Patents by Inventor Kerry O'Connor
Kerry 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).
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Patent number: 12212722Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each document to obtain image data and then discharges the document to one or more output or sort locations. The system may include a skew reduction assembly for reducing skew in the documents as the documents are fed to the scanner. The system may also include elements for improving image quality and reducing document damage while the document is scanned. The system may further include features for improving the stacking of the discharged documents.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: OPEX CorporationInventors: Michael Sullivan, Kerry O'Mara, John Allen, James Walsh, Dobromir Kamburov, Michael Sparango, David Helmlinger, Peter Patrick
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Publication number: 20250025919Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each document to obtain image data and then discharges the document to one or more output or sort locations. The system may include a skew reduction assembly for reducing skew in the documents as the documents are fed to the scanner. The system may also include elements for improving image quality and reducing document damage while the document is scanned. The system may further include features for improving the stacking of the discharged documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Michael Sullivan, Kerry O'Mara, John Allen, James Walsh, Dobromir Kamburov, Michael Sparango, David Helmlinger, Peter Patrick
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Publication number: 20240375870Abstract: Respective items are retained as they are transported by mobile delivery mechanisms. An item to be delivered to a target storage location of a plurality of storage locations is positioned upon the carrying surface of a delivery mechanism. The carrying surface defines a retention zone bounded by a first wall, a second wall, a third wall and a fourth wall. At least one of the third wall or the fourth wall are displaceable to define an opening in the retention zone. The delivery mechanism moves from the location where an item is received to a location proximate the target storage location to facilitate transfer of the item through the opening obtained by displacing one of the third wall or the fourth wall. Irregularly shaped items are free—during movement of the delivery mechanism—to move upon the carrying surface and within the boundaries of the retention zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Monty McVaugh, Joseph Valinsky, Kerry O'Mara, Michael Shanahan, Gary Miller
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Patent number: 12138662Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each document to obtain image data and then discharges the document to one or more output or sort locations. The system may include a skew reduction assembly for reducing skew in the documents as the documents are fed to the scanner. The system may also include elements for improving image quality and reducing document damage while the document is scanned. The system may further include features for improving the stacking of the discharged documents.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: OPEX CorporationInventors: Michael Sullivan, Kerry O'Mara, John Allen, James Walsh, Dobromir Kamburov, Michael Sparango, David Helmlinger, Peter Patrick
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Publication number: 20240333851Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each document to obtain image data and then discharges the document to one or more output or sort locations. The system may include a skew reduction assembly for reducing skew in the documents as the documents are fed to the scanner. The system may also include elements for improving image quality and reducing document damage while the document is scanned. The system may further include features for improving the stacking of the discharged documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Michael Sullivan, Kerry O'Mara, John Allen, James Walsh, Dobromir Kamburov, Michael Sparango, David Helmlinger, Peter Patrick
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Publication number: 20240179255Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each document to obtain image data and then discharges the document to one or more output or sort locations. The system may include a skew reduction assembly for reducing skew in the documents as the documents are fed to the scanner. The system may also include elements for improving image quality and reducing document damage while the document is scanned. The system may further include features for improving the stacking of the discharged documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Michael Sullivan, Kerry O'Mara, John Allen, James Walsh, Dobromir Kamburov, Michael Sparango, David Helmlinger, Peter Patrick
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Patent number: 11985280Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each document to obtain image data and then discharges the document to one or more output or sort locations. The system may include a skew reduction assembly for reducing skew in the documents as the documents are fed to the scanner. The system may also include elements for improving image quality and reducing document damage while the document is scanned. The system may further include features for improving the stacking of the discharged documents.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: OPEX CorporationInventors: Michael Sullivan, Kerry O'Mara, John Allen, James Walsh, Dobromir Kamburov, Michael Sparango, David Helmlinger, Peter Patrick
