Patents by Inventor Christopher Coffey

Christopher Coffey 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: 12281958
    Abstract: An optical power detection system comprises a sensor and a reader. The sensor is configured to detect light in the cladding of an optical fiber. The sensor is positioned both within a ferrule of the optical fiber and proximate the cladding. The sensor is additionally configured to produce an output signal representative of the detected light. The reader is electrically coupled to the sensor and is configured to receive the sensor output signal. The reader is additionally configured to operation on the output signal to produce a corresponding visual and/or audible indication of the optical power in the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Coffey, Steven C. Zimmel, Joseph Polland, Morgan C. Kurk, Trevor D. Smith
  • Patent number: 12078847
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a board mounted active component assembly that includes a printed circuit board to which a connector is mounted and electrically connected. In one aspect, the connector includes a housing defining an adapter port for receiving an optical plug. The connector also includes a fiber optic transceiver module secured within the housing such that the transceiver module is optically aligned with an optical plug received in the adapter port. The fiber optic transceiver module includes a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) and a receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) with leads connected to a circuit on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Coffey, Paul John Pepe
  • Patent number: 11650377
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for optically connecting circuit elements and optical fiber systems. In one embodiment, an optical waveguide module includes an optical light guide having opposite first and second planar surfaces extending between a first side edge and a second side edge. The optical light guide can be configured with a substrate supporting one or more optical pathways extending between the first and second side edges. The waveguide module can further include one or more first and second edge connectors, each of which has an adapter port and a first alignment slot opposite the adapter port. The alignment slots extend over the first and second planar surfaces at the first and second side edges to align the adapter ports with the one or more optical pathways in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paul John Pepe, Joseph Christopher Coffey
  • Publication number: 20220350085
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a board mounted active component assembly that includes a printed circuit board to which a connector is mounted and electrically connected. In one aspect, the connector includes a housing defining an adapter port for receiving an optical plug. The connector also includes a fiber optic transceiver module secured within the housing such that the transceiver module is optically aligned with an optical plug received in the adapter port. The fiber optic transceiver module includes a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) and a receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) with leads connected to a circuit on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Coffey, Paul John Pepe
  • Patent number: 11226453
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a board mounted active component assembly that includes a printed circuit board to which a connector is mounted and electrically connected. In one aspect, the connector includes a housing defining an adapter port for receiving an optical plug. The connector also includes a fiber optic transceiver module secured within the housing such that the transceiver module is optically aligned with an optical plug received in the adapter port. The fiber optic transceiver module includes a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) and a receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) with leads connected to a circuit on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Coffey, Paul John Pepe
  • Patent number: 11187616
    Abstract: An optical power detection system comprises a sensor and a reader. The sensor is configured to detect light in the cladding of an optical fiber. The sensor is positioned both within a ferrule of the optical fiber and proximate the cladding. The sensor is additionally configured to produce an output signal representative of the detected light. The reader is electrically coupled to the sensor and is configured to receive the sensor output signal. The reader is additionally configured to operation on the output signal to produce a corresponding visual and/or audible indication of the optical power in the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Coffey, Steven C. Zimmel, Joseph Polland, Morgan C. Kurk, Trevor D. Smith
  • Patent number: 11115735
    Abstract: Switching technology may be incorporated into various systems, components, and/or architectures in a fiber optic network to promote network reconfigurability and design flexibility. A signal access unit comprises an input, an output, an access port, a switch arrangement including a switch, and a controller. The switch optically couples the input to the output and not to the access port when in a first configuration, and optically couples the access port to at least one of the input and the output without optically coupling the input and the output together when in a second configuration. The controller is configured to receive an indication of a selected wavelength and to operate the switch arrangement to change the switch between the first and second configurations based on the indication of the selected wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Olivier Hubert Daniel Yves Rousseaux, Joseph Christopher Coffey, David James Mather, John Charles Chamberlain, Erik J. Gronvall, Peter Merlo
  • Patent number: 10877225
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for optically connecting circuit elements and optical fiber systems. In one embodiment, an optical waveguide module includes an optical light guide having opposite first and second planar surfaces extending between a first side edge and a second side edge. The optical light guide can be configured with a substrate supporting one or more optical pathways extending between the first and second side edges. The waveguide module can further include one or more first and second edge connectors, each of which has an adapter port and a first alignment slot opposite the adapter port. The alignment slots extend over the first and second planar surfaces at the first and second side edges to align the adapter ports with the one or more optical pathways in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paul John Pepe, Joseph Christopher Coffey
  • Patent number: 10310193
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for optically connecting circuit elements and optical fiber systems. In one embodiment, an optical waveguide module includes an optical light guide having opposite first and second planar surfaces extending between a first side edge and a second side edge. The optical light guide can be configured with a substrate supporting one or more optical pathways extending between the first and second side edges. The waveguide module can further include one or more first and second edge connectors, each of which has an adapter port and a first alignment slot opposite the adapter port. The alignment slots extend over the first and second planar surfaces at the first and second side edges to align the adapter ports with the one or more optical pathways in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paul John Pepe, Joseph Christopher Coffey
