Patents by Inventor James A. O'Brien

James A. O'Brien 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: 20240185566
    Abstract: A device captures a series of images over time in association with a gate, each image having a timestamp. The device determines, for a vehicle approaching the entry side, from a subset of images of the series of images featuring the vehicle, a first data set comprising a plurality of parameters that describe attributes of the vehicle by inputting the subset of images into a first machine learning model and a vehicle identifier of the vehicle by inputting images of the subset featuring a depiction of a license plate of the vehicle into a second machine learning model. The device stores the data set in association with one or more timestamps with the subset of images, determines a second data set for a second vehicle approaching the exit side, and responsive to determining that the first data set and the second data set match, instructs the gate to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Edwin Thomas, June Guo, Ji Sung Hwang, Anil Kumar Nayak, Todd Merle Shipway, Barry James O'Brien, Alexander David Israel
  • Publication number: 20240185569
    Abstract: A device captures a series of images over time in association with a gate, each image having a timestamp. The device determines, for a vehicle approaching the entry side, from a subset of images of the series of images featuring the vehicle, a first data set comprising a plurality of parameters that describe attributes of the vehicle by inputting the subset of images into a first machine learning model and a vehicle identifier of the vehicle by inputting images of the subset featuring a depiction of a license plate of the vehicle into a second machine learning model. The device stores the data set in association with one or more timestamps with the subset of images, determines a second data set for a second vehicle approaching the exit side, and responsive to determining that the first data set and the second data set match, instructs the gate to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Edwin Thomas, June Guo, Ji Sung Hwang, Anil Kumar Nayak, Todd Merle Shipway, Barry James O'Brien, Alexander David Israel
  • Patent number: 12003226
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator device with low thermal impedance has a substrate and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a back surface attached to a top surface of the substrate via a bonding oxide (BOX) layer. An interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the plate has interleaved fingers disposed on a diaphragm of the plate that is formed over a cavity in the substrate. The piezoelectric plate and the BOX layer are removed from a least a portion of the surface area of the substrate to provide lower thermal resistance between the IDT and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Greg Dyer, Chris O'Brien, Neal O. Fenzi, James R. Costa
  • Patent number: 11995340
    Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature information access system includes a read-disturb-based read temperature information management subsystem coupled to a plurality of storage devices that each include a read-disturb-based read temperature information Application Programming Interface (API). Each storage device generates and stores read-disturb-based read temperature information associated with that storage device, and when a read-disturb-based read temperature information command is received from the read-disturb-based read temperature information management subsystem that conforms to the read-disturb-based read temperature information API, the storage device receiving that read-disturb-based read temperature information command will execute it to perform at least one operation using the read-disturb-based read temperature information associated with and stored by that storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ali Aiouaz, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Leland W. Thompson, James Ulery
  • Publication number: 20240156504
    Abstract: An ablation system comprises: an ablation catheter and a console. The ablation catheter comprises: a shaft including a proximal end, a distal portion and a distal end; an ablation element configured to deliver energy to tissue; and a force maintenance assembly comprising a force maintenance element and configured to control and/or assess contact force between the ablation element and cardiac tissue. The console is configured to operably attach to the ablation catheter and comprises: an energy delivery assembly configured to provide energy to the ablation element. Methods of ablating tissue are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Derrick Ren-Yu CHOU, Marcus Frederick JULIAN, Steven Anthony YON, Randell L. WERNETH, Alexander HIGGINS, Ricardo ROMAN, Alexander J. ASCONEGUY, Christoph SCHARF, Dennis O'BRIEN, Rob Andre PESCAR, Ahmad FALAHATPISHEH, Tom ESBECK, Gerald M. STOBBS, III, Leo MARIAPPAN, Brandon Pratt Noheaikaika LEE, James Calvin ALLAN, Michael C. OLIVEIRA, Daniel WELSH, R. Maxwell FLAHERTY, J. Christopher FLAHERTY
  • Patent number: 11983431
    Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature time-based attenuation system includes a storage device that is coupled to a global read temperature identification subsystem. The storage device determines current read disturb information for data stored in a block in the storage device during a current time period, processes the current read disturb information and previous read disturb information that was determined during at least one previous time period that was prior to the current time period in order to generate a read temperature for the data stored in the block, generates a local logical storage element read temperature map that includes the read temperature, and provides the local logical storage element map to the global read temperature identification subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ali Aiouaz, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Leland W. Thompson, James Ulery
  • Patent number: 11962393
    Abstract: A system for network agnostic satellite communications includes an antenna configured to receive at least one antenna receive beam including multiple receive carriers multiplexed in at least one of frequency or time. The system further includes a signal processor configured to receive the multiple receive carriers and to extract data from at least one receive carrier of the multiple receive carriers. The system further includes an input device configured to receive at least one desirable communication parameter. The system further includes a control processor designed to determine actual parameters corresponding to the multiple receive carriers of the at least one antenna receive beam. The control processor is further designed to select an optimal receive carrier by comparing the at least one desirable communication parameter to the actual parameters. The control processor is further designed to establish a current communication link with the optimal receive carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SMITHS INTERCONNECT, INC.
