Patents by Inventor Michael Fogarty
Michael Fogarty 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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Patent number: 8113932Abstract: Methods and systems relating to virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments are provided. In one embodiment, a child deck may be created using one or more rules to resequence a parent virtual deck created from physical playing instruments, such as cards. In one embodiment, a player may be allowed to “cut” the deck of virtual playing instruments before a virtual deck is assigned to a game session. In another embodiment, a copy of the child (or parent) virtual deck is created before the child (or parent) virtual deck is transmitted for use in a game session, and a game may be electronically recreated using the copy of the virtual child deck to confirm the outcome of the game. Further aspects relate to allowing a player of a game to request a secondary audit of the game.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Gioia Systems, LLCInventors: Gene George Gioia, Andrew Nicholas Gioia, Brendan Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 8105168Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods relating to online gaming utilizing virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments. According to one aspect of the invention, physical playing instruments are utilized in a gaming environment that may be scrambled, shuffled, and/or played remotely over a network. In one embodiment, the physical playing instruments are traditional poker-style gaming playing cards. The playing instruments include at least one identifier that may be read upon being dealt, such as identified and stored on a computer-readable medium before a game. In one such embodiment, computer-executable instructions may utilize the information on the computer-readable medium in conjunction with one or more games. Further aspects relate to validating the playing instruments and/or systems before, during, and/or after conducting one or more games with the playing instruments.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Gioia Systems, LLCInventors: Gene George Gioia, Andrew Nicholas Gioia, Brendan Michael Fogarty
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Publication number: 20110080068Abstract: A laminated generator rotor structure and a related method for repairing a rotor using a laminated rotor structure are disclosed. In an embodiment, the rotor body includes a stack of laminated plates flanked by end flange members, and placed in compression by at least one stud member passing through the laminated stack and secured by at least one fastener.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Richard Nils Dawson, James Michael Fogarty, Blake Weldon Wilson
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Patent number: 7899580Abstract: A technique for controlling an irrigation system is disclosed. The technique comprises receiving landscape information, receiving environmental information, deriving an irrigation schedule based on the landscape information and the environmental information, and sending the irrigation schedule to an irrigation control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: ET Water Systems, Inc.Inventors: Bruce J. Cardinal, Gordon A. Stewart, Gregor A. Berkowitz, Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 7839048Abstract: A machine useful for ship propulsion purposes includes a ship propulsion motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a rotor with an inner rotor core and an outer rotor core; and a double-sided stator with an inner stator side and an outer stator side. The double-sided stator is concentrically disposed between the inner rotor core and the outer rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Patrick Lee Jansen, James Michael Fogarty, Ralph James Carl, Jr., James Patrick Francis Lyons, Ronghai Qu
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Patent number: 7830063Abstract: A machine useful for ship propulsion purposes include a double-sided generator or motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a double-sided rotor with an inner rotor side and an outer rotor side; and a stator with an inner stator core and an outer stator core, wherein the double-sided rotor is concentrically disposed between the inner stator core and the outer stator core.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Patrick Lee Jansen, James Michael Fogarty, Ralph James Carl, Jr., James Patrick Francis Lyons, Ronghai Qu
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Patent number: 7811068Abstract: A compressor assembly for use in transporting natural gas is provided. The assembly includes a natural gas compressor comprising at least one stage of compression, a permanent magnet-type super-synchronous motor coupled to the natural gas compressor for powering said compressor, and a housing, the compressor positioned within the housing, and the compressor configured to facilitate increasing a pressure of natural gas being transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Konrad Roman Weeber, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Yu Wang, James Michael Fogarty, Ralph James Carl, Jr., Charles Michael Stephens
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Patent number: 7766334Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods relating to online gaming utilizing virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments. According to one aspect of the invention, physical playing instruments are utilized in a gaming environment that may be scrambled, shuffled, and/or played remotely over a network. In one embodiment, the physical playing instruments are traditional poker-style gaming playing cards. The playing instruments include at least one identifier that may be read upon being dealt, such as identified and stored on a computer-readable medium before a game. In one such embodiment, computer-executable instructions may utilize the information on the computer-readable medium in conjunction with one or more games. Further aspects relate to validating the playing instruments and/or systems before, during, and/or after conducting one or more games with the playing instruments.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Gioia Systems, LLCInventors: Gene George Gioia, Andrew Nicholas Gioia, Brendan Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 7766331Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to fully automated systems and methods for shuffling and scrambling playing instruments, such as cards, before being dealt to one or more players. In one embodiment, a rotating device is utilized to scramble playing instruments. In yet a further embodiment, the rotating device is coupled with air, vacuum, or combinations thereof to further scramble the cards. The scrambling device may be coupled to an aligning device for realigning the playing instruments upon being adequately shuffled. According to another aspect of the invention, physical cards are utilized in a gaming environment that may be scrambled, shuffled, and/or played remotely over a network. In one embodiment, the physical cards are traditional poker-style gaming cards. The cards include at least one identifier that may be read upon the card being dealt. The identifier may contain information that is remotely communicated to a player.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Gioia Systems, LLCInventors: Gene George Gioia, Andrew Nicholas Gioia, Brendan Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 7768173Abstract: A stator for an electrical machine includes teeth assembled from a plurality of stacked laminations mounted on a cylindrical protective surface thereby forming a plurality of slots. The stator also includes an armature winding assembled within the teeth by inserting components of the armature winding into the plurality of stator slots from positions external to the teeth in a manner that facilitates mitigating potential for coil distortion. The armature winding includes a plurality of coils that each include an end winding. The stator further includes a segmented yoke inserted around the armature winding in a manner that facilitates mitigating a potential for disturbing the end winding of the coils. Independently assembling the stator components in this manner facilitates varying a thickness and/or the number of heat conducting laminations between the yoke and teeth that subsequently facilitates heat transfer from the armature winding to an outer pressure casing of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Blake Weldon Wilson, James Michael Fogarty, Emil Donald Jarczynski, John Russell Yagielski, Konrad Roman Weeber
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Publication number: 20100144445Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods relating to online gaming utilizing virtual playing instruments. The virtual playing instruments may be generated from physical playing instruments. In certain embodiments, the playing instruments include at least one identifier that may identified and stored on a computer-readable medium before and/or during a game. In one such embodiment, computer-executable instructions may utilize the information on the computer-readable medium in conjunction with one or more games. Further aspects relate to determining if a collection of virtual playing instruments is a duplicate of another collection of virtual playing instruments. Further aspects relate to validating the playing instruments and/or systems before, during, and/or after conducting one or more games with the playing instruments.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: GIOIA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Gene George Gioia, Andrew Nicholas Gioia, Brendan Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 7732966Abstract: A portable power system has a turbine engine generating mechanical energy. A homopolar electrical machine receives this energy. The homopolar electrical machine has a single stationary superconducting field coil configured to create a magnetic field. A homopolar rotor is configured to rotate within the magnetic field such that a rotating magnetic field is created in a stationary winding by interaction of the rotating permeance wave produced by the homopolar rotor and the magnetic field produced by the single stationary field coil. The homopolar electrical machine is configured as a generator and produces electrical power for the portable power system.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kirubaharan Sivasubramaniam, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, James William Bray, James Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 7709988Abstract: An electrical machine to facilitate transporting fluids through a pipeline is provided. The electrical machine includes a rotor assembly that further includes an array of magnets configured to generate a distributed magnetic field. The rotor assembly has corrosion-resistant features that facilitates mitigating deleterious effects to the rotor assembly while being exposed to aggressive and harsh fluids.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Charles Michael Stephens, James Michael Fogarty, Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, John Russell Yagielski, Konrad Roman Weeber
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Publication number: 20100010682Abstract: A technique for controlling an irrigation system is disclosed. The technique comprises receiving landscape information, receiving environmental information, deriving an irrigation schedule based on the landscape information and the environmental information, and sending the irrigation schedule to an irrigation control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: ET Water Systems, Inc.Inventors: Bruce J. Cardinal, Gordon A. Stewart, Gregor A. Berkowitz, Michael Fogarty
