Patents by Inventor Sean M. Garner
Sean M. Garner 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: 11917030Abstract: A push notification distribution system centralizes the management and delivery of push notifications to applications executing on electronic devices. Registration requests to register applications for push notifications may be aggregated and sent as an aggregated registration request. The delivery priority of push notifications may be managed according to specified preferences. Upon receiving a push notification intended for an electronic device, a delivery priority of the push notification may be changed if an application identifier associated with the push notification is found on a list of application identifiers with designed delivery priorities.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huan He, Jonathon Sodos, Nicholas J. Circosta, Sean Geiger, Nelson M. Leduc, Cisto Cyriac, Matthew E. Shepherd, David A. Schaefgen, Elliot T. Garner, Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, Mursalin Akon, Robert D. Butler, Xudong Liu
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Patent number: 9428359Abstract: A method of redirecting a glass ribbon assembly from a first glass conveyance path to a second. The method includes conveying the glass ribbon assembly that includes a flexible glass substrate that has first and second surfaces that extend laterally between the edges, and first and second handling tabs affixed to the respective edges. The handling tabs extend above and below the flexible glass substrate and define a handling surface envelope. The method also includes supporting the glass ribbon assembly on the first and second handling tabs such that the flexible glass substrate is free to flex out of the handling surface envelope while remaining spaced apart from a primary roll member when the flexible glass substrate is directed around the primary roll member.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Sean M. Garner, Nikolay A. Panin
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Patent number: 9017759Abstract: A glass ribbon coated with a flexible material, the flexible coating forming a flexible web portion that extends from an edge of the glass ribbon at least one millimeter. The flexible web portion can be used to facilitate handling of the glass ribbon in a manufacturing process, and may include registration markings, or perforations, that further facilitate precise positioning of the ribbon.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Sean M. Garner, Gary E. Merz
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Publication number: 20130134202Abstract: A method of redirecting a glass ribbon assembly from a first glass conveyance path to a second. The method includes conveying the glass ribbon assembly that includes includes a flexible glass substrate that has first and second surfaces that extend laterally between the edges, and first and second handling tabs affixed to the respective edges. The handling tabs extend above and below the flexible glass substrate and define a handling surface envelope. The method also includes supporting the glass ribbon assembly on the first and second handling tabs such that the flexible glass substrate is free to flex out of the handling surface envelope while remaining spaced apart from a primary roll member when the flexible glass substrate is directed around the primary roll member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Inventors: Sean M. Garner, Nikolay A. Panin
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Patent number: 8397539Abstract: A non-contact dancer mechanism for conveying a web of brittle material includes a guide rail and a variable position web support plenum adjustably positioned on the guide rail. The variable position web support plenum may include an arcuate outer surface with a plurality of fluid vents for emitting a fluid to support the web of brittle material over and spaced apart from the arcuate outer surface thereby preventing mechanical contact and damage to the web of brittle material. A support plenum counterbalance may be mechanically coupled to the variable position web support plenum, wherein the support plenum counterbalance supports at least a portion of the weight of the variable position web support plenum on the guide rail. Apparatuses incorporating the non-contact dancer mechanism and methods for using the non-contact dancer mechanism for handling continuous webs of brittle material are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Chester H. H. Chang, Kevin A Cole, Sean M. Garner, Gary E. Merz, Richard H. Weachock
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Publication number: 20120258584Abstract: A glass ribbon coated with a flexible material, the flexible coating forming a flexible web portion that extends from an edge of the glass ribbon at least one millimeter. The flexible web portion can be used to facilitate handling of the glass ribbon in a manufacturing process, and may include registration markings, or perforations, that further facilitate precise positioning of the ribbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Sean M. Garner, Gary E. Merz
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Publication number: 20110198378Abstract: A non-contact dancer mechanism for conveying a web of brittle material includes a guide rail and a variable position web support plenum adjustably positioned on the guide rail. The variable position web support plenum may include an arcuate outer surface with a plurality of fluid vents for emitting a fluid to support the web of brittle material over and spaced apart from the arcuate outer surface thereby preventing mechanical contact and damage to the web of brittle material. A support plenum counterbalance may be mechanically coupled to the variable position web support plenum, wherein the support plenum counterbalance supports at least a portion of the weight of the variable position web support plenum on the guide rail. Apparatuses incorporating the non-contact dancer mechanism and methods for using the non-contact dancer mechanism for handling continuous webs of brittle material are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Chester H.H. Chang, Kevin A Cole, Sean M. Garner, Gary E. Merz, Richard H. Weachock
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Patent number: 7947213Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention the fuel cell device includes an electrolyte sheet. The electrolyte sheet has a substantially non-porous body of a varied thickness, a relatively smooth surface and a more textured surface with multiple indentations therein, wherein the thickest part of the electrolyte sheet is at least 0.5 micrometers greater than the thinnest part of said electrolyte sheet. The side of the electrolyte sheet with a relatively smooth surface is subjected to the predominately tensile force and the other, more textured surface subjected to predominately compressive force. According to one embodiment, the fuel cell also includes one cathode disposed on the more textured side of said electrolyte sheet at least at least one anode disposed opposite the cathode on the relatively smooth side of aid electrolyte sheet. According to one embodiment, the relatively smooth side of the electrolyte sheet is the fuel facing side and the more textured side is the air-facing side.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Michael E. Badding, Jacqueline L. Brown, Sean M. Garner, Thomas D. Ketcham, Dell J. St. Julien
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Publication number: 20110023548Abstract: A glass ribbon coated with a flexible material, the flexible coating forming a flexible web portion that extends from an edge of the glass ribbon at least one millimeter. The flexible web portion can be used to facilitate handling of the glass ribbon in a manufacturing process, and may include registration markings, or perforations, that further facilitate precise positioning of the ribbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Sean M. Garner, Gary E. Merz
