Patents by Inventor Michael S. Williams

Michael S. 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: 20230395984
    Abstract: An electronic device may have an upper housing and a lower housing separated by a slot. An antenna module may be mounted in the lower housing and may include a cavity. An antenna element may be disposed within the cavity. Grounded traces may be patterned onto walls of the module and may be coupled to conductive walls of the lower housing by conductive gaskets. The antenna element may have a high band arm displaced farther into the cavity than a low band arm by a shim. The antenna module may have an acoustic port aligned with a speaker port. The acoustic port may allow sound waves from a speaker to pass into the cavity from the speaker port. The cavity may be configured to optimize an audio response of the speaker while concurrently optimizing radio-frequency performance of the antenna element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Joel D. Barrera, Nikolaos Chiotellis, Michael J. Williams, Jerzy S. Guterman, Trevor J. Edmonds, Joshua P. Song, Richard D. Kosoglow
  • Publication number: 20230339080
    Abstract: A hand tool for driving a fastener is provided. The hand tool includes gearing that interconnects a splined socket to a rotatable or trigger actuator and increases a rotational speed of the splined socket relative to the actuator. The hand tool may include a power tool receiver 38 or an independent motor to drive rotation of the splined socket to advance or retract a fastener from a threaded shaft. By increasing the speed and conserving rotational inertia, the hand tool reduces the time to secure a fastener on a threaded shaft. A rotatable nut is provided. The rotatable nut can slideably orient along a first axis and threadedly orient along a second axis to fasten to an adjacent surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher S. Hoppe, Aaron S. Blumenthal, Aaron M. Williams, Michael John Caelwaerts, Max R. Sawa, Caroline Hope, James Wekwert, Jason D. Thurner
  • Patent number: 11781688
    Abstract: A push to connect fitting includes first and second fitting components, a sealing arrangement, a gripping arrangement, and a colleting ring. The first fitting component has an outboard end that is adapted to receive a conduit end. The second fitting component is joined to the first fitting component to define an interior cavity. The sealing arrangement, disposed in the interior cavity, seals one of the first and second fitting components with an outer surface of a conduit end when the conduit end is inserted into the outboard end of the first fitting component. The gripping arrangement is disposed in the interior cavity, and the colleting ring is disposed in the interior cavity and has an inboard end surface engaging an outboard end surface of the gripping arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SWAGELOK COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter C. Williams, Douglas J. McClure, Cal R. Brown, Ronald P. Campbell, Douglas S. Welch, Michael D. Bestic
  • Patent number: 11781687
    Abstract: Some fluid coupling devices described herein are configured for use in fluid systems. For example, some embodiments described in this document are single-use, aseptic fluid coupling devices that can be coupled to create a sterile flow path therethrough. Some such aseptic couplings are genderless couplings such that two identical aseptic couplings can be coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Colder Products Company
    Inventors: Patrick T. Gerst, Krista A. Vangsgard, Michael J. Maleski, Randall S. Williams
  • Patent number: 11724366
    Abstract: A hand tool for driving a fastener is provided. The hand tool includes gearing that interconnects a splined socket to a rotatable or trigger actuator and increases a rotational speed of the splined socket relative to the actuator. The hand tool may include a power tool receiver 38 or an independent motor to drive rotation of the splined socket to advance or retract a fastener from a threaded shaft. By increasing the speed and conserving rotational inertia, the hand tool reduces the time to secure a fastener on a threaded shaft. A rotatable nut is provided. The rotatable nut can slideably orient along a first axis and threadedly orient along a second axis to fasten to an adjacent surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher S. Hoppe, Aaron S. Blumenthal, Aaron M. Williams, Michael John Caelwaerts, Max R. Sawa, Caroline Hope, James Wekwert, Jason D. Thurner
  • Publication number: 20230223681
    Abstract: An electronic device may have an upper housing and a lower housing separated by a slow. A substrate may be mounted in the lower housing and may have an inner surface facing an interior of the lower housing and an outer surface facing the slot. Ventilation port openings may extend from the outer surface to the inner surface. Ribs in the substrate may separate the ventilation port openings. The ribs may include notches at the inner surface. An antenna may include conductive traces within multiple ventilation port openings and extending through the notches. The conductive traces may be offset from the outer surface. The outer surface of the substrate may be free from conductive material from the antenna. This may serve to maximize antenna efficiency while protecting the antenna from external forces and debris or other contaminants that pass through the slot during use of the electronic device over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Joel D. Barrera, Jerzy S. Guterman, Michael J. Williams, Daniel D. Hershey, Zachary S. Chase, Xuyao Shi
