Patents by Inventor William Charles

William Charles 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: 20240066588
    Abstract: A casting core used in the manufacture of a cast engine component for a turbine engine, the cast engine component having a first area, a second area, a fluid passage wall separating the first area and the second area, and a connecting fluid passage extending through the fluid passage wall and interconnecting the first area and the second area. The connecting fluid passage having a turn with a radius (R). The casting core having a first core and a second core. The first core and the second core being defined by a set of geometric characteristics having a first minimum equivalent diameter (D1eqmin) of the first core and a second minimum equivalent diameter (D2eqmin) of the second core. A first flexible geometry factor (FGF1) being equal to: ( D ? 1 eq ? min D ? 2 eq ? min ) ? ( R D ? 2 eq ? min ) .
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Zachary Daniel Webster, Craig Alan Gonyou, Daniel Lee Durstock, Kevin R. Feldmann, Kirk Douglas Gallier, William C. Herman, Nicholas Charles Gentilli
  • Patent number: 11916918
    Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for executing process flows. A request to initiate execution of a flow is processed, where the request is received from a first user. The flow includes a plurality of flow elements, where each of the flow elements represents a corresponding set of computer-readable instructions. Execution of the flow is initiated and an operation mode assigned to one of the flow elements is determined. A set of computer-readable instructions corresponding to the flow element is executed according to the operation mode such that an identity of the first user is recorded in association with an operation on a database record, wherein permissions allocated in a user profile to the first user do not provide the first user permission to cause the operation on the database record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Yucheng Wang, Saravanan Adaikkalavan, Hao Wu, Hugh Cockburn, Colin Frank, Kaysha Chandran, William Charles Eidson, Timothy Peng
  • Patent number: 11910934
    Abstract: A seat assembly includes a base and a support platform spaced above the base. The support platform includes a pad having a hinge portion defining a flex region, wherein the pad is pivotable about the flex region. A link has a lower portion coupled to the base and an upper portion coupled to the pad, wherein the upper portion is pivotable with the pad about the flex region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gordon J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11911637
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a mask, and in particular a mask configured as a respirator. The disclosed mask is relatively low cost and relatively easy to manufacture. Further, the disclosed mask is reusable and customizable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Charles Brick, Martin Delonis, James Yu-Hsin Kuo, Arnav Wagh, Michael Harmon, Jason Powell
  • Patent number: 11910773
    Abstract: A wheat variety designated 6PCMK57B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PCMK57B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PCMK57B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PCMK57B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PCMK57B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PCMK57B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventors: William Joseph Laskar, Cristiano Lemes Da Silva, Kyle Jay Lively, Gregory Charles Marshall
  • Patent number: 11908086
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for initializing members of a shared enhanced reality setting is described. In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for forming a private sub-space and example features of the private sub-space is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Grant H. Mulliken, James Williams Charles Vandyke
  • Patent number: 11902180
    Abstract: A durability assessment system may receive a request, from a computing system, for a durability index describing an entity. The durability assessment system may determine the durability index based on information about the resource usage by the entity, such as a resource availability score or a resource allocation score. The durability assessment system may compare the obtained resource availability score and resource allocation score to ranges associated with a set of durability indices. Based on the comparison, the durability assessment system may determine a durability index for the entity. The durability index may indicate an ability of the entity to return accessed resources. In some cases, the durability assessment system may provide the durability index to an allocation computing system that is configured to determine whether to grant access to resources based on the durability index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Todd Duncan Hoover, Brandi Nicole Recker, William Charles Gates, Sean Patrick Mckeown, Matthew Richard Jackson, Dinesh Hiro Wadhwani
  • Patent number: 11891182
    Abstract: A multi-axis parachute and skydiving module simulator comprising a multi-directional gimbal assembly and cable assembly that provide the combination of motions and simulations to produce real parachute flight characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Flight-1 Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: William Charles Neger, III
  • Patent number: 11889953
    Abstract: A cutting board with one or more cut-out sections is provided. The cutting board includes at least one work surface and a frame that transitions from a first (e.g., closed, stowed) position to a second position in which the frame at least partially defines a cut-out for removably holding one or more containers. The work surface may be used to prepare food ingredients, which are easily transported to the one or more containers. When work is complete, the containers are removed and the frame is returned to the first position, in which the cutting board occupies less space than in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TidyBoard LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Charles, Mark Van Velzen, William Charles
  • Publication number: 20240023717
    Abstract: A backrest includes a primary frame having a pair of laterally spaced first uprights defining a first opening therebetween, a first front surface and a first rear surface. A secondary frame includes a pair of laterally spaced second uprights defining a second opening therebetween, a second rear surface facing the first front surface of the primary frame and a second front surface, wherein the secondary frame is coupled to the primary frame, and wherein at least portions of the first and second openings are aligned. A flexible shell overlies and is coupled to the second front surface of the secondary frame. The flexible shell includes a third rear surface visible through the aligned portions of the first and second openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Pascal Rolf Hien, Jeffrey A. Hall, John Colasanti, Michael Yancharas
  • Patent number: 11879956
    Abstract: Systems and methods for measurement and management provide complex measurements cost-effectively at very high accuracy. These methods and systems in some cases achieve measurement accuracy exceeding the accuracy of the reference standards they rely on, and eliminate expensive and disadvantageous recalibration procedures. The accurate measurements are integrated with management functions, applying the measurement data to meet objectives of the integrated system and workflow goals of its user. The disclosed systems and methods comprise an explicit or expressly represented model both of themselves and of candidate external systems to be measured and managed. The models may be configured and reconfigured by the owner-user through either local or remote means. The system intelligently reconfigures itself to adapt dynamically to the conditions of measurement and the user's and system's goals at each moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HEATHKIT COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew S. Cromarty, Donald J. Peterson, Jasen Levoy, William Charles Calhoun
  • Publication number: 20240022948
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, by a radio unit (RU), a mobile communication from a user device, the RU associated with a cell identifier (CID). The method may include determining, by an access and mobility function (AMF), an attribute associated with the user device and the mobile communication. The method may include generating, by a core network function, a communication record of the mobile communication including the CID and the attribute. The method may include storing, by a computing device, the communication record in a database. The method may include receiving, by the computing device, a request for communication records including a requested attribute type. The method may then include determining, by the computing device, that the attribute of the communication record is of the requested attribute type. The method may include transmitting, by the computing device of the cellular network, the communication record based on the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: William Charles Beckwith, Mehdi Alasti
  • Publication number: 20240022875
    Abstract: A UE may receive input indicating an attempt to place an emergency call. The UE may communicate with a first cellular network to connect the emergency call. The UE may generate a first SIP header, the SIP header including first location data indicating a first location of the UE. The UE may transmit the SIP header including the first location data via a user plane function of the first cellular network. While the emergency call is ongoing, the UE may disconnect from the first cellular network and connect to a second cellular network. The UE may communicate with the second cellular network to continue the emergency call. The UE may then generate a second SIP header including second location data indicating a second location of the UE. The UE may transmit the second SIP header including the second location data via the user plane function of the first cellular network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mehdi Alasti, Kate Megan Carney Landow, William Charles Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20240008651
    Abstract: A seating arrangement including a seat member, a base, and an arm assembly including an arm base having a central portion and a receiver portion and exclusively supported from the base via a central portion at a position located between lateral outermost edges of the seat member, an arm stalk telescopingly received within the receiver portion and movable between retracted and extended positions, an arm support supported by the arm stalk, where the arm support moves in a forward direction with respect to the seat member as the arm stalk is moved from the retracted position to the extended position, and a bearing arrangement positioned between the arm stalk and the receiver portion and including a bearing member located between the receiver portion of the arm base and the arm stalk and a biasing member configured to bias the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gordon J. Peterson, Russell T. Holdredge, Nathan Brock
  • Patent number: 11864661
    Abstract: A body support assembly includes a moveable body support member coupled to a deflectable suspension material. Methods of using and assembling the body support assembly are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC
    Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Gordon J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11864311
    Abstract: Systems and methods for educational electronics devices such as may be assembled by non-manufacturer builders, including by personal or hobbyist individuals and by groups such as clubs or classes. Methods and systems relate to Surface Mount Device (SMD) use, measurement systems, communications skill acquisition, physical construction of educational electronics, builder construction/configuration and maintenance of devices, subsystem componentry designed for effective use in educational electronics, circuit designs that permit individual builders to construct professional quality devices, and cognitively adapted methods and systems to optimize learning and performance during and after builder assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HEATHKIT COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew S. Cromarty, Donald J. Peterson, Jasen Levoy, William Charles Calhoun, David Brainerd, Ann E. Cromarty, Simon A. Cromarty
  • Publication number: 20230417134
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for controlling a toolface of a downhole tool are described. The toolface of the downhole tool, and a toolface setpoint, are determined. Based on the toolface and the toolface setpoint, a toolface error is determined. Based on the toolface error, one or more drilling parameter setpoints are selected from among multiple drilling parameter setpoints. The selected one or more drilling parameter setpoints are adjusted. The adjusted one or more drilling parameter setpoints are inputted to one or more drilling controllers for controlling the toolface of the downhole tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: ADAM CHASE NEUFELDT, BRIAN JAMES ELEY, THOMAS WILLIAM CHARLES WILSON, TREVOR LEIGH HOLT
  • Patent number: 11852446
    Abstract: A ruggedized holder has a base unit that accepts a roll of target media. The base unit includes a first side plate and a second side plate that opposes the first side plate. Moreover, a lower deflector plate having a front facing surface extends between the first side plate and the second side plate. Also, the base unit includes an upper deflector plate that extends between the first side plate and the second side plate above the lower deflector plate. The first side plate, the second side plate, the lower deflector plate and the upper deflector plate define an enclosure that protects the roll of target media. In addition, a stand can couple to the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Evolve Range Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Lee Hague, William Charles Flock
  • Publication number: 20230397769
    Abstract: Nestable containers are provided for installation within a compatible cutting board or for stand-alone use. A first container features a lip along at least part of a circumference of the container, and a ledge below the lip that also extends along at least part of the circumference. A second container features a cooperative lip that, when the second container is nested within the first container, engages or rests upon the ledge of the first container. The lips and/or the ledge may be continuous or discontinuous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: TidyBoard LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Charles, Mark Van Velzen, William Charles
  • Patent number: 11841967
    Abstract: System and methods of the disclosed subject matter provide segregating, at a memory storage coupled to a multitenant database system, first tenant data of a first tenant from at least second tenant data of a second tenant, based on a first tenant identifier. A first encryption key associated with the first tenant may be retrieved from a key cache memory based on the first tenant identifier, to encrypt one or more fragments of the first tenant data. The fragments of the first tenant data may be encrypted based on the retrieved encryption key. Non-encrypted header information may be generated for each of the encrypted fragments of the first tenant data, where the header information may have metadata including the first tenant identifier. The encrypted fragments of the first tenant data and the corresponding non-encrypted header information may be stored in the immutable storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry Chong, Jameison Bear Martin, Thomas Fanghaenel, Andrew Tucker, Nathaniel Wyatt, Raghavendran Hanumantharau, Assaf Ben Gur, William Charles Mortimore, Jr.