Patents by Inventor Edward Murphy

Edward Murphy 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: 10793773
    Abstract: A process for preparing a Mn+4 doped phosphor of formula I includes gradually adding a first solution comprising a source of M and HF and a second solution comprising a source of Mn to a reactor, in the presence of a source of A and an anion selected from phosphate, sulfate, acetate, and combinations thereof, to form a product liquor comprising the Mn+4 doped phosphor. The process also includes gradually discharging the product liquor from the reactor while volume of the product liquor in the reactor remains constant. A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or a combination thereof; M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or a combination thereof; x is the absolute value of the charge of the [MFy] ion; and y is 5, 6 or 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Fangming Du, James Edward Murphy, Srinivas Prasad Sista, Clark David Nelson, Jenna Marie Baldesare
  • Publication number: 20200294069
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach. An example apparatus includes an association controller to generate a tree association corresponding to a union of a first margin of media and a second margin of the media; and one or more commercial solvers to determine first multipliers by solving first equations corresponding to panelist impressions and panelist audience totals, the second margin, or the union; perform first parallel computations with a processor to determine second multipliers to solve second equations corresponding to the tree association using the first multipliers; discard the first multipliers; perform second parallel computations to determine third multipliers by solving third equations corresponding to the tree association using database proprietor impression totals; and determine an estimate for a population reach of the media for at least one of the first margin, the second margin, or the union based on the third multipliers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Ludo Daemen, Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Edward Murphy
  • Publication number: 20200296441
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach for different unions based on marginal ratings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Ludo Daemen, Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Edward Murphy
  • Patent number: 10754081
    Abstract: A remote phosphor package according to the present invention includes a green emitting quantum dot material and a Mn4+ doped phosphor of formula I, dispersed in a host matrix wherein A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or combinations thereof; M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or combinations thereof; x is an absolute value of a charge of the [MFy] ion; and y is 5, 6 or 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: James Edward Murphy
  • Patent number: 10731076
    Abstract: Processes for producing stable Mn4+ doped phosphors include dispersing a compound of formula I in a solution comprising a compound of formula II to form a dispersion; applying pressure to the dispersion at a temperature less than 200° C. to form a phosphor product; and contacting the phosphor product with a fluorine-containing oxidizing agent in gaseous form at an elevated temperature; wherein A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or a combination thereof; M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Hf, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or a combination thereof; x is the absolute value of the charge of the [MFy] ion; and y is 5, 6 or 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Anant Achyut Setlur, James Edward Murphy
  • Patent number: 10728614
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to replicate panelists using a local minimum solution of an integer least squares problem are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a data organizer to determine, by executing an instruction with a processor, estimated aggregate panelist data based on attribute data corresponding to a seed panel and weight estimates used to replicate respective seed panelists in the seed panel; and a weight determiner to iteratively adjust, by executing an instruction with the processor, the weight estimates based on comparisons of the estimated aggregate panelist data as determined based on the adjusted weight estimates and input aggregate panelist data to generate final weight estimates; and replicate, by executing an instruction with the processor, respective ones of the seed panelists based on final weight estimates to generate a synthetic audience representative of return path data reported by a plurality of media devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Edward Murphy, Michael D. Morgan
  • Publication number: 20200204863
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate synthetic respondent level data. An example apparatus includes: a comparator to compare a target rating to a computed rating to determine a comparison result, the computed rating determined based on a seed panel, the seed panel including monitored panelists associated with return path data; a seed panelist data adjuster to adjust the seed panel based on the comparison result to reduce an error between the target rating and the computed rating; and a household data adjuster to add tuning without viewing data to households of the adjusted seed panel, the tuning without viewing data for a first one of the households to represent monitored data corresponding to a media presentation device of the first one of the households being on while a media output device in communication with the media presentation device is off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Balachander Shankar, Edward Murphy, Michael Sheppard, Frank Downing
  • Publication number: 20200202383
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine advertisement campaign effectiveness using covariate matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Ludo Daemen, Edward Murphy, Remy Spoentgen
  • Patent number: 10681414
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach for different unions based on marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes a reach determiner to estimate a population reach of a union of time intervals for which media ratings data is available; a pseudo universe determiner to determine a pseudo universe estimate of a recorded audience corresponding to the union; determine a pseudo universe estimate of a population audience corresponding to the union based on the pseudo universe estimate of the recorded audience; and determine an error of the population reach estimate of the union based on the pseudo universe of the population audience corresponding to the union; and the reach determiner to when the error does not satisfy a threshold, adjust the population reach estimate; and when the error does satisfy the threshold, determine the population reach of the union based on the population reach estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Edward Murphy, Michael Morgan, Ludo Daemen
  • Publication number: 20200141560
    Abstract: An apparatus including at least one light emitting diode (LED) module, configured to generate visible light; and at least one component comprising a compound comprising elements of neodymium fluoride and a dopant to lower a refractive index of the compound as compared to neodymium fluoride, the compound configured with the LED module to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the visible light generated by the LED module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC
    Inventors: Qing YI, Jianmin HE, Chuan LIN, Zhiyong WANG, James Edward MURPHY, Dengke CAI, Xiaoyong WU
  • Publication number: 20200120387
