Patents by Inventor Wilson Or

Wilson Or 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).

  • Smart Blinds PCB Test Apparatus
    Publication number: 20180292451
    Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) test apparatus and testing method are described. The PCB test apparatus includes a motor connected to a gearbox that includes a gear that is directly connected to an output shaft. The test apparatus includes two printed circuit board connections for testing an electric-component connector that includes two circuit boards. One connection port includes a plurality of contact pins for attaching one of the PCBs while the other connector port is part of a position encoder that includes a diametrically magnetized magnet that tests the other PCB's ability to detect changes in magnetic fields. The apparatus is configured such that both PCBs of the electric-component connector are tested in tandem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Emily Brimhall, Austin Carlson, Mark Madsen, Lloyd J. Wilson
  • MICROSTRIP ANTENNA-BASED LOGGING TOOL AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20180292558
    Abstract: A dielectric logging tool for use in a borehole that penetrates a subsurface formation, includes: at least one wall-contacting face with one or more embedded microstrip antennas including a transmit antenna; an oscillator that supplies a transmit signal; a coherent receiver that measures the one or more scattering coefficients; and a processor that derives a formation property from the one or more scattering coefficients. The tool may be conveyed along a borehole, with the scattering coefficients and derived formation property values associated with tool position and orientation to provide a permittivity log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Andrew Wilson, Luis Emilio San Martin, Li Pan, Burkay Donderici
  • VOLTAGE MONITOR SELF TESTING
    Publication number: 20180292504
    Abstract: A voltage monitor system includes a voltage rail. A voltage monitor is operatively connected to the voltage rail to monitor voltage of the voltage rail with at least one input connection. A self-test module is operatively connected to the voltage rail to perturb voltage at the at least one input connection of the voltage monitor for testing the voltage monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Michael A. Wilson, Harold J. Reyes
  • COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING FLUORINE SUBSTITUTED OLEFINS AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING SAME
    Publication number: 20180291248
    Abstract: Disclosed are the use of fluorine substituted olefins, including tetra- and penta-fluoropropenes, in a variety of applications, including in methods of depositing catalyst on a solid support, methods of sterilizing articles, cleaning methods and compositions, methods of applying medicaments, fire extinguishing/suppression compositions and methods, flavor formulations, fragrance formulations and inflating agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Rajiv R. Singh, Hang T. Pham, David P. Wilson, Raymond H. Thomas
  • BIMETALLIC PISTON PIN
    Publication number: 20180292006
    Abstract: A bimetallic piston pin for a vehicle engine includes a tubular steel alloy shell, a first core member, a second core member and a middle core member. The tubular steel alloy shell includes a first end, a second end and a middle region. The tubular steel alloy shell also includes an interior surface and an exterior surface. The first core member may be disposed within the tubular steel alloy shell at the first end and the second core member may also disposed within the tubular steel alloy shell at the second end. The middle core member may be disposed within the tubular steel alloy shell between the first core member and the second core member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Huaxin Li, Glenn E. Clever, Daniel J. Wilson
  • BEAM SWITCHING AND RECOVERY
    Publication number: 20180294937
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of beam switching are presented. A beam switch message (BSM) is transmitted to a second device via a first beam set. The BSM includes a command to switch from communication via the first beam set to communication via a second beam set at a switch time. It is determined whether a response message is received from the second device via the first beam set, the response message indicating that the second device received the BSM. A communication is sent to the second device via the second beam set after the switch time when the response message is unreceived.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Sumeeth NAGARAJA, Tao LUO, Ajay GUPTA, Makesh Pravin JOHN WILSON, Kaushik CHAKRABORTY, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Vinod Viswanatha MENON
  • DISTAL ANCHOR APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MITRAL VALVE REPAIR
    Publication number: 20180289480
    Abstract: Described herein are devices and methods for mitral valve repair. The devices and methods implant a plurality of distal anchors at an annulus of the mitral valve (e.g., the posterior annulus) and tension artificial chordae to pull the portion of the annulus toward an opposite edge and inward into the ventricle. This can effectively reduce the size of the orifice and increase coaptation. The anchor points of the artificial chordae can be offset from the apex of the heart to achieve a targeted force vector on the annulus. In addition, some embodiments include distal anchors implanted in the posterior leaflet in addition to those at the posterior annulus. This allows differential tensioning to be applied to provide for greater flexibility in treating various configurations of mitral valves to improve coaptation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Nicholas D'ambra, Felino V. Cortez, JR., James S. Gammie, Peter Wilson, Stephen Epstein, Stephen Cournane, Julie Marie Etheridge, Peter Boyd
