Patents by Inventor William Michael

William Michael 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: 12387844
    Abstract: In some examples, unstructured data is evaluated using a natural language processing model to output a set of subjective indicators. These subjective indicators are scored using a predictive model to determine whether a dependent user has or is likely to develop a particular condition such as a cellular abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: C/HCA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Perlin, Deborah Reiner, Jim Najib Jirjis, Edmund Stephen Jackson, William Michael Gregg, Thomas Andrew Doyle, Paul Martin Paslick, Brian Freeman, Victoria Samples
  • Patent number: 12386446
    Abstract: Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jordon Thomas Boggs, Michael Timothy Brennan, Atul Kumar, Arpita Mitra, William Michael Seiderman, Yawei Sun, Wendell Porter Weeks
  • Patent number: 12382138
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method, apparatus and computer program product for gathering and presenting information associated with a sporting event to a user in a manner tailored to a user's preferences. Methods include: receiving a plurality of video segments associated with at least one subject; providing for display of at least one of the plurality of video segments; providing for selection of at least one video segment not associated with the at least one subject in response to the plurality of video segments having been played or skipped; providing for display of the at least one video segment not associated with the at least one subject; and following or superseding display of the at least one video segment not associated with the at least one subject with display of a new video segment in response to receiving the new video segment associated with the at least one subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Augusta National, Inc.
    Inventor: William Michael Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20250241504
    Abstract: A dispensing system for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing system includes a housing partially enclosing a cavity and a cradle moveable within the housing along a z-axis from a first position to a second position. The dispensing system further includes a chassis and a sliding lock that includes an open frame. An inlet canula projects through the open frame. When the cradle is in the second position, the inlet canula entrance projects through the open frame and through a liquid transport aperture in the cradle. Latches extending from the open frame also project through engagement apertures in the cradle when the cradle is in the second position. The dispensing system further includes a pump in fluid communication with the inlet canula and a mop head in fluid communication with the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd WEAVER, Richard Christopher HAGEE, William Michael CANNON, John Charles VAN RENS
  • Publication number: 20250244047
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing sound levels in an HVAC system, the apparatus including a housing configured to be positioned within an air inlet vent for an HVAC system. The housing includes a first opening configured to intake air and a second opening configured to out put air and a plurality of baffles positioned within said housing, each baffle including a body defining a volume and has a plurality of perforations, wherein each baffle is affixed to the housing and wherein the plurality of perforations are configured to allow airflow through the volume of the body and redirecting sound waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventor: Eugene William Michael Faris
  • Patent number: 12371911
    Abstract: A system comprising a first baseboard element, a second baseboard element, and a spline configured to couple with the first baseboard element and the second baseboard element. Another system comprising a first crown element, a second crown element, and a spline configured to couple with the first crown element and the second crown element. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Phil De La O, William Michael Hatch
  • Patent number: 12365070
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device including an exhaust valve, that operates on a pressurised working fluid. The device includes a working chamber, defined at least in part by a side wall, which working chamber can hold a workload to or toward a first end thereof, the working chamber to receive the working fluid to act on a rear surface of the workload to propel the workload to or towards a second end, opposite the first, of the working chamber. The device also includes a return chamber to receive fluid under pressure from a front surface of the workload, the pressure developed at least in part by the movement of the workload towards the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Globalforce IP Limited
    Inventors: Ian Craig Paterson, William Michael Duff
  • Patent number: 12345440
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing sound levels in an HVAC system, the apparatus including a housing configured to be positioned within an air inlet vent for an HVAC system. The housing includes a first opening configured to intake air and a second opening configured to out put air and a plurality of baffles positioned within said housing, each baffle including a body defining a volume and has a plurality of perforations, wherein each baffle is affixed to the housing and wherein the plurality of perforations are configured to allow airflow through the volume of the body and redirecting sound waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Nailor Industries of Texas, Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene William Michael Faris
  • Patent number: 12336661
    Abstract: The present invention provides a combination pressure cooker and air fryer lid that may be selectively coupled to a vessel. When the lid and the vessel are coupled, the lid may be adjustable between two positions. In the first position, the lid may be used for pressure cooking. In the second position, the lid may be used for air frying. To transition the lid from the first position to the second position, a handle on the lid may be rotated in a particular direction. Conversely, to transition the lid from the second position to the first position, the handle on the lid may be rotated in an opposite direction. Advantageously, in performing either of the pressure cooking or air fryer cooking functions, the lid need not be replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Sunbeam Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William Michael Kennedy, Eddy Fung, K K Siu, Sam Ho, Samuel But
  • Patent number: 12337046
    Abstract: A dentifrice composition includes tin, from about 5% to about 50%, by weight of the dentifrice composition, of polyol, and up to about 45%, by weight of the composition, of water. The polyol includes xylitol, sorbitol, or combinations thereof. The dentifrice composition has a pH of greater than 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Inventors: Arif Ali Baig, Tammy K. Baker, William Michael Glandorf, Samuel James St. John
  • Publication number: 20250198417
    Abstract: A fan installation assembly includes a conduit and an axial fan assembly. The conduit is disposed onboard a vehicle and configured to contain airflow that is supplied to or received from an internal cabin of the vehicle. The axial fan assembly is configured to propel the airflow through the conduit. The axial fan assembly includes a case, a motor assembly, and an impeller. The case surrounds the impeller and the motor assembly and is mounted to the conduit. The impeller includes a hub and multiple blades mounted on the hub. Each of the blades has a toroidal shape and forms a loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Jones, Eric Legaspi Sarinas, Sydney Blakely, William Michael Ameling
  • Patent number: 12333041
    Abstract: A federated permission management service provides clients with customized access to a data set using customized authorization metadata. The federated permission management service may define and apply permissions that are defined at a data lake that provides access to many different data sets from many different sources, as well as those permissions that may be defined at the source of the data set, which may be provided when performing a data sharing request. By allowing for permissions to be specified at the data lake in addition to permissions specified at a source of a data set, the permission management service can provide a fine-grained access control to specific objects of the data set, such as specific columns, specific rows, or specific cells of a database to be shared, even for those data sets in the data lake having different sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Foyzur Rahman, Vladimir Ponomarenko, William Michael McCreedy, Ramy Nazier, Pavel Sokolov, Venkata Naga Raja Sri Harsha Kesapragada, Karsten Jancke, Kostiantyn Dymov, Dmytro Lebedyev, Vinay Singh, Krishnaditya Kandregula, Sharda Kishin Khubchandani, Sachet Saurabh, Purvaja Narayanaswamy
  • Patent number: 12318051
    Abstract: A dispensing system for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing system includes a housing partially enclosing a cavity and a cradle moveable within the housing along a z-axis from a first position to a second position. The dispensing system further includes a chassis and a sliding lock that includes an open frame. An inlet canula projects through the open frame. When the cradle is in the second position, the inlet canula entrance projects through the open frame and through a liquid transport aperture in the cradle. Latches extending from the open frame also project through engagement apertures in the cradle when the cradle is in the second position. The dispensing system further includes a pump in fluid communication with the inlet canula and a mop head in fluid communication with the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens
  • Publication number: 20250173356
    Abstract: Database query processing may be scaled using additional processing clusters. A database query is received at a processing cluster. A determination is made as to whether additional processing clusters will be used to process the database query. Operations to cause compute nodes of the processing cluster to instruct operations at the additional processing clusters are included in a plan generated to perform database queries determined to use additional processing clusters. The plan is executed to be perform the database query causing compute nodes of the processing cluster to send instructions to corresponding additional processing clusters in order to generate and return a response to the database query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ippokratis Pandis, Naresh Chainani, Sebastian Hillig, Christos Stavrakakis, Eric Ray Hotinger, Bruce William McGaughy, William Michael McCreedy, Yan Leshinsky
  • Patent number: 12298252
    Abstract: A seed sampling system is provided comprising an automated seed loading assembly operable to singulate seeds from a plurality of seeds or enable loading of individually stored seeds and an automated seed sampling assembly comprising at least one sampling module operable to remove tissue samples from one of the singulated seeds. The system also includes an automated seed transport assembly comprising at least one retention member operable to transfer the singulated seeds from at least one elevator unit of the seed loading assembly to the at least one sampling module of the seed sampling assembly. In connection therewith, the at least one sampling module includes multiple sampling locations, each associated with a sampler, where the at least one sampling module is operable to remove tissue samples from seeds at one of sampling locations while another one of the sampling locations is cleaned to remove residual seed tissue therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Wayne Brown, Michael Joseph Dayawon, David Finley, William Michael Fischer, Yang Ju Im, John Michael Jensen, Jeffrey Lawrence Kohne, Matthew J. Weis
  • Patent number: 12292263
    Abstract: A safety assembly for use with a laser-directed energy weapon is disclosed. The assembly comprises a control system comprising a photodetector and a processing unit; and an optical device configured to attach to a target such that, when attached, the optical device provides a light beam to the photodetector. The processing unit is arranged to compare the received light beam against one or more predetermined attributes, and to permit the laser-directed energy weapon to fire only when the received light beam is determined to have the one or more attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MBDA UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Peters, Jon Daw, Martyn Robert Jennings, William Michael George Halstead, Colin Bridgewater, Mark Owen
  • Patent number: 12294664
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to configuring at least one pair of devices in a physical unclonable function (PUF) apparatus and reading out at least one pair of devices for determining a persistent random PUF output. The pair of devices may be readout by measuring a physical difference between the devices/components caused by random manufacturing differences, which may then be used to determine a persistence random PUF output. Configuring the pair of devices includes measuring the random manufacturing difference and, based on that measurement, setting a readout condition for the pair of devices, which dictates aspects of the readout process that should be used for that pair of devices. Each time the pair of devices is readout in the future, it may be readout in accordance with the condition that was set at configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: William Michael James Holland, George Redfield Spalding, Jr., Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz
  • Publication number: 20250142310
    Abstract: The system receives a SIP call from a UE associated with the user. The SIP call includes a call setup phase and a data transfer phase, where the call setup phase precedes the data transfer phase. The call setup phase includes an exchange of multiple header fields. The system obtains the multiple header fields from the SIP call. The system determines that the call is an open-line call by identifying an optional field within the multiple header fields, where the optional field indicates that the call is the open-line call. The open-line call indicates that the user of the UE cannot engage in a conversation with a receiver of the open-line call. Upon determining that the call is the open-line call, the system notifies an operator receiving the SIP call to not engage in an audible conversation with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, William Michael Hooker
  • Patent number: 12284582
    Abstract: The system receives a SIP call from a UE associated with a user, where the SIP call includes multiple fields, and where a field among the multiple fields indicates that the SIP call is the open-line call. The system receives a first indication that the UE associated with a callee has generated a notification to the callee of the SIP call. Upon identifying the SIP call as the open-line call and receiving the first indication, the system sends a first message to the UE associated with the caller that the UE associated with the callee has generated the notification. The first message indicates to the UE associated with the caller to generate a first inaudible notification indicating that the UE associated with the callee generated the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, William Michael Hooker
  • Patent number: 12280923
    Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is engaged with the container by a neck fitment projecting from the coupling shell. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least two support zones. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Charles Van Rens, William Michael Cannon, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Richard Christopher Hagee