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Publication number: 20240094879Abstract: Computer systems and methods may display multi-dimensional data sets in a dynamically-generated ocular view, which may show the relationship between data points in the different dimensions. For example, such a data set may include in one dimension results of one or more laboratory tests and, in another dimension, body systems or functions that the respective tests may relate to. The ocular view may depict the relationships between the tests and the systems. By being generated dynamically, moreover, the ocular view may be able to present this information for arbitrary sets of test results, without a template having been generated in advance to specify the layout of some particular combination of results.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS INC.Inventors: Peter Wilkinson, Kerry O'Brien
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Publication number: 20240024921Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each document to obtain image data and then discharges the document to one or more output or sort locations. The system may include a skew reduction assembly for reducing skew in the documents as the documents are fed to the scanner. The system may also include elements for improving image quality and reducing document damage while the document is scanned. The system may further include features for improving the stacking of the discharged documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Michael Sullivan, Kerry O'Mara, John Allen, James Walsh, Dobromir Kamburov, Michael Sparango, David Helmlinger, Peter Patrick
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Patent number: 11875025Abstract: Computer systems and methods may display multi-dimensional data sets in a dynamically-generated ocular view, which may show the relationship between data points in the different dimensions. For example, such a data set may include in one dimension results of one or more laboratory tests and, in another dimension, body systems or functions that the respective tests may relate to. The ocular view may depict the relationships between the tests and the systems. By being generated dynamically, moreover, the ocular view may be able to present this information for arbitrary sets of test results, without a template having been generated in advance to specify the layout of some particular combination of results.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments IncorporatedInventors: Peter Wilkinson, Kerry O'Brien
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Publication number: 20230266867Abstract: Computer systems and methods may display multi-dimensional data sets in a dynamically-generated ocular view, which may show the relationship between data points in the different dimensions. For example, such a data set may include in one dimension results of one or more laboratory tests and, in another dimension, body systems or functions that the respective tests may relate to. The ocular view may depict the relationships between the tests and the systems. By being generated dynamically, moreover, the ocular view may be able to present this information for arbitrary sets of test results, without a template having been generated in advance to specify the layout of some particular combination of results.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Quest Diagnostics Investments Inc.Inventors: Peter Wilkinson, Kerry O'Brien
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Patent number: 11693879Abstract: Systems and methods include reception of a set of data including continuous features and a discrete feature, each continuous feature associated with a plurality of values and the discrete feature associated with a plurality of discrete values, determine, for each continuous feature, a relationship factor representing a relationship between the discrete feature and the continuous feature based on the plurality of values associated with the continuous feature and the plurality of discrete values, identify one of the continuous features associated with a largest one of the determined relationship factors, generate, for each of the other features, a correlation factor representing a correlation between the continuous feature and the identified continuous feature, determine, for each of the continuous features other than the identified continuous feature, a composite relationship score based on the relationship factor and the correlation factor associated with the feature, and present a visualization associated wiType: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LTD.Inventors: Paul O'Hara, Ying Wu, Jiazheng Li, Cathal McGovern, Malte Christian Kaufmann, Esther Rodrigo Ortiz, Kerry O'Connor, Michael Golden, Satinder Singh, Vlad Zat
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Patent number: 11674166Abstract: A device for sampling microorganisms comprising a hollow probe that can be inserted into a growth substrate or water system, the probe containing a growth medium for microorganisms wherein the growth medium contains a chemoattractant particularly a plant pathogen chemoattractant wherein the growth medium is specific for the microorganism/microorganisms which a grower wishes to know if they are present in the growth substrate or water system.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: FUNGIALERT LTD.Inventors: Angela De Manzanos Guinot, Kerry O'Donnelly Weaver
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Patent number: 11669228Abstract: Computer systems and methods may display multi-dimensional data sets in a dynamically-generated ocular view, which may show the relationship between data points in the different dimensions. For example, such a data set may include in one dimension results of one or more laboratory tests and, in another dimension, body systems or functions that the respective tests may relate to. The ocular view may depict the relationships between the tests and the systems. By being generated dynamically, moreover, the ocular view may be able to present this information for arbitrary sets of test results, without a template having been generated in advance to specify the layout of some particular combination of results.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments IncorporatedInventors: Peter Wilkinson, Kerry O'Brien
