Patents by Inventor William A. Alexander

William A. Alexander 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).

  • Publication number: 20240082572
    Abstract: An electrode lead comprises an elongated lead body, at least one lead connector terminal affixed to the proximal end of the lead body, and an electrically insulative cuff body affixed to the distal end of the lead body. The cuff body is configured for being circumferentially disposed around a nerve. The cuff body comprises cutouts, slits, a wrinkled portion, a thin stretchable portion, and/or a serpentine strap, which increases that increase the expandability of the cuff body when disposed around the nerve. The electrode lead further comprises at least one electrode contact affixed to the cuff body, and at least one electrical conductor extending through the lead body between the at least one lead connector terminal and the electrode contact(s). If the cuff body comprises cutouts or slits, the electrode lead can further comprise a thin stretchable film affixed to the cuff body over cutouts or slits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
    Inventors: Boon Khai Ng, William Alexander Dai
  • Patent number: 11928029
    Abstract: A system that implements a data storage service may store data for a database table in multiple replicated partitions on respective storage nodes. In response to a request to back up a table, the service may back up individual partitions of the table to a remote storage system independently and (in some cases) in parallel, and may update (or create) and store metadata about the table and its partitions on storage nodes of the data storage service and/or in the remote storage system. Backing up each partition may include exporting it from the database in which the table is stored, packaging and compressing the exported partition for upload, and uploading the exported, packaged, and compressed partition to the remote storage system. The remote storage system may be a key-value durable storage system in which each backed-up partition is accessible using its partition identifier as the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Maximiliano Maccanti, Timothy Andrew Rath, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri, Akshat Vig, Clarence Wing Yin Ng, Srivaths Badrinath Copparam, Rajaprabhu Thiruchi Loganathan, Wei Xiao, William Alexander Stevenson
  • Publication number: 20240075636
    Abstract: A tool interchange for a submersible remote operated vehicle (ROV) arm includes a first interchange body that affixes to an ROV arm. A second interchange body is carried by the first interchange body to rotate on a rotation axis. The second interchange body includes a tool mount actuable between gripping an ROV tool to the second interchange body and releasing the ROV tool from the second interchange body. An inductive power coupling part is provided in the tool mount. The inductive power coupling part is presented outwardly in the tool mount opposite the first interchange body, resides on the rotation axis and is fixed with respect to the first interchange body while the second interchange body rotates. The inductive power coupling part is adapted to inductively communicate power with a corresponding inductor power coupling part of the ROV tool when the ROV tool is docked in the tool mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Brian Correll, William P. Klassen, Clayton Paul Kleppinger, Philip David Langley, Justin Daniel Schmaljohann, Ryan Mitchell Bosler, William Dawson Kesling, Chris Alexander Ade
  • Publication number: 20240073011
    Abstract: A secure digital network environment is provided by integrating OTP keys as part of quantum-safe data systems solutions (QPN Solutions), including the use of one-time-pad (OTP) keys to encrypt data, support multi-factor authentication and secure all communications between devices in the secure digital network environment. The OTP keys are “pre-loaded” to endpoint (EP) devices to render them quantum-safe (QS) when connected into the secure digital network environment, or are otherwise provided through removable media to be loaded into user supplied appliances, devices and accessories to render them QS when connected into the secure digital network environment. The application of QPN Solutions refers to the application of QPN enabled technologies to provide a secure digital network environment includes risk assessment and management solutions for establishing and managing cyber security insurable risks and policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Tilo Alexander Kunz, Gary Paul Swatton, William Arthur Yakamovich
  • Publication number: 20240070075
    Abstract: A lower-level cache managing cross-core invalidation (XI) snapshots in a shared-memory multiprocessing system, wherein the management of XI snapshots reduces an amount of required snapshots while allowing shared lower-level caches, comprising: the lower-level cache maintaining respective response sync state for at least one processor in a plurality of processors signifying that a line may have been changed by another processor since last fetched by a requesting processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Joseph Branciforte, Gregory William Alexander, Timothy Bronson, Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Akash V. Giri, Aaron Tsai
  • Patent number: 11904920
    Abstract: A lift cart includes a lift table that moves between a raised position and a lowest position and a braking device attached to the lift cart. A braking device includes an actuator, a linkage bar, and a first brake assembly. The linkage bar connects to the actuator. The linkage bar translates in a first direction upon activation of the actuator. The first brake assembly connects to the linkage bar. The first brake assembly moves from a deployed state to a retracted state as the linkage bar translates in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: William Alexander Bernal, Caleb Daniel Rideout, Jacob L. Wymore, Herald Harrington, Kevin Brault
  • Patent number: 11907132
    Abstract: A method for managing designated authority status in a cache line includes identifying an initial designated authority (DA) member cache for a cache line, transferring DA status from the initial DA member cache to a new DA member cache, determining whether the new DA member cache is active, indicating a final state of the initial DA cache responsive to determining that the new DA member cache is active, and overriding a DA state in a cache control structure in a directory. A method for managing cache accesses during a designated authority transfer includes receiving a designated authority (DA) status transfer request, receiving an indication that a first cache will invalidate its copy of the cache line, allowing a second cache to assume DA status for the cache line, and denying access to the first cache's copy of the cache line until invalidation by the first cache is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jason D Kohl, Gregory William Alexander, Timothy Bronson, Akash V. Giri, Winston Herring
