Patents by Inventor William Sherman
William Sherman 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: 12360719Abstract: An apparatus and method for an apparatus for generating a display data structure from an input signal. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive an input signal, apply a momentum processing module to the input signal, receive at least one directional momentum signal for the at least a time series from the momentum processing module, apply an autoregressive signal processing module to the at least one directional momentum signal to determine at least one filtered momentum, generate a display data structure using the at least one filtered momentum signal and a plurality of threshold values, and transmit the display data structure to a remote device, wherein the display data structure is configured to cause the remote device to display the dynamic vector.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Sherman IP, LLCInventor: William Sherman
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Publication number: 20250218072Abstract: An apparatus and method for an apparatus for generating a display data structure from an input signal. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive an input signal, apply a momentum processing module to the input signal, receive at least one directional momentum signal for the at least a time series from the momentum processing module, apply an autoregressive signal processing module to the at least one directional momentum signal to determine at least one filtered momentum, generate a display data structure using the at least one filtered momentum signal and a plurality of threshold values, and transmit the display data structure to a remote device, wherein the display data structure is configured to cause the remote device to display the dynamic vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2024Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: Sherman IP, LLCInventor: William Sherman
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Publication number: 20250217089Abstract: An apparatus and method for an apparatus for generating a display data structure from an input signal. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive an input signal, apply a momentum processing module to the input signal, receive at least one directional momentum signal for the at least a time series from the momentum processing module, apply an autoregressive signal processing module to the at least one directional momentum signal to determine at least one filtered momentum, generate a display data structure using the at least one filtered momentum signal and a plurality of threshold values, and transmit the display data structure to a remote device, wherein the display data structure is configured to cause the remote device to display the dynamic vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2024Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: Sherman IP, LLCInventor: William Sherman
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Patent number: 12330239Abstract: An apparatus for cutting electrode sheets includes a conveyor and a laser device. The conveyor is configured to move an original sheet including an electrode portion and an ear portion extending from an edge of the electrode portion. The laser device is configured to move a laser to cut out a tab connected to the electrode portion from the ear portion of the original sheet. The laser device is also configured to move the laser from one edge of the electrode portion to another edge of the electrode portion to cut and separate a respective electrode sheet including the tab from the original sheet. The laser is configured to cut out the tab from the ear portion and cut and separate the respective electrode sheet including the tab from the original sheet as the conveyor is moving the original sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Paul John Bojanowski, Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Michael Orr, Paul Andrew Pierzecki
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Patent number: 12224404Abstract: A system including an adapter plate, a conveyor, a separator drum, and first and second electrode drums. The conveyor is configured to move the adapter plate continuously and sequentially in a predetermined path between the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, the first electrode drum to receive a respective first electrode sheet, the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, and the second electrode drum to receive a respective second electrode sheet until a stacked battery cell includes a desired number of respective separator sheets, respective first electrode sheets, and respective second electrode sheets.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Paul John Bojanowski, Christopher Webber, Carly Chmura
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Patent number: 12002129Abstract: An apparatus and method for an apparatus for generating a display data structure from an input signal. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive an input signal, apply a momentum processing module to the input signal, receive at least one directional momentum signal for the at least a time series from the momentum processing module, apply an autoregressive signal processing module to the at least one directional momentum signal to determine at least one filtered momentum, generate a display data structure using the at least one filtered momentum signal and a plurality of threshold values, and transmit the display data structure to a remote device, wherein the display data structure is configured to cause the remote device to display the dynamic vector.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2024Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Sherman IP, LLCInventor: William Sherman
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Publication number: 20230249291Abstract: An apparatus for cutting electrode sheets includes a conveyor and a laser device. The conveyor is configured to move an original sheet including an electrode portion and an ear portion extending from an edge of the electrode portion. The laser device is configured to move a laser to cut out a tab connected to the electrode portion from the ear portion of the original sheet. The laser device is also configured to move the laser from one edge of the electrode portion to another edge of the electrode portion to cut and separate a respective electrode sheet including the tab from the original sheet. The laser is configured to cut out the tab from the ear portion and cut and separate the respective electrode sheet including the tab from the original sheet as the conveyor is moving the original sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Paul John Bojanowski, Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Michael Orr, Paul Andrew Pierzecki
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Publication number: 20230253629Abstract: A method for stacking a battery cell includes feeding a separator sheet through a guide assembly to fold the separator sheet, inserting a plurality of first electrodes into the separator sheet at a location where the separator sheet has been folded by the guide assembly, forming respective channels in the folded separator sheet including the plurality of first electrodes, inserting a plurality of second electrodes in the respective channels to form a multilayered body, and pressing the multilayered body to form the stacked battery cell where the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are stacked in an alternating arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Paul John Bojanowski, Christopher Webber, Carly Chmura
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Publication number: 20230253630Abstract: A system including an adapter plate, a conveyor, a separator drum, and first and second electrode drums. The conveyor is configured to move the adapter plate continuously and sequentially in a predetermined path between the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, the first electrode drum to receive a respective first electrode sheet, the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, and the second electrode drum to receive a respective second electrode sheet until a stacked battery cell includes a desired number of respective separator sheets, respective first electrode sheets, and respective second electrode sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hannah Bever, Andrew William Sherman, Paul John Bojanowski, Christopher Webber, Carly Chmura
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Publication number: 20160368277Abstract: A system for digitally printing a hydrographic design on a water-soluble film, the system including a source roll of a water-soluble film, the source roll disposed on a tensioned unwind roller, a digital printer, a temporary support for the water-soluble film maintained during partial transport of the water-soluble film through the digital printer from the unwind roller to a powered rewind roller and a tension roller or a spread roller for maintaining controlled tension to the water-soluble film, wherein the water soluble film once wound upon the powered rewind roller is linerless.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: AMERICAN HYDROGRAPHICSInventors: STEPHEN LAWSON PETERSON, CLAY MATTHEW REIERSON, FRANK WILLIAM SHERMAN
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Publication number: 20160107427Abstract: A multilayer film comprising a printed hydrographic design, the multilayer film comprising a support liner, a water-soluble polymer film fixedly attached to the support liner and a hydrograph design printed thereon, the hydrographic design comprising a solvent based ink, and methods of making and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: STEPHEN LAWSON PETERSON, CLAY MATTHEW REIERSON, FRANK WILLIAM SHERMAN, MAVORIC J. FARMER, MICHAEL J. STOLL, THOMAS VINCENT CARROLL, IV
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Patent number: 9186609Abstract: A sensing system and method for use with a gas filter in a gas conduit attached to a gas blower, having a motor for producing a first gas flow blower speed, discards readings taken when the blower is off or during blower startup and shutdown, and recalculates a clog threshold in response to changes in the fan speed of a multi-speed blower.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: CLEANALERT, LLCInventors: William Sherman, III, Richard Green
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Patent number: 9183723Abstract: A gas filter clogging detection system for monitoring filter performance and condition based on indicators of the accumulation of dirt and other particles on a filter positioned in a gas conduit, in which a notification system provides alerts and reports when the amount of clogging reaches a pre-determined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: CLEANALERT, LLCInventors: William Sherman, Richard Green
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Publication number: 20150254958Abstract: A gas filter clogging detection system for monitoring filter performance and condition based on indicators of the accumulation of dirt and other particles on a filter positioned in a gas conduit, in which a notification system provides alerts and reports when the amount of clogging reaches a pre-determined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: William Sherman, Richard Green
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Publication number: 20130197829Abstract: A sensing system and method for use with a gas filter in a gas conduit attached to a gas blower, having a motor for producing a first gas flow blower speed, discards readings taken when the blower is off or during blower startup and shutdown, and recalculates a clog threshold in response to changes in the fan speed of a multi-speed blower.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Inventors: William Sherman, III, Richard Green
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Patent number: 8400315Abstract: An apparatus and method for indicating a process temperature anomaly during a power outage comprising employing a power source separate from that powering the process, setting a temperature set point; sensing presence and absence of power powering the process, sensing process temperature; and indicating to users that an absence of power was sensed and that the temperature sensed during the absence of power was below (or above) the temperature set point.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventor: William Sherman
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Patent number: 8117539Abstract: A method for bi-directional synchronization of tracing relationships between a requirements repository and textual requirements documents, including: in a first operating mode: gathering trace information from a requirements repository; and formatting the trace information and inserting the trace information as text in textual requirements documents; and in a second operating mode: modifying the trace information in the textual requirements documents; and updating the requirements repository to match the modifications that were made in the textual requirements documents.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Siemens CorporationInventors: William Sherman, Sascha J. Konrad, Paul J. Bruschi
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Patent number: 7954083Abstract: A method for modeling requirements of a product includes defining an abstract use case for each feature of said product, hierarchically decomposing each abstract use case until concrete use cases are specified for each feature, depicting every actor who would use the product as communicating with a concrete use case through a boundary, and programmatically extracting requirements from the use case diagram. Programmatically extracting requirements further includes converting use case diagrams into directed acyclic graphs, where each use case corresponds to a node of a graph and each relationship between a pair of use cases is represented by a directed edge between the corresponding pair of nodes in the graph where a directed edge points from a parent node to a child node, converting the directed acyclic graph into a tree, and searching the tree to extract the requirements.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Siemens CorporationInventors: Brian Berenbach, Herbert R. Foster, Jr., William Sherman
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Publication number: 20080301156Abstract: A method for bi-directional synchronization of tracing relationships between a requirements repository and textual requirements documents, including: in a first operating mode: gathering trace information from a requirements repository; and formatting the trace information and inserting the trace information as text in textual requirements documents; and in a second operating mode: modifying the trace information in the textual requirements documents; and updating the requirements repository to match the modifications that were made in the textual requirements documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH, INC.Inventors: William Sherman, Sascha J. Konrad, Paul J. Bruschi
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Publication number: 20080040572Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein in certain embodiments, a plurality of logical memory blocks corresponding to a memory in a computational device are allocated. An attribute is associated with at least one logical memory block, wherein the attribute indicates whether the at least one logical memory block can be swapped from the memory, and wherein physical blocks corresponding to the at least one logical memory block are contiguous.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIOAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yu-Cheng HSU, John McCAULEY, Cheng-Chung SONG, William Sherman