Patents by Inventor Patrick M. O'Connell

Patrick M. O'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).

  • Publication number: 20250099927
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for filling reservoirs including but not limited to an apparatus comprising a first transition conduit assembly; where the first transition conduit assembly includes a first inversion chamber housing connected to a first transition conduit, and the first inversion chamber housing includes a frustoconical portion; the first transition conduit assembly is adapted to create a first inversion gap when positioned above an inlet of the water storage tank; where the apparatus may further include a second transition conduit assembly and the second transition conduit assembly is adapted to create a second inversion gap when positioned above the first transition conduit assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventor: Patrick M. O'Malley
  • Patent number: 11686936
    Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick M. O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20220155605
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display producing a virtual image that is visible to a driver of the motor vehicle when he is sitting in a driver's seat and his eyes are above a first vertical level and below a second vertical level. An eye tracking system detects a vertical level of the eyes of the driver and transmits a height signal indicative of the detected vertical level of the eyes of the driver. A motorized seat height adjustment module adjusts a vertical level of the driver's seat. An electronic controller is communicatively coupled to the eye tracking system and to the motorized seat height adjustment module. The electronic controller controls the motorized seat height adjustment module based on the height signal to move the driver's eyes to a vertical position above the first vertical level and below the second vertical level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, FIDELIS ITSEDE, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
  • Publication number: 20220043260
    Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: EDO OMANOVIC, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
  • Patent number: 11181738
    Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick M. O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20210193086
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit emitting a light field including an image. A mirror is positioned to reflect the light field after the light field has been emitted by the picture generation unit. A windshield is positioned to reflect the light field after the light field has been reflected by the mirror such that a human driver sees the image in the light field after the light field has been reflected by the windshield, and such that the driver sees the image as a virtual image that appears to be outside of the windshield when eyes of the driver are in an imaginary eyebox. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the picture generation unit and translates the image on the picture generation unit display to thereby change a vertical level of the eyebox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: DAVID KAY LAMBERT, DAMON EDWARD STAUFFER, FIDELIS ITSEDE, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
  • Publication number: 20200150434
    Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: EDO OMANOVIC, PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
  • Publication number: 20180237383
    Abstract: This invention provides novel compounds comprising the following anti-inflammatory pharmacore: wherein X, R1 and R2 are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: REATA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric ANDERSON, Gary L. BOLTON, Deborah A. FERGUSON, Xin JIANG, Robert M. KRAL, JR., Patrick M. O'BRIEN, Melean VISNICK
  • Publication number: 20170343342
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
  • Patent number: 9811793
    Abstract: A system for information technology (IT) process management. The system comprises a processor, one or more memory storage devices coupled to the processor, and a document composer tool comprising a plurality of enterprise use case documents to locate an enterprise use case document relevant to an IT project based on input keywords and to link an enterprise use case document to at least one relevant enterprise business process document when an enterprise use case document is updated, wherein an enterprise use case document comprises a link referring to at least one enterprise business process document. The system further comprises an enterprise business process repository stored in at least one of the memory storage devices comprising a plurality of enterprise business process documents, wherein an enterprise business process document comprises a set of steps to accomplish a specific organizational goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Patrick M. O'Kane, Hanumantha R. Saripalli
  • Patent number: 9796668
    Abstract: This invention provides novel compounds comprising the following anti-inflammatory pharmacore: wherein X, R1 and R2 are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: REATA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Anderson, Gary L. Bolton, Deborah A. Ferguson, Xin Jiang, Robert M. Kral, Jr., Patrick M. O'Brien, Melean Visnick
  • Patent number: 9778031
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
  • Patent number: 9515512
    Abstract: A checkstand system including a counter surface within which a plurality of induction charge transmission coils are embedded in or disposed below the counter at selected charge positions about the countertop whereby a cordless peripheral, such as a data reader, is positionable and movable between multiple positions about the counter surface, the peripheral including an induction charge receiving coil operative to receive a charge current from one of the induction charge transmission coils when the peripheral is placed in proximity of a selected one of the charge positions on the checkstand. In one configuration, the system includes a temperature sensing component disposed proximal to an induction charge transmission coil and a controller operative for receiving a temperature signal from the temperature sensing component and adjusting the charge current delivered to the induction charge transmission coil in response to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: DATALOGIC ADC, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick M. O'Donnell, Jon P. C. Williams, Cameron G. Breckenridge
  • Publication number: 20160145200
    Abstract: This invention provides novel compounds comprising the following anti-inflammatory pharmacore: wherein X, R1 and R2 are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: REATA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric ANDERSON, Gary L. BOLTON, Deborah A. FERGUSON, Xin JIANG, Robert M. KRAL, JR., Patrick M. O'BRIEN, Melean VISNICK
  • Patent number: 9347819
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing erroneous weighing of items by detecting items extending beyond a peripheral edge of a weigh platter associated with a data reader. For example, in response to a weigh request a scale guard module acquires data indicative of whether an item extends between the weigh platter and another surface, compares the acquired data to reference data, and based on the comparison, determines whether an item extends off the weigh platter and thus on to another surface. The scale guard module may utilize non-electromagnetic compression waves, radio waves, a portion of a data reader's scan field to scan a set of patterns extending along at least one edge of the weigh platter, an imaging based scanner to capture an image of at least one edge of the weigh platter, light beams extending along at least one edge of the weigh platter, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: DATALOGIC ADC, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Forrister Atwater, Alexander M. McQueen, Patrick M. O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 9233998
    Abstract: This invention provides novel compounds comprising the following anti-inflammatory pharmacore: wherein X, R1 and R2 are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: REATA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Anderson, Gary L. Bolton, Deborah A. Ferguson, Xin Jiang, Robert M. Kral, Jr., Patrick M. O'Brien, Melean Visnick
  • Publication number: 20150343698
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
  • Patent number: 9146099
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of measuring the placement of material forming a blow-molded plastic container after the container is released from a mold of a blow molder having a plurality of molds, wherein each plastic container comprises a continuous sidewall and a base, the method comprising the steps of: detecting with an infrared camera infrared light emitted from the container after the container is released from a mold; converting the detected infrared light into corresponding electrical signals; transmitting the electrical signals to a microprocessor; comparing in the microprocessor the electrical signals with stored data regarding desired material distribution forming the plastic container; and producing output information regarding the placement of material forming the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Patrick M. O'Connell, Garrett R. Pennington, Russell Varone
  • Patent number: 8833659
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing erroneous weighing of items such as by detecting items extending beyond a periphery of a weigh platter whereby in one configuration, the system employs a light guide for routing a light beam to a detector operative to detect interruption of the beam due to an item encroaching upon or overhanging an edge of the platter. In another configuration, the scale includes a perimeter gap between the platter outer edge and scanner housing frame or checkout counter, a light beam directed angularly upward through the gap is partially obstructed by the frame and platter whereby light exits the gap forming a light plane, wherein an object placed on the platter extending across the gap intersects the light plane thus scattering light rays, some of which are sensed by a detector. Various indicators for alerting the operator of off-scale detection are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Datalogic ADC, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander M. McQueen, Patrick M. O'Donnell
  • Patent number: D720831
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventor: Patrick M. O'Banion