Patents by Inventor Patrick Costello
Patrick Costello 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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Publication number: 20250246832Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly having a cage mounted to a host circuit board and having shielding walls forming a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module in a module loading direction generally parallel to the host circuit board. The circuit card assembly includes an interposer frame received in the module channel having a socket cavity receiving a socket connector having compressible socket contacts having separable mating interfaces at a module mating zone configured to be mated with module contacts of a module circuit board of the pluggable module in a contact mating direction generally perpendicular to the module loading direction. The interposer frame selectively receives, in an interposer cavity, either a board interposer to electrically connect the socket connector to the host circuit board or a cable interposer to electrically connect the socket connector to a cable assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2024Publication date: July 31, 2025Inventors: Jared Evan Rossman, Brian Patrick Costello
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Publication number: 20250246833Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly having a host circuit board, an interposer, and a socket connector arranged in a circuit stack. The interposer includes interposer contacts on an interposer circuit board. The socket connector includes compressible socket contacts having mating ends with separable mating interfaces. The electrical connector system includes a pluggable module having a module circuit board held in a module body at the mating end configured to be loaded into the module mating zone in a module loading direction and mated with the socket contacts in a contact mating direction generally perpendicular to the module loading direction to compress the socket contacts between the module circuit board and the interposer contacts and create circuit paths between the module contacts and the interposer contacts through the socket contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2024Publication date: July 31, 2025Inventors: Jared Evan Rossman, Brian Patrick Costello
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Patent number: 12347953Abstract: An electrical power connector includes a connector housing having a slot at a mating end of the connector housing configured to receive a power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes power contacts received in the connector housing configured to be is coupled to a power distribution contact of the power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes a monitoring device having a monitoring circuit, a monitoring sensor coupled to the monitoring circuit, and a monitoring transmitter coupled to the monitoring circuit. The monitoring sensor is coupled to the power contact to monitor an operating characteristic of the power contact. The monitoring circuit receives sensor signals from the monitoring sensor and the monitoring transmitter transmits monitoring signals from the monitoring circuit based on the operating characteristic of the power contact to a monitoring network remote from the electrical power connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH et al.Inventors: Stephen Hart, Stephen Wiseman, Brian Patrick Costello, Cristian S. Regus, Richard Bruce Lloyd, Jonathan Roberts, Peter Goesseringer
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Publication number: 20250182046Abstract: A display management system includes a mechanism configured to move upon removal of one or more display products from the display management system, a sensor device configured to output motion data responsive to a motion of the mechanism, a control circuit configured to receive the motion data, wherein the control circuit, in response to the received motion data exceeding a threshold value, is further configured to communicate the received motion data to a remote processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by the remote processor cause the remote processor to calculate, from the motion data, a current position of the mechanism, and calculate, based on the position of the mechanism, a number of products removed from the display management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: June 5, 2025Inventors: John Swafford, Patrick Costello
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Publication number: 20250125548Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having a housing mounting end configured to be mounted to a host circuit board and a slot at a housing mating end configured to receive a mating end of a pluggable module. The receptacle housing includes contact pockets that receive interposer contacts. The receptacle connector includes a flexible circuit having circuit conductors extending between a mating end and a terminating end configured to be terminated to the host circuit board. Each interposer contact includes an inner mating interface forming a separable interface configured to be mated with module contacts of the pluggable module and an outer mating interface connected to the mating end of the corresponding circuit conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Alan Weir Bucher, Brian Patrick Costello, Brandon Michael Matthews
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Patent number: 12274019Abstract: A back plate configured to support a circuit board includes a body. The body defines a central recess formed into a top surface thereof, and a raised main support column extending from the central recess and adapted to support the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Tyco Electronics AMP Qingdao Ltd.Inventors: Jinqiang (Jeff) Wang, Zhiqiang (Simon) Li, Guoxiao (Neo) Shen, Jiefeng (Lear) Zhang, Brian Patrick Costello
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Patent number: 12266170Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for displaying virtual content that is supplemental to video content being displayed to a user. The virtual content can be generated based on the video content being displayed, including based on scene content obtained for the video content and/or detected in the video content. The scene content can be identified, by the device providing the supplemental virtual content, in real time during playback of the video content.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James Patrick Costello, Rena Yu Chen, Divya Navaneetha Krishna
