Patents by Inventor Sean Edwards
Sean Edwards 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: 8954864Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media for integrating a contact list with a social network are disclosed. Some implementations can include displaying a user interface that permits a user to add a profile linked to a contact to one or more selected groups of the social network. The user interface can then be updated to display the groups of the social network to which the profile has been added.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Nishant Atul Thakkar, Kobi Reiter, Sean Edward Purcell, Matthew Frederick Hillman, Corinna Hinke
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Publication number: 20150007470Abstract: A support component comprises a tab configured to be coupled to a bar (as comprises a part of an item to be suspended), the tab including a plurality of openings disposed therethrough and configured to receive an overhead support interface (such as a corresponding flexible link) to thereby provide overhead support to the bar. These openings can be laterally offset from one another to facilitate selecting a particular pitch orientation for the bar. The tab can have a non-circular hole disposed therethrough sized and configured to receive the bar. This hole can include a surface that is configured to key with respect to a corresponding bar surface to thereby prevent the bar from rotating.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Chad Glenn Kirschner, Sean Edward Callahan, Mark Joseph Cleaver, Qiusheng Chen, Zhiping Zhang
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Patent number: 8887422Abstract: A physically-discrete sign component comprises an internally-electrically-illuminated alphabetic character having a front-facing profile and at least one connecting bar disposed at least substantially horizontally with respect to the front-facing profile of the alphabetic character and at least partially within the front-facing profile of that alphabetic character. By one approach the physically-discrete sign component includes two of the connecting bars. If desired, these two connecting bars are disposed at least substantially parallel to one another. By one approach, a first one of the connecting bars extends partially, but not wholly, above an upper periphery of the aforementioned front-facing profile while the second connecting bar extends partially, but not wholly, below a lower periphery of the front-facing profile. The connecting bars can include a connecting-bar interface configured to physically and electrically interconnect to an adjacent sign component.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: iLight Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sean Edward Callahan, Mark Joseph Cleaver, James Cuppini, Timothy Edward Canzano, Edward Wayted Chen, Elizabeth Marie Randgaard, Chad Glenn Kirschner, Stephen Michael Oshgan, Paresh Shroff, Joseph Z. Wascow, Nicholas Patrick Jackson, Brian Alan Retzke, Daniel John Williams
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Patent number: 8839537Abstract: A support component comprises a tab configured to be coupled to a bar (as comprises a part of an item to be suspended), the tab including a plurality of openings disposed therethrough and configured to receive an overhead support interface (such as a corresponding flexible link) to thereby provide overhead support to the bar. These openings can be laterally offset from one another to facilitate selecting a particular pitch orientation for the bar. The tab can have a non-circular hole disposed therethrough sized and configured to receive the bar. This hole can include a surface that is configured to key with respect to a corresponding bar surface to thereby prevent the bar from rotating.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: ILight Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Chad Glenn Kirschner, Sean Edward Callahan, Mark Joseph Cleaver, Qiusheng Chen, Zhiping Zhang
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Publication number: 20140237871Abstract: A physically-discrete sign component comprises an internally-electrically-illuminated alphabetic character having a front-facing profile and at least one connecting bar disposed at least substantially horizontally with respect to the front-facing profile of the alphabetic character and at least partially within the front-facing profile of that alphabetic character. By one approach the physically-discrete sign component includes two of the connecting bars. If desired, these two connecting bars are disposed at least substantially parallel to one another. By one approach, a first one of the connecting bars extends partially, but not wholly, above an upper periphery of the aforementioned front-facing profile while the second connecting bar extends partially, but not wholly, below a lower periphery of the front-facing profile. The connecting bars can include a connecting-bar interface configured to physically and electrically interconnect to an adjacent sign component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Sean Edward Callahan, Mark Joseph Cleaver, James Cuppini, Timothy Edward Canzano, Edward Wayted Chen, Elizabeth Marie Randgaard, Chad Glenn Kirschner, Stephen Michael Oshgan, Paresh Shroff, Joseph Z. Wascow, Nicholas Patrick Jackson, Brian Alan Retzke, Daniel John Williams
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Publication number: 20140109447Abstract: A support component comprises a tab configured to be coupled to a bar (as comprises a part of an item to be suspended), the tab including a plurality of openings disposed therethrough and configured to receive an overhead support interface (such as a corresponding flexible link) to thereby provide overhead support to the bar. These openings can be laterally offset from one another to facilitate selecting a particular pitch orientation for the bar. The tab can have a non-circular hole disposed therethrough sized and configured to receive the bar. This hole can include a surface that is configured to key with respect to a corresponding bar surface to thereby prevent the bar from rotating.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: ILIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Chad Glenn Kirschner, Sean Edward Callahan, Mark Joseph Cleaver, Qiusheng Chen, Zhiping Zhang
