Patents by Inventor William Clark

William Clark 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: 20250100748
    Abstract: A stackable storage system includes a first container, a second container, and a latch moveable between a first position and a second position. The first container includes a projection extending away from the first container along a stacking direction. An edge portion extends from the projection along a plane substantially perpendicular to the stacking direction. The second container includes a recess. The recess receives the projection when the first container and the second container are stacked relative to one another in the stacking direction. The latch overlaps the edge portion with respect to the stacking direction while in the first position to secure the first container and the second container. The latch and edge portion are positioned in a non-overlapping manner relative to one another while the latch is in the second position to permit separation of the first container from the second container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Richard M. Davidian, Rony Chan, William J. Saunders, Ryan A. Hirtz, Tyler H. Knight, Drew A. Dahill, Austin Clark, Stephen A. Hughett, J. Luke Jenkins, J. Mike King, Jeffrey Groves, J. Porter Whitmire, Brianna E. Williams, Charles Moody Wacker, II
  • Publication number: 20250095011
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for facilitating business prospecting in a tiered software framework include receiving third-party data associated with prospects in a geographic location; analyzing the third-party data of each prospect against a plurality of criteria; reducing a portion of the analysis results to numerical values represented by icons; listing, in a first window of a user interface, the prospects in rows with corresponding icons in columns; and responsive to a selection of one of the rows, automatically opening a second window including another portion of the analysis results, the another portion including results from the analysis against the plurality of criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: HighLevel Inc.
    Inventors: Reshma Kris M., Pranoy Sarkar, William Chase Buckner, Aaditya Agarwal, Shaun Clark, Robin Alex, Varun Vairavan
  • Publication number: 20250086075
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for failing over an aggregate from one file system instance to a different file system instance of a distributed scale-out storage system. The aggregate may be stored within distributed storage that is accessible to a plurality of file system instances of the distributed scale-out storage system. When the aggregate is failed over from a first file system instance to a second file system instance, the first file system instance may still have a valid read lease that allows the first file system instance to serve client I/O, directed to the aggregate, using a cache. In order to prevent the first file system instance from serving stale data from the cache before the read lease expires, state machines and a set of control data are used to ensure that the second file system instance attaches to the aggregate only after the read lease has expired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yash Hetal Trivedi, Daniel McCarthy, Ananthan Subramanian, William Arthur Gutknecht, Kevin Daniel Varghese, Swaroop Vikram Choudhari, Abdul Basit, Christopher Clark Corey, Chad Edmund Schneider
  • Patent number: 12236393
    Abstract: Systems, method and computer readable medium are provided for automated storage and retrieval. User authentication information is received via a user interface for a dynamic storage and retrieval device. The user identity is verified based upon the authentication information and previously stored authentication data. Order information is retrieved for an order associated with the user following the verifying of user identity, the order information indicating one or more locations for items associated with the order. Instructions are transmitted to initiate a physical opening of at least one of the dynamic storage and retrieval device and at least one static storage location to enable the user to retrieve at least one item of the order, the static storage location including a controller controlling a locking mechanism and communicatively coupled to the dynamic storage and retrieval device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Edward Durkee, Stuart William Clark, Colin Holmes, Jason D. Shaffer, Mark R. Ibbotson, John Suarez
  • Patent number: 12231169
    Abstract: A diverged beam optical transmitter is provided that includes a laser source configured to emit a light beam, and one or more lenses. The diverged beam optical transmitter also includes a diffuser placed between the laser source and the one or more lenses, and configured to increase an intrinsic divergence of the light beam and to fill some portion of the one or more lenses such that the light beam is eye safe after the one or more lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: 8 RIVERS CAPITAL, LLC
    Inventors: William J. Brown, Hannah Clark
  • Patent number: 12217237
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to method for facilitating a transaction between a service provider and a customer using an online payment platform. The method includes receiving a request from a customer's device to enter into a transaction with a service provider and receiving a request from a service provider's device to process a cardless payment transaction for the transaction. The method further includes determining a tipping process to be applied to the transaction whereby an automatically determined tip amount or a manually determined tip amount is added to the transaction. The processing of the transaction is delayed until the automatically determined or the manual tip amount is added to the transaction. The cardless payment including the tip amount is then processed and a confirmation thereof is communicated to the respective devices of the customer and the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Shahrouz Tavakoli, Nathan Spindel, William Henderson, Alan Fineberg, Nefaur Khandker, Christopher Clark
  • Patent number: 12202738