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Publication number: 20250098123Abstract: A busbar assembly includes a first busbar having a mating interface for mating with an electrical component to power the electrical component and a second busbar having a mating interface for mating with the electrical component to power the electrical component. The busbar assembly includes a first thermal conduit extending along the first busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the first busbar. The busbar assembly includes a second thermal conduit extending along the second busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the second busbar.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Jie Luo
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Publication number: 20250070492Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly that includes a host circuit board, an interposer, and a socket connector arranged in a circuit stack. The electrical connector system includes a cable assembly that has cables electrically connected to terminating ends of the interposer contacts. The electrical connector system includes a pluggable module having a mating end with a module circuit board mated with the socket contacts of the socket connector. The electrical connector system includes a loading mechanism operably coupled to the circuit card assembly operated to compress the socket contacts between the module circuit board and interposer contacts to create circuit paths between the module contacts and the interposer contacts through the socket contacts. The cables are electrically connected to the pluggable module through the interposer and the socket connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Christopher William Blackburn, Phillip Chang
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Patent number: 12237629Abstract: A connector for plugging into a bus bar comprises a housing with a first side wall, a second side wall, and a connecting channel between the first side wall and the second side wall. A plurality of power terminals each having an electrical connection part are provided inside the connecting channel and are adapted to electrically connect with the bus bar. A plurality of grounding terminals are each disposed on the first side wall and the second side wall outside the connecting channel respectively. Each of the grounding terminals have an elastic first finger. An auxiliary support member is provided and supports the first finger.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Jiaoyong (Mac) Liu, Hongqiang (Sean) Han, Jie (Roger) Luo, Brian Patrick Costello
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Publication number: 20250055213Abstract: A contact assembly includes a contact holder having a central wall separating walls extending from a surface of the central wall defining contact tracks along the surface. A contact array is coupled to the surface and includes inner contacts arranged in pairs with contact dielectric bodies encapsulating portions of corresponding pairs of the contacts. Each pair of the contacts and the corresponding contact dielectric bodies form a contact set. The contact dielectric bodies of each contact set is spaced apart from each other and received in the corresponding contact track with the separating walls separating the contact sets from each other. A shield is coupled to the contact holder to cover the contact tracks and form shield pockets surrounding the corresponding contact tracks to provide circumferential shielding for the corresponding contact sets.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Jared Evan Rossman, Brian Patrick Costello, Rakesh K., Michael John Phillips
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Patent number: 12178019Abstract: A busbar assembly includes a first busbar having a mating interface for mating with an electrical component to power the electrical component and a second busbar having a mating interface for mating with the electrical component to power the electrical component. The busbar assembly includes a first thermal conduit extending along the first busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the first busbar. The busbar assembly includes a second thermal conduit extending along the second busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the second busbar.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH ET ALInventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Jie Luo
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Patent number: 12166302Abstract: An electronic assembly includes an interposer assembly and a cable connector module coupled to the interposer assembly. The interposer assembly includes an array of compressible interposer contacts each having upper and lower mating interfaces defining separable mating interfaces. The cable connector module includes a cable connector having a module substrate including module contacts at a bottom of the module substrate coupled to the upper mating interfaces of the corresponding interposer contacts. The cable connector module includes a backshell including a backshell cavity that receives the cable connector. The backshell includes a compression member engaging the cable connector and pressing the cable connector in the direction of the interposer assembly to compress the interposer contacts.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH et al.Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Brian Patrick Costello, Wei Zhao, Guoxiao Shen
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Publication number: 20240380153Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having a mounting base at a rear configured to be mounted to a host circuit board. The receptacle connector includes a housing insert received in the receptacle housing. The housing insert includes a slot that receives a pluggable module. A flexible circuit is received in the receptacle housing and has a mating end in the housing insert for mating engagement with the pluggable module and a terminating end extending from the receptacle housing for termination to the host circuit board. A flexible circuit support is used to support the flexible circuit in the receptacle housing with support elements engage the flexible circuit to press the circuit conductors into mating engagement with the contacts of the pluggable module.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Brandon Michael Matthews, Brian Patrick Costello, Sandeep Patel, Christopher William Blackburn
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Patent number: 12141743Abstract: Sensor-equipped display management systems and methods that may be used to calculate a number of products removed from a display management system based upon motion of one or more mechanisms within the display management system. Additionally, the systems and methods may be used to detect patterns from the sensor data, which may be indicative of attempted theft of products stored within the display management system.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
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Patent number: 12132285Abstract: A connector assembly includes a power connector having first and second power interfaces that interface with first and second power components. The power connector includes a shell forming a cavity and having a shell slot at the first power interface to receive the first power component. A power contact is received in the cavity that extends between the first power interface and the second power interface to electrically connect the first power component to a power circuit of the second power component. The connector assembly includes a sense connector separate and discrete from the power connector. The sense connector includes first and second sense interfaces configured to interface with the first and second power components. The sense connector includes a housing holding a sense contact and electrically isolating the sense contact from the shell. The sense contact electrically connect the first power component to a sense circuit of the second power component.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBHInventor: Brian Patrick Costello
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Publication number: 20240272682Abstract: A power rail for powering a power driver assembly includes a rail member extending between a front end and a rear end. The rail member has a track including a channel between an upper support beam and a lower support beam. The track extends between the front end and the rear end. The track configured to receive a driver circuit card of the power driver assembly. The power rail includes a power contact having a base coupled to the rail member. The power contact includes a cable termination terminated to a power cable. The power contact includes a mating beam extending from the base into the channel. The mating beam has a mating interface configured to be mated to a power pad of the driver circuit card when the driver circuit card is plugged into the track of the rail member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Nicholas Paul Ruffini, Howard Wallace Andrews, JR., Robert Neil Mulfinger, Brian Patrick Costello
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Publication number: 20240250459Abstract: An electrical power connector includes a connector housing having a slot at a mating end of the connector housing configured to receive a power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes power contacts received in the connector housing configured to be is coupled to a power distribution contact of the power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes a monitoring device having a monitoring circuit, a monitoring sensor coupled to the monitoring circuit, and a monitoring transmitter coupled to the monitoring circuit. The monitoring sensor is coupled to the power contact to monitor an operating characteristic of the power contact. The monitoring circuit receives sensor signals from the monitoring sensor and the monitoring transmitter transmits monitoring signals from the monitoring circuit based on the operating characteristic of the power contact to a monitoring network remote from the electrical power connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Stephen Hart, Stephen Wiseman, Brian Patrick Costello, Cristian S. Regus, Richard Bruce Lloyd, Jonathan Roberts, Peter Goesseringer
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Publication number: 20240250480Abstract: A card edge connector includes a connector housing having a cavity and a card slot at a front configured to receive a module circuit board of the pluggable module. The card edge connector includes a contact assembly received in the cavity having a contact positioner holding contacts in a contact array. The contacts are arranged in pairs. Each contact includes a mating end, a terminating end, and an intermediate portion held by the contact positioner. The mating ends extend into the card slot for mating to corresponding signal pads on the module circuit board. The card edge connector includes a shield structure having ground shields located between the pairs of the contacts. The ground shields include ground beams that extend into the card slot for mating to corresponding ground pads on the module circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Brian Patrick Costello, Brandon Michael Matthews
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Patent number: 12042917Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery-operated non pneumatic plier stapler for accurately and effectively applying staple fasteners onto a surface. The plier stapler includes a rechargeable battery pack secured into a battery slot for providing electric power to a driver piston assembly. The battery pack is removably mounted to the battery socket and can be replaced with another battery pack. The stapler further includes a laser sight to indicate precise staple placement during application, thereby enabling accurate stapling operation. A magazine stores staples and the staples are biased towards nose using springs and rollers. The clencher clutches legs of individual staples to finish the stapling process. The stapler is cordless and obviates the need to use air compressors to apply staples, thereby eliminating limits on movement, air supply, and other factors.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Inventor: Patrick Costello