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Publication number: 20140006343Abstract: Methods and systems are described for generating a list of recent contacts are described. A method for generating a list of recent contacts includes generating a directory comprising a plurality of contacts, receiving a communication notification associated with a communication type and one of the plurality of contacts, and updating a list of recent communications with the contact and the communication type.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: ORGSPAN, INC.Inventor: Sean Edward Allison
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Publication number: 20130270760Abstract: A device for laterally positioning a work piece in a milling machine vise includes a clamp configured to engage a top longitudinal lip of a vise jaw via at least one clamp screw. The clamp defines a notch configured to receive a work piece facing inner lip edge and an outer lip edge. The notch comprises a top lip resting face, an outer lip clamping face and an inner lip clamping face adjacent the inner lip edge. The device may also include a stop pin. A protrusion extends from the inner lip clamping face to receive the stop pin parallel to the work piece facing inner lip edge. The protrusion is configured to cantilever the stop pin substantially to below the top lip resting face from the inner lip edge of the vise jaw and enable a milling clearance from the clamp to the work piece via the stop pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventor: Sean Edward Gordon
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Patent number: 8537023Abstract: An automatic fault detector momentarily interrupts a provision of operating power to a load having a minimal forward-bias voltage requirement to thereby provide a testing window and then applies a test voltage during this window that is less than the minimal forward-bias voltage requirement to the load and monitors for a power-to-ground fault. By one approach the aforementioned momentarily interruption of power is neither frequent enough nor long enough in duration to substantially impair the provision of power to the load. Accordingly, load performance is not noticeably diminished. One can then responsively prohibit subsequent provision of the operating power to the load. One can then continue to monitor for the power-to-ground fault while continuing to prohibit provision of operating power to the load. If and when the fault disappears, these teachings will then accommodate automatically resuming an ordinary provision of power to the load.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: iLight Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Christian Ernest, Sean Edward Callahan, Edward Wayted Chen, Thomas Martin Kopera, Timothy Edward Canzano
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Publication number: 20130092791Abstract: A method of reducing noise from an aircraft in a noise abatement zone during flight of the aircraft includes determining where the flight path of the aircraft will intersect the noise abatement zone and then operating the aircraft in a quieter manner when the aircraft is within the noise abatement zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Michael John Bakker, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Sean Edward Flanary
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Publication number: 20120299740Abstract: An automatic fault detector momentarily interrupts a provision of operating power to a load having a minimal forward-bias voltage requirement to thereby provide a testing window and then applies a test voltage during this window that is less than the minimal forward-bias voltage requirement to the load and monitors for a power-to-ground fault. By one approach the aforementioned momentarily interruption of power is neither frequent enough nor long enough in duration to substantially impair the provision of power to the load. Accordingly, load performance is not noticeably diminished. One can then responsively prohibit subsequent provision of the operating power to the load. One can then continue to monitor for the power-to-ground fault while continuing to prohibit provision of operating power to the load. If and when the fault disappears, these teachings will then accommodate automatically resuming an ordinary provision of power to the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: ILIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Joseph Christian Ernest, Sean Edward Callahan, Edward Wayted Chen, Thomas Martin Kopera, Timothy Edward Canzano
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Patent number: 8266810Abstract: A system and method for quick and accurate tramming are disclosed. The system includes an apparatus comprising a plurality of indicators spaced apart in a plane perpendicular to a body shank and connected thereto, the body shank configured to be received into the spindle. The system also includes a calibration device configured to temporarily remain fixed in place on the mill table to provide a single point of calibration for each indicator received in the apparatus. The method includes calibrating the indicators one at a time by positioning an indicator shank tip atop the calibration device and adjusting the indicator to read a calibration value common to all the indicators. The spindle is moved toward the mill table until at least one indicator tip touches the mill table and the mill head is adjusted until all indicator tips touch the mill table and all indicators read the same value.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Inventor: Sean Edward Gordon
