Patents by Inventor Sean ANDREWS

Sean ANDREWS 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: 20220154829
    Abstract: The disclosure describes an apparatus for sealing a rotating machine, such as an electric machine or gas turbine engine. The apparatus includes a brush seal. The brush seal includes a plurality of first filaments and a plurality of electrically conductive filaments. The first filaments are configured to seal a lubricant within a bearing chamber or sump of the rotating machine. The plurality of electrically conductive filaments is configured to contact a shaft of the rotating machine and discharge a shaft voltage-induced current from the shaft to an external ground of the rotating machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: James Christopher Muskat, Sean Andrew Morgan
  • Patent number: 11301271
    Abstract: Persistent storage may contain a view template and a view configuration, wherein the view template specifies an arrangement of placeholders for graphical user interface components, wherein the view configuration specifies the graphical user interface components for the arrangement, and wherein the graphical user interface components include one or more image components, text components, or button components. One or more processors may be configured to: receive a request; retrieve data from the persistent storage; determine that the data specifies that no results responsive to the request are available; determine that an empty state is defined for when no results responsive to the request are available; generate replacement content for the empty state, wherein the replacement content includes the view template with references to at least one of the image components, text components, or button components overwriting the placeholders; and transmit, in a reply to the request, the replacement content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Fedayev, Maor Cohen, Bezalel Bar-Eli, Sean Andrew Bradley Bowrin
  • Publication number: 20220094896
    Abstract: An example computing system comprises a processor and a storage device holding instructions executable by the processor to receive a thermal image acquired via a thermal imaging system, each pixel of the thermal image comprising an intensity level, and generate a histogram via binning pixels by intensity level. The instructions are further executable to, based at least on the histogram, determine a subset of pixels to colorize, colorize the subset of pixels to produce a selectively colorized image, and output the selectively colorized image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erick Joseph PAUL, Sean Andrew MCGLYNN, Raymond Kirk PRICE
  • Patent number: 11269618
    Abstract: A system includes a memory structure containing a full offline payload including user interface (UI) components and generated by a server application based on corresponding data, and a software application configured to perform operations, including determining that a partial offline payload is available and, based thereon, transmitting, to the server application, a request for the partial offline payload. The operations also include receiving the partial offline payload including a subset of the UI components. Each respective UI component of the subset has been updated based on a modification of the corresponding data. The operations additionally include, for each respective UI component, identifying a corresponding identifier within the partial offline payload and, based thereon, determining a mapping of the respective UI component to a corresponding portion of the full offline payload. The operations further include updating the corresponding portion of the full offline payload based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: George Webster, Michal Henryk Borowiec, Daniel Whiting, David Tamjidi, Audrey Chen, Sean Andrew Bradley Bowrin
  • Patent number: 11256391
    Abstract: An embodiment may involve: transmitting a first graphical user interface (GUI) that allows selection of a plurality of item streams for a mobile user interface; receiving a selection of a first item stream; transmitting a second GUI, where the first item stream is populated from a first database table and the second GUI allows selection of a first field from the first database table; receiving a selection of a second item stream; transmitting the second GUI, where the second item stream is populated from a second database table and the second GUI allows selection of a second field from the second database table, where the first and second fields are of a common type; and transmitting, to a mobile device, the mobile user interface with items from the first and second item streams sorted according to values in the first and second fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Bradley Bowrin, Maor Cohen, Brian Javier Dyk
  • Patent number: 11216271
    Abstract: A system includes persistent storage containing data used by software applications, and a server application configured to perform operations, including identifying a subset of the data, where the subset is used to generate a full offline payload for a particular software application and that includes user interface (UI) components selected for the particular software application based on the subset of the data. The operations also include monitoring the subset of the data to identify a modification to particular data and, based on identifying the modification, generating a partial offline payload based on the particular data as modified, where the partial offline payload includes a subset of the UI components, and where each UI component of the subset is updated based on the particular data as modified. The operations further include receiving a request for the partial offline payload and, based on receiving the request, transmitting the partial offline payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: David Tamjidi, Audrey Chen, Sean Andrew Bradley Bowrin, George Webster, Michal Henryk Borowiec, Daniel Whiting
  • Patent number: 11140046
