Patents by Inventor William Collins
William Collins 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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Patent number: 10334869Abstract: Methods for increasing the levels of avenanthramides in oats through false malting is disclosed. Oats are first subject to induction or enhancement of a secondary dormancy, and then malted for up to 5 days at an elevated temperature. The malted but not germinated oats are then dried and used as is, or further processed or milled to produce food, feed, nutraceutical or personal care products and ingredients. Methods are also provided for rendering non-dormant oats dormant and thus suitable for false malting.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOODInventors: Frank William Collins, Vernon Douglas Burrows
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Patent number: 10329979Abstract: A method for controlling an emission amount in an exhaust gas stream emitted from a power generation system is presented. The method includes determining a pre-catalyst emission level using a combustion engine model. The method further includes determining a post-catalyst emission level using a three-way catalyst model based on the pre-catalyst emission level. Furthermore, the method includes determining an adjusted post-catalyst emission level based on the post-catalyst emission level. Moreover, the method includes determining a difference between the post-catalyst emission level and the adjusted post-catalyst emission level and comparing the difference with a threshold value. Additionally, the method includes determining whether to adjust an actual value of an engine operating parameter based on the comparison such that the emission amount in the exhaust gas stream is maintained below an emission regulatory limit. An engine controller and a power generation system employing the method are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: AI ALPINE US BIDCO INCInventors: Prashant Srinivasan, Maruthi NarasingaRao Devarakonda, William Collins Vining, Edward Owen Reinbold, Dipankar Deb
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Patent number: 10245539Abstract: A filter system and method use a filter housing that defines an interior chamber and that includes an inlet opening extending into the interior chamber. The outer air flow housing has an outlet conduit through which a flow of air having particles is directed toward the inlet opening of the filter housing along a flow direction toward the interior chamber of the filter housing. The outer air flow housing engages the filter housing such that the filter housing is separated from the outer air flow housing along the flow direction to permit at least some of the air to pass around an exterior of the filter housing and exit the outer air flow housing while the particles in the at least some of the air pass into the interior chamber of the filter housing through the inlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Collins Vining, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Corey Bourassa, Jared Peter Buhler, Hojjat Nasr
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Publication number: 20190060979Abstract: A device for cold rolling a thread on a tubular support member of a rotary shouldered thread connection includes obtaining an original root depth of a thread root, cold rolling the thread until a minimum increased root depth tolerance is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Rakesh Singh, Ke Ken Li, Michael Hui Du, Fei Song, Stephen Ray Stafford, Anthony Louis Williams Collins, Keith Moriarty, Doyle Brinegar
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Patent number: 10215539Abstract: A barrier formed from one or more modular units that include a frame, a protective panel, and a gap that is configured to receive a portion of another one of the modular units of the barrier such that the one or more modular units of the barrier can be arranged at an angle selected from a range of angles from about 90 degrees, to provide a corner arrangement, to about 180 degrees, to provide a substantially straight wall arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Defenshield, Inc.Inventors: William Collins White, Jordan William Settle
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Publication number: 20190039299Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the printing of materials, using 3-dimensional printing and other printing techniques, including the use of one or more mixing nozzles, and/or multi-axis control over the translation and/or rotation of the print head or the substrate onto which materials are printed. In some embodiments, a material may be prepared by extruding material through print head comprising a nozzle, such as a microfluidic printing nozzle, which may be used to mix materials within the nozzle and direct the resulting product onto a substrate. The print head and/or the substrate may be configured to be translated and/or rotated, for example, using a computer or other controller, in order to control the deposition of material onto the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Voxel8, Inc.Inventors: Travis Alexander Busbee, Andrew Marschner, Carmen M. Graves, Noah William Collins, Nicholas Burtt
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Publication number: 20190033040Abstract: A ballistic shield that is movable between an extended position and a retracted position is disclosed. In the extended position, the shield extends from the supporting surface to at least a height of a lower edge of a front wall of a ballistic barrier. In the extended position, the shield provides protection in an area corresponding to a gap between the front wall and the supporting surface. In the retracted position, the shield is removed relative to the supporting surface and provides clearance from the supporting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Defenshield, Inc.Inventor: William Collins White
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Patent number: 10172448Abstract: An armored lectern includes a frame, a first armored panel, and a second armored panel. The frame defines a gap, and the armored lectern defines an assembled configuration in which a portion of the first armored panel is positioned within the gap such that a first panel surface of the first armored panel faces a first direction, a first portion of the second armored panel is positioned within the gap such that the first panel surface of the second armored panel faces the first direction, and a second portion of the first panel surface of the second armored panel faces a second panel surface of the first armored panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: DEFENSHIELD, INC.Inventors: William Collins White, Jordan William Settle
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Patent number: 10167725Abstract: An engine component for a turbine engine includes a particle collector having a substrate configured to retain at least some particles from a particle-laden stream passing through a portion of the engine. A fluid bypass around the substrate of the collector enables the particle-laden stream to bypass the substrate if the substrate is filled with particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Jared Peter Buhler, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., William Collins Vining, Corey Bourassa, Gregory Michael Laskowski, David Vickery Parker
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Patent number: 10160033Abstract: A method of cold rolling a thread on a tubular support member of a rotary shouldered thread connection includes obtaining an original root depth of a thread root, cold rolling the thread until a minimum increased root depth tolerance is achieved. The thread may be cold rolled with a wheel tip having an elliptical profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Rakesh Singh, Ke Ken Li, Michael Hui Du, Fei Song, Stephen Ray Stafford, Anthony Louis William Collins, Keith Moriarty, Doyle Brinegar
