Patents by Inventor Christopher Byrne
Christopher Byrne 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: 11925251Abstract: A system and method is provided for hair dye color conversion in which a hair dye color mixture of one manufacture is matched and reproduced using a hair dye color mixture of an another manufacture. The system and method duplicates a resultant hair color from a hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a first hair dye color line using a different hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a second hair dye color line. The system and method applies a modified Kubelka-Munk transformation of RGB values to the mathematical RGB data of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line, multiplies the modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line by their respective percentages and then summing them, and retransforms the summed modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors back into mathematical RGB values in the original RGB color space.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SureTint Technologies, LLCInventors: Cody Z. Nash, Teresa Perkins Adams, Christopher Byrne, Elizabeth Christie
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Publication number: 20230094695Abstract: A system and method for performing visual localization is disclosed. In aspects, the system implements methods to generate a global point cloud, the global point cloud representing a plurality of point clouds. The global point cloud can be mapped to a prior map information to locate a position of an autonomous vehicle, the prior map information representing pre-built geographic maps. The position of the autonomous vehicle can be estimated based on applying sensor information obtained from sensors and software of the autonomous vehicle to the mapped global point cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Argo AI, LLCInventors: Weizhao SHAO, Ankit Kumar JAIN, Xxx XINJILEFU, Gang PAN, Brendan Christopher BYRNE
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Patent number: 11559189Abstract: A sterile sheath and methods for enclosing a confocal endomicroscopy (CEM) scanner probe with the sterile sheath are provided. The scanner probe includes a probe shaft, a probe tip, a probe body, and a probe umbilical. The sterile sheath for enclosing the CEM scanner probe includes a sheath tube configured to receive the probe shaft and has a distal tube end, a proximal tube end, a sheath tip mounted at the distal tube end of the sheath tube, and a sheath socket configured to receive the probe body. The sheath socket has a distal socket end and a proximal socket end. The proximal tube end of the sheath tube is fixed to the sheath socket at the distal socket end. The sterile sheath further includes a sheath lock ring and a sheath drape mounted on the sheath socket at the proximal socket end with the sheath lock ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Optiscan PTY Ltd.Inventors: Gerald Panitz, Robert Pattie, Peter Maxwell Delaney, Christopher Byrne, Selene Rodd-Routley
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Publication number: 20220175115Abstract: A system and method is provided for hair dye color conversion in which a hair dye color mixture of one manufacture is matched and reproduced using a hair dye color mixture of an another manufacture. The system and method duplicates a resultant hair color from a hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a first hair dye color line using a different hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a second hair dye color line. The system and method applies a modified Kubelka-Munk transformation of RGB values to the mathematical RGB data of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line, multiplies the modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line by their respective percentages and then summing them, and retransforms the summed modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors back into mathematical RGB values in the original RGB color space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Cody Z. Nash, Teresa Perkins Adams, Christopher Byrne, Elizabeth Christie
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Patent number: 11344103Abstract: A system and method is provided for hair dye color conversion in which a hair dye color mixture of one manufacture is matched and reproduced using a hair dye color mixture of another manufacture. The system and method duplicates a resultant hair color from a hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a first hair dye color line using a different hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a second hair dye color line. The system and method applies a modified Kubelka-Munk transformation of RGB values to the mathematical RGB data of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line, multiplies the modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line by their respective percentages and then summing them, and retransforms the summed modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors back into mathematical RGB values in the original RGB color space.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: SureTint Technologies, LLCInventors: Cody Z. Nash, Teresa Perkins Adams, Christopher Byrne, Elizabeth Christie
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Patent number: 11105703Abstract: An apparatus includes a test chamber and a pressure-application structure. The pressure-application structure is configured to apply a force on a device under test within the test chamber in response to a vacuum being drawn in the test chamber. The force has a magnitude that is proportional to a difference between an external pressure outside the test chamber and an internal pressure within the test chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Christopher Byrne, Samuel Severson, Jason Delaney, John Rigsby
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Publication number: 20210106122Abstract: A system and method is provided for hair dye color conversion in which a hair dye color mixture of one manufacture is matched and reproduced using a hair dye color mixture of another manufacture. The system and method duplicates a resultant hair color from a hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a first hair dye color line using a different hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a second hair dye color line. The system and method applies a modified Kubelka-Munk transformation of RGB values to the mathematical RGB data of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line, multiplies the modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line by their respective percentages and then summing them, and retransforms the summed modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors back into mathematical RGB values in the original RGB color space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Cody Z. Nash, Teresa Perkins Adams, Christopher Byrne, Elizabeth Christie
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Patent number: 10897979Abstract: A system and method is provided for hair dye color conversion in which a hair dye color mixture of one manufacture is matched and reproduced using a hair dye color mixture of an another manufacture. The system and method duplicates a resultant hair color from a hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a first hair dye color line using a different hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a second hair dye color line. The system and method applies a modified Kubelka-Munk transformation of RGB values to the mathematical RGB data of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line, multiplies the modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line by their respective percentages and then summing them, and retransforms the summed modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors back into mathematical RGB values in the original RGB color space.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SureTint Technologies, LLCInventors: Cody Z. Nash, Teresa Perkins Adams, Christopher Byrne, Elizabeth Christie
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Publication number: 20200129049Abstract: A sterile sheath and methods for enclosing a confocal endomicroscopy (CEM) scanner probe with the sterile sheath are provided. The scanner probe includes a probe shaft, a probe tip, a probe body, and a probe umbilical. The sterile sheath for enclosing the CEM scanner probe includes a sheath tube configured to receive the probe shaft and has a distal tube end, a proximal tube end, a sheath tip mounted at the distal tube end of the sheath tube, and a sheath socket configured to receive the probe body. The sheath socket has a distal socket end and a proximal socket end. The proximal tube end of the sheath tube is fixed to the sheath socket at the distal socket end. The sterile sheath further includes a sheath lock ring and a sheath drape mounted on the sheath socket at the proximal socket end with the sheath lock ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Gerald Panitz, Robert Pattie, Peter Maxwell Delaney, Christopher Byrne, Roderick Vance
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Publication number: 20200064220Abstract: An apparatus includes a test chamber and a pressure-application structure. The pressure-application structure is configured to apply a force on a device under test within the test chamber in response to a vacuum being drawn in the test chamber. The force has a magnitude that is proportional to a difference between an external pressure outside the test chamber and an internal pressure within the test chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Christopher Byrne, Samuel Severson, Jason Delaney, John Rigsby
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Patent number: 10089794Abstract: This invention is a system and method for defining a location-specific augmented reality capability for use in portable devices having a camera. The system and method uses recent photographs or digital drawings of a particular location to help the user of the system or method position the portable device in a specific place. Once aligned, a digital scene is displayed to the user transposed over (and combined with) the camera view of the current, real-world environment at that location, creating an augmented reality experience for the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Membit Inc.Inventors: John Christopher Byrne, Andrew Herbert Byrne, Jennifer Mary Byrne
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Publication number: 20180232953Abstract: This invention is a system and method for defining a location-specific augmented reality capability for use in portable devices having a camera. The system and method uses recent photographs or digital drawings of a particular location to help the user of the system or method position the portable device in a specific place. Once aligned, a digital scene is displayed to the user transposed over (and combined with) the camera view of the current, real-world environment at that location, creating an augmented reality experience for the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: John Christopher Byrne, Andrew Herbert Byrne, Jennifer Mary Byrne
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Patent number: 9944718Abstract: A method of diagnosing metastatic potential of a breast cancer in an individual with breast cancer is described. The method comprises a step of assaying a breast cancer tumor sample from the patient for expression of A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase 22, (ADAM22), wherein expression of ADAM22 correlates with increased potential for metastasis compared with a patient who is ADAM22 negative. The invention also describes an agent for use in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in a patient, in which the agent is selected from leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated protein 1 (LGI1) protein (SEQ ID NO:1) and an LGI1 peptide mimic capable of mimicking the ADAM22 binding activity of LGI1 by binding to the LGI1 binding domain of ADAM22 (SEQ ID NO: 4) and which is capable of inhibiting migration of endocrine resistant breast cancer cells.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELANDInventors: Leonie Young, Damian McCartan, Christopher Byrne
