Patents by Inventor Robert A. O'Brien

Robert A. O'Brien 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: 20200224053
    Abstract: A food or beverage container coating composition, coated article, and method of coating, wherein the coating composition comprises: a film-forming polymer; and a resole phenolic resin comprising the reaction product of components comprising an aldehyde and a phenol group-containing compound, wherein the phenol group-containing compound comprises one or more phenyl rings (preferably, two or more phenyl rings), at least two hydroxy groups, each of which is directly bonded to the one or more phenyl rings, and at least four (preferably, at least five) open sites ortho and/or para to the hydroxy groups; wherein the composition is thermally curable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Ben Webster, Richard Evans, Robert O'Brien, Joseph Desousa, Kailas Sawant, Gregory M. Paulson, Adrienne Robey, Yingchao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200141230
    Abstract: An acoustic device deployment system including an acoustic device, a pad disposed upon the acoustic device, a device displacer operatively connected to the acoustic device that during use causes the device to move radially outwardly into contact with another structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: David Bishop, Robert O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20200040670
    Abstract: A debris management tool including a housing; an opening in the housing; a closure member movable between a closed position and an open position based upon centrifugal input. A method for managing debris in a borehole including rotating the tool as in any prior embodiment at a selected speed to cause centrifugal force to open the closure member; increasing pressure in a fluid surrounding the tool; entraining debris in fluid entering the tool due to differential pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Raymond Snitkoff, Robert O'Brien, Larry Palmer, Joeri Van Hove
  • Publication number: 20200018137
    Abstract: A tubular includes an outer surface, an inner surface defining a passage, and a plurality of openings extending through the outer surface and the inner surface. A sleeve is positioned within the passage. The sleeve includes an outer surface portion having at least one recess. At least one release member extends from the inner surface into the at least one recess. The at least one release member maintains the sleeve in a first configuration relative to the plurality of openings. At least one of the inner surface and the outer surface portion includes a self-holding connection that establishes one of a reduced diameter portion of the passage and an increased diameter portion of the sleeve. The self-holding connection is configured to maintain the sleeve in a second configuration axially shifted relative to the first configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos De La Cruz, Sean Gaudette, Robert O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20190292862
    Abstract: An actuation trigger including a housing; a piston in operable communication with the housing; a pressure source inlet to the trigger the piston being responsive to source pressure cycles; a first one-direction axial incrementing feature movable with piston movement; a rod movable with the piston and positionally restricted by the one-direction axial incrementing feature, the rod initially being part of a dynamic seal preventing actuation pressure access to a tool actuatable by the actuation pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Robert O'Brien, Aaron Hammer, Roy Woudwijk
  • Patent number: 10382434
    Abstract: To make a trusted web service call, a client application sends a series of messages to obtain tokens that allow service requests to pass through a service relay. The user obtains a first security token by providing the user's credentials. A second token is obtained from a trust broker that validates the first token. Both tokens are then sent with a service request to a service relay. The service relay validates the second token and then passes the first token and the service request to a connector service. The connector service validates the first token and passes the service request to a target back end service. The connector service acts as the user when communicating with the back end service. Service responses are routed back to the user through the connector service and the service relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Stapley Young, Robert Aron Drollinger, Robert O'Brien, David J. Runde, Jagruti Dushyant Pandya, Georges El Khoury
  • Patent number: 10066478
    Abstract: An indicating tool includes a mandrel including a support, an indicator housing surrounding the mandrel, and a member movable radially with respect to the housing. The mandrel is movable longitudinally with respect to the indicator housing, and the indicator housing is at least substantially rotationally locked with respect to the mandrel. The member is engageable with an inner profile of an outer tubular in which the indicating tool is employed, and the member has a substantially helical side. The member is movable radially inward towards the mandrel when the support is longitudinally displaced from the member, and the member is blocked from movement radially inwards when the support is longitudinally aligned with the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Zachary S. Silva, James Smith, Robert O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20180219862
    Abstract: To make a trusted web service call, a client application sends a series of messages to obtain tokens that allow service requests to pass through a service relay. The user obtains a first security token by providing the user's credentials. A second token is obtained from a trust broker that validates the first token. Both tokens are then sent with a service request to a service relay. The service relay validates the second token and then passes the first token and the service request to a connector service. The connector service validates the first token and passes the service request to a target back end service. The connector service acts as the user when communicating with the back end service. Service responses are routed back to the user through the connector service and the service relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Kyle Stapley Young, Robert Aron Drollinger, Robert O'Brien, David J. Runde, Jagruti Dushyant Pandya, Georges El Khoury
  • Patent number: 9825948
    Abstract: To make a trusted web service call, a client application sends a series of messages to obtain tokens that allow service requests to pass through a service relay. The user obtains a first security token by providing the user's credentials. A second token is obtained from a trust broker that validates the first token. Both tokens are then sent with a service request to a service relay. The service relay validates the second token and then passes the first token and the service request to a connector service. The connector service validates the first token and passes the service request to a target back end service. The connector service acts as the user when communicating with the back end service. Service responses are routed back to the user through the connector service and the service relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Stapley Young, Robert Aron Drollinger, Robert O'Brien, David J. Runde, Jagruti Dushyant Pandya, Georges El Khoury
  • Publication number: 20170198566
    Abstract: An indicating tool includes a mandrel including a support, an indicator housing surrounding the mandrel, and a member movable radially with respect to the housing. The mandrel is movable longitudinally with respect to the indicator housing, and the indicator housing is at least substantially rotationally locked with respect to the mandrel. The member is engageable with an inner profile of an outer tubular in which the indicating tool is employed, and the member has a substantially helical side. The member is movable radially inward towards the mandrel when the support is longitudinally displaced from the member, and the member is blocked from movement radially inwards when the support is longitudinally aligned with the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Zachary S. Silva, James Smith, Robert O'Brien
  • Patent number: 9416633
    Abstract: A screen assembly including one or more screen members that correspondingly form one or more flow paths. The one or more flow paths are discrete from a tubular with which the one or more screen members are associated, but in fluid communication with an axial passageway of the tubular. A method of using a screen assembly is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Robert O'Brien
  • Patent number: 9382781
    Abstract: A completion system, including a tubular string initially having an substantially constant first dimension and configured to include at least one unexpanded portion having the first dimension and at least one expanded portion having a second dimension larger than the first dimension. The tubular string has at least one opening therein formed at the at least one expanded portion. At least one screen assembly is included having a third dimension and positioned radially adjacent the at least one expanded portion. A radial clearance is formed between the outer dimension of the at least one screen assembly and the second internal dimension of the at least one second portion of the outer tubular string. A method of completing a borehole is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jason Allen, Robert O'Brien, Mark Adam
  • Publication number: 20160164869
    Abstract: To make a trusted web service call, a client application sends a series of messages to obtain tokens that allow service requests to pass through a service relay. The user obtains a first security token by providing the user's credentials. A second token is obtained from a trust broker that validates the first token. Both tokens are then sent with a service request to a service relay. The service relay validates the second token and then passes the first token and the service request to a connector service. The connector service validates the first token and passes the service request to a target back end service. The connector service acts as the user when communicating with the back end service. Service responses are routed back to the user through the connector service and the service relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Kyle Stapley Young, Robert Aron Drollinger, Robert O'Brien, David J. Runde, Jagruti Dushyant Pandya, Georges El Khoury
  • Patent number: 9298879
    Abstract: Methods and systems for collecting and managing anesthesia perioperative data of a patient are provided. More particularly, a method of the present disclosure can include presenting a dashboard view of a user interface on a display of a computing device. The dashboard view can display a plurality of modules corresponding to the various perioperative periods of a procedure. In response to a user input, the method can access a module in the plurality of modules if it is determined that the user has access to the module, and can present a corresponding module interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kenneth Ellington, Robert O'Brien, James Hurst
  • Patent number: 9294454
    Abstract: To make a trusted web service call, a client application sends a series of messages to obtain tokens that allow service requests to pass through a service relay. The user obtains a first security token by providing the user's credentials. A second token is obtained from a trust broker that validates the first token. Both tokens are then sent with a service request to a service relay. The service relay validates the second token and then passes the first token and the service request to a connector service. The connector service validates the first token and passes the service request to a target back end service. The connector service acts as the user when communicating with the back end service. Service responses are routed back to the user through the connector service and the service relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Stapley Young, Robert Aron Drollinger, Robert O'Brien, David J. Runde, Jagruti Dushyant Pandya, Georges El Khoury
  • Publication number: 20150039339
    Abstract: Methods and systems for collecting and managing anesthesia perioperative data of a patient are provided. More particularly, a method of the present disclosure can include presenting a dashboard view of a user interface on a display of a computing device. The dashboard view can display a plurality of modules corresponding to the various perioperative periods of a procedure. In response to a user input, the method can access a module in the plurality of modules if it is determined that the user has access to the module, and can present a corresponding module interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: iStream Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Ellington, Robert O'Brien, James Hurst
  • Publication number: 20140318811
    Abstract: A screen assembly including one or more screen members that correspondingly form one or more flow paths. The one or more flow paths are discrete from a tubular with which the one or more screen members are associated, but in fluid communication with an axial passageway of the tubular. A method of using a screen assembly is also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Robert O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20140282989
    Abstract: To make a trusted web service call, a client application sends a series of messages to obtain tokens that allow service requests to pass through a service relay. The user obtains a first security token by providing the user's credentials. A second token is obtained from a trust broker that validates the first token. Both tokens are then sent with a service request to a service relay. The service relay validates the second token and then passes the first token and the service request to a connector service. The connector service validates the first token and passes the service request to a target back end service. The connector service acts as the user when communicating with the back end service. Service responses are routed back to the user through the connector service and the service relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Stapley Young, Robert Aron Drollinger, Robert O'Brien, David J. Runde, Jagruti Dushyant Pandya, Georges El Khoury
  • Publication number: 20140166284
    Abstract: A completion system, including a tubular string initially having an substantially constant first dimension and configured to include at least one unexpanded portion having the first dimension and at least one expanded portion having a second dimension larger than the first dimension. The tubular string has at least one opening therein formed at the at least one expanded portion. At least one screen assembly is included having a third dimension and positioned radially adjacent the at least one expanded portion. A radial clearance is formed between the outer dimension of the at least one screen assembly and the second internal dimension of the at least one second portion of the outer tubular string. A method of completing a borehole is also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jason Allen, Robert O'Brien, Mark Adam
  • Patent number: 8347688
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing samples, such as gas samples, are described. One method comprises providing a gas sample, increasing pressure applied to the gas sample to compress the sample to a smaller volume and provide a pneumatically focused gas sample, and analyzing the pneumatically focused gas sample using any of a variety of analytical techniques. Also disclosed are systems for gas analysis, including systems for analysis of pneumatically focused, and thereby concentrated, gas samples and for analysis of particulate matter in gas samples. Analytical systems constructed within personal computer cases also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University
    Inventor: Robert O'Brien