  • Rate matching of data transmission in control resource region
    Patent number: 10098144
    Abstract: A control resource region of an New Radio system slot structure may be separated into control resource sets, only some of which may be used for control transmissions. Aspects presented herein improve the efficient utilization of resources by enabling data transmission in resources of the DL control resource region and/or the UL control resource region. A UE receives an indication of a control resource set in a control resource region of a slot that may provide a control channel resource or a data channel resource and performs rate matching for data transmissions in the data channel based at least in part on the indication. The indication may be a semi-static indication, e.g., RRC signaling, of the control resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo, Taesang Yoo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Heechoon Lee, June Namgoong, Bilal Sadiq, Wenjun Li
  • Control unit for a medical device
    Patent number: 10092250
    Abstract: A control unit for a medical device wherein the control unit includes a pump, a conduit and control means for controlling the flow of fluid from the pump through the conduit; and wherein the conduit is a rigid internal passage located in the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SWELLING SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Estcourt Tucker, Troy A. Baker, Graham Peter Wilson, Patrick Gerrard Linnane, Ian Stewart Tabron, Wayne Lee Bonnefin, Stefan Loof, Thomas Bergens
  • Method and system for controlling functionality of lighting devices from a portable electronic device
    Patent number: 10098201
    Abstract: A system for controlling lighting devices at one or more light-enabled facilities includes a portable electronic device with an app that communicates with a gateway controller at each facility, and/or a remote server. The portable electronic device pairs with a gateway controller upon arrival at the facility. The portable electronic device may receive available scenes from the gateway controller upon arrival, or from the remote server before arrival, and it may select scenes for the gateway controller to implement. Each scene will adjust various hardware settings of the lighting devices to alter the optical characteristics of emitted light at various times. The system also may use geolocation data to identify and schedule lighting services at various light-enabled facilities in a geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Cooper Lighting, LLC
    Inventors: Brian M. Wilson, Joseph R. Casper, Christopher D. Nolan
  • Illumination device for direct-indirect illumination
    Patent number: 10094969
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements (LEEs); a light guide extending in a forward direction from a first end to a second end to receive at the first end light emitted by the LEEs and to guide the received light to the second end; an optical extractor optically coupled to the second end to receive the guided light, the optical extractor including a redirecting surface to reflect a first portion of the guided light, the reflected light being output by the optical extractor in a backward angular range, and the redirecting surface having one or more transmissive portions to transmit a second portion of the guided light in the forward direction; and one or more optical elements optically coupled to the transmissive portions, the optical elements to modify the light transmitted through the transmissive portions and to output the modified light in a forward angular range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventors: Allan Brent York, Hans Peter Stormberg, Louis Lerman, Ferdinand Schinagl, Wilson Dau
  • Generating graphical depictions of data sets based on mapping paths of graphical objects to data properties
    Patent number: 10096139
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve generating graphical depictions of data sets based on mapping paths of graphical objects to data properties. In one example, a graphics editing application displays a graphical interface for mapping a vector-based graphic to a data set. The vector-based graphic includes graphical objects defined by connected paths. The graphical interface receives input specifying modifications to visual properties of different graphical objects. For graphical objects mapped to data properties in the data set, the graphics editing application applies constraints to visual property modifications, where the constraints are based on mappings to the data properties in the data set. For graphical objects without mappings to data properties, the graphics editing application applies visual property modifications without these constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhicheng Liu, Alan Grant Wilson
  • Devices for retrieving an obstruction in a bodily duct of a patient
    Patent number: 10092309
    Abstract: A device for capturing and removing an obstruction in a bodily duct of a patient. The device includes a cylindrical body having a circumference and a longitudinal axis. According to some implementations the cylindrical body is comprised of a plurality of closed cell structures arranged in diagonal rows around the longitudinal axis. At least some of closed cell structures have substantially the same shape and size. According to some implementations at least some of the closed cell structures of substantially the same shape and size occupy a same circumferential location in the cylindrical body and are longitudinally separated from one another by no less than two, three, four or more diagonal rows of closed cell structures. According to other implementations the closed cell structures include diagonally extending struts having at least a curve portion and a straight portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Highway 1 Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Vera Shinsky, Scott D. Wilson
  • Multi-deck automatic card shuffler configured to shuffle cards for a casino table game card game such as baccarat
    Patent number: 10092820
    Abstract: An automatic card shuffler to shuffle eight decks of cards (or less) and deal a round of Baccarat. The automatic shuffler comprises two pre-shuffle bins, each receiving approximately four decks of cards wherein the pre-shuffle bins are spaced apart from one another with card slides directing to a card-receiving area. Cards are randomly selected from the cards in each of the pre-shuffle bins and propelled onto the card slides directing the cards to the card-receiving area. Once a sufficient number of buffer cards (e.g., seven) have been deposited into the card-receiving area, a card flipper moves the seven cards against a face plate of an integral dealing shoe. A buffer-holder member maintains the buffer cards against the face plate for dealing as the card flipper returns to a home position to receive more shuffled cards while buffer cards are being dealt in a round of Baccarat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Shark Trap Gaming & Security Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Earnest Riordan, Louis Wilson DeGregorio, Dino Louis DeGregorio, Steven Louis Forte, Westley Thomas Davis, Zachary Joesph Cook, Joseph William Riesen, Brendan John O'Toole
  • Expanding or contracting fishing lure
    Patent number: 10091976
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to fishing lures, and more specifically, to an expanding or contracting fishing lure that provides a natural movement that mimics live bait. The fishing lure is configured so that when the fishing lure is retrieved (e.g., reeled in) or jigged by an angler, or the fishing line is pulled or twitched, the fishing lure transitions from a first position to a second position and then returns to the first position. The purpose of the invention is to provide a fishing lure that will successfully attract fish by displaying a unique action in the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Joe Wilson Designs, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Wayne Wilson
  • Variable width PCIe interface
    Patent number: 10095280
    Abstract: A chassis includes a midplane defining a plurality of expansion sockets on one side and one or more motherboard sockets on the other. A modular motherboard is removably inserted in the chassis and engages the one or more motherboard sockets. An expansion card may engage with one or more of the motherboard sockets simultaneously. The expansion sockets are arranged in a coplanar and collinear manner to enable a planar expansion card to simultaneously insert within multiple expansion sockets. The motherboard allocates lanes to the expansion card in response to detecting a number of sockets occupied by the expansion card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Raleigh Bettiga, Colin Wilson, Wayde Jaskela
  • Photothermal spectroscopy assay readers, and related assay kits and methods
    Patent number: 10094823
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a photothermal spectroscopy assay reader including a light source configured to emit light in the red range of the light spectrum. Methods of operating such photothermal spectroscopy assay readers are also disclosed. Assay kits including a lateral flow assay and a photothermal spectroscopy assay reader configured to read the photothermal spectroscopy assay reader are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOKITAE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew P. Horning, Kevin Paul Flood Nichols, Benjamin K. Wilson
  • Drive system for aircraft landing gear
    Patent number: 10093413
    Abstract: A drive system for rotating a wheel of an aircraft landing gear is disclosed including a motor operable to rotate a drive pinion via a drive path; and a driven gear adapted to be attached to the wheel so as to be capable of rotating the wheel. The drive system has a drive configuration in which the drive pinion is capable of meshing with the driven gear to permit the motor to drive the driven gear via the drive path. The drive path includes a first compensating gear mounted on a common drive shaft with the drive pinion so as to be capable of rotating in tandem with the drive pinion, and a second compensating gear which is meshed with the first compensating gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Arnaud Didey, Fraser Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D830377
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Woo-Ram Lee, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Handle for shopping cart
    Patent number: D830661
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: AMSA, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Jensen, Wilson Zeng, Ivor Michel Walter