  • Publication number: 20190049669
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a board mounted active component assembly that includes a printed circuit board to which a connector is mounted and electrically connected. In one aspect, the connector includes a housing defining an adapter port for receiving an optical plug. The connector also includes a fiber optic transceiver module secured within the housing such that the transceiver module is optically aligned with an optical plug received in the adapter port. The fiber optic transceiver module includes a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) and a receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) with leads connected to a circuit on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Coffey, Paul John Pepe
  • Patent number: 9846283
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for optically connecting circuit elements and optical fiber systems. In one embodiment, an optical waveguide module includes an optical light guide having opposite first and second planar surfaces extending between a first side edge and a second side edge. The optical light guide can be configured with a substrate supporting one or more optical pathways extending between the first and second side edges. The waveguide module can further include one or more first and second edge connectors, each of which has an adapter port and a first alignment slot opposite the adapter port. The alignment slots extend over the first and second planar surfaces at the first and second side edges to align the adapter ports with the one or more optical pathways in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paul John Pepe, Joseph Christopher Coffey
  • Patent number: 9807979
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and methods for the impregnation of air with the vapor or aerosol of a substance in a ‘controllable manner to enable the testing or training of detection means to evaluate and quantify the presence of the substance in an enclosed volume, and i?• particular to enable production of training aids and quality assurance test items for use in canine-olfaction based security screening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence
    Inventors: Timothy Graham Foat, Steven Walker, Christopher Coffey, Matthew Brookes
  • Publication number: 20150056913
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and methods for the impregnation of air with the vapour or aerosol of a substance in a ‘controllable manner to enable the testing or training of detection means to evaluate and quantify the presence of the substance in an enclosed volume, and i?• particular to enable production of training aids and quality assurance test items for use in canine-olfaction based security screening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Timothy Graham Foat, Steven Walker, Christopher Coffey, Matthew Brookes
  • Patent number: 8574710
    Abstract: A composition includes a substrate (a) including a surface and (b) a multi-layer coating of nanowires positioned on at least a portion of the surface. The coating includes three or more laminar layers of nanowires and a bottom layer of nanowires affixed to the surface and a top-most layer of nanowires. A nanowire within a laminar layer is oriented substantially parallel to another nanowire within the same laminar layer. Nanowires within adjacent laminar layers are not substantially parallel to one another. The top-most layer of nanowires has a refractive index of about 5% to about 70% of the refractive index of the bottom layer of nanowires, and the refractive index of the three or more laminar layers of nanowires is decreases by about 10% or more per laminar layer from the bottom layer of nanowires to the top-most layer of nanowires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Nano Terra Inc.
    Inventors: David Christopher Coffey, Brian T. Mayers, Joseph M. McLellan
  • Patent number: 7676592
    Abstract: A scheme by which a network device may be made to locate data signals from a plurality of potential data sources in the context of a network environment having devices that employ autonegotiation over an autonegotiation period. The scheme involves switching an input port on the network device between the various potential data sources on a one-by-one basis. If an idle signal indicating no ensuing autonegotiation period is detected, the switching action is terminated and the input port assignment is maintained for as long as the link is detected. Thereafter, the device returns to the switching state. If an idle signal indicating an ensuing autonegotiation period is detected, the switching action is stopped for a period equal to or longer than the autonegotiation period. Thereafter, if an idle signal is detected, the input port assignment is maintained for as long as the link is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Christopher Coffey
  • Publication number: 20090041984
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to smudge-resistant coatings, methods to prepare the coatings, and products prepared by the methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Nano Terra Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. Mayers, Joseph M. McLellan, Karan Chauhan, Wajeeh Saadi, Kimberly Dickey, Sandip Agarwal, David Christopher Coffey, Kevin Randall Stewart
  • Publication number: 20080230773
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for patterning substrates using contact printing processes and inks comprising an organic semiconductive or semiconductive polymer, inks for use with the processes, and products formed by the processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: Nano Terra Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly DICKEY, Brian T. Mayers, Sandip Agarwal, Jeffrey Carbeck, David Christopher Coffey
  • Publication number: 20050279676
    Abstract: A fluid filter assembly for a water dispensing faucet includes a housing assembly that is constructed and arranged to connect to a water dispensing faucet, a cover assembly that is threadedly attachable to the housing assembly for defining an interior receiving space therebetween and a replaceable filter cartridge installed into the receiving space and being constructed and arranged for filtering a flow of water before that water is delivered to the dispensing faucet. A plurality of reed switches are utilized that are responsive to changes in magnetic flux in order to provide electronic indications of filter status. Some of these electronic indications include the filter cartridge status in terms of its useful life, when a non-approved filter cartridge is installed, when there is no filter cartridge installed, when there is a water leak within the fluid filter assembly, and when one used filter cartridge has been replaced by a new filter cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Zuhair Izzy, Garry Marty, Kyle McMains, Jeffrey Moore, Christopher Coffey