Patents by Inventor Sean Daniel

Sean Daniel 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).

  • Patent number: 11163244
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to an apparatus to transfer a quantity of print material to a printing device through a transfer mechanism. In some examples, the apparatus includes a container including the quantity of print material, a transfer mechanism associated with the container, and a sensor associated with the transfer mechanism. In some examples, the sensor is to communicate to the printing device information about the transfer of the quantity of print material through the dispenser mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Daniel Fitzgerald, Jeff Luke, Gabriel McDaniel
  • Patent number: 11163245
    Abstract: In an example, a container includes a housing with a memory resource embedded therein, an electrical contact coupled to an exterior of the container, and an electrical lead coupled to the memory resource and the electrical contact. In another example, a toner cartridge includes a controller embedded within a material of a housing and an electrical contact on an exterior surface of the housing and electrically coupled to the controller. In an example method of manufacturing a container, a memory resource is placed in a mold, material is injected into the mold such that the memory resource is embedded in the material, and the material is allowed to solidify.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Daniel Fitzgerald, Jeffrey H. Luke
  • Publication number: 20210309014
    Abstract: A dispensable substance container may include a printing substance dispensing nozzle comprising a first material. The dispensable substance container an elongate body, comprising a wall, comprising a second material encompassing a cavity to contain a dispensable substance, and an attachment portion to attach the elongate body to the printing substance dispensing nozzle; and a structurally compromised portion of the elongate body extending along a length of the elongate body, wherein the elongate body and the attachment portion are to be severed along the structurally compromised portion by a pushrod moveable through the cavity to expel the dispensable substance out the dispensing nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Luke, Mathew Lavigne, Sean Daniel FitzGerald
  • Publication number: 20210300096
    Abstract: In some examples, a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions to cause a processing resource to: detect an alteration of a print drive assembly, alter a state of a first drive motor associated with the print drive assembly based the detected alteration of the print drive assembly, and alter a state of a drive axis associated with the print drive assembly based on the detected alteration of the print drive assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Daniel FitzGerald, Gabriel Scott McDaniel
  • Publication number: 20210283919
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a refill container is described. The refill container includes a reservoir to house a volume of print compound and a chamber to house a pressurized fluid. A wall separates the reservoir from the chamber. A pressure release device of the refill container creates a fluid path between the chamber and the reservoir such that the pressurized fluid flows into the reservoir to mix with the volume of print compound. A trigger of the refill container activates the pressure release device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Gabriel Scott McDaniel, Jeffrey Harold Luke, Sean Daniel FitzGerald
  • Publication number: 20210279017
    Abstract: An example device capable of predicting print substance end-of-life (EOL) comprises a container to hold a print substance, the container comprising a refill port through which print substance is to be introduced into the container. The example device also comprises a processor to receive signals indicative of an amount of print substance introduced via the refill port. The processor is also to predict a print substance end-of-life (EOL) based on the amount of print substance introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Mathew LAVIGNE, Jeffrey LUKE, Sean Daniel FITZGERALD, Dean RICHTSMEIER, Kenneth SMITH
  • Patent number: 11113730
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for parallel data pool processing and intelligent item selection. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first bid request comprising a first user identifier, determining a first set of product identifiers in a first user interaction history of the first user identifier, determining a second bid request comprising a second user identifier, and determining a second set of product identifiers in a second user interaction history of the second user identifier. Example methods may include determining estimated values for one or more product identifiers in the first set of product identifiers and the second set of product identifiers in parallel, and generating respective first and second responses to the first bid request and the second bid request using the estimated values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Birkett, Andrew J. Bradley, Anirudh Dastidar, Anthony Richard McBryan, Sebastiano Merlino, Fady Mohamed, Sean Daniel Murphy
  • Publication number: 20210270594
    Abstract: An example print apparatus is described as including a fuser roller, a pressure device that generates wear on a section of the fuser roller surface, and a wear detection engine that identifies a degree of wear on the surface of the fuser roller. An example fuser roller may include a tube, a heating element, and a plurality of layers having a detectable pattern. An example print apparatus may include a wear detection engine having an emitter, a detector, and a controller that identifies a wear pattern based on data provided by the detector in response to activation of the emitter and determines a degree of wear based on the identified wear pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gabriel Scott McDaniel, Sean Daniel FitzGerald, Jeffrey H. Luke
  • Publication number: 20210240125
    Abstract: An example device can include a reserve print materials container, an access port coupled to the reserve print materials container to receive, from a replenishment device, print materials directly to the reserve print materials container in-situ, and a main print materials container coupled to the reserve print materials container to receive print materials from the reserve print materials container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth SMITH, Dean RICHTSMEIER, Jeff LUKE, Mathew LAVIGNE, Sean Daniel FITZGERALD
  • Patent number: 11067920
    Abstract: An example print component includes a container interface with a guide feature to guide rotation and a rotationally asymmetric key feature. An example toner component includes a recess to receive a toner container, a guide feature to guide rotation of the toner container, and an asymmetric key feature embedded in the guide feature to guide a container material interface towards a component material interface upon rotation. An example container may have a periphery with a rotationally asymmetric surface plane to guide rotation of the container and a protrusion extending from the periphery that has a key feature defined by edges rotationally asymmetric with respect to the periphery. An example container may include a mechanical interface including an asymmetrically-located key feature that, upon rotation of the print material container, generates a sealing force substantially perpendicular to the direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Daniel Fitzgerald, Gabriel Scott McDaniel, Jeffrey H. Luke
  • Patent number: 11055038
    Abstract: An example device capable of predicting print substance end-of-life (EOL) comprises a container to hold a print substance, the container comprising a refill port through which print substance is to be introduced into the container. The example device also comprises a processor to receive signals indicative of an amount of print substance introduced via the refill port. The processor is also to predict a print substance end-of-life (EOL) based on the amount of print substance introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mathew Lavigne, Jeffrey Luke, Sean Daniel Fitzgerald, Dean Richtsmeier, Kenneth Smith
  • Publication number: 20210170758
    Abstract: In various examples, colorant sensors can include a printing device comprising a hopper to receive a colorant, a supply to receive the colorant from the hopper, an aperture disposed between the hopper and the supply, a light emitter to emit light that passes through the aperture, and a light sensor located on the opposite side of the aperture relative the light emitter to sense a portion of the emitted light that passes through the aperture to permit determination of whether colorant present in the aperture based on the portion of the emitted light sensed by the light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Daniel FitzGerald, Jeff Luke, Mathew Lavigne
  • Publication number: 20210165340
    Abstract: An example print component includes a container interface with a guide feature to guide rotation and a rotationally asymmetric key feature. An example toner component includes a recess to receive a toner container, a guide feature to guide rotation of the toner container, and an asymmetric key feature embedded in the guide feature to guide a container material interface towards a component material interface upon rotation. An example container may have a periphery with a rotationally asymmetric surface plane to guide rotation of the container and a protrusion extending from the periphery that has a key feature defined by edges rotationally asymmetric with respect to the periphery. An example container may include a mechanical interface including an asymmetrically-located key feature that, upon rotation of the print material container, generates a sealing force substantially perpendicular to the direction of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Sean Daniel FITZGERALD, Gabriel Scott MCDANIEL, Jeffrey H. LUKE
  • Publication number: 20210155004
    Abstract: In an example, a print component includes a guide structure. The example guide structure includes a recess to receive a print material container and a guideway with a guide wall to support rotation of the print material container. Upon rotation of the print material container, an electrical contact of the print material container moves towards an electrical contact coupled to the guide structure of the print component. In another example, a container includes a housing, a material transfer interface, and a mechanical interface. In that example, the mechanical interface includes a guide structure that defines a protrusion and a guideway to allow the container to rotate within a recess defined by a receptacle shell. Upon rotation of the container, an electrical contact coupled to the guide structure moves towards an electrical contact on the receptacle shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Sean Daniel FITZGERALD, Jeffrey H. LUKE, Mathew LAVIGNE
  • Publication number: 20210114377
    Abstract: An example of a device (100) may include a valve body (108). The device may include a printing substance transfer window (122) through the valve body (108). The device (100) may include a printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) rotatable within the valve body (108) between a first orientation with an orifice of the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) facing an internal face of the valve body (108) and a second orientation with the orifice (126) of the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) facing the printing substance transfer window (122). The device (100) may include a dispensing-side gasket material (132) slideable against the internal face of the valve body (108) when rotating the printing substance dispensing nozzle (110) between the first orientation and the second orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. LUKE, Mathew LAVIGNE, Dean RICHTSMEIER, Kenneth SMITH, Sean Daniel FITZGERALD, Wesley R. SCHALK
  • Publication number: 20210063912
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a print substance container consistent with the disclosure. For instance, the print substance container may comprise a print substance disposed inside of the print substance container and a first electromagnet formed of a wire coil positioned around the print substance container and extending along a length of the print substance container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Gabriel Scott MCDANIEL, Mike ALLYN, Sean Daniel FITZGERALD, Jeff LUKE, Dennis Alan ABRAMSOHN
  • Patent number: 10936258
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to retargeting online advertisement campaign recommendations for advertisements with multiple items or services. Bids may be based on a combined advertisement creative comprising two or more items or services. Dynamically selecting multiple items at bid time using a retargeting model to determine a potential revenue generation amount associated with an event may increase the probability of a conversion event based on the creative that includes the selected items. In some embodiments, a machine-learned retargeting model may be used to select multiple items to be displayed in an advertisement. The retargeting model may be applied to items that were previously viewed by the consumer and may determine a value for each of the items using factors. A bid may be calculated for each of the selected items using the values determined by the retargeting model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bradley, Andrew Craig Brind, Anthony Richard McBryan, Sebastiano Merlino, Sean Daniel Murphy, Alistair Francis Smith, David Neil Turner
  • Publication number: 20210053883
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel fertilizer with improved efficiency, and in particular with improved micronutrients supply, which furthermore is particularly suitable for near neutral and alkaline soils. The present invention further relates to a composite for a fertilizer containing a first particle containing one or more macronutrient(s) and second particle(s) containing a layered double hydroxide (LDH) containing at least one micronutrient; the second particle is present on the surface of the first particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Jakob MAGID, Hans Christian BRUUN HANSEN, Ahmad IMRAN, Sandra LÓPEZ RAYO, Sean Daniel Charles PEDRICK-CASE, Lars STOUMANN FOSGRAU JENSEN, Jan KOFOD SCHJØRRING
  • Publication number: 20210031959
    Abstract: A seal removal structure can include a shell and a piercing member. The shell can have a first end section and a second end section. The first end section can be configured to receive a supply conduit of a supply fluid container and the second end section can be dimensioned to receive a receiving conduit of a container device. Additionally, the piercing member can be provided within the first end section to penetrate a seal of the supply conduit when the supply conduit is received by the first end section. Moreover, the piercing member can incise at least a portion of the seal from the supply conduit when the supply conduit or the piercing member rotates, while the supply conduit is received by the first end section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeff LUKE, Sean Daniel FITZGERALD, Mathew LAVIGNE, Dean RICHTSMEIER
  • Publication number: 20210026272
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to an apparatus to transfer a quantity of print material to a printing device through a transfer mechanism. In some examples, the apparatus includes a container including the quantity of print material, a transfer mechanism associated with the container, and a sensor associated with the transfer mechanism. In some examples, the sensor is to communicate to the printing device information about the transfer of the quantity of print material through the dispenser mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Daniel FITZGERALD, Jeff LUKE, Gabriel MCDANIEL