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to to estimate population reach from marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes an interface to access marginal ratings of the media for a recorded audience, marginal ratings of the media for a population audience, and reach of the media for the recorded audience; a reach determiner to iteratively estimate a reach of the media for the population audience based on the marginal ratings for the recorded audience, the marginal ratings for the population audience, and the reach for the recorded audience; and the interface to output the estimated reach for the population audience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Edward Murphy, Michael D. Morgan, Ludo Daemen
  • Publication number: 20200112757
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to assign synthetic respondents to geographic locations for audience measurement are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a constraint identifier to determine a set of constraints based on aggregate values of demographic features associated with the geographic locations. Disclosed example apparatus also include a parameter evaluator to determine a set of parameters of a model that is to return probabilities that respective ones of the respondents are associated with respective ones of the geographic locations, respective ones of the parameters being associated with respective ones of the constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Edward Murphy, Chris Samuel Redino, Michael D. Morgan, Jonathan Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10615316
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is presented. The lighting apparatus includes a semiconductor light source capable of producing blue light of high power density, the semiconductor light source radiationally coupled to a phosphor of formula I in a monolithic form selected from single crystal and ceramic, Ax (M, Mn)Fy (I) where A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or a combination thereof, M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Hf, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or a combination thereof, x is an absolute value of a charge of an [MFy] ion; and y is 5, 6, or 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: James Edward Murphy, Sam Joseph Camardello
  • Patent number: 10602224
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate synthetic respondent level data. An example method includes generating, by executing an instruction with a processor, a seed panel, the seed panel including monitored panelists selected based on a population associated with return path data; comparing, by executing an instruction with the processor, a target rating to a current rating corresponding to the seed panel; and adjusting, by executing an instruction with the processor, the seed panel based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Balachander Shankar, Edward Murphy, Michael Sheppard, Frank Downing
  • Patent number: 10563121
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining particles of a phosphor precursor of formula Ax[MFy]:Mn4+, reducing sizes of the particles of the phosphor precursor by wet milling the particles and annealing the particles that are wet milled by contacting the particles with a fluorine-containing oxidizing agent. Additionally, a manganese doped complex fluoride phosphor prepared by this method is provided. A lighting apparatus and backlight device that include manganese-doped phosphor prepared by this method also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: William Winder Beers, Jianmin He, Fangming Du, James Edward Murphy, William Erwin Cohen, Clark David Nelson, Cynthia Susan Link
  • Publication number: 20190385189
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus and articles of manufacture to determine causal effects are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a weighting engine to calculate a first set of weights for a first set of covariates corresponding to a treatment dataset and a second set of weights for a second set of covariates corresponding to a control dataset using maximum entropy, the first set of weights to equal the second set of weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Ludo Daemen, Edward Murphy, Remy Spoentgen
  • Patent number: 10503943
    Abstract: A log scanning system and method for scanning a log load. Each individual log in the log load may have an ID element with a unique log ID data on at least one log end face. The system has a handheld scanner unit for free-form scanning by an operator over a load end face of the log load. The scanner unit has a depth sensor configured to capture a series of depth images of the load end face and a texture sensor configured to capture a series of texture images of the load end face during the load end face scan. The system also has a data processor(s) that receives and processes the depth and texture images captured from the scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: C 3 Limited
    Inventors: Nawar Sami Alwesh, Glen Edward Murphy, David William Penman, Johann August Schoonees, Robert Jan Valkenburg
  • Publication number: 20190356950
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate synthetic respondent level data. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a synthetic panel generator to (i) generate a synthetic panel corresponding to a duration of time, the synthetic panel to be generated based on (a) a seed panel and (b) duration constraints based on return path data reported by a plurality of media devices, the synthetic panel representative of audiences of media presented by the plurality of media devices during the duration of time, and (ii) generate synthetic respondent level data based on viewing data of synthetic panelists in the synthetic panel. Disclosed example apparatus also include an output file generator to generate an output file based on the synthetic respondent level data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Michael D. Morgan, Balachander Shankar, Edward Murphy, Frank Downing
  • Patent number: 10448074
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to assign synthetic respondents to geographic locations for audience measurement are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a constraint identifier to determine a set of constraints based on aggregate values of demographic features associated with the geographic locations. Disclosed example apparatus also include a parameter evaluator to determine a set of parameters of a model that is to return probabilities that respective ones of the respondents are associated with respective ones of the geographic locations, respective ones of the parameters being associated with respective ones of the constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Edward Murphy, Chris Samuel Redino, Michael D. Morgan, Jonathan Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20190292448
    Abstract: A process for coating a phosphor of formula I: Ax[MFy]:Mn4+ includes combining the phosphor of formula I in particulate form with a first solution including a compound of formula II: Ax[MFy] to form a suspension and combining a second solution with the suspension, the second solution including a precursor including an element selected from the group consisting of calcium, strontium, magnesium, yittrium, barium, scandium, lanthanum, and combinations thereof. A population of particles having a core including a phosphor of formula I and a manganese-free composite coating disposed on the core, and a lighting apparatus (10) including the population of particles are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Digamber Gurudas POROB, Prasanth Kumar NAMMALWAR, Srinidhi RAMACHANDRA, Matthew David BUTTS, James Edward MURPHY