Patents by Inventor William Morgan
William Morgan 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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Publication number: 20250053057Abstract: An electro-optic display comprising at least two separate layers of electro-optic material, with one of these layers being capable of displaying at least one optical state which cannot be displayed by the other layer. The display is driven by a single set of electrodes between which both layers are sandwiched, the two layers being controllable at least partially independently of one another. Another form of the invention uses three different types of particles within a single electrophoretic layer, with the three types of particles being arranged to shutter independently of one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Stephen J. TELFER, Richard J. PAOLINI, JR., Sunil Krishna SAINIS, Randall M. HILL, Issac W. MORAN, Lee YEZEK, Alain BOUCHARD, William VETTERLING, George G. HARRIS, Hywel MORGAN, Luke SLOMINSKI, Jay William ANSETH, Jennifer M. MORRISON, Craig A. HERB
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Patent number: 12206943Abstract: Disclosed examples determine a duplicated audience size representative of panelists exposed to television media and digital media; determine a panel duplication reach based on the duplicated audience size and a panelist population; determine a did-not-view reach based on a television audience size, a digital audience size, the duplicated audience size, and the panelist population; obtain an overlap multiplier as a ratio of (1) a product of the panel duplication reach and the did-not-view reach and (2) a product of a television panel reach and a digital panel reach; determine a duplication factor for a media item based on a television audience reach, a digital audience reach, and the overlap multiplier; and determine a total audience for the media item based on the television audience reach, the digital audience reach, and the duplication factor.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, William Rene Waldron, Neung Soo Ha, Billie Jo Kline, Michael Morgan
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Publication number: 20250023268Abstract: A cable card assembly for an electrical connector includes a circuit card having circuit conductors on a surface of the circuit card and a ground plane. The cable card assembly includes cables terminated to the circuit card. The cables include signal conductors electrically connected to corresponding circuit conductors of the circuit card and cable shields providing electrical shielding for the signal conductors. The cable card assembly includes a ground bus coupled to the circuit card and electrically connected to the cable shields and the ground plane. The ground bus includes a shell forming pockets receiving the corresponding cables. The shell has an inner bus member mounted to the circuit card and an outer bus member coupled to the inner bus member. The shell includes a conductive gasket between the inner bus member and the outer bus member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Craig Warren Hornung, Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
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Publication number: 20240413593Abstract: An electrical connector assembly having a printed circuit board, signal wires, and an impedance mold. The signal wires transmit signals at a determined signal speed. The signal wires have ends which are connected to the printed circuit board. The impedance mold cooperates with the printed circuit and the signal wires. The impedance mold is formed from a tunable hot melt adhesive composition. A dielectric constant of the tunable hot melt adhesive composition is lowered to be compatible with the desired signal performance characteristics of the signals transmitted over the signal wires to the printed circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: David Patrick ORRIS, Aakriti KHAREL, Chad William MORGAN
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Patent number: 12160061Abstract: A separable connector interface includes at least one electrically conductive element with a metal polymer composite deposited thereon. The metal polymer composite has conductive particles dispersed within a protective binder.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Ranjan Deepak Deshmukh, David Patrick Orris, Chad William Morgan, Rodney Ivan Martens
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Patent number: 12134940Abstract: A tubular member includes a central axis, a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a throughbore extending axially from the first end to the second end. In addition, the tubular member includes a first connector at the first end and a second connector at the second end. Further, the tubular member includes a tubular region axially positioned between and axially spaced from the first connector and the second connector. The tubular member also includes a first upset axially positioned between the tubular region and the first connector. The first upset has an internal transition within the throughbore that increases an inner diameter of the throughbore when moving axially from the first upset to the tubular region. Moreover, the tubular member includes a first wear pad integrally formed on the tubular region. An outer diameter of the tubular member is greater along the first wear pad than along the tubular region.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.Inventor: Dan William Morgan
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Patent number: 12119590Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having a mating interface configured to be mated with a hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly. The housing includes an electrically conductive commoning member having contact openings. Wafer assemblies are coupled to the housing each having a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame providing electrical shielding for the leadframe. The signal contacts are terminated to cables. The ground shields are electrically connected to the commoning member. The mating ends of the signal contacts and the ground shields form a hermaphroditic mating interface for mating with the hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Michael Streckewald, Margaret Mahoney Fernandes
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Publication number: 20240339789Abstract: An electrical connector assembly having a printed circuit board, signal wires, and an impedance mold. The signal wires transmit signals at a determined signal speed. The signal wires have ends which are connected to the printed circuit board. The impedance mold cooperates with the printed circuit and the signal wires. The impedance mold is formed from a tunable hot melt adhesive composition. A dielectric constant of the tunable hot melt adhesive composition is adjusted to be compatible with the desired signal performance characteristics of the signals transmitted over the signal wires to the printed circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Chad William MORGAN, Bruce Allen CHAMPION, David Patrick ORRIS, Jessica H B. HEMOND, Megan Hoarfrost BEERS, Aakriti KHAREL, Jason Thomas CHIOTA
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Publication number: 20240310044Abstract: Electrical heater systems including one or multiple electrical heaters and a stack for combusting materials leaked into and vented from the electrical heaters. Configurations may include fluid conduits, pressure doors and other equipment for controlling a flow of leaked process fluid between the heater enclosure and the stack. Configurations may also include a purge gas distribution system for purging heater enclosures and preventing thermal shock of electrical heating elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Baozhong Zhao, Xueping Li, Eduardo Hart, Benedict Cardaci, Sehjin Kim, William Morgan
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Publication number: 20240289481Abstract: Techniques to manage queries for managing queries that detect activity associated with a data stream of a computing device. A system can receive a request to implement a query from a device, test the query in a test environment, and determine whether or not to deploy the query to a production environment that includes one or more host devices. The system can generate an instruction and/or a query identifier to control a start time and/or an end time for a query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Kenton Lance, Brent Ryan Nash, Matthew Rowen, William Morgan
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Patent number: 12051865Abstract: A socket connector includes a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface. The substrate has a ground plane between the upper surface and the lower surface. The substrate includes contact channels between the upper and lower surfaces. The socket connector includes socket contacts received in corresponding contact channels. Each socket contact includes a contact body, an upper mating element, and a lower mating element. The upper mating element is deflectable relative to the contact body and extends to the upper surface to interface with a first electrical component. The lower mating element is deflectable relative to the contact body and extends to the lower surface to interface with a second electrical component. A plurality of the socket contacts are electrically connected to the ground plane.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventor: Chad William Morgan
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Publication number: 20240235116Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald
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Patent number: 12027281Abstract: The present invention relates to metallic structure with desired combinations of mechanical and electrical characteristics formed of a higher electrical conductivity element with a mechanically stronger element.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Martin W. Bayes, Gokce Gulsoy, David Patrick Orris, David Bruce Sarraf, Chad William Morgan, Jevon Ryan Corban
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Publication number: 20240204432Abstract: An electrical connector having a housing with a first surface and a second surface. Contact receiving openings extend from the first surface to the second surface. Contacts are positioned in the contact receiving openings. The contacts have base members and resilient contact beams extending from opposed sides of the base members. Sidewalls extend from opposed sides of the base members from which the resilient contact beams do not extend. The contacts also provide multiple electrical pathways across the contacts for electrical signal transmissions, allowing for signal transmissions to transmitted at frequencies of approximately 224 Gbps or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicants: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Shinichi HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIRAI, Naoki HASHIMOTO, Masayuki AIZAWA, Hirotate KADOBAYASHI, Chad William MORGAN
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Patent number: 11949189Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald
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Patent number: 11924970Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having an insulator holding a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor and a cable shield surrounding the insulator. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend forward of an end of the insulator for termination to a circuit card. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable. The ground clip includes a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a window that receives the exposed portions of the first and second signal conductors therethrough. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The bottom ground rake is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli
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Patent number: 11923638Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald, Douglas Edward Shirk
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Patent number: 11916341Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Chad William Morgan, David Allison Trout, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
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Patent number: 11909147Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a contact holder holding first and second contacts in contact channels terminated to ends of conductors of a cable. The contacts have mating ends forward of the front of the contact holder. The cable connector assembly includes a contact shield coupled to the contact holder having a base and a shroud. The base surrounds a base chamber that receives an end of the cable and the contact holder and provides electrical shielding at first and second interfaces. The shroud surrounds a shroud chamber that receives the mating ends of the first and second contacts to provide electrical shielding along the mating ends of the first and second contacts.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
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Publication number: 20240047910Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having signal conductors and a cable shield. The cable may have drain wires at sides of the cable. A ground clip is coupled to the end of the cable having a window that receives the exposed portions of the signal conductors therethrough. The ground clip is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card. The ground clip includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The ground clip includes connecting tines electrically connected to sides of the cable shield, such as via the drain wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli