Patents by Inventor Chris O'Clair

Chris O'Clair 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: 20220158615
    Abstract: Acoustic resonators, filters and methods of making resonators are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric plate, and an acoustic Bragg reflector between a surface of the substrate and a back surface of the piezoelectric plate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes first and second busbars and a plurality of interleaved fingers extending alternately from the first and second busbars. At least a portion of the first busbar contacts the substrate through an opening in the piezoelectric plate and acoustic Bragg reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Greg Dyer, Chris O'Brien, Neal O. Fenzi, James R. Costa
  • Publication number: 20220149807
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator device with low thermal impedance has a substrate and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a back surface attached to a top surface of the substrate via a bonding oxide (BOX) layer. An interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the plate has interleaved fingers disposed on the diaphragm. The piezoelectric plate and the BOX layer are removed from a least a portion of the surface area of the device to provide lower thermal resistance between the conductor pattern and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Greg Dyer, Chris O'Brien, Neal O. Fenzi, James R. Costa
  • Publication number: 20220149808
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator device with low thermal impedance has a substrate and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a back surface attached to a top surface of the substrate via a bonding oxide (BOX) layer. An interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the plate has interleaved fingers disposed on the diaphragm. The piezoelectric plate and the BOX layer are removed from a least a portion of the surface area of the device to provide lower thermal resistance between the IDT and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Greg Dyer, Chris O'Brien, Neal O. Fenzi, James R. Costa
  • Publication number: 20220148701
    Abstract: The present technology is directed to respiratory therapy data management systems, device, and methods. The systems can collect, store, monitor, report, and/or analyze patient treatment data associated with patient use of one or more respiratory therapy devices. The patient treatment data can include therapy data related to the use of multiple respiratory therapies, such as ventilation, oxygen, cough-assistance, suction, and nebulization. The patient treatment data may be collected from a plurality of respiratory devices associated with a particular patient, or from a single respiratory device associated with a particular patient. The system can generate customizable reports detailing the patient treatment data. The reports can summarize patient use, illustrate therapy trends, and/or provide therapy recommendations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Cipollone, Gregory A. McKeag, Michael B. Holmes, Eric A. Harris, Christopher T. Kiple, Chris O. Brooks, Caro Minnick
  • Publication number: 20220149809
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator device with low thermal impedance has a substrate and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a back surface attached to a top surface of the substrate via a bonding oxide (BOX) layer. An interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the plate has interleaved fingers disposed on a diaphragm of the plate that is formed over a cavity in the substrate. The piezoelectric plate and the BOX layer are removed from a least a portion of the surface area of the substrate to provide lower thermal resistance between the IDT and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Greg Dyer, Chris O'Brien, Neal O. Fenzi, James R. Costa
  • Publication number: 20220103154
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator device is formed using a sacrificial layer and a front side etched cavity by forming a recess in a silicon substrate with a trap-rich top layer and filling the recess with sacrificial silicon nitride. A bonding oxide (BOX) layer is formed over the trap-rich layer and the sacrificial silicon nitride filled recess and a piezoelectric plate is bonded to the BOX layer. The sacrificial silicon nitride is then removed to form a cavity by using an etchant introduced through holes in the piezoelectric plate and BOX layer without removing the BOX layer from over the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Albert Cardona, Douglas Jachowski, Chris O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20220094336
    Abstract: Methods of fabricating filter devices are disclosed. A back surface of a piezoelectric plate having a first thickness is attached to a substrate. The front surface of the piezoelectric plate is selectively etched to thin a portion of the piezoelectric plate from the first thickness to a second thickness less than the first thickness. Cavities are formed in the substrate such that portions of the piezoelectric plate form a plurality of diaphragms spanning respective cavities. A conductor pattern is formed on the front surface. The conductor pattern includes a first interdigital transducer (IDT) with interleaved fingers on a first diaphragm having the first thickness and a second IDT with interleaved fingers on a second diaphragm having the second thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Chris O'Brien, Andrew Kay, Albert Cardona, Ventsislav Yantchev, Patrick Turner, Robert B. Hammond, Dylan Kelly
  • Publication number: 20210239302
    Abstract: A flashlight assembly includes a body having a head portion at one end and an opposing tapered tail portion and a clamping assembly on a bottom side of the body. The tail portion of the body tapers rearwardly towards a tail end thereof and downwardly from an upper side towards the bottom side, such that the tail end of the tail portion merges with the bottom side of the body and forms an inclined contoured surface extending from the bottom side to the top side. A contoured switch is mounted within the inclined angled surface of the tapered tail portion, and includes a safety bail pivotably movable to selectively mechanically impede operation of the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Emissive Energy Corp.
    Inventors: Robert D. Galli, Chris O'Brien, Kevin Okruta
  • Patent number: 11037216
    Abstract: A multi-merchant portal that enables a user to access e-commerce stores is provided. Each e-commerce store has respective merchant categories browsable by the user at a customer device through the portal, each merchant category comprising products available for purchase from a respective merchant. In response to receiving a request from the customer device to switch access of the user browsing a selected merchant category of the first merchant in a first e-commerce store, to a second e-commerce store, the portal determines a system category corresponding to the selected merchant category using mapping data mapping merchant categories to system categories and then determines a destination merchant category of the second merchant in the second e-commerce store corresponding to the determined system category using mapping data mapping the system categories to the merchant categories. The portal switches user's access to the destination merchant category in the second e-commerce store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Chris O'Mahony, Stephen Elder, Bryan O'Sullivan, Derek Humphreys, Alex Staveley, Eammon Doyle, Stephen Toner, Andrea Rizzini, Maurice O'Connor, Oran Cummins
  • Patent number: 11014503
    Abstract: A vehicle comprising a stowage bin, an actuation assembly configured to actuate in response to an actuation signal, and a stowage bin closure operable between stored and fully deployed positions, wherein the actuation assembly is configured to deploy the stowage bin closure over an opening defined by the stowage bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris O'Connor, Michael J. Andrus, Amanda Villerot, Sue Muscat, Jim Carene
  • Patent number: 10919478
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a stowage bin defining a compartment and an airbag mounted to the stowage bin. The airbag is deployable to an inflated position. When the airbag is in the inflated position, the airbag at least partially encloses the compartment. When in the inflated position, the airbag retains items, if any, that are stored in the compartment by an occupant of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris O'Connor, Michael James Andrus, Amanda Villerot, Sue Muscat, Jim Carene
  • Patent number: 10895369
    Abstract: A flashlight assembly includes a body having a head portion at one end and an opposing tapered tail portion and a clamping assembly on a bottom side of the body. The tail portion of the body tapers rearwardly towards a tail end thereof and downwardly from an upper side towards the bottom side, such that the tail end of the tail portion merges with the bottom side of the body and forms an inclined contoured surface extending from the bottom side to the top side. A contoured switch is mounted within the inclined angled surface of the tapered tail portion, and includes a safety bail pivotably movable to selectively mechanically impede operation of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Emissive Energy Corp.
