Patents by Inventor Robert O'Brien
Robert 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).
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Patent number: 11963817Abstract: A tool for facilitating medical diagnosis is disclosed herein, including an ultrasound device configured to collect ultrasound data from a patient, a display device, and a processing circuit configured to generate a cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) waveform based on the ultrasound data, determine morphology indicators identifying attributes of the CBFV waveform, and configure the display device to display the CBFV waveform and the morphology indicators.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Neurasignal, Inc.Inventors: Robert Hamilton, Corey Thibeault, Michael O'Brien, Mina Ranjbaran, Samuel Thorpe, Nicolas Canac
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Publication number: 20240108265Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and systems for generating a void profile for user void events. The method includes receiving by a processing element a plurality of outputs from a fluid level sensor corresponding to a plurality of levels of fluid flowing through a voiding device during a flow event; determining by the processing element a beginning and an end time of the fluid flow into the voiding device during the flow event; analyzing the plurality of outputs of the fluid level sensor over a time interval defined by the beginning and end time of the fluid flow to determine at least one of a fluid flow rate data and an accumulated volume data for the fluid flowing through the voiding device; and storing the fluid flow rate data and the accumulated flow volume data in a memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Brent Laing, John Green, Paul R. Johnson, Robert John Smith, Robert Edwin Schneider, Magnus Hargis, Elise Geolat Edson, Elizabeth A. O'Brien
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Patent number: 11925465Abstract: Uroflowmeters and methods for processing data generated therefrom are disclosed. In one aspect, the uroflowmeter is a handheld device. The uroflowmeter includes a handle, a flow chamber coupled to the handle, and a sensor associated with the flow chamber that detects a parameter of urine received in the flow chamber. The uroflowmeter may include both reusable and disposable components. As a uroflowmeter it can identify and record data corresponding to the rate of flow over the measured duration of a void of urine, but may also timestamp the voiding act and communicate the data to an external data collection center for additional analysis and incorporation into a comprehensive voiding report or voiding diary.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ClearTrac Technologies, LLCInventors: Brent Laing, John Green, Paul R. Johnson, Robert John Smith, Robert Edwin Schneider, Magnus Hargis, Elise Geolat Edson, Elizabeth A. O'Brien, Joseph L. Kapushion
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Patent number: 11928515Abstract: A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes persistent storage and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates composed information handling systems using the information handling systems; monitors, using system control processors of the composed information handling systems, operation of the composed information handling systems to obtain operation information; makes a determination, based on the operation information, that the computing implemented services provided by the composed information handling systems are substandard; and in response to the determination: manages operation of the composed information handling systems to provide standards compliant computer implemented services by modifying a composition of at least one of the composed information handling systems using a system control processor of the system control processors.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Mark Steven Sanders, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Elie Antoun Jreij, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, Yossef Saad
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Publication number: 20240065408Abstract: Disclosed is an attachment for a haircare appliance, the attachment including: an air inlet for receiving an airflow; an air outlet for emitting the airflow; and a hair treatment chamber for receiving hair, the hair treatment chamber in fluid communication with the air outlet. The hair treatment chamber includes a wall, an opening through which hair is insertable into the hair treatment chamber, and an aperture formed in the wall, the air outlet configured to direct airflow away from the opening and toward the aperture in use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Ayrton Lloyd Taylor PEEL, Robert Mark Brett COULTON, David Andrew TIBBETTS, Anna O'Brien ROBB, Maria Fernanda RODRIGUEZ ARIZPE
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Publication number: 20220410228Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning a surface with a liquid jet, the apparatus having: a primary fluid conduit having a longitudinal axis and two ends, a fluid-intake end and a fluid-exit end; a first motor-driven drive assembly configured to engage the primary fluid conduit and turn the primary fluid conduit about the primary-fluid-conduit longitudinal axis; a first motor configured to engage the first motor-driven drive assembly; a section of the primary fluid conduit being inside of an adjacent penetration sleeve; a section of the penetration sleeve being inside of a piston sleeve; the piston sleeve configured to engage the penetration sleeve and move the penetration sleeve back and forth along a penetration-sleeve linear path over a primary-fluid-conduit exterior surface; an actuator configured to engage the piston sleeve and move piston sleeve back and forth along the piston-sleeve linear path; a penetration-sleeve end being attached to an extension sleeve that has a first end and a second end; the extension-sleeve sType: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Path Environmental Technology, LLCInventors: Adam McGuire, Robert O'Brien, Kelan McElduff
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Publication number: 20220410229Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning a surface with a liquid jet, the apparatus having: a primary fluid conduit having a longitudinal axis and two ends, a fluid-intake end and a fluid-exit end; a first motor-driven drive assembly configured to engage the primary fluid conduit and turn the primary fluid conduit about the primary-fluid-conduit longitudinal axis; a first motor configured to engage the first motor-driven drive assembly; a section of the primary fluid conduit being inside of an adjacent penetration sleeve; a section of the penetration sleeve being inside of a piston sleeve; the piston sleeve configured to engage the penetration sleeve and move the penetration sleeve back and forth along a penetration-sleeve linear path over a primary-fluid-conduit exterior surface; an actuator configured to engage the piston sleeve and move piston sleeve back and forth along a piston-sleeve linear path; a penetration-sleeve end being attached to an extension sleeve that has a first end and a second end; the extension-sleeve secType: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Path Environmental Technology, LLCInventors: Adam McGuire, Robert O'Brien
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Publication number: 20220410222Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning a surface with a liquid jet, the apparatus having: a primary fluid conduit having a longitudinal axis and two ends, a fluid-intake end and a fluid-exit end; a first motor-driven drive assembly configured to engage the primary fluid conduit and turn the primary fluid conduit about the primary-fluid-conduit longitudinal axis; a first motor configured to engage the first motor-driven drive assembly; a section of the primary fluid conduit being inside of an adjacent penetration sleeve; a section of the penetration sleeve being inside of a piston sleeve; the piston sleeve configured to engage the penetration sleeve and move the penetration sleeve back and forth along a penetration-sleeve linear path over a primary-fluid-conduit exterior surface; an actuator configured to engage the piston sleeve and move piston sleeve back and forth along a piston-sleeve linear path; a penetration-sleeve end being attached to an extension sleeve that has a first end and a second end; the extension-sleeve secType: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Path Environmental Technology, LLCInventors: Adam McGuire, Robert O'Brien
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Publication number: 20220292089Abstract: In a data asset curating system including a processor, computer-readable medium and data storage storing source data assets, each source data asset including content data and source metadata, the data storage stores instructions causing the system to perform converting, based on a conversion rule defining a set of standard attributes, the source data assets to curatable data assets, each curatable data asset including the content data of the corresponding source data asset and curatable metadata, the curatable metadata including one or more standard attributes; causing a user device to render a GUI configured to provide filtering options for querying the curatable data assets; receiving, from the user device, a curation query including a set of the filtering options selected via the GUI; and identifying, from the curatable data assets, a set of the curatable data assets satisfying the received curation query.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jeffrey Paul CONRAD, Raymond Robert RINGHISER, Jayasudha THOTA, Gabriele MASILI, Ravikumar Venkata Seetharama BANDARU, Siobhan Jane FLANIGAN, Dennis Michael POLLETT, Daoquan CHEN, Robert O'BRIEN
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Patent number: 11436220Abstract: In a data asset curating system including a processor, computer-readable medium and data storage storing source data assets, each source data asset including content data and source metadata, the data storage stores instructions causing the system to perform converting, based on a conversion rule defining a set of standard attributes, the source data assets to curatable data assets, each curatable data asset including the content data of the corresponding source data asset and curatable metadata, the curatable metadata including one or more standard attributes; causing a user device to render a GUI configured to provide filtering options for querying the curatable data assets; receiving, from the user device, a curation query including a set of the filtering options selected via the GUI; and identifying, from the curatable data assets, a set of the curatable data assets satisfying the received curation query.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jeffrey Paul Conrad, Raymond Robert Ringhiser, Jayasudha Thota, Gabriele Masili, Ravikumar Venkata Seetharama Bandaru, Siobhan Jane Flanigan, Dennis Michael Pollett, Daoquan Chen, Robert O'Brien
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Patent number: 11384021Abstract: Grains for the production of a sintered refractory product, a batch for the production of a sintered refractory product, a process for the production of a sintered refractory product and a sintered refractory product.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: REFRACTORY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jacob Kerr, Robert O'Brien
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Patent number: 11352845Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Robert O'Brien, Aaron Hammer, Roy Woudwijk
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Patent number: 11136844Abstract: A method of installing a ball seat in a wellbore, comprising conveying the ball seat via a support member of a tool to a target location in the wellbore; moving an expansion sleeve longitudinally with respect to the tool to expand the ball seat radially to engage the ball seat to a support structure of the wellbore at the target location; and releasing the support member from the engaged ball seat.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Robert O'Brien
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Publication number: 20210262301Abstract: A method of installing a ball seat in a wellbore, comprising conveying the ball seat via a support member of a tool to a target location in the wellbore; moving an expansion sleeve longitudinally with respect to the tool to expand the ball seat radially to engage the ball seat to a support structure of the wellbore at the target location; and releasing the support member from the engaged ball seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Robert O'Brien
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Publication number: 20210261464Abstract: Grains for the production of a sintered refractory product, a batch for the production of a sintered refractory product, a process for the production of a sintered refractory product and a sintered refractory productType: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Jacob Kerr, Robert O'Brien
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Patent number: 10865639Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting and/or receiving energy in a borehole penetrating a subsurface formation includes a tubular assembly having a tubing mandrel and a sleeve at least partially surrounding a circumference of the tubing mandrel, wherein the tubing mandrel includes a cavity and the sleeve defines at least a portion of an opening over the cavity. The apparatus also includes a transducer assembly disposed in the cavity and configured for transmitting and/or receiving the energy, wherein the transducer assembly upon relative movement of the tubing mandrel with respect to the sleeve is displaced radially.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: David Bishop, Robert O'Brien
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Patent number: 10781663Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Carlos De La Cruz, Sean Gaudette, Robert O'Brien
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Publication number: 20200224053Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Ben Webster, Richard Evans, Robert O'Brien, Joseph Desousa, Kailas Sawant, Gregory M. Paulson, Adrienne Robey, Yingchao Zhang
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Publication number: 20200141230Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2018Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: David Bishop, Robert O'Brien
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Publication number: 20200040670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Joshua Raymond Snitkoff, Robert O'Brien, Larry Palmer, Joeri Van Hove