Patents by Inventor William Dunn

William Dunn 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).

  • Patent number: 11977065
    Abstract: An electronic display device includes a housing for an electronic display to form an assembly. A thermal management subsystem forms part of the assembly and utilizes ingested ambient air from immediately outside said assembly to thermal manage the assembly. Data is received from one or more sensors pertaining to at least one characteristic of the ingested ambient air at times during operation of the assembly. Operating parameters of the assembly are automatically adjusted when the data indicates a difference in the measured at least one characteristic at the times, and when said difference exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, John Schuch
  • Patent number: 11977486
    Abstract: A computer system includes a processor core and a memory system in signal communication with the processor core. The memory system includes a first cache and a second cache. The first cache is arranged at a first level of a hierarchy in the memory system and is configured to store a plurality of first-cache entries. The second cache is arranged at a second level of the hierarchy that is lower than the first level, and stores a plurality of second-cache entries. The first cache maintains a directory that contains information for each of the first-cache entries. The second cache maintains a shadow pointer directory (SPD) that includes one or more SPD entries that maps each of the first-cache entries to a corresponding second cache entry at a lower-level cache location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashraf ElSharif, Richard Joseph Branciforte, Gregory William Alexander, Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Timothy Bronson, Aaron Tsai, Taylor J. Pritchard, Markus Kaltenbach, Christian Jacobi, Michael A. Blake
  • Publication number: 20240144806
    Abstract: Display assemblies providing alerts, along with related systems and methods, are provided. A side assembly with an electronic display is movably attached to a structural subassembly. A latching device selectively secures the side assembly to the structural subassembly. Where a controller receives data from a sensor indicating that the latching device is latched, the controller causes the side assembly to provide normal operations, including displaying normal programming images at the electronic display. Where the controller receives data received from the sensor indicating that the latching device is unlatched, the controller causes the side assembly to interrupt the normal operations and display an unlatched alert image at the electronic display indicating that the side assembly is unlatched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11972672
    Abstract: Display assemblies providing alerts, along with related systems and methods, are provided. A side assembly with an electronic display is movably attached to a structural subassembly. A latching device selectively secures the side assembly to the structural subassembly. Where a controller receives data from a sensor indicating that the latching device is latched, the controller causes the side assembly to provide normal operations, including displaying normal programming images at the electronic display. Where the controller receives data received from the sensor indicating that the latching device is unlatched, the controller causes the side assembly to interrupt the normal operations and display an unlatched alert image at the electronic display indicating that the side assembly is unlatched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11971181
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and method for monitoring air quality are provided. Digital out-of-home advertising display units are located within a geographic area. The units include an electronic display for displaying advertising images located at a housing, an open loop pathway for ambient air extending between an ingestion and exhaustion area of the housing. An air quality monitoring device located along the open loop pathway includes comprising sensor(s) for measuring characteristics of encountered gasses which are electronically communicated by a network connectivity device to a monitoring station. The monitoring station generates visual representations of the received measurements, at least one of which summarizes the measurements from multiple ones of the units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Precision Systems Integration, LLC
    Inventors: Mike Brown, William Dunn, Doug Bennett
  • Patent number: 11969578
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary A. Morris, Scott M. Belliveau, Esteban Cabrera, Jr., Rian Draeger, Laura J. Dunn, Timothy Joseph Goldsmith, Hari Hampapuram, Christopher Robert Hannemann, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Patrick Wile McBride, Michael Robert Mensinger, Francis William Pascual, Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, Nicholas Polytaridis, Philip Thomas Pupa, Anna Leigh Davis, Kevin Shoemaker, Brian Christopher Smith, Benjamin Elrod West, Atiim Joseph Wiley
  • Patent number: 11971485
    Abstract: A lidar system and method includes a photodiode array, a wafer, and a plurality of structures integrated on the wafer to form a metasurface lens. The metasurface lens is configured to focus the light pulses to the photodiode array and each of the plurality of structures includes at least one dimension that is less than a wavelength of the light pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Adam Dunn, Andrew William Sparks
  • Patent number: 11964129
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a drug pump includes a housing and, within the housing, an expandable drug reservoir at least part of which is exposed to a pressurized propellant. The propellant exerts a substantially constant pressure on the drug reservoir. A flow restrictor significantly limits outflow from the pump, and preferably has both a small diameter and a long path length, which acts to control the outflow from the drug reservoir. As a result, the pump produces a substantially constant outflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MiniPumps LLC
    Inventors: Jason Shih, Gregory Harbers, Richard Purvis, Miho Matsuoka, Andrew Urazaki, Mark Humayun, William Andrew Brandt, Atoosa Lotfi, Didier Sagan, Andrew Dunn
  • Patent number: 11965804
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and alerting to likely leaks in an electronic display assembly are provided. An electronic display assembly includes an electronic display, a testing area, and a differential pressure sensor fluidly connected to ambient air in an ambient environment and gas within the testing area. A controller determines one or more differential pressure readings based on data received from the differential pressure sensor, and generates and transmits an electronic notification where the differential pressure readings are below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, Mike Brown, Douglas Bennett, Kevin O'Connor, Alex Moreau
  • Patent number: 11968813
    Abstract: A display assembly with divided interior space includes a first and second electronic display subassembly attached to a structural framework, where each of the subassemblies include an electronic display layer located behind a cover, an illumination device for providing illumination to the electronic display layer when powered, and a passageway for circulating gas. A common passageway for the circulating gas is located between the subassemblies and is in fluid communication with the passageways. A central septum extends within the common passageway between the subassemblies to divide the common passageway into a first portion and a second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, Marcos Diaz, Alex Moreau
  • Patent number: 11966263
    Abstract: A display assembly includes a structural framework, a cover forward of an electronic display layer, and an illumination device rearward of the electronic display layer. A rear passageway is provided between a rear portion of the structural framework and a rear surface of the illumination device and is in fluid communication with a front passageway between a rear surface of the cover and a forward surface of the electronic display layer and an illumination device passageway between a rear surface of the electronic display layer and a front surface of the illumination device. A closed loop fan unit adjacent to an entrance to the front passageway and the illumination device passageway creates flows of circulating gas therethrough when activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, Mike Brown, Alex Moreau
  • Publication number: 20240114633
    Abstract: An electronic display assembly includes an electronic display. An upper portion is supported by a housing assembly above, and spaced apart from, the electronic display, which is also supported by the housing assembly. One or more fans associated with the upper portion move ambient air ingested through one or more intake/exhaust apertures in an upper portion housing, an upper cavity, and a transition area between the upper portion and the electronic display. Ambient air is also ingested through one or more intakes at the transition area by the one or more fans and moved towards one or more open loop airflow pathways extending behind the electronic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Publication number: 20240104021
    Abstract: Embodiments are for processor cross-core cache line contention management. A computer-implemented method includes sending a cross-invalidate command to one or more caches based on receiving a cache state change request for a cache line in a symmetric multiprocessing system and determining a retry delay based on receiving a cross-invalidate reject response from at least one of the one or more caches. The computer-implemented method also includes waiting until a retry delay period associated with the retry delay has elapsed to resend the cross-invalidate command to the one or more caches and granting the cache state change request for the cache line based on receiving a cross-invalidate accept response from the one or more caches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Cadigan, JR., Gregory William Alexander, Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Timothy Bronson, Chung-Lung K. Shum, Aaron Tsai
  • Publication number: 20240096247
    Abstract: Display assemblies are provided. One or more electronic display subassemblies are mounted to a framework at an elevated position. An unobstructed zone is located below each of the electronic display subassemblies and within said framework. Wiring and electronic components may extend along some of the framework and may be covered by cladding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: William Dunn, Mike Brown
  • Publication number: 20240091442
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Gary A. MORRIS, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Esteban CABRERA, JR., Anna Leigh DAVIS, Rian W. DRAEGER, Laura J. DUNN, Timothy Joseph GOLDSMITH, Hari HAMPAPURAM, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Patrick Wile MCBRIDE, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Francis William PASCUAL, Philip Mansiel PELLOUCHOUD, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Philip Thomas PUPA, Kevin SHOEMAKER, Brian Christopher SMITH, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Atiim Joseph WILEY
  • Publication number: 20240098919
    Abstract: Display assemblies are provided. One or more electronic display subassemblies are mounted to a framework at an elevated position. An unobstructed zone is located below each of the electronic display subassemblies and within said framework. Electric vehicle chargers are provided with the display assemblies, such as within recessed compartments with cable management devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: William Dunn, Mike Brown
  • Publication number: 20240096246
    Abstract: Display assemblies are provided. One or more electronic display subassemblies are mounted to a framework at an elevated position. An unobstructed zone is located below each of the electronic display subassemblies and within the framework. Electronic components are provided within a base portion of the framework. A panel may extend above each of the electronic display subassemblies and within the framework.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: William Dunn, Mike Brown
  • Patent number: 11934054
    Abstract: Interchangeable display assemblies are provided. A frame is configured to interchangeably accept any one of a number of digital side assemblies, each including an electronic display, a number of static side assemblies, each including a poster cavity which accepts signage, and a number of cover side assemblies at a first portion and any other one of the number of digital side assemblies, the number of static side assemblies, and the number of cover side assemblies at a second portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, Kevin O'Connor, Marcos Diaz
  • Patent number: D1018896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: D1025882
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn