Patents by Inventor William A. Walker

William A. Walker 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: 20240374995
    Abstract: A handheld video game controller includes one or more user-operable input elements, control circuitry to generate controller data indicative of operation of one or more of the user-operable input elements, and communication circuitry, where for a first communication mode, the communication circuitry is configured to transmit the controller data directly to a video game console as a destination device for the controller data, and where for a second communication mode, the communication circuitry is configured to transmit the controller data via a plurality of networked devices to a video game processing device as the destination device for the controller data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew William Walker, Alexei Ashton Derek Smith
  • Patent number: 12137955
    Abstract: A bone cement mixing and dispensing system and method for mixing and delivering bone cement therefrom. The system has a mixing container for holding a bone cement mixture, the mixing container extending along an axial length and having opposed first and second ends, the first end comprising a downstream opening for dispensing the bone cement downstream from the mixing container; a mixing element movably disposed within the mixing container; and a plunger comprising a piston movably disposed within the mixing container. In this system. with a first coupling, the mixing element moves by assistance of a motor along the axial length of the mixing container without translation of the plunger to mix the bone cement. In this system. with a second coupling, the mixing element and plunger are driven together along the axial length of the mixing container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZAVATION MEDICAL PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Colby Williams, John Franklin Cummins, John Lawrence Walker, Brad Risher, Christopher Strahm, Talya Mathein
  • Publication number: 20240368236
    Abstract: Constructs comprising GDF15, and mutants thereof are provided. In various embodiments the constructs comprising GDF15, and mutants thereof, can be of use in the treatment or ameliorating a metabolic disorder. In various embodiments the metabolic disease or disorder is type 2 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated glucose levels, elevated insulin levels and diabetic nephropathy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Yumei XIONG, Yi ZHANG, Jackie Z. SHENG, Agnes Eva HAMBURGER, Murielle M. VENIANT-ELLISON, Grant SHIMAMOTO, Xiaoshan MIN, Zhulun WANG, Jie TANG, Gunasekaran KANNAN, Marissa MOCK, Kenneth William WALKER
  • Publication number: 20240356945
    Abstract: A server for detecting anomalies associated with users accessing a network is caused to receive a dataset including static data and dynamic data. The static data includes location data of resources associated with the network and user data, and the dynamic data includes user access events. The server is further caused to detect, with a plurality of unsupervised machine learning models, an anomaly associated with a user accessing the network based on the static data and the dynamic data, determine whether the detected anomaly is critical, and in response to determining the detected anomaly is critical, generate and transmit a security alert specific to the detected anomaly to a security operation center. Other example servers, systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable medium for detecting anomalies associated with users accessing a network are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc
    Inventors: Rajneesh KUMAR, William WALKER, Bashar ABOUSEIDO
  • Publication number: 20240327481
    Abstract: GDF15 molecules are provided herein. In some embodiments, the GDF15 molecule is a GDF15-Fc fusion, in which a GDF15 region is fused to an Fc region. In some embodiments, the GDF15 region is fused to the Fc region via a linker. Also, provided herein arr methods for making and using GDF15 molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: YuMei XIONG, Kenneth William WALKER, Murielle Marie VENIANT ELLISON
  • Patent number: 12107627
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprises an at least partially transparent display, the display configured to generate light to form an image for display to a user positioned in front of the display, and at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device positioned behind the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device is configured to transmit and/or receive light through at least part of the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device comprises or forms part of an optical wireless communications (OWC) apparatus configured to transmit and/or receive the light through the at least part of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: PURELIFI LIMITED
    Inventors: Dobroslav Tsonev, Istvan P. B. Csajaghy, Duncan John William Walker, Ivan Alf Karlsson, Artur Witold Wieczorek
  • Publication number: 20240308653
    Abstract: A wingless vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle has a main body including airfoil sections on either side of a central module in which a load may be carried. Articulated forward thrust systems are mounted on a leading edge of the main body and lateral members are located on either side of the main body and form winglets. At least one rear vertical-thrust system may also be provided and, in one embodiment, is mounted in an aperture aft of the central module. The forward thrust systems transition between a vertical flight configuration and a horizontal flight configuration. The lateral members are configured as both vortex-damping members and also to channel backwash from the forward thrust systems over the airfoil formed by the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: William WALKER
  • Patent number: 12082975
    Abstract: An ultrasound system for imaging a target is provided. The system includes a plurality of transducer elements; at least one transmitter configured to excite at least one of the transducer elements to emit ultrasound energy to the target; a plurality of samplers configured to sample echo signals received by at least some of the plurality of transducer elements, the echo signals comprising acoustic echoes received from the target responsive to the ultrasound energy; a coherence calculator configured to calculate a plurality of coherence values, each of the coherence values corresponding to a measure of similarity between at least two sample echo signals; an estimator configured to estimate a coherence contribution estimate, the coherence contribution estimate comprising an estimate of a contribution of at least one coherence model to the plurality of coherence values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DUKE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: William Walker, Matthew Morgan, Gregg Trahey
  • Publication number: 20240289261
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media may facilitate one or a combination of the following. A software change operation within a deployment pipeline for testing and deploying a software change to a production computing service may be processed. The software change operation may be identified as corresponding to a software change with the deployment pipeline, where the software change may be identified as being configured to make a pipeline change to a configuration of the deployment pipeline itself. Responsive to the identifying, a regression suite configured to run a plurality of test applications on the deployment pipeline to test the deployment pipeline with respect to the software change may be invoked, and the plurality of test applications may be run with the software change. The running the plurality of test applications may include simulating pipeline runs with a plurality of use cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: William Walker, Matthew Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240277735
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of treating Parkinson's Disease and/or Lewy body disease or disorder(s), including Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies, comprising administering to a subject ATH-1017.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Athira Pharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans J. Moebius, Xue Hua, Kevin Church, William Walker, Leen H. Kawas
  • Publication number: 20240282041
    Abstract: A graphics rendering apparatus, comprising: a rendering unit configured to render image content for display on a display screen; an input unit configured to receive one or more images of one or both eyes of a user; and a gaze tracking unit configured to determine, based on one or more of the received images, a region of the display screen towards which a gaze of the user is directed; wherein the rendering unit is configured to execute, in dependence upon the determined region of the display screen, one or more computational processes that are expected to cause a visual discontinuity to occur within at least a part of the image content, wherein the rendering unit is configured to execute the one or more computational processes with respect to one or more parts of the image content that correspond to one or more regions of the display screen that are different from the determined region of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Pedro Federico Quijada Leyton, Aron Giuseppe Visciglia, David Erwan Damien Uberti, Lloyd Preston Stemple, Andrew William Walker
  • Publication number: 20240270160
    Abstract: A vehicle may comprise an actuator system. The actuator system may comprise an indicia portion (e.g., a retroreflector, etc.), a masking element that exposes the indicia portion in a first state and covers the indicia portion in a second state, and a linkage coupling the masking element to an actuator. In the case of a bidirectional vehicle, operation of the actuator may be based at least in part on a determination of the vehicle changing a direction of travel. The actuator system may cause a first set of one or more actuator systems disposed on a first end of the vehicle to transition from a first state to a second state and/or cause a second set of one or more actuator systems disposed on a second end opposite the first end of the vehicle to transition from the second state to the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Reginaldo Alves de Almeida, Pratik Bansal, Roberto Dlacic, Anthony Earl, Christopher Lawrence Jackson, Da Liu, Carter William McEathron, Ryan William McGaughey, Fabricio Cesar Oda, Amanda Brown Prescott, Jesse Ian Walker
  • Patent number: 12054527
