Patents by Inventor Ryan Sullivan

Ryan Sullivan 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: 20190372829
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving log data from a component of a network, processing the log data to create processed log data, creating a component object, utilizing the processed log data, receiving an identification of a device connected to the network, determining a path within the network that is associated with the device, utilizing the component object, and returning the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: David M. Green, Ryan Sullivan, James E. Blue, JR.
  • Patent number: 10443538
    Abstract: An air-cooled internal combustion engine including a crankshaft, a cylinder, a blower assembly including a blower housing and a fan, and a static cover. The static cover includes a main body that is aligned with the crankshaft, an arm that extends from the main body and is aligned with the cylinder, and a plurality of air intake openings. A first subset of the air intake openings is formed through the main body and a second subset of the air intake openings is formed through the arm, and the static cover is configured to prevent user access to a moving component of the engine. The fan is configured to move air into the blower housing through the air intake openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan A. Sullivan, Gary S. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20190197102
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predictive contextual messages are provided. Such predictive contextual messages may utilize emojis and/or emoticons for predicting context of messages and allow for auto-fill of details. Accordingly, a user may input a message, that may contain one or more emojis and/or emoticons, and transaction details may be determined through contexts of the message and may be provided as an auto-fill suggestion. The user may then accept or reject the auto-fill suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Brandon Lerner, Ryan Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10202938
    Abstract: A small air-cooled internal combustion engine includes an aluminum cylinder block at least partially defining an aluminum cylinder bore, an aluminum cylinder head attached to the aluminum cylinder block, and an aluminum push rod tube separate from and press fit between the aluminum cylinder block and the aluminum cylinder head. The aluminum push rod tube includes a cylinder block end portion, a cylinder head end portion, and a main body extending between the cylinder block end portion and the cylinder head end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Mike L. Carlson, Gary D. Greenlees, Claude Hoerig, Gary Johnson, Brian Paul, Matt Martinek, Jerry Schenkel, John Schneiker, Ryan Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20190014392
    Abstract: A system of parking data aggregation and distribution may comprise a plurality of parking sensors, at least one of the plurality of parking sensors located proximate a parking area and one or more gateway devices. The system may further comprise an administrator interface, a parking operator dashboard interface, and a cloud service component. The cloud service component receives parking sensor data indicating occupancy and turnover from the gateway devices and transmits the parking sensor data to the parking operator dashboard web interface. The cloud service component mas comprise a database for storing the parking sensor data and a software application for implementing an algorithm to create one or more predictions for future occupancy and future turnover during a future time period. The parking operator dashboard interface may display one or more representations of the parking sensor data over the past time period and predictions tor future occupancy and future turnover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Ryan Sullivan, Rishi Malik
  • Patent number: 10167766
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes a crankcase, shaft, blower housing, and cooling fan. The shaft is rotatably coupled to the crankcase and defines a rotational axis. The blower housing includes an internal space. The cooling fan is disposed within the internal space, includes a plate defining an upper surface, and is positioned to rotate with the shaft about the rotational axis. The cooling fan includes a band having an inner band radius and an outer band radius. The cooling fan includes a plurality of reversed fins extending between the band and the upper surface and between a root adjacent to the rotational axis and a tip adjacent to the outer band radius, each fin offset at an angle measured in a counterclockwise direction from a plane passing through the rotational axis and the tip to a plane passing through the root and the tip when viewed from above the cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Brett Birschbach, Rodney John Balzar, Jeffery P. Feist, Casey E. Groh, Brian Johnson, Randall J. Klotka, Darwin A. Podhola, Ryan Sullivan, Matt Martinek, Brian Paul
  • Publication number: 20180355013
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for cancer immunotherapy are provided. The methods involve the use of a chimeric molecule (e.g., fusion protein) comprising a dimeric NKG2D portion and an Fc portion, which binds one or more NKG2D ligands. In some embodiments, the molecule further comprises a drug moiety (e.g., an IL15/Ra moiety). The methods disclosed herein are useful for the treatment of cancer that is associated with abnormal expression of one or more NKG2D ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Glenn Dranoff, Ryan Sullivan, Matthew Vanneman
