Patents by Inventor Kevin James O'Connor

Kevin James 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: 10586028
    Abstract: An apparatus, comprising a biometric fingerprint identification sensor, the biometric fingerprint identification sensor configured to receive an input from a user, the input corresponding to a-predetermined factor, the predetermined factor comprising a force applied by a finger of the user to the biometric fingerprint identification sensor. A connected computer processor determines a qualitative or quantitative threshold based on the predetermined factor, receive the input from the fingerprint identification sensor, calculate a value of a variable associated with the predetermined factor and the input, and trigger a feedback output when the value approaches the threshold within a margin. A connected haptic feedback is device configured to provide haptic feedback to the body of the user when the haptic feedback device receives the triggered feedback output from the computer processor indicating the value is within the margin of the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Stephen John Elliott, Kevin James O'Connor, Colin Robert Patterson, Andrew Douglas Marshall, Matthew Wayne Sprau
  • Patent number: 8163880
    Abstract: A fusion protein that is expressed in a recombinant protein body-like assembly (RPBLA) in host eukaryotic cells and organisms is disclosed. More particularly, a biologically active polypeptide fused to a protein sequence that mediates the induction of RPBLA formation is expressed and accumulated in host cells after transformation with an appropriate vector. The eukaryotic host cell does not produce protein bodies in the absence of the fusion protein. Methods for preparing and using the RPBLAs and the fusion protein are also disclosed, as are nucleic acid molecules that encode the fusion proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: ERA Biotech S.A.
    Inventors: Peter Bernard Heifetz, Blanca Llompart Royo, Pablo Marzábal Luna, Miriam Bastida Virgili, Ma Dolores Ludevid Múgica, Margarita Torrent Quetglas, Kevin James O'Connor, Roser Pallisse Bergwerf, Ma Immaculada Ilop Tous