Patents by Inventor Nicholas O'Connor

Nicholas 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).

  • Publication number: 20240085390
    Abstract: The compact scent delivery system (300) comprises: —a compact scent delivery device (100, 200), —an air flow mixing unit (400) comprising: 5—an inlet (405) for scented air, configured to be connected to an outlet (125) of scented air of the compact scent delivery device, —an outlet (410) for mixed scented air directed at a smelling port (415), —a conduit (420) connecting the inlet for scented air and the outlet for mixed diluted scent air and 0—at least one element of: —an inlet (425) for fresh air, configured to be connected to a fresh air delivery apparatus, said inlet delivering fresh air into the scented air stream between the inlet for scented air and the outlet for mixed scented air and/or 5—an outlet (430) for waste scented air, configured to be connected to an air flow retrieval apparatus and/or a waste air exhaust, said outlet retrieving scented air from the scented air stream between the inlet for scented air and the outlet for mixed scented air to reduce the air flow either for subsequent dilution
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Denis SHCHERBAKOV, Artem KIRSHON, Addi FADEL, Nicholas O'LEARY, Ralf INAUEN, Ronny HOFFMANN, Manuel WEBER, Branislav BALAZ, Alessandro CASILLI, Stefan SIEBER
  • Publication number: 20240023479
    Abstract: In an example, an agricultural slurry is applied to a field, for instance to change a constituent profile of the soil. For instance, a slurry application system includes a slurry applicator configured to apply the agricultural slurry. In another example, characteristics of the agricultural slurry are determined with a sensor. The characteristics of the agricultural slurry are compared with corresponding application thresholds. In yet another example, a slurry application controller cooperates with the slurry applicator or a prime mover to apply the agricultural slurry based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jared Ernest Kocer, Charlie R. Schoenfelder, Nicholas O. Michael, Thomas Lawrence Herbert
  • Publication number: 20240013629
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a display, a processor, and a memory storing a plurality of sets of reel strips which include configurable and non-configurable symbols. A free game series is initiated responsive to a trigger condition being met in a base game. A player selects from among a plurality of options defining a number of free games and a threshold number of configurable symbols that sets an additional feature trigger condition. The options are arranged such that for relatively more free games, the threshold number of configurable symbols increases. When the additional feature trigger condition is met, a plurality of additional feature game instances are initiated. The configurable symbols are held in place for feature game instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Alessandro Sidoti, Dinh Toan Tran, Xin Liu, Nicholas O'Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20240003589
    Abstract: A duct insulation product may include an insulation material and a moisture barrier material coupled with the insulation material. The moisture barrier material may form an outer surface of the duct insulation product. The moisture barrier material may include at least one closure flap along at least one side of the moisture barrier material. The closure flap may extend beyond a periphery of the insulation material along at least one side of the insulation material. At least a portion of an inner surface of the closure flap may include an adhesive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Riley Peters, Nicholas O'Kane, Ames Kulprathipanja, Jerry Kenneth Powell
  • Publication number: 20240000078
    Abstract: The various aspects presented herein relate to the field of antimicrobial compositions and their use as antibacterial agents, or their use for the preparation of antimicrobially active perfuming compositions and consumer products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Monica Bandera, Yang Huang, Gary Marr, Nicholas O'Leary, Mylene Therrien, Daniel Reichlin
  • Publication number: 20230419767
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device comprising a display device, at least one input mechanism, a processor, and a memory storing a plurality of reel strips, and instructions which cause the processor to: select symbols from the reel strips for display at a plurality of symbol positions; display the symbols selected at the symbol positions; in response to a trigger condition being met, initiate an icon selection instance from which one prize of a set of prizes may be awarded, wherein each prize has an associated prize symbol; determine whether to remove one or more prizes from the set of prizes; display a plurality of selectable icons, each of the icons representing a prize; visually remove the one or more prizes; receive selections of the icons until an end condition of a plurality of end conditions is met; and provide an award.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Alessandro Sidoti, Dinh Tran, Hanson Santoso, Upinder Dhaliwal, Saurabh Kalra, Gaurav Goel, Sunil Singh, Romit Aggarwal, Nicholas O'Sullivan, Emily Chew
  • Publication number: 20230404887
    Abstract: The various aspects presented herein relate to the perfumery industry. More particularly, the various aspects presented herein relate to the use of volatile compositions to limit, decrease or eliminate the perception of sweat malodor. Such compositions include at least one malodor antagonist optionally combined with perfuming ingredients. Such compositions, their use in combination with delivery systems and their applications in consumer products are also objects of the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Firmenich SA
    Inventors: Christine VUILLEUMIER, Gary MARR, Jessica BRANN, Lily WU, Zhenan WU, Nicholas O'LEARY, Benjamin SMITH
  • Patent number: 11814249
