Patents by Inventor Robert O'Connor

Robert 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).

  • Publication number: 20250133112
    Abstract: A security platform architecture is described herein. The security platform architecture includes multiple layers and utilizes a combination of encryption and other security features to generate a secure environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventor: Robert O. Keith, JR.
  • Publication number: 20250127717
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for treating and delivering medicinal formulations using an inhaler. The composition includes a space filled flocculated suspension having one or more flocculated particles of one or more active agents and a hydrofluoroalkane propellant. A portion of the one or more flocculated particles is templated by the formation of hydrofluoroalkane droplets upon atomization and the templated floc compacts upon the evaporation of the hydrofluoroalkane propellant to form a porous particle for deep lung delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Keith P. JOHNSTON, Joshua ENGSTROM, Jasmine ROWE, Alan B. WATTS, Robert O. WILLIAMS, III
  • Patent number: 12280088
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising caveolin-1 (Cav-1) peptides. Further provided are methods of using the Cav-1 peptides for the treatment of lung infections or acute or chronic lung injury, particularly lung fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Rein Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert O. Williams, III, Alan B. Watts, Yajie Zhang, Sawittree Sahakijpijarn, Dale Christensen, John J. Koleng
  • Patent number: 12284512
    Abstract: Low power devices are able to utilize encryption in communication. Low power devices typically cannot send/receive large amounts of data since sending/receiving more data uses more power. Implementing a key exchange with a small encrypted payload enables secure communication between the devices. A one-way data stream is implemented. The one-way data stream is able to be encrypted. The dynamic key exchange is able to be used for a moving target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Winkk, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert O. Keith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12280089
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising caveolin-1 (Cav-1) peptides. Further provided are methods of using the Cav-1 peptides for the treatment of lung infections or acute or chronic lung injury, particularly lung fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Rein Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert O. Williams, III, Alan B. Watts, Yajie Zhang, Sawittree Sahakijpijarn, Dale Christensen, John J. Koleng, Sreerama Shetty
  • Publication number: 20250125970
    Abstract: Digital signatures using the Diophantine system of equations are implemented. A digital signature is an authentication mechanism that enables the creator of a message to attach a code that acts as a signature. A digital signature scheme typically includes three algorithms: a key generation algorithm, a signing algorithm, and a signature verifying algorithm. The key generation algorithm selects a private key uniformly at random from a set of possible private keys. The key generation algorithm outputs the private key and a corresponding public key. The signing algorithm produces a signature given a message and a private key. The signature verifying algorithm either accepts or rejects a message's claim to authenticity based at least in part on the message, the public key, and the signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventor: Robert O. Keith, JR.
  • Publication number: 20250118450
    Abstract: A system and method for driving an ICF target with a thermal wave comprising: a target assembly, located inside a hohlraum, comprising a drive region, shell region and central fuel region; wherein said hohlraum comprises one or more laser entrance apertures; wherein said one or more laser entrance apertures are sized according to the shape of said hohlraum and to prevent energy from escaping said hohlraum; a laser assembly to irradiate a laser pulse through said laser entrance apertures; inner walls of said hohlraum to reradiate said laser pulse as x-ray radiation; wherein said x-ray radiation penetrates the target assembly as a thermal wave before any significant hydrodynamic motion occurs within said target assembly during the time in which the laser assembly is active; wherein said drive region is evenly heated to a sufficient temperature to expand in an inward and outward direction; and wherein said shell region is launched into said fuel region to drive said ICF target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Innoven Energy LLC
    Inventors: Robert O. Hunter, Jr., Eric W. Cornell
  • Patent number: 12269075
    Abstract: 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 sec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventors: Adam McGuire, Robert O'Brien
  • Patent number: 12263243
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for treating and delivering medicinal formulations using an inhaler. The composition includes a space filled flocculated suspension having one or more flocculated particles of one or more active agents and a hydrofluoroalkane propellant. A portion of the one or more flocculated particles is templated by the formation of hydrofluoroalkane droplets upon atomization and the templated floc compacts upon the evaporation of the hydrofluoroalkane propellant to form a porous particle for deep lung delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Keith P. Johnston, Joshua Engstrom, Jasmine Tam, Robert O. Williams, III, Alan B. Watts
  • Publication number: 20250099241
    Abstract: Delivery systems for implanting cardiac valve repair devices are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a delivery system for implanting a valve repair device includes a delivery catheter, an implant shaft, a drive shaft, a clip cable, and a cinching line. The delivery catheter can hold the device in a compressed configuration. The implant shaft can have a hub assembly releasably coupled to a portion of the device, and the drive shaft can be actuated to release the portion of the device from the hub assembly. The clip cable can be releasably coupled to a clip of the device for opening and closing the clip to capture and secure a portion of a native leaflet. The cinching line can extend around a portion of the device for cinching the device to a compressed position when deployed from within the delivery catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Neil Zimmerman, Brian Y. Tachibana, Matthew McLean, III, Robert O’Grady, Jose Gonzalez, Erik Thai
  • Patent number: 12253992
