Patents by Inventor John A. Connor

John A. Connor 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).

  • Publication number: 20240089206
    Abstract: A computing device includes an appliance status table to store at least one of reliability and performance data for one or more network functions virtualization (NFV) appliances and one or more legacy network appliances. The computing device includes a load controller to configure an Internet Protocol (IP) filter rule to select a packet for which processing of the packet is to be migrated from a selected one of the one or more legacy network appliances to a selected one of the one or more NFV appliances, and to update the appliance status table with received at least one of reliability and performance data for the one or more legacy network appliances and the one or more NFV appliances. The computing device includes a packet distributor to receive the packet, to select one of the one or more NFV appliances based at least in part on the appliance status table, and to send the packet to the selected NFV appliance. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick CONNOR, Andrey CHILIKIN, Brendan RYAN, Chris MACNAMARA, John J. BROWNE, Krishnamurthy JAMBUR SATHYANARAYANA, Stephen DOYLE, Tomasz KANTECKI, Anthony KELLY, Ciara LOFTUS, Fiona TRAHE
  • Patent number: 11880501
    Abstract: A user profile generating system for generating a user profile for use with a processing device operable to display content includes: a head motion tracking unit operable to identify head motion of the user, an eye motion tracking unit operable to identify eye motion of the user, and a profile generating unit operable to generate a user profile comprising head tracking and eye tracking information for the user, where the generated user profile is used to modify interactions between the user and a processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick John Connor, Richard James Forster, Andrew William Walker, Matthew William Sanders, Jessica Rose Grant, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Ludwig Sidenmark
  • Publication number: 20240011990
    Abstract: The systems, methods, devices and kits disclosed herein be used to determine the presence and/or level a target analyte(s) in a biological sample, wherein the analyte(s) is associated with a pathogenic (e.g., a viral antigen or whole virus) or otherwise altered physiological condition (e.g., pregnancy). In certain embodiments, the systems, methods, devices and kits provide one or more improved properties relative to the RT-PCT and lateral flow antibody assays known in the art for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, including but not limited to, assay time, ease of use, risk of infection, accuracy, specificity, selectivity, limit of detection of the assay, quantitative detection and the effect of common interferents to the sensor output, cost, simplicity or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Karthika SANKAR, Scott SCHAUS, James GALAGAN, Catherine KLAPPERICH, John CONNOR, Mark GRINSTAFF, Keith HEARON
  • Publication number: 20240001233
    Abstract: A visual perception assistance apparatus includes a rendering unit configured to render, for display, a virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising one or more virtual elements; a selection unit configured to select one or more of the virtual elements; and an adapting unit configured to, for a given selected virtual element, adapt one or more aspects associated with an appearance of the given selected virtual element in dependence upon a distance between the given selected virtual element and a predetermined location within the virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev Gupta, Jason Craig Millson, Patrick John Connor, Maurizio Cerrato, Christopher William Henderson
  • Publication number: 20230398013
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a brace for supporting a spine of a patient. The brace includes an anterior panel, a posterior panel, lateral panels bridging between the anterior panel and the posterior panel, and an adjustable belt tightenable around the anterior panel, the brace selectively configurable to include either lateral panels attachable to the posterior, a posterior thoracic extension attachable to the posterior panel or a dorsal lumbar extension attachable to the posterior panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas John Poker, Lily Dawn Goins, Dhanvin Sunil Desai, John Connor Brown, Charles Joseph French, III, Karen M. Clements, Nicholas Joseph Marquette, Olufunke Tina Anjonrin-Ohu
  • Patent number: 11771580
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a brace for supporting a spine of a patient. The brace includes an anterior panel, a posterior panel, lateral panels bridging between the anterior panel and the posterior panel, and an adjustable belt tightenable around the anterior panel, the brace selectively configurable to include either lateral panels attachable to the posterior, a posterior thoracic extension attachable to the posterior panel or a dorsal lumbar extension attachable to the posterior panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Poker, Lily Dawn Goins, Dhanvin Sunil Desai, John Connor Brown, Charles Joseph French, III, Karen M. Clements, Nicholas Joseph Marquette, Olufunke Tina Anjonrin-Ohu
  • Publication number: 20230296633
    Abstract: Systems and methods for imaging and tracking fibrin formation via interaction of a test sample with a clotting agent or for imaging and tracking fibrin removal by an anti-clotting agent are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: John Connor, Shinichiro Kurosawa, Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, George G. Daaboul
  • Patent number: 11759089
    Abstract: A lint brush includes a housing and a lint tool having a lint-removing material. The lint tool is movable along a longitudinal axis of the housing between a stowed position where the lint tool is housed in the housing and a deployed position where the lint tool is extended from the housing. The lint tool is rotatable relative to the longitudinal axis from the deployed position to a first rotated position. An actuator is mounted to one of the housing and the lint tool. The actuator is configured to move the lint tool from the first rotated position back to the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Helen of Troy Limited
    Inventors: Daniel John Connors, Conor Patrick McNamara, Benjamin Beck, Douglas A. Marsden, Ryan Donovan, Michael McDuffee, Jonathan Mark Liston, Phillip Seagram, Marina Eaves
  • Patent number: 11759712
    Abstract: A method of data storage includes associating delta colour compression DCC metadata with one or more tiles of graphics data, selecting one or more such tiles that are uniform in colour and hence can be accurately represented by the DCC metadata for that tile, and replacing some or all of the graphics data in one or more selected tiles with different data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Keith John Withey, Patrick John Connor
  • Patent number: 11752025
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a brace for supporting a spine of a patient. The brace includes an anterior panel, a posterior panel, lateral panels bridging between the anterior panel and the posterior panel, and an adjustable belt tightenable around the anterior panel, the brace selectively configurable to include either lateral panels attachable to the posterior, a posterior thoracic extension attachable to the posterior panel or a dorsal lumbar extension attachable to the posterior panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas John Poker, Lily Dawn Goins, Dhanvin Sunil Desai, John Connor Brown, Charles Joseph French, III, Karen M. Clements, Nicholas Joseph Marquette, Olufunke Tina Anjonrin-Ohu
