Patents by Inventor Gerard Cronin

Gerard Cronin 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).

  • Patent number: 11668572
    Abstract: A method for generating paths in a building space, the method including retrieving, by a processing circuit, a heatmap for the building space, generating, by the processing circuit, a plurality of vectors, the vectors defined by a first grid location and a second grid location of a plurality of grid locations, determining, by the processing circuit, a subset of vectors from the plurality of vectors based on a proximity of the plurality of vectors to a selected vector in the plurality of vectors, and combining, by the processing circuit, the subset of vectors to generate a merge location, wherein the merge location is used to adjust at least one of the first grid location or second grid location of at least one vector in the subset of vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Joseph McEvoy, Matthew Breed Myung-Sun Scott, Michael Gerard Cronin
  • Patent number: 11420073
    Abstract: A method of treating eyelid laxity in a subject comprising exposing a tarsal plate of an eye, and applying to at least part of the exposed tarsal plate a photosensitizer that initiates crosslinking in response to photo-activating radiation; and irradiating the exposed tarsal plate with photo-activating radiation to initiate crosslinking in the tarsal plate tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Queensland Eye Institute Foundation
    Inventors: Tai Mountford Smith, Brendan Gerard Cronin, Shuko Suzuki, Traian Vasile Chirila
  • Publication number: 20210278219
    Abstract: A method for generating paths in a building space, the method including retrieving, by a processing circuit, a heatmap for the building space, generating, by the processing circuit, a plurality of vectors, the vectors defined by a first grid location and a second grid location of a plurality of grid locations, determining, by the processing circuit, a subset of vectors from the plurality of vectors based on a proximity of the plurality of vectors to a selected vector in the plurality of vectors, and combining, by the processing circuit, the subset of vectors to generate a merge location, wherein the merge location is used to adjust at least one of the first grid location or second grid location of at least one vector in the subset of vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Joseph McEvoy, Matthew Breed Myung-Sun Scott, Michael Gerard Cronin
  • Publication number: 20210023388
    Abstract: A method of treating eyelid laxity in a subject comprising exposing a tarsal plate of an eye, and applying to at least part of the exposed tarsal plate a photosensitizer that initiates crosslinking in response to photo-activating radiation; and irradiating the exposed tarsal plate with photo-activating radiation to initiate crosslinking in the tarsal plate tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Tai Mountford SMITH, Brendan Gerard CRONIN, Shuko SUZUKI, Traian Vasile CHIRILA
  • Publication number: 20180236261
    Abstract: A method of treating eyelid laxity in a subject comprising exposing a tarsal plate of an eye, and applying to at least part of the exposed tarsal plate a photosensitizer that initiates crosslinking in response to photo-activating radiation; and irradiating the exposed tarsal plate with photo-activating radiation to initiate crosslinking in the tarsal plate tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Tai Mountford SMITH, Brendan Gerard CRONIN, Shuko SUZUKI, Traian Vasile CHIRILA
  • Patent number: 6113360
    Abstract: A gerotor pump includes a pressure relief return flow guide system, composed of two distinct structures, a pressure relief port, and a flow guide. The pressure relief port separates the pressure relief flow and inlet flow, preventing them from mixing and causing turbulence in the inlet cavities. The flow guide is located at the end of the pressure relief port and the inlet to make the two flows smoothly merge in the inlet cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Dequan Yu, Gerard Cronin, Ronald Engel
  • Patent number: 5995589
    Abstract: A telephony device is disclosed having a base station connectable to a switched network. At least two mobile units are connectable to the switched network through the base station to receive incoming calls in a normal mode. The first mobile unit is operable in a monitor mode, where ringing thereof is prevented when incoming calls are received in the monitor mode. A microphone of the monitoring unit has a higher gain in the monitor mode than in the normal mode. In the monitor mode, transmission of sound signals to monitoring unit is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard Cronin, Christophe Lorieau, Remy De Crouy-Chanel
  • Patent number: 5733111
    Abstract: A gerotor pump includes a pair of relief ports superimposed on and directly communicating with the pump's inlet and outlet channels, respectively. The relief ports simultaneously communicate with an open mesh pumping chamber so as to provide an intermittent controlled leak from the open mesh pumping chamber. Upon rotation of the gear members of the gerotor pump when the volume in the open mesh pumping chamber is increasing to a maximum volume, fluid in the open mesh pumping chamber vents into the relief port superimposed on and communicating with the outlet channel while continuing to communicate with the relief port superimposed on and communicating with the inlet channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dequan Yu, Gerard Cronin, Ronald Engel