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Publication number: 20090309431Abstract: A stator for an electrical machine includes teeth assembled from a plurality of stacked laminations mounted on a cylindrical protective surface thereby forming a plurality of slots. The stator also includes an armature winding assembled within the teeth by inserting components of the armature winding into the plurality of stator slots from positions external to the teeth in a manner that facilitates mitigating potential for coil distortion. The armature winding includes a plurality of coils that each include an end winding. The stator further includes a segmented yoke inserted around the armature winding in a manner that facilitates mitigating a potential for disturbing the end winding of the coils. Independently assembling the stator components in this manner facilitates varying a thickness and/or the number of heat conducting laminations between the yoke and teeth that subsequently facilitates heat transfer from the armature winding to an outer pressure casing of the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Blake Weldon Wilson, James Michael Fogarty, Emil Donald Jarczynski, John Russell Yagielski, Konrad Roman Weeber
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Patent number: 7596429Abstract: A technique for controlling an irrigation system is disclosed. The technique comprises receiving landscape information, receiving environmental information, deriving an irrigation schedule based on the landscape information and the environmental information, and sending the irrigation schedule to an irrigation control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: ET Water Systems, Inc.Inventors: Bruce J. Cardinal, Gordon A. Stewart, Gregor A. Berkowitz, Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 7591728Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods relating to a physical gaming system that may host remote players. According to one embodiment of the invention, physical cards are utilized in a gaming environment that may be played remotely over a network. The cards include at least one identifier that may be read upon the card being dealt. The identifier may contain information that is remotely communicated to a player. In one embodiment, a video image of the card is shown to a player. The “cards” of the present invention are not limited to traditional playing cards, but rather may be of any shape and/or three-dimensional, such as circular balls.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Gioia Systems, LLCInventors: Gene George Gioia, Andrew Nicholas Gioia, Brendan Michael Fogarty
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Publication number: 20090227360Abstract: Methods and systems relating to virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments are provided. In one embodiment, a child deck may be created using one or more rules to resequence a parent virtual deck created from physical playing instruments, such as cards. In one embodiment, a player may be allowed to “cut” the deck of virtual playing instruments before a virtual deck is assigned to a game session. In another embodiment, a copy of the child (or parent) virtual deck is created before the child (or parent) virtual deck is transmitted for use in a game session, and a game may be electronically recreated using the copy of the virtual child deck to confirm the outcome of the game. Further aspects relate to allowing a player of a game to request a secondary audit of the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: Gioia Systems, LLCInventors: Gene George Gioia, Andrew Nicholas Gioia, Brendan Michael Fogarty
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Patent number: 7579724Abstract: A stator for an electrical machine includes teeth assembled from a plurality of stacked laminations mounted on a cylindrical protective surface thereby forming a plurality of slots. The stator also includes an armature winding assembled within the teeth by inserting components of the armature winding into the plurality of stator slots from positions external to the teeth in a manner that facilitates mitigating potential for coil distortion. The armature winding includes a plurality of coils that each include an end winding. The stator further includes a segmented yoke inserted around the armature winding in a manner that facilitates mitigating a potential for disturbing the end winding of the coils. Independently assembling the stator components in this manner facilitates varying a thickness and/or the number of heat conducting laminations between the yoke and teeth that subsequently facilitates heat transfer from the armature winding to an outer pressure casing of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Blake Weldon Wilson, James Michael Fogarty, Emil Donald Jarczynski, John Russell Yagielski, Konrad Roman Weeber
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Publication number: 20090187448Abstract: Today, the average Emergency Alert Vendor is limited by their business model and infrastructure capabilities. This market is built around vendors who build capacity for delivery and whose business model is built on recouping their capital investment through charging customers for transactions on their platforms. This model works for consistent monthly recurring revenue but breaks down for large scale emergency users who need a large amount of capacity for a short period of time. The customer base is not willing to pay a high Capital investment for infrastructure that they will use on demand and the vendors are not willing to make an investment in capacity that they may never be able to recoup their investment on. Alerts Realtime's business model is focused directly at addressing this business model problem. We have created a platform which leverages many vendors' capital investments and creates one pool of capacity that we manage in Realtime.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Joseph John Melfi, Gary Kofman, Michael Fogarty