Patents by Inventor Chris Sullivan
Chris Sullivan 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: 10247707Abstract: A new cement formulation includes a base cement slurry and an admixture of acoustic metamaterial particles, the acoustic metamaterial particles each having a dense inner core and compliant surrounding matrix. The cement formulation exhibits a substantial increase in transmission loss over the base cement slurry at a first frequency, and does not exhibit a substantial increase in transmission loss over the base cement slurry at a second frequency. A new cement interrogation technique involves transmitting acoustic energy at and near the band-gap frequency of an acoustic metamaterial, detecting an acoustic response and analyzing it for band-gap performance involving substantially elevated transmission loss at or near a given first frequency that rapidly falls off at nearby frequencies, determining that the cement formulation is present in regions exhibiting band-gap performance, and determining that the cement formulation is not present and/or has been compromised in regions not exhibiting band-gap performance.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: OCEANIT LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Jacob Freas Pollock, Chris Sullivan, Vinod P. Veedu, Robert Izuta, Joanne Ebesu
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Publication number: 20160122038Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and landing platforms are provided for visual and/or ground-based landing of unmanned aerial vehicles. The unmanned aerial vehicles may be capable of autonomously landing. Autonomous landings may be achieved by the unmanned air vehicles with the use of an imager and one or more optical markers on a landing platform. The optical markers may be rectilinear, monochromatic patterns that may be detected by a computing system on the unmanned aerial vehicle. Furthermore, the unmanned aerial vehicle may be able to automatically land by detecting one or more optical markers and calculating a relative location and/or orientation from the landing platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Zachary Fleischman, Chris Sullivan
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Patent number: 9326785Abstract: A connector for connecting an instrument tip with a laparoscopic tube end, the connector including a base forming a body of the connector, the base having a lumen configured to accommodate an instrument tip actuator therein, and a seal permanently bonded to an inner surface of a proximal end of the base and configured to deform upon connection of the connector with the tube end.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: MICROLINE SURGICAL, INC.Inventors: Sharad H. Joshi, Jean-Luc Boulnois, Chris A. Devlin, Peter Aliski, Russ LaRoche, Chris Sullivan
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Publication number: 20120289773Abstract: A connector for connecting an instrument tip with a laparoscopic tube end, the connector including a base forming a body of the connector, the base having a lumen configured to accommodate an instrument tip actuator therein, and a seal permanently bonded to an inner surface of a proximal end of the base and configured to deform upon connection of the connector with the tube end.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: MICROLINE SURGICAL, INC.Inventors: Sharad H. JOSHI, Jean-Luc BOULNOIS, Chris A. DEVLIN, Peter ALISKI, Russ LaROCHE, Chris SULLIVAN
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Patent number: 7917248Abstract: A method for configuring a marking device includes, at a control system, establishing communication with the marking device; receiving, from the marking device, information about capabilities of the marking device; presenting the received information about capabilities of the marking device to a user; receiving, from the user, instructions to set machine settings for the marking device; and causing the marking device to be configured according to the instructions received from the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Markem-Imaje CorporationInventors: Chris Sullivan, Simon Starkey, James Cupit, Jacob Harris
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Patent number: 7577596Abstract: A method for marking items includes determining production-date information indicative of a production date associated with an item; at least in part on the basis of the production-date information, determining a production-date range corresponding to the production-date information; retrieving expiration-date information corresponding to the production-date information; and marking the item with a mark representative of the expiration-date information.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Markem-Imaje CorporationInventors: Larry Antonuk, Chris Sullivan
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Publication number: 20090076633Abstract: A method for configuring a marking device includes, at a control system, establishing communication with the marking device; receiving, from the marking device, information about capabilities of the marking device; presenting the received information about capabilities of the marking device to a user; receiving, from the user, instructions to set machine settings for the marking device; and causing the marking device to be configured according to the instructions received from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: Markem CorporationInventors: Chris Sullivan, Simon Starkey, James Cupit, Jacob Harris
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Patent number: 7460921Abstract: A method and associated software and a system for automatic package marking makes use of specification of an image for a package. The specification includes specifications of data fields for marking on a package. Data values for the data fields are received from multiple data sources. Images are formed based on the received data values and the specification of the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Markem CorporationInventors: Chris Sullivan, Simon Starkey, James Cupit, Jacob Harris
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Publication number: 20080234853Abstract: A method for marking items includes determining production-date information indicative of a production date associated with an item; at least in part on the basis of the production-date information, determining a production-date range corresponding to the production-date information; retrieving expiration-date information corresponding to the production-date information; and marking the item with a mark representative of the expiration-date information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Larry Antonuk, Chris Sullivan
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Patent number: 7267272Abstract: A method for marking an article of merchandise with content represented by a bitmap stored in a source array of a source memory includes identifying, within a destination memory, a destination array. The destination array has a first region having boundaries aligned with boundaries of a first data chunk of the destination memory, and a second region having boundaries aligned with a second data chunk of the destination memory, the second data chunk being smaller than the first data chunk. A first region of the source array is copied onto the first region of the destination array in units of the first data chunk, and a second region of the source array is copied onto the second region of the destination array in units of the second data chunk.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Markem CorporationInventors: Larry Antonuk, Chris Sullivan, Glenn Scadova
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Publication number: 20060075329Abstract: A method and associated software and a system for automatic package marking makes use of specification of an image for a package. The specification includes specifications of data fields for marking on a package. Data values for the data fields are received from multiple data sources. Images are formed based on the received data values and the specification of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2004Publication date: April 6, 2006Inventors: Chris Sullivan, Simon Starkey, James Cupit, Jacob Harris
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Publication number: 20060065725Abstract: A method for marking an article of merchandise with content represented by a bitmap stored in a source array of a source memory includes identifying, within a destination memory, a destination array. The destination array has a first region having boundaries aligned with boundaries of a first data chunk of the destination memory, and a second region having boundaries aligned with a second data chunk of the destination memory, the second data chunk being smaller than the first data chunk. A first region of the source array is copied onto the first region of the destination array in units of the first data chunk, and a second region of the source array is copied onto the second region of the destination array in units of the second data chunk.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2004Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventors: Larry Antonuk, Chris Sullivan, Glenn Scadova
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Publication number: 20050221717Abstract: A vehicle includes a driving portion, a trailer portion removably coupled to the driving portion, and a remote control device configured to control the driving portion, wherein the trailer portion is configured to house the driving portionType: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2005Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventors: Joel Quinn, George Newby, Chris Sullivan
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Publication number: 20050193538Abstract: A multi-purpose tool includes a power module for supplying power, a drive member for imparting a rotational force, a cord attachable to the power module, the cord being configured to attach to and heat a glow plug, and a connector coupled to the power module, the connector being configured to supply power from the power module to an external electrical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventors: Joel Quinn, George Newby, Chris Sullivan
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Patent number: 6892568Abstract: A method for detecting and reducing an offensive noise in a vehicle having an engine. A noise is sensed in an area of interest of the vehicle. The area of interest contains a plurality of parts capable of generating the offensive noise. The sensed noise is analyzed to determine components of the noise. The offensive noise is determined based on the sensed noise and the determined noise components. Which one of the plurality of offensive noise generating parts is generating the offensive noise is determined. The offensive noise generating part is affected to reduce the offensive noise coming therefrom and thereby reducing the offensive noise in the area of interest of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tony Witer, Kelly Hennessy, Chris Sullivan
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Publication number: 20040149022Abstract: A method for detecting and reducing an offensive noise in a vehicle having an engine. A noise is sensed in an area of interest of the vehicle. The area of interest contains a plurality of parts capable of generating the offensive noise. The sensed noise is analyzed to determine components of the noise. The offensive noise is determined based on the sensed noise and the determined noise components. Which one of the plurality of offensive noise generating parts is generating the offensive noise is determined. The offensive noise generating part is affected to reduce the offensive noise coming therefrom and thereby reducing the offensive noise in the area of interest of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tony Witer, Kelly Hennessy, Chris Sullivan
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Patent number: 5587092Abstract: A method of assembly of impeller (12) and turbine (14) shells (116) for torque converters (10). Vanes (116) are capacitance discharge welded with a high energy pulse into the shells (112).Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1995Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc.Inventors: Chris Sullivan, Jim Wells, Michael Prevost
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Patent number: D338919Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1991Date of Patent: August 31, 1993Assignee: Sony Corporation of AmericaInventors: Leo Flotron, Toshi Momata, Chris Sullivan