Patents by Inventor William Andrew

William Andrew 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: 11942306
    Abstract: Atomic layer etching (ALE) of a substrate using a wafer scale wave of precisely controlled electrons is presented. A volume of gaseous plasma including diluent and reactive species and electrons of a uniform steady state composition is generated in a positive column of a DC plasma proximate the substrate. A corrosion layer is formed on the substrate by adsorption of the reactive species to atoms at the surface of the substrate. The substrate is positively biased to draw electrons from the volume to the surface of the substrate and impart energy to the electrons to stimulate electron transitions in the corrosion layer species, resulting in ejection of the corrosion layer species via electron stimulation desorption (ESD). The substrate is negatively biased to repel the electrons from the surface of the substrate back to the volume, followed by a zero bias to restore the steady state composition of the volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VELVETCH LLC
    Inventors: Samir John Anz, David Irwin Margolese, William Andrew Goddard, Stewart Francis Sando
  • Publication number: 20240095895
    Abstract: Systems and methods integrate different portions of a design review, such as files from a variety of different sources, into an interaction environment for review and interaction by a number of reviewing parties. The reviewing parties interact through an interface that is different from a native software of the files. An automated design review may be performed to evaluate a common rendering, formed from the files, for one or more conflicts, including interferences or version errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Albright, Jordan Levy, William Andrew Mecham, William Ryan Weese, Benjamin Goska, Aaron Richard Carkin, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20240095723
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are generally directed to processing conversions of digital assets to fiat currency. An example method includes obtaining a conversion rate for a digital asset via an API, providing the conversion rate via a client device, receiving a digital asset conversion request and executing a digital asset conversion within a configurable time period. Executing the digital asset conversion includes causing digital asset units to be debited from the digital asset user account and causing fiat currency units to be credited to a fiat currency user account. The method further includes dynamically providing a notification of execution of the digital asset conversion via the client device, updating account balance data objects associated with the digital asset user account and the fiat currency user account, and subsequent to executing the digital asset conversion, executing a fiat currency transaction (e.g., a settlement) with a digital asset exchange system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Petersen, Jeffrey Scott Pittelkau, Nikolais Linsteadt, Joseph Arthur Revnes, Brian Daniel Cooper, William Matthau, Yamini Bistesh Sagar, Nicolas Frederic Cabrera, Utkarsh Agarwal, Tim Kuchlein, Bharath Lakshmanan, William Andrew Bryant, Stephen Paul Saucier, Deepak Kumar, Anil Jaiswal, Byungkwon Jeon, Balaji Devarasetty
  • Patent number: 11937028
    Abstract: Configurations for rack connection systems are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, installation locations for one or more cables are determined and one or more indicators corresponding to installation locations are activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Albright, William Andrew Mecham, Benjamin Goska, Aaron Richard Carkin, William Ryan Weese, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20240086377
    Abstract: A data science model score database may contain electronic records, each including a data science model identifier and a set of data science model scores. A data science model score server, coupled to the data science model score database, may receive (from a remote user device) an indication of a selected data science model. The server may then retrieve, from the data science score database, information about the selected data science model. Based on the retrieved information, the server may automatically calculate a maturity score for the selected data science model in accordance with a scalable score, a service-oriented score, a validated score, and a productized score. When the server receives from the remote user device an adjustment to at least one of the scalable score, the service-oriented score, the validated score, and the productized score, it may automatically re-calculate the maturity score for the selected data science model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: William L. Cooper, Scott Andrew Steinkirchner, Arthur Paul Drennan, III
  • Publication number: 20240086997
    Abstract: A system according to certain aspects of the disclosure provides drug pricing information from multiple PBMs to users. For example, the system may obtain, calculate, and/or estimate drug prices that are available under contracts or agreements between PBMs and various pharmacies. These prices may be prices of drugs for purchase at the various pharmacies. In response to requests for prices of particular drugs, the system can display relevant prices. For example, the system displays a price for each pharmacy chain and/or displays prices for a particular geographical area. The users can compare the prices for a particular drug and determine which pharmacy they would like to purchase the drug from. The system can provide a discount coupon that allows the users to purchase the drug at the price listed by the system at the selected pharmacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Trevor Zachary Bezdek, Douglas Joseph Hirsch, Scott Andrew Marlette, William Raymond McClure, Andrew David Slutsky
  • Patent number: 11927062
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing lost circulation material particulates that may be for use in treating a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing at a well-site a feed vessel that contains a liquid material, the liquid material including a monomer and an initiator; providing an injection device disposed underneath the feed vessel for directing at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to a reaction chamber, wherein the reaction chamber includes a fluid; discharging at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to the reaction chamber through an orifice disposed on the injection device; and forming LCM particulates at least in part by allowing at least a portion of the liquid material to polymerize in the fluid in the reaction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May
  • Patent number: 11928029
    Abstract: A system that implements a data storage service may store data for a database table in multiple replicated partitions on respective storage nodes. In response to a request to back up a table, the service may back up individual partitions of the table to a remote storage system independently and (in some cases) in parallel, and may update (or create) and store metadata about the table and its partitions on storage nodes of the data storage service and/or in the remote storage system. Backing up each partition may include exporting it from the database in which the table is stored, packaging and compressing the exported partition for upload, and uploading the exported, packaged, and compressed partition to the remote storage system. The remote storage system may be a key-value durable storage system in which each backed-up partition is accessible using its partition identifier as the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Maximiliano Maccanti, Timothy Andrew Rath, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri, Akshat Vig, Clarence Wing Yin Ng, Srivaths Badrinath Copparam, Rajaprabhu Thiruchi Loganathan, Wei Xiao, William Alexander Stevenson
  • Patent number: 11918924
    Abstract: A carousel ride system includes a first rotatable platform and multiple second rotatable platforms. Each second rotatable platform of the multiple second rotatable platforms is positioned within a respective opening in the first rotatable platform. A first drive system is configured to drive rotation of the first rotatable platform and multiple second drive assemblies are configured to drive rotation of the multiple second rotatable platforms. Multiple figures extend over the multiple second rotatable platforms and multiple figure drive assemblies are configured to independently lift and rotate the multiple figures relative to the multiple second rotatable platforms. One or more processors are configured to coordinate operation of the first drive system, the multiple second drive assemblies, and the multiple figure drive assemblies to maintain the multiple figures in a forward-facing orientation relative to a direction of travel of the first rotatable platform during operation of the carousel ride system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Jerrell Andrew Loudon, Rick A Dias, David Wayne Komives, William Dale Mason
  • Patent number: 11917954
    Abstract: A wheel track monitoring system for an irrigation system monitors the condition of a wheel track and alerts an operator and/or automatically takes corrective action when a wheel track develops ruts or other conditions that may adversely affect operation of the irrigation system. The wheel track monitoring system includes a wheel track condition sensor, a location sensor, and a processing system. The processing system receives and stores wheel track condition data and location data from the sensors as the irrigation system travels across a field and creates a log of wheel track condition data for multiple locations in the field. The processing system also analyzes the wheel track condition data to determine if the condition of the wheel track is unacceptable at any locations in the irrigated field and generates a corrective action signal if the condition is unacceptable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Lindsay Corporation
    Inventors: Mark William Miller, Reece Robert Andrews
  • Publication number: 20240066065
    Abstract: In some embodiments provided herein is a method of treating a coagulopathy in a subject, the method including administering to the subject in need thereof an effective amount of a composition including platelets or platelet derivatives and an incubating agent including one or more salts, a buffer, optionally a cryoprotectant, and optionally an organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Cellphire, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Andrew MOSKOWITZ, Braden Carl ISHLER, William Matthew DICKERSON, Amber Nicole LEE, Shan XU
  • Publication number: 20240065589
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for accelerated ergonomic collection of capillary blood. An apparatus and system include a blood collection module with a proximal portion including a vacuum generation chamber, a distal portion including a blood collection chamber, a concave mid portion including a pressure equalization channel configured to equalize reduced air pressure. The apparatus further includes a sealing surface to stably seal the blood collection module to the skin around a collection site and a slide latch actuated by a lengthwise sliding motion. Also included is a lancet carrier with linearly-arranged lancet strips to puncture rows of blood extraction slits in the collection site. The apparatus also includes an angled transfer port with a low-resistance non-microfluidic blood flow channel to a transfer module, then to a plasma separation module with a multilayer laminate and plasma separation membrane. Methods for accelerated ergonomic collection of capillary blood are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kristopher Scott Buchanan, William Kristopher Buchanan, Dirk van den Boom, Thomas Michael Johannsen, Wesley Joseph Hager, Matthew Bryan Huntingdon, Christopher Andrew Frankson, Landon Bruggeman
  • Publication number: 20240069005
    Abstract: A method includes determining, using a processing device, a set of observations from coolant data, the coolant data being received from one or more sensors in an environment associated with a coolant. The method further includes determining, using a machine learning model and the set of observations, a contamination level of the coolant. The method also includes initiating an operation, using the processing device, responsive to determining the coolant contamination level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Kelsey Albright, William Andrew Mecham, Tahir Cader, Michael Scott Thompson, Aaron Richard Carkin, William Ryan Weese, Benjamin Joseph Goska, Marc Davis
  • Publication number: 20240058602
    Abstract: An electrode that includes an elongate lead body and a nerve cuff. The nerve cuff may include a biologically compatible, elastic, electrically insulative helical cuff body configured to be disposed around a nerve, and a plurality of electrically conductive contacts carried by the helical cuff body that are spaced from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research
    Inventors: William Andrew Brandt, Brian Ralph Dearden
  • Publication number: 20240041541
    Abstract: A robotic surgical arm including a receiver configured to receive wireless communications from a robotic surgical instrument attached to the robotic surgical arm and a shield including a plurality of fingers each having a common shape and a connector being in contact with each of the fingers. When the connector is electrically connected to ground, the shape, dimensions and arrangement of the fingers causes attenuation of the transmission of electric fields through the shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: CMR Surgical Limited
    Inventor: William Andrew Steer
  • Patent number: 11893109
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for protection and recovery of backup storage systems from ransomware attacks. A request to modify data stored in a storage system is received. The storage system includes at least one component configured to store the deduplicated data. An acknowledgement of the received request is generated. The acknowledgement indicates that the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request was modified. Modification of the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request for a predetermined period of time is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Exagrid Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Pientka, Michael Carleton, Adrian T. VanderSpek, Stephen Smith, Luke Makosky, Peter Watkins, Nathaniel W. Turner, Sandra C. Scott, Yee-Ching Chao, Thomas J. Gillispie, William Andrews, David G. Therrien, Jamey C. Poirier, Mark B. Hecker, Andrew H. French
  • Patent number: 11892898
    Abstract: Configurations for data center component monitoring are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, movement of a server component is determined based on sensor data and the movement is used to diagnose a root cause for a server component failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: William Andrew Mecham, Ryan Albright, Benjamin Goska, William Ryan Weese, Aaron Richard Carkin, Michael Thompson
  • Patent number: 11892713
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optical axis. At least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface has a surface profile including a base curvature and a plurality of morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures. The base curvature may correspond to a base optical power of the ophthalmic lens, and the morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures may be configured to extend depth of focus of the ophthalmic lens at intermediate or near viewing distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Hong, William Andrew Maxwell, Xin Wei
  • Publication number: 20240039821
    Abstract: A network computer system operates to mitigate failures for a network service. The network computer system can generate a data path model for the network service, where the data path model identifies a probabilistic set of expectations with respect to the programs and program sequences which handle service requests for the network service. The data path models can be used to detect, analyze or mitigate service request failures of the network service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: William Andrew Westlin, Edward Joseph Farro
  • Patent number: 11887823
    Abstract: Systems and methods for material processing using wafer scale waves of precisely controlled electrons in a DC plasma is presented. A surface floating potential of a substrate placed atop a stage in a positive column of the DC plasma is adjusted and maintained to a reference potential. A periodic biasing signal referenced to the reference potential is capacitively coupled to the stage to control a surface potential at the substrate according to: an active phase for provision of kinetic energy to free electrons in the DC plasma for activation of targeted bonds at the surface of the substrate; a neutralization phase for repelling of the free electrons from the surface of the substrate; and an initialization phase for restoring an initial condition of the surface floating potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: VELVETCH LLC
    Inventors: Stewart Francis Sando, Samir John Anz, David Irwin Margolese, William Andrew Goddard