Patents by Inventor William Thomas

William Thomas 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: 20220203576
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for making prepregs are disclosed. A method may include depositing a resin material onto a surface of a fiber bed and forming a number of discrete resin regions thereon. A distance between the resin regions may be measured to provide desired exposed portions of the surface to facilitate permeation of air through the exposed portions of the surface in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the fiber bed during a curing process of the prepreg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Nutt, Lessa Grunenfelder, Timotei Centea, Mark Anders, William Thomas Edwards, Sarah Grace Katz Schechter
  • Patent number: 11370150
    Abstract: A structure comprising a plurality of walls defining a bladder cavity, the bladder cavity comprises an initial cross section size. A first plurality of wave features provided along at least one of the plurality of walls defining the bladder cavity. In one arrangement, the first plurality of wave features allow the structure to expand from the initial cross section size to a second cross section size after the structure becomes inflated during a composite charge cure, the second cross section size larger than the initial cross sectional size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Amy Elizabeth Bahe, Megan E. Bliss, William Hollensteiner, William Henry Ingram, Jr., John Dempsey Morris, Jonathan Santiago, Benjamin Jeffrey Stephenson, Samuel Ray Stewart, Charles William Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220193584
    Abstract: A filter base for receiving a complementary mating filter housing assembly. The filter base includes a base platform having fluid ingress and egress stanchions, and a wire harness assembly including a connector housing integral with or connected to the base platform for establishing an electrical connection between the filter base and the filter housing assembly. The wire harness assembly includes conductors extending between first and second connectors, with one or more resilient contacts provided on the second connector. The connector housing has an upper surface and an oppositely facing lower surface and is dimensioned to receive a first end portion of the one or more contacts. The contacts are flexible from a first position to a second position when a mating portion of the one or more contacts engages a mating connection surface of the filter housing assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: William Thomas Anniss, III, Willard Grant, Raony Barrios, William L. Small, Marcello Correa Machado, Thomas W. McCollough, Christopher Stephan Rousey, Robert Astle, George Nicholas Lauri, III, Chong Hun Yi, Brian Keith Weaver, William James Moyer, II, Ronald Skovira, Gary Altemose, Richard Benjamin Emenheiser, Ramesh Subramanian
  • Publication number: 20220177194
    Abstract: A display container for displaying an aromatic botanical specimen includes: (a) a container body for enclosing the botanical specimen and scented air having a scent of the botanical specimen; (b) at least one scent discharge port in the container body; and (c) an air pump coupled to the container body and operable to discharge the scented air from within the container body to the environment through the scent discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas SMITH, Cheryl Ann SMITH
  • Patent number: 11356833
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for transmitting emergency alerts, emergency services requests, and emergency data associated with emergency alerts and emergency service requests to relevant parties, such monitoring centers and emergency service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: RAPIDSOS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael John Martin, Riccardo Pellegrini, Nicholas Edward Horelik, William Thomas Guthrie
  • Publication number: 20220171799
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of a system, techniques and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that enable the selection of a response document template for generating an appropriate response to notification document. Respective components may generate an electronic document from the notification document. A common theme between two or more of the electronic documents may be identified. The electronic documents identified as having the common theme may be grouped in a notification document corpus. The notification document corpus may be analyzed with reference to received notification documents stored in a document repository. Based on results of the analysis, a template of a notification response document appropriate for responding to a specific notification document received by the enterprise may be selected. The selected response document template may be forwarded to a client device for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joerg RINGS, William Thomas ROMANO, Andre GATORANO
  • Publication number: 20220162860
    Abstract: A panel system provides a prefabricated exterior building façade. Various wall claddings and clips for hanging wall claddings are discussed. A wall cladding system includes: a building wall; a plurality of wall cladding planks; a plurality of fasteners extending through respective apertures in the plurality of wall cladding planks to secure the plurality of wall cladding planks to the building wall, in which each fastener has a head and a shaft, and the shaft mounts a spacer behind a rear face of the respective wall cladding plank to define a drainage gap between the wall cladding planks and the building wall. A wall cladding plank clip includes a fastener with a head and a shaft; a drainage gap spacer mounted on the shaft; and a front washer plate mounted on the shaft between the head and the drainage gap spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: John William Thomas Sherman
  • Patent number: 11325207
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system includes a plurality of laser devices, a plurality of first scanning devices, and an optical system. The optical system includes an optical detector and a second scanning device. The plurality of laser devices are each configured to generate a laser beam. The plurality of first scanning devices is each configured to selectively direct the laser beam from a laser device of the plurality of laser devices across a powder bed. The laser beam generates a melt pool in the powder bed. The optical detector is configured to detect electromagnetic radiation generated by the melt pool. The second scanning device is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation generated by the melt pool to the optical detector. The optical system is configured to detect a position of the laser beams in the melt pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: William Thomas Carter
