Patents by Inventor Keith O'Connor

Keith O'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).

  • Patent number: 12201365
    Abstract: The present application describes the addition of various feedback mechanisms including visual and audio feedback mechanisms to an ophthalmic diagnostic device to assist a subject to self-align to the device. The device may use the visual and non-visual feedback mechanisms independently or in combination with one another. The device may provide a means for a subject to provide feedback to the device to confirm that an alignment condition has been met. Alternatively, the device may have a means for sensing when acceptable alignment has been achieved. The device may capture diagnostic information during the alignment process or may capture after the alignment condition has been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Alexandre R. Tumlinson, Keith O'Hara, Angelo Rago
  • Publication number: 20240308598
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a dual-access refrigeration space with conveyance system. The dual-access refrigeration space being accessible from both inside and outside the passenger cabin of a vehicle, and the conveyance system capable of conveying objects within the dual-access refrigeration space. The conveyance of such objects enabling passengers of the vehicle to access refrigerated objects that may have been loaded from an area external to the passenger cab without the passengers needing to exit the vehicle. In some examples, such convention may be reversed such that the refrigeration space within a passenger cabin may be utilized by a user outside the passenger cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: PAXTON S. WILLIAMS, RYAN C. HARRIS, Keith O'BRIEN
  • Patent number: 12006894
    Abstract: A launch vehicle having one or more rocket engines, an electric turbopump, and a plurality of batter units. Subsets of the battery units are jettisonable from the launch vehicle using battery jettison mechanisms. The launch vehicle may also include a controller that may determine that a remaining battery capacity of a first proper subset of the battery units is no longer needed for the remaining duration of a flight of the launch vehicle and may then, responsive to such a determination, cause the first proper subset of the battery units to be jettisoned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Rocket Lab USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Joseph Beck, Naomi Altman, Jarrod William Burton, Shaun Keith O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 11968811
    Abstract: An industrial automation controller includes a housing with a forced convection chamber. First and second fans are releasably connected to the housing and are adapted to induce airflow through the forced convection chamber. The first and second fans are each connected to the housing by respective first and second latch systems that each include a primary latch and a secondary latch. The secondary latch imposes a time delay during removal and replacement of a fan to facilitate hot swapping of the fan with a replacement fan. A make-last/break-first contact system is provided for each fan such that the fan is shutdown in a controlled manner prior to removal of the fan from the housing. The controller monitors internal temperature and fan speed. The controller initiates, logs, and reports fault conditions based upon the monitored temperature and/or fan speed. The controller is shut down if the monitored temperature exceeds a select temperature level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Baran, Jason N. Shaw, Gary D. Dotson, Bruce J. Moore, Milan Svoboda, Pavel Jicha, John C. Laur, Keith O. Satula
  • Publication number: 20230255480
    Abstract: The present application describes the addition of various feedback mechanisms including visual and audio feedback mechanisms to an ophthalmic diagnostic device to assist a subject to self-align to the device. The device may use the visual and non-visual feedback mechanisms independently or in combination with one another. The device may provide a means for a subject to provide feedback to the device to confirm that an alignment condition has been met. Alternatively, the device may have a means for sensing when acceptable alignment has been achieved. The device may capture diagnostic information during the alignment process or may capture after the alignment condition has been met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Alexandre R. Tumlinson, Keith O'Hara, Angelo Rago
  • Publication number: 20230210053
    Abstract: A method of harvesting plant product from a plant in a single pass using a combine harvester is disclosed. In the method, the plant has a protein content gradient that varies along a height of the plant. The method includes identifying, along a longitudinally-extending stalk of the plant, an upper protein gradient of the plant including high protein plant product and a lower protein gradient of the plant including lower protein plant product, wherein the high protein plant product from the upper protein gradient of the plant meets a threshold protein content that is higher than that of the lower protein plant product. The method also includes separately and substantially simultaneously harvesting the high protein plant product from the upper protein gradient and the lower protein plant product from the lower protein gradient in the single pass, and isolating the high protein plant product from the lower protein plant product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: BENSON HILL, INC.
