Patents by Inventor William A. Stephenson

William A. Stephenson 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).

  • Patent number: 11986919
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a tooling assembly for a machine having an automatic tool changing system. The tooling assembly includes a holder, a tool body, and an internal passage defined within and extending through the holder and the tool body. The holder includes a machine interface configured to engage with a spindle of the machine. The internal passage is operable to have a coolant fluid flow within, and has a stem channel and a curved channel extending from the stem channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: David Stephenson, Timothy G. Beyer, Michael A. Kopmanis, David Ozog, William E. Dowling, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11808194
    Abstract: A modular exhaust subsystem for purifying an exhaust gas feedstream of a compression-ignition internal combustion engine upstream of a base exhaust aftertreatment system includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst, and a first exhaust gas sensor and a first temperature sensor that are arranged to monitor the SCR catalyst. A reductant delivery system is arranged to inject a reductant upstream of the SCR catalyst. A controller is in communication with an engine-out exhaust gas sensor, a second exhaust gas sensor and a second temperature sensor that are arranged to monitor the base exhaust aftertreatment system. The controller controls the reductant delivery system to inject the reductant into the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the SCR catalyst based upon inputs from the first and second exhaust gas sensors, the engine-out exhaust gas sensor, and the first and second temperature sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart, Maarten Meijer, Phillip William Stephenson, Trevor Joseph Ott
  • Publication number: 20220341355
    Abstract: A modular exhaust subsystem for purifying an exhaust gas feedstream of a compression-ignition internal combustion engine upstream of a base exhaust aftertreatment system includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst, and a first exhaust gas sensor and a first temperature sensor that are arranged to monitor the SCR catalyst. A reductant delivery system is arranged to inject a reductant upstream of the SCR catalyst. A controller is in communication with an engine-out exhaust gas sensor, a second exhaust gas sensor and a second temperature sensor that are arranged to monitor the base exhaust aftertreatment system. The controller controls the reductant delivery system to inject the reductant into the exhaust gas feedstream upstream of the SCR catalyst based upon inputs from the first and second exhaust gas sensors, the engine-out exhaust gas sensor, and the first and second temperature sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Cynthia Chaffin Webb, Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart, Maarten Meijer, Phillip William Stephenson, Trevor Joseph Ott
  • Publication number: 20210146365
    Abstract: Techniques include a substrate having a microchannel, first and second microchannel branches, and a fork joining the microchannel upstream and the branches downstream. The microchannel passes a continuous stream of droplets, having a first fluid with magnetic particles, separated by a spacer fluid. A picoinjector, disposed along the microchannel, includes both: a supply channel connected to the microchannel by an aperture on a first side of the microchannel; and, a pair of electrodes on an opposite side. The picoinjector injects a volume of a second fluid into a first droplet when the pair of electrodes carries a certain voltage difference. A first magnet introduces a magnetic field into the microchannel between the picoinjector and the fork to move magnetic particles in the first droplet toward the first side of the microchannel before the droplet is split at the fork to produce output droplets of the second fluid with magnetic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: William Stephenson
  • Patent number: 9465583
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for random number generation using a network of mobile devices are provided in the illustrative embodiments. From a set of mobile devices, a corresponding set of data packets is received. A presence of raw sensor data is detected in a first data packet received from a first mobile device in the set of mobile devices. The raw sensor data comprises data corresponding to changing value of an output of a sensor in a set of sensors installed in the first mobile device. The raw sensor data is separated from the first data packet, resulting in an original data packet. A first random number is generated using the raw sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Henry Osiecki, Jan Simon Rellermeyer, Mark William Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20150100613
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for random number generation using a network of mobile devices are provided in the illustrative embodiments. From a set of mobile devices, a corresponding set of data packets is received. A presence of raw sensor data is detected in a first data packet received from a first mobile device in the set of mobile devices. The raw sensor data comprises data corresponding to changing value of an output of a sensor in a set of sensors installed in the first mobile device. The raw sensor data is separated from the first data packet, resulting in an original data packet. A first random number is generated using the raw sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Henry OSIECKI, Jan Simon RELLERMEYER, Mark William STEPHENSON
  • Publication number: 20150067491
    Abstract: A method includes incorporating a local service within a user's device, accessing at least one external service via the user's device; starting a service request for the at least one external service from an input area of the user's device, causing the local service to determine at least one possible completion for the service request based on the input to the at least one external service, and providing the at least one possible completion to the input area of the user's device, wherein the local service consults at least one user context before providing the at least one possible completion to the input area of the user's device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ramakrishnan Rajamony, William Evan Speight, Mark William Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20150067487
    Abstract: A method includes incorporating a local service within a user's device, accessing at least one external service via the user's device; starting a service request for the at least one external service from an input area of the user's device, causing the local service to determine at least one possible completion for the service request based on the input to the at least one external service, and providing the at least one possible completion to the input area of the user's device, wherein the local service consults at least one user context before providing the at least one possible completion to the input area of the user's device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ramakrishnan Rajamony, William Evan Speight, Mark William Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20140372923
    Abstract: High performance touch drag and drop are described. In embodiments, a multi-threaded architecture is implemented to include at least a manipulation thread and an independent hit test thread. The manipulation thread is configured to receive one or more messages associated with an input and send data associated with the messages to the independent hit test thread. The independent hit test thread is configured to perform an independent hit test to determine whether the input hit an element that is eligible for a particular action, and identify an interaction model associated with the input. The independent hit test thread also sends an indication of the interaction model to the manipulation thread to enable the manipulation thread to detect whether the particular action is triggered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Jacob S. Rossi, John Wesley Terrell, Fei Xiong, Michael J. Ens, Xiao Tu, Nicolas J. Brun, Ming Huang, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Alan William Stephenson, Michael John Patten, Jon Gabriel Clapper
  • Patent number: 8811500
    Abstract: A system for transmitting data between a first device and a second device, the first device being arranged to transmit data to the second device and the second device being arranged to transmit an acknowledgement to the first device if the data transmitted by the first device is properly received by the second device; wherein the system comprises means to measure the quality of reception of acknowledgements by the first device and to modify one or more acknowledgement transmission parameters depending on the measurement. The parameters may include: transmission rate, degree of forward error correction coding, and output power. The parameters may be modified to improve the quality of reception of acknowledgements if the measured quality falls below a threshold. The means to measure the quality of reception may comprise means to determine a measure of the number, or relative number, of acknowledgements that were not properly received by the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Condren Smith, Peter William Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8448027
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer usable program product for energy-efficient soft error failure detection and masking are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A soft error is injected to occur during execution of a set of instructions. If an output of the execution of the set of instructions is incorrect, a record is made of the instruction that was affected by the injected soft error and led to the incorrect result. This identified instruction is designated as vulnerable to the soft error. Several soft errors are injected with different input data sets over several executions of the same set of instructions, and a probability of each instruction in the instruction set is computed, the probability of an instruction accounting for the vulnerability of the execution of the instruction sets to errors that affect the instruction. A report including several probabilities of instruction vulnerabilities is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy, Mark William Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8439775
    Abstract: A soccer training apparatus comprises a net capable of being placed in a deployed position, connected to or located adjacent a soccer goal frame and above a soccer playing surface, so as to cover a portion of a target opening bounded by the soccer goal frame and soccer playing surface. The net includes a peripheral edge located relative to the soccer goal frame so as to form a gap which extends around the net in the deployed position. which permits a soccer ball to pass through and enter the soccer goal area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Inventor: William A. Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20120283048
    Abstract: A soccer training apparatus comprises a net capable of being placed in a deployed position, connected to or located adjacent a soccer goal frame and above a soccer playing surface, so as to cover a portion of a target opening bounded by the soccer goal frame and soccer playing surface. The net includes a peripheral edge located relative to the soccer goal frame so as to form a gap which extends around the net in the deployed position. which permits a soccer ball to pass through and enter the soccer goal area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventor: William A. Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8271831
