Patents by Inventor William Palmer

William Palmer 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).

  • Publication number: 20190195979
    Abstract: Head-mounted augmented reality (AR) devices can track pose of a wearer's head to provide a three-dimensional virtual representation of objects in the wearer's environment. An electromagnetic (EM) tracking system can track head or body pose. A handheld user input device can include an EM emitter that generates an EM field, and the head-mounted AR device can include an EM sensor that senses the EM field. EM information from the sensor can be analyzed to determine location and/or orientation of the sensor and thereby the wearer's pose. The EM emitter and sensor may utilize time division multiplexing (TDM) or dynamic frequency tuning to operate at multiple frequencies. Voltage gain control may be implemented in the transmitter, rather than the sensor, allowing smaller and lighter weight sensor designs. The EM sensor can implement noise cancellation to reduce the level of EM interference generated by nearby audio speakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Brian Bucknor, Christopher Lopez, Michael Janusz Woods, Aly H. M. Aly, James William Palmer, Evan Francis Rynk
  • Patent number: 10261162
    Abstract: Head-mounted augmented reality (AR) devices can track pose of a wearer's head to provide a three-dimensional virtual representation of objects in the wearer's environment. An electromagnetic (EM) tracking system can track head or body pose. A handheld user input device can include an EM emitter that generates an EM field, and the head-mounted AR device can include an EM sensor that senses the EM field. EM information from the sensor can be analyzed to determine location and/or orientation of the sensor and thereby the wearer's pose. The EM emitter and sensor may utilize time division multiplexing (TDM) or dynamic frequency tuning to operate at multiple frequencies. Voltage gain control may be implemented in the transmitter, rather than the sensor, allowing smaller and lighter weight sensor designs. The EM sensor can implement noise cancellation to reduce the level of EM interference generated by nearby audio speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Bucknor, Christopher Lopez, Michael Janusz Woods, Aly H. M. Aly, James William Palmer, Evan Francis Rynk
  • Patent number: 10242156
    Abstract: A method for visualizing concurrently executing clinical guidelines executed by a clinical decision support system for a subject includes presenting, on a display, a first guideline window in a graphical user interface, wherein the first guideline window presents information corresponding to a first of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines, and presenting, on the display and concurrently with the first guideline window, a second guideline window in the graphical user interface, wherein the second guideline window presents information corresponding to a second of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.A.
    Inventors: William Palmer Lord, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon
  • Publication number: 20190039122
    Abstract: A method to form a displacement includes disposing a powder blend (comprising a plurality of ground ceramic particles and a plurality of ground resin particles) into a mold, densifying the powder blend while in the mold, heating the mold to form a first displacement, impregnating said first displacement with a polymer precursor compound to form a second displacement, and heating the second displacement to form a third displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: David A. Rohrbacker, Jon Chatwood, William Palmer
  • Patent number: 10087115
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of processing organic waste, in particular it relates to a method for making fertilizer from organic waste, especially slow release fertilizer. The present invention also relates to fertilizers made by the method of the invention, especially slow release fertilizer. The method of processing organic waste to provide a slow-release fertilizer may comprise at least one hydrolysis step to provide hydrolyzed organic waste and a setting step to provide a slow release fertilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Elemental Digital Limited
    Inventor: Bruce William Palmer
  • Patent number: 10089442
    Abstract: A system (10) for presenting guideline recommendations to care givers includes at least one display device (54, 56), each displaying a user interface. The system (10) further includes at least one processor (122, 118). The processor (122, 118) is programmed to receive a guideline recommendation for a patient based on a computer interpretable guideline (CIG) and present the guideline recommendation to at least one associated user according to a plurality of alternative approaches for representing the guideline recommendation. At least one of the plurality of alternative approaches uses the user interface of one of the at least one display device (54, 56) to represent the guideline recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, William Palmer Lord
  • Publication number: 20170307891
    Abstract: Head-mounted augmented reality (AR) devices can track pose of a wearer's head to provide a three-dimensional virtual representation of objects in the wearer's environment. An electromagnetic (EM) tracking system can track head or body pose. A handheld user input device can include an EM emitter that generates an EM field, and the head-mounted AR device can include an EM sensor that senses the EM field. EM information from the sensor can be analyzed to determine location and/or orientation of the sensor and thereby the wearer's pose. The EM emitter and sensor may utilize time division multiplexing (TDM) or dynamic frequency tuning to operate at multiple frequencies. Voltage gain control may be implemented in the transmitter, rather than the sensor, allowing smaller and lighter weight sensor designs. The EM sensor can implement noise cancellation to reduce the level of EM interference generated by nearby audio speakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Bucknor, Christopher Lopez, Michael Janusz Woods, Aly H. M. Aly, James William Palmer, Evan Francis Rynk
  • Publication number: 20170297087
    Abstract: A method to form a displacement, the method including disposing a powder blend comprising a plurality of ground ceramic particles and a plurality of ground resin particles into a mold, densifying the powder blend while in the mold, heating the mold to form a first displacement, impregnating said first displacement with a polymer precursor compound to form a second displacement, and heating the second displacement to form a third displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: David A. Rohrbacker, Jon Chatwood, William Palmer
  • Patent number: 9743890
    Abstract: A device having a sensor detecting patient physiological data, a detection element detecting whether a medical professional is present in a patient's room and a display. If a medical professional is present in the patient's room, the display displays a first display mode, the first display mode including the patient physiological data. If a medical professional is not present in the patient's room, the display displays a second display mode, the second display mode being adapted for viewing by lay viewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: William Palmer Lord, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, Steffen Clarence Pauws, Juergen Te Vrugt
  • Publication number: 20170103433
    Abstract: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for estimating the value of a macroeconomic measure, e.g., by: (a) generating a mapping from a first set of data values for macroeconomic variables to monetary values for a second set of assets based on historical data values for the macroeconomic variables and historical monetary values of the assets; generating estimates of the monetary values of the assets by inputting data values for macroeconomic variables into the mapping; and generating an estimate of a data value for at least one of the macroeconomic variables using the mapping and known monetary values for the assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: C4CAST.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Gordon Michael Phillips, James Tzeh-min Chong, Demosthenes A. Halcoussis, William Palmer Jennings
  • Publication number: 20160145164
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of processing organic waste, in particular it relates to a method for making fertiliser from organic waste, especially slow release fertiliser. The present invention also relates to fertilisers made by the method of the invention, especially slow release fertiliser. The method of processing organic waste to provide a slow-release fertiliser may comprise at least one hydrolysis step to provide hydrolysed organic waste and a setting step to provide a slow release fertiliser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventor: Bruce William PALMER
  • Publication number: 20150317578
    Abstract: A system, method and tangible computer readable storage medium for storing a computer-implemented guideline, wherein the computer-implemented guideline includes a plurality of device independent nodes, determining a current state of the computer-implemented guideline, wherein the current state relates to one of the device independent nodes, retrieving device features relating to a device on which the one of the device independent nodes of the computer-implemented guideline is to be performed, modifying the one of the device independent nodes based on the device features to generate a device specific node and instantiating the device specific node on the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Steffen Clarence Pauws, Alphonsus Anghonius Jozef De Lange, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, Pradyumna Dutta, William Palmer Lord
  • Publication number: 20150205496
    Abstract: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for displaying an initial visualization of an algorithm to a user, the initial visualization including a prompt for an input, receiving an input, the input being one of a user input and an automatic input and determining an updated version of the visualization in response to the input, wherein the updated version includes at least one element of the initial visualization, and one of eliminates at least one further element of the initial visualization and adds at least one further element to the initial visualization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: William Palmer Lord
  • Publication number: 20150073818