    Inventors: Roger Keith O'Kelley, Kevin McCowan
  • Patent number: 11672421
    Abstract: The present application describes the addition of various feedback mechanisms including visual and audio feedback mechanisms to an ophthalmic diagnostic device to assist a subject to elf align to the device. The device may use the visual and non-visual feedback mechanisms independently or in combination with one another. The device may provide a means for a subject to provide feedback to the device to confirm that an alignment condition has been met. Alternatively, the device may have a means for sensing when Acceptable alignment has been achieved. The device may capture diagnostic information during the alignment process or may capture after the alignment condition has been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Alexandre R. Tumlinson, Keith O'Hara, Angelo Rago
  • Publication number: 20220401105
    Abstract: A device for placement in vessels, appendages, and openings in a body, the device comprising: a frame having a plurality of elongate members, the frame including: a substantially uniform proximal end of the frame having (i) a center frame portion arranged at the proximal end and (ii) face portions of the plurality of elongate members extending from the center frame portion and including a curved pattern arranged substantially within a first plane approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the frame; a body portion; a membrane coupled to at least the substantially uniform proximal end of the frame; and a coating arranged on at least a portion of the membrane configured to minimize the thrombogenic response of blood contact with the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron D. Fox, Nathan C. Korey, Keith O. Rust, James D. Silverman, Brett J. Wham, Roark N. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11412928
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging system has a specialized graphical user interface GUI to convey information for manually adjusting control inputs to bring an eye into alignment with the device. The GUI provides additional information such as laterality, visual alignment overlay aids, and live video feeds. The system further applies automatic gain control to fundus images, synchronizes itself with other ophthalmic systems on a computer network, and provides an optimized image load and display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Gregory Anderson, Muzammil Arain, Keith Brock, Scott Chang, Matthew J. Everett, Zubir Khan, Archana Kolli, Priya Kulkarni, Benjamin Kwok, Conor Leahy, Gary Lee, Jennifer Luu, Pranav Malvania, David Nolan, Keith O'Hara, Sunny Virmani, Richard Orlowski
  • Patent number: 11408373
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various technologies pertinent to jettisonable battery systems for use in rocket engine-based launch vehicles. Such systems may feature batteries that are configured to be used to power one or more electric turbopumps that may be used to supply fuel to a rocket engine or engines. One or more of the batteries may be jettisoned during flight in order to reduce weight and as they are depleted. In some implementations, a depleted battery may remain electrically connected with the turbopump(s) while a new battery is electrically connected with the turbopump(s). The depleted battery may then be electrically disconnected from the turbopump and jettisoned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Rocket Labs USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Joseph Beck, Naomi Altman, Jarrod William Burton, Shaun Keith O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 11408374
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various technologies pertinent to jettisonable battery systems for use in rocket engine-based launch vehicles. Such systems may feature battery units that are configured to be used to power one or more electric turbopumps that may be used to supply fuel to a rocket engine or engines. One or more of the battery units may be jettisoned during flight in order to reduce weight and as they are depleted. In some implementations, the battery units may be connected in parallel with the turbopump(s), with a depleted battery unit being electrically disconnected from the parallel circuit and jettisoned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Rocket Labs USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Joseph Beck, Naomi Altman, Jarrod William Burton, Shaun Keith O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 11395589
    Abstract: Ophthalmic imaging systems, particularly slit-scanning ophthalmo-scopes, are capable of characterizing refraction over the entire field of view of the system. Light from the light source of the system illuminates a region of the eye and the returning light is measured on a detector. The deviation of the location of the returning light from a predetermined location on the detector is measured. The deviation corresponds to the mismatch between the refractions of the imaging system and the eye. The light can be scanned across the full field of view to characterize the entire field. A second illumination source traveling along a second illumination path can be used to improve the characterization. The characterization can be of use for optimizing the focus of the instrument and for assessing the condition of the eye, including assessing myopia and astigmatism in the periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Matthew J. Everett, Alexandre R. Tumlinson, David J. Nolan, Conor Leahy, Keith O'Hara
  • Publication number: 20220160228