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may include a communication interface, a screen configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of a native application, a processor, and memory containing instructions of the native application that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless communication device to perform operations including: requesting and receiving, by way of the communication interface, data that defines content for display on the GUI, an arrangement of the content, and a script; displaying the content in accordance with the arrangement; receiving input that modifies some of the content as displayed; determining that the wireless communication device is in an offline mode; invoking execution of the script; and while the wireless communications device is in the offline mode: (i) obtaining, as a result of the execution of the script, modifications to the content, and (ii) displaying, on the GUI, the content as modified in accordance with the arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Oleg Yakov Sherman, Kyle James Barron-Kraus, Sean Andrew Bradley Bowrin
  • Publication number: 20210294093
    Abstract: Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices, methods of operating the MEMS device, and methods of manufacturing the MEMS device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the MEMS device includes a glass substrate; an electrode on the glass substrate; a hinge mechanically coupled to the electrode; a membrane mirror mechanically coupled to the hinge; a TFT on the glass substrate and electrically coupled to the electrode; and a control circuit comprising: a multiplexer configured to turn on or turn off the TFT; and a drive source configured to provide a drive signal for charging the electrode through the TFT. An amplitude of the drive signal corresponds to an amount of charge, and the amount of charge generates an electrostatic force for actuating the hinge and a portion of the membrane mirror mechanically coupled to the hinge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Obsidian Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: John HONG, Tallis CHANG, Bing WEN, Edward CHAN, Sean ANDREWS, Heesun SHIN
  • Publication number: 20210164839
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are MEMS devices and systems and methods of manufacturing or operating the MEMS devices and systems for transmitting and detecting radiation. The devices and methods described herein are applicable to terahertz radiation. In some embodiments, the MEMS devices and systems are used in imaging applications. In some embodiments, a microelectromechanical system comprises a glass substrate configured to pass radiation from a first surface of the glass substrate through a second surface of the glass substrate, the glass substrate comprising TFT circuitry; a lid comprising a surface; spacers separating the lid and glass substrate; a cavity defined by the spacers, surface of the lid, and second surface of the glass substrate; a pixel in the cavity, positioned on the second surface of the glass substrate, electrically coupled to the TFT circuitry, and comprising an absorber to detect the radiation; and a reflector to direct the radiation to the absorbers and positioned on the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Obsidian Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: John HONG, Bing WEN, Edward CHAN, Tallis CHANG, Sean ANDREWS
  • Publication number: 20210156855
    Abstract: Methods and assays for performing a lateral flow test are disclosed. A sample is applied to a receiving portion of a lateral flow device such that the sample flows to at least a first test zone and a second test zone. First and second signals levels at the first and second test zones over an assay period are monitored. If a first analyte of interest is present in the sample, the first analyte is labelled and the presence of labelled first analyte in the sample causes one of the first and second signals levels to increase during the assay period. A change between the first and second signal levels over a period of time during the assay period is monitored. The sample can be incubated prior to application to the receiving portion to provide homogeneity to labelling and therefore a substantially linear increase of the signal level at one of the test zones and a substantially constant signal level at the other one of the test zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Andrea Ranzoni, Sean Andrew Parsons, Scott Robert Fry, Christopher Robert Miller
  • Publication number: 20210080475
    Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for identifying at least a first target condition in a human or animal body. The apparatus comprises one or more test portions for identifying a first analyte in a biological sample from the body, the first analyte providing a marker of the first target condition, and a second analyte in the biological sample, the second analyte being different from the first analyte. The apparatus is configured to identify the first target condition in the body based on the identification of both the first and second analytes. In one embodiment, the first target condition is pregnancy, the first analyte is human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and the second analyte is luteinizing hormone (LH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: SEAN ANDREW PARSONS
  • Publication number: 20210071971
    Abstract: Heat exchangers and methods for assembling a heat exchanger are described, such as for example a round tube heat exchanger, which may be a fin and tube heat exchanger, and which may be used for example in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC) system and/or unit thereof. The heat exchanger includes aluminum tubes mechanically rolled into an aluminum tube support and the tubes are fluidically sealed with the tube support. The aluminum tube support including the aluminum tubes rolled therein is assembled to a fluid manifold configured to allow fluid flow through the heat exchanger and into and/or out of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: William Burgess FOX, Jacob Levi GREGG, Corey Michael GILBERTSON, Sean Andrews Smith, Jeffery Carl GILL, Robert John LARRINAGA
  • Publication number: 20210062646
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a hydraulic fracture dimension include identifying pressure signal values of a first fracturing fluid in a monitor wellbore that represent a pressure change in the first fracturing fluid that is induced by formation of a second hydraulic fracture from a treatment wellbore; determining a particular pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values; based on the determined particular pressure signal value, determining a particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture formed from the treatment wellbore; and determining, based at least in part on (i) the determined particular dimension, and (ii) a first pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values that is less than the determined particular pressure signal value, a first intermediate dimension of the second hydraulic fracture that is less than the determined particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Erica Wilhelmina Catharina Coenen, Sean Andrew Spicer, Sudhendu Kashikar
  • Publication number: 20210048927
    Abstract: An embodiment may involve: transmitting a first graphical user interface (GUI) that allows selection of a plurality of item streams for a mobile user interface; receiving a selection of a first item stream; transmitting a second GUI, where the first item stream is populated from a first database table and the second GUI allows selection of a first field from the first database table; receiving a selection of a second item stream; transmitting the second GUI, where the second item stream is populated from a second database table and the second GUI allows selection of a second field from the second database table, where the first and second fields are of a common type; and transmitting, to a mobile device, the mobile user interface with items from the first and second item streams sorted according to values in the first and second fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Bradley Bowrin, Maor Cohen, Brian Javier Dyk
  • Patent number: 10890590
    Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for identifying at least a first target condition in a human or animal body. The apparatus comprises one or more test portions for identifying a first analyte in a biological sample from the body, the first analyte providing a marker of the first target condition, and a second analyte in the biological sample, the second analyte being different from the first analyte. The apparatus is configured to identify the first target condition in the body based on the identification of both the first and second analytes. In one embodiment, the first target condition is pregnancy, the first analyte is human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and the second analyte is luteinizing hormone (LH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Ellume Limited
    Inventor: Sean Andrew Parsons
  • Publication number: 20200407219
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electromechanical systems structure includes manufacturing sub-micron structural features. In some embodiments, the structural features are less than the lithographic limit of a lithography process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Obsidian Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: John HONG, Tallis CHANG, Edward CHAN, Bing WEN, Yaoling PAN, Sean ANDREWS
  • Patent number: 10851643
    Abstract: Techniques for determining geometries of hydraulic fractures include identifying a data structure that includes data associated with hydraulic fracture identifiers and observed fluid pressures, at least one of the hydraulic fracture identifiers representing a first hydraulic fracture formed from a monitor wellbore into a subsurface rock formation and at least another of the hydraulic fracture identifiers representing a second hydraulic fracture formed from a treatment wellbore into the subsurface rock formation, at least one of the observed fluid pressures includes a pressure change in a fluid in the first hydraulic fracture that is induced by formation of the second hydraulic fracture; performing a single- or multi-objective, non-linear constrained optimization analysis to minimize at least one objective function associated with the observed fluid pressures; and based on minimizing the at least one objective function, determining respective sets of hydraulic fracture geometries associated with at least one o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Reveal Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Andrew Spicer, Erica Wilhelmina Catharina Coenen
  • Patent number: 10837720
    Abstract: Heat exchangers and methods for assembling a heat exchanger are described, such as for example a round tube heat exchanger, which may be a fin and tube heat exchanger, and which may be used for example in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC) system and/or unit thereof. The heat exchanger includes aluminum tubes mechanically rolled into an aluminum tube support and the tubes are fluidically sealed with the tube support. The aluminum tube support including the aluminum tubes rolled therein is assembled to a fluid manifold configured to allow fluid flow through the heat exchanger and into and/or out of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: William Burgess Fox, Jacob Levi Gregg, Corey Michael Gilbertson, Sean Andrews Smith, Jeffery Carl Gill, Robert John Larrinaga
  • Patent number: 10808527
    Abstract: A wellbore system includes a first fracture formed from a wellbore at a first location; a second fracture formed from the wellbore at a second location; a wellbore seal positioned in the wellbore between the first and second locations and configured to fluidly seal a first portion from a second portion of the wellbore; a pressure gauge positioned in the first portion; a pressure gauge positioned in or uphole of the second portion; and a control system configured to communicably couple to the pressure gauges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Reveal Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhendu Kashikar, Erica Whilhelmina Catharina Coenen, Sean Andrew Spicer
  • Patent number: D954287
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: Scott Robert Fry, Andrea Ranzoni, Sean Andrew Parsons, Mark Gilroy