Patents by Inventor Steven Williams
Steven 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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Patent number: 12180543Abstract: A sample holder includes a first member featuring a first retaining mechanism configured to retain a first substrate that includes a sample, a second member featuring a second retaining mechanism configured to retain a second substrate that includes a reagent medium, and an alignment mechanism connected to at least one of the first and second members, and configured to align the first and second members such that the sample contacts at least a portion of the reagent medium when the first and second members are aligned.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: 10x Genomics, Inc.Inventors: Cedric Uytingco, Zachary Bent, Eswar Prasad Ramachandran Iyer, Fernandino Valdecanas, Meghan L. F. Frey, Steven William Short, Yifeng Yin, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Joakim Lundeberg, Augusto Manuel Tentori, David Maurice Cox, Jennifer Chew, Felice Alessio Bava, Linda Kvastad, Andrew D. Price
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Publication number: 20240419250Abstract: A device configured to generate haptic feedback is disclosed. The device includes a housing, a connector, and a haptic motor. The connector includes a mount end coupled to the housing and a distal end spaced away from the mount end. The haptic motor is coupled to the distal end of the connector. Activation of the haptic motor causes the haptic motor to move relative to the housing to generate the haptic feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Qing GUO, Steven William RANTA, Edoardo GASTELUM ENRIQUEZ, Ian Hartman SKOP, James David WAHL, Pia Ivonne SANTELICES
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Patent number: 12164814Abstract: A distributed data storage system can be configured with a host connected to a device and a distribution module. The distribution module identifies a manufacturing origin of the device and diverts a system operation from an upstream component connected to the distribution module to the device in response to the identified manufacturing origin of the device. The manufacturer installed operating parameters of the device are then used to complete the system operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 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: 20240380699Abstract: Techniques for obtaining application network metadata from a service registry so that a network routing policy may be derived for traffic associated with the application are described herein. The techniques may include receiving, at a service registry, network metadata associated with traffic of an application hosted by a scalable application service platform. The techniques may also include obtaining, by a controller of a network and from the service registry, the network metadata associated with the traffic of the application. Based at least in part on the network metadata, the controller may determine a routing policy that is optimized for sending the traffic through the network. Additionally, the controller may send an indication of the routing policy to a node of the network or otherwise provision the network such that the traffic of the application is sent through the network according to the routing policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Steven William Wood, Ding Bai, Fabio R. Maino, Ramanathan Lakshmikanthan
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Publication number: 20240380697Abstract: Techniques for steering overlay network traffic along specific paths through an underlay network. The techniques may include determining a path through an underlay network that is optimized for sending a packet from a first node of an overlay network to a second node of the overlay network. The techniques may also include determining a destination address for sending the packet along the path from the first node to the second node, the destination address including a micro segment identifier (uSID) corresponding with an underlay node that is disposed along the path through the underlay network and trailing bits representing a portion of an address that corresponds with the second node. The techniques may also include causing the packet to be modified to include the destination address such that the packet is sent from the first node to the second node along the path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Bruce McDougall, Jeff Byzek, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Saswat Praharaj, Fabio R. Maino, Steven William Wood
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Patent number: 12143435Abstract: A bidirectional mapping is established between network content and application programs, based on declarations at both the network content and at the application. Additionally, bidirectional mapping can provide for deep links, which can associate specific network content with a specific presentation of data in an application program. The identification format for such deep links can conform to a predetermined standard or it can be custom implemented according to a format declared either as part of the network content or the application program. The bidirectional mapping is then utilized by a lookup service to provide functionality to a third-party entity. The lookup service can identify, to the entity, application programs associated with network content specified by that entity and network content associated with application programs specified by that entity.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Steven William Macbeth, Syed Muhammad Mujahid Hasan, Jacob Sabulsky
