Patents by Inventor H. Murphy
H. 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).
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Publication number: 20240169384Abstract: A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2024Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Joseph H. LEBLANC, Nick DICOSOLA, Sagy P. MINTZ, Leo E. MURPHY, Robert A. MILLER, William K. Ward, William F. KERINS, Luis R. LUQUE, Parker P. DREW, James V. BLANTON
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Publication number: 20240133727Abstract: An acoustic volume sensing device is disclosed. The device includes a housing comprising a reference volume chamber and a variable volume chamber, the reference volume chamber and the variable volume chamber connected by a resonant port, a first MEMS microphone located in acoustic relation to the variable volume chamber, a second MEMS microphone located in acoustic relation to the reference volume chamber, a MEMS speaker located in acoustic relation to the reference volume chamber, and a circuit board in electric connection with the first and second MEMS microphones and the MEMS speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Gregory R. Lanier, JR., John M. Kerwin, Colin H. Murphy, Larry B. Gray
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Publication number: 20240128594Abstract: A wiring harness for a battery and inverter system includes a main cable. It further includes an inverter connector configured to plug the main cable into an inverter module. It further includes a first spur of the main cable terminating in a first-type battery device connector. It further includes a second spur of the main cable terminating in a second type battery device connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Peter H.J. How, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Mark Holveck, Anthony Sagneri, Christopher Breckenridge Todd, Randol Aikin, Mark Daniel Goldman, Conrad Xavier Murphy, Kevin Richard Fine, Brian M. Neil
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Publication number: 20240115804Abstract: A pump for pumping fluid includes a tube platen, a plunger, a bias member, inlet and outlet valves, an actuator mechanism, a position sensor, and a processor. The plunger is configured for actuation toward and away from the infusion-tube when the tube platen is disposed opposite to the plunger. The tube platen can hold an intravenous infusion tube. The bias member is configured to urge the plunger toward the tube platen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Dean KAMEN, John M. Kerwin, Colin H. Murphy, Jonathan Parker, Daniel F. Pawlowski, Dirk A. Van Der Merwe, Larry B. Gray, Christopher C. Langenfeld, Michael S Place, Michael J. Slate
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Publication number: 20240108819Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes a fill adapter device including a heat exchanger which includes a heating element and a fluid pathway, the fluid pathway fluidly connected to a filling needle input, whereby fluid enters the heat exchanger through the filling needle input and flows through the fluid pathway and whereby the fluid is heated by the heating element. The system also includes a reservoir including a plunger and a plunger rod and a filling needle configured to be removably attached to the reservoir, wherein the fill adapter is configured to be attached to a vial of fluid and wherein fluid from the vial flows through the fluid pathway and is heated and loaded into the reservoir through the filling needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Dean Kamen, John M. Kerwin, Kevin A. Durand, Larry B. Gray, Gregory R. Lanier, JR., Colin H. Murphy
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Patent number: 11946892Abstract: For moisture detection and prevention systems, the reduction or prevention of false positive and false negative alarms is of immense economic value. A method of discriminating the types of materials in contact with a capacitive detector can be easily implemented even for battery-powered devices and has already proven useful in testing in preventing false alarms, and discriminating various solutions.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventors: Terry Lance Beasley, Daniel L. Dietzen, Gary H. Dietzen, Ronald R. Murphy
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Publication number: 20240092403Abstract: A knuckle pin, coupling system, and method for producing a knuckle pin are provided, the knuckle pin having a cylindrical body with a longitudinal slot therein separating vertical edges of the cylindrical body, with one or more first retaining elements that span outward of the cylindrical body, and a second retainer that includes one or more of opposing apertures, and bendable legs. A method for producing the knuckle pin is provided, where a blank is stamped into a workpiece that corresponds to the pin to be produced, and the stamped workpiece is rolled to produce the pin with the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Pennsy CorporationInventors: Zachary Ryan Brook, Manuel Tavares, Aaron Stern, Wayne H. Murphy
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Publication number: 20240091301Abstract: The present invention provides apelin receptor (APLNR) modulators that bind to APLNR and methods of using the same. The invention includes APLNR modulators such as antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, which inhibit or attenuate APLNR-mediated signaling. The invention includes APLNR modulators such as antibodies, or antibody fusion proteins thereof, that activate APLNR-mediated signaling. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments or antibody fusion proteins are fully human antibodies that bind to human APLNR with high affinity. The APLNR modulators of the invention are useful for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with APLNR signaling and/or APLNR cellular expression, such as cardiovascular diseases, angiogenesis diseases, metabolic diseases and fibrotic diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Panayiotis Stevis, Andrew J. Murphy, Jesper Gromada, Yonaton Ray, Jee H. Kim, Ivan B. Lobov
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Publication number: 20240075969Abstract: A system, methods and devices for automating inspection of a brake system on a railway vehicle, such as a freight car or train of a plurality of cars is provided. According to preferred embodiments, the system may be configured for use in conjunction with existing braking systems currently on railway vehicles, such as those on freight cars and other railway vehicles. The system, methods and devices comprise a wireless brake monitoring sensor that includes a radar unit or circuitry and directs a beam toward targets that designated as one or more brake assembly components or locations on the components to monitor a condition or position of a brake or brake component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Pennsy Digital Inc.Inventors: William Lefebvre, Ryan Green, Wayne H. Murphy, Zachary Ryan Brook
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Patent number: 11915259Abstract: A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Gasmart, LLCInventors: Joseph H. LeBlanc, Jr., Nick DiCosola, Sagy P. Mintz, Leo E. Murphy, Robert A. Miller, William K. Ward, William F. Kerins, Luis R. Luque, Parker P. Drew, James V. Blanton
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Patent number: 11890448Abstract: A method for controlling a device using a shape-memory alloy wire is disclosed. The method includes determining an ontime for the shape-memory alloy wire based on a target volume to be pumped by a pump plunger, determining the temperature of the shape-memory alloy wire and adjusting the ontime based on the temperature of the shape-memory alloy wire.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Colin H. Murphy, Dean Kamen, John M. Kerwin, Larry B. Gray
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Patent number: 11858488Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for monitoring the stress of a rail, in particular, of continuous welded rail (CWR), providing a device that includes radar processing mechanisms and circuitry which is mountable on a rail to be monitored. The radar unit is sealed in a housing and projects a beam to a fixed target that is within a detection range of the radar unit. The radar unit also includes circuitry that allows programming of readings to take place at predetermined time intervals so changes and the extent of changes in conditions of the rail may be determined, and communicated to a remotely situated monitoring device, which may take place through a gateway or other communication network. The devices also may be used to measure temperature and other properties, rail conditions within a tunnel, such as proximity of the rail to walls, as well as ground condition, and bridge monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Pennsy Digital Inc.Inventors: William Lefebvre, Wayne H. Murphy, Zachary Zasada, Zachary Ryan Brook
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Publication number: 20230420101Abstract: A peristaltic pump having at least first, second, and third stages is provided. The peristaltic pump includes a plunger, inlet and outlet valves, a spring, and an actuator. The plunger actuates toward and away from a tube, the inlet valve is upstream of the plunger, the outlet valve is downstream of the plunger, the spring biases the plunger toward the tube, and the actuator mechanically engages and disengages from the plunger. In the first stage, the inlet valve is opened and the plunger is actuated from the tube, in the second stage, the inlet valve is closed, the plunger is actuated toward the tube, and the actuator is mechanically disengaged from the plunger, and in the third stage, the outlet valve is opened. In the third stage or in a fourth stage, the actuator actuates the plunger toward the tube to discharge fluid downstream past the outlet valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Dean Kamen, John M. Kerwin, Colin H. Murphy, Christopher C. Langenfeld, Michael J. Slate, Michael S. Place, Larry B. Gray
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Publication number: 20230409703Abstract: A method includes predicting, before a first period of time, a plurality of predicted event metric values and value ranges corresponding to a first plurality of events to occur over the first period of time based on a plurality of prediction models, determining an actual event metric value of the first plurality of events, and determining a plurality of model range multi-partition error (MRME) values indicative of an accuracy, precision, and relative range of the forecasting models based on the actual event metric values, value ranges, and the predicted event metric values. The method includes selecting one of the forecasting models based on the MRME values, determining a cyber security control limit based on a predicted event metric value or predicted event metric range by the selected forecasting model, and outputting an alert based on an actual event metric value being outside of the cyber security control limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Ziqian Huang, Matthew H. Murphy, Michael J. Levin, William Casey
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Patent number: 11813045Abstract: An implantable intravascular pressure sensor comprising a first transducer arranged to provide a pressure dependent signal in response to alternating electrical signals of a first frequency band, a second transducer arranged to provide a reference signal in response to alternating electrical signals of a second frequency band different from the first frequency band and an antenna coupling for sending and receiving said signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: IP2IPO INNOVATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Mohammad Reza Bahmanyar, Christopher Neil McLeod, Olive H Murphy
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Publication number: 20230360763Abstract: A peristaltic pump includes a plunger-cam follower, a tube receiver, a spring-biased plunger, a spring, a position sensor, and a processor. The plunger-cam follower engages the plunger cam to follow the plunger cam and to disengage from the plunger cam. The spring-biased plunger is coupled to the plunger-cam follower and the spring biases the spring-biased plunger toward the tube receiver. The position sensor determines a position of the spring-biased plunger when the plunger-cam follower is disengaged from the plunger came. The processor estimates fluid flow utilizing at least the position of the spring-biased plunger as indicated by the position sensor when the plunger-cam follower is disengaged from the plunger cam and the spring biases the spring-biased plunger against the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Dean Kamen, John M. Kerwin, Colin H. Murphy, Christopher C. Langenfeld, Michael J. Slate, Michael S. Place, Larry B. Gray
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Patent number: 11793928Abstract: A system for regulating fluid flow having a processor configured to reduce image noise is provided. The system includes an image sensor to capture an image of the drip chamber. The processor captures the image of the drip chamber using the image sensor, performs an edge detection on the image to generate a first processed image, and performs a Boolean-operation on a pixel on a first side of an axis of the first processed image with a corresponding pixel on a second side of the axis of the first processed image to generate a second processed image.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Bob D. Peret, Derek G. Kane, Dean Kamen, Colin H. Murphy, John M. Kerwin
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Patent number: 11796371Abstract: An acoustic volume sensing device is disclosed. The device includes a housing comprising a reference volume chamber and a variable volume chamber, the reference volume chamber and the variable volume chamber connected by a resonant port, a first MEMS microphone located in acoustic relation to the variable volume chamber, a second MEMS microphone located in acoustic relation to the reference volume chamber, a MEMS speaker located in acoustic relation to the reference volume chamber, and a circuit board in electric connection with the first and second MEMS microphones and the MEMS speaker.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Gregory R. Lanier, Jr., John M. Kerwin, Colin H. Murphy, Larry B. Gray
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Patent number: 11779703Abstract: A pump for pumping fluid includes a tube platen, a plunger, a bias member, inlet and outlet valves, an actuator mechanism, a position sensor, and a processor. The plunger is configured for actuation toward and away from the infusion-tube when the tube platen is disposed opposite to the plunger. The tube platen can hold an intravenous infusion tube. The bias member is configured to urge the plunger toward the tube platen.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Dean Kamen, John M. Kerwin, Colin H. Murphy, Jonathan Parker, Daniel F. Pawlowski, Dirk A. van der Merwe, Larry B. Gray, Christopher C. Langenfeld, Michael S. Place, Michael J. Slate
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Patent number: 11756662Abstract: A peristaltic pump having at least first, second, and third stages is provided. The peristaltic pump includes a plunger, inlet and outlet valves, a spring, and an actuator. The plunger actuates toward and away from a tube, the inlet valve is upstream of the plunger, the outlet valve is downstream of the plunger, the spring biases the plunger toward the tube, and the actuator mechanically engages and disengages from the plunger. In the first stage, the inlet valve is opened and the plunger is actuated from the tube, in the second stage, the inlet valve is closed, the plunger is actuated toward the tube, and the actuator is mechanically disengaged from the plunger, and in the third stage, the outlet valve is opened. In the third stage or in a fourth stage, the actuator actuates the plunger toward the tube to discharge fluid downstream past the outlet valve.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Dean Kamen, John M. Kerwin, Colin H. Murphy, Christopher C. Langenfeld, Michael J. Slate, Michael S. Place, Larry B. Gray