Patents by Inventor Paul Keenan
Paul Keenan 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: 20240113974Abstract: Mobile management method, system and client. Method includes receiving a DNS query for a host name from an application on client; retrieving reputation data associated with host name from a local cache on client; and determining a policy based on host name and the reputation data. Based on determined policy for the host name, blocking attempted network flows to a host corresponding to host name to produce blocked attempted network flows. Method also includes sending attempted network flow metadata related to the blocked attempted network flows to a collector on client; transmitting the attempted network flow metadata from the collector to a VPN server pool via a VPN tunnel; and producing an anomaly report from the transmitted attempted network flow metadata. The anomaly report includes at least one of anomalies, cohorts, trends, location boundaries, detected network security issues, detected compromised clients and/or optimized network usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: MOBILE SONIC, INC.Inventors: Joseph T. SAVARESE, Steven HECKT, Michael E. BRYANT, Eric C. MCNEILL, Carter SMITH, Elizabeth KIHSLINGER, Thomas Gunther HELMS, Camilla KEENAN-KOCH, Joseph G. SOUZA, Paul HOOVER, S. Aaron STAVENS, Christian E. HOFSTAEDTER, Jonathan SCOTT, Erik OLSON, James Scott SIMPKINS, Stephen Gregory FALLIN, John Harvey HILLOCK, Eivind NAESS, Michael Lee SNYDER, David Michael MIRLY, Marius LEE, Glenn Patrick ARANAS, Norman C. HAMER, Tridib DUTTA, Andrew James HOOVER, Thomas A. SWEET, Mark ANACKER, An PHAN
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Patent number: 11408774Abstract: Disclosed is a sensing device for measuring the temperature of a container enclosing a fluid that is stationary or in motion, the sensing device comprising: a band for completely encircling and conforming to the outer surface of the container; a thermally conductive material disposed on a housing portion that abuts the surface of the container on one side when the device is mounted on the container and on a second side abuts the temperature sensor; a wireless communication means in communication with the sensor, wherein the wireless communication means transmits temperature data to a remote wireless device, thereby notifying a user when a temperature measurement falls above or below a target temperature or range thereof; and the band being made of elastomeric material so that when mounted on the container, or tightened therearound, the temperature sensor abuts snugly against the thermally conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Canchill, Inc.Inventor: Paul Keenan
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Patent number: 11002713Abstract: A liquid chromatography sample organizer includes a first chamber, a plurality of stacked sample organizer shelves mounted within the first chamber each individually configured to store a sample-vial carrier including a sample, and a shelf magnet affixed to a surface of each of the plurality of stacked sample organizer shelves. A portion of the first chamber is configured to be located adjacent to, and open to, a sample manager configured to inject liquid chromatography samples into a chromatographic flow stream. Disclosed further is a liquid chromatography system having the sample organizer, a sample drawer, and a method of transferring samples between a sample manager and the sample organizer.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: David A. Simpson, Joshua A. Burnett, Marc E. Lemelin, Paul Keenan, Peter Osswald
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Patent number: 10824174Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to manipulating pressure-related hysteresis in a pressurized flow system by setting the pressure of the system to a predetermined location in the hysteresis band to advantageously minimize an effect of the pressure related hysteresis on the pressure of the system or to advantageously benefit from the effects of the hysteresis on the pressure of the system.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: Joshua A. Shreve, Paul Keenan, Steven J. Ciavarini
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Publication number: 20200319035Abstract: Disclosed is a sensing device for measuring the temperature of a container enclosing a fluid that is stationary or in motion, the sensing device comprising: a band for completely encircling and conforming to the outer surface of the container; a thermally conductive material disposed on a housing portion that abuts the surface of the container on one side when the device is mounted on the container and on a second side abuts the temperature sensor; a wireless communication means in communication with the sensor, wherein the wireless communication means transmits temperature data to a remote wireless device, thereby notifying a user when a temperature measurement falls above or below a target temperature or range thereof; and the band being made of elastomeric material so that when mounted on the container, or tightened therearound, the temperature sensor abuts snugly against the thermally conductive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventor: Paul Keenan
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Patent number: 10788464Abstract: A heater assembly used in chromatography includes a thermally conductive base having a chamber extending fully through the base with an opening at a first side of the base and at a second side of the base, and a cavity with an opening at the second side of the base. A heater is disposed within the cavity in thermal communication with the base. A thermistor assembly, having a thermistor within a thermally conductive body is disposed within the chamber. The body has a head region with a planar surface. The planar surface of the head region is exposed at the opening of the chamber at the first side of the base for making thermally conductive contact therewith. The thermistor assembly is thermally isolated from the base.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua A. Shreve, Greg Kheyfets, Paul Keenan, Paul E. Linderson
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Patent number: 10774957Abstract: Described is a mobile phase fitting having reduced corrosion and erosion. The fitting includes a coupling body, compression screw, compression member and gasket. The coupling body has a threaded bore at one end, a tapered cavity, a narrow bore and a fluid channel. The compression screw has an axial bore to receive a tube and a threaded outer surface in engagement with the threaded bore of the coupling body. The compression member is disposed in the tapered cavity and has an axial opening to pass the tube and a tapered surface to engage a surface of the tapered cavity. The gasket is disposed in the narrow bore and has one surface in contact with the first internal surface and has a parallel surface to receive an end face of the tube. Mobile phase flows along a path that includes the tube, an opening in the gasket and the fluid channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan L. Belanger, Sylvain Cormier, Steven D. Trudeau, Paul Keenan, Daniel J. McCormick
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Patent number: 10545122Abstract: A fluidic block has a thermally conductive body with a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The body has a cutout portion formed therein between the first and second ends. The cutout portion partitions the body into a first region, a second region, and a thin region between the first and second regions. The cutout portion produces a thermal break between the first and second regions. The thermal break operates to guide a heat flow between the first and second regions through the thin region. A thermally conductive chromatography tube extends through the first, second, and thin regions from the first end to the second end of the body. The tube is in thermal communication with the body. A section of the tube may run in a transverse direction across the body in the thin region of the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Greg Kheyfets, Paul Keenan, Joshua A. Shreve
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Patent number: 10385995Abstract: Described is a coupling seal that includes a polymeric body having a bore extending from a first end to an internal sealing surface and a fluid channel extending from the internal sealing surface to a second end. The bore is configured to receive a tube having a fluid channel so that an endface of the tube engages the internal sealing surface. The second end of the polymeric body is configured to contact a sealing surface of a coupling body that has a fluid channel extending from the sealing surface. A fluidic seal occurs when the coupling seal is compressed between the endface and the sealing surface. A void between an outer surface of the polymeric body and an inner surface of the coupling body receives the deformation of the coupling seal while under compression to thereby prevent the fluid channel of the tube from being crushed or obstructed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Sylvain Cormier, Joshua A. Shreve, Joseph A. Luongo, Paul Keenan, Kenneth Plant
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Patent number: 10232287Abstract: An apparatus for use in a liquid chromatography system includes a chromatography port and a tubing assembly having a chromatography tube coupled at one end to the chromatography port. The end of the tube has an end face covered with a corrosion-resistant material, for example, gold. The corrosion-resistant nature of the material protects the end of the tube from corrosion or erosion, which improves the quality and reliability of a seal between the end face of the tube and a sealing surface of the port. Alternatively, or in addition to covering the end face of the tube with the corrosion-resistant material, a gasket covered with or made of the corrosion-resistant material can be disposed between the end face of the tube and the port. This gasket extends the reach of the tube to facilitate bottoming out the tube within the port.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Kurt D. Joudrey, Steven D. Trudeau, Paul Keenan, Joseph A. Luongo, Daniel J. McCormick, Eugene Berthiaume
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Patent number: 10184578Abstract: The invention generally provides a static back pressure regulator. In exemplary embodiments, the static back pressure regulator includes a seat that defines part of a fluid pathway, a poppet, a spring arranged to bias the poppet toward the seat to restrict fluid flow through the fluid pathway, and a calibration element configured to adjust a force applied to the poppet by the spring. The calibration element can include a through hole that forms part of the fluid pathway. The poppet can include a first guiding portion that extends into the through hole of the calibration element and inhibits tipping of the poppet relative to the seat.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua A. Shreve, Charles T. Murphy, Paul Keenan, Ryan M. Hill, Sylvain Cormier
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Publication number: 20180335170Abstract: Described is a mobile phase fitting having reduced corrosion and erosion. The fitting includes a coupling body, compression screw, compression member and gasket. The coupling body has a threaded bore at one end, a tapered cavity, a narrow bore and a fluid channel. The compression screw has an axial bore to receive a tube and a threaded outer surface in engagement with the threaded bore of the coupling body. The compression member is disposed in the tapered cavity and has an axial opening to pass the tube and a tapered surface to engage a surface of the tapered cavity. The gasket is disposed in the narrow bore and has one surface in contact with the first internal surface and has a parallel surface to receive an end face of the tube. Mobile phase flows along a path that includes the tube, an opening in the gasket and the fluid channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Jonathan L. Belanger, Sylvain Cormier, Steven D. Trudeau, Paul Keenan, Daniel J. McCormick
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Patent number: 10060560Abstract: Described is a mobile phase fitting having reduced corrosion and erosion. The fitting includes a coupling body, compression screw, compression member and gasket. The coupling body has a threaded bore at one end, a tapered cavity, a narrow bore and a fluid channel. The compression screw has an axial bore to receive a tube and a threaded outer surface in engagement with the threaded bore of the coupling body. The compression member is disposed in the tapered cavity and has an axial opening to pass the tube and a tapered surface to engage a surface of the tapered cavity. The gasket is disposed in the narrow bore and has one surface in contact with the first internal surface and has a parallel surface to receive an end face of the tube. Mobile phase flows along a path that includes the tube, an opening in the gasket and the fluid channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan L. Belanger, Sylvain Cormier, Steven D. Trudeau, Paul Keenan, Daniel J. McCormick
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Publication number: 20180231988Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to manipulating pressure-related hysteresis in a pressurized flow system by setting the pressure of the system to a predetermined location in the hysteresis band to advantageously minimize an effect of the pressure related hysteresis on the pressure of the system or to advantageously benefit from the effects of the hysteresis on the pressure of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Joshua A. Shreve, Paul Keenan, Steven J. Ciavarini
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Patent number: 9946268Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to manipulating pressure-related hysteresis in a pressurized flow system by setting the pressure of the system to a predetermined location in the hysteresis band to advantageously minimize an effect of the pressure related hysteresis on the pressure of the system or to advantageously benefit from the effects of the hysteresis on the pressure of the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua A. Shreve, Paul Keenan, Steven J. Ciavarini
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Publication number: 20180078875Abstract: A method for controlling fluid flowing through a chromatographic system includes determining a fluidic parameter related to density at a first fluidic location in the chromatographic system; and in response to the determined fluidic parameter, modifying a volumetric flow rate or a pressure at a second fluidic location in the chromatographic system to produce a selected mass flow rate of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Kurt D. Joudrey, Paul Keenan, Richard W. Andrews, Peyton C. Beals, Joshua A. Shreve
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Publication number: 20180045689Abstract: A heater assembly used in chromatography includes a thermally conductive base having a chamber extending fully through the base with an opening at a first side of the base and at a second side of the base, and a cavity with an opening at the second side of the base. A heater is disposed within the cavity in thermal communication with the base. A thermistor assembly, having a thermistor within a thermally conductive body is disposed within the chamber. The body has a head region with a planar surface. The planar surface of the head region is exposed at the opening of the chamber at the first side of the base for making thermally conductive contact therewith. The thermistor assembly is thermally isolated from the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Joshua A. SHREVE, Greg KHEYFETS, Paul KEENAN, Paul E. LINDERSON
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Publication number: 20180045691Abstract: A fluidic block has a thermally conductive body with a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The body has a cutout portion formed therein between the first and second ends. The cutout portion partitions the body into a first region, a second region, and a thin region between the first and second regions. The cutout portion produces a thermal break between the first and second regions. The thermal break operates to guide a heat flow between the first and second regions through the thin region. A thermally conductive chromatography tube extends through the first, second, and thin regions from the first end to the second end of the body. The tube is in thermal communication with the body. A section of the tube may run in a transverse direction across the body in the thin region of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Greg KHEYFETS, Paul KEENAN, Joshua A. SHREVE
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Patent number: 9618486Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to limiting a rate or pressurization in a reconfigurable pressurized flow system for which different system configurations can have different system volumes. In exemplary embodiments, the system can determine a limit for the rate of pressurization by configuring the system for a closed system rate of pressurization, measuring the closed system rate of pressurization at a set flow rate, and determining a relationship between the closed system rate of pressurization and the flow rate. The system can use the relationship to dynamically set the limit for different flow rates in the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: Joshua A. Shreve, Paul Keenan
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Patent number: 9546739Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to modular solenoid valve kits and associated methods, generally involving a valve body that includes a plurality of actuator section components and a plurality of head section components. The plurality of actuator section components includes a drive solenoid, a solenoid return spring, a stroke calibration collar and an actuator-to-head calibration collar. The plurality of head section components includes a needle, a stem return spring, a seal and a seat. The plurality of actuator section components and head section components are adapted to be interchanged to create a pull-through normally open valve, a pull-through normally closed valve, a push-in normally open valve and a push-in normally closed valve. That is, the kits and methods allow for modification of one valve type (e.g., a pull-through normally open valve, a pull-through normally closed valve, a push-in normally open valve and a push-in normally closed valve) into a different type.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: Joshua A. Shreve, Steven D. Trudeau, Paul Keenan