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Patent number: 7531261Abstract: An electrolyte sheet comprises a body of a varied thickness. The electrolyte sheet has at least one non-porous surface. This non-porous surface is a textured surface with multiple indentations therein. The thickest part of the electrolyte sheet is at least 0.5 micrometers greater than the thinnest part of the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Michael E Badding, Jacqueline L Brown, Sean M Garner, Thomas D Ketcham, Dell J St Julien
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Patent number: 7410716Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention an electrolyte sheet includes a body of varied thickness, the electrolyte sheet having a textured surface with multiple protruding features. The protruding features form an undercut angle with respect to the normal of the electrolyte sheet, the undercut angle being more than 0 degrees and less than 15 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Sean M. Garner, Lanrik Kester, Jeffrey A. Miller
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Patent number: 7400797Abstract: A transverse closed-loop fiber resonator (10) includes an inner cladding (102) having a surface (300) peripherally forming a closed-loop shape for confining light to the surface (300). The inner cladding has a first diameter thickness (104) and a first index of refraction profile in a cross-sectional portion of the transverse closed-loop fiber resonator (10). A ringed-core (120) corresponding to the closed-loop shape is disposed on the corresponding surface of the inner cladding (102). The ringed-core (120) has a second thickness (124) of material thinner than the first diameter thickness (104), and a second index of refraction profile greater than the first index of the inner cladding by an index delta in the cross-sectional portion of the transverse closed-loop fiber resonator such that the ringed-core can guide light within the ringed-core traversely around the closed-loop shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2004Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Venkata A Bhagavatula, Sean M Garner, James S Sutherland
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Publication number: 20040265663Abstract: An electrolyte sheet comprises a body of a varied thickness. The electrolyte sheet has at least one non-porous surface. This non-porous surface is a textured surface with multiple indentations therein. The thickest part of the electrolyte sheet is at least 0.5 micrometers greater than the thinnest part of the sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Michael E. Badding, Jacqueline L. Brown, Sean M. Garner, Thomas D. Ketcham, Dell J. St. Julien
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Publication number: 20040265664Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention the fuel cell device includes an electrolyte sheet. The electrolyte sheet has a substantially non-porous body of a varied thickness, a relatively smooth surface and a more textured surface with multiple indentations therein, wherein the thickest part of the electrolyte sheet is at least 0.5 micrometers greater than the thinnest part of said electrolyte sheet. The side of the electrolyte sheet with a relatively smooth surface is subjected to the predominately tensile force and the other, more textured surface subjected to predominately compressive force. According to one embodiment, the fuel cell also includes one cathode disposed on the more textured side of said electrolyte sheet at least at least one anode disposed opposite the cathode on the relatively smooth side of aid electrolyte sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Michael E. Badding, Jacqueline L. Brown, Sean M. Garner, Thomas D. Ketcham, Dell J.St. Julien
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Patent number: 6816653Abstract: Articles and methods for manufacturing pigtailed planar optical devices are disclosed. The articles and methods include providing a tool including a substrate having a stepped region. The tool is capable of forming elements such as grippers or waveguides on a device substrate having different heights.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Alfredo D. Botet, Stephen J. Caracci, Adam J. Fusco, Sean M. Garner, Cheng-Chung Li, Daniel R. Sempolinski
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Publication number: 20040217702Abstract: A light emitting device (e.g., organic light emitting diode (OLED)) and a method for manufacturing the OLED are described herein. Basically, the OLED includes a substrate, a first conductive electrode, at least one organic layer, a second conductive electrode, an encapsulant substrate and a microstructure. The microstructure has internal refractive index variations or internal or surface physical variations that function to perturb the propagation of internal waveguide modes within the OLED and as a result allows more light to be emitted from the OLED. Several different embodiments of the microstructure that can be incorporated within an OLED are described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: November 4, 2004Inventors: Sean M. Garner, Venkata A. Bhagavatula, James S. Sutherland, MacRae Maxfield, Karl Beeson, Lawrence W. Shacklette, Peng Jiang, Han Zou
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Patent number: 6810195Abstract: Articles and methods for securing or aligning objects on substrates are disclosed. The articles and methods include a gripping element disposed on a substrate that includes a groove and flexible gripping elements. The articles and methods are particularly useful for securing optical fibers in arrays and manufacturing optical devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Cornining IncorporatedInventors: Venkata A. Bhagavatula, Sean M. Garner, James S. Sutherland
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Publication number: 20040190851Abstract: Articles and methods for forming two-dimensional arrays of optical elements are disclosed. The articles and methods include providing an alignment substrate having apertures having the inner periphery of the apertures filled with a flexible gripper to provide an opening sized to grip an optical fiber. The articles and methods are useful for making arrays of optical elements including optical fibers and manufacturing optical devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Sean M. Garner, James S. Sutherland
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Publication number: 20040165829Abstract: Articles and methods for manufacturing pigtailed planar optical devices are disclosed. The articles and methods include providing a tool including a substrate having a stepped region. The tool is capable of forming elements such as grippers or waveguides on a device substrate having different heights.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Inventors: Alfredo D. Botet, Stephen J. Caracci, Adam J. Fusco, Sean M. Garner, Cheng-Chung Li, Daniel R. Sempolinski
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Publication number: 20040120682Abstract: Articles and methods for securing or aligning objects on substrates are disclosed. The articles and methods include a gripping element disposed on a substrate that includes a groove and flexible gripping elements. The articles and methods are particularly useful for securing optical fibers in arrays and manufacturing optical devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Venkata A. Bhagavatula, Sean M. Garner, James S. Sutherland