Patents by Inventor William A. Craig
William A. Craig 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: 20240125530Abstract: A refrigeration system configured to receive a refrigerant is provided, as well as a walk-in refrigeration unit configured to utilize said system. The refrigeration system comprises: a power source, a condenser unit, an evaporation unit, a plurality of compressors, wherein each of the plurality of compressors is communicably coupled to the condenser unit, and a plurality of expansion devices, wherein each of the plurality of expansion devices is communicably coupled to the evaporation unit. The system is configured to receive an A3 refrigerant having a Global Warming Potential (GWP) value less than 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Refrigerated Solutions Group LLCInventors: William Craig Larson, Narasimha Sapta Sailesh Krovvidi, Nicholas Scott Huppert, Brian McCain
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Publication number: 20240119735Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to detect one or more adjacent product storage structures (shelves, pallets, etc.) and identifies and selects a single image that fully shows a product storage structure of interest and fully shows each of the products stored on the product storage structure of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Lingfeng Zhang, Mingquan Yuan, Paul Lewis Lobo, Avinash M. Jade, Zhichun Xiao, William Craig Robinson, JR., Zhaoliang Duan, Wei Wang, Han Zhang, Raghava Balusu, Tianyi Mao
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Patent number: 11909077Abstract: Redox flow devices are described including a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector, and an ion-permeable membrane separating said positive and negative current collectors, positioned and arranged to define a positive electroactive zone and a negative electroactive zone; wherein at least one of said positive and negative electroactive zone comprises a flowable semi-solid composition comprising ion storage compound particles capable of taking up or releasing said ions during operation of the cell, and wherein the ion storage compound particles have a polydisperse size distribution in which the finest particles present in at least 5 vol % of the total volume, is at least a factor of 5 smaller than the largest particles present in at least 5 vol % of the total volume.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yet-Ming Chiang, William Craig Carter, Mihai Duduta, Pimpa Limthongkul
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Patent number: 11888144Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrochemical cell includes transferring an anode semi-solid suspension to an anode compartment defined at least in part by an anode current collector and an separator spaced apart from the anode collector. The method also includes transferring a cathode semi-solid suspension to a cathode compartment defined at least in part by a cathode current collector and the separator spaced apart from the cathode collector. The transferring of the anode semi-solid suspension to the anode compartment and the cathode semi-solid to the cathode compartment is such that a difference between a minimum distance and a maximum distance between the anode current collector and the separator is maintained within a predetermined tolerance. The method includes sealing the anode compartment and the cathode compartment.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: 24M Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alexander H. Slocum, Tristan Doherty, Ricardo Bazzarella, James C. Cross, III, Pimpa Limthongkul, Mihai Duduta, Jeffry Disko, Allen Yang, Throop Wilder, William Craig Carter, Yet-Ming Chiang
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Patent number: 11882102Abstract: A base key that is stored at a device may be received. A network identification may further be received. A device identification key may be generated based on a combination of the network identification and the base key. Furthermore, the device identification key may be used to authenticate the device with a network that corresponds to the network identification.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Cryptography Research, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Alain Martineau, Ambuj Kumar, William Craig Rawlings
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Patent number: 11859885Abstract: A refrigeration system configured to receive a refrigerant is provided, as well as a walk-in refrigeration unit configured to utilize said system. The refrigeration system comprises: a power source, a condenser unit, an evaporation unit, a plurality of compressors, wherein each of the plurality of compressors is communicably coupled to the condenser unit, and a plurality of expansion devices, wherein each of the plurality of expansion devices is communicably coupled to the evaporation unit. The system is configured to receive an A3 refrigerant having a Global Warming Potential (GWP) value less than 10.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: REFRIGERATED SOLUTIONS GROUP LLCInventors: William Craig Larson, Narasimha Sapta Sailesh Krovvidi, Nicholas Scott Huppert, Brian McCain
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Patent number: 11823713Abstract: A method for editing an audio stream includes recording and storing an audio stream having a first audio segment and a second audio segment. The method includes receiving a request to edit the second audio segment and processing the audio stream to identify a first pause segment defining a period of silence from an end of the first audio segment to a start of the second audio segment. Further, the method includes determining the second audio segment as a segment beginning at an end of the first pause segment and terminating either at an end of the audio stream or at a beginning of a second pause segment recorded in succession to the second audio segment, obtaining a third audio segment including a revised version of the second audio segment, and replacing the second audio segment with the third audio segment.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BOLT-ON IP SOLUTIONS, LLCInventor: William Craig Kenney
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Publication number: 20230343326Abstract: Some embodiments provide retail product ordering systems comprising: a user computing device comprising an application executed by a device control circuit to: receive an audible utterance; controls a product identifier application interface to: apply a tokenizer model and obtain a set of individual search words; apply a series of featurizer models to the search words to generate features; and apply a classifier and extractor model based on the features and generate multiple requested product entities each comprising a respective sub-set of the position labeled product terms; wherein the device control circuit is further configured to access a purchase history database, confirm an accuracy of each of requested product entities relative to a purchase history, generate a listing of determined product identifiers corresponding to the confirmed set of the multiple requested product entities, and control a display system of the user computing device to render the listing of determined product identifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Praneeth Gubbala, Xuan Zhang, Bahula Bosetti, Priya Ashok Kumar Choudhary, Dong T. Nguyen, Shivraj V. Kodak, William Craig Robinson, JR.
