mark Robert Sivik, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
  • Publication number: 20240138062
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for making and using circuit assemblies having a pattern of deformable conductive material formed therein are disclosed herein. In various aspects, a circuit assembly can include a substrate layer; a first pattern of deformable conductive material formed on a surface of the substrate layer using a removable stencil; and a first stacked layer configured to cover at least a portion of the first pattern of deformable conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Liquid Wire, LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Kruskopf, Katherine M. Nelson, Jesse Michael Martinez, Michael Austin Clarke, Mark William Ronay
  • Publication number: 20240132218
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods comprising acoustically absorptive air ducts comprising an internally positioned structure component as an endoskeleton and an air impervious inner layer, and an acoustically absorptive foam outer layer, environmental control systems comprising such air ducts, and vehicles incorporating such environmental control systems are disclosed with methods for manufacture and installations are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Rachel Ann Bires, Douglas Dean Maben, Christopher Edward Plass, Mark Michael Gmerek, David William Olson, Sonny Keever Nguyen, James Julius Koch, Greta Grace Hadford, Bryce Avery Van Dyke, Xin Han
  • Publication number: 20240131889
    Abstract: An example of an apparatus to transport utility-scale lithium-ion batteries in a racked and operational state. The apparatus includes a base and an isolation platform. In addition, the apparatus includes an isolator mounted on the base to support the isolation platform. The isolator is to dampen forces exerted on the isolation platform from the base. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a rack mounted onto the isolation platform. The rack is to secure a plurality of lithium-ion batteries to store energy at a utility-scale to be provided to a power distribution network. The plurality of lithium-ion batteries is racked in an operational state during transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NOMAD TRANSPORTABLE POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Edward Bellows, Gregg Richard Noble, Alex David Perkins, Lindsay Edward Gorrill, Paul Brant Coombs, Nan Wu, Jason Jean Martin, Mark Williams Hagedorn
  • Publication number: 20240135028
    Abstract: A system and method of dynamic search result permission checking. A system that provides end users the ability to search an index (i.e., Shinydocs Index) built from content from one or multiple source repositories, and only display results for which the user has sufficient permissions at source to view. User credentials are validated “on the fly”, such that these checks are performant across a multiple of possible back-end repositories sequentially or simultaneously. The resultant search results from the Index may be sourced from many disparate repositories, each of which have their own unique permission structure (to view individual items). A method for handling permissions in multiple repositories in a secure (yet performant) fashion in order to only display search results that the end-user is allowed to view based on source system permissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jason William David CASSIDY, Khalid MERHI, Mark KRAATZ, Robert HASKETT, Benjamin BARTH, Darryl MCCUTCHEON, Gorgi TERZIEV, Jesse SHEATHER, Davey SLIMMON, Peter VANLEEUWEN, Scott WOODEND
  • Patent number: 11963621
    Abstract: A seating arrangement includes a support shell including a seat portion and a chair back portion each configured to support a seated user, the chair seat portion having a front region and a rear region and the chair back portion having an upper region and a lower region, where the rear region of the seat portion is coupled to the lower region of the chair back portion, a control member including a substantially flexible front support and an attachment point, where the front support engages the support shell in the front region of the seat portion and the control member engages the back portion, and a substantially rigid second support attached to the control member at the attachment point, wherein the control member is an integral, one-piece component including multiple flex regions configured to allow the support shell to move between an upright and reclined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: James Ludwig, Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt Heidmann, Bruce Michael Smith, Mark Spoelhof
  • Patent number: 11963686
    Abstract: Surgical systems and methods for performing an osteotomy are disclosed herein. A surgical system includes a frame including a first section, second section, third section, fourth section, and a window. The surgical system can include a cut guide that can fit within the window and contact the first side, the second side, the third side, and the fourth side. The surgical system can include an aligner that can fit within the window and contact the first side, the second side, the third.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Mark William Roberts, Jr., Eli W. Jacobson, William J. Bush
  • Patent number: 11965353
    Abstract: Fence mesh including line wires, and stay wires extending laterally across and intersecting the line wires to form a mesh, wherein a first type of wire knot is formed by a knot wire around the line wire and stay wire at intersections of the stay wires with the line wires in a primary zone, and wherein a second type of wire knot is formed by a knot wire around the line wire and stay wire at intersections of the stay wires with the line wires in a secondary zone, characterised in that the first type of wire knot is different from the second type of wire knot; and a machine for the formation of such a mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: UMC INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark William Ullrich, Owen Joris Meijer, Michael Raymund Burtscher
  • Patent number: 11965191
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods and compositions provided herein that include a compound protease. The compound protease can contain a protease domain, a cut site for another enzyme and an association domain. In some embodiments, the compound protease is part of a protein circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Xiaojing Gao, Lucy S. Chong, Michael Elowitz, Mark William Budde, Matthew Sun-min Kim
  • Publication number: 20240122427
    Abstract: A filter arrangement for a vacuum cleaning appliance includes: a filter enclosure having an enclosure opening; a filter configured to be received through the enclosure opening into the filter enclosure in an insertion direction; and retention means operable between latched and unlatched states for releasably retaining the filter in the filter enclosure. The filter includes an actuation portion configured to operate the retention means, wherein the actuation portion is moveable between at least first and second positions and is biased towards the second position. When the filter is in the filter enclosure, movement of the actuation portion in the insertion direction from the first position to a depressed position transitions the retention means to the unlatched state, whereinafter the actuation portion is moved to the second position in which at least a part of the actuation portion is elevated above the enclosure opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jacob DYSON, Mark Timothy SHADDICK, Karl Alan JOLLY, Ketan PATEL, Taylor Teck Hui LIM, Jeremy William CROUCH, Miles Sinclair QUANCE
  • Patent number: D1023781
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sun-Jan Alan Huang, Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Christopher Lee Haun