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).

  • Publication number: 20220085554
    Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending between a cable end and a mating end rearward of the cable end. The pluggable body has a module cavity. The pluggable module includes a module circuit board received in the module cavity. The module circuit board has a mating edge at a mating end configured to be plugged into a first slot of a communication connector. The pluggable module includes a plug connector extending between a plug mating end and a plug mounting end. The plug mounting end is mounted to the module circuit board. The plug connector includes plug contacts extending between the plug mating end and the plug mounting end. The plug mating end is configured to be plugged into a second slot of the communication connector to mate the plug contacts with the communication connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Clarence Leon Yu
  • Publication number: 20220085532
    Abstract: A communication system includes a receptacle connector assembly including a receptacle cage and a communication connector having an inner receptacle connector and an outer receptacle connector. The communication system includes a pluggable module received in the receptacle cage to mate with the communication connector. The pluggable module includes a pluggable body defining a module cavity. The pluggable module includes a module circuit board having mating pads at a mating edge of the module circuit board plugged into the inner receptacle connector and connector pads at a mounting location remote from the mating edge. The pluggable module includes a plug connector mounted to the mounting location. The plug connector includes plug contacts extending between a plug mating end and a plug mounting end. The plug mating end is plugged into the outer receptacle connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Christopher William Blackburn
  • Patent number: 11276966
    Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending between a cable end and a mating end rearward of the cable end. The pluggable body has a module cavity. The pluggable module includes a module circuit board received in the module cavity. The module circuit board has a mating edge at a mating end configured to be plugged into a first slot of a communication connector. The pluggable module includes a plug connector extending between a plug mating end and a plug mounting end. The plug mounting end is mounted to the module circuit board. The plug connector includes plug contacts extending between the plug mating end and the plug mounting end. The plug mating end is configured to be plugged into a second slot of the communication connector to mate the plug contacts with the communication connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVIVES GmbH
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Clarence Leon Yu
  • Publication number: 20220058572
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Patent number: 11258192
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage mounted to a circuit board having walls defining a cavity including a module channel that receives a pluggable module. The receptacle connector assembly includes a communication connector received in the cavity and mounted to the circuit board. The communication connector has a housing holding a contact array including ground and signal contacts extending between mating and mounting ends of the housing. The ground contacts have ground mating ends and ground mounting ends including compliant pins press-fit into plated vias of the circuit board. The signal contacts have signal mating ends and signal mounting ends including deflectable spring beams deflected against the circuit board when the communication connector is mounted to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Brian Patrick Costello
  • Patent number: 11182738
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Patent number: 11177599
    Abstract: A power connector includes a housing having a mating slot at a front having terminal channels holding power terminals between the slot and the corresponding side of the housing. Each power terminal includes a plate extending from the slot through a rear of the housing to an exterior of the housing for termination to a corresponding power element. The power terminal has a contact array of contacts discrete from and coupled to the plate. Each contact has a plate interface electrically coupled to the plate and a bus bar interface configured to be electrically coupled to a corresponding rail of the bus bar. The contacts are arranged along a corresponding side of the slot for interfacing with the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Michael James Horning, Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr., Brian Patrick Costello, David Patrick Orris
  • Publication number: 20210326594
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: James Patrick COSTELLO, Rena Yu CHEN, Divya NAVANEETHA KRISHNA
  • Patent number: 11129290
    Abstract: A power delivery module includes a frame having rails defining an opening that receives an electronic package. A bottom of the frame is mounted to a host circuit board and faces an upper surface of the electronic package. The frame is a layered structure including a power plate, a ground plate, and an insulator electrically isolating the power plate from the ground plate. The power deliver module includes module power contacts electrically connected to the power plate and extending from the bottom for electrical connection to package power contacts of the electronic package. Module ground contacts are electrically connected to the ground plate and extend from the bottom for electrical connection to package ground contacts of the electronic package. The module power contacts and the module ground contacts deliver power to the electronic package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello
  • Publication number: 20210241187
    Abstract: A system and methods for third-party access to a network-based system for providing location-based upcoming event information are described. The location-based upcoming event information may be accessed from the network-based system by a server-side web application implemented by a third party. The server-side web application may be configured to communicate with the network-based system that provides online marketplace and ticket fulfillment services and to generate a query based upon the location of a user and other event criteria. The server-side web application may communicate the query to the network-based system and, in response, receive location-based upcoming event information which may be displayed to a user as a list and/or information on a map. The location-based upcoming event information may comprise an aggregate of ticket inventory available from multiple online marketplaces providing the user with multiple purchasing options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Ashley Gibson, Cass Patrick Costello, Conny Wu
  • Publication number: 20210226361
