Patents by Inventor William Black
William Black 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).
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Publication number: 20240108451Abstract: The present invention includes an embolic protection device comprising a catheter having a self-expanding embolic filter that is disposed around the catheter proximal to a distal portion, wherein the embolic filter comprises a frame, and the frame defines an opening of the embolic filter that faces the distal end of the catheter; a deployment mechanism that is disposed around at least a portion of the catheter, wherein the deployment mechanism is longitudinally movable with respect to the catheter, the deployment mechanism is configured to contain the embolic filter in a collapsed configuration, and the embolic filter is configured to self-expand upon the longitudinal retraction of the deployment mechanism; and a wire coupled to the frame for expanding the size or diameter of the embolic filter opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: William M. Merhi, Andy Black, Mark Carlson, Josh Greene, Kelly Jensen, Andy Leopold, Ben Rockwell
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Publication number: 20230403244Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, mediums, and systems for providing group bots that participate in a conversation between multiple participants. Unlike conventional bots that typically interact with users on a one-on-one basis, the group bots may interact collectively with a group, allowing the bots to (among other things) arbitrate decisions for the group, suggest events that all of the members of the group would find agreeable, facilitate conversations by recognizing core language differences between group members and providing translations in response, etc. Furthermore, the group bot may be invoked directly from a group conversation using natural language, and may provide a response directly in the conversation. Because these capabilities are provided directly within a conversation thread, conversation participants can more readily use the bot capabilities without the need to access separate functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Willy Blandin, Laurent Nicolas Landowski, Kemal El Moujahid, Henri Romeo Liriani, Heath William Black
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Patent number: 11683290Abstract: A computer-implemented improved system for producing studio quality e-commerce product videos displaying a 3D rendering created from a 3D model of a product that includes generally the steps of uploading a 3D model of the consumer product onto a computer or an online platform; selecting product features for highlighting in the video; rotating the 3D model to identify selected features; providing text to highlight portions of the video and the selected features; selecting and providing musical accompaniment for the video; and, creating a timeline to establish the sequence of individual portions of the video whereupon the 3D rendered video is then automatically generated for the vendor's e-commerce product page and various social platforms.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: GLOSSI, INC.Inventors: David Stern, Jacob William Black, Jonathan M. Gitlin, Michael Gadd, Greg Bolton, Kyle Dail, Rachael McDonald, Jacob Backer Schwartz, Steven Walther
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Publication number: 20220366904Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user input comprising a wake word associated with an assistant xbot from a first client system, setting the assistant xbot into a listening mode, wherein a continuous non-visual feedback is provided via the first client system while the assistant xbot is in the listening mode, receiving a second user input comprising a user utterance from the first client system while the assistant xbot is in the listening mode, determining the second user input has ended based on a completion of the user utterance, and setting the assistant xbot into an inactive mode, wherein the non-visual feedback is discontinued via the first client system while the assistant xbot is in the inactive mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Leif Haven Martinson, David Levison, Heath William Black, Ryan Frederick Stewart, Tara Ramanan, Samuel Steele Noertker
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Patent number: 11494440Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for suggesting bots or mini-apps in a messaging service that provide capabilities related to an ongoing conversation. A suggestion may be added proactively or reactively. In a reactive scenario, the system may respond to an express request to suggest a response or capability, such as by an explicit command. In the proactive scenario, the messaging service may analyze the messages of the conversation, and may suggest a response or capability based on an intent identified in the messages. Examples of suggestions include starting a poll, adding stickers to the conversation, group coordination and planning capabilities, etc. Suggestions such as these allow a user to make use of various capabilities provided by the messaging service, even if the user does not know that the service exists, or how to invoke it.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Heath William Black, Willy Blandin, Laurent Nicolas Landowski, Henri Romeo Liriani, Kemal El Moujahid
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Patent number: 11396653Abstract: The inventive technology relates to novel paratransgenic strategies for the control of pathogens. The inventive technology may specifically include a novel paratransgenic system configured to deliver one or more inhibitory RNA molecules to pathogen/disease-transmitting organisms. In a preferred embodiment, the invention may include one or more genetically engineered symbiotic bacteria configured to persist throughout the life-cycle of a mosquito and deliver one or more interfering RNA molecules to pathogen/disease-transmitting mosquitoes.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignees: PEBBLE LABS INC., COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Richard Sayre, Jiannong Xu, Bradley R. Borlee, Konstantinos Lymperopoulos, Rebekah Kading, William Black, Kenneth Olson, Carol Blair
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Publication number: 20210320945Abstract: One variation of a method for verifying configurations of security technologies deployed on a computer network includes: deploying a phase—within an attack validation scenario analogous to a network security threat and associated with a target response type—for execution by an asset on the computer network during a phase window; during the polling window following the phase window, polling a log of a security technology deployed on the network for a sequence of events associated with the target asset; correlation events, in the sequence of events, with the phase based on proximities of event timestamps to the phase window; and, in response to a difference between an event type of a first event correlated with the phase and the target response type, generating a prompt to reconfigure the security technology to respond to behaviors analogous to the phase, on the computer network, according to the target response type.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Andrew William Black, Tin Shing Tam, Oscar Bernat Fuertes, Adrian Diaz, David Garaña
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Patent number: 11141983Abstract: An apparatus to supply print fluid (9) to a print fluid delivery system (28) of a printer, the apparatus comprising a tank (4) to store print fluid (9); a print fluid supply conduit (12) coupled to the tank (4) to supply print fluid (9) to the print fluid delivery system (28); and a vent conduit (10) extending from the tank (4); the tank (4) movable from a first position to supply print fluid (9) and in which first position the print fluid supply conduit (12) and vent conduit (10) are open to a second position to permit filling of the tank (4) and in which movement to the second position closes the print fluid supply conduit (12) and vent conduit (10).Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: William Black, Declan Malone, Susan Henry
