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: 20260055036
    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: October 29, 2025
    Publication date: February 26, 2026
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Justin Pan
  • Patent number: 12492156
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Justin Pan
  • Patent number: 12491468
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: William B. Dolan
  • Publication number: 20250360418
    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: August 11, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    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: 20250284876
    Abstract: Systems and method directed to assistive document generation are described. More specifically, similar documents share large portions of reusable text structures that can be used to generate an initial document thereby saving a user time. To generate the document, an indication to create the document may be received and based on the indication, a plurality of example documents and grounding content may be identified. Example documents may be existing documents that are similar to a target document of the writer. Grounding information may refer to content that is relevant, timely, and accurate when applied to the target document. The plurality of example documents and the grounding content may be received, and a document sketch based on the example documents and the grounding content may be generated and contains a plurality of predicted text sequences based on the example documents and the grounding content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2025
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: William B. DOLAN, Zeqiu WU, Michel GALLEY, Yizhe ZHANG, Zhang LI, Christopher John BROCKETT
  • Publication number: 20250281870
    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: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Robert LEPSKI, Nele KLINKENBERG, Joerg NAGY, Tobias ECKARDT, William B. DOLAN
  • Patent number: 12383836
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: 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: 20250217194
    Abstract: The disclosed concepts relate to employing agent behavior models to control agent behavior in an application, such as a video game or a simulation. For instance, in some implementations, agent behavior models with relatively greater resource utilization, such as generative language models, are assigned to agents that are at higher levels of an agent hierarchy. Agent behavior models with relatively less resource utilization, such as reinforcement learning or hard-coded models, are assigned to agents that are at lower levels of the agent hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel A. DESGARENNES, William B. DOLAN, Sudha RAO, Christopher J. BROCKETT, Yun Hui XU, Weijia XU, Ken LOBB
  • Publication number: 20250128200
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing methanol from a gas feed stream comprising methanol and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Tobias ECKARDT, William B. DOLAN, Manish MEHTA, Margaret GREENE, Justin PAN
  • Patent number: 12282727
    Abstract: Systems and method directed to assistive document generation are described. More specifically, similar documents share large portions of reusable text structures that can be used to generate an initial document thereby saving a user time. To generate the document, an indication to create the document may be received and based on the indication, a plurality of example documents and grounding content may be identified. Example documents may be existing documents that are similar to a target document of the writer. Grounding information may refer to content that is relevant, timely, and accurate when applied to the target document. The plurality of example documents and the grounding content may be received, and a document sketch based on the example documents and the grounding content may be generated and contains a plurality of predicted text sequences based on the example documents and the grounding content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Zeqiu Wu, Michel Galley, Yizhe Zhang, Zhang Li, Christopher John Brockett
  • Patent number: 12234420
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes and systems for removing heavy C5+ hydrocarbon components from a natural gas feed gas by subjecting the natural gas feed gas stream to an adsorber. The adsorber in the processes and systems described herein operating at a pressure that may be associated with improved adsorption capacity and longer breakthrough time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Mark Tomczak
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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