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Publication number: 20240357684Abstract: A host device includes a processor, a wireless communication device in data communication with the processor, and a hardware storage device in data communication with the processor. The hardware storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the host device to establish a wireless data channel with an accessory device and assign the wireless data channel to a resource unit with a bandwidth less than 20 MHz. The instructions further cause the host device to send a trigger signal to the accessory device and receive state data from the accessory device in response to the trigger signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Perry Victor LEA, Krishna Kant CHINTALAPUDI, Steven William RANTA, Gopala Srihari NARLANKA, Stanley William ADERMANN
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Patent number: 12120027Abstract: Techniques for steering overlay network traffic along specific paths through an underlay network. The techniques may include determining a path through an underlay network that is optimized for sending a packet from a first node of an overlay network to a second node of the overlay network. The techniques may also include determining a destination address for sending the packet along the path from the first node to the second node, the destination address including a micro segment identifier (uSID) corresponding with an underlay node that is disposed along the path through the underlay network and trailing bits representing a portion of an address that corresponds with the second node. The techniques may also include causing the packet to be modified to include the destination address such that the packet is sent from the first node to the second node along the path.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Mcdougall, Jeff Byzek, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Saswat Praharaj, Fabio R. Maino, Steven William Wood
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Publication number: 20240328743Abstract: Modular quiver systems and methods of use may include, first, a base portion configured to be attachable to a bow and configured to removably hold a first arrow, and second, a detachable portion configured to removably hold a plurality of second arrows and configured to be removably attachable with the base portion by hand without the use of any tools, regardless whether or not the base portion is attached to the bow, and regardless whether arrows are in the quiver. Quick-release bracket systems allow the modular quiver systems to be removed from and attached with a bow in different predetermined positions without the use of any tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: QUICK DRAW LLCInventor: Steven William Davis
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Publication number: 20240316510Abstract: There is provided an insert (110) for a static mixer (100), wherein the static mixer includes the insert and a tube (102). In use, the insert is within the tube. The insert has a first surface (120) including a first leading edge (122) and a first trailing edge (124) joined by a first longitudinal edge (126) and a second longitudinal edge (128). The first surface has a first concave surface portion (130) at or adjacent the first leading edge and a first convex surface portion (132) at or adjacent the first trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventor: Steven William PERKINS
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Patent number: 12093559Abstract: A distributed data storage system may connect a host to a device and a dedication module. The dedication module can identify a manufacturing origin of the device before dedicating a type of host-generated data access request to the device. The type of host-generated data access request is chosen by the dedication module in response to an operating capability correlated to the device by the dedication module based on the identified manufacturing origin. At least one host-generated request of the dedicated type is then completed with the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Hemant Vitthalrao Mane, Jason Matthew Feist, Praveen Viraraghavan, Robert W. Dixon, Marc Timothy Jones, Steven Williams
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Patent number: 12086455Abstract: A data storage system may have a plurality of memory cells located in different data storage devices that are arranged into a plurality of logical namespaces with each logical namespace configured to be sequentially written and entirely erased as a single unit. An asymmetry strategy may be proactively created with the asymmetry module in response to data access activity to the logical namespaces by the asymmetry module. A new mode, as prescribed by the asymmetry strategy, is entered for at least one logical namespace in response to an operational trigger being met. The new mode changes a timing of at least one queued data access request to at least one logical namespace.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Stacey Secatch, David W. Claude, Daniel J. Benjamin, Thomas V. Spencer, Matthew B. Lovell, Steven Williams, Stephen H. Perlmutter
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Publication number: 20240296028Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a change to data stored in a repository. An artifact that is generated based on the change to the data failed a validation. The method analyzes the change to the data via a model to generate a set of adjustments. The model is trained to output adjustments for the artifact to generate a set of adjusted artifacts. The method determines an adjusted artifact that is associated with an adjustment in the set of adjustments that passes the validation. The adjusted artifact is output as a validated artifact.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Jason Alexander Cox, Steven William Wagner, Kyle Everett Lanier, James H. Tatum
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Patent number: 12079355Abstract: Apparatus and method for executing hidden computational functions in a distributed data processing environment. In some embodiments, a trust boundary includes a target device such as a storage device, and a source device such as a client device in a computer network. A storage device processor executes a hidden command function (HCF) routine to accumulate HCF output data in a local cache responsive to an HCF command received from the client device over a data interface. The processor further establishes a smaller retention boundary within the trust boundary that includes the storage device and excludes the client device. The HCF output data are stored locally in a non-volatile memory (NVM) of the storage device while not transferring any portion of the HCF output data outside the retention boundary, including to the client device. The HCF routine can update a block-chain ledger or take some other form to provide data security.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Seagate Technology, LLCInventors: Marc Timothy Jones, David Jerome Allen, Steven Williams, Jason Matthew Feist
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Publication number: 20240285687Abstract: The present disclosure relates to non-natural NKG2D receptors attached to mammalian cell surfaces wherein the non-natural receptors do not directly signal or directly activate the cell when the receptor is bound by cognate non-natural ?1-?2 domains of NKG2D ligands modified to specifically bind the non-natural NKG2D receptors. The non-natural ?1-?2 domains of NKG2D ligands may be attached to heterologous atoms or molecules including polypeptides, in some embodiments cytokines or modified cytokines, antibodies or fragments of antibodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Kaman Kim, David W. Martin, JR., Steven Williams
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Publication number: 20240284319Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor, a wireless communication device, and a hardware storage device. The hardware storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to obtain a plurality of data channel personalities. Each of the data channel personalities includes a unique radio communication and network protocol for the wireless communication device. The instructions further cause the electronic device to select a data channel personality from the plurality of data channel personalities and transmit data to a host device using the wireless communication device and the radio communication and network protocol according to the selected data channel personality.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Perry Victor LEA, Krishna Kant CHINTALAPUDI, Steven William RANTA, Gopala Srihari NARLANKA, Stanley William ADERMANN
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Publication number: 20240277937Abstract: A drug delivery system is disclosed that includes a drug delivery device having a reservoir, a delivery cannula having a proximal end in fluid communication with the reservoir and a distal end to be received within a patient, and one or more controllable elements. The drug delivery system may further include one or more sensors coupled to the drug delivery device, and a controller coupled to the one or more sensors and the one or more controllable elements. The controller may be configured to use the one or more sensors to determine a condition or an operational state of the drug delivery device. Furthermore, the controller may be configured to control the controllable element based on the condition or the operational state of the drug delivery device and/or identity information stored in a memory onboard the device. A method for use with a drug delivery device is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Adam B. McCullough, Basel Hasan Taha, Jimmie L. Ward, Christopher R. Folk, Steven William Badelt, Ferry Tamtoro, Huaying Yang, Mark Ka Lai Lee, Desheng Yin, Scott R. Gibson, Donald Busby, Peter V. Shultz, Keith P. Kogler
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Patent number: 12068965Abstract: Techniques for obtaining application network metadata from a service registry so that a network routing policy may be derived for traffic associated with the application are described herein. The techniques may include receiving, at a service registry, network metadata associated with traffic of an application hosted by a scalable application service platform. The techniques may also include obtaining, by a controller of a network and from the service registry, the network metadata associated with the traffic of the application. Based at least in part on the network metadata, the controller may determine a routing policy that is optimized for sending the traffic through the network. Additionally, the controller may send an indication of the routing policy to a node of the network or otherwise provision the network such that the traffic of the application is sent through the network according to the routing policy.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Steven William Wood, Ding Bai, Fabio R. Maino, Ramanathan Lakshmikanthan
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Publication number: 20240272728Abstract: An instrument panel includes a frame defining an opening, a plurality of cards, and an HMI. The cards have a front face, a rear face, one or more circuits, and a data interface on the rear face in communication with the circuits. The cards include one or more first cards and one or more second cards. The first cards front face have a vertical dimension approximately equal to a vertical dimension of the opening. The second cards have a body, a nose projecting from the body defining the second cards front face, and a recess between the nose and body. The HMI includes a front face received within the opening. The first cards are positioned with the front face visible within the opening. The second cards are positioned with the nose visible within the opening and a depth of the HMI received within the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Steven William Fisher, Kevin Doan, Malgorzata Anna Blachnicka, Bryan Shadel
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Patent number: D1043284Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: RB Distribution, Inc.Inventors: Chad Timothy Leichliter, Steven William Butcher, Katherine Adelia Goodman