Patents by Inventor Patrick Sullivan

Patrick Sullivan 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: 20250213949
    Abstract: A slidable and rotatable training and ergonomic handle for an ice hockey stick includes two hinged halves forming a tube sized to exceed the thickness of the elongated shaft of the hockey stick. The reduced grip upon the elongated shaft generally encourages the user to focus on manipulating another hand closer to the butt end of the ice hockey stick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventor: Ryan Patrick Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20250214961
    Abstract: Pyridinium derivatives, methods of making the pyridinium derivatives, and electrochemical cells that use the pyridinium derivatives as anolytes are provided. The pyridinium derivatives have a redox core with two or more pyridinium groups and substituents at pyridinium ring nitrogen atoms. The pyridinium derivatives can be made by reacting pyridyl reactant molecules having two or more pyridyl groups with water-soluble derivatizing reactant molecules via a hydrothermal synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Dawei Feng, Xiuliang Lyu, Patrick Sullivan, Wenjie Li
  • Patent number: 12346833
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to artificial intelligence (AI) systems and materials. In particular, the invention relates to human-like AI that utilizes a symbolic thinking engine to create explanatory theories. Such theories are based on an iterative process that adjusts for available information, context, and/or perspective, and can be created based on sparse information. The invention then iterates to return a useful result that can also be predictive. In one or more embodiments, the present invention is modular and scalable, enabling the addition of multiple domains that collaborate in parallel, similar to how the human mind/brain is believed to work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Oceanit Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Watumull, Christopher Sullivan, Matthew Williams, Patrick Sullivan, Ken Cheung, Noam Chomsky
  • Publication number: 20250208427
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for sensor detection may incorporate (i) concealed light sensors including a housing shell and an ambient light sensor positioned to detect light, (ii) a plurality of microvalves with each microvalve including a substrate, a fluid channel through the substrate, a valve element configured to open and close a fluid pathway through the fluid channel, and a piezoresistive material, (iii) a microprocessor that is configured to adjust a charging voltage for a battery, calculated from an output signal, and (iv) a radio frequency transceiver configured to control an antenna tuner to change one or more specified operational parameters of at least one antenna based on an input detected from a set of sensors in a watch body and a set of sensors in a watch band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Lucas Wen Tang, Celia Leach Doud, Kyle Trieu, Parker Drennan, Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Lichuan Chen, Aleksey Reiderman, Jennifer Lee, Jeffrey Hendricks, Sung Hoon Oh, Jason Michael Battle, Md Rashidul Islam, Joung Sub Shin, Chia-Wei Liu, Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima, Liang Han, Ran Oliver Fang, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 12336650
    Abstract: A removable plant holder system in a first embodiment having at least one first plant holder assembly having a coupling-frame, an extension arm-member having a proximate end, and a distal end; wherein the plant holder system includes the at least one first plant holder assembly. The at least one first plant holder assembly is defined by the coupling-frame and the extension arm-member integrally combined for use. As such the extension arm-member is defined by the proximate end attached to the coupling-frame, and the distal end is thus able to act in a capacity for hanging a plant therefrom; the coupling-frame configured for removable attachment with a railed deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Inventor: Patrick Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20250199621
    Abstract: A head-worn device system includes one or more cameras, one or more display devices and one or more processors. The system also includes a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the system to detect a gesture made by a user of the computing apparatus and generate gesture data identifying the gesture, select an application or selected action from a set of registered applications and actions based on the gesture data, and invoke the application or selected action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Sharon Moll, Piotr Gurgul, Francis Patrick Sullivan, Andrei Rybin
  • Patent number: 12323713
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for artificial-reality systems. In one aspect, a head-wearable device includes a depth-tracking component configured to obtain depth information associated with one or more objects in a physical environment of the head-wearable device. The head-wearable device also includes a set of peripheral camera components, and a set of forward-facing camera components, where each forward-facing camera component of the set of forward-facing camera components includes a monochrome camera and a color camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Wesley Bristol, Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Scott Andrew Dallmeyer, David Michael Pickett, Joel Bernard Jacobs, Peter Allan Chase Newbury, Quintin Morris
  • Publication number: 20250143490
    Abstract: A removable plant holder system includes a plant holder assembly having a coupling-frame and an extension arm-member. The coupling-frame includes a cross-member having a right-hooked-end and a left-hooked-end for removably mounting to a railed deck. Each of the right-hooked-end and the left-hooked-end engages at least one vertical-rail of the railed deck. The extension arm-member has a proximate end attached to the coupling-frame and a distal end configured for hanging a plant therefrom. Alternate embodiments of the removable plant holder system include a support arm-member attached to the extension arm-member for reinforcement and/or ornamentation, and various configurations of the coupling-frame for engaging at least one vertical-rail of the railed deck in a specified manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventor: Patrick Sullivan
  • Patent number: 12291513
    Abstract: Pyridinium derivatives, methods of making the pyridinium derivatives, and electrochemical cells that use the pyridinium derivatives as anolytes are provided. The pyridinium derivatives have a redox core with two or more pyridinium groups and substituents at pyridinium ring nitrogen atoms. The pyridinium derivatives can be made by reacting pyridyl reactant molecules having two or more pyridyl groups with water-soluble derivatizing reactant molecules via a hydrothermal synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Dawei Feng, Xiuliang Lyu, Patrick Sullivan, Wenjie Li
  • Patent number: 12271297
    Abstract: A system and related method reduce public cloud provisioning latencies using one or more processors. The method comprises, prior to receiving a volume provisioning request from a user, creating a pool of pre-provisioned generic volumes. The method further comprises receiving the request from the user to provision a volume from the pool, and then determining that a pre-provisioned generic volume is available for customization based on the request. Responsive to the determination, the method executes the actions comprising customizing the pre-provisioned generic volume based on the request, creating a custom volume, and providing the customized pre-provisioned volume to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kapil Jain, Patrick Sullivan, Michael Behrendt
  • Publication number: 20250110608
    Abstract: A system facilitates real-time user interactions in a virtual environment of a user application accessible by multiple computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael FREISTHLER, Justin Wayne WEBSTER, Christopher Nathan MELNICK, Bryan EDELMAN, Nathan Ralph HOGGE, Jacob Patrick SULLIVAN
  • Patent number: 12265663
    Abstract: A head-worn device system includes one or more cameras, one or more display devices and one or more processors. The system also includes a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the system to detect a gesture made by a user of the computing apparatus and generate gesture data identifying the gesture, select an application or selected action from a set of registered applications and actions based on the gesture data, and invoke the application or selected action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Moll, Piotr Gurgul, Francis Patrick Sullivan, Andrei Rybin
  • Publication number: 20250102813
    Abstract: An artificial-reality headset comprises a first lens assembly coupled with a first shape guide, and a second lens assembly coupled with a second shape guide. The artificial-reality headset comprises an interpupillary-distance (IPD) adjustment system that moves one or both of the first lens assembly and the second lens assembly to produce a first IPD between the first lens assembly and the second lens assembly, and a second IPD between the first lens assembly and the second lens assembly. A membrane is included, and the membrane is in contact with the first and second shape guides such that: when the first IPD is produced between the first lens assembly and the second lens assembly, a number of creases in the portions of the membrane is a first number, and when the second IPD is produced between the first lens assembly and the second lens assembly, no new creases are introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Taryn Monteleone, David Michael Pickett, Joel Bernard Jacobs, Jeffrey Taylor Stellman, Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Spencer Eggert, Brett Delainey Christie, Celia Leach Doud
  • Patent number: 12204736
    Abstract: A system facilitates real-time user interactions in a virtual environment of a user application accessible by multiple computing devices. System instructions include receiving a set of defined topics including a defined topic from a first computing device of the computing devices. The instructions include receiving, from at least one of the computing devices, data representing machine-readable text converted from a verbal conversation between two or more users in the virtual environment. The instructions include identifying a set of topics from the data representing machine-readable text. The instructions include comparing the identified set of topics from the data representing machine-readable text to the set of defined topics. The instructions include, in response to detecting a match between a topic of the identified set of topics and the defined topic of the set of defined topics, transmitting, to the first computing device, a notification of the matching defined topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Freisthler, Justin Wayne Webster, Christopher Nathan Melnick, Bryan Edelman, Nathan Ralph Hogge, Jacob Patrick Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20250013942
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automated cross-dock management system configured to optimize moves on a cross-dock. The automated cross-dock management system uses inbound manifest data to calculate ordered move instructions for all inbound movable platforms, inbound modular decks, and inbound freight. The ordered move instructions can be assigned to be carried out by manual conveyance vehicles or by automated guided vehicles based upon a plurality of criteria. The automated cross-dock management system is also able to detect damaged freight on the cross-dock using a combination of streams from video cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Patrick Sullivan, Jefferson Maldonado, Shannon Lively, Kerry Jenkins, Jonathan McCormack, Jeremy Sloan
  • Publication number: 20240411681
    Abstract: A system and related method reduce public cloud provisioning latencies using one or more processors. The method comprises, prior to receiving a volume provisioning request from a user, creating a pool of pre-provisioned generic volumes. The method further comprises receiving the request from the user to provision a volume from the pool, and then determining that a pre-provisioned generic volume is available for customization based on the request. Responsive to the determination, the method executes the actions comprising customizing the pre-provisioned generic volume based on the request, creating a custom volume, and providing the customized pre-provisioned volume to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Kapil Jain, Patrick Sullivan, Michael Behrendt
  • Publication number: 20240399764
    Abstract: A printing system is described herein. The printing system has a massive base disposed on a flotation support, a flotation substrate support disposed on the base, a print support comprising a printhead assembly support and an auxiliary support, a printhead assembly coupled to the printhead assembly support, and a printhead supply assembly coupled to the auxiliary support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sou-Kang KO, Christopher Buchner, Eashwer Kollata, Karl Andrew Nordhoff, Patrick Sullivan, Digby Pun, Gregory Lewis
  • Publication number: 20240378188
    Abstract: Multiple devices can update the same attribute of the same node stored in a zero-knowledge database. The node can contain one or more attributes and attribute values. The multiple devices can belong to the same user, or they can belong to different users who all have access to the node and the attributes, for example, via sharing. The disclosed technology determines how the updates to the attribute values are propagated through the system. The attribute values can include information about the user or can include information about the graph, such as incoming or outgoing edges from a node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Patrick SULLIVAN, James Michael FARIS, Brian Samuel TAYLOR
  • Publication number: 20240374639
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to, inter alia, natural killer (NK) cells including memory-like and cytokine-induced memory like (CIML) NK cells, methods of making and using them e.g. in the treatment of cancer, increasing anti-tumor properties of NK cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Patrick SULLIVAN, Kenneth M. CHROBAK, Matthew COOPER, Mary Elizabeth MATHYER, Jennifer L. GOVERO
  • Patent number: D1080716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Peter Allan Chase Newbury, David Michael Pickett, Joel Bernard Jacobs, Scott Andrew Dallmeyer, Peter Wesley Bristol