Patents by Inventor William Owens
William Owens 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: 20230290493Abstract: Methods and systems for medical device diagnostics and reporting. One system including an electronic processor configured to receive a new medical device dataset associated with a medical device. The electronic processor is also configured to determine an operation classification of the medical device using a model utilizing training information. The training information includes a plurality of archived medical device datasets and an associated operation classification for each of the plurality of archived medical device datasets. The electronic processor is also configured determine an operation status of the medical device based on the operation classification. The electronic processor is also configured to generate and provide a notification based on at least the operation status of the medical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: William Owen Redwood, Jeff Dunn, Riley Hester, Ian Trent, Eric Wright, Brad Miller, Orly Tauil
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Patent number: 11753917Abstract: When a child well is hydraulically fractured near the depleted reservoir volume surrounding a previously produced parent well, it is economically efficient to deliver proppant to the formation volume and fractures not reached by the parent well. A fracture length, which is the distance fluid travels from the child well to the depleted region, is calculated as a function of fracture stage. From identified trends in fracture length, fracture length for future stages can be predicted. Based on predicted fracture length, the slurry or treatment volume to cause well interference can be estimated. Proppant concentration or fracturing stage design can be adjusted so that the well interference volume is larger than the treatment volume and proppant is efficiently delivered to the child well fractures.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dinesh Ananda Shetty, William Owen Alexander Ruhle, Srividhya Sridhar
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Patent number: 11751003Abstract: Embodiments relate to personalization of a head-related transfer function (HRTF) for a given user. A sound source is spatialized for an initial position using an initial version of a HRTF to obtain an initial spatialized sound source. Upon presentation of the initial spatialized sound source, at least one property of the HRTF is adjusted in an iterative manner based on at least one perceptive response from the user to generate a version of the HRTF customized for the user. Each perceptive response from the user indicates a respective offset between a perceived position and a target position of the sound source. The customized version of the HRTF is applied to one or more audio channels to form spatialized audio content for the perceived position. The spatialized audio content is presented to the user, wherein the offset between the perceived position and the target position is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Tomasz Rudzki, Sebastià Vicenç Amegnual Gari, Michaela Warnecke, Andrew Francl
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Patent number: 11670321Abstract: A system includes a headset to capture sound and a visual signal of a local area including one or more sound sources. The system determines a strength of the audio signal and a portion of the visual signal associated with the audio signal, compares the strengths, selects the weaker signal, and augments the weaker signal. The headset accordingly presents augmented audio-visual content to a user, thereby enhancing the user's perception of the weak signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Cesare Valerio Parise, William Owen Brimijoin, II, Philip Robinson
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Patent number: 11644531Abstract: An ad hoc approach denoted as devoid clutter capture and filling (DeCCaF) that addresses the nonstationarity effects that arise when input radar waveform returns exhibiting dynamic spectra variations are processed to combat dynamic RFI is disclosed. Portions of the spectra of each input waveform return of a set of input radar waveform returns processed during the CPI may be filled with clutter information borrowed from other waveform returns of the set of waveform returns. DeCCaF may combined with an appropriate filter (e.g., a matched filter, a mismatched filter) to achieve results that are nearly indistinguishable from input radar waveform returns in which no spectral variation are present.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: University of KansasInventors: Jonathan William Owen, Gerald Brandon Ravenscroft, Shannon D. Blunt
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Patent number: 11644894Abstract: A method comprising determining a set of position parameters for an inertial measurement unit (IMU) on a headset worn by a user. The set of position parameters includes at least a first yaw measurement and a first roll measurement. The set describes a pointing vector. The method further comprises calculating a drift correction component that describes a rate of correction. The drift correction component is based at least in part on the set of position parameters. The method further comprises applying the drift correction component to one or more subsequent yaw measurements for the IMU. The drift correction component forces an estimated nominal position vector to the pointing vector at the rate of correction.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Andrew Lovitt
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Patent number: 11619126Abstract: A process to determine whether a leak-off event is occurring during the treatment stage of an active borehole. The leak-off event data, such as the severity or magnitude of the potential leak-off, can be communicated to other systems to adjust the treatment stage, the fluid composition, the fluid pressure, or the fluid flow rate. Diverter material can be added to the fluid. The monitoring of the leak-off event can occur over a time interval, such as the time of the treatment stage and periodic adjustments to the treatment stage can be implemented. The leak-off event can be identified when a fluid pressure slope indicates an overall increase in pressure in an adjacent borehole or if the amount of fluid entering an adjacent borehole exceeds a leak-off threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Owen Alexander Ruhle, Dinesh Ananda Shetty, Srividhya Sridhar, Shahab Jamali
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Patent number: 11616580Abstract: A system receives audio data in a frequency range of 20 Hz-20 kHz. The received audio data is encoded by the system into ultrasonic data in frequencies that are greater than 20 kHz, and transmitted into a local area that is proximal to the transmitting device, i.e., within the transmission range of the transmitting device. An ultrasonic communication device that is located in the transmission range of the transmitting device may receive the ultrasonic data. The received ultrasonic data is decoded by the ultrasonic communication system in the receiving device into audio data in a frequency range of 20 Hz-20 kHz, and subsequently presented to a user of the receiving ultrasonic communication device.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Peter Harty Dodds, Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Philip Robinson, Scott Phillips Porter, William Owen Brimijoin, II, Andrew Lovitt
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Patent number: 11593225Abstract: A method and system for live-mounting database backups. Specifically, disclosed method and system entail recovering database data—in entirety or at any granular level—without needing to provision storage resources for point-in-time database copies (i.e., backup database data), or without needing to wait for large amounts of data, representative of the point-in-time database copies, to traverse a network from backup storage to a target device. Substantively, through live-mounting, the physical point-in-time database data, as well as the associated structural metadata, may be retained on backup storage while a pointer-based snapshot, mapping to the physical point-in-time database data and structural metadata, may be generated thereon. Thereafter, a file system—mapping to the pointer-based snapshot on the backup storage—may be mounted on the target device, which exposes an interface through which the backup database data may be accessed and/or manipulated using a distributed file system protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLCInventors: Shelesh Chopra, Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci, Kenneth William Owens, Amith Ramachandran, Navneet Upadhyay, Trichy Krishnamurthi Premkumar, Hui Yang
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Patent number: 11579837Abstract: A system creates an audio profile. The audio profile may be stored in a database. For example, the audio profile may be securely stored in a database of a social network and associated with a user account. The audio profile may contain data describing the way in which the specific user hears and interprets sounds. Systems and applications which present sounds to the user may access the audio profile and modify the sounds presented to the user based on the data in the audio profile to enhance the audio experience for the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Philip Robinson, Antonio John Miller, William Owen Brimijoin, II, Andrew Lovitt
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Publication number: 20220394405Abstract: A system is disclosed for using an audio time and level difference renderer (TLDR) to generate spatialized audio content for multiple channels from an audio signal received at a single channel. The system selects an audio TLDR from a set of audio TLDRs based on received input parameters. The system configures the selected audio TLDR based on received input parameters using a filter parameter model to generate a configured audio TLDR that comprises a set of configured binaural dynamic filters, and a configured delay between the multiple channel. The system applies the configured audio TLDR to an audio signal received at the single channel to generate spatialized multiple channel audio content for each channel of the multiple audio channel and presents the generated spatialized audio content at multiple channels to a user via a headset.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Samuel Clapp, Peter Harty Dodds, Nava K. Balsam, Tomasz Rudzki, Ryan Rohrer, Kevin Scheumann, Michaela Warnecke
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Publication number: 20220387467Abstract: Compositions of SGLT2 inhibitors and their use for treating primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) are described here. The SGLT2 inhibitor compositions, including oral dosage forms, contain a therapeutically effective dose of a SGLT2 inhibitor for preventing, partially ameliorating or fully ameliorating symptoms of PBC, including of the hepatic encephalopathy, development of varices, jaundice, variceal bleeding cholangiocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, evidence of cirrhosis, and colorectal cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: William Owen WILKISON, James Trinca GREEN
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Patent number: 11523240Abstract: An audio system generates customized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for a user. The audio system receives an initial set of estimated HRTFs. The initial set of HRTFs may have been estimated using a trained machine learning and computer vision system and pictures of the user's ears. The audio system generates a set of test locations using the initial set of HRTFs. The audio system presents test sounds at each of the initial set of test locations using the initial set of HRTFs. The audio system monitors user responses to the test sounds. The audio system uses the monitored responses to generate a new set of estimated HRTFs and a new set of test locations. The process repeats until a threshold accuracy is achieved or until a set period of time expires. The audio system presents audio content to the user using the customized HRTFs.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, William Owen Brimijoin, II, Henrik Gert Hassager
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Patent number: 11519245Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. One or more perforations to create during a fracturing stage of a fracturing job at one or more corresponding perforation sites in a wellbore can be identified. The one or more perforations can be formed through one or more perforation devices disposed in the wellbore. Specifically, the one or more perforation devices can be selectively activated from a surface of the wellbore through a well intervention-less technique to selectively form the one or more perforations during the fracturing stage. Further, a volume of fracturing fluid can be pumped into the wellbore during the fracturing stage to form one or more first fractures in a surrounding formation through the one or more perforations.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Ronald Glen Dusterhoft, Etienne M. Samson, James Marshall Barker, Ubong Inyang, William Owen Alexander Ruhle