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer usable program product for tolerating soft errors by selective duplication are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An application executing in a data processing system, selects an instruction that has to be protected from soft errors. The instruction is marked for duplication such that the instruction is duplicated during execution of the instruction. The marked instruction is sent for execution to a hardware front end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy, Mark William Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8246494
    Abstract: A soccer training apparatus comprises a net capable of being placed in a deployed position, connected to or located adjacent a soccer goal frame and above a soccer playing surface, so as to cover a portion of a target opening bounded by the soccer goal frame and soccer playing surface. The net includes a peripheral edge located relative to the soccer goal frame so as to form a gap which extends around the net in the deployed position which permits a soccer ball to pass through and enter the soccer goal area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Inventor: William A. Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8203944
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data over a network in which multiple transmission conditions can be used for transmitting data, the method comprising selecting a transmission condition to be used when transmitting data over the network, said selection being made in dependence on a predetermined preference distribution that for each of the multiple transmission conditions defines a probability of that transmission condition being selected, using the selected transmission condition when transmitting data over the network and determining the success of the transmission and updating the preference distribution in dependence on the success of the transmission and thereafter selecting a transmission condition for transmitting data over the network in dependence on the updated preference distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventors: Andrei Barbu Popescu, Timothy Condren Smith, Peter William Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20110296242
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer usable program product for energy-efficient soft error failure detection and masking are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A soft error is injected to occur during execution of a set of instructions. If an output of the execution of the set of instructions is incorrect, a record is made of the instruction that was affected by the injected soft error and led to the incorrect result. This identified instruction is designated as vulnerable to the soft error. Several soft errors are injected with different input data sets over several executions of the same set of instructions, and a probability of each instruction in the instruction set is computed, the probability of an instruction accounting for the vulnerability of the execution of the instruction sets to errors that affect the instruction. A report including several probabilities of instruction vulnerabilities is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: ELMOOTAZBELLAH NABIL ELNOZAHY, MARK WILLIAM STEPHENSON
  • Publication number: 20110296228
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer usable program product for tolerating soft errors by selective duplication are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An application executing in a data processing system, selects an instruction that has to be protected from soft errors. The instruction is marked for duplication such that the instruction is duplicated during execution of the instruction. The marked instruction is sent for execution to a hardware front end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: ELMOOTAZBELLAH NABIL ELNOZAHY, Mark William Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8023487
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data over a network in which multiple transmission conditions can be used for transmitting data, each transmission condition being associated with a rating indicative of how successful previous data transmissions using that transmission condition have been, the method comprising using a selected transmission condition when transmitting data over the network and updating the rating associated with the selected transmission condition in dependence on the success of that transmission, updating the ratings associated with the transmission conditions other than the selected transmission condition by adjusting each of those ratings by a predetermined amount and selecting a transmission condition in dependence on the updated ratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventors: Andrei Barbu Popescu, Timothy Condren Smith, Peter William Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20110002402
    Abstract: A system for transmitting data between a first device and a second device, the first device being arranged to transmit data to the second device and the second device being arranged to transmit an acknowledgement to the first device if the data transmitted by the first device is properly received by the second device; wherein the system comprises means to measure the quality of reception of acknowledgements by the first device and to modify one or more acknowledgement transmission parameters depending on the measurement. The parameters may include: transmission rate, degree of forward error correction coding, and output power. The parameters may be modified to improve the quality of reception of acknowledgements if the measured quality falls below a threshold. The means to measure the quality of reception may comprise means to determine a measure of the number, or relative number, of acknowledgements that were not properly received by the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: CAMBRIDGE SILICON RADIO LIMITED
    Inventors: Timothy Condren Smith, Peter William Stephenson