Patents by Inventor Charles Connors

Charles Connors 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).

  • Publication number: 20240160518
    Abstract: Dynamic registration of software components for root cause of failure diagnosis may include determining a start of execution of a thread associated with a process, and creating a dynamic registry associated with the thread. One or more software components associated with execution of the thread are determined, and an entry in the dynamic registry is created for each of the one or more software components. The entry includes an identifier of the software component and a diagnostic content indicator associated with the software component. The diagnostic content indicator indicates component-specific diagnostic information associated with the software component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: JOHN CHARLES SHEBEY, III, LAURA SPERLING, WALTER A. MANRIQUE, MADHANA SUNDER, JAMES A. O'CONNOR, ROBERT M. ABRAMS, RALPH SHARPE
  • Patent number: 11963702
    Abstract: A bolster system having a first bolster device, a second bolster device, and an adjustable tether that includes a one-way pre-tied slideable adjustment knot. The adjustment knot is at a first position prior to insertion of the first bolster device into a passageway in one or more bones. The second bolster device includes a body portion having an outer portion that is sized to be received in the passageway and/or in an aperture of a bone plate. The body portion also includes a channel that is sized to accommodate recessed and/or embedded placement of the pre-tied slideable adjustment knot. The second bolster device can also include an oversized plate portion that abuts against a cortex of a bone or a wall of a bone plate. The second bolster device can also include a threaded member or retention tab that lockingly secures the second bolster device to a bone plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Michael Charles Ferragamo, William R. Davis, Rajesh Sivakumar
  • Publication number: 20230259633
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an evaluation of system-of-systems (SoS) architectures for cyber vulnerabilities. In an example, architecture description data and component description data for an SoS can be received. Architecture definition file (ADF) data can be generated based on the architecture and component description data. A model of a target SoS architecture for the SoS can be generated based on the ADF data. The target SoS architecture for the SoS can be evaluated to identify potential cyber-attack vectors with respect to the target SoS architecture, and a probabilistic analysis of the potential cyber-attack vectors can be executed to compute a probability for each cyber-attack vector indicative of a likelihood that a respective cyber-attack results in a mission failure by the SoS based on the target SoS architecture. Display data can be generated for visualization on an output device that includes each identified potential cyber-attack vector and associated computed probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Louis A. Oddo, Charles Connors, Kenneth F. McKinney
  • Publication number: 20230262086
    Abstract: In an example, a component analyzer can compute a respective part score for each part of the platform based on a part property table, and a respective connection score for each connection of the platform based on a connection property table. The component analyzer can provide the respective part and connection scores as score data to an architecture modeling engine to compute a probability model based on the score data and an architecture model. The probability model can include a part probability value and a connection probability value, and the architecture model can characterize a target architecture of the platform. A survivability analysis engine can evaluate the probability model and the architecture model to determine a likelihood that one or more potential cyber-attacks on the platform based on the target architecture are successful or unsuccessful in compromising at least one part of the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHARLES CONNORS, Geoffrey R. Janjua, Kenneth F. McKinney, Victoria Nagorski, Charles Negus, David Squiller, Lyndsay Walker, Matthew Ward, Kenneth R. Weidele
  • Publication number: 20150309972
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for associating a document with a database field value are disclosed. For example, a user of an electronic record management system may be viewing a document and/or metadata associated with a document on a primary display, such as a desktop computer display. In addition, the user may be viewing various database fields and/or potential values for those fields on a secondary display, such as a tablet device. The user can then select certain user interface objects, such as buttons, and/or perform certain predefined user gestures, such as a left swipe, on the secondary display. As a result, one or more database fields associated with the document are populated with one or more values. For example, the user may be executing an electronic document review application on a desktop computer while coding documents using a tablet device synchronized to the electronic document review application via the Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: kCura Corporation
    Inventors: Sam John, Mark Zider, Charles Connor, Charles Geter, Casey Bubert, Ted Hogan
  • Publication number: 20080181723
    Abstract: A fascine for filling ditches or smoothing other discontinuities in or on the ground to facilitate the passage of vehicles across the discontinuity is composed of inflatable members wrapped with one or more fabric sheets extending back along the ground from the respective discontinuity in the path of oncoming vehicles. The overwrapping sheet(s) assist in maintaining the integrity of the fascine and provide an improved surface particularly for wheeled vehicles to cross the fascine, obviating the risk of wheels falling into gaps between individual fascine members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventor: Richard Charles Connor
  • Publication number: 20060070715
    Abstract: A method of casting a refractory article. The method includes providing a mold formed from a slurry composition comprising plaster and fibers and adding a refractory composition to the mold. The method also includes allowing the refractory composition to set. The refractory composition comprises colloidal silica.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Charles Connors, Shirish Shah