  • Patent number: 11318293
    Abstract: A platform technology has been designed to provide a means for controlled delivery of single or multiple doses of therapeutic, prophylactic, diagnostic or identifying agents to livestock. The delivery system is based on a livestock ear tag that releases therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent when applied to the ear or other desired anatomical target of the animal. The agent to be delivered is encapsulated in or on microneedles and or microparticles and or nanoparticles or combination thereof on a surface thereon of the male or female part of the tag, which is pressed into the skin so that the microneedles penetrate into the epidermis and dermis layers of the skin. The agent is then released into the animal from the microneedles and or microparticles and or nanoparticles or combination thereof at the site of contact into the epidermis and dermis layers of the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Michael S. Williams, Jason Siu Wei Li, Jacob Coffey, Christoph Winfried Johannes Steiger, Miguel Jimenez, Robert S. Langer, Ester Caffarel Salvador, Alex Abramson, Carlo Giovanni Traverso
  • Publication number: 20220040037
    Abstract: A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of a hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend. The microparticles of hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend selectively absorb preservative allowing the drug to remain in solution for delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Michael S. WILLIAMS, Deniz HAY
  • Patent number: 11179294
    Abstract: A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of a hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend. The microparticles of hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend selectively absorb preservative allowing the drug to remain in solution for delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TEARCLEAR CORP.
    Inventors: Michael S. Williams, Deniz Hay
  • Publication number: 20210196569
    Abstract: A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of a hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend. The microparticles of hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend selectively absorb preservative allowing the drug to remain in solution for delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Michael S. WILLIAMS, Deniz HAY
  • Patent number: 10745587
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for treating a cellulosic substrate to impart water resistance are disclosed herein. The compositions are waxy solids that include a mixture of a fluorowax and a hydrocarbon wax. The compositions are applied to cut edges of a cellulosic substrate, such as a wood-based flooring material, to impart water resistance to the cellulosic substrate. The compositions and methods are useful on a wide range of wood-based flooring materials, including hardwood, laminate, and engineered wood flooring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: PSG-Functional Materials LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Jarnagin, Michael S Williams, Josh Land, Jansuz Kowalik
  • Publication number: 20200164193
    Abstract: A platform technology has been designed to provide a means for controlled delivery of single or multiple doses of therapeutic, prophylactic, diagnostic or identifying agents to livestock. The delivery system is based on a livestock ear tag that releases therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent when applied to the ear or other desired anatomical target of the animal. The agent to be delivered is encapsulated in or on microneedles and or microparticles and or nanoparticles or combination thereof on a surface thereon of the male or female part of the tag, which is pressed into the skin so that the microneedles penetrate into the epidermis and dermis layers of the skin. The agent is then released into the animal from the microneedles and or microparticles and or nanoparticles or combination thereof at the site of contact into the epidermis and dermis layers of the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Michael S. Williams, Jason Siu Wei Li, Jacob Coffey, Christoph Winfried Johannes Steiger, Miguel Jimenez, Robert S. Langer, Ester Caffarel Salvador, Alex Abramson
  • Publication number: 20190247176
