Patents by Inventor Daniel O'Brien
Daniel O'Brien 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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Publication number: 20150038302Abstract: A weightlifting barbell includes a steel shaft and sleeves constructed of engineered plastic (e.g., POM, Teflon®, Nylon, UHMW, and the like). The engineered-plastic sleeve is relatively light weight and provides impact strength suitable for executing weightlifting exercises.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventor: Andrew Daniel O'Brien
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Patent number: 8914107Abstract: A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) device can extract ventilation information from thoracic impedance or other information, and adjust a delivery rate of the CRM therapy. A tidal volume of a patient is measured and used to adjust a ventilation rate response factor. The measured tidal volume can optionally be adjusted using a ventilation rate dependent adjustment factor. The ventilation rate response factor can also be adjusted using a maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV), an age predicted maximum heart rate, a resting heart rate, and a resting ventilation determined for the patient. In various examples, a global ventilation sensor rate response factor (for a population) can be programmed into the CRM device, and automatically tailored to be appropriate for a particular patient.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Paul F. Emerson, Gary T. Seim, Michael A. Querimit, Donald L. Hopper, Stephen R. Pitzl, Daniel O'Brien
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Publication number: 20140323229Abstract: Individual participants in a multi-participant collaborative computing application may be sent intermittent updates of actions taken by other participants. These updates need not be sent to a participant's device until the participant has interacted with a specified object in the application. The participant's device may then be sent an update including object interactions of the other participants occurring since the participant's previous object interaction. The update may be used to periodically inform the participant of the actions taken by the other participants during the period between the participant's interactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Fareed Bhemaram-Mosavat, Jesse David Kurlancheek, William Daniel Ogles, Craig Anderson Lancaster, Seth John Sivak, Daniel O'Brien
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Patent number: 8777751Abstract: Individual participants in a multi-participant collaborative computing application may be sent intermittent updates of actions taken by other participants. These updates need not be sent to a participant's device until the participant has interacted with a specified object in the application. The participant's device may then be sent an update including object interactions of the other participants occurring since the participant's previous object interaction. The update may be used to periodically inform the participant of the actions taken by the other participants during the period between the participant's interactions.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Zynga Inc.Inventors: Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat, Jesse David Kurlancheek, William Daniel Ogles, Craig Anderson Lancaster, Seth John Sivak, Daniel O'Brien
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Patent number: 8779637Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic actuation method according to which a magnetized mobile (4) is directed by means of at least one magnetic element (2, 2a, 2b) placed opposite said magnetized mobile, characterized in that the preferred direction (or easy axis) of magnetization is made to turn at every point of said element by applying at least one mechanical constraint to said magnetic element(s) (2, 2, 2b), causing anisotropy within said element and thus moving the magnetized mobile in a preferred linear direction or causing the same to rotate.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignees: Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Daniel O'Brien, Jérôme Delamare, Orphée Cugat, Olivier Geoffroy
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Patent number: 8629871Abstract: In one embodiment, a three-dimensional object is rendered on a two-dimensional display screen by associating a three-dimensional mesh with an image of the object, generating a vector-based texture map that defines a surface area of the object, and rendering the vector-based texture map on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Zynga Inc.Inventors: Daniel O'Brien, William Dan Ogles, Nabeel Hyatt
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Publication number: 20140008082Abstract: Apparatus and method for connecting tubular members in a wellbore. A host tubular member has annular members mounted within a receiving section to provide regions of differing resistance to the radial load. When a portion of a second tubular member is expanded radially outwardly within the receiving section a joint is formed between the members. Embodiments of host tubular members are described including recesses for the portion to form protrusions within, collapsible rings, channels and valves to expel fluid from the interface between the members and gripper elements and sealing elements to improve the joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Daniel O'Brien, Andrew John Joseph Gorrara
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Publication number: 20140008081Abstract: Apparatus and method for connecting tubular members in a wellbore. A host tubular member has reinforcing annular members mounted thereon to provide regions of differing resistance to the radial load. When the host tubular member is expanded radially outwardly, within a second tubular member, each weaker region starts expanding first and seals the host tubular member against the second tubular member prior to the stronger region. Embodiments of host tubular members are described including members of progressive resistance, split rings, gripper elements and sealing elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Daniel O'Brien, Andrew John Joseph Gorrara
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Publication number: 20140000911Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a tubular connection in the form of a liner tieback connection or a liner hanger in a slim hole well as found in deep wells. When installing the casing sections, a first casing section having a profiled surface distinct from a surface of an adjacent casing section is provided. A liner is run into the first casing section and a part of a portion is radially expanded to morph against the inner surface of the first casing section at the profiled surface and form a sealed joint. Various arrangements of profiled surfaces are provided. The liner may also have a profiled surface. By adapting the casing section to receive the liner directly, a slim hole well construction is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Andrew John Joseph Gorrara, Daniel O'Brien, Peter Wood
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Patent number: 8562443Abstract: Individual participants in a multi-participant collaborative computing application may be sent intermittent updates of actions taken by other participants. These updates need not be sent to a participant's device until the participant has interacted with a specified object in the application. The participant's device may then be sent an update including object interactions of the other participants occurring since the participant's previous object interaction. The update may be used to periodically inform the participant of the actions taken by the other participants during the period between the participant's interactions.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Zynga Inc.Inventors: Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat, Jesse David Kurlancheek, William Daniel Ogles, Craig Anderson Lancaster, Seth John Sivak, Daniel O'Brien
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Patent number: 8538526Abstract: A rate-adaptive pacemaker and a method for its operation in which the response factor for a minute ventilation sensor or other type of exertion level sensor is automatically set during a parameter adjustment mode that utilizes an activity level measurement to determine when the patient is at a target activity level with which is associated an appropriate target pacing rate. In a preferred embodiment, the target activity level corresponds to casual walking (e.g., 2 mph at a 4% grade) with a target pacing rate selected as appropriate for that level of activity in the individual patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Michael A. Querimit, Donald L. Hopper, Brian Ralph Larson, Paul F. Emerson, Daniel O'Brien
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Publication number: 20130059664Abstract: Individual participants in a multi-participant collaborative computing application may be sent intermittent updates of actions taken by other participants. These updates need not be sent to a participant's device until the participant has interacted with a specified object in the application. The participant's device may then be sent an update including object interactions of the other participants occurring since the participant's previous object interaction. The update may be used to periodically inform the participant of the actions taken by the other participants during the period between the participant's interactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: ZYNGA INC.Inventors: Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat, Jesse David Kurlancheek, William Daniel Ogles, Craig Anderson Lancaster, Seth John Sivak, Daniel O'Brien
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Publication number: 20130059662Abstract: Individual participants in a multi-participant collaborative computing application may be sent intermittent updates of actions taken by other participants. These updates need not be sent to a participant's device until the participant has interacted with a specified object in the application. The participant's device may then be sent an update including object interactions of the other participants occurring since the participant's previous object interaction. The update may be used to periodically inform the participant of the actions taken by the other participants during the period between the participant's interactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: ZYNGA INC.Inventors: Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat, Jesse David Kurlancheek, William Daniel Ogles, Craig Anderson Lancaster, Seth John Sivak, Daniel O'Brien
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Patent number: 8260473Abstract: A system for managing the operation of a semiconductor device in accordance with varying load conditions that affect the power being dissipated by the semiconductor device, includes a sensor for measuring a temperature related to the junction temperature of an operating semiconductor device; electronic components for measuring the real-time operating load conditions of the operating semiconductor device; and a computer that is adapted by computer executable program instructions to perform the steps of: (a) determining the power being dissipated by the operating semiconductor device in accordance with the measured real-time operating load conditions of the semiconductor device; (b) determining a dynamic temperature cutback threshold for the operating semiconductor device in accordance with the determination of the power being dissipated; and (c) managing the operation of the semiconductor device in accordance with the measured temperature and the dynamic temperature cutback threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: L-3 Services, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Daniel O'Brien, Mark David Rodzinka, Joseph Gerard Trabold
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Publication number: 20120128291Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for creating an printed circuit board including one or more waveguides having one or more reflective surfaces. Waveguides are embedded within a printed circuit board. A reflective surface is formed within the embedded waveguides by mechanically milling the printed circuit board. The reflective surfaces enable intra chip, chip-to-chip, or chip-to-component optical interconnections through the waveguides embedded within the printed circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicants: ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREInventors: Michael E. Teitelbaum, Keith Goossen, Eric D. Wetzel, Daniel O'Brien
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Publication number: 20110248581Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic actuation method according to which a magnetised mobile (4) is directed by means of at least one magnetic element (2, 2a, 2b) placed opposite said magnetised mobile, characterised in that the preferred direction (or easy axis) of magnetisation is made to turn at every point of said element by applying at least one mechanical constraint to said magnetic element(s) (2, 2, 2b), causing anisotropy within said element and thus moving the magnetised mobile in a preferred linear direction or causing the same to rotate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicants: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Institit Polytechnique De GrenobleInventors: Daniel O'brien, Jérôme Delamare, Orphée Cugat, Olivier Geoffroy
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Publication number: 20110152963Abstract: A rate-adaptive pacemaker and a method for its operation in which the response factor for a minute ventilation sensor or other type of exertion level sensor is automatically set during a parameter adjustment mode that utilizes an activity level measurement to determine when the patient is at a target activity level with which is associated an appropriate target pacing rate. In a preferred embodiment, the target activity level corresponds to casual walking (e.g., 2 mph at a 4% grade) with a target pacing rate selected as appropriate for that level of activity in the individual patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Michael A. Querimit, Donald L. Hopper, Brian Ralph Larson, Paul F. Emerson, Daniel O'Brien
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Publication number: 20110119583Abstract: Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for manipulating media using software executing on a computer system, e.g., by presenting a user interface for the media manipulation software application, the user interface including an import tool configured to facilitate importation of one or more items of media content into the media manipulation software application, the import tool having a plurality of modules, each module representing a different aspect of an importation process; receiving input specifying a subset of the plurality of modules, each module in the specified subset to be displayed to the user and to be used in a subsequent importation process; displaying to the user the modules from the specified subset while hiding the remaining modules from the user; and importing one or more items of media content using the displayed modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Greg Gilley, Mark Lee Kawano, Daniel O'Brien Schimpf
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Patent number: 7880593Abstract: The invention is an improved audible signaling device with a speaker, a sound chamber, and associated circuitry. The device creates a loud, audible fundamental frequency, and harmonic frequencies that are relatively equal in amplitude to the amplitude of the fundamental frequency.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Mallory Sonalert Products, Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Baldwin, Daniel O'Brien, Mark T. Monnett
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Publication number: 20100305643Abstract: A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) device can extract ventilation information from thoracic impedance or other information, and adjust a delivery rate of the CRM therapy. A tidal volume of a patient is measured and used to adjust a ventilation rate response factor. The measured tidal volume can optionally be adjusted using a ventilation rate dependent adjustment factor. The ventilation rate response factor can also be adjusted using a maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV), an age predicted maximum heart rate, a resting heart rate, and a resting ventilation determined for the patient. In various examples, a global ventilation sensor rate response factor (for a population) can be programmed into the CRM device, and automatically tailored to be appropriate for a particular patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: Paul F. Emerson, Gary T. Seim, Michael A. Querimit, Donald L. Hopper, Stephen R. Pitzl, Daniel O'Brien