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Publication number: 20120210214Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating the navigation of a list of content items with gestures are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a computing device detects simple gestures, and in response, display a preview of content items preceding, or following a currently selected content item, from the list of content items. Upon detecting a selection gesture, the computing device updates the view of the currently selected content item to display the newly selected content item.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: Linkedln CorporationInventors: Frank Taehyun Yoo, Steven Thomas Flory, Sean Edward Beausoleil
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Patent number: 8181335Abstract: Apparatus for assembling a core for wound sheet material, comprising a tube, a first end member, and a second end member; the apparatus comprising a base, a first chuck for insertion in the first end member, a second chuck for insertion in the second end member, a ram for applying axial pressure such that the first end member is forced into the first end of the tube and the second end member is forced into a second end of the tube, drill devices for drilling fixing apertures, and a monitor device for sensing ambient temperature and enabling the length of the core to be measured at the time of the assembly of the core in the ambient temperature so that the length of the core falls in temperature and length parameters set for subsequent winding of the sheet material on the core.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Real Time Logistics Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Antony Stanley Milton, Sean Edward Greene
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Publication number: 20110167844Abstract: In general terms, this disclosure is directed towards a vapor recovery system. The vapor recovery system comprises material specifically designed to recondense vapor during defrost cycle. This material would be of sufficient thermal mass to remain at a lower temperature during the defrost cycle. The vapor may be condensed directly in the evaporator compartment or indirectly by removing the vapor to a remotely located recondense medium. The vapor recovery system may comprise of at least one vapor tube, a fan, and a vapor recondenser. The vapor collection tube is located proximate an evaporator. The fan is in fluid communication with the vapor collection tube and the vapor recondenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventor: Sean Edward Drury
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Publication number: 20110131826Abstract: A system and method for quick and accurate tramming are disclosed. The system includes an apparatus comprising a plurality of indicators spaced apart in a plane perpendicular to a body shank and connected thereto, the body shank configured to be received into the spindle. The system also includes a calibration device configured to temporarily remain fixed in place on the mill table to provide a single point of calibration for each indicator received in the apparatus. The method includes calibrating the indicators one at a time by positioning an indicator shank tip atop the calibration device and adjusting the indicator to read a calibration value common to all the indicators. The spindle is moved toward the mill table until at least one indicator tip touches the mill table and the mill head is adjusted until all indicator tips touch the mill table and all indicators read the same value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventor: Sean Edward Gordon
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Publication number: 20110016864Abstract: A compressed air energy storage (CAES) system encompassing direct heating. The compressed air energy storage system includes a compressor for compressing ambient air, an air storage reservoir, and a thermal energy storage system. The air storage reservoir is adapted to store compressed air from the compressor. The thermal energy storage system is adapted to supply heat to the compressed air energy storage system such that the compressed air is heated to increase work production of the compressed air. The thermal energy storage system is heated using off-peak electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Sean Edward Wright, Richard Joseph Lordan, Robert B. Schainker
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Patent number: 7674040Abstract: A reclosable bag having two spaced-apart flexible closures and external finger guide ridges and/or pressure distribution ridges to facilitate their closure. The ridges lie in a region between the double closures and they extend generally parallel to each other and to the closures when the bag is in an empty and flat state. The pressure distribution ridges improve the finger pressure distribution by moving the applied forces closer to the closure profiles. When used in conjunction with external finger guide ridges, the pressure distribution ridges also improve the bearing surface of the external finger guide ridges with the thumb and forefinger of the person closing the bag.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Sean Edward Dowd, Herbert Zivkovic, Mary Jane Zivkovic, legal representative, Perry Malik
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Patent number: D665001Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Inventor: Sean Edward Gordon
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Patent number: D677141Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Inventor: Sean Edward Gordon