Patents by Inventor Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy 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: 10407409
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the formula: which are useful as inhibitors of PHD, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, methods for treatment of conditions associated with HIF, processes for making the compounds and intermediates thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Jason W. Brown, Melinda Davis, Anthony Ivetac, Benjamin Jones, Andre A. Kiryanov, Jon Kuehler, Marion Lanier, Joanne Miura, Sean Murphy, Xiaolun Wang
  • Publication number: 20190261956
    Abstract: A computing system includes a memory configured to store instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive data relating to an image or a user, determine a feature from the data, identify a user preference from a user profile, obtain a model, and segment the image based on the feature, the user preference, and the model. The model is generated by determining a historical feature from historical data as an input, determining a desired output, obtaining a preliminary model based on the input and the desired output, determining an actual output of the preliminary model, determining error criteria between the actual output and the desired output, and generating the model by updating the preliminary model based on the error criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: EDAN INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Seshadri SRINIVASAN, Jianhua MO, Ed GARDNER, Feng LING, Sean MURPHY
  • Publication number: 20190230202
    Abstract: Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies that can be substantially flush with the external surfaces of the housings of the devices, despite variations in their manufacture. The ejectable component assemblies may include connectors coupled to circuit boards of the devices, and trays that can be loaded with removable modules, inserted through openings in the housings of the devices, and into the connectors for functionally aligning the removable modules with the circuit boards. The ejectable component assemblies may also include ejectors coupled to the housings of the devices for ejecting the trays from the connectors and, thus, from the devices themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Erik L. Wang, Robert Sean Murphy, Tang Yew Tan, Jeffrey Eugene Neaves, Lawrence E. Davis, Sung H. Kim
  • Publication number: 20190228371
    Abstract: A manipulator can includes a frame, a first deployable support element configured to extend or retract with respect to the frame when acted on by an actuator, a static support element fixedly connected with the frame and comprising a second set of retention elements, and any suitable number of additional deployable support elements. Each support element can further include a respective set of retention elements configured to retain an item. In use, a manipulator can be used to move items by identifying an item contact area of an item to be moved, selectively deploying or retracting the deployable support elements based on the item contact area, and then contacting and retaining the item with the retention elements of the selected support elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Sean Murphy, Mark Stankiewicz, Matthew Wilkie
  • Patent number: 10328470
    Abstract: A device and method of preparing metal blanks including applying a series of dimples in metal feed stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Welker Engineered Products
    Inventors: Timothy Thomas, Sean Murphy, Douglas Holt
  • Patent number: 10315852
    Abstract: A conveyor system includes a belt wound around a roller assembly along a belt axis. The belt is configured to convey objects along the roller assembly in a direction of conveyance. The belt includes a primary belt portion that is in contact with rollers of the roller assembly and defines the belt axis. The conveyor includes an actuator configured to cause the belt to selectively define at least one belt peak that protrudes from the primary belt portion at a peak height measured orthogonally from the belt axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alspaugh, Sean Murphy
  • Patent number: 10303209
    Abstract: An accessory device for use with an electronic device is disclosed. The accessory device may include a cover configured to overlay an electronic device (or device) or fold to form a support structure for the electronic device. The cover may include an attachment feature that electrically couples with the device, and a keyboard foldable with respect to the cover. Further, the keyboard may include a retention feature designed to receive the attachment feature in a folded configuration of the cover. The accessory device may further include an electrically conductive fabric that folds with the cover. The accessory device may include an array of magnets throughout the attachment feature, the cover, and the keyboard. The magnets may be used to magnetically couple together 1) segments of the cover, 2) the cover and the keyboard assembly, 3) and/or the device with the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Gilkison Smith, Daniel J. Coster, Sean S. Corbin, Melody L. Kuna, Siddhartha Hegde, Benjamin A. Cousins, Robert Sean Murphy
  • Patent number: 10277722
    Abstract: Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies that can be substantially flush with the external surfaces of the housings of the devices, despite variations in their manufacture. The ejectable component assemblies may include connectors coupled to circuit boards of the devices, and trays that can be loaded with removable modules, inserted through openings in the housings of the devices, and into the connectors for functionally aligning the removable modules with the circuit boards. The ejectable component assemblies may also include ejectors coupled to the housings of the devices for ejecting the trays from the connectors and, thus, from the devices themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Erik L. Wang, Robert Sean Murphy, Tang Yew Tan, Jeffrey Eugene Neaves, Lawrence E. Davis, Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20190079365
    Abstract: A non-light-emitting variable transmission device can include an active stack; a transparent conductive layer overlying the active stack; an antireflective layer overlying the transparent conductive layer and defining a hole; and a bus bar comprising a conductive tape that extends into the hole and contacts the transparent conductive layer. Proper selection of materials and design of a bus bar can allow an electrical connection to be made to the transparent conductive layer without the need to cut an underlying transparent conductive layer. A method of forming the non-light-emitting variable transmission device can include patterning the antireflective layer to define the hole that extends to the transparent conductive layer. Improved control in patterning allows the antireflective layer to be relatively thin and not remove too much of the underlying transparent conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Sebastian Marius SARRACH, Jean-Christophe GIRON, Pascal REUTLER, Sean MURPHY, Peter BOCEK
  • Patent number: 10172589
    Abstract: A method for displaying status information related to a portable device includes detecting a portion of a user in a detection zone using a proximity sensor, determining, using a control circuit, that the portable device is in a powered off or power saving state, acquiring, using the control circuit, information about the portable device while the portable device remains in the powered off or power saving state, and displaying, using a system status indicator controlled by the control circuit, a representation of the information about the portable device. The detection zone is defined in relation to a handle of the portable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: EDAN INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Henderson, Sean Murphy
  • Publication number: 20180360064
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for roasting coffee beans comprising the steps of a) heating the coffee beans by a heating rate between 20° C./minute and 40° C./minute until the temperature of the coffee beans is between 160° C. and 220° C., and b) heating the coffee beans by a heating rate between 1° C./min and 10° C./minute, said heating steps being performed in the same roasting chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: NECTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Kevan Elsby, Luigi Poisson, Frederic Mestdagh, Sean Murphy
  • Publication number: 20180362179
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for cooling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In some examples, a heat sink is coupled to a portion of the UAV that is to be cooled. One or more heat pipes are coupled to the shim, and extend to one or more propulsion engines of the UAV. Liquid in a heat pipe is heated to gaseous form at the heat sink, and the vapor travels to a portion of the heat pipe near the propulsion engine, where the vapor is cooled by air moved by the propulsion engine, upon which the vapor returns to liquid form and travels back to the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Joshua Finger, Sean Murphy
  • Patent number: 10154829
    Abstract: An ultrasound system includes a display, an actuator, a user interface, and a processing circuit. The actuator is configured to control at least one of a position or an orientation of the display. The user interface is configured to receive a user input. The processing circuit is configured to cause the actuator to adjust the at least one of the position or orientation of the display based on the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: EDAN INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Henderson, Sean Murphy
  • Publication number: 20180337010
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a cover for a portable device or other electronic equipment may have circuitry mounted in a housing. The housing may be formed from layers of material such as fabric and polymer layers. The circuitry of the electronic device may include components mounted on a printed circuit. The components may include movable components such as keys in a keyboard. A fabric layer may overlap the keys. Border regions of the fabric layer that surround each key may be characterized by a stiffness. To ensure that the keys or other movable components in the device exhibit satisfactory stiffness levels, the keys can be tested and selected border regions or other fabric layer portions may be laser ablated or otherwise processed to locally reduce fabric layer stiffness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Joel N. Ruscher, Christopher T. Lebedeff, Sean Murphy, Melody Kuna
  • Patent number: 10127654
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus comprises a memory configured to store medical image data representative of a tissue structure and a processing circuitry configured to operationally connect to the memory, extract regions from the medical image data by performing threshold processing of the medical image data using each of a plurality of threshold values, select regions meeting at least one predetermined condition from among the extracted regions, and determine a region representative of the tissue structure in the medical image data based on the selected regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Murphy, Keith Goatman, Ian Poole
  • Publication number: 20180196473
    Abstract: An accessory device for use with an electronic device is disclosed. The accessory device may include a cover configured to overlay an electronic device (or device) or fold to form a support structure for the electronic device. The cover may include an attachment feature that electrically couples with the device, and a keyboard foldable with respect to the cover. Further, the keyboard may include a retention feature designed to receive the attachment feature in a folded configuration of the cover. The accessory device may further include an electrically conductive fabric that folds with the cover. The accessory device may include an array of magnets throughout the attachment feature, the cover, and the keyboard. The magnets may be used to magnetically couple together 1) segments of the cover, 2) the cover and the keyboard assembly, 3) and/or the device with the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Samuel Gilkison SMITH, Daniel J. COSTER, Sean. S. CORBIN, Melody L. KUNA, Siddhartha HEGDE, Benjamin A. COUSINS, Robert Sean MURPHY
  • Patent number: 10019218
    Abstract: A portable computing device includes a user interface system including at least a first display and a second display, a memory storing a series of images, a user input device configured to receive an input from a user corresponding to changing a power state of the portable computing device, and a processing circuit coupled to the user interface system, the memory, and the user input device. The processing circuit is configured to receive the input from the user corresponding to changing the power state, determine based on the received input if the input satisfies a trigger condition, and in response to determining that the trigger condition is satisfied, display the series of images on the first display and the second display such that at least one image is displayed on the first display and the second display during a display sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: EDAN INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Henderson, Sean Murphy
  • Publication number: 20180191863
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for locating and navigating to the location of a requestor based on proximity between a requestor device and a provider device. For example, embodiments display proximity indicators to allow a provider to quickly, easily, and safely locate a requestor upon arrival near a request location. Further, in some embodiments, graphics associated with a proximity vector may be presented on a provider communication device to clearly display the navigation directions to the provider so that the provider may easily find their matched requestor without requiring additional communication between the provider and the requestor. Additionally, embodiments provide efficient navigation to riders by limiting display of proximity indicators for navigation until the provider is within a threshold distance to the request location to conserve system resources and communication between an on-demand matching system and the provider computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Taggart Matthiesen, Sergey Shlykovich, Ethan Eyler, Sebastian Brannstrom, Jesse McMillin, Sean Murphy
  • Patent number: D827139
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: EDAN INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Henderson, Sean Murphy
  • Patent number: D853564
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Edan Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Henderson, Sean Murphy