Patents by Inventor Thomas Williams

Thomas 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: 11701243
    Abstract: A bone mill includes a housing, at least a first bone milling tool, a proximal bearing sleeve, and a distal bearing sleeve. The housing defines a work chamber. The work chamber has a first axial end, a second axial end, a feed input opening, and an output opening. The bone milling tool is configured to be disposed within the work chamber, and extends at least from a first axial end to the second axial chamber. The proximal bearing sleeve is supported by the housing proximate the first axial end, and a distal bearing sleeve supported by the housing proximate the second axial end. The proximal bearing sleeve and the distal bearing sleeve support the bone milling tool and allow rotation of the bone milling tool within the work chamber about an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Tarca LLC
    Inventors: Thomas William Tarca, Sandra Lee Tarca, Reuben Quincey Zielinski, Robert Anderson Till
  • Patent number: 11697926
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing liquid water from the condensation of atmospheric water vapor includes a transportable housing defining a first air inlet, a second air inlet, and an air outlet; first and second doors operable selectively to open and close the first and second air inlets, respectively; and at least one water condensation unit located in the housing between the first air inlet and the air outlet, and between the second air inlet and the air outlet. The housing is configured so that, when at least one of the first and second air inlets is open, at least a portion of an air flow into the at least one open air inlet is passed through the at least one condensation unit and out the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ASHERA HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Robert G. Carrington, Thomas William Cox
  • Patent number: 11697873
    Abstract: Methods of depositing an inorganic material on an extrusion die including positioning an extrusion die within a vapor deposition chamber, positioning an impedance disk over a face of the extrusion die, the impedance disk having a plurality of through holes and the face of the extrusion die having a plurality of slots defined by a plurality of extrusion die pins, and flowing one or more deposition gases through the plurality of through holes and into the plurality of slots to deposit inorganic particles on side walls of the plurality of pins. The total impedance to the flow of the deposition gases across the impedance disk and the extrusion die may be equal to a disk impedance of the impedance disk plus a die impedance of the extrusion die, and the disk impedance may be at least 40% of the total impedance to the flow of the deposition gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas William Brew, Yuehao Li, Min Shen
  • Publication number: 20230217350
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise detecting a triggering event at a node. Location information of the node can be transmitted to a routing device in response to the triggering event. Location information of the node can be transmitted to a management device. The management device can be configured to control an operation of one or more of the node and the routing device in response to the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Phillip Andrew Sanderson, Thomas William Lynn, JR.
  • Patent number: 11691817
    Abstract: Yeast cells are genetically modified to disrupt a native metabolic pathway from dihydroxyacetone to glycerol. In certain aspects, the yeast cell is of the genera Kluyveromyces, Candida or Issatchenkia. In other aspects, the yeast cell is capable of producing at least one organic acid, such as lactate. The yeast cells produce significantly less glycerol than the wild-type strains, and usually produce greater yields of desired fermentation products. Yeast cells of the invention often grow well when cultivated, despite their curtailed glycerol production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Catherine Asleson Dundon, Pirkko Suominen, Aristos Aristidou, Brian J. Rush, Kari Koivuranta, Benjamin Matthew Hause, Thomas William McMullin, Kevin Roberg-Perez
  • Publication number: 20230203833
    Abstract: An inflatable structure for painting aircraft, comprised of a front chamber and a rear chamber. An aircraft can be positioned within the structure. Air vents within the structure create a positive pressure environment within the structure for removing paint fumes and preventing dirt or contaminants from entering the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Williams
  • Publication number: 20230206323
    Abstract: An intelligent data matching and validation system, and associated methods, are disclosed. The system includes various processors, databases, and immutable ledgers for analyzing data such as, but not limited to, loan data. The system leverages intelligent resources such as Bayesian inference networks for determining high correlation events representative of likely outcomes based on data parameters. The system automatically updates the Bayesian inference network's weighted coefficients in response to processing loan data and corresponding target events, such as repurchase requests. The system stores outcomes from the Bayesian inference networks, as well as loan histories and associated loan data, in a ledger that is accessible to third parties via a unique cryptographic token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas William Showalter, Chad Wille
  • Patent number: 11685033
    Abstract: A Shipboard Multi-tool. The Multi-tool includes a pair of groups of tools that are individually-extendable from the handle in order to allow the Multi-tool to operate a plurality of different shipboard mechanisms with a single assembly. One group of extendable tools includes spanner and box wrenches. Another group of extendable tools includes key-type wrenches. The individual extendable wrenches are lockable in a variety of angular positions relative to the handle to provide the user with several configurations with which to use the wrenches. The locking mechanisms are operable by depressing a spring-loaded push-button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Williams
  • Patent number: 11684137
    Abstract: A dispenser is disclosed for a solid or semi-solid product that includes an outer shell and a slider disposed inside the outer shell. The dispenser also includes an inner shell defining an opening and a carrier adapted to retain the product in the inner shell. The carrier includes carrier teeth that are engaged by an actuator connected between the slider and the carrier for advancing the carrier and the product. The actuator includes at least two drive arms that extend through the inner shell and into the carrier. The drive arms include drive teeth that are adapted to engage the carrier teeth. The carrier and product are replaceable, and the outer shell, the inner shell, and the actuator may be reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BRIANA, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas William Briana, David Louis Worrell, Niclas Henning Zieger
  • Patent number: 11675179
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel assembly and method that enables a user to collimate a focused Cassegrain telescope. The assembly, having a secondary mirror and support baffle, comprising an axle, a bearing, and hub, enables a user to precisely rotate or freely spin a Cassegrain telescope's secondary mirror about its optical axis. Incident to freely spinning the telescope's secondary mirror, the user may peer into the telescope's eyepiece and observe a focused image that may wobble, or remain stable, dependent upon how well the telescope's mirrors are aligned. Further, the assembly's eyepiece, comprising a reticle design, enables the observer to measure the magnitude and direction of image shift incident to the secondary mirror spinning. Lastly, the assembly, comprising a radially marked collimating faceplate, and radially marked collimating knob screws, enables a user to make specific adjustments to the telescope's secondary mirror, compensating for the observed image shift, precisely collimating the telescope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas William Hegwer
  • Publication number: 20230167742
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for an engine component having a working airflow separated into a cooling airflow and a combustion airflow, the engine component comprising a plurality of circumferentially spaced airfoils rotatable about a centerline defining an axial direction, each airfoil comprising an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip along a span-wise direction to define a span length; wherein each of the airfoils have an unguided turning angle to stagger angle ratio defined with respect to a percentage of the span length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas William Vandeputte
  • Publication number: 20230166856
    Abstract: A system for controlling power distribution is provided. The system includes an engine operably coupled to an electric machine and a first power electronics device configured in a power control mode to modulate power extracted by the electric machine. A second power electronics device is configured in a voltage control mode and is operably coupled to a load device to modulate power received by the load device from the first power electronics device. Modulating power received by the load device is based at least on an operating limit corresponding to the load device, a voltage of the electric bus, or both. A computing system is operably coupled to the engine and the first power electronics device, wherein the computing system is configured to send control commands to the engine and the first power electronics device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Charles Hon, Thomas William Brown, Paul Robert Gemin, Greg Detweiler
  • Publication number: 20230161179
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a contact lens comprising a lenticular in a superior portion of the contact lens wherein the contact lens attaches to an upper eyelid of a wearer by the lenticular interacting with an upper tarsal plate of the upper eyelid of a wearer, said interaction allows the contact lens to translate upwards in downgaze and maintain rotational stability. By having rotational stability and translation, a contact lens having a progressive addition optic zone is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas William RAASCH, Melissa D. BAILEY
  • Patent number: 11659472
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise determining a first modulation rate associated with a network device. A beacon can be transmitted at a second modulation rate, wherein the second modulation rate is greater than the first modulation rate. A user device can be associated with the network device based on the beacon if the user device is configured to support the second modulation rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas William Lynn, Jr., Phillip A. Sanderson, Joseph Attanasio, Yash Lachmandas Khemani, James H. Davey
  • Publication number: 20230153333
    Abstract: Interacting between users of mobile devices is provided by initiating a desired interaction at a first user device using a gesture sensed by the first user device, determining a gesture space, submitting a desired interaction request for interaction with associated users within the gesture space, and sending a notification to user devices indicating the desired interaction of the first user with one or more users of a local subset, wherein the notification identifies the first user with an identifier independent of identifiers used by the first user outside of interactions with a remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Ganesan Venkatakrishnan, Peter Ellenby, Thomas William Ellenby, Peter Negulescu
  • Patent number: 11652428
    Abstract: A system for controlling a motor includes a controller module comprising a controller portion, a regulator portion and an integrator portion. The regulator portion includes a set of regulator modules communicatively coupled in a sequence. Each regulator module configured to receive a respective input signal, indicative of a target or selected value, from the controller portion or the immediately preceding regulator module in the sequence, determine a respective selectable value; select one of the respective selectable value and the value indicated by the received input signal; and provide the selected value as an output signal to the next regulator module in the sequence or the integrator module. The integrator module is configured to receive the output signal from the last regulator module in the sequence, calculate a final demand value based on the received signal, and provide an output signal indicative of the final demand value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Charles Hon, Paul Robert Gemin, Thomas William Brown, Gregory Lee Detweiler
  • Patent number: 11651846
    Abstract: The disclosed system identifies a preparation status of a first and second medication. Based on the delivery time and the completion time for the second medication, the system determines whether the first medication should be delivered prior to delivering the second medication and, when determining that the second medication should delivered prior to delivering the first medication, a notification to deliver the second medication before delivering the first medication is sent to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas William Utech, Maria Consolacion Jaskela, William Lee Webster
  • Patent number: 11649928
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the storage and delivery of fuel, such as methane. In certain aspects, a system is provided with an inner vessel, and outer vessel, and a rope suspension system connecting the two vessels. In certain aspects, the disclosed storage tanks operate at low pressure with long hold times, and have a non-cylindrical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: BENNAMANN SERVICES LTD
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Mann, Kate Joanne Dibble, Thomas William Bradshaw, Andrew John Taylor Whitehouse, Duncan Stuart Glasby, Jack Brom Sebastian Irwin, Jamie Eric Freemann, George Edward Hyde-Linaker
  • Patent number: 11646934
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. For example, systems and methods are disclosed for selectively disabling and/or otherwise configuring devices to avoid interference, overlapping service, and/or the like. Signal information for nearby devices can be detected and analyzed to determine device configuration settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Phillip A. Sanderson, Thomas William Lynn, Jr., Joseph Attanasio, Yash Lachmandas Khemani
  • Patent number: 11643633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (100) for monitoring the development of a biological material, said device in the orientation intended for use comprising: a housing (2) having an extension in a longitudinal direction (X) and an extension in a transversal direction (Y), said housing comprises: two or more culture dish compartments (4), each adapted to accommodate a culture dish (6) comprising a biological material (8) to be monitored, each said compartment being separated from each of said other compartments, said two or more compartments being arranged along the longitudinal direction; each said culture dish compartment (4) comprising a lid (10) adapted to be able to be shifted between an open configuration in which access to the interior (12) of said culture dish compartment is provided, and a closed configuration sealing off the interior of said culture dish compartment from its surroundings; wherein each said culture dish compartment comprises an inlet (14) for supplying gas to and an outlet (16
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ESCO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, UAB
    Inventor: Thomas William Pedersen