    Abstract: GDF15 molecules are provided herein. In some embodiments, the GDF15 molecule is a GDF15-Fc fusion, in which a GDF15 region is fused to an Fc region. In some embodiments, the GDF15 region is fused to the Fc region via a linker. Also, provided herein are methods for making and using GDF15 molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: YuMei Xiong, Kenneth William Walker, Murielle Marie Veniant Ellison
  • Publication number: 20240189796
    Abstract: There is provided a method to characterize a sorbent. The method may provide a sorbent, suspend the sorbent in a fluid, stir the sorbent in the fluid, filter the sorbent from the fluid to isolate a filtrate, measure the electrical conductivity of the filtrate, and measure the alkalinity of the filtrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: CALGON CARBON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason Paul MAZZOCCOLI, Christopher Bennett DIXON, Timothy Robert MCCLELLAND, Ryan William WALKER
  • Patent number: 11998556
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of treating Parkinson's Disease and/or Lewy body disease or disorder(s), including Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies, comprising administering to a subject ATH-1017.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Athira Pharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans J. Moebius, Xue Hua, Kevin Church, William Walker, Leen H. Kawas
  • Patent number: 11993366
    Abstract: A wingless vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle has a main body including airfoil sections on either side of a central module in which a load may be carried. Articulated forward thrust systems are mounted on a leading edge of the main body and lateral members are located on either side of the main body and form winglets. At least one rear vertical-thrust system may also be provided and, in one embodiment, is mounted in an aperture aft of the central module. The forward thrust systems transition between a vertical flight configuration and a horizontal flight configuration. The lateral members are configured as both vortex-damping members and also to channel backwash from the forward thrust systems over the airfoil formed by the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventor: William Walker
  • Publication number: 20240150448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to neutralizing antibodies of the human pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide type I receptor (PAC1) and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies. Methods of treating or preventing headache conditions, such as migraine and cluster headache, using the neutralizing antibodies are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Neeraj Jagdish AGRAWAL, Irwin CHEN, Su CHONG, Bryna FUCHSLOCHER, Kevin GRAHAM, Agnes Eva HAMBURGER, Mark Leo MICHAELS, Christopher MOHR, Derek E. PIPER, Kenneth William WALKER, Zhulun WANG, Cen XU
  • Patent number: 11970161
    Abstract: A motion planner of an autonomous vehicle's computer system uses reconfigurable collision detection architecture hardware to perform a collision assessment on a planning graph for the vehicle prior to execution of a motion plan. For edges on the planning graph, which represent transitions in states of the vehicle, the system sets a probability of collision with a dynamic object in the environment based at least in part on the collision assessment. Depending on whether the goal of the vehicle is to avoid or collide with a particular dynamic object in the environment, the system then performs an optimization to identify a path in the resulting planning graph with either a relatively high or relatively low potential of a collision with the particular dynamic object. The system then causes the actuator system of the vehicle to implement a motion plan with the applicable identified path based at least in part on the optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: DUKE UNIVERSITY, BROWN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Daniel Sorin, William Floyd-Jones, Sean Murray, George Konidaris, William Walker
  • Patent number: 11891435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to neutralizing antibodies of the human pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide type I receptor (PAC1) and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies. Methods of treating or preventing headache conditions, such as migraine and cluster headache, using the neutralizing antibodies are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Neeraj Jagdish Agrawal, Kevin Graham, Agnes Eva Hamburger, Christopher Mohr, Derek E. Piper, Kenneth William Walker, Zhulun Wang, Cen Xu
  • Patent number: 11880501
    Abstract: A user profile generating system for generating a user profile for use with a processing device operable to display content includes: a head motion tracking unit operable to identify head motion of the user, an eye motion tracking unit operable to identify eye motion of the user, and a profile generating unit operable to generate a user profile comprising head tracking and eye tracking information for the user, where the generated user profile is used to modify interactions between the user and a processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick John Connor, Richard James Forster, Andrew William Walker, Matthew William Sanders, Jessica Rose Grant, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Ludwig Sidenmark