Patents by Inventor Patrick Connell

Patrick Connell 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: 11967836
    Abstract: Metal object detection may be performed in a wireless power system by monitoring the 5th or other order harmonic current of a dual-frequency power transmitter driven by a voltage-fed inverter with square-wave output. While power transfer is maintained by tuning at the fundamental frequency, the transmitter circuit is tuned simultaneously at the 5th order frequency or other harmonic frequencies to increase or decrease the flow of the harmonic current for when a metal object is present. The receiver circuit may include a notch filter to filter out the 5th order frequency. With the dual-frequency tuning configuration, the presence of a metal object causes a significant drop of the increase in the harmonic current at the transmitter side while the receiver behaves as an open circuit with no effect on power transfer. The harmonic tuning circuit may be switched off as necessary to leave only the fundamental frequency for power transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aiguo Patrick Hu, Bo Long, Qi Zhu, Wynand Malan, Patrin Illenberger, Andrew R Connell
  • Publication number: 20230374255
    Abstract: A carbon polymer composite (CPC) including a polymer and a carbon source material. The polymer may include polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and/or high density polyethylene (HDPE). The carbon source material may include coal and/or other sources of carbon. The carbon source material may be oxidized using a gaseous or liquid oxidizing agent. A CPC including PVC may be used to make a piping product. A CPC including HDPE may be used to make a wood replacement product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jason Patrick Trembly, Vickram Dhanapal, Daniel Patrick Connell
  • Publication number: 20200277621
    Abstract: Provided are methods, vectors and gene constructs for enhancing expression of a recombinant nucleic acid sequence in transgenic plants and plant tissues. According to the present invention, nucleic acid sequences are obtained and/or derived from the 3? untranslated regions of Zea mays chlorophyll a/b binding protein gene and engineered to flank respective portions of a selected coding region of a vector. The vector construct may be introduced into plants and/or plant tissues through conventional or gene targeting procedures, resulting in enhanced expression of the selected coding region. In some embodiments, the selected coding region is a chimeric gene or gene fragment expressing one or more proteins known to impart a level of insecticidal activity to a transgenic plant and/or plant tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Delkin O. Gonzalez, David Mann, John Davies, James Patrick Connell, Jeffrey Church, Holly Jean Butler, Megan Sopko, Kristina M. Woodall
  • Patent number: 10731171
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: John Davies, David Mann, James Patrick Connell, William T. Beeson, IV
  • Patent number: 10443065
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription and translation of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter and/or a 3?UTR from Zea mays Zrp2 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter from a Zea mays Zrp2 gene that is operably linked to a Zea mays Ubiquitin 1 intron and functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences. Other embodiments relate to a 3? UTR from a Zea mays Zrp2 gene that functions in plants to terminate transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Delkin O. Gonzalez, Megan Sopko, Jeffrey Church, James Patrick Connell, Kristina M. Woodall, David Mann
  • Publication number: 20190161762
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: John Davies, David Mann, James Patrick Connell, William T. Beeson, IV
  • Patent number: 10280429
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: John Davies, David Mann, James Patrick Connell, William T. Beeson, IV
  • Publication number: 20170121726
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a Zea mays ZAG1 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter from a Zea mays ZAG1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: John Davies, David Mann, James Patrick Connell
  • Publication number: 20170114355
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter from a Zea mays KN1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: John Davies, David Mann, James Patrick Connell, William T. Beeson, IV
  • Publication number: 20170051298
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription and translation of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter and/or a 3?UTR from Zea mays Zrp2 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter from a Zea mays Zrp2 gene that is operably linked to a Zea mays Ubiquitin 1 intron and functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences. Other embodiments relate to a 3? UTR from a Zea mays Zrp2 gene that functions in plants to terminate transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Delkin O. Gonzalez, Megan Sopko, Jeffrey Church, James Patrick Connell, Kristina M. Woodall, David Mann
  • Patent number: 9361398
    Abstract: A facility for representing in a relational database informational content of the series of tag-language messages is described. The facility reads an arbitrary number of the tags contained by the series of messages. For each read tag, the facility determines a path for the tag, the name of a relational table assigned to the path, values specified for the tag and/or attributes of the tag, in the name of columns of relational tables assigned to the tag and/or tag attribute values. After doing this processing, the facility updates the relational database so that and it includes all of the assigned relational tables and a relational table columns, and populates the value specified for the tags and/or attributes of tags to the relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Connell, Andrew Mark Winterbauer, Kari Danielle Wittgens, Jason Alex Haley
  • Patent number: 8676863
    Abstract: A facility for representing in a relational database informational content of the series of tag-language messages is described. The facility reads an arbitrary number of the tags contained by the series of messages. For each read tag, the facility determines a path for the tag, the name of a relational table assigned to the path, values specified for the tag and/or attributes of the tag, in the name of columns of relational tables assigned to the tag and/or tag attribute values. After doing this processing, the facility updates the relational database so that and it includes all of the assigned relational tables and a relational table columns, and populates the value specified for the tags and/or attributes of tags to the relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Connell, Andrew Mark Winterbauer, Kari Danielle Wittgens, Jason Alex Haley
  • Patent number: 7901935
    Abstract: This invention encompasses the identification and isolation of genes that confer disease control properties in plants, as well as plants comprising such genes. These genes are derived from the following sources: Nicotiana benthamiana, Oryzae sativa (var. Indica IR7), Papaver rhoeas, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Trichoderma harzianum (Rifai 1295-22). The control conferred is against the one or more of the following phytopathogens: Aspergillus flavus, Cercospora zeae-maydis, Fusarium monilforme, Fusarium graminearum, Helminthosporium maydis, Phoma lingam, Phomopsis helianthi, Phytopthera infestans, Pyricularia oryzae, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Ustilago maydis, and Verticillium dahliae. Further, this invention encompasses other homologous and heterologous sequences with a high degree of functional similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Vipula Kiran Shukla, Holly Jean Butler, Anthony Thinh Ngoc Trieu, Aaron Todd Woosley, Pamela Rene Haygood, Christie Min Dewes, James Patrick Connell, Ignacio Mario Larrinua, Zihua Hu, Avutu Sambi Reddy
  • Patent number: 7667100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid and amino acid sequences that confer herbicide resistance in plants, as well as herbicide resistance in plants, plant seeds, plant tissues and plant cells comprising such sequences. In a preferred embodiment, the sequences of the present invention confer a tolerant phenotype in plants in response to a chronic and/or acute inhibitin dose of auxinic herbicides. The present invention also provides homologous sequences with a high degree of functional similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Vipula Kiran Shukla, Kelley Ann Smith, Theodore Jack Letherer, James Patrick Connell, Ignacio Mario Larrinua, Kelley L. Ralph
  • Publication number: 20090320159
    Abstract: This invention encompasses the identification and isolation of genes that confer disease control properties in plants, as well as plants comprising such genes. These genes are derived from the following sources: Nicotiana benthamiana, Oryzae sativa (var. Indica IR7), Papaver rhoeas, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Trichoderma harzianum (Rifai 1295-22). The control conferred is against the one or more of the following phytopathogens: Aspergillus flavus, Cercospora zeae-maydis, Fusarium monilforme, Fusarium graminearum, Helminthosporium maydis, Phoma lingam, Phomopsis helianthi, Phytopthera infestans, Pyricularia oryzae, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Ustilago maydis, and Verticillium dahlias. Further, this invention encompasses other homologous and heterologous sequences with a high degree of functional similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Vipula Kiran Shukla, Holly Jean Butler, Aaron Todd Woosley, Pamela Rene Haygood, Cristie Min Dewes, James Patrick Connell, Ignacio Mario Larrinua, Avutu Sambi Reddy, Anthony Trieu, Zihua Hu
  • Patent number: 7354715
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to high-throughput methods of screening DNA for mutations. These methods offer various unexpected advantages over current methods. In a preferred embodiment, the subject invention includes pooling DNA samples from many plants that were subjected to mutagenesis. Methods of the subject invention include highly sensitive means for detecting individual mutants, preferably deletions, in large pools or collections of DNA samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Avutu Sambi Reddy, Max Otto Ruegger, James Patrick Connell, Thomas Skokut
  • Patent number: 7309815
    Abstract: This invention encompasses the identification and isolation of genes that confer disease control properties in plants, as well as plants comprising such genes. These genes are derived from the following sources: Nicotiana benthamiana, Oryzae sativa (var. Indica IR7), Papaver rhoeas, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Trichoderma harzianum (Rifai 1295-22). The control conferred is against the one or more of the following phytopathogens: Aspergillus flavus, Cercospora zeae-maydis, Fusarium monilforme, Fusarium graminearum, Helminthosporium maydis, Phoma lingam, Phomopsis helianthi, Phytopthera infestans, Pyricularia oryzae, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Ustilago maydis, and Verticillium dahliae. Further, this invention encompasses other homologous and heterologous sequences with a high degree of functional similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Vipula Kiran Shukla, Holly Jean Butler, Aaron Todd Woosley, Pamela Rene Haygood, Cristie Min Dewes, James Patrick Connell, Ignacio Mario Larrinua, Avutu Sambi Reddy, Anthony Trieu, Zihua Hu
  • Publication number: 20060235326
    Abstract: A method for detecting a quantitative measure of a physiologic state of a human myocardium or coronary artery. Implementations of the method detect the extent of change of myocardial electrical impedance from a mean baseline value to provide diagnosis of the extent of ischemia, stenosis, tissue rejection, and reperfusion and the effectiveness of cardioplegia and ischemia pre-conditioning as well as the general effectiveness of coronary bypass surgery as measured by post-operative reperfusion. Electrodes are attached to the myocardium, baseline measurements of the mean myocardial electrical impedance are stored and the variance of the myocardial electrical impedance and a baseline value of mean myocardial electrical impedance are computed from the baseline measurements and stored. Mean myocardial electrical impedance values are periodically measured between each electrode pair over an interval of time and stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Roger Dzwonczyk, Carlos Del Rio, Patrick Connell, Michael Howie