    Inventors: David Popelka, James Wilkerson, Shawn O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11936358
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator device with low thermal impedance has a substrate and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a back surface attached to a top surface of the substrate via a bonding oxide (BOX) layer. An interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the plate has interleaved fingers disposed on the diaphragm. The piezoelectric plate and the BOX layer are removed from a least a portion of the surface area of the device to provide lower thermal resistance between the conductor pattern and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Greg Dyer, Chris O'Brien, Neal O. Fenzi, James R. Costa
  • Patent number: 11918263
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixed material bone screw. The bone screw comprises a distal end made of a biocompatible material and a proximal end made from a stronger material to resist stripping of the bone screw during its insertion or removal from a bone. In another embodiment, the mixed material bone screw is cannulated, wherein the bone screw has a bore forming a central channel connected to a plurality of sideward channels for delivering bone cement or other substances into the bone surrounding the bone screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen James O'Brien, Thomas Zink
  • Patent number: 11874086
    Abstract: A firearm accessory mounting system includes a mount for attachment to a firearm mounting structure such as a handguard. The firearm mounting structure includes a slot. The mount includes projections around an opening for a fastener. The projections may, for example, be a slotted recoil lug. The opening includes first and second regions having different slopes. The fastener has a head which, during tightening, initially engages the second region to deform the projections radially outward against an end of the slot in the firearm mounting structure. Continued tightening of the fastener causes the head to engage the first region of the opening to apply an axial clamping force on the mount against the firearm mounting structure. This results in securing forces both transverse and parallel to the rotational axis of the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BRAVO COMPANY MFG, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Stephen Kincel, Jeffrey James O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11875458
    Abstract: According to at least one embodiment, a method for generating a mesh deformation of a facial model includes: generating a first plurality of deformation maps by applying a first plurality of neural network-trained models; extracting a first plurality of vertex offsets based on the first plurality of deformation maps; and applying the first plurality of vertex offsets to a neutral mesh of the facial model to generate the mesh deformation of the facial model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DREAMWORKS ANIMATION LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Bailey, Dalton Omens, Paul DiLorenzo, James O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11775930
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a device and system for verifying the content of items in a bin within a materials handling facility. In some implementations, a bin content verification apparatus may pass by one or more bins and capture images of those bins. The images may be processed to determine whether the content included in the bins has changed since the last time images of the bins were captured. A determination may also be made as to whether a change to the bin content was expected and, if so, if the determined change corresponds with the expected change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Christopher Curlander, Jules Cook Graybill, Marshall Friend Tappen, Barry James O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11755779
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies for generating a bridge file linking a subject identifier (Subject ID) (or a tokenized subject identifier), used to anonymize a subject in a trial, to tokenized personal identification information (PII), used to de-identify other data for the subject, without revealing the link between the subject identifier (subject ID) and the personal identifying information (PII) for the subject. The bridge file can then be used to link trial data for the subject anonymized with a subject ID to other data for the subject de-identified with tokenized PII.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Datavant, Inc.
    Inventors: Serena Gupta, Samuel A. Roosz, Jason A. LaBonte, Vera Mucaj, James O'brien, Anjali Suresh
  • Patent number: 11725857
    Abstract: A system for a heat pump that allows the heat pump to work efficiently in extreme cold weathers. The system includes an evaporator influid communication with an expansion valve, the expansion valve can receive a liquid refrigerant from a condenser of the heat pump. The evaporator contains a pool of liquid refrigerant and an electric resistance heating source dipped in the pool of liquid refrigerant. The electric resistance heating source can heat the liquid refrigerant of the pool to generate vapors and thus maintaining a desired pressure within the heat pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: James O'Brien, Stanislaus Anthony Horvat
  • Publication number: 20230243557
    Abstract: A system for a heat pump that allows the heat pump to work efficiently in extreme cold weathers. The system includes an evaporator in fluid communication with an expansion valve, the expansion valve can receive a liquid refrigerant from a condenser of the heat pump. The evaporator contains a pool of liquid refrigerant and an electric resistance heating source dipped in the pool of liquid refrigerant. The electric resistance heating source can heat the liquid refrigerant of the pool to generate vapors and thus maintaining a desired pressure within the heat pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: James O'Brien, Stanislaus Anthony Horvat
  • Patent number: D994823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: BRAVO COMPANY MFG, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Stephen Kincel, Jeffrey James O'Brien
  • Patent number: D999542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group CO. LTD., Shanghai Geely Diran Automobile Design CO. LTD
    Inventors: Qiang Zhao, Alex James O'Brien, Jun Lu, Justin Maurice Francis Scully, Ning Huang, Guy Donovan Burgoyne, Peter Horbury
  • Patent number: D1017514
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group CO. LTD., Shanghai Geely Diran Automobile Design CO. LTD
    Inventors: Yangtao Wang, Alex James O'Brien, Jun Lu, Justin Maurice Francis Scully, Ning Huang, Guy Donovan Burgoyne, Peter Horbury
  • Patent number: D1023214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BRAVO COMPANY MFG, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Stephen Kincel, Jeffrey James O'Brien
  • Patent number: D1025273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BRAVO COMPANY MFG, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Stephen Kincel, Jeffrey James O'Brien