    Abstract: A system (10) for presenting guideline recommendations to care givers includes at least one display device (54, 56), each displaying a user interface. The system (10) further includes at least one processor (122, 118). The processor (122, 118) is programmed to receive a guideline recommendation for a patient based on a computer interpretable guideline (CIG) and present the guideline recommendation to at least one associated user according to a plurality of alternative approaches for representing the guideline recommendation. At least one of the plurality of alternative approaches uses the user interface of one of the at least one display device (54, 56) to represent the guideline recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, William Palmer Lord
  • Patent number: 8954361
    Abstract: The value of a target variable is predicted by obtaining historical values for the target variable at each of several time points and obtaining previously predicted values and currently predicted values for each of several predictor variables, the predictor variables being different from the target variable. Values are assigned to parameters of a forecasting model to obtain the best fit of the previously predicted values for the predictor variables to the historical values for the target variable. Finally, a value of the target variable is predicted from the currently predicted values for at least a subset of the predictor variables using the forecasting model and the values assigned to the parameters of the forecasting model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: c4cast.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon Michael Phillips, M. Chapman Findlay, III, William Palmer Jennings, Stephen A. Klein, Mark E. Rice
  • Patent number: 8921813
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV) germicidal or sterilization fixture having a dual parabolic reflecting assembly for collimating and redirecting UV light. The first pair of parabolic reflectors are positioned to collimate and reflect light emanating from the sides of the UV light source and spaced apart proximately to the rear surface of the UV source to allow light to pass through. The second pair of reflectors are positioned behind the first pair and aligned to capture light passing through the gap formed by the first pair of reflectors and then collimate and redirect the light produced by the rear of the light source out of the front of the fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventors: William Palmer, Joseph M. Cattadoris, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20140379367
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for transforming clinical guideline documents into computer interpretable guidelines (“CIGs”). One embodiment refers to a method comprising prompting a user, via a graphical user interface (“GUI”), for a plurality of clinical guideline entry steps, receiving, via the GUI, clinical guideline data, prompting the user, via the GUI, for a plurality of formal expression entry steps related to the clinical guideline data, receiving, via the GUI, a formal representation of the clinical guideline data and mapping the formal representation of the clinical data to a CIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: William Palmer Lord
  • Patent number: 8746266
    Abstract: An apparatus for establishing dynamic ground contact is disclosed. A ground contact tip is attached to one end of an elongate member. The ground contact tip contains a connecting portion and a base portion that is opposite the connecting portion. A flexible core connects between the base portion and the connecting portion. At least one limiting ring is positioned on the flexible core. The elongate member is permitted to rotate through a range of angles while the flexible core allows the base portion to remain flat against the ground. At the maximum allowable angle, the limiting rings allow the ground contact tip to cease flexing and become rigid, so that the user can push against the ground at an angle, while the base portion remains flat against the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Towzer Sports, LLC
    Inventors: William Palmer, Paul Reeder
  • Publication number: 20140084185
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV) germicidal or sterilization fixture having a dual parabolic reflecting assembly for collimating and redirecting UV light. The first pair of parabolic reflectors are positioned to collimate and reflect light emanating from the sides of the UV light source and spaced apart proximately to the rear surface of the UV source to allow light to pass through. The second pair of reflectors are positioned behind the first pair and aligned to capture light passing through the gap formed by the first pair of reflectors and then collimate and redirect the light produced by the rear of the light source out of the front of the fixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: William Palmer, Joseph M. Cattadoris, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140018650
    Abstract: A device having a sensor detecting patient physiological data, a detection element detecting whether a medical professional is present in a patient's room and a display. If a medical professional is present in the patient's room, the display displays a first display mode, the first display mode including the patient physiological data. If a medical professional is not present in the patient's room, the display displays a second display mode, the second display mode being adapted for viewing by lay viewers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJK PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: William Palmer Lord, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, Steffen Clarence Pauws, Juergen Te Vrugt