Patents by Inventor Samuel A. Williams
Samuel 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: 20240135466Abstract: Systems and methods for generating user notifications to a set of users of a social networking service is presented. For each user of a set of users of the social networking service, one or more machine learning models selects an optimal notification channel, an optimal notification template, and optimal personalization content for configurable elements of a selected notification template. Each of these determinations/selections is made according to and based on a likelihood of increased user engagement with the social networking service. Upon determining the notification channel, notification template, and personalizations to the template, the notification is generated and sent to the corresponding user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Pinterest, Inc.Inventors: Bo Zhao, Samuel Seth Weisfeld-Filson, John William Gupta Egan, Burkay Birant Orten, Koichiro Narita
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Patent number: 11965988Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system can emit light toward an environment and detect responsively reflected light to determine a distance to one or more points in the environment. The reflected light can be detected by a plurality of plurality of photodiodes that are reverse-biased using a high voltage. Signals from the plurality of reverse-biased photodiodes can be amplified by respective transistors and applied to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The signal from a particular photodiode can be applied to the ADC by biasing a respective transistor corresponding to the particular photodiode while not biasing transistors corresponding to other photodiodes. The gain of each photodiode/transistor pair can be controlled by adjusting the bias voltage applied to each photodiode using a digital-to-analog converter. The gain of each photodiode/transistor pair can be controlled based on the detected temperature of each photodiode.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Pierre-Yves Droz, Samuel William Lenius
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Publication number: 20240123289Abstract: Performance of an athlete is evaluated using position data of the athlete over time during performance of a set of movements. Movement metrics for the set of movements are determined, the movement metrics including measures of acceleration and power. Performance metrics for the athlete are then calculated to indicate the athlete's strength and speed. A reference data set is defined based on various attributes associated with the athlete. The performance metrics are applied to the reference data set to determine a performance category for the athlete, the performance category indicating relative strength and speed of the athlete among other athletes represented in the reference data set. Lastly, a training regimen for the athlete is generated based on the performance category.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Samuel Adam Miller, Joseph Williams Waterman, Jason Shaev, William Gabrenya, III
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Patent number: 11962615Abstract: A system for detecting Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on one or more user profiles collects a number of invalid sign-on attempts on the one or more user profiles during every time interval. The system determines a number of invalid sign-on attempts on every user profile since the start of the first time interval. The system detects a first DoS attack on a particular user profile if a first number of invalid sign-on attempts on the particular user profile exceeds a single-user profile. The system detects a second DoS attack on multiple user profiles during the first time interval if the increase in the total number of invalid sign-on attempts since the last time interval exceeds a scan-level threshold number. The system detects a third DoS attack on multiple user profiles if the total number of invalid sign-on attempts detected during combined time intervals exceeds a third threshold number.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Xiao Jun Zhang, Neetika Singh, Jesse Deping Meng, Robert Bruce Williams, Joshua Samuel Drucker, Cynthia Diane Dieterich
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Patent number: 11950689Abstract: Apparatuses, tables, and method of making the apparatuses and tables are disclosed for stowing and expanding a desk device. An exemplary apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a frame, a first surface slidably received by the frame in a horizontal plane between and including a stowed position and an expanded position, and a second surface slidably received by the frame between and including a stowed position and an expanded position.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Kathryn Cubrilovic, John Travis Wettroth, Brian William Wallace, Samuel Patterson, Yoshihito Nakagaki
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Publication number: 20240112195Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying and resolving consumer transactions using consumer call analytics. The computing platform may monitor consumer transactions and score each detected transaction. The computing platform may predict, using the score associated with the transaction, whether the consumer may request assistance with the transaction. The computing platform may receive, from the consumer, a request for assistance with at least one transaction. The computing platform may use a unique consumer identifier to identify transactions associated with the consumer. The computing platform may determine whether at least one similar consumer request for assistance was previously received. If at least one similar consumer request for assistance was previously received, the computing platform may retrieve the previously received request and a corresponding solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Sam William Christian, Samuel Massa Moiyallah, JR.
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Publication number: 20240101791Abstract: Described herein are improved thermoplastic composites, which demonstrate excellent physical properties, such as yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, toughness, elongation, and, optionally, superior tunable biodegradability when compared to known thermoplastics. The composite comprises minimally a thermoplastic polymer, at least one phenolic compound, and, optionally, a filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: WARNER BABCOCK INSTITUTE FOR GREEN CHEMISTRY, LLCInventors: Christopher William Livesey, Alexander Hsu, Brandon Ackley, Samuel Ellman, Frederick Richard Kearney, John C. Warner, Joseph Luke Pont, James V. Babcock
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Publication number: 20240090813Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a butterfly hinge electrode and uses thereof. A butterfly hinge electrode may have a first and second wing positioned adjacent to one another and connected through a coupling mechanism. The butterfly hinge electrode may have a first and second electrode assembly, the first electrode assembly positioned on the first wing and the second electrode assembly positioned on the second wing. The butterfly hinge electrode may further comprise a compression assembly. Further, the butterfly hinge electrode may be inserted into a subdermal layer of a patient for neurological monitoring through the use of the first and second electrode assemblies on the first and second wings.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Brian Petree, Samuel William Laurie
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Publication number: 20240091999Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20240074576Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for controlling positioning of a desk. An exemplary apparatus includes a tabletop, expandable legs, motors, position sensors, a processor, and a memory configured to store instructions. The motors alter a length of one of the expandable legs. The position sensors identify current position of each of the plurality of expandable legs. The instructions cause the processor to receive a sensor signal, a communication signal, or a command signal, receive the identified current position of one or more of the expandable legs, determine a projected length value for the one or more expandable legs responsive to the received sensor signal, the communication signal, or the command signal, and command one or more of the plurality of motors based on the projected length value for the one or more expandable legs and the identified current position of the one or more expandable legs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: John Travis Wettroth, Samuel Patterson, Kathryn Cubrilovic, Brian William Wallace, Yoshihito Nakagaki
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Publication number: 20240079914Abstract: Methods, systems, and tables are disclosed for charging multiple devices on a surface and providing feedback. An exemplary method includes sensing a location of a wirelessly rechargeable device on a charging surface of the wirelessly charging surface device and wirelessly powering the wirelessly rechargeable device via a portion of the charging surface corresponding to the sensed location of the wirelessly rechargeable device. The method also includes receiving charging status information from the wirelessly rechargeable device and outputting a human perceptible indication responsive to the received charging status information and the sensed location of the wirelessly rechargeable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: John Travis Wettroth, Samuel Patterson, Kathryn Cubrilovic, Brian William Wallace, Yoshihito Nakagaki
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Publication number: 20240074575Abstract: Apparatuses, tables, and method of making the apparatuses and tables are disclosed for stowing and expanding a desk device. An exemplary apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a frame, a first surface slidably received by the frame in a horizontal plane between and including a stowed position and an expanded position, and a second surface slidably received by the frame between and including a stowed position and an expanded position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kathryn Cubrilovic, John Travis Wettroth, Brian William Wallace, Samuel Patterson, Yoshihito Nakagaki
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Patent number: 11923658Abstract: A laser diode firing circuit for a light detection and ranging device is disclosed. The firing circuit includes a laser diode coupled in series to a transistor, such that current through the laser diode is controlled by the transistor. The laser diode is configured to emit a pulse of light in response to current flowing through the laser diode. The firing circuit includes a capacitor that is configured to charge via a charging path that includes an inductor and to discharge via a discharge path that includes the laser diode. The transistor controlling current through the laser diode can be a Gallium nitride field effect transistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Samuel William Lenius, Pierre-yves Droz
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Patent number: 11914685Abstract: According to certain aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a manager device, data comprising at least one managed device. The method includes identifying, at the manager device, a website associated with the at least one managed device. The method also includes receiving, at a mobile device management server from the manager device, a first message to cause the mobile device management server to initiate transmission of a second message comprising a command that causes the at least one managed device to navigate to the website via a browser, restrict access to other websites other than the website, and enable a camera. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: JAMF Software, LLCInventors: Aaron Maxim, Samuel Jacob Weiss, Jonathan William Yuresko
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Patent number: 11873857Abstract: A method for joining two workpieces, which each have a joining surface for joining the workpieces, applies a viscous adhesive to a first joining surface in the form of a continuous material strand along an application path extending in an application direction. The joining surfaces are arranged facing each other in order to delimit an intermediate gap, in which the material strand is arranged. The workpieces are joined to each other in the region of the material strand by at least one further joining device. The first joining surface includes an alternately arranged hybrid adhering regions and adhering regions. A further joining device is arranged in each hybrid adhering region. The adhesive amount applied in each length unit measured in the application direction in the hybrid adhering regions is less than the adhesive amount applied in each length unit measured in the application direction in the adhering regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Atlas Copco IAS UK LimitedInventor: Samuel Williams
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Publication number: 20230406122Abstract: A rotatable LIDAR device including contactless electrical couplings is disclosed. An example rotatable LIDAR device includes a vehicle electrical coupling including (i) a first conductive ring, (ii) a second conductive ring, and (iii) a first coil. The example rotatable LIDAR device further includes a LIDAR electrical coupling including (i) a third conductive ring, (ii) a fourth conductive ring, and (iii) a second coil. The example rotatable LIDAR device still further includes a rotatable LIDAR electrically coupled to the LIDAR electrical coupling. The first conductive ring and the third conductive ring form a first capacitor configured to transmit communications to the rotatable LIDAR, the second conductive ring and the fourth conductive ring form a second capacitor configured to transmit communications from the rotatable LIDAR, and the first coil and the second coil form a transformer configured to provide power to the rotatable LIDAR.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Samuel William Lenius, Pierre-yves Droz
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Patent number: 11819905Abstract: According to a first aspect of the invention there as provided a method of forming a riveted joint comprising a UHSS layer and a non-UHSS layer using a self-piercing rivet comprising a head and a shank, an outer diameter of a top of the shank being greater than an outer diameter of a bottom of the shank before insertion of the rivet, the method comprising pushing the self-piercing rivet into the UHSS layer such that the lower portion of the shank flares outwards and cuts a slug from the UHSS, and pushing the flared shank of the self-piercing rivet and the slug into the non-UHSS layer such that the non-UHSS layer deforms into a die recess and flows around an outer surface of the flared shank.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Atlas Copco IAS UK LimitedInventors: Russell John Trinick, Samuel Williams, Elliot Jones
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Patent number: 11821570Abstract: A mount for adjusting a mounting plane is disclosed. The mount comprises a first adjustable device, a second adjustable device and a third adjustable device. A first intersection between the first adjustable device and the second adjustable device forming a first principal axis and a second intersection between the second adjustable device and the third adjustable device forming a second principal axis substantially perpendicular to the first principal axis. The first adjustable device, second adjustable device and third adjustable device rigidly coupled together. The first adjustable device is configurable to be adjusted in a first translational degree of freedom, and substantially constrain the first adjustable device in remaining translational degrees of freedom, wherein adjustment of the first adjustable device in the first translational degree of freedom causes a rotation of the mounting plane about the second principal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLCInventors: Samuel William Harris, Russell Christopher West, Martyn Ingleton
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Patent number: 11815682Abstract: A combiner assembly for a ceiling mounted projection head up display system for an aircraft cabin has an optical combiner (10), and a support mechanism (30, 32, 35) for supporting the optical combiner to be movable between an operational position and a stowage position, above the user, and laterally displaced, and facing an underside of the projector assembly by means of a lateral component of movement and a rotation component to reach the stowage position under the projector assembly (20). Such a two axis movement can make better use of limited headroom in cabins such as those of small aircraft, by enabling a stowage location offset to one side of the line of sight, while providing sufficient clearance from the user's head and from cabin structure, during the movement and/or when in the storage position.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BAE Systems PLCInventors: Samuel William Harris, Russell Christopher West
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Patent number: 11800235Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to applying lighting models to images of objects are provided. A neural network can be trained to apply a lighting model to an input image. The training of the neural network can utilize confidence learning that is based on light predictions and prediction confidence values associated with lighting of the input image. A computing device can receive an input image of an object and data about a particular lighting model to be applied to the input image. The computing device can determine an output image of the object by using the trained neural network to apply the particular lighting model to the input image of the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ryan Geiss, Marc S. Levoy, Samuel William Hasinoff, Tianfan Xue