Patents by Inventor Paul O'Connor

Paul O'Connor 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: 12294837
    Abstract: A multi-zone media system and method for providing multi-zone media. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly presents media content (e.g., audio content) to a user as the user moves throughout a premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20250066673
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process to convert a carbon containing material contained in a waste feed, such as synthetic polymer and/or hydrocarbon, providing effective carbonization to produce carbon and optionally also hydrogen, said process comprising contacting and mixing the carbon containing material with a hydratable molten salt and converting in a carbonisation reactor into a conversion gas and a reaction mixture comprising non-volatile conversion products being solid carbon, collecting conversion gas and adding water or steam to the reaction mixture to re-hydrate the molten salt whereby phase separation occurs forming a non-volatile carbon containing phase and a re-hydrated molten salt phase, separating and de-hydrating the molten salt phase and recycling the dehydrated molten salt and steam back in the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Paul O'CONNOR, Igor BABIC, Sjoerd DAAMEN
  • Publication number: 20250068406
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for importing application content from a cloud environment where the application is being hosted onto a local user device. In one example, the method may include receiving, at a user device, a package exported from a host platform, extracting content of a software application hosted on the host platform and a script from the exported package, invoking the script within a runtime environment on the user device, and causing, via the script, a transfer objects of cloud content of the software application which are included in the exported package to a file system that is installed in a local storage on the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Mateusz LEWANDOWSKI, Paul SHEEDY, Paul O'CONNOR
  • Publication number: 20250021533
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a technique for database schema migration that minimizes queries to the runtime database. A technique is described for detecting whether design time metadata has changed during a schema migration without performing a database query for runtime metadata and comparing the design time metadata with the runtime metadata. The technique may improve performance since it aims at minimizing the number of times the database is queried for runtime metadata during the schema migration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Paul Sheedy, Paul O'Connor
  • Patent number: 12156001
    Abstract: A multi-zone media system and method for providing multi-zone media. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly presents media content (e.g., audio content) to a user as the user moves throughout a premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Patent number: 12143456
    Abstract: A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Patent number: 12022630
    Abstract: A modular, non-metallic enclosure with a first enclosure having an open end between first and second side panels and a second enclosure having an open end between third and fourth side panels. At the open end of the first enclosure, the first and second side panels each include a guide rail having a male guiderail member and a female guiderail channel. At the open end of the second enclosure, the third and fourth side panels each include a guide rail having a male guiderail member and a female guiderail channel. The male guiderail member/female guiderail channel of the first sidewall are configured to engage with the opposite of the male guiderail member/female guiderail channel of the third side wall. The male guiderail member/female guiderail channel of the second sidewall are configured to engage with the opposite of the male guiderail member/female guiderail channel of the fourth side panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Douglas Paul O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20240182308
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for converting a waste FEED material comprising a cellulose containing part and optionally a non-cellulosic part, for example plastic, to useful products said process comprising contacting the waste material with a first molten salt solvent at a first low temperature to dissolve the cellulose, separating non-dissolved components from the cellulose solution, precipitating and separating the cellulose from the used first molten salt solution and carbonizing non-dissolved components at high temperature in a second molten salt solvent comprising the used first molten salt solvent to form solid carbon and hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Paul O'CONNOR, Igor BABICH, Tony PICARO
  • Patent number: 12001105
    Abstract: A method for the making of a plurality of LCD screens starting with an oversize panel. The panels laid out on the mother glass include a plurality of screen layouts with trace lead-outs around all four sides of a rectangular panel layout. A panel is then made which has conductor traces around the periphery of the panel. The conductor traces may conductor pads on the panel. The panels are then able to be cut into up to four separate final screen panels depending upon the size requirements of the application. Each of the cut final screen panels will have trace contacts along adjacent edges to allow for coupling to flex connectors. As some panels will be left-right images of each other with regard to pixel colors, drivers for the panels will be adapted for RBG to GBR conversion to drive mirror image panels with the same images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: Declan Paul O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20240166852
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a hybrid nano-structured composite comprising cellulose nano-particles and metal compound nano-particles, to the nano structured-composite product obtainable by the process and to uses thereof. The method comprises the steps of contacting virgin cellulose with a molten metal salt solvent M1-S and dissoluting the virgin cellulose, optionally exchanging at least part of metal ions M1 with metal ions M2 and converting at least part of the metal ions M1 and/or optional M2 to metal compound nano-particles, precipitating the cellulose nano-particles and isolating the co-precipitated cellulose- and metal compound nano-particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: PAUL O'CONNOR, IGOR BABICH, KIMBERLEY O'CONNOR, BJORN BOUTE
  • Patent number: 11991504
    Abstract: A system and method for providing user location-based multi-zone media. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly presents media content (e.g., audio content) to a user as the user moves throughout a premises. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly presents media content (e.g., audio content) to a user as the user moves throughout a premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11963702
    Abstract: A bolster system having a first bolster device, a second bolster device, and an adjustable tether that includes a one-way pre-tied slideable adjustment knot. The adjustment knot is at a first position prior to insertion of the first bolster device into a passageway in one or more bones. The second bolster device includes a body portion having an outer portion that is sized to be received in the passageway and/or in an aperture of a bone plate. The body portion also includes a channel that is sized to accommodate recessed and/or embedded placement of the pre-tied slideable adjustment knot. The second bolster device can also include an oversized plate portion that abuts against a cortex of a bone or a wall of a bone plate. The second bolster device can also include a threaded member or retention tab that lockingly secures the second bolster device to a bone plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Michael Charles Ferragamo, William R. Davis, Rajesh Sivakumar
  • Patent number: 11876873
    Abstract: A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20240001281
    Abstract: A method for separating gaseous carbon dioxide from air is proposed by cyclic adsorption/desorption using a sorbent. The method includes the following sequential and in this sequence repeating steps: (a) contacting air with the sorbent to allow gaseous carbon dioxide to adsorb on the sorbent under ambient atmospheric pressure and temperature conditions; (b) isolating the sorbent from the flow-through; (c) inducing an increase of the temperature of the sorbent; (d) extracting the desorbed gaseous carbon dioxide from the unit and separating gaseous carbon dioxide from steam/water; and (e) bringing the sorbent to ambient atmospheric temperature and pressure conditions. The sorbent is a water retaining and/or porous support which before use in the cyclic process has been impregnated or wetted with a solution of a secondary amine compound and the sorbent is loaded by said secondary amine compound by at least 5% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: CLIMEWORKS AG
    Inventors: Igor BABICH, Paul O'CONNOR, Sjoerd DAAMEN, Tobias NIEBEL
  • Patent number: 11845060
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of homogeneous hybrid inorganic-organic materials comprising dissolving and/or suspending and/or dispersing an inorganic and an organic material in a ionic liquid solvent to form an ionic solution and precipitating the inorganic and organic materials together to form a hybrid inorganic-organic precipitate material. The invention further relates to the homogeneous hybrid inorganic-organic precipitate material obtainable or obtained by the process, in particular carbon alumina hybrid material, to shaped articles like fibers and particles comprising said hybrid material and the use thereof for the manufacture of—or as a component in—catalysts, sorbents, building and construction materials, packaging materials, paper materials, coatings and polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CLIMEWORKS AG
    Inventor: Paul O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20230305254
    Abstract: Reconfigurable modular fiber optic cassettes are provided including a cassette assembly having first and second half-cassettes each having one or more sides extending from a surface, assembly tabs formed in/on the sides wherein, in a mirrored orientation of the first and second half-cassettes, the assembly tabs interlock to form the cassette assembly, an interior volume of the cassette assembly, at least one opening in the sides sized to receive an adapter panel, and mounting tabs extending from the sides, the mounting tabs configured to interlock with mounting slots of an adapter plate, an adapter panel including the adapter plate having the mounting slots and adapter slots between the mounting slots, and one or more adapters mounted in the adapter slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventor: Douglas Paul O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11749249
    Abstract: A system and method for integrating a home media system and other home systems. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly and efficiently provide communication and/or resource sharing between a home media system and various other home systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11729282
    Abstract: A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11706307
    Abstract: A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20230060031
    Abstract: A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor