Patents by Inventor William Bennett

William Bennett 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).

  • Methods and apparatus to provide redundancy in a process control system
    Patent number: 10003525
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide redundancy in a process control system are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a first network host, first integrity messages transmitted from a second network host over a first network. The method includes detecting a network failure over a first communication path between a first network interface of the first network host and a second network interface of the second network host via first network when a first network interface of the first network host fails to receive one of the first integrity messages expected from a first network interface of the second network host. The method includes automatically establishing a second communication path between the first network host and the second network host in response to the detected network failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: William Bennett, Joel Nicholas Ohmart, Dirk Thiele
  • System and method for improving a jack up platform with asymmetric cleats
    Patent number: 9903084
    Abstract: A mobile drilling unit having a floatable platform for use in a body of water with a plurality of vertical support legs. With each vertical support leg configured to move with a cleat at the lower end of each support leg. Each cleat having a lower surface to transmit gravitational force from the unit to the sea floor. The cleats are asymmetric with respect to the legs which allows expansion of the center of pressure on the cleats to be beyond the vertical support legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Bennett Offshore, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jake Alford, William Bennett
  • TRIGGERING TRANSITION OF A DEVICE BETWEEN STATES
    Publication number: 20180039314
    Abstract: In some examples, a controller receives, from a sensor that is part of a device mounted on a moveable platform, measurement data. The controller detects, based on the measurement data, a change in transit motion status of the moveable platform. The controller triggers, in response to detecting the change in transit motion status of the moveable platform, a transition of the device from a first power state to a second, different power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Sandeep Chennakeshu, Jesse William Bennett, Scott Leonard Dill
  • DETERMINING A LOAD STATUS OF A PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20180038991
    Abstract: Based on a relationship between measurement data from at least one sensor and a baseline, a load status of a platform is determined. In response to the determined load status, such as determining that the platform is empty, the baseline is refined using a baseline estimator to produce a refined baseline that can be used to determine a further load status of the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Sandeep Chennakeshu, Yu Gao, Victor James Stolpman, Jesse William Bennett
  • DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR MOTION PICTURE CAMERA FOCUS APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20170264815
    Abstract: A system for determining a distance to a region of interest. The system may be used to adjust focus of a motion picture camera. The system may include a first camera configured to have a first field of view, and a second camera configured to have a second field of view that overlaps at least a portion of the first field of view. The system may include a processor configured to calculate a distance of the selected region of interest relative to a location by comparing a position of the selected region of interest in the first field of view with a position of the selected region of interest in the second field of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Ritesh Narang, William Bennett Hogue, JR., Clive Austin Towndrow
  • MOULD ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20170190606
    Abstract: A method of forming a mould assembly (10) is provided. The method includes providing a mould body (12) defining a mould insert receiving zone (14). The method includes providing a mould insert (16), defining opposed sides (18, 20). One side (18) defines a mould cavity surface (21), against which an article is to be moulded, and the opposed side (20) defines a mould body seating arrangement (22) for seating the mould insert (16) in the mould insert receiving zone (14). The method further includes positioning the mould insert 16 in the mould insert receiving zone (14) of the mould body (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Stanley William BENNETT
  • Method of forming a cooling hole by laser drilling
    Patent number: 9696035
    Abstract: A method for making shaped cooling holes in a substrate by pulsing and stopping a laser while moving the laser or substrate. The method produces shaped cooling holes with a bore angled relative to an exit surface of the combustor liner. One end of the bore is an inlet formed in an inlet surface of the combustor liner. The other end of the bore is an outlet formed in the exit surface of the combustor liner. The outlet has a shaped portion that expands in only one dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Howard Starkweather, William Bennett, John Gibbons, Anthony Urbanski
  • Controller
    Patent number: D786251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Austin Porter
  • Controller
    Patent number: D788853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Austin Porter
  • Controller
    Patent number: D791880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Austin Porter
  • Controller
    Patent number: D795350
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, Matthew Harvey, Austin Porter, William Bennett Mabry
  • Controller
    Patent number: D795351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, Matthew Harvey, Austin Porter, William Bennett Mabry
  • Controller
    Patent number: D795960
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Austin Porter
  • Controller
    Patent number: D795961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Austin Porter
  • Electronic housing
    Patent number: D795962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Austin Porter, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry
  • Controller
    Patent number: D798954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Austin Porter
  • Electronic housing
    Patent number: D798955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Austin Porter, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry
  • Controller
    Patent number: D799600
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Austin Porter
  • Controller
    Patent number: D816170
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Carson Massie, Matthew Harvey
  • Controller
    Patent number: D816773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Monique Chatterjee, Richard T. Hanks, William Bennett Mabry, Carson Massie, Matthew Harvey