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically balance and buffer the return of empty containers or other totes to a plurality of areas. In some embodiments, a control circuit employs a logic system in which empty totes are directed along primary, secondary, or tertiary paths depending on information gathered from sensors regarding the availability of space for empty totes at a plurality of potential destinations. In this way, the return of empty totes to one or more points of origin may be buffered to balance the number of empty totes in one or more areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas O. Thomas, Jason Scott Coyle, Jessica L. Solana, Mustafa A. Harcar
  • Patent number: 11798368
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a display, a processor, and a memory storing a plurality of sets of reel strips which include configurable and non-configurable symbols. A free game series is initiated responsive to a trigger condition being met in a base game. A player selects from among a plurality of options defining a number of free games and a threshold number of configurable symbols that sets an additional feature trigger condition. The options are arranged such that for relatively more free games, the threshold number of configurable symbols increases. When the additional feature trigger condition is met, a plurality of additional feature game instances are initiated. The configurable symbols are held in place for feature game instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Alessandro Sidoti, Dinh Toan Tran, Xin Liu, Nicholas O'Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20230334955
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller that executes instructions stored in a memory which cause the game controller to display a plurality of jackpots and a plurality of bonus meters. The instructions also cause the game controller to display a plurality of player selectable symbols and to receive a player selection of at least one of the player selectable symbols. In response to receiving the player selection, the selected a jackpot symbol is revealed in place of the selected player selectable symbol, and the game controller adds a prize amount to the bonus meter of the jackpot corresponding to the revealed jackpot symbol. When at least a predefined number of jackpot symbols are revealed, both of a value of the jackpot corresponding to the jackpot symbols and an accumulated value of the associated bonus meter are awarded to a player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Dinh Toan Tran, Oliver Crispino, Upinder Dhaliwal, Nicholas O'Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20230334949
    Abstract: Conducting a feature game based on an active feature state includes displaying a plurality of feature game indicators that indicate respective ones of the current feature states and a feature game to which the respective ones of the current feature states correspond. A defined number of the current feature states to be active for a game instance of a spinning reel game is selected. The display is controlled to visually indicate in connection with the feature game indicators, which of the plurality of feature states were selected to be active feature states for the game instance. An outcome is determined in accordance with the selected symbols for the game instance. Upon a trigger condition for an active feature state being met by the outcome, the feature game is conducted in accordance with the feature state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Dinh Tran, Amy Batsiokis, Hiram Yu, Nicholas O'Sullivan, Philip Seifert, Ravi Khatri, Sandeep Saharawat, Upinder Dhaliwal, Lauren Chapple, Romit Aggarwal, Robbert Van Elven, Emily Chew, Paul Connelly
  • Patent number: 11785945
    Abstract: The various aspects presented herein relate to the field of antimicrobial compositions and their use as antibacterial agents, or their use for the preparation of antimicrobially active perfuming compositions and consumer products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FIRMENICH SA
    Inventors: Monica Bandera, Yang Huang, Gary Marr, Nicholas O'Leary, Mylene Therrien, Daniel Reichlin
  • Publication number: 20230310288
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of antimicrobial compositions. More particularly, it concerns the use of a composition as an antimicrobial agent, the composition comprising ingredients selected from the group consisting of: (i) nona-2,6-dien-1-ol in combination with at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of 3-neopentylpyridine, 2-methylhexan-3-one oxime, terpineol and 2-isopropyl-5-methylphenol; (ii) gamma-dodecalactone in combination with at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of 1-Methyl-4-(1-methylethenyl)-cyclohexene, 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde, and 1,3-Benzodioxole-5-carbaldehyde; (iii) (Z)-3,7-Dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-ol and gamma-dodecalactone; (iv) cis-4(Isopropyl)cyclohexanemethanol and 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde; and (v) 1,3-Benzodioxole-5-carbaldehyde and 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde, wherein the ingredients are present in an amount sufficient to provide an antimicrobial effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Firmenich SA
    Inventors: Monica BANDERA, Nicholas O’LEARY, Gary MARR
  • Patent number: 11748832
    Abstract: Various of the disclosed embodiments concern systems and methods for applying legal analytics. In some embodiments, a legal analytics platform retrieves legal data from an electronic database, analyzes some or all of the legal data, and identifies interesting patterns and results of statistical analyses. In order to permit searching of the legal data, metadata elements or tags can be generated for legal entities and legal events. In some embodiments, the legal analytics platform identifies timestamps in the legal data and performs time-based statistical analysis. Results of the statistical analyses can be presented to a user via a graphical user interface (GUI), which may also allow the user to interact with the legal analytics platform and search one or more databases of legal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LEX MACHINA, INC.