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Publication number: 20180326699Abstract: A method to prepare nonwoven webs suitable for use as an industrial wipe which have good MD and CD strength is provided. The method includes hydroentangling an airlaid web of natural cellulose fibers having a fiber length of no more than 3.5 mm, bonding fibers having a fiber length of from 6.0 to 12.0 mm and optionally, manmade fibers having a fiber length of from 6.0 to 12.0 mm. The airlaid web is a homogeneous mat of the natural cellulose fibers, the optional manmade fibers and the bonding fibers and is not laid on a precursor web. No non-fiber adhesive or binder is utilized. The airlayering and hydroentangling are conducted in a continuous operation. The method to manufacture the nonwoven web may include an embossing or crepeing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2017Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Jacob Holm & Sons AGInventors: Richard KNOWLSON, Eric MARIANI, Geoffrey William COLLINS
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Publication number: 20180325266Abstract: A bench that serves as a barrier from ballistics and explosions is disclosed. The bench serves the traditional role of providing a seating area while also providing protection from ballistics and explosions originating from an opposite side of the barrier bench. The bench may comprise one or more panels or plates and an upper wall that are adapted to repel ballistics and blasts. The barrier bench further comprises a series of interconnected members that together form a frame which serves to position the one or more panels and upper wall in a relatively upright position so as to form a barrier against ballistics and explosion blasts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Defenshield, Inc.Inventors: William Collins White, Jordan William Settle
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Patent number: 10036319Abstract: A separator assembly for removing entrained particles from a fluid stream passing through a gas turbine engine includes a first particle separator for separating the fluid stream into a reduced-particle stream and a particle-laden stream, and emitting the particle-laden stream through a scavenge outlet. Another particle remover is fluidly coupled to the scavenge outlet to remove more particles from the air stream.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Carl Murray, Corey Bourassa, David Vickery Parker, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, William Collins Vining, Erich Alois Krammer
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Patent number: 10001046Abstract: A system includes an exhaust treatment system configured to treat emissions from a combustion engine via a catalyst. The system includes a controller configured to obtain an operating parameter indicating catalyst performance. The controller is configured to determine a deterioration factor indicating deterioration of the catalyst based at least in part on the operating parameter. The controller is configured to determine an adaptation term configured to modify a reductant injection command for the combustion engine to account for the deterioration factor of the catalyst. The controller is configured to generate a signal indicating the adaptation term.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Prashant Srinivasan, William Collins Vining, Maruthi Narasinga Rao Devarakonda
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Patent number: 9988936Abstract: A shroud assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a shroud, hanger, and a hanger support mounted adjacent to a plurality of blades. The hanger can have an interior chamber defining a cooling circuit with a particle separator located within the interior chamber. The particle separator can have an inlet for accepting a flow of cooling fluid, such that a the flow of cooling fluid separates into a major flow and a minor flow carrying particles or particulate matter along the minor flow into a particle collector comprising at least a portion of the particle separator. Particles become constrained to the minor flow and pass into the particle collector, while the major flow is separated into the remaining area of the interior chamber to remove the particles from the flow of cooling fluid passing into the interior chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hojjat Nasr, Gregory Michael Laskowski, Curtis Walton Stover, William Collins Vining
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Patent number: 9945223Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure can relate to a system for tracking fatigue damage experienced by a tool in real-time. The system can include a processor operably coupled to a memory and operable to execute one or more modules to generate master curve fitting coefficients for a connection type associated with a tool component (e.g., a component of a bottom hole assembly). The master curve fitting coefficients can be for a threaded connection master curve, a port hole master curve, and so forth. The processor can also be operable to execute the one or more modules to generate a fatigue calculator for the tool component. The system may receive a real-time trajectory for the tool, determine a curvature from the trajectory of the tool, determine a bending moment based upon the curvature, and determine fatigue damage for the tool component based upon the bending moment using the fatigue calculator.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Ke Ken Li, Edward George Parkin, Rakesh Singh, Anthony Louis William Collins, Keith Moriarty
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Patent number: 9890723Abstract: A system includes an exhaust treatment system configured to treat emissions from a combustion engine via a catalyst. The system includes a controller configured to obtain an operating parameter indicating catalyst performance. The controller is configured to determine a deterioration factor indicating deterioration of the catalyst based at least in part on the operating parameter. The controller is configured to determine an adaptation term configured to modify an air-fuel ratio command for the combustion engine to account for the deterioration.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Prashant Srinivasan, William Collins Vining, Maruthi Narasinga Rao Devarakonda
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Publication number: 20180027958Abstract: An armored lectern includes a frame, a first armored panel, and a second armored panel. The frame defines a gap, and the armored lectern defines an assembled configuration in which a portion of the first armored panel is positioned within the gap such that a first panel surface of the first armored panel faces a first direction, a first portion of the second armored panel is positioned within the gap such that the first panel surface of the second armored panel faces the first direction, and a second portion of the first panel surface of the second armored panel faces a second panel surface of the first armored panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: William Collins White, Jordan William Settle
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Patent number: 9873964Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersible nonwoven fabric comprising pulp and solvent spun cellulosic fibers, characterized in that the solvent spun cellulosic fibers are fibrillated. Furthermore the invention concerns the use of the fabric in dry wipes and wet wipes.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Lenzig AktiengesellschaftInventors: Geoffrey Williams Collins, Andrew Peter Slater, Shayda Rahbaran
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Publication number: 20170348638Abstract: An oxygen scavenging system that includes a first catalytic converter unit configured to receive an exhaust stream from a power production unit. The exhaust stream includes oxygen. The system also includes a hydrocarbon injection unit configured to channel a hydrocarbon stream for injection into the exhaust stream upstream from the first catalytic converter unit such that hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon stream react with the oxygen from the exhaust stream within the first catalytic converter unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Anthony Herbert Neumayer, Joseph Philip DiPietro, William Collins Vining