Patents by Inventor William Wesley

William Wesley 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: 20240182372
    Abstract: A method for coating a substrate includes spraying a combination of powders. The combination of powders includes: Hf0.5Si0.5O2; Zr0.5Si0.5O2; and, optionally, at least one of HfO2 and ZrO2. A molar ratio of said Hf0.5Si0.5O2 and HfO2 combined to said Zr0.5Si0.5O2 and ZrO2 combined is from 2:1 to 4:1. A molar ratio of said Hf0.5Si0.5O2 to said HfO2 is at least 1:3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Xuan Liu, James T. Beals, Xia Tang, Richard Wesley Jackson, III, William J. Joost
  • Publication number: 20240135735
    Abstract: A multispectral imaging device and system is provided. The multispectral imaging device includes a light emitting diode (LED) array including a plurality of LEDs configured to sequentially emit light towards a target object to be scanned, each of the LEDs being configured to emit a differing wavelength from one another; a scanning hood configured to house the LED array; a luminosity sensor configured to capture luminosity data of each light emitted by the plurality of LEDs and reflected from the target object; a printed circuit board (PCB) configured to provide electronic connections and mounting surfaces for the LED array and the luminosity sensor; a housing configured encase the PCB; and a trigger configured to initiate operation of the LED array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Synthetik Applied Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hayden Russell SATHER, William Michael ROSS, Eric Jordan SINGER, David Kenneth MEMKE, David Wesley WELCH
  • Publication number: 20240110507
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided defining an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction. The gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow order; a fan section including a fan rotatable by the turbomachine; a nacelle enclosing the fan; and an oil tank positioned within the nacelle, wherein the oil tank defines an effective length (LT) along the axial direction, a circumference span (CS) along the circumferential direction, and a radial height (?rT) along the radial direction, and wherein these parameters are related by a tank sizing factor (TSF) equal to the effective length (LT) times the circumference span (CS) divided by the radial height (?rT) squared LTĂ—CS/?rT2), wherein the tank sizing factor (TSF) is between 20 and 2200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Constantinos Minas, William Wesley Morton
  • Publication number: 20240069860
    Abstract: A voice-controlled question answering system that is capable of answering questions using both a knowledge base and a search engine. The knowledge base is used to answer questions when answers to those questions are contained in the knowledge base. If an answer using the knowledge base is unavailable, and if the question is suitable for answering using an unstructured search approach, the system may obtain an answer using a search engine. The search engine results may be processed to obtain an answer to the question suitable for output using a voice user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Lewis Spector, Fergus O'Donoghue, Chase Wesley Brown, JR., Shayne Leon Snow, Brandon Gerald Li Horst, William Folwell Barton
  • Publication number: 20230375176
    Abstract: A turbofan engine includes a fan, a core turbine engine having an exhaust section, and a hydrogen-exhaust gas heat exchanger in flow communication with the exhaust section and hydrogen flowing along a hydrogen supply line. The hydrogen-exhaust gas heat exchanger defines a load capacity factor determined by raising a product to a one-quarter power, the product being determined by multiplying a heat transfer surface area density associated with the hydrogen-exhaust gas heat exchanger by a process conductance parameter that relates characteristics of hydrogen, ambient air, and exhaust gas at takeoff, as well as a fan diameter of the fan and an overall pressure ratio of the turbofan engine. The load capacity factor is between 2.92 and 24 for the fan diameter being between 0.5 and 5 meters and the heat transfer surface area density being between 500 m2/m3 and 13,000 m2/m3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Eyitayo James Owoeye, William Wesley Morton
  • Patent number: 11770409
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for threat management. A set of features used by a machine learning model is collected by the computer system to determine a threat type for an access attempt when the access attempt is detected. A cluster is determined, by the machine learning model in the computer system, for the access attempt using the set of features, wherein the machine learning model implements clustering to determine the cluster for the access attempt, and wherein the cluster for the access attempt corresponds to the threat type for the access attempt. A set of actions is performed by the machine learning model in the computer system based on the threat type determined for the access attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Wesley Beaver, Oner Sufri, Kevin Potter, Shirley M. Han, Zachary Ryan, Kyle Greeley, ChunHui Y. Higgins, Omar Hammami, Gustavo Adolfo Arismendi Camero, Ryan West, Emilio Fiallos
  • Publication number: 20230047335
    Abstract: A restraining device used to train a swimmer to swim or used for low impact exercise or physical therapy by keeping the user stationary in a pool and allows the swimmer to switch between a face up and a face down position without stopping, and does not require a large amount of space to utilize nor does it require pool modifications for use, and is easy to use and move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: William Wesley Taylor
  • Publication number: 20220217177
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for threat management. A set of features used by a machine learning model is collected by the computer system to determine a threat type for an access attempt when the access attempt is detected. A cluster is determined, by the machine learning model in the computer system, for the access attempt using the set of features, wherein the machine learning model implements clustering to determine the cluster for the access attempt, and wherein the cluster for the access attempt corresponds to the threat type for the access attempt. A set of actions is performed by the machine learning model in the computer system based on the threat type determined for the access attempt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: William Wesley Beaver, Oner Sufri, Kevin Potter, Shirley M. Han, Zachary Ryan, Kyle Greeley, ChunHui Y. Higgins, Omar Hammami, Gustavo Adolfo Arismendi Camero, Ryan West, Emilio Fiallos
  • Patent number: 11346167
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for relieving pressure in a drillstring on a drilling rig. The system includes a remote switch which moves from a closed-valve position to an open-valve position. The system also includes a valve actuator which moves from a first valve actuator position to a second valve actuator position when the remote switch moves from the closed-valve position to the open-valve position. The system further includes a valve to route a drilling fluid from the drillstring to a flowline via a bleed-off line when the valve moves from a closed position to an open position as the valve actuator moves from the first valve actuator position to the second valve actuator position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20210372210
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for relieving pressure in a drillstring on a drilling rig. The system includes a remote switch which moves from a closed-valve position to an open-valve position. The system also includes a valve actuator which moves from a first valve actuator position to a second valve actuator position when the remote switch moves from the closed-valve position to the open-valve position. The system further includes a valve to route a drilling fluid from the drillstring to a flowline via a bleed-off line when the valve moves from a closed position to an open position as the valve actuator moves from the first valve actuator position to the second valve actuator position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, SR.
  • Patent number: 10637831
    Abstract: A method and apparatus can be configured to initiate a request for connection with a user device. The method can include connecting to the user device. The method can also include connecting to a target device using an identifier of the proxy device. The user device is connected to the target device via the proxy device. An identifier of the user device is hidden from the target device. The target device identifies the user device using the identifier of the proxy device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NTREPID, LLC
    Inventors: Lance M. Cottrell, William Wesley Cassis, Geoffrey Kendall Abbott, Jason Michael Mansfield
  • Publication number: 20200085238
    Abstract: A method of operating a cooking appliance in coordinated communication with, for example, a remote server and a user device, is provided. The method may include receiving a recipe selection signal of a predetermined recipe at the remote server, and transmitting a recipe information signal to the cooking appliance based on the predetermined recipe. The method may further include receiving an appliance confirmation signal from the cooking appliance in response to a discrete recipe action of the predetermined recipe being performed at the cooking appliance subsequent to receiving the recipe selection signal. The method may still further include transmitting a determined status signal to the user device based on the received appliance confirmation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jeff Donald Drake, Nelson Tanquero, William Wesley Bornor, Irena J. McDowell, Jared Joseph Hatfield, Chad Michael Helms
  • Patent number: 10550653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to air drilling and an apparatus, system and process for air storage for speeding up and making the air drilling process in a wellbore more efficient. The present air storage system is used to divert high pressurized air from the air compressors into an air storage tank for storage during drilling process of adding another piece of pipe to the well. In the present invention, the compressed air can be stored in the air storage system until the connection is made and the driller is ready to resume drilling. This high pressurized, large volume of stored air in the air storage system helps the compressors quickly build up enough air to resume the drilling process thus reducing the amount of drill downtime during the process of making a new pipe connection in a well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20180128068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to air drilling and an apparatus, system and process for air storage for speeding up and making the air drilling process in a wellbore more efficient. The present air storage system is used to divert high pressurized air from the air compressors into an air storage tank for storage during drilling process of adding another piece of pipe to the well. In the present invention, the compressed air can be stored in the air storage system until the connection is made and the driller is ready to resume drilling. This high pressurized, large volume of stored air in the air storage system helps the compressors quickly build up enough air to resume the drilling process thus reducing the amount of drill downtime during the process of making a new pipe connection in a well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, SR.