  • Publication number: 20220136506
    Abstract: A single screw compressor comprises a main rotor and at least one gate rotor, a casing for the main rotor having a discharge port at a discharge end of the casing, and a slide slidable within a bore in the casing adjacent the main rotor. The slide has a cut-out (6) between first (2) and second (4) sealing parts of the slide, the slide is slidable between a high volume ratio position where the cut-out (6) is within the casing and provides a path to the discharge port, and a low volume ratio position where the slide is beyond the discharge end of the casing to provide a fixed discharge path in the bore of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: J & E Hall Limited
    Inventors: Terence William Thomas Young, John Michael Roll, Maghmood Van Der Poll
  • Publication number: 20220135976
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and compositions useful for prevention of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSv) in animals, including animals of the species Sus scrofa. The present teachings relate to swine wherein at least one allele of a CD163 gene has been inactivated, and to specific methods and nucleic acid sequences used in gene editing to inactivate the CD163 gene. Swine wherein both alleles of the CD163 gene are inactivated are resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSv).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Genus PLC
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Jonathan Edward Lightner, Matthew Scott Culbertson, William Thomas Christianson, Benjamin Beaton, Brian Burger, Dylan Barnes, Matthew Campbell
  • Publication number: 20220136374
    Abstract: A method and system for remediating the induced effects on the earth's wobble by the extensive relocation of mass on the earth's surface by the redistribution of mass on the earth's surface to offset induced earth axis wobble. Specifically relocating water to areas of the earth to correct or otherwise change the wobble of the earth's rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: William Thomas Carpenter
  • Patent number: 11318555
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating scan instructions for forming a product using additive layer manufacture as a series of layers is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: RELIANCE RG LIMITED
    Inventors: William Thomas Richardson, Andrew McClelland, Hoyle Phil, Laidler Ian
  • Publication number: 20220125191
    Abstract: A toothbrush apparatus and system and associated method. The apparatus includes a sensing module that performs at least one of the following: detect at least one time period associated with use of the toothbrush apparatus, detect one or more movements of the toothbrush apparatus, and any combination thereof. The apparatus's one or more processors communicatively coupled to the sensing module determine one or more measurements based on at least one of: the detected time periods, the detected movements, and any combination thereof, and store the determined measurements in one or more memory locations communicatively coupled to the processors. The apparatus also includes one or more feedback modules that receive the stored measurements and encode the measurements into corresponding feedback signals. One or more data transfer modules transmit the feedback signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: William Thomas MAY, Simon Enever, William M. Sakran
  • Patent number: 11315089
    Abstract: A device implementing a user configurable direct transfer system may include at least one processor configured to receive, from an electronic device associated with a user account, a request to establish a type of transfer between a first account associated with an entity and a second account associated with the user account, the request including an entity identifier and a transfer type identifier. The at least one processor may be further configured to generate a transfer alias that is stored in association with the entity identifier, a second account identifier, and the transfer type identifier, and provide the transfer alias to the electronic device and a server associated with the entity to facilitate the type of transfer between the first account associated with the entity and the second account associated with the user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew C. Byington, Yousuf H. Vaid, Jenna Yi, Christopher Sharp, Richard William Thomas Heard
  • Publication number: 20220113542
    Abstract: Electronic display devices include digital and analog control of pixel intensity. A digital pixel control circuit and an analog pixel control circuit are provided within each pixel. The digital pixel control circuit employs digital PWM techniques to control a number of subframes within each frame during which a driving current is supplied to a light emitting element within the pixel. The analog pixel control circuit controls the level of the driving current supplied to the light emitting element within the pixel during the frame. In one example, the digital pixel control circuit and the analog pixel control circuit may together control pixel intensity with the analog pixel control circuit providing additional in-pixel bits for increased color depth. Alternatively, the digital pixel control circuit may control pixel intensity and the analog pixel control circuit may control non-uniformity compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Ilias Pappas, William Thomas Blank, Ramakrishna Chilukuri, Michael Yee
  • Patent number: D950320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Quip NYC Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Candela, William Thomas May, Simon Enever, James Krause, Jonathan Fratti, Paul Koh
  • Patent number: D953075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith
  • Patent number: D953076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith
  • Patent number: D956107
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: William Thomas Phillips, Inc.
    Inventor: William Thomas Phillips
  • Patent number: D956454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith