Patents by Inventor Robert F. Murphy
Robert F. Murphy 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).
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Patent number: 11925362Abstract: Reamer instruments and related methods are disclosed for use in preparing bone, such as a glenoid bone surface, to receive an implant requiring one of two or more possible surface geometries. Described reamer instruments can have a modular or multi-component design. A minimal number of components can be particular to a particular required geometry, which can allow assembly and use of reamer instruments of the present disclosure to be flexible, intuitive, and efficient. In some embodiments, a disposable reamer head assembly can be driven by a disposable drive tip through a pin-on-pin connection. The remaining components of the reamer instrument can be sterilized and re-used. To prepare bone for a half-wedge implant, a half-wedge housing can be coupled to a reamer instrument handle and a depth stop can be coupled to the housing to achieve the required geometry. Alternatively, a full-wedge housing can be coupled to the instrument handle.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Stephen J. Orphanos, Gary Fernandes, Christian Amaral, Francisco A. Amaral, Raymond F. Murphy, Robert Ciocca
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Patent number: 11915259Abstract: A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Gasmart, LLCInventors: Joseph H. LeBlanc, Jr., Nick DiCosola, Sagy P. Mintz, Leo E. Murphy, Robert A. Miller, William K. Ward, William F. Kerins, Luis R. Luque, Parker P. Drew, James V. Blanton
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Publication number: 20200043575Abstract: An electronic computing system configured to process a plurality of data elements by performing operations including obtaining information indicative of features of data elements; generating training data for a machine learning engine with the features of the data elements; initializing the machine learning engine with the training data; processing the data elements with the machine learning engine; iteratively updating a model of the data elements based on the processing; and displaying a visual representation of the data elements in accordance with the updated model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Armaghan W. Naik, Joshua D. Kangas, Christopher J. Langmead, Robert F. Murphy
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Patent number: 9092850Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices includes retrieving data for a protein in a tissue type in a first state and for the protein in the tissue type in a second state; determining, based on the retrieved data, first features of the protein in the tissue type in the first state; determining, based on the retrieved, second features of the protein in the tissue type in the second state; and identifying, based on the first features and the second features, that a location of the protein in the tissue type in the first state differs from a location of the protein in the tissue type in the second state.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Robert F. Murphy, Arvind Rao, Estelle Glory-Afshar, Justin Y. Newberg, Santosh Bhavani, Aparna Kumar
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Publication number: 20140050385Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices includes retrieving data for a protein in a tissue type in a first state and for the protein in the tissue type in a second state; determining, based on the retrieved data, first features of the protein in the tissue type in the first state; determining, based on the retrieved, second features of the protein in the tissue type in the second state; and identifying, based on the first features and the second features, that a location of the protein in the tissue type in the first state differs from a location of the protein in the tissue type in the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYInventors: Robert F. Murphy, Arvind Rao, Estelle Glory Afshar, Justin Y. Newberg, Santosh Bhavani, Aparna Kumar
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Publication number: 20140052428Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices includes obtaining information indicative of experiments associated with combinations of targets and compounds; initializing the information with a result of at least one of the experiments; generating, based on initializing, a model to predict effects of the compounds on the targets; generating, based on the model and the experiments obtained, predictions for experiments to be executed; selecting, based on the predictions, one or more experiments from the experiments to be executed; executing the one or more experiments; and updating the model with one or more results of execution of the one or more experiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYInventors: Armaghan W. Naik, Joshua D. Kangas, Christopher J. Langmead, Robert F. Murphy
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Patent number: 8608097Abstract: In a system for monitoring the operating condition of a pulverizer, a sensor interface module positioned on or proximal to the pulverizer. The sensor interface module is operable to receive information generated by one or more sensors mounted on the pulverizer. An operator control station is in communication with the sensor interface module and is operable to receive data from the sensor interface module relevant to the signals received from the sensors. The operator control station is also operable to generate operational information indicative of a functional characteristic of the pulverizer and to track the operational information to determine whether degradation of the functional characteristic is occurring.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: Robert F. Murphy, James P. Sutton, Rebecca L. Tobiasz, Sin K. Poon
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Publication number: 20120111978Abstract: In a system for monitoring the operating condition of a pulverizer, a sensor interface module positioned on or proximal to the pulverizer. The sensor interface module is operable to receive information generated by one or more sensors mounted on the pulverizer. An operator control station is in communication with the sensor interface module and is operable to receive data from the sensor interface module relevant to the signals received from the sensors. The operator control station is also operable to generate operational information indicative of a functional characteristic of the pulverizer and to track the operational information to determine whether degradation of the functional characteristic is occurring.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: Robert F. Murphy, James P. Sutton, Rebecca L. Tobiasz, Sin K. Poon
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Patent number: 5013266Abstract: A terminal structure for an electrical switching device. The terminal structure comprises an integral thin planar member with a external terminal section, a body section, a neck section and an internal contact section all lying along a longitudinal axis. The body section is intermediate the external terminal section and the neck section. The neck section is adjacent the internal contact section that can twist about the neck section to be rotated with respect to the body and external terminal sections. During manufacture, the terminal structure is installed in planar form through a conforming passage in a molded housing. Then the internal contact section is twisted to lock the terminal structure in the housing and to form a seat for a movable contact.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1990Date of Patent: May 7, 1991Assignee: Augat, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Murphy, Thompson Shek