Patents by Inventor John Meehan

John Meehan 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: 11302295
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tuning guide for tuning a brass musical instrument having a tuning slide. The tuning guide includes (1) visual markings provided along one arm of the tuning slide indicating a plurality of tuning positions of the tuning slide and (2) a tuning log for logging a tuning history specific to both the instrument and a particular player of the instrument. The tuning log includes a plurality of tuning records, each tuning record including (i) one or more conditions fields, each conditions field for recording an environmental condition and (ii) a tuning position field for specifying a tuning position at which the instrument is properly tuned under the environmental conditions recorded in the one or more conditions fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventor: John Meehan
  • Patent number: 11080385
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for enabling multi-factor authentication for seamless website logins may include (1) generating a numerical sequence utilized for authenticating a user for multi-factor authentication on a website, (2) detecting user login credentials for initiating a multi-factor authentication session on the website, (3) receiving, in response to the user login credentials, a request for multi-factor authentication data associated with the numerical sequence from the website, (4) retrieving, utilizing an application programming interface (API), the multi-factor authentication data from a secure storage associated with the user, and (5) providing, utilizing the API, the multi-factor authentication data to the website to login the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: SriHarsha Angara, Michael Lo, Simon Tiku, John Meehan
  • Patent number: 10885223
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for anonymizing user accounts may include (i) receiving an instruction to anonymize a user account to protect a user's personally identifiable information, (ii) accessing, by a security program, a settings portal for the user account in response to receiving the instruction to anonymize the user account, (iii) replacing, by the security program, original values within at least two fields within the settings portal for the user account with anonymized values to mask the user's personally identifiable information, and (iv) storing the anonymized values within a protected vault to enable the user to login to the user account. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock, Inc.
    Inventors: SriHarsha Angara, Michael Lo, John Meehan, Srinivas Chillappa, Simon Tiku, Viral Mehta
  • Patent number: 10771504
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting unauthorized data shares may include (1) providing a user of an anonymized inbox with an email alias to use for a particular online entity, (2) identifying one or more emails sent to the email alias from one or more different entities that are different from the particular online entity, (3) determining, based on the one or more emails having been sent by the different entities, that the particular online entity has shared the user's email alias with other entities, and (4) creating a privacy score for the particular online entity based at least in part on the determination that the particular online entity has shared the user's email alias with other entities. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: SriHarsha Angara, Michael Lo, Srini Chillappa, Simon Tiku, Viral Mehta, John Meehan
  • Publication number: 20190379695
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting unauthorized data shares may include (1) providing a user of an anonymized inbox with an email alias to use for a particular online entity, (2) identifying one or more emails sent to the email alias from one or more different entities that are different from the particular online entity, (3) determining, based on the one or more emails having been sent by the different entities, that the particular online entity has shared the user's email alias with other entities, and (4) creating a privacy score for the particular online entity based at least in part on the determination that the particular online entity has shared the user's email alias with other entities. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: SriHarsha Angara, Michael Lo, Srini Chillappa, Simon Tiku, Viral Mehta, John Meehan
  • Publication number: 20190180053
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for anonymizing user accounts may include (i) receiving an instruction to anonymize a user account to protect a user's personally identifiable information, (ii) accessing, by a security program, a settings portal for the user account in response to receiving the instruction to anonymize the user account, (iii) replacing, by the security program, original values within at least two fields within the settings portal for the user account with anonymized values to mask the user's personally identifiable information, and (iv) storing the anonymized values within a protected vault to enable the user to login to the user account. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: SriHarsha Angara, Michael Lo, John Meehan, Srinivas Chillappa, Simon Tiku, Viral Mehta
  • Publication number: 20170213528
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tuning guide for tuning a brass musical instrument having a tuning slide. The tuning guide includes (1) visual markings provided along one arm of the tuning slide indicating a plurality of tuning positions of the tuning slide and (2) a tuning log for logging a tuning history specific to both the instrument and a particular player of the instrument. The tuning log includes a plurality of tuning records, each tuning record including (i) one or more conditions fields, each conditions field for recording an environmental condition and (ii) a tuning position field for specifying a tuning position at which the instrument is properly tuned under the environmental conditions recorded in the one or more conditions fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventor: John Meehan
  • Patent number: 8858678
    Abstract: A method and system for making metallic iron nodules with reduced CO2 emissions is disclosed. The method includes: assembling a linear hearth furnace having entry and exit portions, at least a conversion zone and a fusion zone, and a moving hearth adapted to move reducible iron bearing material through the furnace on contiguous hearth sections; assembling a shrouded return substantially free of air ingress extending adjacent at least the conversion and fusion zones of the furnace through which hearth sections can move from adjacent the exit portion to adjacent the entry portion of the furnace; transferring the hearth sections from the furnace to the shrouded return adjacent the exit portion; reducing reducible material in the linear hearth furnace to metallic iron nodules; and transporting gases from at least the fusion zone to the shrouded return to heat the hearth sections while in the shrouded return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nu-Iron Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Richard F. Kiesel, David J. Englund, Mark Schlichting, John Meehan, Jeremiah Crouch, Logan Wilson
  • Patent number: 8790442
    Abstract: A method of production of metallic iron nodules comprises assembling a hearth furnace having a moveable hearth comprising refractory material and having a conversion zone and a fusion zone, providing a hearth material layer comprising carbonaceous material on the refractory material, providing a layer of reducible material comprising and iron bearing material arranged in discrete portions over at least a portion of the hearth material layer, delivering oxygen gas into the hearth furnace to a ratio of at least 0.8:1 ponds of oxygen to pounds of iron in the reducible material to heat the conversion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material and to heat the fusion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material, and heating the reducible material to form one or more metallic iron nodules and slag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Nu-Iron Technology LLC
    Inventors: David J. Englund, Mark Schlichting, John Meehan, Jeremiah Crouch, Logan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20120279353
    Abstract: A method for producing metallic iron including providing a hearth furnace having an entry end and a discharge end, a moveable hearth, and an exhaust stack positioned toward the entry end of the furnace, providing a carbonaceous hearth layer above the hearth, providing a layer of reducible material comprising reducing material and iron bearing material, delivering a flow of gases into the hearth furnace through burners, gas injection ports, or a combination thereof directing a flow of gases toward the entry end selected from combustible fuel, oxygen and carbon dioxide, oxygen and flue gas, oxygen and air, or a combination thereof to heat the furnace to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material, increasing the velocity of the flow of gas to greater than 4 feet per second along the furnace, and heating the layer of reducible material to at least partially reduce the reducible material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: NU-IRON TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Englund, Mark Schlichting, John Meehan, Jeremiah Crouch, Logan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20120198966
    Abstract: A method and system for making metallic iron nodules with reduced CO2 emissions is disclosed. The method includes: assembling a linear hearth furnace having entry and exit portions, at least a conversion zone and a fusion zone, and a moving hearth adapted to move reducible iron bearing material through the furnace on contiguous hearth sections; assembling a shrouded return substantially free of air ingress extending adjacent at least the conversion and fusion zones of the furnace through which hearth sections can move from adjacent the exit portion to adjacent the entry portion of the furnace; transferring the hearth sections from the furnace to the shrouded return adjacent the exit portion; reducing reducible material in the linear hearth furnace to metallic iron nodules; and transporting porting gases from at least the fusion zone to the shrouded return to heat the hearth sections while in the shrouded return.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: NU-IRON TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Richard F. Kiesel, David J. Englund, Mark Schlichting, John Meehan, Jeremiah Crouch, Logan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20120192679
    Abstract: A method of production of metallic iron nodules comprises assembling a hearth furnace having a moveable hearth comprising refractory material and having a conversion zone and a fusion zone, providing a hearth material layer comprising carbonaceous material on the refractory material, providing a layer of reducible material comprising and iron bearing material arranged in discrete portions over at least a portion of the hearth material layer, delivering oxygen gas into the hearth furnace to a ratio of at least 0.8:1 ponds of oxygen to pounds of iron in the reducible material to heat the conversion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material and to heat the fusion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible mate?al, and heating the reducible material to form one or more metallic iron nodules and slag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: NU-IRON TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Englund, Mark Schlichting, John Meehan, Jeremiah Crouch, Logan Wilson