Patents by Inventor William B. Dolan

William B. Dolan 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: 20240399286
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water from a gas feed stream comprising hydrocarbons and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Justin Pan, Alfonse Maglio, Margaret Anne Greene, Tobias Eckardt
  • Publication number: 20240375038
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing methanol from a natural gas stream comprising methanol during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Nele KLINKENBERG, Tobias ECKHARDT, William B. DOLAN, Mark TOMCZAK, Justin PAN
  • Publication number: 20240343664
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop to reduce an amount of liquid hydrocarbons exposed by the separator to the regeneration stream over one or more durations for which an average C5+ hydrocarbon content of the regeneration stream is reduced or minimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Tobias ECKARDT, Justin PAN, Manish MEHTA
  • Patent number: 12083471
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water from a gas feed stream comprising hydrocarbons and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Justin Pan, Alfonse Maglio, Margaret Anne Greene, Tobias Eckardt
  • Publication number: 20240289686
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for using a director service as an intermediary management system to integrate interactive elements between a developer, a user, a generative machine learning (ML) model, and/or an interactive environment. In examples, the director service may receive input from a user or developer device relating to an interactive element from an interactive environment. The director service may process input from one or more of the developer, the user, and the interactive environment to recognize semantic context and intent objectives associated with the input. The director service may generate one or more prompts based on such input, which is processed by an ML model to generate output. In examples, the prompts may be provided to the ML model to direct it towards providing an output that is responsive to the input and one or more environment guidelines. The input and/or output may be multimodal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel A. DESGARENNES, William B. DOLAN, Sudha RAO, Yun Hui XU, Christopher John BROCKETT, Haiyan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240269604
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are sorbents for capturing heavy hydrocarbons via thermal swing adsorption processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Roger Wyatt, Angela Siegel, Klaus Neumann, Tobias Eckardt
  • Patent number: 11980842
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are sorbents for capturing heavy hydrocarbons via thermal swing adsorption processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Roger Wyatt, Angela Siegel, Klaus Neumann, Tobias Eckardt
  • Patent number: 11981635
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop to reduce an amount of liquid hydrocarbons exposed by the separator to the regeneration stream over one or more durations for which an average C5+ hydrocarbon content of the regeneration stream is reduced or minimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Tobias Eckardt, Justin Pan, Manish Mehta
  • Publication number: 20240059634
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop that introduces an absorbent into a regeneration gas stream, and systems for implementing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Justin PAN
  • Publication number: 20240050886
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water, mercaptans, C5+ or C6+ hydrocarbons, or any combination thereof from a gas feed stream during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Margaret Anne GREENE, Justin PAN, Tobias ECKARDT, Joerg NAGY, Robert LEPSKI
  • Publication number: 20240001285
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system including at least two adsorbent bed containing vessels in adsorption mode, where one has a high pressure PI and one has a low pressure P3, and at least one adsorbent bed containing vessel in regeneration mode. The vessel that is in regeneration mode may have a pressure P2 that is intermediate to the pressures PI and P3 of each of the vessels that are in adsorption mode. The system may be configured to introduce a gas feed stream into the high pressure (P3) vessel to generate a first product stream, followed by passing a slip stream from the first product stream, to act as a regeneration gas, into the vessel that in regeneration mode, followed by passing the regeneration gas into the low pressure (P3) vessel, without passing through a compressor, to generate a second product stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: William B. DOLAN
  • Publication number: 20230391692
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop to reduce an amount of liquid hydrocarbons exposed by the separator to the regeneration stream over one or more durations for which an average C5+ hydrocarbon content of the regeneration stream is reduced or minimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Tobias ECKARDT, Justin PAN, Manish MEHTA
  • Publication number: 20230381665
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a personalized agent service that generates and evolves customized agents that can be instantiated in-game to play with users. Machine learning models are trained to control the agent's interactions with the game environment and the user during gameplay. As the user continues to play with the agent, the one or more machine learning models develop gameplay styles for the agent that complement the user's preferred playstyle, incorporate the user's preferred strategies, and is generally customized for interaction with the user. The agent personalization data generated during gameplay is stored by the service. An application programming interface is provided by the personalized agent service. Using the API, games can import agent personalization data in order to customize in-game non-player characters (NPCs), thereby customizing the in-game NPCs in accordance with the user's preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Gabriel A. DESGARENNES, Sudha RAO, Christopher John BROCKETT, Benjamin David VAN DURME, Ryan VOLUM, Hamid PALANGI
  • Publication number: 20230381664
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a personalized agent service that generates and evolves customized agents that can be instantiated in-game to play with users. Machine learning models are trained to control the agent's interactions with the game environment and the user during gameplay. A user may request that a personalized agent join the user's gameplay session. The user device sends a request for the personalized agent to a game platform. The game platform determines whether the user has a license to execute a second instance of the game. When the user has a license to execute a second instance of the game, the second instance of the game may be executed on the user device. Information received from a personalized agent service is used to instantiate a personalized agent in the second instance of the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel A. DESGARENNES, William B. DOLAN, Christopher John BROCKETT, Sudha RAO, Benjamin David VAN DURME, Ryan VOLUM, Hamid PALANGI
  • Publication number: 20230356181
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are adsorbents with improved mechanical properties for capturing heavy hydrocarbons during, for example, via thermal swing adsorption processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Lepski, Nele Klinkenberg, Joerg Nagy, Tobias Eckardt, William B. Dolan
  • Publication number: 20230233983
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water from a gas feed stream comprising mercaptans and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Justin PAN, Margaret Anne GREENE, Tobias ECKARDT, Manish Mehta
  • Publication number: 20230205980
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to multidirectional generative editing. In examples, content of a source document is used to produce generated content for a target document. A subpart of the source document may be associated with a subpart of the target document that includes the generated content. As a result of the association, if the subpart of the target document is modified (e.g., to add, remove, or edit natural language content or formatting), the subpart of the target document is used to produce generated content with which to update the source document accordingly. Thus, changes to generated content may be propagated back to a source document from which the generated content was produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher John BROCKETT, Michel GALLEY, William B. DOLAN
  • Publication number: 20230166210
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water from a gas feed stream comprising hydrocarbons and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Justin PAN, Alfonse MAGLIO, Margaret Anne GREENE, Tobias ECKARDT
  • Patent number: 11660567
    Abstract: Mixed adsorbent/desiccant beds comprising in some embodiments from about 20 vol % (volume percent) to about 90 vol % of one or more adsorbents and from about 10 vol % to about 80 vol % of one or more desiccants, based on the total volume of the adsorbent/desiccant mixture, prevent water reflux during thermal regeneration of adsorption beds in gas processing plants and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Michael LoCascio
  • Publication number: 20230123535
    Abstract: In examples, a developer may define a set of computer-controlled agent attributes, which may be processed by a generative multimodal machine learning model in conjunction with background information associated with a virtual environment (e.g., “lore”) and other agent information to generate multimodal model output with which to control the behavior of the computer-controlled agent. Thus, a player may interact with the computer-controlled agent, such that user input from the player is processed using the ML model to generate model output to affect the behavior of the computer-controlled agent, thereby enabling the user and the computer-controlled agent to interact. As compared to manual dialogue authoring, use of agent information to define the behavior of a computer-controlled agent may result in reduced effort on the part of a creator while also offering increased depth and variety for computer-controlled agents of a virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Gabriel A. DESGARENNES, Christopher John BROCKETT, Hamid PALANGI, Ryan VOLUM, Sudha RAO, Yun Hui XU, Akanksha MALHOTRA, Benjamin David VAN DURME