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Patent number: 10967642Abstract: One example provides an article. The article includes a container body. The article includes a lid covering the container body, the lid including a lid aperture to permit passage of a printing fluid into the container body. The article includes a lid manifold mounted to the lid. The lid manifold includes a lid manifold input port to be fluidly connected to and disconnected from a container manifold port of a separate printing system. The lid manifold includes a lid manifold output opening that is in the form of a needle having a length of less than or equal to about 6 mm and is fluidly connected to the lid aperture. The lid manifold includes a channel fluidly connecting the lid manifold input port and the lid manifold output opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Aidan O'Reilly, Charles Keegan, Brian Cronly, Ivor Cummins, Patrick V. Boyd, William Black, Bryan Murphy, Lynn Walsh
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Patent number: 10960674Abstract: Different examples of systems, reservoirs and methods are described. One of these examples involves includes a reservoir with a liquid outlet through which liquid is to exit the reservoir. The reservoir may further include a bubbler structure to supply air to the inner volume of the reservoir, the bubbler structure includes an air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: William Black
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Publication number: 20200398576Abstract: An apparatus to supply print fluid (19) to a print fluid delivery system (28) of a printer, the apparatus comprising a tank (4) to store print fluid (19); a print fluid supply conduit (12) coupled to the tank (4) to supply print fluid (19) to the print fluid delivery system (28); and a vent conduit (10) extending from the tank (4); the tank (4) movable from a first position to supply print fluid (19) and in which first position the print fluid supply conduit (12) and vent conduit (10) are open to a second position to permit filling of the tank (4) and in which movement to the second position closes the print fluid supply conduit (12) and vent conduit (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2017Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: William Black, Declan Malone, Susan Henry
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Publication number: 20200316950Abstract: One example provides an article. The article includes a container body. The article includes a lid covering the container body, the lid including a lid aperture to permit passage of a printing fluid into the container body. The article includes a lid manifold mounted to the lid. The lid manifold includes a lid manifold input port to be fluidly connected to and disconnected from a container manifold port of a separate printing system. The lid manifold includes a lid manifold output opening that is in the form of a needle having a length of less than or equal to about 6 mm and is fluidly connected to the lid aperture. The lid manifold includes a channel fluidly connecting the lid manifold input port and the lid manifold output opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Aidan O'REILLY, Charles KEEGAN, Brian CRONLY, Ivor CUMMINS, Patrick V. BOYD, William BLACK, Bryan MURPHY, Lynn WALSH
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Publication number: 20190389223Abstract: Different examples of systems, reservoirs and methods are described. One of these examples involves includes a reservoir with a liquid outlet through which liquid is to exit the reservoir. The reservoir may further include a bubbler structure to supply air to the inner volume of the reservoir, the bubbler structure includes an air outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventor: William Black
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Patent number: 10403488Abstract: Methods, systems and devices that provide fluid devices with at least one SPE bed adjacent (upstream of) a separation channel which may be in communication with an inlet of a Mass Spectrometer. The fluid device can be configured to operate using independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer but optical or other electronic detectors may also be used with the fluidic devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInventors: John Scott Mellors, William A. Black, John Michael Ramsey
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Publication number: 20190108992Abstract: Methods, systems and devices that provide fluid devices with at least one SPE bed adjacent (upstream of) a separation channel which may be in communication with an inlet of a Mass Spectrometer. The fluid device can be configured to operate using independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer but optical or other electronic detectors may also be used with the fluidic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: John Scott Mellors, William A. Black, John Michael Ramsey
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Patent number: 10181396Abstract: Methods, systems and devices that provide fluid devices with at least one SPE bed adjacent (upstream of) a separation channel which may be in communication with an inlet of a Mass Spectrometer. The fluid device can be configured to operate using independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer but optical or other electronic detectors may also be used with the fluidic devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInventors: John Scott Mellors, William A. Black, John Michael Ramsey
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Publication number: 20180335177Abstract: There is provided a hub, mountable accessory and apparatus for supporting one or more items onto a stand. The apparatus includes: a hub mountable to the pole, the hub including a central member defining a central channel for receiving the pole, the central member defining one or more mounting slots on a periphery of the central member; and one or more mountable accessories mountable to the hub, each of the one or more mountable accessories including a support, for supporting one or more of the items, and a complementary mounting post affixed to the support, the complementary mounting post dimensioned to be slid into a respective one of the mounting slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventor: William BLACK
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Publication number: 20170301527Abstract: Methods, systems and devices that provide fluid devices with at least one SPE bed adjacent (upstream of) a separation channel which may be in communication with an inlet of a Mass Spectrometer. The fluid device can be configured to operate using independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer but optical or other electronic detectors may also be used with the fluidic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: John Scott Mellors, William A. Black, John Michael Ramsey
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Patent number: 9728387Abstract: Methods, systems and devices that provide fluid devices with at least one SPE bed adjacent (upstream of) a separation channel which may be in communication with an inlet of a Mass Spectrometer. The fluid device can be configured to operate using independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer but optical or other electronic detectors may also be used with the fluidic devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInventors: John Scott Mellors, William A. Black, John Michael Ramsey
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Publication number: 20170110307Abstract: Methods, systems and devices that provide fluid devices with at least one SPE bed adjacent (upstream of) a separation channel which may be in communication with an inlet of a Mass Spectrometer. The fluid device can be configured to operate using independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer but optical or other electronic detectors may also be used with the fluidic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: John Scott Mellors, William A. Black, John Michael Ramsey