Patents by Inventor Joseph A. O'Brien
Joseph A. O'Brien 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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Patent number: 9091461Abstract: A grounding system for a photovoltaic or solar cell array includes a strap positioned over adjacent solar module frames and a grounding clip positioned between the adjacent solar module frames and a docking support surface. The grounding clip has two regions of upwardly and downwardly extending protrusions and a through-hole disposed between the two regions. Each protrusion has a serrate portion adapted to penetrate through anodized layers of the solar module frames and the docking support surface for the solar module frames.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Blue Sunny Skies LLCInventors: Edward Joseph O'Brien, Michael J. Moulder, Kenneth A. Layre
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Publication number: 20150104366Abstract: An amino-siloxane composition is presented. The amino-siloxane composition includes structure (I): wherein R1 is independently at each occurrence a C1-C5 aliphatic radical; R2 is a C3-C4 aliphatic radical; R3 is a C1-C5 aliphatic radical or R4, wherein R4 comprises structure (II): and X is an electron donating group. Methods of reducing an amount of carbon dioxide in a process stream using the amino-siloxane composition are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Joseph O'Brien, Rachel Lizabeth Farnum, Robert James Perry
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Publication number: 20150077065Abstract: Methods and a system for the recharging of battery-operated devices, whereby the recharging process is made less burdensome and inconvenient to the users of the devices. Embodiments provide for incorporating recharging into the normal usage patterns for the devices using activities consistent with predetermined intended usage of the devices, thereby causing the user to perceive less inconvenience. Other embodiments provide for systematically detecting and wirelessly recharging devices, whereby the burden to the users may be reduced or entirely eliminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Eric Charles Haseltine, Joseph O'Brien Garlington
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Publication number: 20150015797Abstract: A display system that includes a projector light bulb. The system includes a light fixture with a conventional light bulb socket. A projector light bulb is provided with a socket adapter for mating electrically with the light bulb socket. A projector such as a pico projector is fit into the socket adapter or to mate with this adapter to be powered by the light bulb socket via the adapter. In lamp-type implementations, the projector is used to project onto a lamp shade-shaped rear projection screen or through a translucent shade and also upon surfaces of the ceiling or objects above the projector light bulb. A light conditioning or directing assembly may be provided that directs a portion of the projected light onto the projection screen (or shade) and another portion up onto the ceiling so as to concurrently focus on two or more surfaces at two or more focal distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Joseph O'Brien Garlington, Brent David Strong
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Patent number: 8921462Abstract: A rubber composition with disperse phase particles containing poly(phenylene ether) can be formed by a method that includes melt blending an uncured rubber with a poly(phenylene ether) composition containing a poly(phenylene ether) and an oil to form an uncured rubber composition, then curing the uncured rubber composition. Before being blended with the rubber, the poly(phenylene ether) composition exhibits a glass transition temperature of about 40 to about 140° C., and during blending with the rubber, the oil component of poly(phenylene ether) composition migrates from the poly(phenylene ether) composition to the rubber, leaving a poly(phenylene ether)-containing disperse phase that gives rise to a second hysteresis peak temperature of about 160 to about 220° C. as measured by dynamic mechanical analysis of the cured rubber composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.Inventors: Scott Michael Fisher, Qiwei Lu, William Eugene Pecak, Michael Joseph O'Brien
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Patent number: 8879782Abstract: A display system that includes a projector light bulb. The system includes a light fixture with a conventional light bulb socket. A projector light bulb is provided with a socket adapter for mating electrically with the light bulb socket. A projector such as a pico projector is fit into the socket adapter or to mate with this adapter to be powered by the light bulb socket via the adapter. In lamp-type implementations, the projector is used to project onto a lamp shade-shaped rear projection screen or through a translucent shade and also upon surfaces of the ceiling or objects above the projector light bulb. A light conditioning or directing assembly may be provided that directs a portion of the projected light onto the projection screen (or shade) and another portion up onto the ceiling so as to concurrently focus on two or more surfaces at two or more focal distances.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Joseph O'Brien Garlington, Brent David Strong
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Publication number: 20140251342Abstract: An eye cover is provided that attaches to an air pump that provides a constant high humidity environment to the eyes, and protects the eyes especially during periods of anesthesia.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: SoJo MedicalInventor: Joseph O'Brien
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Publication number: 20140207571Abstract: Systems and processes are disclosed for generating an delivering personalized deals to users. In certain embodiments, disclosed embodiments may configure a financial service account associated with a user. Based on monitored transactions from the financial service account, systems consistent with disclosed embodiments may generate deals that are personalized to the user of the financial service account. Such deals may be delivered to the user or a third-party upon request.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Capital One Financial CorporationInventors: Luke Hammock, Janusz Niczyporuk, Bor J. Sun, Joseph O'Brien
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Publication number: 20140198949Abstract: A display system that includes a projector light bulb. The system includes a light fixture with a conventional light bulb socket. A projector light bulb is provided with a socket adapter for mating electrically with the light bulb socket. A projector such as a pico projector is fit into the socket adapter or to mate with this adapter to be powered by the light bulb socket via the adapter. In lamp-type implementations, the projector is used to project onto a lamp shade-shaped rear projection screen or through a translucent shade and also upon surfaces of the ceiling or objects above the projector light bulb. A light conditioning or directing assembly may be provided that directs a portion of the projected light onto the projection screen (or shade) and another portion up onto the ceiling so as to concurrently focus on two or more surfaces at two or more focal distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicants: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., DISNEY ENTERPRISES, LLCInventors: Joseph O'Brien Garlington, Brent David Strong
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Publication number: 20140164086Abstract: Systems and processes are disclosed for assisting and incentivizing a user to save money by avoiding impulsive purchases. In certain embodiments, disclosed embodiments may include mechanisms to receive a user-defined goal for saving money and to receive item identifying information relating to an item not purchased by the user in accomplishing the goal. The disclosed embodiments also include mechanisms that determine the price of the item based on the identifying information and determine the amount of savings based on the price of the item. The disclosed embodiments may also be configured to determine and offer a reward to the user based on the amount of savings and to provide to the user a history record of one or more items not purchased in accomplishing the user's goal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Capital One Financial CorporationInventors: Ben M. COFFMAN, Dennis S. BRENNAN, Richard S. JUST, Joseph O'BRIEN, Katharine Anne SHEA, Bryan FEARSON, Timothy J. AUSTEN, Shaun WEBB
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Publication number: 20140164234Abstract: Systems and processes are disclosed for providing bill splitting processes for splitting a bill amount among a set of purchasers. In one example, the disclosed embodiments may receive receipt information reflecting a bill to be split among a group of purchasers. The disclosed embodiments may parse the receipt information to extract one or more items or services having monetary value and generate a list of the items or services included in the receipt. The disclosed embodiments may also identify the group of purchasers that will participate in paying a proportion of the bill associated with the receipt. Further, disclosed embodiments may be configured to determine a proportion of payment of the total amount of the bill for each purchaser in the group of purchasers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Capital One Financial CorporationInventors: Ben M. COFFMAN, Dennis S. BRENNAN, Richard S. JUST, Joseph O'BRIEN, Katharine Anne SHEA, Bryan FEARSON, Timothy J. AUSTEN, Shaun WEBB, Nicholas SHEEHAN
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Patent number: 8747694Abstract: In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides a composition which contains the amino-siloxane structures I, or III, as described herein. The composition is useful for the capture of carbon dioxide from process streams. In addition, the present invention provides methods of preparing the amino-siloxane composition. Another aspect of the present invention provides methods for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in a process stream employing the amino-siloxane compositions of the invention, as species which react with carbon dioxide to form an adduct with carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert James Perry, Michael Joseph O'Brien
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Publication number: 20140127105Abstract: In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides a composition which contains the amino-siloxane structures I, or III, as described herein. The composition is useful for the capture of carbon dioxide from process streams. In addition, the present invention provides methods of preparing the amino-siloxane composition. Another aspect of the present invention provides methods for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in a process stream employing the amino-siloxane compositions of the invention, as species which react with carbon dioxide to form an adduct with carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert James Perry, Michael Joseph O'Brien
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Publication number: 20140107289Abstract: A rubber composition with disperse phase particles containing poly(phenylene ether) can be formed by a method that includes melt blending an uncured rubber with a poly(phenylene ether) composition containing a poly(phenylene ether) and an oil to form an uncured rubber composition, then curing the uncured rubber composition. Before being blended with the rubber, the poly(phenylene ether) composition exhibits a glass transition temperature of about 40 to about 140° C., and during blending with the rubber, the oil component of poly(phenylene ether) composition migrates from the poly(phenylene ether) composition to the rubber, leaving a poly(phenylene ether)-containing disperse phase that gives rise to a second hysteresis peak temperature of about 160 to about 220° C. as measured by dynamic mechanical analysis of the cured rubber composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventors: Scott Michael Fisher, Qiwei Lu, William Eugene Pecak, Michael Joseph O'Brien
