Patents by Inventor John Coughlin

John Coughlin 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: 11826625
    Abstract: A golf swing training device includes a sleeve or strap arrangement to be worn about the elbow of a golfer's leading arm and an elbow bracing assembly attached to or integrated with the sleeve or strap arrangement. The elbow bracing assembly includes pivotally connected first and second brace members and a lock bar slidable within the first and second brace members between a locked position and an unlocked position. The lock bar in the locked position substantially prevents pivotal movement of the first and second brace members, thereby preventing bending of the elbow of the leading arm during a back-swing and down-swing portions of a golf swing. The lock bar in the unlocked position allows pivotal movement of the first and second brace members, thereby allowing the device to bend with bending of the elbow of the leading arm during an up-swing portion of the golf swing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: FBJ Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Bijan Sepahpour, Francis M. Brown, John Coughlin
  • Patent number: 9767471
    Abstract: A service provider may receive transaction information from a plurality of merchant devices for a plurality of point of sale transactions conducted between buyers and merchants. The service provider can associate the transaction information with respective buyer profiles of a plurality of buyer profiles. In some examples, the service provider may determine a subset of the buyer profiles based on at least a portion of the buyer profiles in the subset including transaction information that is related to a particular one of the merchants. The service provider may further determine at least one characteristic associated with at least some of the buyer profiles in the subset, and may send a recommendation to the particular merchant related to the at least one characteristic. As an example, the recommendation may be for improving or optimizing the business of the particular merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Gian Perrone, Mai Leduc, John Coughlin, Abhay Kumar
  • Patent number: 7722715
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of pigment compositions which give improved ink flow is provided which comprises treating the pigment, during the pigment synthesis, with a small amount of a long chain aliphatic amine. The pigment compositions obtained can be used for preparing millbase inks which due to their improved flow viscosity (rheology) at high pigmentation can be easily handled as well as flexibly formulated, e.g. a number of final printing inks for different ink applications can be manufactured from a single millbase in a very economical manner. The final inks are preferably used in packaging gravure printing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Haggata, Iain Frank Fraser, Stephen John Coughlin
  • Publication number: 20080271635
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of pigment compositions which give improved ink flow is provided which comprises treating the pigment, during the pigment synthesis, with a small amount of a long chain aliphatic amine. The pigment compositions obtained can be used for preparing millbase inks which due to their improved flow viscosity (rheology) at high pigmentation can be easily handled as well as flexibly formulated, e.g. a number of final printing inks for different ink applications can be manufactured from a single millbase in a very economical manner. The final inks are preferably used in packaging gravure printing processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Stephen Haggata, Iain Frank Fraser, Stephen John Coughlin
  • Publication number: 20060206398
    Abstract: A method for mitigating risks associated with a reinsured annuity contract includes reinsuring variable annuity contracts having guaranteed minimum death benefits, calculating risk statistics based on one or more characteristics of the plurality of guaranteed minimum death benefit variable annuity contracts, determining a set of market indices that model the performance of the reinsured variable annuity contracts based on the plurality of risk statistics, and hedging the risks associated with the reinsured variable annuity contracts by purchasing one or more option contracts based on the determined market indices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventor: John Coughlin
  • Publication number: 20060180043
    Abstract: According to the present teachings, a system and method are provided for decontaminating a conduit or vessel contaminated with residual explosive material. The system can include a heated gas flow source for heating a gas and providing a flow of the heated gas into the interior of a conduit or vessel. The temperature of the heated flow of gas can be at or in excess of the break down temperature of the residual explosive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Plexus Scientific Corporation
    Inventors: John Coughlin, Mark Sylvester, Charles Irvin
  • Patent number: 7074267
    Abstract: Pigment composition comprising an organic pigment and a combination of at least two normally water-soluble coloured compounds (dyes) of opposing charge, i.e. of at least one anionic and one cationic dye are provided. The compositions impart improved rheology on non-aqueous pigment based printing inks and paints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen John Coughlin, Iain Frank Fraser, Thomas Healy, Stuart Cook Niven
  • Publication number: 20060124019
    Abstract: A device and method for cleaning a sewer line, or other conduit, storage tank, or other vessel, of explosive material deposited in and/or on an inner wall thereof, includes placing a flexible hose containing a non-explosive pyrotechnic composition within the conduit or vessel, and burning the pyrotechnic composition. According to various embodiments, the non-explosive pyrotechnic composition can be a composition that burns, combusts, or deflagrates, at a rate that enables it to be classified as a D.O.T. class 1.4 explosive posing no significant detonation or blast hazard and that can be shipped to various locations using relatively inexpensive shipping means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: Plexus Scientific Corporation
    Inventors: John Coughlin, Mark Sylvester
  • Publication number: 20060014176
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the design and use of a multipurpose reactor that may be adapted to accommodate a wide variety of solid phase and liquid phase reaction chemistries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Radhakrishnan Iyer, Seetharamaiyer Padmanabhan, John Coughlin
  • Publication number: 20050230592
    Abstract: An automated page turner apparatus for turning the pages of a book either forwards or backwards under the control of a single-switch input. It comprises of a base for book support, a clutch based mechanism for lifting a page with an adhesive head, a shifting mechanism for flipping a page to the opposite side, and an electronic controller for receiving the user input. The lifting mechanism includes a four-bar system for creating a peeling action to separate the adhesive head from the lifted page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Adam Tillinghast, Nevan Hanumara, Ellaine Abueg, John Coughlin, Terence Malaghan, Oliver Koenig, Musa Jouaneh, Robert Comerford, Ying Sun
  • Patent number: 6946550
    Abstract: Azo compounds of formula (I), wherein X stands for halogen, in particular for chlorine, or C1-C4alkoxy, in particular for methoxy, Y stands for β€”CH2β€” or β€”Oβ€”, R1 and R2, independently from each other, stand for hydrogen, C1-C8alkyl, or C6-C14aryl, which may be substituted up to three times with C1-C8alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy or halogen, a process for their preparation and their use as fluorescent compounds, in particular as solid fluorescent compounds, such as for special effect printing, sectrity printing or in the opto-electronic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Iain Frank Fraser, Ian Alexander Macpherson, David Macdonald Smith, Simon Martyr, Greig Chisholm, Stephen John Coughlin