    Abstract: A system for use in performing aortic valve procedures using an instrument disposed through an aortic arch includes a lubricious track positionable within the aortic arch such that a lubricious inferior surface of the track is exposed to the interior of the aortic arch. An instrument to be used in performing the valve procedure is configured to be percutaneously introduced into a femoral artery, advanced through the descending aorta and into the aortic arch, and moved into sliding contact with the lubricous inferior surface of the track. The instrument is advanceable along the lubricious surface until its distal portion is at a target site for the aortic valve procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Minimally Invasive Surgical Access Limited
    Inventors: Richard S. Stack, Richard A. Glenn, Michael S. Williams, William L. Athas, Colleen Stack
  • Patent number: 10184049
    Abstract: The present invention provides fluorinated compounds as well as dispersions of the fluorinated compounds. The fluorinated compounds described herein, in some embodiments, can be applied substrates such as textiles, including carpet and other floor coverings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Peach State Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Grigat, Ralph R. Sargent, Michael S. Williams
  • Publication number: 20180168806
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for performing a medical procedure using direct percutaneous access of an aorta. A main sheath is introduced through an incision formed in proximity to the sternum, and positioned along (and preferable against) a posterior portion of the sternum. Instruments passed through the main sheath are used to form a purse-string suture in an exterior wall of the aorta. An opening is formed in the wall of the aorta in a region encircled by the purse-string suture, and a distal end of an introducer sheath is advanced through the opening into the aorta. A medical procedure, which may be a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, is performed using instruments passed through the introducer sheath into the aorta. After the medical procedure, the introducer sheath is withdrawn from the aorta and, as the introducer sheath is withdrawn, the purse-string suture is tightened to close the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Richard S. Stack, Richard A. Glenn, Michael S. Williams, William L. Athas
  • Publication number: 20180142105
    Abstract: The present invention provides fluorinated compounds as well as dispersions of the fluorinated compounds. The fluorinated compounds described herein, in some embodiments, can be applied substrates such as textiles, including carpet and other floor coverings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Peach State Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Grigat, Ralph R. Sargent, Michael S. Williams
  • Publication number: 20180104079
    Abstract: A satiation device is described which includes a sheath or liner extending from the proximal or middle stomach to the distal antrum. Food ingested by the patient passes through the sheath or liner, thereby minimizing contact between the ingested food and the stomach. It is believed that over time, reduced contact between food and the stomach will result in decreased Ghrelin production by the patient and a consequent decrease in appetite. In some embodiments, the satiation device may also include a proximal pouch and/or a distal bypass tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. STACK, Richard A. GLENN, William L. ATHAS, Michael S. WILLIAMS, Trevor J. MOODY, Fred E. SILVERSTEIN, Nathan EVERY
  • Patent number: 9909014
    Abstract: The present invention provides fluorinated compounds as well as dispersions of the fluorinated compounds. The fluorinated compounds described herein, in some embodiments, can be applied substrates such as textiles, including carpet and other floor coverings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Peach State Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Grigat, Ralph R. Sargent, Michael S. Williams
  • Patent number: 9872786
    Abstract: A satiation device is described which includes a sheath or liner extending from the proximal or middle stomach to the distal antrum. Food ingested by the patient passes through the sheath or liner, thereby minimizing contact between the ingested food and the stomach. It is believed that over time, reduced contact between food and the stomach will result in decreased Ghrelin production by the patient and a consequent decrease in appetite. In some embodiments, the satiation device may also include a proximal pouch and/or a distal bypass tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. Stack, Richard A. Glenn, William L. Athas, Michael S. Williams, Trevor J. Moody, Fred E. Silverstein, Nathan Every
  • Patent number: 9827130
    Abstract: A method for controlling appetite by means of a satiation device is disclosed. The device, which includes a flexible webbing defining proximal and distal openings and a biasing structure, is attached to the patient's stomach with the proximal opening positioned adjacent and below the patient's gastro-esophageal junction. The biasing structure imparts pressure against the wall of the patient's stomach adjacent the gastro-esophageal junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. Stack, William L. Athas, Richard A. Glenn, Daniel Balbierz, John Lunsford, Michael S. Williams