Patents by Inventor Breanndan O'Conchuir

Breanndan O'Conchuir 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: 11980841
    Abstract: A gas capture system is configured to purify gas streams. The gas capture system includes a first capture system including a plurality of first chambers interconnected by a first path. Each first chamber includes a first adsorbent. The gas capture system further includes a second capture system including a plurality of second chambers interconnected by a second path. Each second chamber includes a second adsorbent. The gas capture system further includes a third path connecting each first chamber to the second path such that a first output of the first capture system is input into the second capture system. The gas capture system further includes a fourth path connecting each second chamber to the first path such that a second output of the second capture system is input into the first capture system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Binquan Luan, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira, Breanndan O'Conchuir, Fausto Martelli, Ronaldo Giro, Mathias B. Steiner, Bruce Gordon Elmegreen, Tonia Elengikal, Anshul Gupta
  • Publication number: 20230356139
    Abstract: A gas capture system is configured to purify gas streams. The gas capture system includes a first capture system including a plurality of first chambers interconnected by a first path. Each first chamber includes a first adsorbent. The gas capture system further includes a second capture system including a plurality of second chambers interconnected by a second path. Each second chamber includes a second adsorbent. The gas capture system further includes a third path connecting each first chamber to the second path such that a first output of the first capture system is input into the second capture system. The gas capture system further includes a fourth path connecting each second chamber to the first path such that a second output of the second capture system is input into the first capture system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Binquan Luan, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira, BREANNDAN O'CONCHUIR, Fausto Martelli, Ronaldo Giro, Mathias B. Steiner, Bruce Gordon ELMEGREEN, Tonia Elengikal, Anshul Gupta
  • Publication number: 20230258601
    Abstract: A tool for analysis of sound wave propagation in an aquatic medium. The tool generates a model representing the aquatic medium as a three-dimensional (3D) Gaussian random field, the 3D Gaussian random field being described by one or more correlation functions. The tool determines a propagation trajectory of a sound wave in the aquatic medium based on the 3D Gaussian random field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: MALGORZATA JADWIGA ZIMON, JAMES MCDONAGH, BREANNDAN O'CONCHUIR
  • Publication number: 20230069677
    Abstract: A method and a system are provided for capturing particle emissions from a tire of a vehicle. The system includes a triboelectric generator configured to generate an electric current. The system includes a capture surface configured to have an electric field. The system includes a first electrical connecting line connecting the triboelectric generator to the capture surface. The first electrical connecting line is configured to pass to the capture surface the electric current generated via the triboelectric generator. The passed electric current is used by the capture surface to generate the electric field. The system includes a set of filters attached to the capture surface. A computer program product is also provided which may cause a computer system to adjust a supplementary power flow to the capture surface based on a control signal that is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: JAMES MCDONAGH, MALGORZATA JADWIGA ZIMON, BREANNDAN O'CONCHUIR
  • Publication number: 20230043363
    Abstract: A material screening process of generating input features for each material of a subset of materials to be screened, generating target properties for each material of the subset of materials, inputting screening conditions, the input features, and the target properties into a material screening artificial intelligence model and training the material screening artificial intelligence model based on the inputs. Once the model is trained, inputting a dataset of materials to be screened into the trained material screening artificial intelligence model, the dataset of materials includes the subset of materials used to train the model, screening the dataset of materials on the trained material screening artificial intelligence model using the screening conditions and ranking the materials of the dataset based on predicted target properties obtained from the screening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira, Fausto Martelli, BREANNDAN O'CONCHUIR, Tonia Elengikal, Binquan Luan, Ronaldo Giro, Mathias B. Steiner, Anshul Gupta
  • Publication number: 20230020787
    Abstract: A system may include a chamber with a main sub-chamber and a first porous membrane separating a first sub-chamber from the main sub-chamber. The system may include a fluid in the chamber and an input directing inflow into main sub-chamber proximate an entry end of the chamber. The system may include a first output permitting outflow from the first sub-chamber proximate an exit end of the chamber wherein a molecule entering at the entry end must traverse a length of the chamber to exit at the exit end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Binquan Luan, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira, BREANNDAN O'CONCHUIR, Anshul Gupta, Fausto Martelli, Mathias B Steiner, Tonia Elengikal
  • Patent number: 11079249
    Abstract: A navigation device including a housing including an opening, two or more drive wheels, and two or more rollers, a spherical member located within the opening of the housing in direct contact with the two or more drive wheels and the two or more rollers such that the drive wheels control rotation of the spherical member in response to guidance signals received from a processor, and an attachable member coupled directly to the housing for securing the navigation device to a body part of a user and maintaining contact between the user's skin and the spherical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Malgorzata Jadwiga Zimon, James McDonagh, Breanndan O'Conchuir, Robert Sawko
  • Publication number: 20210179443
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for cleaning and collecting microplastics and modelling workflow for microplastic autonomous filtration. The apparatus may include a cleaning chamber through which water containing the microplastics flows. The apparatus may also include a transducer configured to generate microbubbles of a size that causes the microbubbles to clean microplastics flowing through the cleaning chamber. The apparatus may also include a filter chamber located above the cleaning chamber, where the filter chamber includes a microplastic collection device operable to collect the microplastics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: James McDonagh, Malgorzata Jadwiga Zimon, Breanndan O'Conchuir, Robert Sawko
  • Patent number: 11034592
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for cleaning and collecting microplastics and modelling workflow for microplastic autonomous filtration. The apparatus may include a cleaning chamber through which water containing the microplastics flows. The apparatus may also include a transducer configured to generate microbubbles of a size that causes the microbubbles to clean microplastics flowing through the cleaning chamber. The apparatus may also include a filter chamber located above the cleaning chamber, where the filter chamber includes a microplastic collection device operable to collect the microplastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James McDonagh, Malgorzata Jadwiga Zimon, Breanndan O'Conchuir, Robert Sawko