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging system provides an automatic focus mechanism based on the difference of consecutive scan lines. The system also provides of user selection of a focus point within a fundus image. A neural network automatically identifies the optic nerve head in an FA or ICGA image, which may be used to determine fixation angle. The system also provides additional scan tables for multiple imaging modalities to accommodate photophobia patients and multi-spectrum imaging options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Conor LEAHY, Jeffrey SCHMIDT, Keith BROCK, Priya KULKARNI, David NOLAN, Keith O'HARA, Matthew J. EVERETT, Michael CHEN, Lars OMLOR, Niranchana MANIVANNAN, Mary DURBIN
  • Publication number: 20220151599
    Abstract: A medical device for sealing a defect in a body includes a wire frame that includes a plurality of wires that form a first occluding member and a second occluding member. In some embodiments, a sealing member is in contact with the wire frame. In some embodiments, the sealing member is configured to define one or more openings in the sealing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Tyler J. Brown, Khoa Hua, Devin M. Nelson, Keith O. Rust
  • Publication number: 20220117113
    Abstract: An industrial automation controller includes a housing with a forced convection chamber. First and second fans are releasably connected to the housing and are adapted to induce airflow through the forced convection chamber. The first and second fans are each connected to the housing by respective first and second latch systems that each include a primary latch and a secondary latch. The secondary latch imposes a time delay during removal and replacement of a fan to facilitate hot swapping of the fan with a replacement fan. A make-last/break-first contact system is provided for each fan such that the fan is shutdown in a controlled manner prior to removal of the fan from the housing. The controller monitors internal temperature and fan speed. The controller initiates, logs, and reports fault conditions based upon the monitored temperature and/or fan speed. The controller is shut down if the monitored temperature exceeds a select temperature level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Baran, Jason N. Shaw, Gary D. Dotson, Bruce J. Moore, Milan Svoboda, Pavel Jicha, John C. Laur, Keith O. Satula
  • Patent number: 11298116
    Abstract: A medical device for sealing a defect in a body includes a wire frame that includes a plurality of wires that form a first occluding member and a second occluding member. In some embodiments, a sealing member is in contact with the wire frame. In some embodiments, the sealing member is configured to define one or more openings in the sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler J. Brown, Khoa Hua, Devin M. Nelson, Keith O. Rust
  • Publication number: 20220074152
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for handling loose material being mounted to or mountable on a forward end of a prime mover, the apparatus having a frame which is configured to suspend a plurality of rotary tools therefrom for cutting and/or moving material and at least one tool being configured so as to be able to direct the material in a pre-determined direction relative to a forward movement of the prime mover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald Keith O'CONNOR, Garry Maxwell BAUM
  • Patent number: 11221907
    Abstract: A system for triage and response to a second system's malfunction is disclosed. The system determines a possible present or future disruption to a service provided by the second system; automatically searches historical records regarding similar disruptions; and provides an interactive, aggregated user interface comprising many tools to display results of the search, log actions already taken, and receive commands from human operators for seamless intervention in cloud-based or on-premises systems. The determination may be based on a statistical anomaly in the performance of the second system, or alternatively may be based on input from a human user, whose communication undergoes text analysis to determine possible matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.
    Inventors: Girish Sharma, Christopher Mann, Alberto Ramos, Kiran Arun Karkhanis, Keith O'Brien, Alberto Cira, Angad Sangha
  • Patent number: 11161397
    Abstract: A system for reducing strain on a vehicle door comprises the vehicle door. The vehicle door comprises an inner panel and a division bar comprising a first portion and a second portion. The system further comprises a relief bracket configured to reduce strain on the inner panel when the vehicle door is closed. The relief bracket comprises a first portion coupled to the second portion of the division bar, a second portion coupled to the inner panel, and a relief portion extending between the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Blaine C. Benson, Keith O'Brien, Alyssa J. Flowers-Bouman, Erik Andersen, Wasim Ukra
  • Patent number: 11130392
    Abstract: Systems and apparatus for a vehicle for improving occupant safety and covering a service hole of a door of the vehicle. The system includes a substantially flat body portion configured to cover the service hole. The system also includes a plurality of energy absorbers disposed across the body portion, each energy absorber having a top portion and one or more side walls surrounding the top portion and defining a cavity, each energy absorber having a closed end at the top portion and an open end opposite the closed end, each energy absorber configured to absorb energy and collapse when force is exerted by an object on the top portion, the object moving from the closed end toward the open end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Paxton S. Williams, Keith O'Brien