Patents by Inventor William A. Pearce
William A. Pearce 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: 20240081348Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a dough proofer for a commercial bakery that can receive dough pieces from a dough divider onto trays. Each tray has cups that hold dough pieces. The trays are moved through the proofer by a conveyor system. The proofer has a checkweigher. The checkweigher also uses the same conveyor system and has (1) a tray tipper that tips a tray of dough pieces to make the dough pieces fall out of the tray; (2) a row of gates under the tray to receive and hold the dough pieces and release the dough pieces so that they fall back into their original cups and tray; (3) a row of load cells associated with gates that produces weight data indicative of dough piece weights; and (4) a controller that controls the divider based upon the weight data so that the dough pieces exhibit a substantially uniform target weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Bruce Campbell, William J. Schreier, JR., Tom Pearce
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Publication number: 20230325495Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of detecting an algorithmic attack against a hosted artificial intelligence (AI) system based on inputs (e.g., queries) and outputs of the hosted AI system. In a first example, a feature-based classifier model is used to generate a classification score based on features that are derived from numerical representations of the queries and the outputs, and an algorithmic attack is detected based on the classification score being greater than or equal to a score threshold. In a second example, a transformer-based model is used to generate a vector by providing a multivariate time series, which is based on attribute(s) of the inputs and attribute(s) of the outputs, as an input to the transformer-based model, and an algorithmic attack is detected based on a distance between the vector and a point corresponding to a reference vector being less than or equal to a distance threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Hyrum Spencer ANDERSON, Raja Sekhar Rao DHEEKONDA, William PEARCE, Ricky Dee LOYND, James David MCCAFFREY, Ram Shankar SIVA KUMAR
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Patent number: 11601440Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method of verifying the authenticity of emails sent from a first email application of a sender to a second email application of a recipient, the emails each having a sender's email address, a receiver's email address, and a user accessible field for receiving content. The content of the user accessible field is visible to the recipient upon opening an email inbox in the second email application. The method includes the steps of first identifying the receiver for an email to be sent by the sender. A current sequence marker for the receiver is then generated. The current sequence marker represents a next sequence identifier in a sequence of emails between the sender and the receiver. The current sequence marker is then inserted into the user-accessible field of the email and the email is then sent.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Inventor: William Pearce
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Publication number: 20200351275Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method of verifying the authenticity of emails sent from a first email application of a sender to a second email application of a recipient, the emails each having a sender's email address, a receiver's email address, and a user accessable field for receiving content. The content of the user accessible field is visible to the recipient upon opening an email inbox in the second email application. The method includes the steps of first identifying the receiver for an email to be sent by the sender. A current sequence marker for the receiver is then generated. The current sequence marker represents a next sequence identifier in a sequence of emails between the sender and the receiver. The current sequence marker is then inserted into the user-accessible field of the email and the email is then sent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventor: William Pearce
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Patent number: 10733529Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to generating an original message ask model that can be utilized to determine, based on an original message sent to a user, whether a commit is likely to be present in a yet to be formulated new reply message that is responsive to the original message. In some of those implementations, an indication may be provided for presentation to the user via a computing device of the user in response to determining that a commit is likely to be present in the yet to be formulated new reply message that is responsive to the original message sent to the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Duan Tran, Kiam Choo, William Pearce
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Patent number: 10702715Abstract: Described here are systems, devices, and methods for imaging and radiotherapy procedures. Generally, a radiotherapy system may include a radiotransparent patient platform, a radiation source coupled to a multi-leaf collimator, and a detector facing the collimator. The radiation source may be configured to emit a first beam through the collimator to provide treatment to a patient on the patient platform. A controller may be configured to control the radiotherapy system.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: RefleXion Medical, Inc.Inventors: William Pearce, Brent Harper
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Patent number: 10273842Abstract: An oil pan assembly including a first portion having an inner set of openings configured to receive a first set of fasteners to couple the first portion to an engine block and a second portion having an outer set of openings positioned laterally outward relative to the inner set of openings and configured to receive a second set of fasteners to couple the second portion to the first portion and the engine block.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Mathew A. Clark, William A. Pearce, Navdeep Kumar Jindal, Ryan T. Wainwright-Fisher, Ian Watson, Edward Tarn Bainbridge, Jonathan M. Atkinson, Andrew Skinner, Paul Andrew Leggott
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Patent number: 10183025Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: David Beattie, Urs Baettig, Darren Mark Le Grand, Andrew Stuart Lister, Jeffrey McKenna, David William Pearce, David Andrew Sandham, Oliver Ross Steward, Christopher Thomson
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Publication number: 20180133508Abstract: Described here are systems, devices, and methods for imaging and radiotherapy procedures. Generally, a radiotherapy system may include a radiotransparent patient platform, a radiation source coupled to a multi-leaf collimator, and a detector facing the collimator. The radiation source may be configured to emit a first beam through the collimator to provide treatment to a patient on the patient platform. A controller may be configured to control the radiotherapy system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: William PEARCE, Brent HARPER, Peter OLCOTT, Manat MAOLINBAY, Rostem BASSALOW, George ZDASIUK, Thomas Leroy LAURENCE, JR.
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Publication number: 20180021345Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: Novartis AGInventors: David BEATTIE, Urs BAETTIG, Darren Mark LE GRAND, Andrew Stuart LISTER, Jeffrey MCKENNA, David William PEARCE, David Andrew SANDHAM, Oliver Ross STEWARD, Christopher THOMSON
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Publication number: 20170305646Abstract: The present invention provides a dispensing container comprising a vessel, the vessel having: a formation and/or discrete element in or on the vessel which causes the centre of gravity of contents of the vessel to be positioned differently, when oriented in a lain-on-side attitude, from its notional position, in the absence of the formation or element in or on the vessel; an additional formation or discrete element in or on the vessel which, when the container is in the lain-on-side attitude, lifts at least a portion of the container away from a surface, wherein, when the container is in the lain-on-side attitude and has a first volume of content, the centre of gravity of the content biases the container to a first orientation, and when the container is in the lain-on-side attitude and has a second volume of content, the centre of gravity of the container biases the container to a second orientation, different to the first.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Raymond John Bacon, Stuart William Pearce, Alex William Noble
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Patent number: 9763957Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: David Beattie, Urs Baettig, Darren Mark Legrand, Andrew Stuart Lister, Jeffrey McKenna, David William Pearce, David Andrew Sandham, Oliver Ross Steward, Christopher Thomson
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Publication number: 20170234177Abstract: An oil pan assembly including a first portion having an inner set of openings configured to receive a first set of fasteners to couple the first portion to an engine block and a second portion having an outer set of openings positioned laterally outward relative to the inner set of openings and configured to receive a second set of fasteners to couple the second portion to the first portion and the engine block.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Mathew Clark, William A. Pearce, Navdeep Jindal, Ryan T. Wainwright-Fisher, Ian Watson, Edward T. Bainbridge, Jonathan M. Atkinson, Andrew Skinner, Paul Andrew Leggott
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Publication number: 20160184318Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Novartis AGInventors: David BEATTIE, Urs BAETTIG, Darren Mark LEGRAND, Andrew Stuart LISTER, Jeffrey MCKENNA, David William PEARCE, Ddavid Andrew SANDHAM, Oliver Ross STEWARD, Christopher Thomson
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Publication number: 20160168119Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: Novartis AGInventors: Urs BAETTIG, David BEATTIE, Darren Mark LEGRAND, Andrew Stuart LISTER, Jeffrey MCKENNA, David William PEARCE, David Andrew SANDHAM, Emily STANLEY, Oliver Ross STEWARD, Christopher THOMSON
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Publication number: 20050216356Abstract: The present invention is a system for controlling in order to automatically fill in web enabled forms on a target web site. The system includes a web information database file containing a plurality of records relating to a plurality of web sites, including the target web site. Each record contains a plurality of information fields including an address field having the URL of the web site and a soft coding field. The soft coding field contains the particular coding instructions required by the web browser application to log onto, navigate and populate the web enabled forms of the web site at the URL. The system also includes a web agent application, the web agent application configured to read the web information database file and search the information contained in the web information database file in response to the search parameter information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2004Publication date: September 29, 2005Inventors: William Pearce, Huanyu Tan
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Publication number: 20050095106Abstract: An accessory for a forklift allows handling of cartoned goods a whole layer at a time and part of a layer. The head has a series of closely parked suction devices which are served by a common vacuum chamber. The head is carried by the forks and vacuum is supplied by a separate unit mounted on the forklift. In a modification, the head is carried on a sub assembly which allows the head to move to one side of the forklift. An electric reach truck is modified by the addition of the vacuum lifting head to a mast-mounted pallet handling fork assembly directly beneath the head, enabling layer by layer filling of the pallet. The assembly has a swinging frame which allows the forks to swing out of register with the head to a position beside the truck where the full pallet can be exchanged for a fresh pallet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2004Publication date: May 5, 2005Inventor: William Pearce
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Patent number: 6820182Abstract: A memory exhaustion condition is handled in a data processing system having first and second regions of physical memory. The memory exhaustion condition is detected while the second region is mirroring at least part of the first region. In response to the memory exhaustion condition, memory mirroring is at least partially deactivated and at least part of the second region is utilized to augment the first region, such that the memory exhaustion condition is eliminated. In an illustrative embodiment, the data processing system compresses real memory into the first region of physical memory, and the memory exhaustion condition arises when the first region lacks sufficient available capacity to accommodate current requirements for real memory. The memory exhaustion condition is eliminated by compressing at least part of the real memory into the second region.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2000Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles David Bauman, Richard Bealkowski, Thomas J Clement, Jerry William Pearce, Michael Robert Turner
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Patent number: 5860477Abstract: A latching mechanism for a sub-sea control module is constructed with energy storing means such that a latch is cooked into an unlatched condition by the action of lifting the sub-sea control module to store energy in the energy storing means and is moved into a latched condition by the action of lowering the sub-sea control module into abutment with the mounting base.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1996Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Assignee: GEC-Marconi LimitedInventors: James Brian Wilson, David William Pearce
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Patent number: D413063Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1997Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Raymond Charles Bell, Michael Hung-Tai Luh, Douglas William Pearce, Ralph Albert Sagel