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Publication number: 20140080109Abstract: Techniques for providing an immersive storytelling experience using a plurality of storytelling devices. Each of the storytelling devices may be configured to perform one or more actions based on a current context of a story and in response to a stimulus event. The actions include at least one of an auditory and a visual effect. Embodiments also provide a controller device configured to manage a playback of the story, by adjusting the stimulus event and the effect of each of the plurality of storytelling devices, based on the current context of the story, thereby creating an interactive and immersive storytelling experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Eric Charles Haseltine, Joseph O'Brien Garlington, Theodore Wei-Yun Leung, Eric Wilson Muhlheim, Gabriel Sebastian Schlumberger
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Patent number: 8674004Abstract: A rubber composition with disperse phase particles containing poly(phenylene ether) can be formed by a method that includes melt blending an uncured rubber with a poly(phenylene ether) composition containing a poly(phenylene ether) and an oil to form an uncured rubber composition, then curing the uncured rubber composition. Before being blended with the rubber, the poly(phenylene ether) composition exhibits a glass transition temperature of about 40 to about 140° C., and during blending with the rubber, the oil component of poly(phenylene ether) composition migrates from the poly(phenylene ether) composition to the rubber, leaving a poly(phenylene ether)-containing disperse phase that gives rise to a second hysteresis peak temperature of about 160 to about 220° C. as measured by dynamic mechanical analysis of the cured rubber composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Scott Michael Fisher, Qiwei Lu, William Eugene Pecak, Michael Joseph O'Brien
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Patent number: 8435552Abstract: A process for producing a collagen/hydroxyapatite (HA) composite scaffold comprises the steps of forming a homogenous suspension of collagen and HA in an acidic solution, lyophilizing the suspension until a desired final freezing temperature is reached to produce the composite scaffold, and optionally cross-linking the composite scaffold, wherein the ratio of HA to collagen is at least 1:10 (w/w). Also provided is a collagen/hydroxyapatite (HA) composite scaffold comprising a homogenous distribution of hydroxyapatite within a porous, crosslinked, collagen matrix, wherein the ratio of HA to collagen is at least 1:10 (w/w). Suitably, the composite scaffold has a porosity of at least 99% (v/v), and a compressive stiffness of at least 0.3 KPa. Composite scaffolds of the invention may be used to provide osteoconductive bone implants and tissue engineering implants.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Royal College of Surgeons in IrelandInventors: Fergal Joseph O'Brien, John Patrick Gleeson, Niamh Plunkett
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Publication number: 20130042475Abstract: Polymer-based materials and processes suitable for producing panels, for example, panels for use in a fan shroud abradable seal of a turbofan engine. Such a process includes introducing constituents of an expandable foam material into a continuous forming apparatus that continuously compounds the constituents into a partially-cured compounded polymeric material, which is then continuously formed with the continuous forming apparatus to produce a continuous form having a constant cross-sectional shape transverse to a continuous forming direction of the continuous forming apparatus. A portion of the continuous form is then deformed to produce a preform, and the preform is cured within a restricted volume to cause the preform to expand and produce the panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Michael Dominic Schulte, Eric Joseph Aho, Peter Kennedy Davis, Wendy Wen-Ling Lin, Michael Joseph O'Brien, Brian Dominic Stephens
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Patent number: 8351843Abstract: A method for specifying content of interest using a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. A digital radio broadcast signal includes first audio content and first program data, wherein the first program data includes information identifying a first item, and includes second audio content and second program data, wherein the second program data includes information identifying a second item. A user command entered at a user interface during reception of audio content is registered, indicating a user's interest in either the first or second audio content. It is determined whether there is an ambiguity in the content of interest. If there is an ambiguity, a first data structure is stored for the first audio content, and a second data structure is stored for the second audio content. The first data structure includes the information identifying the first item, and the second data structure includes the information identifying the second item.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: Robert Michael Dillon, Harvey Chalmers, Thomas Joseph O'Brien, Gregory Nungester, Rodney Bernard Burke, Joseph F. D'Angelo
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Patent number: 8334340Abstract: A sulfur-containing cycloaliphatic compound, useful as a crosslinker for filled sulfur-vulcanizable elastomer compositions, is represented by the general formula: G[—CaH2a—S—S(?O)b—R]n wherein G is a saturated, monocyclic aliphatic group of valence n containing from 5 to 12 carbon atoms and optionally containing at least one halogen or a saturated monocyclic silicone [RSiO—]n[R2SiO—]p group of valence n; each R independently is a monovalent hydrocarbon of up to 20 carbon atoms; each occurrence of subscripts a and b independently is an integer wherein a is 2 to 6 and b is 1 or 2; n is an integer of from 3 to 6; and p is an integer of from 0 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials, Inc.Inventors: Michael Joseph O'Brien, Robert James Perry, Richard W. Cruse, William Michael York, Carla Recker, Thomas Kramer, Katharina Herzog