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Patent number: 11789625Abstract: A request associated with one or more privileges assigned to a first entity may be received. Each of the one or more privileges may correspond to an operation of an integrated circuit. Information corresponding to the first entity and stored in a memory that is associated with the integrated circuit may be identified. Furthermore, the memory may be programmed to modify the information stored in the memory that is associated with the integrated circuit in response to the request associated with the one or more privileges assigned to the first entity.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Cryptography Research, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Che-Ming Jun, William Craig Rawlings, Ambuj Kumar, Mark Evan Marson
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Patent number: 11784999Abstract: Embodiments are directed to credential management for distributed services. A plurality of mesh agents for an overlay network may be provided such that the overlay network may be employed to provide a secure tunnel between a client and a resource server. If client request that requires user credentials is provided to a mesh agent associated with the resource server, credential instructions may be provided to the mesh agent and the credential instructions may be employed to determine credential information that enables access to the resource server. The mesh agent may be employed to communicate the client request and the credential information to the resource server; determining a response to the client request from the resource server; employing the mesh agent to receive a response to the client request from the resource server and forwarded to the client over the overlay network.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: strongDM, Inc.Inventors: William Craig Jones, Justin Allan McCarthy, Patrick David Stephen, Evan Michael Todd
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Patent number: 11644948Abstract: A system for presenting slides during a live presentation is described. The system includes a processor configured to display a series of first thumbnails corresponding to a plurality of first slides of a main file and a series of second thumbnails corresponding to a plurality of second slides of an auxiliary file on a presenter view interface of a primary display device. The processor is configured to receive an input corresponding to a desired slide, indicate the desired slide on an indicative portion, and produce the desired slide on a viewing portion. One or more slides disposed in succession to the desired slide is sequentially producible on the viewing portion. Each slide of the one or more slides disposed in succession to a slide produced on the viewing portion is configured to be indicated on the indicative portion prior to being produced on the viewing portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: BOLT-ON IP SOLUTIONS, LLCInventor: William Craig Kenney
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Patent number: 11613319Abstract: A trailer lighting activation system includes a vehicle light sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a microcontroller. The vehicle light sensor is removably attached to a towing vehicle light to detect a light output of the towing vehicle light, and to provide a vehicle light sensor output signal in response to the light output of the towing vehicle light. The ambient light sensor can detect an ambient light level and provide an output signal in response to the ambient light level. The microcontroller is coupled to the vehicle light sensor output and to the ambient light sensor and has an output for energizing a trailer light in response to the ambient light sensor output signal and the vehicle light sensor output signal. An overcurrent monitor is coupled to the trailer light and to monitor current drawn by the trailer lighting activation system.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: U-HAUL INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Michael Mikhailov, William Craig
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Patent number: 11614470Abstract: A current sensing device includes a housing with a head adapted for releasably holding a wire of an electrical circuit without breaking the electrical circuit. The head has one or more current sensors configured to sense direct current in the wire without breaking the electrical circuit. The housing includes an alarm to indicate if the current sensing device senses a current in the electrical wire above a predefined threshold current. The head has a clip base and clip member that form an internal channel to closely receive the electrical wire and to releasably hold the electrical wire for testing. In some embodiments, the head has an internal channel that intersects the outer surface of the head and forms a longitudinal opening to allow insertion of the wire into the internal channel. The current sensing device has a processor programed to calibrate the current sensing device to compensate for electrical noise.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: U-HAUL INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: William Craig
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Publication number: 20230070502Abstract: Systems and Apparatus for micromirror designs with electrode contact. In some examples, a micromirror including a mirror, a mirror via coupled to the mirror, a hinge coupled to the mirror via, the hinge including a springtip associated with a first side of the micromirror, the springtip associated with a first terminal, and an electrode associated with the first side of the micromirror, the electrode having a dielectric coating in contact with the springtip, the electrode associated with a second terminal different than the first terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: William Craig McDonald, Ryan Patrick Savage
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Patent number: 11591966Abstract: Features and methods for modulating a flow of cooling fluid to gas turbine engine components are provided. In one embodiment, an airfoil is provided having a flow modulation insert for modulating a flow of cooling fluid received in a cavity of a body of the airfoil. In another embodiment, a shroud is provided comprising a cooling channel for a flow of cooling fluid and an insert that varies in position to modulate the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling channel. In yet another embodiment, a method for operating a gas turbine engine having a cooling circuit for cooling one or more components of the gas turbine engine comprises increasing power provided to the engine and decreasing power provided to the engine to modulate a position of a flow modulation insert located in the cooling circuit and thereby modulate the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Charles Groves, II, Kirk Douglas Gallier, Charles William Craig, III
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Publication number: 20230047575Abstract: A request associated with one or more privileges assigned to a first entity may be received. Each of the one or more privileges may correspond to an operation of an integrated circuit. Information corresponding to the first entity and stored in a memory that is associated with the integrated circuit may be identified. Furthermore, the memory may be programmed to modify the information stored in the memory that is associated with the integrated circuit in response to the request associated with the one or more privileges assigned to the first entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Benjamin Che-Ming JUN, William Craig RAWLINGS, Ambuj KUMAR, Mark Evan MARSON
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Publication number: 20230023638Abstract: A refrigeration system configured to receive a refrigerant is provided, as well as a walk-in refrigeration unit configured to utilize said system. The refrigeration system comprises: a power source, a condenser unit, an evaporation unit, a plurality of compressors, wherein each of the plurality of compressors is communicably coupled to the condenser unit, and a plurality of expansion devices, wherein each of the plurality of expansion devices is communicably coupled to the evaporation unit. The system is configured to receive an A3 refrigerant having a Global Warming Potential (GWP) value less than 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Refrigerated Solutions Group LLCInventors: William Craig Larson, Narasimha Sapta Sailesh Krovvidi, Nicholas Scott Huppert, Brian McCain
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Patent number: 11562771Abstract: A method for synchronizing a plurality of presentation slide content with a soundtrack comprises obtaining the plurality of presentation slide content and the soundtrack including a plurality of audio samples. The presentation slide content comprises a video or an animation in the presentation slide. Each presentation slide content is associated with a metadata and each audio sample is indexed with a corresponding timecode. The method comprises detecting triggering event that identifies a current audio sample of the soundtrack as an audio sample to transition from a first presentation slide content to a second presentation slide content, and obtaining a timecode indexed with the identified audio sample, associating the timecode with the metadata of the second presentation slide content to link the second presentation slide content with the identified audio sample, and generating a synchronized presentation multimedia file having the linked second presentation slide content with the identified audio sample.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Bolt-On IP Solutions, LLCInventor: William Craig Kenney
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Publication number: 20230018078Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrochemical cell includes transferring an anode semi-solid suspension to an anode compartment defined at least in part by an anode current collector and an separator spaced apart from the anode collector. The method also includes transferring a cathode semi-solid suspension to a cathode compartment defined at least in part by a cathode current collector and the separator spaced apart from the cathode collector. The transferring of the anode semi-solid suspension to the anode compartment and the cathode semi-solid to the cathode compartment is such that a difference between a minimum distance and a maximum distance between the anode current collector and the separator is maintained within a predetermined tolerance. The method includes sealing the anode compartment and the cathode compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: 24M Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alexander H. SLOCUM, Tristan DOHERTY, Ricardo BAZZARELLA, James C. CROSS, III, Pimpa LIMTHONGKUL, Mihai DUDUTA, Jeffry DISKO, Allen YANG, Throop WILDER, William Craig CARTER, Yet-Ming CHIANG
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Patent number: 11546323Abstract: Embodiments are directed to credential management for distributed services. A plurality of mesh agents for an overlay network may be provided such that the overlay network may be employed to provide a secure tunnel between a client and a resource server. If client request that requires user credentials is provided to a mesh agent associated with the resource server, credential instructions may be provided to the mesh agent and the credential instructions may be employed to determine credential information that enables access to the resource server. The mesh agent may be employed to communicate the client request and the credential information to the resource server; determining a response to the client request from the resource server; employing the mesh agent to receive a response to the client request from the resource server and forwarded to the client over the overlay network.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: strongDM, Inc.Inventors: William Craig Jones, Justin Allan McCarthy, Patrick David Stephen, Evan Michael Todd