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Publication number: 20220349991Abstract: An ad hoc approach denoted as devoid clutter capture and filling (DeCCaF) that addresses the nonstationarity effects that arise when input radar waveform returns exhibiting dynamic spectra variations are processed to combat dynamic RFI is disclosed. Portions of the spectra of each input waveform return of a set of input radar waveform returns processed during the CPI may be filled with clutter information borrowed from other waveform returns of the set of waveform returns. DeCCaF may combined with an appropriate filter (e.g., a matched filter, a mismatched filter) to achieve results that are nearly indistinguishable from input radar waveform returns in which no spectral variation are present.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Jonathan William Owen, Gerald Brandon Ravenscroft, Shannon D. Blunt
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Publication number: 20220342032Abstract: An apparatus and method identify emitters. The apparatus includes a receiver, a parameter estimator, a database, and a correlator. The receiver receives an electromagnetic signal from an emitter and measures actual values of observed parameters of the electromagnetic signal. The parameter estimator surmises surmised values of unobserved parameters from the actual values of the observed parameters. The actual values of the observed parameters and the surmised values of the unobserved parameters characterize the emitter. The database stores one or more entries for each emitter. Each entry specifies an identifier of an emitter and exemplary values of the observed and unobserved parameters. The correlator matches the actual values of the observed parameters and the surmised values of the unobserved parameters with the exemplary values of one of the entries of the emitter from which the receiver receives the electromagnetic signal. The correlator outputs the identifier from this entry in the database.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Gregory Knowles Fleizach, Christopher C. Pelham, Mark William Owen
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Publication number: 20220342213Abstract: Embodiments relate to an audio system for various audio applications. The audio system registers the locations of one or more sound sources and selects the target sound source based on a hidden Markov model. A health monitoring system that integrates an audio system may use information collected by sensors to monitor an amount of social interaction of a user and predict a risk of dementia and/or hearing loss based on a model. The audio system uses a current/voltage sensor to detect electrical drive signals for determining a level of audio leakage of the audio system. Additionally, the audio system may update a video stream with an audio background based on an artificial visual background in the video stream so that the updated video stream sounds as if it originated from the user being located in a physical representation related to the background.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Hao Lu, William Owen Brimijoin, II, Christi Miller, Limin Zhou, Andrew Lovitt
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Patent number: 11465305Abstract: A method of assembling a razor cartridge. A housing is injection molded. An elastomer is co-injection molded to the housing forming a pair of laterally spaced apart blade stabilizers. A primary blade member having a cutting edge is mounted to the housing. The cutting edge of the primary blade member is contacted with the laterally spaced apart blade stabilizers. A blade retention member is mounted to a top surface of the housing. A pair of lateral ends of the cutting edge of the primary blade member is constrained between the blade retention member and the pair of laterally spaced apart blade stabilizers.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: William Thomas O'Connor, William Owen Jolley, Kelly Daniel Bridges
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Patent number: 11457325Abstract: A system is disclosed for using an audio time and level difference renderer (TLDR) to generate spatialized audio content for multiple channels from an audio signal received at a single channel. The system selects an audio TLDR from a set of audio TLDRs based on received input parameters. The system configures the selected audio TLDR based on received input parameters using a filter parameter model to generate a configured audio TLDR that comprises a set of configured binaural dynamic filters, and a configured delay between the multiple channel. The system applies the configured audio TLDR to an audio signal received at the single channel to generate spatialized multiple channel audio content for each channel of the multiple audio channel and presents the generated spatialized audio content at multiple channels to a user via a headset.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Samuel Clapp, Peter Dodds, Nava K. Balsam, Tomasz Rudzki, Ryan Rohrer, Kevin Scheumann, Michaela Warnecke
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Patent number: 11421528Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. Diagnostics data of a hydraulic fracturing completion of a wellbore can be received. A fracture formation model that models formation characteristics of fractures formed through the wellbore into a formation surrounding the wellbore during the hydraulic fracturing completion with respect to surface variables can be accessed. A subsurface objective function of fracture complexity can be selected from a plurality of subsurface objective functions for changing one or more of the formation characteristics of the fractures. The fracture formation model can be applied based on the diagnostics data to determine values of the surface variables for controlling the formation characteristics of the fractures to converge on the subsurface objective function of fracture complexity. As follows, a fracture completion plan can be formed based on the values of the surface variables.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: William Owen Alexander Ruhle, Ronald Glen Dusterhoft, Ajish Potty, Joshua Lane Camp