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Patent number: 9779553Abstract: This invention is a system and method for defining a location-specific augmented reality capability for use in portable devices having a camera. The system and method uses recent photographs or digital drawings of a particular location to help the user of the system or method position the portable device in a specific place. Once aligned, a digital scene is displayed to the user transposed over (and combined with) the camera view of the current, real-world environment at that location, creating an augmented reality experience for the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Membit Inc.Inventors: John Christopher Byrne, Andrew Herbert Byrne, Jennifer Mary Byrne
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Patent number: 9527959Abstract: The present invention provides curable compositions comprising non-tin metal catalysts that accelerate the condensation curing of moisture-curable silicones/non-silicones. In particular, the present invention provides bismuth(III) sulfonate complexes that are particularly suitable as replacements for organotin in sealant and RTV formulations. In one embodiment, the present invention provides bismuth (III) camphorsulfonate and bismuth(III) methanesulfonate complexes. Further, these bismuth(III) sulfonate complexes are comparable or superior to organotin such as DBTDL, exhibit certain behavior in the presence of components that allow for tuning or adjusting the cure characteristics of the present compositions, and provide good adhesion and storage stability.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.Inventor: Christopher Byrne
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Publication number: 20160169897Abstract: Disclosed are methods that employ FKBPL as a marker for a subject's sensitivity to endocrine therapies in the treatment of cancers, and as a predictive marker of cancer progression and disease free survival in relation to hormone responsive cancers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFASTInventors: Tracy ROBSON, David Hirst, Hayley McKeen, Christopher Byrne
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Publication number: 20160137748Abstract: A method of diagnosing metastatic potential of a breast cancer in an individual with breast cancer is described. The method comprises a step of assaying a breast cancer tumour sample from the patient for expression of A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase 22, (ADAM22), wherein expression of ADAM22 correlates with increased potential for metastasis compared with a patient who is ADAM22 negative. The invention also describes an agent for use in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in a patient, in which the agent is selected from leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated protein 1 (LGI1) protein (SEQ ID NO:1) and an LGI1 peptide mimic capable of mimicking the ADAM22 binding activity of LGI1 by binding to the LGI1 binding domain of ADAM22 (SEQ ID NO: 4) and which is capable of inhibiting migration of endocrine resistant breast cancer cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2016Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: Royal College of Surgeons in IrelandInventors: Leonie Young, Damian McCartan, Christopher Byrne
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Patent number: 9285370Abstract: A method of diagnosing metastatic potential of a breast cancer in an individual with breast cancer is described. The method comprises a step of assaying a breast cancer tumor sample from the patient for expression of A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase 22, (ADAM22), wherein expression of ADAM22 correlates with increased potential for metastasis compared with a patient who is ADAM22 negative. The invention also describes an agent for use in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in a patient, in which the agent is selected from leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated protein 1 (LGI1) protein (SEQ ID NO:1) and an LGI1 peptide mimic capable of mimicking the ADAM22 binding activity of LGI1 by binding to the LGI1 binding domain of ADAM22 (SEQ ID NO: 4) and which is capable of inhibiting migration of endocrine resistant breast cancer cells.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Royal College of Surgeons in IrelandInventors: Leonie Young, Damian McCartan, Christopher Byrne
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Publication number: 20160019722Abstract: This invention is a system and method for defining a location-specific augmented reality capability for use in portable devices having a camera. The system and method uses recent photographs or digital drawings of a particular location to help the user of the system or method position the portable device in a specific place. Once aligned, a digital scene is displayed to the user transposed over (and combined with) the camera view of the current, real-world environment at that location, creating an augmented reality experience for the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: John Christopher Byrne, Andrew Herbert Byrne, Jennifer Mary Byrne
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Patent number: 9117303Abstract: This invention is a system and method for defining a location-specific augmented reality capability for use in portable devices having a camera. The system and method uses recent photographs or digital drawings of a particular location to help the user of the system or method position the portable device in a specific place. Once aligned, a digital scene is displayed to the user transposed over (and combined with) the camera view of the current, real-world environment at that location, creating an augmented reality experience for the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Membit Inc.Inventors: John Christopher Byrne, Jennifer Mary Byrne, Andrew Herbert Byrne