Patents by Inventor Peter Joseph Williams

Peter Joseph 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: 11921732
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes determining a position for a search query and a position for each audience record from multiple audience records in an embedding space. The method further includes receiving multiple device records, each associated with an audience record. The method further includes determining multiple keywords, each associated with an audience record and determining a position for each keyword in the embedding space. The method further includes calculating a first distance between the position of the search query in the embedding space and the position of each audience record in the embedding space. The method further includes calculating a second distance between the position of the search query in the embedding space and the position of each keyword in the embedding space. The method further includes ranking each audience record based on the first distance and the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dstillery, Inc.
    Inventors: Melinda Han Williams, Peter Ernest Lenz, Jr., Yeming Shi, Patrick Joseph McCarthy, Amelia Grieve White
  • Patent number: 11493938
    Abstract: Image data is used to determine wind speed and wind direction during takeoff and landing by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The flight data, including image data, may be received using sensors onboard the UAV and/or the flight data may be received from other sources, such as nearby anemometer, cameras, other UAVs, other vehicles, and/or local weather stations. Machine learning models may train using the flight data gathered by the UAVs to determine the wind velocity based on image data. The UAV may adjust flight control settings to generate side forces to overcome the predicted wind velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Raymond Harris, Peter Joseph Williams
  • Patent number: 9511835
    Abstract: Wingsail. The wingsail includes a substantially rigid airfoil section having a leading and a trailing edge and a flap is attached to the trailing edge through a torsion fitting having a torsional stiffness along the span of the rigid airfoil section selected to control flap deflection with respect to the rigid airfoil section under aerodynamic loading to control rolling moment of the wingsail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Sheila E. Widnall, Peter Joseph Williams, Hayden K. Cornwell
  • Publication number: 20160083063
    Abstract: Wingsail. The wingsail includes a substantially rigid airfoil section having a leading and a trailing edge and a flap is attached to the trailing edge through a torsion fitting having a torsional stiffness along the span of the rigid airfoil section selected to control flap deflection with respect to the rigid airfoil section under aerodynamic loading to control rolling moment of the wingsail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Sheila E. Widnall, Peter Joseph Williams, Hayden K. Cornwell