    Abstract: Provided is a composition comprising: (a)a principal phase that is provided by a layered mixed metal oxide having a rocksalt structure belonging to the R-3m space group; the layered mixed metal oxide comprising the following component elements: 45 to 55 atomic % lithium; 20 to 55 atomic % of one or more transition metals selected from the group consisting of chromium, manganese, iron, nickel, cobalt, and combinations thereof; and 0 to 25 atomic % of one or more additional dopant elements selected from the group consisting of: magnesium, calcium, strontium, titanium, zirconium, vanadium, copper, ruthenium, zinc, molybdenum, boron, aluminium, gallium, tin, lead, bismuth, lanthanum, cerium, gadolinium and europium; wherein said atomic % is expressed as a % of total atoms of said layered oxide, excluding oxygen; (b)a minor phase that is provided by a metal oxide that does not have the crystal structure of the layered mixed metal oxide, the minor phase comprising one or more of the transition metals contained in t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ilika Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Laura Perkins, William Richardson, Louise Turner, Thomas Risbridger, Samuel Guerin, Brian Hayden, Owain Clark, Robert Noble, Jean-Philippe Soulié, Patrick Casey, Kyriakos Giagloglou
  • Patent number: 12204311
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a novel system and methods for modeling process components using segmental analysis. As opposed to analyzing the entire system at once, each element representing a process component is assigned parameter inputs that enable the system to determine a current state. Changes in the element's parameter inputs are fed in a bi-directional manner to other elements connected by segments where the other elements use the parameter inputs to determine a predictive or current process condition that are used as new parameter inputs for the next element. In some embodiments, the system allows for the prevention of component state change with only a portion of the entire process being solved, as abnormal conditions can be detected without solving for the entire system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Aveva Software, LLC
    Inventor: Scott William Clark
  • Patent number: 12203735
    Abstract: A powder dispensing device is provided including a housing; a hopper sized and shaped to engage the housing to form a reservoir; a first barrel in fluid communication with the reservoir via one or more first apertures and having a first internal diameter; a second barrel in fluid communication with the reservoir via one or more second apertures and having a second internal diameter, wherein the first internal diameter is greater than the second internal diameter; at least one motor coupled to the first barrel and the second barrel, the at least one motor configured to rotate the first barrel and the second barrel; a scale electrically coupled to a scale plate, the scale plate disposed on the housing and below the first barrel and the second barrel; and a user interface in electrical communication with the at least one motor and the scale, the user interface configured to receive a user-input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: RCBS Precisioneered Reloading, LLC
    Inventors: William Clark Hemeyer, Joe Dunning
  • Publication number: 20250021125
    Abstract: Examples provide a brake pedal assembly including a pedal housing, a bracket for securement within a vehicle, and a pedal arm having a proximal portion pivotally supported by the pedal housing and a distal portion including a foot pad spaced from the bracket. The pedal arm pivots from an unactuated position to a fully actuated position in response to application of a force to the foot pad. A pedal emulator system provides variable operator feedback as the pedal arm pivots in response to the application of force. The pedal emulator system includes a first spring set engaged with the pedal arm at the unactuated position and operable to bias the pedal arm toward the unactuated position, and a second spring set engaged with the pedal arm only after the pedal arm pivots from the unactuated position to a first intercept position between the unactuated and fully actuated positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Ryan Andrew Wagner, John Clark, David A. Kolberg, William James Snell
  • Publication number: 20240232790
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are provided for processing items within an automated storage and retrieval device. A scanned machine-readable identifier associated with an item is received at an automated storage and retrieval device. A determination is made whether the machine-readable identifier that was scanned is a container identification (ID). The machine-readable identifier is identified based on pre-defined criteria when the machine-readable identifier is determined not to be a container ID. The machine-readable identifier is mapped to an existing order using stored order information. A container ID is created by the fulfillment system and passed back to the automated storage and retrieval device. The item is stored in the automated storage and retrieval device using the created container ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Edward Durkee, Edwin H. Reed, Stuart William Clark, Bradley Johnson
  • Patent number: 12025718
    Abstract: A reconfigurable sensor network uses continuous-variable (CV) multipartite entangled quantum states for distributed RF sensing with uncertainties below the standard quantum limit. A CV multipartite entangled state is generated with a quantum circuit that splits a squeezed vacuum state into spatially separated optical modes that are entangled. Each optical mode is transmitted to a RF-photonic sensor that imposes, on the corresponding optical mode, a quadrature displacement based on the local properties of an RF signal. A homodyne detector then measures the quadrature displacement. A post-processor combines the measurements to estimate a global property of the RF signal, such as an angle-of-arrival. To enable distributed sensing over large distances, the RF-photonic sensors may be spatially separated by several kilometers, or more. Alternatively, the RF-photonic sensors may be integrated into a single photonic system, such as a photonic integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventors: Zheshen Zhang, Quntao Zhuang, William Clark
  • Publication number: 20240211788
    Abstract: A quantum-hardened power grid includes grid nodes (e.g., power plants, renewable energy sources and substations) and transmission lines connecting the grid nodes. The grid nodes include stable quantum clocks that permit the power grid to continue operation in the event of downtime for a GPS or other external synchronization reference. Operation sans an external reference can be extended by synchronizing atomic clocks across grid nodes using a quantum network. The atomic clocks can be used with quantum sensors and quantum computers to provide grid state estimates, e.g., using quantum tomography “at the edge”. In addition, these quantum devices can be used to compute responses to grid faults and cyberattacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Pranav Gokhale, Michael A. Perlin, Palash Goiporia, Frederic T. Chong, William Clark
  • Patent number: 12000739
    Abstract: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) capacitive strain gauge sensors are described. The strain gauge sensors include a lever configured to mechanically amplify a strain response. In some embodiments, an anchored beam is coupled to the effort arm of the lever and a movable sensing finger to the resistance arm. The effort arm may be shorter than the resistance arm, thus providing a mechanical amplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Erdinc Tatar, William A. Clark
  • Publication number: 20240142559
    Abstract: A reconfigurable sensor network uses continuous-variable (CV) multipartite entangled quantum states for distributed RF sensing with uncertainties below the standard quantum limit. A CV multipartite entangled state is generated with a quantum circuit that splits a squeezed vacuum state into spatially separated optical modes that are entangled. Each optical mode is transmitted to a RF-photonic sensor that imposes, on the corresponding optical mode, a quadrature displacement based on the local properties of an RF signal. A homodyne detector then measures the quadrature displacement. A post-processor combines the measurements to estimate a global property of the RF signal, such as an angle-of-arrival. To enable distributed sensing over large distances, the RF-photonic sensors may be spatially separated by several kilometers, or more. Alternatively, the RF-photonic sensors may be integrated into a single photonic system, such as a photonic integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Zheshen Zhang, Quntao Zhuang, William Clark
  • Publication number: 20240119405
    Abstract: Systems, method and computer readable medium are provided for automated storage and retrieval. User authentication information is received via a user interface for a dynamic storage and retrieval device. The user identity is verified based upon the authentication information and previously stored authentication data. Order information is retrieved for an order associated with the user following the verifying of user identity, the order information indicating one or more locations for items associated with the order. Instructions are transmitted to initiate a physical opening of at least one of the dynamic storage and retrieval device and at least one static storage location to enable the user to retrieve at least one item of the order, the static storage location including a controller controlling a locking mechanism and communicatively coupled to the dynamic storage and retrieval device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Edward Durkee, Stuart William Clark, Colin Holmes, Jason D. Shaffer, Mark R. Ibbotson, John Suarez
  • Publication number: 20240086790
    Abstract: Data gyro bulb and associated technology are provided. For example, an electronic informatics system is provided comprising sequential data stream of data blocks. The stream comprises a genesis data block, and each data block of the stream includes a sequence order identifier, an actual value, and a target value. The system also includes metrics that each includes one or more metric components selected from a current gap, a current trend, a cumulative gap, and a cumulative trend. A derivative metric is calculated at each of the data blocks. A derivative assessing means assesses derivative metrics in a manner that is consistent with zero, that is neither substantially positive nor substantially negative, representing a targeted and/or stable state between the actual value and the target value. The system operates via gyro, bot, and/or user adjustment technology to carry out data processing to produce a data gyro bulb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Jacob William Clark
  • Patent number: 11893530
    Abstract: Systems, method and computer readable medium are provided for automated storage and retrieval. User authentication information is received via a user interface for a dynamic storage and retrieval device. The user identity is verified based upon the authentication information and previously stored authentication data. Order information is retrieved for an order associated with the user following the verifying of user identity, the order information indicating one or more locations for items associated with the order. Instructions are transmitted to initiate a physical opening of at least one of the dynamic storage and retrieval device and at least one static storage location to enable the user to retrieve at least one item of the order, the static storage location including a controller controlling a locking mechanism and communicatively coupled to the dynamic storage and retrieval device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Edward Durkee, Stuart William Clark, Colin Holmes, Jason Shaffer, Mark Ibbotson, John Suarez
  • Publication number: 20240035792
    Abstract: A powder dispensing device is provided including a housing; a hopper sized and shaped to engage the housing to form a reservoir; a first barrel in fluid communication with the reservoir via one or more first apertures and having a first internal diameter; a second barrel in fluid communication with the reservoir via one or more second apertures and having a second internal diameter, wherein the first internal diameter is greater than the second internal diameter; at least one motor coupled to the first barrel and the second barrel, the at least one motor configured to rotate the first barrel and the second barrel; a scale electrically coupled to a scale plate, the scale plate disposed on the housing and below the first barrel and the second barrel; and a user interface in electrical communication with the at least one motor and the scale, the user interface configured to receive a user-input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: William Clark Hemeyer, Joe Dunning
  • Publication number: 20230421975
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to charging and recharging systems for compact hearing aids, components thereof, and support devices therefor. The charging and recharging systems generally include a light emitting device, such as an aural insert having a light emitting diode, and a photovoltaic cell disposed on an implanted hearing aid. In operation, the light emitting device is positioned in or near the entrance of the ear canal and transmits light energy across the ear canal towards the implanted hearing aid. The photovoltaic cell receives the light energy and converts the light energy into stored electricity to power the hearing aid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NANOEAR CORPORATION, INC.
    Inventors: William Clark WEST, Michael M. MOORE, Smruti MIRCHANDANI, Ron L. MOSES