    Inventors: Robert D. Galli, Chris O'Brien, Kevin Okruta
  • Publication number: 20210012062
    Abstract: This application is directed to recognizing unstructured information based on hints provided by structured information. A computer system obtains unstructured information collected from a handwritten or audio source, and identifies one or more terms from the unstructured information. The one or more terms includes a first term that is ambiguous. The computer system performs a recognition operation on the first term to derive a first plurality of candidate terms for the first term, and obtains first contextual information from an information template associated with the unstructured information. In accordance with the first contextual information, the computer system selects a first answer term from the first plurality of candidate terms, such that the first term is recognized as the first answer term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Chris O'Neill, Andrew Malcolm, Alexander Pashintsev, Eugene Livshitz, Boris Gorbatov, Natalia Galaktionova, IIya Buryak
  • Patent number: 10891681
    Abstract: An item purchase system may include a user device configured to receive an item purchase request from a user and transmit the item purchase request, and the refrigerator configured to display the item purchase request in response to receiving the item purchase request and place an order for the item requested to be purchased according to an input by the user or another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: Min Su Lee, Kyoung Ae Lim, Ye Kyung Yoo, Yoo Lim Baek, Chris O'Mahony
  • Patent number: 10854103
    Abstract: A wearable device conveys information to a user. The device includes a master soft circuit cell and a plurality of actuation soft circuit cells. These cells are physically interconnected to form a garment that is worn by a user and each of these cells includes an electrically non-conductive fabric covering. Each of the actuation cells is electrically connected to and operates under the control of the master cell. The master cell is configured to wirelessly receive actuation instructions and activate a combination of the actuation cells based on the received actuation instructions. Each of the actuation cells is configured to generate a particular actuation that is perceived by one or more senses of the user whenever the actuation cell is activated by the master cell. A system also conveys affective state information to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chris O'Dowd, Asta Roseway, Mary Czerwinski, Meredith Morris, Michele A. Williams
  • Patent number: 10821347
    Abstract: Virtual and augmented reality sports training environments are disclosed. A user interacts with virtual players in a simulated environment of a virtual reality sporting event. In some embodiments, the user's actions and decisions are monitored by the simulated environment. The environment evaluates the user's performance, and provides quantitative scoring based on the user's decisions and timing. Coaches and other users may design customized scenarios or plays to train and test users, and the resultant scores may be reviewed by the coach. In one application, real life pitchers and their pitching data are tracked and replicated in a simulated pitching environment. A team of users may practice against a simulation of a pitcher they are about to compete against, swinging at pitches that they would see in a real game. Such environments may maximize effective practice time for users, and help develop better players with improved decision-making skills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: WIN REALITY, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Reilly, Yazhou Huang, Lloyd Churches, Chris O'Dowd, Sebastien Goisbeault, Mats Johansson
  • Publication number: 20200331399
    Abstract: A vehicle comprising a stowage bin, an actuation assembly configured to actuate in response to an actuation signal, and a stowage bin closure operable between stored and fully deployed positions, wherein the actuation assembly is configured to deploy the stowage bin closure over an opening defined by the stowage bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris O'Connor, Michael J. Andrus, Amanda Villerot, Sue Muscat, Jim Carene
  • Publication number: 20200324844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal transporter. The transporter includes a support for supporting a driver. Three or more ground engaging devices are provided for engaging the ground during transport. An electric drive is provided for driving at least one of the ground engaging devices to propel the transporter. A handle bar is provided for enabling the driver to control at least one of the ground engaging devices to steer the transporter. Advantageously, three or more ground engaging devices provide improved stability and may carry greater loads when compared with the two wheels of a Segway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Brian MACDONALD, Chris O'NEILL, Dallyn SEALE
  • Patent number: 10764424
    Abstract: A digital assistant supported on devices such as smartphones, tablets, personal computers, game consoles, etc. exposes an updated and enhanced set of alarm functions to improve a device's user wake-up routines by applying automation rules to a variety of collected or sensed data and inputs in a context-aware manner in order to surface user experiences and content that are contextually meaningful and catered to the particular device user. The digital assistant can support an alarm system having network connectivity to other devices and external systems that enables the user to set an alarm and be awoken using a wide variety of stimuli such as sounds, voice, music, lights, and tactile sensations and then be given a summary of the upcoming day using verbal narration and graphical displays on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Melissa Lim, Anthony Hugh, Wenyu Lu, Yuri Dogandjiev, Haronid Moncivais, Chris O'Connor, Christian Colando
  • Patent number: 10744949
    Abstract: A vehicle including a storage bin and a restraint control system. An actuation assembly is configured to activate in response to a signal from the restraint control system. A tether is operable between undeployed and deployed positions and the actuation assembly is configured to deploy the tether over an opening defined by the storage bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologes, LLC
    Inventors: Michael James Andrus, Chris O'Connor, Jim Carene, Amanda Villerot, Sue Muscat