    Inventors: Gavin Carothers, Karl Harris, Brian C. Howard, John Lehmann, Timothy Wade Malone, Nicholas O. Pilon
  • Patent number: 11744239
    Abstract: A configurable nozzle includes a nozzle body having a reception chamber configured to receive an application mixture. The nozzle body includes a nozzle orifice. At least one orifice assembly is coupled with the nozzle body, the at least one orifice assembly includes an orifice plate movably coupled with the nozzle body. The orifice plate extends along at least a portion of the nozzle orifice, and movement of the orifice plate changes one or more of the size or shape of the nozzle orifice. An orifice actuator is coupled with the orifice plate, and the orifice actuator is configured to move the orifice plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Raven Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jared Ernest Kocer, Nicholas O. Michael
  • Publication number: 20230267799
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a display, a processor, and a memory storing a plurality of sets of reel strips which include configurable and non-configurable symbols. The gaming device provides hold and spin feature games that hold the configurable symbols if selected. Additional game windows can be activated enabling configurable symbols to be added. Only one of multiple versions of the hold and spin feature game may be triggered from any base game depending on which set of reel strips is used, and its respective version of triggering symbols. In one example, a fixed number of multiple game windows are always activated if the hold and spin feature is a first version while only one game window is initially active if the hold and spin feature is a second version. In the second version, more game windows can be activated if sufficient configurable symbols are held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Dinh Toan Tran, Romit Aggarwal, Nicholas O'Sullivan, Alessandro Sidoti, Xin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230253075
    Abstract: The fragrance ingredient or composition spatial recognisability prediction method (200) to prepare a fragrance composition comprising said fragrance ingredient or composition, comprises the steps of: —selecting (205), upon a computer interface, a value representative of between one and two of the following parameters: —a minimum sensory intensity level, corresponding to a predetermined minimum psychophysical intensity for the ingredient, —a maximum distance, corresponding to a distance at which the ingredient is to be perceived at a minimum predetermined psychophysical intensity level or—a quantity of the ingredient in liquid phase, wherein the selected value is selected within a range of at least two distinct values, —computing (215), by a computing system, a value representative of either one of the following parameters: —a minimum sensory intensity level, corresponding to a predetermined minimum psychophysical intensity for the ingredient, —a maximum distance, corresponding to a distance at which the ingre
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Denis SHCHERBAKOV, Addi FADEL, Nicholas O'LEARY
  • Patent number: 11721173
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller that executes instructions stored in a memory which cause the game controller to display, on a display of the gaming machine, a plurality of jackpots and a plurality of bonus meters. The instructions also cause the game controller to display, on the display, a plurality of player selectable symbols and to receive a player selection of at least one of the player selectable symbols. In response to receiving the player selection, the selected a jackpot symbol is revealed in place of the selected player selectable symbol, and the game controller adds a prize amount to the bonus meter of the jackpot corresponding to the revealed jackpot symbol. When at least a predefined number of jackpot symbols are revealed, both of a value of the jackpot corresponding to the jackpot symbols and an accumulated value of the associated bonus meter are awarded to a player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Dinh Toan Tran, Oliver Crispino, Upinder Dhaliwal, Nicholas O'Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11691036
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of perfumery. More particularly, it concerns malodor masking compositions and/or ingredients, as well as method for counteracting or masking malodors and perfuming compositions having odor masking properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: FIRMENICH SA
    Inventors: Nicholas O'Leary, Jonathan Williams, Monica Bandera
  • Patent number: 11666517
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of antimicrobial compositions. More particularly, it concerns the use of a composition as an antimicrobial agent, the composition comprising ingredients selected from the group consisting of: (i) nona-2,6-dien-1-ol in combination with at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of 3-neopentylpyridine, 2-methylhexan-3-one oxime, terpineol and 2-isopropyl-5-methylphenol; (ii) gamma-dodecalactone in combination with at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of 1-Methyl-4-(1-methylethenyl)-cyclohexene, 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde, and 1,3-Benzodioxole-5-carbaldehyde; (iii) (Z)-3,7-Dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-ol and gamma-dodecalactone; (iv) cis-4(Isopropyl)cyclohexanemethanol and 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde; and (v) 1,3-Benzodioxole-5-carbaldehyde and 4-Methoxybenzaldehyde, wherein the ingredients are present in an amount sufficient to provide an antimicrobial effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: FIRMENICH SA
    Inventors: Monica Bandera, Nicholas O'Leary, Gary Marr