Patents by Inventor John A. McCarthy

John A. McCarthy 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: 20170311190
    Abstract: An apparatus determining network health in a network comprising base station transceivers in bidirectional communication with radios, each having an identifier and transmitting a signal including the identifier. First and second devices each receive the transmitted signal during normal over-the-air operation of the radio, measure signal parameters, and determine operating characteristics of the radio from the parameters. Each of the devices produce a responsive received signal when the first operating characteristics determined by the first device indicate a healthy first radio and the second device produces a responsive received signal when the second operating characteristics determined by the second device indicate a healthy first radio. The devices determine respective signal parameters of the respective received signals. The received signals are time aligned to insure that the devices have determined the respective signal parameters of the same transmitted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John McCarthy, Robert Mitchell, Joseph Rey
  • Publication number: 20170267183
    Abstract: A vehicle armrest assembly is disclosed. A component for a vehicle interior is also disclosed. The component may comprise a base comprising (1) a first divider configured to form a main compartment and a first side compartment and (2) a second divider configured to form the main compartment and a second side compartment; a cover configured to enclose the main compartment; a first door configured to enclose the first side compartment; and a second door configured to enclose the second side compartment. The cover may be configured to extend between the first divider and the second divider and move along the first divider and the second divider to uncover the main compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Robert Catlin, Tyler James Newkirk, Craig David Flowerday, David John McCarthy
  • Patent number: 9743302
    Abstract: An apparatus determining network health in a network comprising base station transceivers in bidirectional communication with radios, each having an identifier and transmitting a signal including the identifier. First and second devices each receive the transmitted signal during normal over-the-air operation of the radio, measure signal parameters, and determine operating characteristics of the radio from the parameters. Each of the devices produce a responsive received signal when the first operating characteristics determined by the first device indicate a healthy first radio and the second device produces a responsive received signal when the second operating characteristics determined by the second device indicate a healthy first radio. The devices determine respective signal parameters of the respective received signals. The received signals are time aligned to insure that the devices have determined the respective signal parameters of the same transmitted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John McCarthy, Robert Mitchell, Joseph Rey
  • Publication number: 20170238202
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying failed or suspect RF transmitting devices while the devices are in normal operation transmitting over-the-air RF signals, each of the RF transmitting devices including an identifier and being mobile, portable or stationary, includes an RF signal sensor receiving the RF signals and responsive thereto, an analyzer, and a GUI. The analyzer measuring signal parameters and determines operating characteristics of a device therefrom, determining the identifier, if each RF signal conforms to packet structure specifications, and bit-field information of each RF signal to discern therefrom a transmission type, measures RF frequency offset, correlates the bit-field information with the RF frequency offset utilizing the identifier; and repeats the last three steps to determine a range of RF frequency offset deviations over time. The GUI displays the range in a form used to identify an RF frequency offset range of the RF transmitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Rey, John McCarthy, Murad Qahwash
  • Publication number: 20170217456
    Abstract: A derail placement warning system for a railway derailer that automatically generates an alert to inform railway personnel (or others) of the placement of the derailer on a rail of the railway such that the derailer will derail rail traffic over the derailer. The warning system has an electronic circuit with an electric power source, an electronic switch and an electronic alert, and is configured for the switch to automatically activate and turn ON the alert when the derailing component of the derailer is positioned atop a railway rail. The alert comprises one or more of an audible component, a tactile sensation, an olfactory component, a visible light emission, and an electronic transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Green Timber Energy
    Inventor: John McCarthy
  • Patent number: 9707919
    Abstract: An airbag deployment system is provided that includes a support structure, and a fabric material configured to form a show surface of a vehicle interior panel. A first portion of the fabric material is coupled to the support structure by a rigid connection, a second portion of the fabric material is coupled to the support structure by a detachable connection, and the detachable connection is configured to release the second portion of the fabric material from the support structure upon contact between an airbag and the fabric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventors: Glenn A. Cowelchuk, Nels Smith, Heather R. Springer, Mark S. Jurek, Ronald A. Bozio, Sandra L. Smith, Jeffrey A. Deyoung, Tony M. Pokorzynski, David John McCarthy
  • Patent number: 9694731
    Abstract: A vehicle interior storage compartment is disclosed. The vehicle interior storage compartment is configured to store a beverage container. The vehicle interior storage compartment includes a substrate and a foam liner having a skin secured to the substrate during a forming process. The liner includes at least one protrusion configured to deform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventors: Jason M. Hipshier, David John McCarthy
  • Patent number: 9681321
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying failed or suspect RF transmitting devices while the devices are in normal operation transmitting over-the-air RF signals, each of the RF transmitting devices including an identifier and being mobile, portable or stationary, includes an RF signal sensor receiving the RF signals and responsive thereto, an analyzer, and a GUI. The analyzer measuring signal parameters and determines operating characteristics of a device therefrom, determining the identifier, if each RF signal conforms to packet structure specifications, and bit-field information of each RF signal to discern therefrom a transmission type, measures RF frequency offset, correlates the bit-field information with the RF frequency offset utilizing the identifier; and repeats the last three steps to determine a range of RF frequency offset deviations over time. The GUI displays the range in a form used to identify an RF frequency offset range of the RF transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Rey, John McCarthy, Murad Qahwash
  • Publication number: 20170126695
    Abstract: The UNIFIED ONLINE CONTENT MANAGER APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS (“Online Content Manager”) transforms identification information and selection data inputs via a search engine component, a query interface component, a profile component, a content retrieval interface component, a content management system component and a collaboration component into a profile data output, a generated query output, search results output, and a secure homepage with customized content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Richard S. Nassar, Richard John McCarthy
  • Patent number: 9552431
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for transforming user identification information and user selection data inputs into a profile data output, a generated query output, search results output, and a secure home page with customized content. According to one embodiment, the method includes indexing disparately owned content via a multi-content owner spider indexing engine; generating a disparately owned content index from the indexing engine; receiving, by a first server, a request to access secure content through a network, the request including user identification information; automatically constructing a query based on the request without input from the user; providing the constructed query to the search engine and running the constructed query against the index; constructing a display by placing the results of the query sent from the search engine within a multi-source owner template interface; and providing the multi-source owner template interface to a requestor for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Richard S. Nassar, Richard John McCarthy
  • Publication number: 20170008674
    Abstract: A pourer device for mounting to a mouth portion of bottles includes a mount portion and a guide chute. The guide chute includes a generally channel shaped body having a wider proximal entry portion adjacent the bottle neck and a main portion which converges to a narrower distal portion. The mount portion includes two generally half ring portions which allows the device to be mounted to the neck of any bottle and be removable therefrom and mounted to another bottle as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Paul John MCCARTHY
  • Publication number: 20160337890
    Abstract: An apparatus determining network health in a network comprising base station transceivers in bidirectional communication with radios, each having an identifier and transmitting a signal including the identifier. First and second devices each receive the transmitted signal during normal over-the-air operation of the radio, measure signal parameters, and determine operating characteristics of the radio from the parameters. Each of the devices produce a responsive received signal when the first operating characteristics determined by the first device indicate a healthy first radio and the second device produces a responsive received signal when the second operating characteristics determined by the second device indicate a healthy first radio. The devices determine respective signal parameters of the respective received signals. The received signals are time aligned to insure that the devices have determined the respective signal parameters of the same transmitted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: John McCarthy, Robert Mitchell, Joseph Rey
  • Patent number: 9482516
    Abstract: A method is used to determine an aiming point for a sighting system used by a shooter to shoot a target. The method includes receiving a range signal that corresponds to a distance from the shooter to the target. A first position signal is received from a magnification system sensor. A first magnification setting based at least in part on the first position signal is then determined. Thereafter, a first aiming point based at least in part on both of the range signal and the first magnification setting is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BURRIS CORPORATION
    Inventors: John McCarthy, Walter D. Stoddard, Douglas F. Paterson
  • Publication number: 20160289780
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related a method for the liquefaction of high-solids biomass substrates. Particularly, biomass can be added to a reactor until a pressure drop, measured inline, reaches the maximum system limitations. A commercial enzyme mixture (specific for the particular type of biomass to be processed) may then be added to the biomass, forming a slurry. The pressure may be continuously monitored and when the pressure drop reaches a steady state (which can be determined by little or no change in pressure drop for several minutes), more biomass may then be added until the high pressure limit of the pump system is reached again. The method can be repeated until the desired quantity of biomass is processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicants: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, ASPECT AI LTD.
    Inventors: Maria Cardona, Robert Louis Powell, III, Michael John McCarthy, Tina Jeoh Zicari, Emilio Javier Tozzi
  • Patent number: 9432866
    Abstract: An apparatus determining network health in a network comprising base station transceivers in bidirectional communication with radios, each having an identifier and transmitting a signal including the identifier. First and second devices each receive the transmitted signal during normal over-the-air operation of the radio, measure signal parameters, and determine operating characteristics of the radio from the parameters. Each of the devices produce a responsive received signal when the first operating characteristics determined by the first device indicate a healthy first radio and the second device produces a responsive received signal when the second operating characteristics determined by the second device indicate a healthy first radio. The devices determine respective signal parameters of the respective received signals. The received signals are time aligned to insure that the devices have determined the respective signal parameters of the same transmitted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: LOCUS LOCATION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: John McCarthy, Robert Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20160167032
    Abstract: Hydrogenation catalysts for aromatic hydrogenation including an organosilica material support, which is a polymer comprising independent units of a monomer of Formula [Z1OZ2OSiCH2]3 (I), wherein each Z1 and Z2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-C4 alkyl group or a bond to a silicon atom of another monomer; and at least one catalyst metal are provided herein. Methods of making the hydrogenation catalysts and processes of using, e.g., aromatic hydrogenation, the hydrogenation catalyst are also provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Paul Podsiadlo, Quanchang Li, David Charles Calabro, Jean Willem Lodewijk Beeckman, Lei Zhang, Kiara M. Benitez, Matthew Scott Ide, Stephen John McCarthy, Mobae Afeworki, Simon Christopher Weston
  • Patent number: 9365430
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a novel method of making and recovering M41S family molecular sieve materials using synthesis mixtures having high solids-content and without a purification step. The solids-content, for example, is in a range from about 20 wt. % to 50 wt. %. The method also includes the step of mixing at least a portion of the M41S made with another material to form a composition, wherein the amount of said material to be mixed with said M41S product is such that said composition having less than 10 wt. % free fluid. The material mixed with the M41S made includes metal oxides, metal nitrides, metal carbides and mixtures thereof, as well as absorptive material capable of absorbing mother liquor and selected from the group consisting of carbon silica, alumina, titania, zirconia and mixtures thereof. The amount of the wastewater generated by this novel method is reduced by at least 50% to as much as 100% as comparing with conventional method of making M41S materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Wenyih Frank Lai, Robert Ellis Kay, Stephen John McCarthy
  • Publication number: 20160089673
    Abstract: A hydraulic cell stretching device comprising a source of variable pressured hydraulic fluid hydraulically coupled to a flexing chamber. The flexing chamber has at least one cell well. The cell well has a membrane subjected to the variable pressured hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
    Inventors: Kevin John McCARTHY, Deborah Jane WASSENHOVE-McCARTHY
  • Publication number: 20160073280
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying failed or suspect RF transmitting devices while the devices are in normal operation transmitting over-the-air RF signals, each of the RF transmitting devices including an identifier and being mobile, portable or stationary, includes an RF signal sensor receiving the RF signals and responsive thereto, an analyzer, and a GUI. The analyzer measuring signal parameters and determines operating characteristics of a device therefrom, determining the identifier, if each RF signal conforms to packet structure specifications, and bit-field information of each RF signal to discern therefrom a transmission type, measures RF frequency offset, correlates the bit-field information with the RF frequency offset utilizing the identifier; and repeats the last three steps to determine a range of RF frequency offset deviations over time. The GUI displays the range in a form used to identify an RF frequency offset range of the RF transmitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph Rey, John McCarthy, Murad Qahwash
  • Patent number: 9282482
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying failed or suspect RF transmitting devices while the devices are in normal operation transmitting over-the-air RF signals. The apparatus comprises an RF signal sensor receiving the RF signals from at least one of the devices that are mobile or portable. The sensor is responsive to the received RF signals. An analyzer determines RF frequency characteristics of the received RF signals from the at least one transmitting device, determines the respective identifier of the at least one transmitting device from the received RF signals, and uses the identifier from the received RF signals to correlate the RF frequency characteristics of the particular one of the transmitting devices. A graphical user interface displays at least one RF frequency characteristic in a form that can be used to identify transmitting devices that have failed and transmitting devices that are suspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Rey, John McCarthy, Murad Qahwash