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for managing and indexing content in a blockchain platform. Various aspects may include receiving, at the blockchain platform, content-addressable data. Aspects may also include indexing the content-addressable data. Aspects may also include generating and serving a recommendation including the content-addressable data for one or more users based on user preferences. Aspects may also include receiving an interaction from the one or more users based on the recommendation. Aspects may include updating a state of a blockchain on the blockchain platform based on the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ava Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Robert O′Grady, Stephen Buttolph
  • Patent number: 12252912
    Abstract: A doorstop includes a first foot with a first sloped portion at a first end of the foot, a second sloped portion at a second end of the foot, a pedestal portion between the first end of the foot and the second end of the foot, and a bore in the pedestal portion and extending through the foot. The pedestal portion is flat and raised from the first sloped portion and the second sloped portion. The doorstop also includes an insert that fits inside the bore, a fastener that holds the insert inside the foot, and a handle adjacent to the insert and used to position the foot. The insert, the handle and the fastener can be removed from the first foot and used with a second foot, the second foot having the same configuration as the first foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventor: Robert O. Duff
  • Patent number: 12252927
    Abstract: A doorstop system includes a doorstop and a bracket. The doorstop includes a foot, a recess area within the foot, an opening in a bottom surface of the foot around the recess area, and pockets in opposite sides of the recess area extending to the bottom surface of the foot. The bracket is sized to fit into the recess area of the doorstop and includes a body and protrusions on opposite sides of the body. The protrusions are positioned and sized to mate with the doorstop pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventor: Robert O. Duff
  • Publication number: 20250084927
    Abstract: The pressure relief assembly has a valve body constructed of breathable porous plastic. The valve body has an outer perimetric surface defining a detent mating surface and a sealing surface configured to form a seal around a valve opening. A first detent has a detent engagement surface configured to releasably engage the detent mating surface. The first detent is configured to release the valve body upon a minimum pressure differential across the valve body. The first detent is configured to extent laterally outward from the detent mating surface. The pressure relief assembly has a frame having a coupling structure configured to couple to an enclosure. The pressure relief assembly has a valve mounting surface and a valve opening within the valve mounting surface, where the valve body is sealably disposed on the valve mounting surface across the valve opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew P. Brownson, Isaac J. Laffey, Matthew J. Goode, Aflal Rahmathullah, Suresh B. Bommineni, Daniel P. Little, Marc J. Andvik, Robert O. Nelson, Michael S. Libbey, Dustin M. Meier
  • Patent number: 12242748
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to accessing an initiator as a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NMVe) device. In some examples, the initiator is configured with an address space, configured in kernel or user space, for access by a virtualized execution environment. In some examples, the initiator to copy one or more storage access commands from the virtualized execution environment into a queue for access by a remote direct memory access (RDMA) compatible network interface. In some examples, the network interface to provide Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) compatible commands based on the one or more storage access commands to a target storage device. In some examples, the initiator is created as a mediated device in kernel space or user space of a host system. In some examples, configuration of a physical storage pool address of the target storage device for access by the virtualized execution environment occurs by receipt of the physical storage pool address in a configuration command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shaopeng He, Yadong Li, Ziye Yang, Changpeng Liu, Banghao Ying, Robert O. Sharp
  • Patent number: 12240019
    Abstract: 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 sec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventors: Adam McGuire, Robert O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20250068737
    Abstract: TrustGPT secures a device by ensuring that only an authorized user is able to use the device. TrustGPT utilizes information received from one or more sensors of the device and generative artificial intelligence to determine that the current user is the authorized user. Without TrustGPT, user devices are susceptible to being stolen or hacked and used for nefarious purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Robert O. Keith, JR., Avtar Singh Sehra
  • Publication number: 20250069064
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for bridging native tokens. Various aspects may include initializing a first blockchain by allocating a plurality of native tokens. Aspects may also include transferring, using a bridge, one or more transactions from a second blockchain to the first blockchain using locked tokens on the second blockchain as collateral. Aspects may also include minting new native tokens at the first blockchain when a value of transactions sum to the plurality of native tokens and the plurality of native tokens are backed by the locked tokens. Aspects may also include reporting, to the second blockchain, the amount of tokens used for the transaction fees in the one or more transactions. Aspects may also include burning, at the second blockchain, tokens corresponding to the amount of tokens used for paying transaction fees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Kaplan, Patrick Robert O'Grady, Stephen Buttolph, Aaron Buchwald, Bernard Wong, Cameron John Schultz, Geoffrey Stuart, Matthew Lam
  • Publication number: 20250071121
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for verifying the integrity of resources. A client device may send to a lookup server a request for information associated with accessing a resource. The client device may receive the information. A portion of the information may comprise a cryptographic value associated with the resource. The client device may use the information to send a request for the resource. The client device may receive data in response to the request for the resource and use the cryptographic value to verify the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Robert O. BUTTS, James PANAGOS
  • Patent number: D1065978
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MASTER LOCK COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Cornelius Robert O'Rourke, Eric Douglas Sanford, Evan Sparks, Montel Caruthers, Cris Smyczek, Kayli Mohelnitzky