  • Patent number: 11907125
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes determining whether a rejection of a request is required and determining whether the request is software forward progress (SFP)-likely or SFP-unlikely upon determining that the rejection of the request is required. The method also includes executing a first pseudo random decision to set or not set a requested state of the request in an event the request is SFP-likely or SFP-unlikely, respectively, and rejecting the request following execution of the second pseudo random decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory William Alexander, Tu-An T. Nguyen, Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Timothy Bronson, Christian Jacobi
  • Patent number: 11893795
    Abstract: In aspects, a visitor interaction system is described for interacting with visitors. The visitor interaction system can obtain video data, identify an approach of a person, and determine an identity of the person. Further, the visitor interaction system can determine that the person belongs to a respective visitor group of a plurality of visitor groups. Each of the plurality of visitor groups corresponds to a response model that includes a plurality of response actions. At least one of the response actions includes an autonomous response action. The visitor interaction system can also identify a response model corresponding to the respective visitor group and initiate an autonomous response action associated with the response model. The visitor interaction system can then send a report message to the user via a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: William Alexander Finlayson, Liana Kong, John Jordan Nold, Sahana Mysore, Ruiyi Song
  • Publication number: 20240034487
    Abstract: A display system can be configured to identify a space object and an object alert associated with a change in one or more movement parameters of the space object. The system can generate data configured to display a display region and an object alert indicator within the display region. The system can display the object alert indicator at a location within the display region and display, within a second display region, a listing of a plurality of alerts comprising the object alert. The system can receive a user selection of an alert from the plurality of alerts configured to be displayed in the second display region and automatically generate updated data configured to display an updated display region based on the user selection of the alert. The updated display region can include a panned, rotated, and/or zoomed perspective of the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Douglas Lee Hendrix, William Alexander Therien
  • Patent number: 11880304
    Abstract: To facilitate an efficient processing of contended cache lines, a cache controller that is associated with a requestor receives a fetch request for data from the requestor. The fetch request is associated with a cache scope designation. If the data is in a high-level cache (e.g., L1 cache) associated with the requestor, the cache controller returns the requested data to the requestor. If the data is not in the high-level cache or if the data is not within the cache pool identified by the cache scope of search designation, and/or if obtaining the data is contentious, the controller returns a cache miss, undeliverable data, and request done instruction to the requestor. Such scheme allows or permits address contention events when the requestor deems such events are necessary and/or when important. As such, address contention events, performance, latencies, increased executions times, inefficient use of resources, may be diminished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Taylor J Pritchard, Aaron Tsai, Richard Joseph Branciforte, Ashraf ElSharif, Gregory William Alexander, Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Michael Fee
  • Patent number: 11859158
    Abstract: A hard surface cleaning composition, methods of cleaning a hard surface with a low hysteresis composition and disposable premoistened pads for cleaning hard surfaces are provided. The hard surface cleaning composition includes from 0.01 wt. % to 7 wt. % of a solvent selected from the group consisting of a propylene glycol phenyl ether, a dipropylene glycol phenyl ethers and mixtures thereof and at least 92% water. The cleaning composition has a pH from about 3.5 to 9.5 and is free of anionic surfactant and alkanolamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fernando Ray Tollens, Pauline Cuc Vu, Brian Christopher Groendyke, William Alexander Cynecki, Daniel Ross Mayfield, Anthony Schutz
  • Patent number: 11853212
    Abstract: Embodiments are for preemptive tracking of remote requests for decentralized hot cache line fairness tracking. Authority is requested for a cache line in conjunction with querying for outstanding requests for the cache line. One or more responses are received regarding the outstanding requests for the cache line. In response to receiving the one or more responses regarding the outstanding requests and in advance of receiving the authority for the cache line, the outstanding requests are preemptively tracked in a requested structure associated with the cache line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tu-An T. Nguyen, Matthias Klein, Gregory William Alexander, Jason D. Kohl, Vesselina Papazova
  • Publication number: 20230409331
    Abstract: In an approach, responsibility for reissuing a fetch micro-operation is allocated to a reissue queue subsequent to a cache miss corresponding to a cache and the fetch micro-operation. Responsive to higher level cache returning data to the cache, an issue selection algorithm of the issue queue is overridden to prioritize reissuing the fetch micro-operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Ting Hsieh, Gregory William Alexander, Aaron Tsai, Yossi Shapira
  • Patent number: D1009547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products LLC
    Inventors: Zoe Noelle Gomer, William Alexander Mecker, Qian Hamel, Henry Michael Hillstrom
  • Patent number: D1010386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products LLC
    Inventors: Zoe Noelle Gomer, William Alexander Mecker, Qian Hamel, Henry Michael Hillstrom
  • Patent number: D1013439
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products LLC
    Inventors: Derek Bennion, William Alexander Mecker, Douglas W. Masek, James Keclik
  • Patent number: D1013441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products LLC
    Inventors: Zoe Noelle Gomer, William Alexander Mecker, Qian Hamel, Henry Michael Hillstrom
  • Patent number: D1014170
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products LLC
    Inventors: Zoe Noelle Gomer, William Alexander Mecker, Qian Hamel, Sean Alan Yakes
  • Patent number: D1014171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Weber-Stephen Products LLC
    Inventors: Zoe Noelle Gomer, William Alexander Mecker, Qian Hamel, Henry Michael Hillstrom