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage mounted to a circuit board having walls defining a cavity including a module channel that receives a pluggable module. The receptacle connector assembly includes a communication connector received in the cavity and mounted to the circuit board. The communication connector has a housing holding a contact array including ground and signal contacts extending between mating and mounting ends of the housing. The ground contacts have ground mating ends and ground mounting ends including compliant pins press-fit into plated vias of the circuit board. The signal contacts have signal mating ends and signal mounting ends including deflectable spring beams deflected against the circuit board when the communication connector is mounted to the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Brian Patrick Costello
  • Publication number: 20210224730
    Abstract: 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. Audible and/or visual alerts can be provided when an attempted theft is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Publication number: 20210201254
    Abstract: 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. Audible and visual alerts can be provided when an attempted theft has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Publication number: 20210192439
    Abstract: 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. Audible and/or visual notifications can be provided when an attempted theft is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Publication number: 20210013649
    Abstract: A power connector system for a circuit card assembly includes a board power connector and a cable power connector coupled to the board power connector. The board power connector includes a board housing having cavities that hold power contacts and signal contact channels on the bottom that hold signal contacts. The cable power connector has a cable housing having contact silos holding cable power contacts terminated to power cables. The contact silos and the cable power contacts are received in the cavities of the board housing to mate the cable power contacts with the board power contacts. The cable housing includes a platform below the contact silos holding cable signal contacts at the bottom of the cable housing outside of the contact silos for mating with the board signal contacts when the cable power connector is mated with the board power connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Matthew Schumacher
  • Patent number: 10885474
    Abstract: A system and methods for third-party access to a network-based system for providing location-based upcoming event information are described. The location-based upcoming event information may be accessed from the network-based system by a server-side web application implemented by a third party. The server-side web application may be configured to communicate with the network-based system that provides online marketplace and ticket fulfillment services and to generate a query based upon the location of a user and other event criteria. The server-side web application may communicate the query to the network-based system and, in response, receive location-based upcoming event information which may be displayed to a user as a list and/or information on a map. The location-based upcoming event information may comprise an aggregate of ticket inventory available from multiple online marketplaces providing the user with multiple purchasing options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley Gibson, Cass Patrick Costello, Conny Wu
  • Patent number: 10873157
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a housing holding plug connector contacts and a latch assembly. The latch assembly includes a latch with a latch beam movable between a latched position and an unlatched position and an actuator for moving the latch. The latch assembly includes a pull tab extending from the rear of the housing having first and second attachment members. The first attachment member is coupled to the actuator proximate to a first end of the housing and is movable in a rearward pulling direction to move the actuator and actuate the latch to the unlatched position. The first attachment member pulls the first end of the housing to unmate the housing from the mating connector. The second attachment member is coupled to a second end of the housing to pull the second end of the housing and unmate the housing from the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH, TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Setha Yim, Qianjin Li
  • Patent number: 10868390
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first module and a second module. Each of the first and second modules extends parallel to a longitudinal axis between a respective front end and a respective rear end opposite the front end. Each of the first and second modules includes a respective shell and one or more electrical connectors held by the shell and exposed at the respective front end for mating to a corresponding mating electrical device. The shell of the second module is mechanically coupled to the shell of the first module between the front and rear ends of the first module. The second module is movable relative to the first module parallel to the longitudinal axis to allow for separately mating the first and second modules to the corresponding mating electrical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello
  • Patent number: 10868393
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a communication system includes a housing and a wafer assembly including a PCB terminated contact wafer and a cable terminated contact wafer arranged in a wafer stack. The PCB terminated contact wafer includes a first contact array having first signal contacts having mating portions and terminating ends for termination to a printed circuit board of the communication system. The cable terminated contact wafer includes a second contact array having second signal contacts and a second contact holder having a mating interface and holding terminating ends of the second signal contacts at the mating interface for electrically connection to a cable connector of a cable assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Michael David Herring, Arash Behziz, Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20200375053
    Abstract: A power delivery module includes a frame having rails defining an opening that receives an electronic package. A bottom of the frame is mounted to a host circuit board and faces an upper surface of the electronic package. The frame is a layered structure including a power plate, a ground plate, and an insulator electrically isolating the power plate from the ground plate. The power deliver module includes module power contacts electrically connected to the power plate and extending from the bottom for electrical connection to package power contacts of the electronic package. Module ground contacts are electrically connected to the ground plate and extend from the bottom for electrical connection to package ground contacts of the electronic package. The module power contacts and the module ground contacts deliver power to the electronic package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello