Patents by Inventor William A. Owens

William A. Owens 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: 20250065521
    Abstract: A razor cartridge having a first blade proximal to a front of the cartridge and having one or more first coatings disposed thereon, a second blade proximal to a back of the cartridge, the second blade having one or more second coatings disposed thereon, wherein a thickness of at least one of the one or more first coatings disposed on the first blade is less than a thickness of at least one of the one or more second coatings disposed on the second blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Kenneth James Skrobis, John Lawrence Maziarz, Joseph Allan DePuydt, William Owen Jolley
  • Publication number: 20250053993
    Abstract: Configurable product return determination includes maintaining product profiles indicating updated configurations of products and their components, building and training a set of models configured to identify products that are expected returns, predict retention times for such products, and determine, based on quality indicators of the products and on requirements for reusability of components, reusable components of the products, and, using the set of models and a product profile of a product in use, determining that the product in use is expected to be returned in the future and an expected timeframe of the return of the product in use, and determining one or more components, of a set of components of the product in use, that are reusable upon return of the product in the future.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Nosaiba DAR MOUSA, Warren BOLDRIN, William J GREEN, Karl Owen CASSERLY
  • Patent number: 12219331
    Abstract: A system for presenting audio content to a user. The system comprises one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset. The one or more microphones capture sound from a local area. The system further comprises an audio controller integrated into the headset and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device worn by a user. The audio controller identifies one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound. The audio controller further determines a target sound source of the one or more sound sources and determines one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound. The audio controller further generates an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal and provides the augmented sound signal to the in-ear device for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner, Philip Robinson, Ravish Mehra
  • Patent number: 12204437
    Abstract: Techniques, which may be embodied herein as systems, computing devices, methods, algorithms, software, code, computer readable media, or the like, are described herein for comparing a set of metrics generated during a simulated user interaction with a website to metrics generated by observing real user interactions with the website. Simulated user interactions with a website can be used to diagnose a website's performance issues, but it can be difficult to determine whether the simulated interactions reflect the experience of real users. In addition, the simulated user interactions can be challenging to contextualize because the number of observed real user interactions may significantly outnumber the simulated interactions. A graphical user interface can help with the interpretation of these website interactions by using the real user interactions to properly contextualize the simulated results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SPLUNK Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya Bhandari, Khawar Deen, William Matthew Hoffman, Nicholas Owen Pierson, Seerut Sidhu, Harnit Singh
  • Patent number: 12162174
    Abstract: A razor cartridge having a first blade proximal to a front of the cartridge and having one or more first coatings disposed thereon, a second blade proximal to a back of the cartridge, the second blade having one or more second coatings disposed thereon, wherein a thickness of at least one of the one or more first coatings disposed on the first blade is less than a thickness of at least one of the one or more second coatings disposed on the second blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth James Skrobis, John Lawrence Maziarz, Joseph Allan DePuydt, William Owen Jolley
  • Publication number: 20240352860
    Abstract: A layout for asymmetric trip strips including a flow passage having a lower wall and an upper wall opposite the lower wall, each of the lower wall and the upper wall including an inner surface, the flow passage having a passage inlet and a length L and a diameter d; multiple skewed trip strips extending from at least one inner surface of the lower wall or the upper wall; and at least one periodic reflection of the skewed trip strips along the flow passage downstream of the passage inlet at a frequency with a length-to-diameter ratio of L/d?20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler G. Vincent, Joshua William Owen Richards
  • Publication number: 20240330448
    Abstract: A system for providing a bio-firewall for a medical device. The system includes a bio-firewall electronic processor configured to receive a processed network command from a device electronic processor. The bio-firewall electronic processor is also configured to determine whether the processed network command is associated with a cyberattack based on at least one rule. The bio-firewall electronic processor is also configured to, in response to determining that the processed network command is not associated with the cyberattack, enable transmission, via a non-networked communication interface, of the processed network command to a non-networked component. The bio-firewall electronic processor is also configured to, in response to determining that the processed network command is associated with a cyberattack, prevent transmission, via the non-networked communication interface, of the processed network command to the non-networked component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: William Owen Redwood, Jeff Dunn, Riley Hester, Ian Trent, Eric Wright
  • Publication number: 20240305951
    Abstract: Techniques for determining personalized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) using a head-mounted device and in-ear devices include: receiving, from a sensor array of the head-mounted device, a first sound signal associated with a sound from a sound source in a local environment of a user of the head-mounted device; determining that reverberation characteristics and spectral characteristics of the sound meet predetermined criteria based on the first sound signal; determining that the sound source is stationary within a time period; determining a relative location of the sound source with respect to the user; receiving, from an in-ear device in an ear of the user, a second sound signal associated with the sound from the sound source; and determining, based on at least the second sound signal, an HRTF or one or more parameters of the HRTF associated with the relative location of the sound source for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew FRANCL, Tobias Daniel KABZINSKI, Hao LU, Antje IHLEFELD, William Owen BRIMIJOIN, II
  • Patent number: 12078060
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. Systems and methods are provided for receiving diagnostics data of a hydraulic fracturing completion of a wellbore, accessing a fracture formation model that models formation characteristics of fractures formed through the wellbore into a formation surrounding the wellbore during the hydraulic fracture completion with respect to surface variables of the hydraulic fracturing completion, selecting one or more subsurface objective functions from a plurality of subsurface objective functions for changing one or more of the formation characteristics of the fractures, and applying the fracture formation model based on the diagnostics data to determine values of the surface variables for controlling the formation characteristics of the fractures to converge on the one or more subsurface objective functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: William Owen Alexander Ruhle, Ronald Glen Dusterhoft, Ajish Potty, Joshua Lane Camp
  • Patent number: 12069463
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for using an audio time and level difference renderer (TLDR) to generate spatialized audio content for multiple channels from an audio signal received at a single channel. The system selects an audio TLDR from a set of audio TLDRs based on received input parameters. The system configures the selected audio TLDR based on received input parameters using a filter parameter model to generate a configured audio TLDR that comprises a set of configured binaural dynamic filters, and a configured delay between the multiple channel. The system applies the configured audio TLDR to an audio signal received at the single channel to generate spatialized multiple channel audio content for each channel of the multiple audio channel and presents the generated spatialized audio content at multiple channels to a user via a headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Samuel Clapp, Peter Harty Dodds, Nava K. Balsam, Tomasz Rudzki, Ryan Rohrer, Kevin Scheumann, Michaela Warnecke
  • Publication number: 20240261993
    Abstract: A razor blade is provided comprising a substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may comprise first and second generally parallel outer surfaces. The second portion may comprise first and second sections separated by a split line. The first section may comprise a first facet extending directly from the first outer surface of the first portion and an end facet extending directly from the first facet. The second section may comprise an end facet. The end facets of the first and second sections may converge at a tip to define a cutting edge. The split line may pass through the tip and is generally parallel with and extends between the first and second outer surfaces of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Bin Shen, Yongqing Ju, Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Publication number: 20240236602
    Abstract: Techniques are described for generating spatialized audio content based on head orientation information and torso orientation information obtained from a drift compensation system. The drift compensation system compensates for drift in measurements performed by an inertial measurement unit (IMU), based on biological constraints pertaining to a user. The head orientation information is applied to a first set of filters to generate intermediate audio content. In turn, the torso orientation information and the intermediate audio content are applied to a second set of filters to generate the spatialized audio content. The first set of filters includes one or more audio filters that receive an input audio signal corresponding to a left channel. The second set of filters includes one or more audio filters that receive an input audio signal corresponding to a right channel. The spatialized audio content includes separate output signals for the left channel and the right channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Philip ROBINSON, William Owen BRIMIJOIN, II, Antje IHLEFELD
  • Patent number: 12007982
    Abstract: A system for identifying and deleting records of hosts includes a local data manager. The local data manager identifies a discovery event associated with the host and a record type of record types, obtains, in response to identifying, all previously discovered records on the host associated with the record type from a host record repository, obtains discovered records associated with the record type and associated with the host, after obtaining all discovered records and previously discovered records, selects a previously discovered record of the previously discovered records, makes a determination that the previously discovered record does not match any discovered records of the discovered records and is not tagged with a soft delete tag or a hard delete tag, and in response to the determination, tags the previously discovered record with a soft delete tag, and notifies a data manager of modifications to the previously discovered records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Asif Khan, Kenneth William Owens, Adrian Dobrean, Aneesh Kumar Gurindapalli, Vipin Kumar Kaushal, Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci, Shelesh Chopra, Gowtham Krishna Iyengar Srinivasa Rangan
  • Publication number: 20240139982
    Abstract: A razor blade including: a substrate having a tip portion including a tip region, a blade body including a base, and first and second outer sides disposed opposite a split line of the substrate, in which the first and second outer sides converge at a tip, the first outer side comprises a first coating disposed substantially thereon and extending from the tip region toward the base, and a first portion of the second outer side is substantially free of any coating, the first portion extending from the tip region toward the base or being spaced apart from the tip region and the base. Also provided is a method of coating the razor blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, John Lawrence Maziarz, Bin Shen, Ronald Richard Duff, JR., Joe David Lussier, Oliver Heinz Claus, Joseph Allan DePuydt
  • Patent number: 11969908
    Abstract: A razor blade is provided comprising a substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may comprise first and second generally parallel outer surfaces. The second portion may comprise first and second sections separated by a split line. The first section may comprise a first facet extending directly from the first outer surface of the first portion and an end facet extending directly from the first facet. The second section may comprise an end facet. The end facets of the first and second sections may converge at a tip to define a cutting edge. The split line may pass through the tip and is generally parallel with and extends between the first and second outer surfaces of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Bin Shen, Yongqing Ju, Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Patent number: 11943602
    Abstract: A system can include a position sensor configured to output position data of a HWD. The system can include one or more processors configured to identify a first head angle of the HWD using the position sensor, generate an audio signal using the first head angle, identify a second head angle of the HWD using the position sensor, determine an angle error based at least on the first head angle and the second head angle, and apply at least one of a time difference or a level difference to the audio signal based at least on the angle error to adjust the audio signal. The system can include an audio output device configured to output the adjusted audio signal. By adjusting the audio signal using the angle error, the system can correct for long spatial update latencies and reduce the perceptual impact of such latencies for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Henrik Gert Hassager, Sebastià Vicenç Amengual Garí
  • Patent number: 11939864
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: William Owen Alexander Ruhle, Ronald Glen Dusterhoft, Ajish Potty, Joshua Lane Camp
  • Patent number: D1022568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Alvarez, Xavier Cortadellas, Sean Joseph Huls, William Owen Stock, Matthew K. Lider, Yang Ouyang, David Robert Schlesinger, Joshua Stough, Sarah White
  • Patent number: D1054256
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Alvarez, Xavier Cortadellas, Sean Joseph Huls, William Owen Stock, Matthew K. Lider, Yang Ouyang, David Robert Schlesinger, Joshua Stough, Sarah White
  • Patent number: D1059113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Alvarez, Xavier Cortadellas, Sean Joseph Huls, William Owen Stock, Matthew K. Lider, Yang Ouyang, David Robert Schlesinger, Joshua Stough, Sarah White