  • Publication number: 20180334934
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes a small air-cooled engine and a dry sump lubrication system including an external oil reservoir, wherein the dry sump lubrication system has an overall oil capacity that provides at least five hundred hours of engine oil life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Adam J. Hellman, John Schneiker, Timothy Kwiatkowski, Casey Groh, Robert Price, Ryan Sullivan, Gary Johnson
  • Patent number: 10104454
    Abstract: A system of parking data aggregation and distribution may comprise a plurality of parking sensors, at least one of the plurality of parking sensors located proximate a parking area and one or more gateway devices. The system may further comprise an administrator interface, a parking operator dashboard interface, and a cloud service component. The cloud service component receives parking sensor data indicating occupancy and turnover from the gateway devices and transmits the parking sensor data to the parking operator dashboard web interface. The cloud service component may comprise a database for storing the parking sensor data and a software application for implementing an algorithm to create one or more predictions for future occupancy and future turnover during a future time period. The parking operator dashboard interface may display one or more representations of the parking sensor data over the past time period and predictions for future occupancy and future turnover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventors: Ryan Sullivan, Rishi Malik
  • Publication number: 20180135477
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes an air-cooled engine and an external oil reservoir. The engine includes a vertically-oriented crankshaft a crankcase cover having a front portion and a rear portion, wherein the front portion of the crankcase cover and the cylinder head are located forward of a vertical plane that includes the crankshaft axis, a return pump housing formed in the exterior of the crankcase cover, a return pump positioned in the return pump housing, and a return pump inlet formed through the crankcase cover, wherein the return pump inlet is located in the front portion of the crankcase cover and the return pump inlet is located closer to the camshaft than to the crankshaft. The external oil reservoir includes an oil tank and an oil filter assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Adam J. Hellman, John Schneiker, Tim Kwiatkowski, Casey Groh, Robert Price, Ryan Sullivan, Gary Johnson
  • Patent number: 9903241
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes an engine, an external oil reservoir, a supply pump, and a return pump. The engine includes an oil gallery configured to distribute oil and a crankcase chamber. The external oil reservoir includes an oil tank defining an oil chamber and an oil filter assembly including a housing at least partially defining a filter chamber, and a filter positioned within the filter chamber. The supply pump is in fluid communication with the oil chamber and the oil gallery and the supply pump is configured to draw oil from the oil chamber and provide pressurized oil to the oil gallery. The return pump in fluid communication with the crankcase chamber and the filter chamber and the return pump is configured to draw oil from the crankcase chamber and provide pressurized oil to the filter chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Adam J. Hellman, John Schneiker, Tim Kwiatkowski, Casey Groh, Robert Price, Ryan Sullivan, Gary Johnson
  • Publication number: 20170328315
    Abstract: An air filter is provided for use with an internal combustion engine including an air intake conduit. The air filter includes a top, a bottom, and filter media extending between the top and the base of the bottom to filter incoming air. The top is closed to prevent air flow therethrough. The bottom includes an annular base having an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter spaced apart from and surrounding the inner perimeter, an opening defined by the inner perimeter to deliver filtered air to the air intake conduit, a first tab portion extending outward away from the base, and a second tab portion extending outward away from the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Sullivan, Brian Paul, Matt Martinek, Jason Heinrich
  • Publication number: 20170268534
    Abstract: Aligning a motor shaft in a fan assembly is described. Aligning a centerline of a motor shaft in a direct drive fan assembly includes selecting a motor from among a plurality of motors and matching a motor-plate from among a plurality of motor plates to the motor, the matched motor plate is based on the selected motor. Aligning the centerline further includes creating, from the selected motor and the matching motor plate, a motor-plate assembly that has a resulting height, where the resulting height of the motor-plate assembly corresponds to a particular height of a direct drive fan assembly, and aligning the centerline of a motor shaft of the motor-plate assembly to the direct drive fan assembly, where the particular height of the direct drive fan assembly is constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan SULLIVAN, Joseph R. ORR, Brian F. LONG, Daniel T. NIBLICK
  • Publication number: 20170138232
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes an engine, an external oil reservoir, a supply pump, and a return pump. The engine includes an oil gallery configured to distribute oil and a crankcase chamber. The external oil reservoir includes an oil tank defining an oil chamber and an oil filter assembly including a housing at least partially defining a filter chamber, and a filter positioned within the filter chamber. The supply pump is in fluid communication with the oil chamber and the oil gallery and the supply pump is configured to draw oil from the oil chamber and provide pressurized oil to the oil gallery. The return pump in fluid communication with the crankcase chamber and the filter chamber and the return pump is configured to draw oil from the crankcase chamber and provide pressurized oil to the filter chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Adam J. Hellman, John Schneiker, Tim Kwiatkowski, Casey Groh, Robert Price, Ryan Sullivan, Gary Johnson
  • Publication number: 20170098374
    Abstract: A system of parking data aggregation and distribution may comprise a plurality of parking sensors, at least one of the plurality of parking sensors located proximate a parking area and one or more gateway devices. The system may further comprise an administrator interface, a parking operator dashboard interface, and a cloud service component. The cloud service component receives parking sensor data indicating occupancy and turnover from the gateway devices and transmits the parking sensor data to the parking operator dashboard web interface. The cloud service component may comprise a database for storing the parking sensor data and a software application for implementing an algorithm to create one or more predictions for future occupancy and future turnover during a future time period. The parking operator dashboard interface may display one or more representations of the parking sensor data over the past time period and predictions for future occupancy and future turnover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan Sullivan, Rishi Malik
  • Publication number: 20170058825
    Abstract: An air-cooled internal combustion engine including a crankshaft, a cylinder, a blower assembly including a blower housing and a fan, and a static cover. The static cover includes a main body that is aligned with the crankshaft, an arm that extends from the main body and is aligned with the cylinder, and a plurality of air intake openings. A first subset of the air intake openings is formed through the main body and a second subset of the air intake openings is formed through the arm, and the static cover is configured to prevent user access to a moving component of the engine. The fan is configured to move air into the blower housing through the air intake openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan A. Sullivan, Gary S. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20160369741
    Abstract: A small air-cooled internal combustion engine includes an aluminum cylinder block at least partially defining an aluminum cylinder bore, an aluminum cylinder head attached to the aluminum cylinder block, and an aluminum push rod tube separate from and press fit between the aluminum cylinder block and the aluminum cylinder head. The aluminum push rod tube includes a cylinder block end portion, a cylinder head end portion, and a main body extending between the cylinder block end portion and the cylinder head end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Mike L. Carlson, Gary D. Greenlees, Claude Hoerig, Gary Johnson, Brian Paul, Matt Martinek, Jerry Schenkel, John Schneiker, Ryan Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9500117
    Abstract: An air-cooled internal combustion engine includes an engine block, a blower assembly including a blower housing and a fan, and a static cover. The static cover includes multiple air intake openings and is configured to prevent user access to a moving component of the engine. The blower housing is configured to at least partially direct air to the engine block. The fan is configured to move air into the blower assembly through the air intake openings when rotating in a first direction in a cooling mode and to move air out of the blower assembly through the air intake openings when rotating in an opposite second direction in a debris-removal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan A. Sullivan, Gary S. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20160312796
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes a crankcase, shaft, blower housing, and cooling fan. The shaft is rotatably coupled to the crankcase and defines a rotational axis. The blower housing includes an internal space. The cooling fan is disposed within the internal space, includes a plate defining an upper surface, and is positioned to rotate with the shaft about the rotational axis. The cooling fan includes a band having an inner band radius and an outer band radius. The cooling fan includes a plurality of reversed fins extending between the band and the upper surface and between a root adjacent to the rotational axis and a tip adjacent to the outer band radius, each fin offset at an angle measured in a counterclockwise direction from a plane passing through the rotational axis and the tip to a plane passing through the root and the tip when viewed from above the cooling fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Brett Birschbach, Rodney John Balzar, Jeffery P. Feist, Casey E. Groh, Brian Johnson, Randall J. Klotka, Darwin A. Podhola, Ryan Sullivan, Matt Martinek, Brian Paul
  • Patent number: D799657
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Sullivan, Brian Paul, Matt Martinek