Patents by Inventor Kenneth O

Kenneth O 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).

  • Apparatus and method for distressing an edge of a material
    Patent number: 9434087
    Abstract: An apparatus including a support for supporting a material having at least one edge, an edge cutter head, and an edge cutter head support for supporting the edge cutter head. In response to the edge cutter head and the at least one edge of the material being brought into cutting contact and moved relative to each other, a resulting portion of the at least one edge of the material is distressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: AFI Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Brian W. Beakler, Matthew S. Myers, Kenneth O. Beck, Dave M. Warholic
  • Gas-line probe adapter for connecting vacuum jacketing
    Patent number: 9395280
    Abstract: A vacuum jacketed gas line adaptor with a flange cover for an existing pipeline sample take-off probe encasing a sample line and hermetically sealed to a vacuum valve housing having an sealable access port and containing a vented bleed valve and a block valve, fluidly connected to the sample line and a length of vacuum jacketed tubing sealing connected to the valve housing and in vacuum communication therewith, where the vacuum jacketed tubing surrounds the sample line to provide thermal isolation from the ambient for the sample line to a sample vaporizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Claude A. Rolston
  • Medical Waste Containers And Lids Therefore
    Publication number: 20160193004
    Abstract: Waste container lid assemblies configured for attachment to a base having a lid body and cap portion slidably connected by a tether. The lid body having an opening sized to accept medical waste and restrict access to prevent individuals from reaching into the waste container through the opening. A slot is in the lid body to permit slidable movement of the tether through the slot such the cap can be moved from a resting position in which the opening is configured for receiving waste to a closed position such that the cap portion covers the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventor: Kenneth O. Stark
  • Medical waste containers and lids therefore
    Patent number: 9320567
    Abstract: Waste container lid assemblies configured for attachment to a base having a lid body and cap portion slidably connected by a tether. The lid body having an opening sized to accept medical waste and restrict access to prevent individuals from reaching into the waste container through the opening. A slot is in the lid body to permit slidable movement of the tether through the slot such the cap can be moved from a resting position in which the opening is configured for receiving waste to a closed position such that the cap portion covers the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventor: Kenneth O. Stark
  • Natural gas liquid pressure regulating vaporizer sampling system
    Patent number: 9285299
    Abstract: System and method for natural gas liquid sample pressure regulating vaporizer system including a vented cabinet having a gas sample input, a pressure regulator, a single path vaporizer, a liquid block, a heated regulator and a gas sample outlet, and a communications assembly including a temperature controller, a communication outlet, and a power input electrically connected via appropriate secure feedthroughs to the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth O. Thompson
  • Drill sleeve
    Patent number: 9277926
    Abstract: A drill sleeve includes a lower end that engages a bone being drilled with a drill bit of a drill during an orthopedic procedure, an upper end that is movable with respect to the lower end, and a fluid damper between the upper and lower ends for resisting movement of the upper end with respect to the lower end and which may reduce a distance at which a drill bit can plunge through a back side of the bone by increasing resistance to drill movement at occurrence of plunge through the back of the bone. The drill sleeve may include measurement scale and a lock that prevents relative motion of the upper and lower ends after the bone has been drilled for evaluating a position of a depth indicator with respect to the measurement scale that corresponds to a depth of the bore in the bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Xu, Austin J. Crow, Joshua M. Kolz, Sarah R. Sandock, John G. Renfrew
  • Successive approximation resistor detection
    Patent number: 9229833
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a connector configured to receive an electrical contact of an accessory device that is electrically coupled to a resistor of the accessory device, a current source configured to apply a specified current to the resistor to generate a resulting voltage, a comparator configured to receive and compare the resulting voltage to a reference voltage, and a controller configured to store an outcome of the comparison as a bit in a register, to adjust the applied current using the outcome of the comparison, and to determine a resistance value for the resistor using the bit stored in the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randall Wetzel, Kenneth P. Snowdon, Kenneth O'Brien
  • Distributing data to groups of user devices
    Patent number: 9160605
    Abstract: A computing device generates a group of user devices. The computing device receives data associated with a media item from a first user device in the group. Responsive to determining that the first user device has data sharing privileges, the computing device transmits the data to one or more other user devices in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Robert Ducrou, Brandon J. Smith, Kenneth O. Sanders, II
  • Device associated with a user account
    Patent number: 9143809
    Abstract: A system and method for distributing digital media assets to a plurality of users. A portal is provided comprising at least one server computer. The portal executes a media library database server application that manages access a master library of media 5 assets that can be accessed by users via one or more communication networks. A plurality of media player devices communicate with the portal to access media assets for use. Each media player device may comprise a processor that executes a database client application that manages media assets licensed for use by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Zapmedia Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth O Lipscomb, John B. Petritis, Richard D. Robison, Kelly P. Morrison, Michael D. Hirsch, Eric Neal Muntz, John Paul Whitehead, III
  • IMPEDANCE DETECTION CIRCUIT, METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20150233859
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, an impedance detection circuit, method, and integrated circuit, comprising a ramp-up current generation circuit and an impedance determining circuit, wherein the ramp-up current generation circuit is configured to input a ramp-up current including n breaks to a port of a device where the ramp-up current generation circuit is disposed, to which port an external device is connected, and wherein the impedance determining circuit is configured to detect an impedance of the external device in each break time period of the ramp-up current input by the ramp-up current generation circuit until the impedance of the external device is acquired by detection in the last break time period of the n breaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Peng Zhu, Kenneth O'Brien, Jianing Zhou, Yongliang Li
  • TECHNIQUES FOR IN-APP USER DATA AUTHORIZATION
    Publication number: 20150193635
    Abstract: Techniques for in-app user data authorization are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a permissions component, and a token component. The permissions component may be operative on the processor circuit to receive a request from an application to perform a task on a device and to return a response to the request to the application based on active permissions for the application. The token component may be operative on the processor circuit to manage a token database and to determine the active permissions for the application based on the token database. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Kenneth O'Neill, Vladamir J Fedorov
  • Liquid gas vaporization and measurement system and method
    Patent number: 9057668
    Abstract: A liquid gas vaporization and measurement system, and associated method, for efficiently vaporizing a continuous sample of liquid gas, such as liquid natural gas (LNG), and accurately determining the constituent components of the gas. A constant flow of liquid gas sampled from a mass storage device is maintained in a vaporizing device. Within the vaporizing device the liquid gas is flash vaporized within heated narrow tubing. The liquid gas is converted to vapor very quickly as it enters one or more independently operating vaporizer stages within the vaporizing device. The vapor gas is provided to a measuring instrument such as a chromatograph and the individual constituent components and the BTU value of the gas are determined to an accuracy of within +/?0.5 mole percent and 1 BTU, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Walter F. Grehold
  • System for responding to QR codes, ShotCodes, MobiTags, 2-dimensional bar codes, 3-dimensional bar codes, and images
    Patent number: 9038887
    Abstract: System, including a code scanner, for using multi-function codes, such as multi-function QR codes, MobiTags, ShotCodes, 2-dimensional bar codes, 3-dimensional bar codes, or images to open multiple ports of a telephone device. One of the ports is a text port, enabling the system to obtain the telephone number of a device that reads a code associated with an item and then generate a lead for follow-up by an agent. The lead is sent to the agent via a text or email message. The system may also pass the lead to other agents if the first agent doesn't respond, and it may also send additional information to the telephone device. The system may include a database of item-associated information and the capability of accessing the item-associated information for inclusion in outgoing messages to the agents and/or the telephone device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: O'Hanlon Ltd
    Inventor: Kenneth O'Hanlon
  • Tool for creating structured objects and actions on a social networking system
    Patent number: 9032290
    Abstract: A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Brynn Shepherd, Carl Philip Sjogreen, Vladimir Fedorov, Naitik Shah, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Paul Tarjan, Michael Steven Vernal, Arthur George Rudolph
  • Preventing deregistration from fleet accounts
    Patent number: 9021069
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for managing access to a fleet account of mobile electronic devices. For instance, an administrator of a business and educational institution may place an order with an offering service to purchase a large number of eBook reader devices. The offering service identifies that the business and educational institution is ordering a fleet of devices. Furthermore, each of the devices ordered are associated or registered to a managed or fleet account controlled by the administrator of the business and educational institution. The techniques described herein prevent an individual user of a fleet device from de-registering the device from the managed account, and also allow an account administrator to alter preferred settings of the managed account. Further, techniques are described for allowing a user of a device to opt-in or associate their device with the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Robert Ducrou, Brandon J. Smith, Christopher M. Brennan, Kenneth O. Sanders, II, Erik J. Miller, David M. Lerner, Andrew Budker, Marcus A. Barry
  • Solar Powered Sample Analyzing System Using a Field Deployed Analytical Instrumentation and Vacuum Jacketed Small Diameter Tubing
    Publication number: 20150107333
    Abstract: Provided herein is a solar powered system for a gas sampling and analysis for placement and operation remote from conventional infra-structure that utilizes a minimum of power to obtain a sample extracted from a source such as a pipeline or well-head, conditions the extracted sample, transmits the conditioned sample through vacuum jacketed tubing to an analyzer while maintaining the sample at a temperature and pressure preventing phase transition, condensation or component partitioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: MUSTANG SAMPLING, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Claude A. Rolston, Timothy L. Querrey, Charles F. Cook
  • Techniques for in-app user data authorization
    Patent number: 9003556
    Abstract: Techniques for in-app user data authorization are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a permissions component, and a token component. The permissions component may be operative on the processor circuit to receive a request from an application to perform a task on a device and to return a response to the request to the application based on active permissions for the application. The token component may be operative on the processor circuit to manage a token database and to determine the active permissions for the application based on the token database. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Kenneth O'Neill, Vladamir Fedorov
  • Generating flower images and shapes with compositional pattern producing networks
    Patent number: 8982149
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed for generating an image from a Compositional Pattern Producing Network (CPPN). One such method includes receiving, in the CPPN, a series of polar coordinates {r,?}; outputting, by the CPPN, a series of pixel values, each of the pixel values corresponding to one of the polar coordinates; and displaying the pixel values at the corresponding polar coordinates to produce the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: David D'Ambrosio, Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, Amy K. Hoover, Kenneth O. Stanley
  • IDENTIFYING SOFTWARE APPLICATION EVENTS
    Publication number: 20150046934
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a server computing device, a notification which includes: information associated with the identity of the user associated with the user-initiated event or with the identity of the client computing device; a variable, pre-determined string of symbols for the user-initiated event associated with the notification; a variable number describing a value of an attribute associated with the user-initiated event; and a variable parameter describing an attribute of the user at or near the time of the event or an attribute of the variable number. The method includes correlating, by the server computing device, the user-initiated events with a user; and determining, by the computing device, a description of the user-initiated event associated with the notification based at least in part on the string of symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Schechter, Edward Kenneth O'Neil, David Miller, Daniel Tomko
  • Sample Conditioning System for Low Pressure Gas
    Publication number: 20150000426
    Abstract: A system and method for conditioning of very low pressure gas samples extracted from a source, heating the samples, boosting the pressure to a level appropriate for analysis, regulating the gas sample temperature and pressure to prevent dew-point dropout from Joules Thompson condensation, and passing the gas sample to an a remotely located analyzer or analyzer array where the electrical power for the pressurizing pump and heated regulator is provided by heat tracing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Claude A. Rolston, Kenneth O. Thompson