  • Patent number: 11752113
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are polyamine transport inhibitors (PTI) and methods of use as antivirals. Disclosed PTI compounds are useful as treatments for viral infections or can be used as prophylactic agents that protect high risk individuals from becoming infected by the virus. The disclosed PTI compounds can be used alone or in combination with other agents (or other antivirals) to improve patient outcomes such as DFMO (or Remdesivir).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Boston University
    Inventors: Otto Phanstiel, IV, John Connor
  • Publication number: 20230252693
    Abstract: An image processing system operable to generate one or more images for display, the system comprising a rendering unit operable to render one or more of a plurality of textures using flexible scale rasterization, FSR, a metadata generation unit operable to generate metadata indicating one or more properties of the FSR used to render a corresponding texture, a shader compiler operable to read the metadata, and to modify a shader to enable a texture sampling to be performed that includes an FSR resolve where the metadata indicates that a corresponding texture has been rendered with FSR, and an image generation unit operable to generate an image for display using at least one modified shader, the generated image including one or more of the plurality of textures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick John Connor
  • Publication number: 20230252596
    Abstract: An image processing system operable to generate one or more images for display, the system comprising a rendering unit operable to render one or more portions of an image using a plurality of flexible scale rasterization, FSR, schemes, a metadata generation unit operable to generate metadata indicating one or more properties of each of the FSR schemes used to render a particular image portion, a shader compiler operable to read the metadata, and to modify a shader to enable an image portion sampling to be performed that includes a corresponding FSR resolve where the metadata indicates that the particular image portion has been rendered with FSR, and an image generation unit operable to generate an image for display using at least one modified shader, the generated image including one or more of the plurality of image portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick John Connor
  • Patent number: 11650417
    Abstract: Apparatus comprises an image processor configured to provide output video images to a head mountable display, HMD, having one or more display elements to display video images to a wearer of the HMD, for display by the one or more display elements in response to input video images, in which each output video image corresponds to a respective input video image; in which: the image processor comprises a detector configured to detect whether an input image brightness at image locations in the input video images exceeds a threshold image brightness; and the image processor is configured to vary a relationship between the display properties at a given image location in a given output video image and the input image display properties at the given image location in the corresponding input video image in response to a detection that image brightness at the given image location in one or more input video images preceding that corresponding input video image exceeded the threshold image brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nigel John Williams, Patrick John Connor
  • Patent number: 11568893
    Abstract: A method of capturing free viewpoint content at a location includes recording video on each of a plurality of portable video recording devices at the location; each portable video recording device detecting a wireless synchronisation signal transmitted at the location; and each portable video recording device periodically adding a timestamp to its respective recorded video; where the timestamp is responsive to the detected wireless synchronisation signal, thereby enabling synchronisation of a plurality of recorded videos responsive to the timestamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick John Connor, Timothy Bradley, Andrew William Walker
  • Patent number: 11557020
    Abstract: An eye tracking system for tracking one or more of a user's eyes includes an closed-eye detector operable to detect when a user has closed one or more of their eyes, an eye tracker operable to detect an eye orientation in dependence upon a measured deformation of an eyelid corresponding to the an eye that has been detected to be shut, and an image renderer operable to render a foveated image for display in response to the detected eye orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick John Connor
  • Publication number: 20230000658
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a brace having a brace panel; a pad having an adjustment post with adjustment apertures; and an adjustable mount integrated with the panel for adjustably mounting the pad onto the panel, the adjustable mount including wedged levers operatively associated with a retaining arm having pins and located within a channel configured to receive the adjustment post of the sternal pad and the adjustment apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas John Poker, Lily Dawn Goins, Dhanvin Sunil Desai, John Connor Brown, Charles Joseph French, III, Karen M. Clements, Olufunke Tina Anjonrin-Ohu
  • Patent number: 11507184
    Abstract: A head-mountable display (HMD) system includes at least one detector to detect movement of an eye of a user wearing the HMD, control circuitry to detect saccadic movement of the eye in dependence upon the detected movement of the eye, a display unit and a processor to generate images for display to the user by the display unit, in which the control circuitry is configured to control the processor in response to the detected saccadic movement, in which the control circuitry is configured to control the processor to adjust one or more image quality parameters for one or more of the images to be displayed by the display unit during the detected saccadic movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick John Connor, Matthew William Sanders, Mark Jacobus Breugelmans, Maria Chiara Monti
  • Patent number: 11501469
    Abstract: A data generation system for generating data representing content to be displayed includes: a content dividing unit operable to divide content to be displayed into a plurality of polyhedra and generate polyhedron position information, an intersection detecting unit operable to generate intersection information that describes the intersection of one or more surfaces within the content with the plurality of polyhedra, a polyhedron classifying unit operable to classify each of the polyhedra in dependence upon the intersection information, the classification indicating the properties of the surface within the respective polyhedra, and a data generating unit operable to generate data comprising the polyhedron position information and the polyhedron classification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick John Connor
  • Patent number: D1007155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Helen of Troy Limited
    Inventors: Daniel John Connors, Conor Patrick McNamara, Benjamin Beck, Douglas A. Marsden, Ryan Donovan, Michael McDuffee, Jonathan Mark Liston, Phillip Seagram, Marina Eaves