Patents by Inventor William A. Howard

William A. Howard 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: 20240370850
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that leverage smart contracts and distributed ledgers, such as blockchains, to provide a trustless or substantially trustless ecosystem that includes distributed ledger crawler functions, advertising functions, risk mitigation for secondary sales of distributed ledger tokens, and various methods of acquiring and using distributed ledger tokens, among other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: VERONA HOLDINGS SEZC
    Inventors: William Edward QUIGLEY, Lukasz Jakub SLIWKA, Jonathan YANTIS, Jason SELDON, Charles Howard CELLA, Teymour EL-TAHRY, Brent BLIVEN
  • Publication number: 20240346087
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that leverage smart contracts and distributed ledgers, such as blockchains, to provide a trustless or substantially trustless ecosystem that includes distributed ledger crawler functions, advertising functions, risk mitigation for secondary sales of distributed ledger tokens, and various methods of acquiring and using distributed ledger tokens, among other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: VERONA HOLDINGS SEZC
    Inventors: William Edward QUIGLEY, Lukasz Jakub SLIWKA, Jonathan YANTIS, Jason SELDON, Charles Howard CELLA, Teymour EL-TAHRY, Brent BLIVEN
  • Publication number: 20240346014
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that leverage smart contracts and distributed ledgers, such as blockchains, to provide a trustless or substantially trustless ecosystem that includes distributed ledger crawler functions, advertising functions, risk mitigation for secondary sales of distributed ledger tokens, and various methods of acquiring and using distributed ledger tokens, among other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: VERONA HOLDINGS SEZC
    Inventors: William Edward QUIGLEY, Lukasz Jakub SLIWKA, Jonathan YANTIS, Jason SELDON, Charles Howard CELLA, Teymour EL-TAHRY, Brent BLIVEN
  • Patent number: 12120841
    Abstract: A command-and-control module for communications, ideally in military operating conditions, is adapted for easy insertion into, and removal from, a portable case. A chassis has front and rear vertical plates secured, e.g. welded, to a horizontal plate. At least one DIN rail, for securing electrical and electronic equipment, is mounted to a vertical plate. The case has electrical ports and outlets as well as multiple features to protect the sensitive electronic equipment inside. Shock absorbers between the horizontal plate and the inner surface of the case protect the equipment from mechanical shock. A thermoelectric cooler keeps the equipment from overheating. An inner cover protects the equipment from dust. The inner cover is bolted to the chassis. The chassis is not otherwise affixed to the case. When the bolts are removed, the chassis is easily lifted out by handles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Consolidated Networks Corporation
    Inventors: John Kowalsky, Brian Baesler, Erik Howard, William Howard, Alec Valentino, Cesar Villalvazo, Todd Wilt
  • Patent number: 12117075
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of retaining a bearing assembly having a bore to a shaft received within the bore, the method comprising physically limiting the axial movement of the bearing assembly on the shaft by a retainer mounted to an end of the shaft and having a portion extending radially beyond the shaft and into an axial path of the bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William Howard Hasting, Donald Albert Bradley, Randy Thomas Antelo
  • Publication number: 20240341025
    Abstract: A linac-based X-ray system for cargo scanning and imaging applications uses linac design, RF power control, beam current control, and beam current pulse duration control to provide variable controlled dose per pulse to permit scanning a portion of a vehicle at a dose safe for humans and scanning a cargo portion of a vehicle at substantially increased dose per pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Teledyne ETM, Inc.
    Inventors: William L. NIGHAN, JR., Maarten KORRINGA, John Howard ROLIN, Devin HENDERLONG
  • Patent number: 12105942
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a device displays functionality information in response to receiving an indication of a first input for which a contact meets functionality display criteria. In some embodiments, a device generates a user interface that includes a navigation bar including images from different positions in a respective content item, and a representation of an adjacent content item. In some embodiments, a device moves a selection-indicator in a user interface by a predefined amount in response to receiving an indication of a first input that meets unitary movement criteria. In some embodiments, a device interprets movement of a contact of an input based at least in part on a grip of a user. In some embodiments, a device displays a plurality of character selection options when a text entry field is not tolerant of character ambiguity and a first input corresponds to a plurality of candidate characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L Robbin, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress, Julian Missig, Imran Chaudhri, Alessandro Sabatelli, Nicholas Zambetti
  • Publication number: 20240318661
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an annular casing, a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline, a core turbine engine drivingly coupled to the fan and comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order, and a variable bleed assembly comprising a variable bleed duct extending between a VB inlet and a VB outlet. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jixian Yao, Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, William Joseph Solomon, Giridhar Jothiprasad, Aaron J. King
  • Publication number: 20240318660
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes an annular casing, a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline, and an airfoil. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The airfoil includes a first side and a second side coupled together at a leading edge and a trailing edge, a plurality of first chord sections defining at least one first chord length, and a plurality of second chord sections defining at least one second chord length. The plurality of first chord sections and second chord sections define a waveform along a leading edge of the airfoil. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jixian Yao, Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, William Joseph Solomon, Giridhar Jothiprasad, Aaron J. King
  • Patent number: 12093525
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Howard, Ryan S. Dixon, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress
  • Publication number: 20240301889
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes an annular casing, a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline, and an airfoil. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The airfoil includes a composite core having a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall extending between a core leading edge and a core trailing edge and a leading edge protective wrap. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Jixian Yao, Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, William Joseph Solomon, Giridhar Jothiprasad, Aaron J. King
  • Patent number: 12083682
    Abstract: A robot control system determines which of a number of discretizations to use to generate discretized representations of robot swept volumes and to generate discretized representations of the environment in which the robot will operate. Obstacle voxels (or boxes) representing the environment and obstacles therein are streamed into the processor and stored in on-chip environment memory. At runtime, the robot control system may dynamically switch between multiple motion planning graphs stored in off-chip or on-chip memory. The dynamically switching between multiple motion planning graphs at runtime enables the robot to perform motion planning at a relatively low cost as characteristics of the robot itself change. Various aspects of such robot motion planning are implemented in particular systems and methods that facilitate motion planning of the robot for various environments and tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: REALTIME ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Sorin, George Konidaris, Sean Murray, William Floyd-Jones, Peter Howard, Xianchao Long
  • Patent number: 12086186
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device provides, for display on a display device, a user interface including a first set of columns, two or more columns in the first set of columns each including two or more menu items. The electronic device receives a selection input. In response to receiving the selection input, in accordance with a determination that the selection input corresponds to selection of a first column the electronic device provides, for display on the display device, a second set of columns, two or more of the columns in the second set of columns corresponding to different subsets of menu items that were displayed in the first column that was selected in response to the selection input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Joe Howard, Joshua Mc Glinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress
  • Publication number: 20240295224
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes an annular casing and a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan blades include a composite blade including a composite airfoil section having an airfoil leading edge and an airfoil trailing edge, a root attached to the composite airfoil section, and a blade shank therebetween. A metallic leading edge shield covers an axially extending portion of the composite airfoil section including at least a portion of the airfoil leading edge and covers a radially and chordwise extending portion of the airfoil leading edge of the blade shank. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jixian Yao, Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, William Joseph Solomon, Giridhar Jothiprasad, Nicholas Joseph Kray
  • Patent number: 12076450
    Abstract: An air handling system for a hot air sterilizer apparatus includes a sterilization chamber having an air exhaust portal, an air handling pathway traversing above the sterilization chamber through an upper supply air plenum and traversing below the sterilization chamber through a lower supply air plenum, a circulation fan configured to direct supply air from the air exhaust portal over an upper heating element through the upper supply air plenum and over a lower heating element through the lower supply air plenum, a first temperature sensor in the upper supply air plenum and configured to measure temperature of air downstream from the upper heating element, a second temperature sensor in the lower supply air plenum and configured to measure temperature of air downstream from the lower heating element, and a third temperature sensor at the air exhaust portal and configured to monitor temperature of air exiting the sterilization chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Integrated Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Bryan Smith, Michael Howard Linse, Nelson Sigman Slavik, Gary Jay Oliver
  • Publication number: 20240288003
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes an annular casing and a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan blades include a first fan blade having a fan blade airfoil body and a metal edge. The fan blade airfoil body has a leading edge. The metal edge is located at the leading edge and has a plurality of fail-fuse elements. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jixian Yao, Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, William Joseph Solomon, Giridhar Jothiprasad, Nicholas Joseph Kray
  • Publication number: 20240288002
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes an annular casing and a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline. The annular casing is formed at least partially of a composite material. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jixian Yao, Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, William Joseph Solomon, Giridhar Jothiprasad, Nicholas Joseph Kray
  • Publication number: 20240278894
    Abstract: An embodiment of an exhaust collection system for collecting exhaust from a marine vessel includes an exhaust cleaning assembly including a tank. In addition, the exhaust collection system includes a vent hood in fluid communication with the tank of the exhaust cleaning assembly. The vent hood includes a frame including one or more extendable frame members, and an outer covering that covers the frame to define an enclosure with an opening configured to receive an exhaust stack of the marine vessel therethrough, the one or more extendable frame members to extend and retract to adjust a size of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Daniel Ernst, James A. Tomlinson, William Thomas MacKrell, Mark Howard Nielsen, Rounack Singh Bumrah
  • Patent number: D1042679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Coulter Ventures, LLC.
    Inventors: William Henniger, Ahmik Jones, Bryan Adams, Jackson Howard
  • Patent number: D1049278
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Coulter Ventures, LLC.
    Inventors: Jerry Pritchett, William Henniger, Ahmik Jones, Martin Pritchett, Nash Dunahay, Jackson Howard