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Patent number: 11607713Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for sorting items to a plurality of sort destinations. The items are fed into the apparatus at an input station having a scanning station. The scanning station evaluates one or more characteristics of each item. The items are then loaded onto one of a plurality of independently controlled delivery vehicles. The delivery vehicles are individually driven to sort destinations. Once at the appropriate sort destination, the delivery vehicle ejects the item to the sort destination and returns to receive another item to be delivered. A re-induction conveyor may be provided for receiving select items from the vehicles and conveying the items back to the input station for re-processing. Additionally, a controller is provided to control the movement of the vehicles based on a characteristic each item being delivered by each vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: OPEX CorporationInventors: Monty McVaugh, David Ressler, Douglas Dietrich, Alexander Stevens, Kerry O'Mara, Kevin Cherry, Robert Hodge, Michael York, Robert DeWitt
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Patent number: 11519018Abstract: A system for the detection of pathogenic organisms in growth substrate or water is described which comprises means for the delivery of an attractant into the growth substrate or water, means for directing the microorganism to a detector for the detection of the microorganism of interest, and a detector which provides a signal when the microorganism of interest is detected, the use of the system in agriculture and horticulture is also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: FUNGIALERT LTD.Inventors: Angela De Manzanos Guinot, Kerry O'Donnelly Weaver
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Patent number: 11512762Abstract: An actuator for transmitting an input force in a first direction from an input mechanism to a force in a second direction at an output mechanism. The actuator may be incorporated into a tensioner for tensioning a belt. The device includes a plurality of aligned spherical elements in a curved raceway. The input mechanism transmits force to a first of the series of spherical elements. The spherical elements are substantially incompressible so that the series of spherical elements transmits the force along the curved raceway from the input mechanism to the output mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: OPEX CorporationInventor: Kerry O'Mara
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Publication number: 20220374450Abstract: Systems and methods include reception of a set of data including continuous features and a discrete feature, each continuous feature associated with a plurality of values and the discrete feature associated with a plurality of discrete values, determine, for each continuous feature, a relationship factor representing a relationship between the discrete feature and the continuous feature based on the plurality of values associated with the continuous feature and the plurality of discrete values, identify one of the continuous features associated with a largest one of the determined relationship factors, generate, for each of the other features, a correlation factor representing a correlation between the continuous feature and the identified continuous feature, determine, for each of the continuous features other than the identified continuous feature, a composite relationship score based on the relationship factor and the correlation factor associated with the feature, and present a visualization associated wiType: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Paul O'HARA, Ying WU, Jiazheng LI, Cathal McGOVERN, Malte Christian KAUFMANN, Esther Rodrigo ORTIZ, Kerry O'CONNOR, Michael GOLDEN, Satinder SINGH
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Publication number: 20210380671Abstract: The present invention is based, in part, on our discovery that targeting epitopes within one or more of the EC2-EC5 subdomains of E-cadherin results in the death of epithelial-derived tumor cells but not in the death of normal, healthy epithelial cells or non-epithelial cells including endothelial cells and fibroblasts. Accordingly, the compositions of the invention include polypeptides having an amino acid sequence of one or more of the EC2-EC5 subdomains of E-cadherin and biologically active variants thereof, expression vectors and cells for expressing such polypeptides; and agents (e.g., antibodies) that target the EC2-EC5 subdomains.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Sabine Brouxhon, M. Kerry O'Banion, Stephanos Kyrkanides
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Publication number: 20210373729Abstract: Computer systems and methods may display multi-dimensional data sets in a dynamically-generated ocular view, which may show the relationship between data points in the different dimensions. For example, such a data set may include in one dimension results of one or more laboratory tests and, in another dimension, body systems or functions that the respective tests may relate to. The ocular view may depict the relationships between the tests and the systems. By being generated dynamically, moreover, the ocular view may be able to present this information for arbitrary sets of test results, without a template having been generated in advance to specify the layout of some particular combination of results.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS INC.Inventors: Peter Wilkinson, Kerry O'Brien