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).
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Publication number: 20240182372Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: RTX CorporationInventors: Xuan Liu, James T. Beals, Xia Tang, Richard Wesley Jackson, III, William J. Joost
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Publication number: 20240135735Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Synthetik Applied Technologies, LLCInventors: Hayden Russell SATHER, William Michael ROSS, Eric Jordan SINGER, David Kenneth MEMKE, David Wesley WELCH
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Publication number: 20240110507Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Constantinos Minas, William Wesley Morton
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Publication number: 20240069860Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Daniel Lewis Spector, Fergus O'Donoghue, Chase Wesley Brown, JR., Shayne Leon Snow, Brandon Gerald Li Horst, William Folwell Barton
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Publication number: 20230375176Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Eyitayo James Owoeye, William Wesley Morton
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Patent number: 11770409Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20230047335Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventor: William Wesley Taylor
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Publication number: 20220217177Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: 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
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Patent number: 11346167Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, Sr.
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Publication number: 20210372210Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, SR.
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Patent number: 10637831Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NTREPID, LLCInventors: Lance M. Cottrell, William Wesley Cassis, Geoffrey Kendall Abbott, Jason Michael Mansfield
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Publication number: 20200085238Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Jeff Donald Drake, Nelson Tanquero, William Wesley Bornor, Irena J. McDowell, Jared Joseph Hatfield, Chad Michael Helms
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Patent number: 10550653Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, Sr.
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Publication number: 20180128068Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventor: William Wesley Carnes, SR.
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Patent number: 9303731Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: ZEROSHIFT TRANSMISSIONS LIMITEDInventors: William Wesley Martin, Richard Neil Quinn
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Publication number: 20150222600Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: Ntrepid CorporationInventors: Lance M. COTTRELL, William Wesley CASSIS, Geoffrey Kendall ABBOTT, Jason Michael Mansfield
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Publication number: 20150052197Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Jerome Burke, Sreenivas Tallapragada, Balakrishna Subramaniam, Kihwan Park, William Wesley Bornor
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Publication number: 20140326093Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: ZEROSHIFT TRANSMISSIONS LIMITEDInventors: William Wesley Martin, Richard Neil Quinn
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Publication number: 20140064038Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventor: William Wesley Duer, JR.
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Patent number: 8291784Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Zeroshift LimitedInventors: William Wesley Martin, Richard John Evan Thompson