Patents by Inventor William Meredith
William Meredith 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: 11972366Abstract: A system for predicting injuries includes a plurality of sensors configured to generate sensor data and an apparatus having an input-output interface and a processor coupled to the input-output interface and wherein the processor is coupled to a memory, the memory having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations including receiving the sensor data, applying analytics to the sensor data, based on the applying step, predicting a likely injury, and transmitting a report based on the predicting step.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Juliette Zerick, William Cottrill, Sheldon Meredith, Ravishankar Doejode
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Publication number: 20240131271Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
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Patent number: 11918794Abstract: A button for a drug delivery device with a reduced operating loudness includes a plate-like button body forming a touch surface, wherein the plate-like button body is coupled by an axial supporting member to a noise-generating interface of the drug delivery device and movable into a longitudinal direction of the drug delivery device, wherein the plate-like button body includes a material composite with at least one first component consisting of a first material and at least one second component consisting of a second material different from the first material, wherein the at least one first component and the at least one second component are coupled via at least one coupling plane that is at least sectionwise slanted or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Further, the disclosure describes a button assembly for a drug delivery device which is shock resistant.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SanofiInventors: Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Matthew Meredith Jones, Anthony Paul Morris, Sophie Sladen, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Denny Lustosa Horn, Stefan Blancke, Michael Jugl
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Patent number: 10938390Abstract: A system can include a housing that defines an interior space; a shaft disposed at least in part in the interior space of the housing where the shaft includes a longitudinal axis, a curved surface and an end surface; a submersible electric motor operatively coupled to the shaft where the submersible electric motor includes a cable connector; two proximity sensors where each of the proximity sensors includes a sensor aperture disposed in the interior space of the housing; and circuitry operatively coupled to the proximity sensors that determines position values of the shaft with respect to time based at least in part on output of the proximity sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Alejandro Camacho Cardenas, Peter Benjamin Johnson, Leo Steenson, Dudi Abdullah Rendusara, Andrew William Meredith
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Patent number: 10859558Abstract: Aqueous liquid which has been in contact with a subterranean geological formation, especially a hydrocarbon reservoir, is examined in order to detect or measure viscosifying polymer therein, by flowing a sample of the liquid through a constriction thereby causing extensional flow and alignment of any polymer molecules with the flow, and examining the solution for birefringence of aligned polymer molecules. The amount of birefringence is determined from intensity of light which has passed through the solution relative to intensity of the light source.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Lukasz Zielinski, Andrew Clarke, Valerie Anderson, Gerald Henry Meeten, Andrew William Meredith
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Patent number: 10458224Abstract: Monitoring one or more items of equipment associated with a borehole or other conduit. A sensor system includes a vibration sensor for sensing vibrations at one or more sensor locations associated with one or more items of the equipment and/or the borehole or other conduit. A processing system processes the sensor information to determine a characteristic of the operation of the one or more items of equipment and/or the borehole or other conduit.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Frederick Cilgrim Dickenson, Gareth P. Lees, Arthur H. Hartog, Cheng-Gang Xie, Paul Simon Hammond, Ashley Bernard Johnson, Gary Martin Oddie, Andrew William Meredith, Franck Bruno Jean Monmont, Theo Cuny
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Publication number: 20190326906Abstract: A system can include a housing that defines an interior space; a shaft disposed at least in part in the interior space of the housing where the shaft includes a longitudinal axis, a curved surface and an end surface; a submersible electric motor operatively coupled to the shaft where the submersible electric motor includes a cable connector; two proximity sensors where each of the proximity sensors includes a sensor aperture disposed in the interior space of the housing; and circuitry operatively coupled to the proximity sensors that determines position values of the shaft with respect to time based at least in part on output of the proximity sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Alejandro Camacho Cardenas, Peter Benjamin Johnson, Leo Steenson, Dudi Abdullah Rendusara, Andrew William Meredith
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Patent number: 10392926Abstract: A measurement apparatus for non-invasively logging the flow of perforations in a well casing lining a wellbore. The measurement apparatus includes a plurality of transducers arranged adjacent an outer surface of the measurement apparatus and at predefined azimuthal angular positions with respect to a longitudinal axis of the measurement apparatus, where the transducers are adapted to transmit and detect an acoustic pulse, and where each transducer is arranged at a different azimuthal angle with respect to each of the remaining transducers.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Pierre Vigneaux, Andrew William Meredith, Andrew Colin Whittaker
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Publication number: 20180306765Abstract: Aqueous liquid which has been in contact with a subterranean geological formation, especially a hydrocarbon reservoir, is examined in order to detect or measure viscosifying polymer therein, by flowing a sample of the liquid through a constriction thereby causing extensional flow and alignment of any polymer molecules with the flow, and examining the solution for birefringence of aligned polymer molecules. The amount of birefringence is determined from intensity of light which has passed through the solution relative to intensity of the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Lukasz Zielinski, Andrew Clarke, Valerie Anderson, Gerald Henry Meeten, Andrew William Meredith
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Publication number: 20180112524Abstract: A measurement apparatus for non-invasively logging the flow of perforations in a well casing lining a wellbore. The measurement apparatus includes a plurality of transducers arranged adjacent an outer surface of the measurement apparatus and at predefined azimuthal angular positions with respect to a longitudinal axis of the measurement apparatus, where the transducers are adapted to transmit and detect an acoustic pulse, and where each transducer is arranged at a different azimuthal angle with respect to each of the remaining transducers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Songming Huang, Pierre Vigneaux, Andrew William Meredith, Andrew Colin Whittaker
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Publication number: 20170167245Abstract: Monitoring one or more items of equipment associated with a borehole or other conduit. A sensor system includes a vibration sensor for sensing vibrations at one or more sensor locations associated with one or more items of the equipment and/or the borehole or other conduit. A processing system processes the sensor information to determine a characteristic of the operation of the one or more items of equipment and/or the borehole or other conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Paul Frederick Cilgrim Dickenson, Gareth P. Lees, Arthur H. Hartog, Cheng-Gang Xie, Paul Simon Hammond, Ashley Bernard Johnson, Gary Martin Oddie, Andrew William Meredith, Franck Bruno Jean Monmont, Theo Cuny
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Publication number: 20160225591Abstract: A magnetron assembly for a rotary target cathode comprises an elongated support structure, a magnet bar structure movably positioned below the support structure, and a plurality of drive modules coupled to the support structure. The drive modules each include a motorized actuation mechanism operatively coupled to the magnet bar structure. A controller and battery module is coupled to the support structure and is in operative communication with the drive modules. The controller and battery module includes an electronic controller and at least one rechargeable battery. The battery is configured to energize each motorized actuation mechanism and the electronic controller. One or more power generation modules is coupled to the support structure and in electrical communication with the battery, such that electrical energy output from the power generation modules recharges the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, Patrick Lawrence Morse, John Robert German, William A. Meredith, JR.
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Patent number: 9406487Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a plasma source comprising a body in which a cavity is formed and at least two self-contained magnetron assemblies disposed within the cavity. The magnetron assemblies are mutually electrically isolated from each other and from the body. In one implementation of such an embodiment, the self-contained magnetron assemblies comprise closed-drift magnetron assemblies. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Sputtering Components, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, Patrick Lawrence Morse, William A. Meredith, Jr., John Robert German, Michelle Lynn Neal
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Patent number: 9362093Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a plasma source comprising a body in which a cavity is formed and at least two self-contained magnetron assemblies disposed within the cavity. The magnetron assemblies are mutually electrically isolated from each other and from the body. In one implementation of such an embodiment, the self-contained magnetron assemblies comprise closed-drift magnetron assemblies. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Sputtering Components, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, Patrick Lawrence Morse, William A. Meredith, Jr., John Robert German, Michelle Lynn Neal
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Patent number: 9312108Abstract: A magnetron assembly for a rotary target cathode comprises an elongated support structure, a magnet bar structure movably positioned below the support structure, and a plurality of drive modules coupled to the support structure. The drive modules each include a motorized actuation mechanism operatively coupled to the magnet bar structure. A controller and battery module is coupled to the support structure and is in operative communication with the drive modules. The controller and battery module includes an electronic controller and at least one rechargeable battery. The battery is configured to energize each motorized actuation mechanism and the electronic controller. One or more power generation modules is coupled to the support structure and in electrical communication with the battery, such that electrical energy output from the power generation modules recharges the battery.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Sputtering Components, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, Patrick Lawrence Morse, John Robert German, William A. Meredith, Jr.
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Publication number: 20150120001Abstract: A decentralized process controller comprises at least two programmable interface modules in operative communication with each other. Each of the interface modules includes a processor and is configurable for connection to separate field devices comprising at least one sensor device and at least one actuator device. The at least two programmable interface modules are configurable as a stand-alone process control loop when one of the interface modules is connected to the sensor device, and the other of the interface modules is connected to the actuator device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Sputtering Components, Inc.Inventors: John Robert German, William A. Meredith, JR., Patrick Lawrence Morse, Brian Rooney
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Patent number: 8900428Abstract: In one embodiment, a magnetron assembly comprises a plurality of magnets and a yoke configured to hold the plurality of magnets in at least four independent linear arrays. The plurality of magnets is arranged in the yoke so as to form a pattern comprising an outer portion and an inner portion. The outer portion substantially surrounds the perimeter of the inner portion. The magnets used to form the outer portion have a first polarity and the magnets used to form the inner portion having a second polarity. The outer portion of the pattern comprises a pair of elongated sections that are substantially parallel to one another. The outer portion of the pattern comprises a pair of turnaround sections, wherein each turnaround section substantially spans respective ends of the pair of elongated sections and wherein each turnaround section comprises a plurality of magnets having the first polarity. Other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Sputtering Components, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, William A. Meredith, Jr.
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Publication number: 20140246312Abstract: A magnetron assembly for a rotary target cathode comprises an elongated support structure, a magnet bar structure movably positioned below the support structure, and a plurality of drive modules coupled to the support structure. The drive modules each include a motorized actuation mechanism operatively coupled to the magnet bar structure. A controller and battery module is coupled to the support structure and is in operative communication with the drive modules. The controller and battery module includes an electronic controller and at least one rechargeable battery. The battery is configured to energize each motorized actuation mechanism and the electronic controller. One or more power generation modules is coupled to the support structure and in electrical communication with the battery, such that electrical energy output from the power generation modules recharges the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Sputtering Components, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, Patrick Lawrence Morse, John Robert German, William A. Meredith, JR.
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Publication number: 20140184073Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a plasma source comprising a body in which a cavity is formed and at least two self-contained magnetron assemblies disposed within the cavity. The magnetron assemblies are mutually electrically isolated from each other and from the body. In one implementation of such an embodiment, the self-contained magnetron assemblies comprise closed-drift magnetron assemblies. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Sputtering Components, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, Patrick Lawrence Morse, William A. Meredith, JR., John Robert German, Michelle Lynn Neal
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Patent number: RE46599Abstract: In one embodiment, a magnetron assembly comprises a plurality of magnets and a yoke configured to hold the plurality of magnets in at least four independent linear arrays. The plurality of magnets is arranged in the yoke so as to form a pattern comprising an outer portion and an inner portion. The outer portion substantially surrounds the perimeter of the inner portion. The magnets used to form the outer portion have a first polarity and the magnets used to form the inner portion having a second polarity. The outer portion of the pattern comprises a pair of elongated sections that are substantially parallel to one another. The outer portion of the pattern comprises a pair of turnaround sections, wherein each turnaround section substantially spans respective ends of the pair of elongated sections and wherein each turnaround section comprises a plurality of magnets having the first polarity. Other embodiments are described.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: SPUTTERING COMPONENTS INC.Inventors: Daniel Theodore Crowley, William A. Meredith, Jr.