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).

  • Patent number: 11798471
    Abstract: Described is a display system comprising a light source, a scanning assembly, and a controller. The light source includes a first plurality of emitters forming a column that emits a first color. The light source also includes a second plurality of emitters forming a column that emits a different color. The scanning assembly includes a reflective surface rotated by the controller using a control signal having a nonlinear, pulsed waveform. The controller drives the first plurality of emitters and the second plurality of emitters in sequence, during respective portions of the nonlinear waveform, and in synchronization with rotation of the reflective surface such that light emitted by the first plurality of emitters and the second plurality of emitters is reflected onto a same pixel of an output image. The controller also adjusts emission durations of individual emitters to compensate for changes in the rotational speed of the reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: William Thomas Blank, Ilias Pappas
  • Patent number: 11794377
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for making prepregs are disclosed. A method may include depositing a resin material onto a surface of a fiber bed and forming a number of discrete resin regions thereon. A distance between the resin regions may be measured to provide desired exposed portions of the surface to facilitate permeation of air through the exposed portions of the surface in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the fiber bed during a curing process of the prepreg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Steven Nutt, Lessa Grunenfelder, Timotei Centea, Mark Anders, William Thomas Edwards, Sarah Grace Katz Schechter
  • Patent number: 11787834
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula I: wherein R is H or R1 is H, halogen, C1-C3 alkyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, C1-C3 alkoxy, C2-C3 alkenyl, OCF3, R2 is H, halogen, C1-C3 alkyl, C1-C3 alkoxy, or C2-C4 alkenyl; R3 is NH2, or CH2NH2; and X is O, OCH2, OCH2CH2, OCH(CH3), CH2O, SCH2, CH2S, CH2, NHCH2, CH2NH, N(CH3)CH2, CH2CH2, C?C, or a bond, wherein X is connected to phenyl ring A at the ortho or the meta position, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the compound of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is useful for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, such as atopic dermatitis and rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Adel Ahmed Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Ryan Clayton, Jose Eduardo Lopez, William Thomas McMillen, Ryan Edward Stites, Takako Wilson, Jacqueline Mary Wurst
  • Patent number: 11784940
    Abstract: One example disclosed method involves a computing system determining that a first shared computing resource, included among a plurality of shared computing resources managed by a controller, is potentially faulty. The system may configure the controller to identify the first shared computing resource with a tag, the tag configured to cause the controller, in response to a client requesting the controller for access to a first application, to assign the first shared computing resource to deliver the first application to the client. The system may instruct the client to request the controller for access to the first application. The system may determine that the first shared computing resource is faulty based on the client being unable to access the first application at a time of application of the tag to the first shared computing resource. The system may take a corrective action with respect to the first shared computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Vikramjeet Singh, William Thomas Georg Charnell, Priyanka Somashekar
  • Patent number: 11783307
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    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
  • Patent number: 11771238
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith
  • Patent number: 11778151
    Abstract: A “Concurrent Projector-Camera” uses an image projection device in combination with one or more cameras to enable various techniques that provide visually flicker-free projection of images or video, while real-time image or video capture is occurring in that same space. The Concurrent Projector-Camera provides this projection in a manner that eliminates video feedback into the real-time image or video capture. More specifically, the Concurrent Projector-Camera dynamically synchronizes a combination of projector lighting (or light-control points) on-state temporal compression in combination with on-state temporal shifting during each image frame projection to open a “capture time slot” for image capture during which no image is being projected. This capture time slot represents a tradeoff between image capture time and decreased brightness of the projected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sasa Junuzovic, William Thomas Blank, Steven Bathiche, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11757217
    Abstract: A wire harness assembly including a first connector, a second connector, and conductors extending between the first connector and the second connector. Contacts are provided on the second connector. The contacts have termination sections which are mounted on the second connector, compliant sections which extend from the termination sections, and substrate engagement sections which extend from the compliant sections. The substrate engagement sections have curved contact sections which are configured to be positioned in mechanical and electrical engagement with circuit pads of a mating printed circuit board. Embossments are provided on the curved contact sections to provide additional strength and stability to the curved contact sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC., TE CONNECTIVITY SOULTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chong Hun Yi, Brian Keith Weaver, William James Moyer, II, Ronald Skovira, Gary Altemose, Richard Benjamin Emenheiser, William Thomas Anniss, III, Willard Grant, Raony Barrios, William L. Small, Marcello Correa Machado, Thomas W. McCollough, Christopher Stephan Rousey, Robert Astle, George Nicholas Lauri, III, Ramesh Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11753882
    Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for guiding a gripping tool into a structure to be gripped. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises a nubbin and a guide structure fixed to the nubbin. In a second aspect, the system comprises the apparatus and a target structure to be gripped by the gripping tool. In a third aspect, the method comprises coupling the nubbin to a target structure to be gripped by a gripping tool and moving a leading portion of the gripping tool through the apparatus and into the target structure. In a fourth aspect the apparatus comprises a guide structure configured to be fixed to a nubbin. In a fifth aspect the apparatus comprises coupling the nubbin to a target structure, coupling the guide structure to the nubbin and moving a leading portion of the gripping tool through the apparatus and into the target structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: William Thomas Phillips, Inc.
    Inventor: William Thomas Phillips
  • Patent number: 11746678
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to support a diffuser segment during removal from and installation into an assembly. The apparatus includes a body having two or more supports and at least two clamp rods. The clamp rods each extend from a first end to a second end. The body defines a pocket extending between the supports on a first side of the clamp rods. An end clamp releasably mates with the second end of each clamp rod. The end clamp has a foot extending into the first side of the clamp rod. A wheel is received within each support. The pocket and the foot of each end clamp releasably retain a diffuser segment and the wheels rotate to allow the diffuser segment to be removed without damaging a surface coating of the diffuser segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Thomas Alan Mogle, II, Eric Lynn Strunk, William Thomas Ordean
  • Patent number: 11750868
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Bates, Hafiza Jameela, Jesse Patterson, Mark K. Berner, Eric Dorsey, Jonathan A. Logan, David W. Chamberlin, Paul Stevens, Herbert A. Waterman, William A. Thomas
  • Patent number: 11745289
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system may include a build platform configured to receive a particulate, a particulate dispenser configured to deposit the particulate onto said build platform, a consolidation device configured to consolidate at least a portion of the particulate to form a component, a first actuator assembly configured to rotate said build platform about a rotation axis at a first speed, and a second actuator assembly configured to rotate said shaft about the rotation axis at a second speed different from the first speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Thomas Carter, Pawan Sudhindra Rao, Christopher James Hayden, Michael Robert Tucker
  • Patent number: 11749094
    Abstract: A disclosed method includes: receiving an alarm notification; determining that there is a verification for the alarm notification such that the alarm notification is not a false alarm; and pushing the alarm notification to an emergency network entity along with an indication that the alarm has been verified in response to determining that there is a verification. Another disclosed method includes monitoring an emergency queue at an emergency network entity for incoming queue entries from an emergency data manager; determining correlations for the incoming queue entries based on data associated with each incoming queue entry; and generating a link for each correlated queue entry linking each correlated queue entry to a primary queue entry in response to determining correlations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: RAPIDSOS, INC.
    Inventors: Riccardo Pellegrini, Nicholas Edward Horelik, William Thomas Guthrie, Michael John Martin, John Alan Pirrie, Krishnakumar Unnikrishnan, Andrew Lindstrom Gillespie
  • Publication number: 20230272397
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and compositions useful for prevention of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSv) in animals, including animals of the species Sus scrofa. The present teachings relate to swine wherein at least one allele of a CD163 gene has been inactivated, and to specific methods and nucleic acid sequences used in gene editing to inactivate the CD163 gene. Swine wherein both alleles of the CD163 gene are inactivated are resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSv).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Genus PLC
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Jonathan Edward Lightner, Matthew Scott Culbertson, William Thomas Christianson, Benjamin Beaton, Brian Burger, Dylan Barnes, Matthew Campbell
  • Patent number: 11743542
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Gyanveer Singh, William Thomas
  • Patent number: 11741819
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Henry Katz, Zvika Ferentz, Jeffrey Sternberg, Nicholas Edward Horelik, William Thomas Guthrie
  • Patent number: 11743435
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a headset display device includes a central processor and multiple projector integrated circuits for eyes of a wearer of the headset display device. Each eye of the wear is associated with at least three projector integrated circuits. Each of the three projector integrated circuits is communicatively coupled to the central processor. Each projector integrated circuit includes a first integrated circuit including a light emitter array having monochrome light emitters of a single color, and a second integrated circuit coupled to the first integrated circuit. The second integrated circuit includes a graphics processor configured to generate transformed image data. The graphics processor is configured to provide the transformed image data to the first integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit is configured to output the transformed image data using the light emitter array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Larry Seiler, William Thomas Blank, Warren Andrew Hunt, Michael Yee
  • Patent number: D1000196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith
  • Patent number: D1001560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith
  • Patent number: D1001636
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith