Patents by Inventor Robert A. Williams
Robert 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).
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Publication number: 20240145110Abstract: The present disclosure relates in general to nuclear medicine and generators for the production of radiopharmaceuticals for medical use. In particular, present disclosure relates to a generator column that resists high heat such as depyrogenation and sterilization. This allows some steps of the preparation of the column to be performed in a non-sterile environment. This also allows the generator column to be reusable. The present disclosure further describes methods for the preparation of a generator where a parent radioisotope is charged on the column matrix before or after the matrix is loaded in the column.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Robert William Riddoch
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Publication number: 20240141346Abstract: Disclosed herein are engineered oligonucleotides for selective inhibition of polypeptide expression and activity. Also disclosed herein are methods of selectively inhibiting polypeptide expression and activity contacting an engineered oligonucleotide with a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Robert PLACE, Anthony SALEH, Tishan WILLIAMS
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Publication number: 20240140661Abstract: A bottle assembly has a bottle and a removable cap. The cap includes a nozzle and a vent arrangement. The vent arrangement can include a vent conduit that extends into an air cavity present at the bottom of the bottle assembly when the bottle assembly is inverted. The vent arrangement allows for pressure equalization within the bottom assembly in response to liquid being dispensed from the bottle assembly to permit high flow rates of the dispensed liquid without squeezing of the bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Carina Mary Hamel, Robert Hart Ringer, Peter William Hazelett, Casey J. Davis, Christopher Ian Jones, Daniel William Peter, Mark Callen Beard
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Publication number: 20240138474Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: an elongate housing, and an aerosolisation module detachably insertable into the housing, the module including a vibratable transducer to aerosolise a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, electrical contacts in communication with the transducer to connect with corresponding contacts of the housing, and an electrically conductive membrane including an aerosol generation zone, the transducer coupled to the membrane to vibrate it, and a portion of the membrane forming electrical contacts of the module, the housing containing a power source and configured to detachably receive the module to establish a detachable electrical connection, a sidewall of the housing including an aperture defining an access opening to a cavity within the housing and containing the contacts, and the contacts of the housing and the module being configured such that insertion of the module into the cavity results in electrical connection between the contacts of the housing and the module.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Leander DITTMANN, Robert William EMMETT, Laura GALLIMBERTI
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Patent number: 11970789Abstract: Filaments that contain a filament-forming material and an additive, nonwoven webs, and methods for making such filaments are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11970992Abstract: An acoustic core may include an array of resonant cells configured as a plurality of resonant cell groups. The resonant cell groups may include a plurality of resonant cells configured as a partitioned resonant cell that include a converging resonant cell and a diverging resonant cell. The converging resonant cell and the diverging resonant cell may be defined by a plurality of cell walls integrally formed with one another and a partition integrally formed with the plurality of cell walls. The partition may at least partially delimit the converging resonant cell from the diverging resonant cell. The converging resonant cell may define an upper resonant space delimited by the partition and a top face of the array of resonant cells. The diverging resonant cell may define a lower resonant space delimited by the partition and a bottom face of the array of resonant cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Wendy Wenling Lin, David Herman, Trevor Howard Wood, Nikolai N. Pastouchenko, Kishore Ramakrishnan, Timothy Richard DePuy, Robert William Davidoff
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Publication number: 20240135028Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Jason William David CASSIDY, Khalid MERHI, Mark KRAATZ, Robert HASKETT, Benjamin BARTH, Darryl MCCUTCHEON, Gorgi TERZIEV, Jesse SHEATHER, Davey SLIMMON, Peter VANLEEUWEN, Scott WOODEND
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Publication number: 20240130437Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an aerosol-forming substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode; an aerosol-generating device including a power supply, and a controller configured to connect to the first electrode and the second electrode; and a capacitor including the first electrode, the second electrode, and at least a portion of the aerosol-forming substrate, the controller being configured to supply an alternating voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode for dielectrically heating the aerosol-forming substrate, measure or determine an electrical property between the first electrode and the second electrode, and control heating of the aerosol-forming substrate based on the measured or determined electrical property.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Jerome Christian COURBAT, Robert William EMMETT, Ana Isabel GONZALEZ FLOREZ, Roberto MANCINI, Enrico TURRINI
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Publication number: 20240130424Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a reservoir containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; an aerosol-generating element configured to generate an aerosol from the liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the aerosol-generating element including an electrically operated, vibrating transducer; an electrically operated pump configured to deliver the liquid aerosol-forming substrate from the reservoir to the aerosol-generating element; and control circuitry connected to the pump and the transducer, the control circuitry being configured to control operation of the pump in dependence on one or more operating parameters of the transducer. A method of operating the aerosol-generating device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Leander DITTMANN, Robert William EMMETT
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Publication number: 20240130426Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a first housing portion defining a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-generating article; a second housing portion extending from the first housing portion, the second housing portion being movable relative to the first housing portion; an electric heater; a power supply; and a controller configured to supply power from the power supply to the electric heater, the electric heater being positioned within the first housing portion, and at least one of the power supply and the controller being positioned within the second housing portion. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-generating article is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Robert William EMMETT, Eva SAADE LATORRE
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Publication number: 20240132479Abstract: A liner in a label-liner combination is provided with a die cut portion made in the liner. The die cut portion is aligned with at least one edge in a label and a front side of the liner is attached to a backside of the label. The die cut portion of the liner is adapted to be removed from the liner when the label is removed from the label-liner combination. Dimensions, and orientation, and a location of the die cut portion in the liner are adapted to allow the label to be removed from the label-liner combination and applied to a surface by digits of a hand without touching an adhesive coating on the backside of the label and adapted to maintain proper printer waste liner spool operations when the liner is wound after application of the label.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Robert B. Abramovitch, Edmund Ellsworth, John Williams
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Patent number: 11964287Abstract: A multi-function shower head including an upper housing, a lower housing, a base plate, the base plate having at least water passages and direct spray holes there-through for selectively enabling water outflow from the upper housing through the base plate, a sliding ring held by the lower housing against the base plate and having at least a second spray pattern, and at least one actuator to selectively align the second spray pattern in the sliding ring with the water passage in the base plate and to adjust from a first spray pattern to the second spray pattern. The base plate and the sliding ring are arranged and disposed with an operating mechanism to automatically adjust the water flow from the second spray pattern to the first spray pattern upon interrupting water flow through, and pressure to the base plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventor: Robert William Bruce
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Patent number: 11967017Abstract: A computing system, having stored thereon a design software, is configured to generate a design file representing a three-dimensional space that embodies a design. The computing system is further configured to render a three-dimensional view of the three-dimensional space in a graphical user interface. In response to receiving a user input of placing a three-dimensional object in the three-dimensional space, the computing system then renders the three-dimensional object in the three-dimensional view of the three-dimensional space in the graphical user interface as a silhouette.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: DIRTT ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD., ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Robert Blodgett, Paul Williams Mattson
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Patent number: 11966629Abstract: A distributed data storage system can be configured with a host connected to a first device and an initialization module that performs a default initialization procedure on the first device in response to detecting the first device has an unknown manufacturing origin. Conducting the default initialization procedure may allow the first device to service data access requests from the host. In response to the connection of a second device to the host and initialization module, a manufacturing origin of the second device is identified with the initialization module before the initialization module customizes the default initialization procedure to a custom procedure that is executed to allow the second device to satisfy a background operation prescribed by the initialization module.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Hemant Vitthalrao Mane, Jason Matthew Feist, Praveen Viraraghavan, Robert W. Dixon, Marc Timothy Jones, Steven Williams
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Publication number: 20240125204Abstract: A method comprises charging a first hydraulic line to have greater pressure than a second hydraulic line and energizing a solenoid valve, wherein charging the first hydraulic line and energizing the solenoid valve initiates transition of an interval control valve (ICV) from a first state to a second state. The method comprises discontinuing energizing the solenoid valve and maintaining the greater pressure in the first hydraulic line until the ICV reaches a desired state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Lorenzzo Breda Minassa, Robert William Gissler
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Publication number: 20240122180Abstract: Disclosed is a fungicidal composition comprising (a) at least one compound selected from the compounds of Formula 1, including all geometric and stereoisomers, tautomers, A-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein E, L, J, A and T are as defined in the disclosure; and (b) at least one additional fungicidal compound. Also disclosed is a method for controlling plant diseases caused by fungal plant pathogens comprising applying to the plant or portion thereof, or to the plant seed, a fungicidally effective amount of a compound of Formula 1, an A-oxide, or salt thereof (e.g., as a component in the aforesaid composition). Also disclosed is a composition comprising: (a) at least one compound selected from the compounds of Formula 1 described above, A-oxides, and salts thereof; and at least one invertebrate pest control compound or agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Robert James PASTERIS, Travis Chandler MCMAHON, Hengbin WANG, Alvin Donald CREWS, JR., Liana HIE, Earl William REED, Srinivas CHITTABOINA, Ravisekhara P. REDDY, Srinivasa Rao UPPALAPATI, Yuzhong CHEN, Byron VEGA-JIMENEZ
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Publication number: 20240125192Abstract: A regulator valve has a check valve manifold for use in subsea control circuits. For example, the regulator valve having the check valve manifold can be used in a circuit between a directional control valve and an actuator for a gate valve. The check valve manifold can have a flange that attaches to the regulator valve to communicate with the supply-side and outlet-side of the regulator valve. Internal communication inside the manifold includes a check valve. If the pressure in the circuit downstream of the regulator valve needs to be vented, the check valve can open to allow the pressure to bleed from the outlet-side back to the supply-side without needing to pass through the internal pressure control valve of the regulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Chris ROY, Frank Harold HOLLISTER, Nathan ZEPEDA, Robert E. SMITH, III, Josh WILLIAMS
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Publication number: 20240124901Abstract: A method of producing bioethanol in a bioethanol system and a control system for a bioethanol system is disclosed, the control system comprising a controller comprising one or more processors and an interface, wherein the one or more processors are configured to obtain a primary amino nitrogen (PAN) measurement; determine an input scheme based on the PAN measurement; and control one or more input devices of the bioethanol system according to the input scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Kyle Rothanzl, Patrick E. Williams, Gregory Michael Ames, Scott Dickerson, James Waterman, Laurie Duval, Scott Robert McLaughlin, Nate Parrish, Mike A. Smith
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Patent number: 11958588Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle with deployable components (UAVDC) may comprise a foldable propeller blade with a locking mechanism. Foldable propeller blades may have a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration relative to the UAVDC, and the foldable propeller blades may pivot about a hinge to move between configurations. In the deployed configuration, the foldable propeller may experience forward folding forces acting upon it. The locking mechanism may lock the foldable propeller blade in the deployed configuration. The locking mechanism may keep the foldable propeller locked into place to prevent forward folding tendency.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Anduril Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Robert Alley, Joshua Lemming Steele, Jesse Owen Williams, Daniel Kuehme
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Patent number: 11960315Abstract: The present technology relates to an automatically locking, releasable, safety knob assembly for a stove. The assembly includes a base with a locking notch. An adapter mates with the stove's valve stem and has a head, a tubular middle section, and an adapter base with a central aperture for receiving the valve stem. The knob includes a housing with a housing disk covering the base, an arm movement channel aligned with the locking notch in the locked configuration, and a central aperture for receiving the adapter head. The assembly further includes a sub-assembly with a slidable button allowing free rotation of the knob in the unlocked configuration, an automatic locking arm biased with the slidable button, and engagement with the button causing the arm to disengage from the locking notch and move in the arm movement channel, enabling the knob to freely rotate and rotate the valve stem.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: RangeSafe, LLCInventors: Trevor Lawson, James Steven Burt, Robert William Milotte, Jr.