Patents by Inventor William A. Thomas

William A. Thomas 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: 20240007565
    Abstract: A software platform supports multiple carriers, such as telephony carriers or public switched telephone network (PSTN) carriers, and routes calls between devices associated with different carriers without having to route the calls through the different carriers. The software platform establishes or maintains the calls between the devices associated with different carriers by transmitting a portion of call data associated with call record information to the respective carriers, and a portion of the call data associated with media and signaling information to the destination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: William Thomas Bernabe, Benjamin Joseph DeStephen, Donovan Patrick Leone
  • Patent number: 11864082
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for transmitting emergency alerts, emergency services requests, and emergency data associated with emergency alerts and emergency service requests to relevant parties, such monitoring centers and emergency service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RapidSOS, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Martin, Riccardo Pellegrini, Nicholas Edward Horelik, William Thomas Guthrie
  • Patent number: 11853339
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of a system, techniques and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that enable the selection of a response document template for generating an appropriate response to notification document. Respective components may generate an electronic document from the notification document. A common theme between two or more of the electronic documents may be identified. The electronic documents identified as having the common theme may be grouped in a notification document corpus. The notification document corpus may be analyzed with reference to received notification documents stored in a document repository. Based on results of the analysis, a template of a notification response document appropriate for responding to a specific notification document received by the enterprise may be selected. The selected response document template may be forwarded to a client device for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joerg Rings, William Thomas Romano, Andre Gatorano
  • Publication number: 20230408034
    Abstract: A supply control system for a tank utilized in a semiconductor manufacturing process is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: WILLIAM THOMAS PILTZ, CYNTHIA LEE HUGHES, JOHN PAUL PREGO, SHAWN S. CABLE, SANG-JAE YIM, ANTHONY JOHN SMITH, JIHOON KIM, SANG-KEUN LEE, YONG-TAE KIM, TAE-UG KANG, HO-SAN KWON, SUNG-UP JANG, YOUNG-SOO CHOI, HYO-JONG HWANG, BANG-YEON YU
  • Publication number: 20230410635
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for connecting a user for providing emergency assistance based on emergency alerts from triggering devices such as voice or sound triggered emergency alerts. In some cases, the location of the emergency is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Henry KATZ, Zvika FERENTZ, Jeffrey STERNBERG, Nicholas Edward HORELIK, William Thomas GUTHRIE
  • Patent number: 11846275
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a liquid may include a basin defining a reservoir, a pump including a barrel and a spring, the barrel coupled to the basin, the barrel defining a cavity, and the spring disposed in the cavity, and an actuator at least partially disposed in the reservoir, the actuator defining a first orifice, a second orifice, and a lumen extending between the first orifice and the second orifice, the reservoir in fluid communication with the lumen via the first orifice, the actuator depressible to move the second orifice in a first direction defined from the reservoir toward the cavity of the barrel, and the spring of the pump biasing the actuator to move in a second direction defined from the cavity of the barrel toward the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUIP NYC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas May, Simon Enever, Paul Koh, Max Wood-Lee, James Krause, Jonathan Fratti
  • Patent number: 11847677
    Abstract: An augmented reality-based lighting design method includes displaying, by an augmented reality device, a real-time image of a target physical area on a display screen. The method further includes displaying, by the augmented reality device, a lighting fixture 3-D model on the display screen in response to a user input, where the lighting fixture 3-D model is overlaid on the real-time image of the target physical area. The method also includes displaying, by the augmented reality device, a lighting pattern on the display screen overlaid on the real-time image of the target physical area, wherein the lighting pattern is generated based on at least photometric data associated with the lighting fixture 3-D model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Nam Chin Cho, Parth Joshi, William Thomas Cook
  • Publication number: 20230397743
    Abstract: An illuminable display assembly including (a) a housing having a base securable to a support surface, a platform detachably mounted to the base, and a generally enclosed interior bounded from above by the platform. The platform includes a plurality of illuminable windows spaced apart from each other therealong. The display assembly further includes (b) a plurality of retractable tethers mounted to the platform in the interior of the housing. The tethers fasten corresponding display containers to the platform and urge the display containers to predetermined positions adjacent corresponding windows. The display assembly further includes (c) a lighting system including one or more interior light sources in the interior of the housing for illuminating the windows and display containers from below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas SMITH, Cheryl Ann SMITH
  • Publication number: 20230401548
    Abstract: After loss of communications between a cash handling device and a financial institution, transactions may continue to be processed. In one configuration, the transactions may be processed up to a predefined transaction limit. Transaction limits may be defined by a number of transactions, a dollar amount transacted or to be transacted, an amount of time and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, the transaction limit may be specific to one or more types of transactions. Transaction data may be stored in memory until communication has been re-established, at which time the data may be transmitted to the financial institution for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Amy Baker Folk, William Thomas Sanders, Daniel Christopher Bohen, Paul Martin Mattison, Shane Anthony Johnson, Sandra Ruth Maas, Kristen Ellen Asplund, Edward Christopher Mackey, Shelaine Marie Monkiewicz
  • Publication number: 20230399841
    Abstract: A panel system provides a prefabricated exterior building façade. Various wall claddings and clips for hanging wall claddings are discussed. Panel connector parts are disclosed for hanging wall cladding panels against a building wall. Panel connector parts are disclosed for hanging dual layers of insulating material against a building wall with a drainage cavity or gap defined between the dual layers. A wall cladding system includes: a building wall; a plurality of wall cladding panels each comprising insulating material and defining an external face, a rear face, and side edges, with adjacent of the wall cladding panels abutting one another along respective side edges; panel connector parts mounted on the building wall and mounting the plurality of wall cladding panels as a continuous thermal break layer against the building wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: John William Thomas Sherman
  • Publication number: 20230392314
    Abstract: A washing machine appliance and methods of operating a washing machine appliance are provided. The washing machine appliance includes a motor and a rotatable basket. The motor is operated to rotate the basket to a first speed. The basket is then decelerated from the first speed to a second speed less than the first speed. A deceleration time is determined while decelerating the basket from the first speed to the second speed. The method may include, or the washing machine appliance may be configured for, determining a size of a load of articles in the basket of the washing machine appliance based on the deceleration time. Based on the determined size of the load, one or more operating parameters of the washing machine appliance are selected and an operation of the washing machine appliance is performed according to the one or more selected operating parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Mark William Thomas Worley, Stannard Nathan Phelps
  • Publication number: 20230380435
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of sanitizing and preserving produce and other agricultural products, for example for consumption as Ready-to-Eat. The methods can comprise treating the products with a sanitizing agent and forming a protective coating over the products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Chance Holland, James Rogers, Stephen William Kaun, Carlos Hernandez, Alexander William Thomas, Savannah Jane Dearden
  • Publication number: 20230373301
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for a vehicle and projector module. The vehicle can include a compartment. The vehicle can include a projector module configured to extend from the compartment to provide light to a projector screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Christian V. Elder, Elizabeth K. Steenwyk, Austin Simpson, William Thomas Wanstall, Eric Butler, Robert Holiday, Rex Martin
  • Publication number: 20230377337
    Abstract: A computing system retrieves ball-by-ball data for a plurality of sporting events. The computing system generates a trained neural network based on ball-by-ball data supplemented with ball-by-ball data with ball-by-ball match context features and personalized embeddings based on a batsman and a bowler for each delivery. The computing system receives a target batsman and a target bowler for a pitch to be delivered in a target event. The computing system identifies target ball-by-ball data for a window of pitches preceding the to be delivered pitch. The computing system retrieves historical ball-by-ball data for each of the target batsman and the target bowler. The computing system generates personalized embeddings for both the target batsman and the target bowler based on the historical ball-by-ball data. The computing system predicts a shot type for the pitch to be delivered based on the target ball-by-ball data and the personalized embeddings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: STATS LLC
    Inventors: William Thomas Gurpinar-Morgan, Daniel Richard Dinsdale, Joe Dominic Gallagher, Aditya Cherukumudi, Paul David Power, Patrick Joseph Lucey
  • Publication number: 20230367682
    Abstract: A device may provision two or more servers, each of the servers including a network interface. In addition, the device may enable the network interface in each of the provisioned servers, create a shared volume, assign the shared volume to each of the provisioned servers, and enable a clustering application on each of the provisioned servers to form a cluster comprising the provisioned servers, the cluster having a heartbeat via the network interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Katherine Witt, Richard Cooke, William Thomas Everhart, JR., Jinendrakumar J. Patel, Vijay Kumar
  • Publication number: 20230366652
    Abstract: A collapsible firearm butt-stock assembly has a shoulder stock 18 coupled with a pair of guide rods 20, 22 slideable in respective guide holes 14, 16 of a housing 12. A locking mechanism including locking members engageable with guide rod recesses 26, 28 provided in the guide rods has an actuator 30 that is movable in the lengthways direction of the guide rods to release the locking members to allow sliding movement of the shoulder stock relative to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: Duncan William Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230362424
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing subscriptions. A media guidance application obtaining viewing patterns of a subscriber and determining a first and second media package of interest to the subscriber. A first and second release schedule are obtained related to media content in the first and second media packages. The media guidance application predicts a first viewing impact of the first subscription and a second viewing impact of the second subscription, for the upcoming time period, wherein the viewing impact indicates a total predicted amount of time spent viewing the media packages in the upcoming time period. An available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period is also determined. The media guidance application generates a subscription recommendation for the upcoming time period based on the first viewing impact, second viewing impact, and available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Bates, Hafiza Jameela, Jesse F. Patterson, Mark K. Berner, Eric Dorsey, Jonathan A. Logan, David W. Chamberlin, Paul Stevens, Herbert A. Waterman, William A. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230362447
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for modifying a fast-forwarding speed based on a reaction time of a user when a frame of interest is detected. A media guidance application may receive a command from a user to fast-forward through a media asset and may execute a fast-forwarding operation through frames of the media asset. The media guidance application may detect that the fast-forwarding operation is approaching a frame of interest to the viewer. The media guidance application may reduce the fast-forwarding speed to a second speed slower than the first speed, where the second speed is determined based on an estimated reaction time of the user. The media guidance application may receive a command to resume playback from the user while the fast-forwarding operation is occurring at the second speed and may play back the media asset at a default playback speed from a point corresponding to a moment when the command was received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Gyanveer Singh, William Thomas
  • Patent number: D1002370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith
  • Patent number: D1004631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Steelike, Inc.
    Inventor: William Thomas Kulish