  • Patent number: 9303731
    Abstract: A transmission system including a first input shaft (1) that is arranged to receive drive directly from a drive source (80), and a second input shaft (3) that is arranged to receive drive from the drive source via a drive interruption means (86), such as a friction clutch device, a first gear element (15) rotatable relative to the first input shaft (1) and a selector assembly (29) for selectively locking the first gear element (15) for rotation with the first input shaft (1) from operational modes that include the following modes: lock the gear element for rotation with the first input shaft in forward and reverse torque directions, lock the gear element for rotation with the first input shaft in the forward torque direction and not lock in the reverse torque direction; and lock the gear element with rotation with the first input shaft in the reverse torque direction and not lock in the forward torque direction. A method of performing a power on down shift is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ZEROSHIFT TRANSMISSIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: William Wesley Martin, Richard Neil Quinn
  • Publication number: 20150222600
    Abstract: A method and apparatus can be configured to initiate a request for connection with a user device. The method can include connecting to the user device. The method can also include connecting to a target device using an identifier of the proxy device. The user device is connected to the target device via the proxy device. An identifier of the user device is hidden from the target device. The target device identifies the user device using the identifier of the proxy device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Ntrepid Corporation
    Inventors: Lance M. COTTRELL, William Wesley CASSIS, Geoffrey Kendall ABBOTT, Jason Michael Mansfield
  • Publication number: 20150052197
    Abstract: A method and system for operating an appliance are provided. An exemplary method includes providing a module with a meta-resource and associating the meta-resource of the module with a resource of the appliance. The exemplary method also includes utilizing the meta-resource of the module to operate the resource of the appliance. The meta-resource can supplement or enhance functionality of the appliance. An exemplary system includes an appliance having a resource and a module having a meta-resource. The meta-resource of the module is configured for utilizing the resource of the appliance in order to supplement functionality of the appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Jerome Burke, Sreenivas Tallapragada, Balakrishna Subramaniam, Kihwan Park, William Wesley Bornor
  • Publication number: 20140326093
    Abstract: A transmission system including a first input shaft (1) that is arranged to receive drive directly from a drive source (80), and a second input shaft (3) that is arranged to receive drive from the drive source via a drive interruption means (86), such as a friction clutch device, a first gear element (15) rotatable relative to the first input shaft (1) and a selector assembly (29) for selectively locking the first gear element (15) for rotation with the first input shaft (1) from operational modes that include the following modes: lock the gear element for rotation with the first input shaft in forward and reverse torque directions, lock the gear element for rotation with the first input shaft in the forward torque direction and not lock in the reverse torque direction; and lock the gear element with rotation with the first input shaft in the reverse torque direction and not lock in the forward torque direction. A method of performing a power on down shift is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: ZEROSHIFT TRANSMISSIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: William Wesley Martin, Richard Neil Quinn
  • Publication number: 20140064038
    Abstract: The present invention is a pillbox and alarm clock that includes a base pillbox, a removable clock outlet to receive a removable clock, a plurality of compartments that form the base pillbox, the removable clock outlet extends from one of the compartments to receive the removable clock and a plurality of trays that are stacked in each of the compartments. The pillbox and alarm clock additionally includes a pill cutter contained in one of the trays of the base pillbox and is utilized to cut one or more pills if desired, a safety lock placed on one of the compartments utilized for a specific day, a removable clock inlet that extends from the removable clock and a battery that provides electrical power to the removable clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventor: William Wesley Duer, JR.
  • Patent number: 8291784
    Abstract: A transmission system including first and second shafts (4, 2; 104, 102), a plurality of gear trains arranged to transfer drive between the first and second shafts, an instantaneous selector mechanism (46; 146), and at least one non-instantaneous selector mechanism (40, 44; 140, 144, 153, 157), wherein the instantaneous selector mechanism (46; 146) and the or each non-instantaneous selector mechanism (40, 44; 140, 144, 153, 157) are arranged to create torque paths between the first and second shafts (4, 2; 104, 102) via the gear trains, wherein each gear train is selectable when one other gear train is transmitting torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Zeroshift Limited
    Inventors: William Wesley Martin, Richard John Evan Thompson