Patents by Inventor Sean O'Connor

Sean 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).

  • Browser new tab page generation for enterprise environments
    Patent number: 9996622
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are described that enable a web browser to automatically determine that a user thereof is logged into an enterprise network and, based on at least this determination, present the user with a new tab page or similar interface that includes features that facilitate access by the user to enterprise-related content. The enterprise-related content may include, for example, enterprise-related web sites, content shared by colleagues, content trending among team members, documents that the user recently worked on, enterprise-related news, and industry-related news.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sean O. Lyndersay, Martin J. Hall, Michael J. Patten, Joshua T. Stickler
  • Integrated fiber cement and foam as insulated cladding with enhancements
    Patent number: 9982440
    Abstract: An integrated fiber cement and foam cladding system is provided that incorporates foam or similar light weight material to improve the insulation capacity of the cladding system. The system includes at least a fiber cement layer and a foam layer disposed on the backside of the fiber cement layer. The system improves the R-value of the building, a measure of the building's resistance to transferring heat or thermal energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: James Hardie Technology Limited
    Inventors: Dawn Cole, George Elizarraras, Hui Li, Kevin O'Leary, Sean O'Leary
  • Exhaust filter module, and a method and apparatus for efficiency testing the same
    Patent number: 9976770
    Abstract: A filter module configured for exhaust application, and a method and apparatus for testing the same are provided. In one embodiment, the filter module includes a downstream sampling port configured to allow a technician to sample flow, downstream of the filter module, from the cleanroom side of a filter module. In another embodiment, a shroud adapted to sealing engage a filter module under test is provided and includes a tube, disposed in the shroud, that couples a port to a downstream sampling port of the filter module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CAMFIL USA, INC.
    Inventors: John L. Cherry, Sr., Sean O'Reilly, Mark Huza, Thomas C. Morse
  • Sear block trigger safety
    Patent number: 9970723
    Abstract: A trigger mechanism for a firearm includes a sear which interacts with a trigger. The sear and trigger are held in contact by a sear block. The sear block has dogs which engage respective locking surfaces on the sear and trigger. Pivoting motion of the sear block disengages the dogs from the trigger and sear and allows the trigger to pivot and release the sear to discharge the firearm. When the dogs are engaged with the sear and trigger the resistance to inadvertent discharge due to inertial loads imposed on the mechanism when the firearm is dropped is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Smith & Wesson Corp.
    Inventors: David S. Findlay, Sean O'Clair
  • Ambidextrous magazine catch
    Patent number: 9964372
    Abstract: An ambidextrous magazine catch for a firearm has a body movable on the frame of the firearm. A dog is rotatably mounted on the body. The dog has a jaw which is movable toward and away from the magazine well upon either motion of the body or rotation of the dog. The jaw engages a magazine in the magazine well. A plunger engaged with the body effects rotation of the dog through a cam surface on the plunger and a cam follower on the dog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Smith & Wesson Corp.
    Inventor: Sean O'Clair
  • Voice-Enabled Connected Smart Toy
    Publication number: 20180117479
    Abstract: A smart toy is provided. The smart toy includes a housing forming a zoomorphic shell for housing internal components. The smart toy also includes a microphone for receiving an audio signal from a child and a speaker for playing a responsive audio signal to the child. The smart toy further includes an actuator button and a microprocessor for establishing a voice call with a remote server when the actuator button is pressed. The microprocessor processes the audio signal received from the child and sends the audio signal to the remote server. The remote server processes the audio signal using a dialog engine and a knowledge database to generate the responsive audio signal which is tailored to the child and responsive to the audio signal. The remote server sends the responsive audio signal to the microprocessor to be played to the child.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Elemental Path, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Coolidge, John Paul Benini, Sean O'Shea, Arthur Tu, Jessica Cohen, Mark Garcia, Tinashe Musonza, Shane Tierney, Calvin Chu
  • REPLACEMENT HEART VALVE WITH DIAPHRAGM
    Publication number: 20180104057
    Abstract: A replacement heart valve system may include a delivery sheath and a replacement heart valve. The replacement heart valve may include a mesh anchor member disposed within the delivery sheath in an elongated delivery configuration, the mesh anchor member being expandable to a deployed configuration when unconstrained by the delivery sheath. The mesh anchor member may include an upstream chamber, a downstream chamber, and a tubular middle portion extending between the upstream chamber and the downstream chamber. The replacement heart valve may include a diaphragm disposed within the downstream chamber of the mesh anchor member, wherein the diaphragm is configured to selectively prevent fluid flow through the replacement heart valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Fionn Stapleton, Sean O'Sullivan, John Kilcooley, Niamh McNamara, Desmond McGreevy
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORT GENERATION
    Publication number: 20180094229
    Abstract: A system and method for generating wort utilizing steam injection heating and stratified flow. The system mixes a fine ground grain with water to form a slurry. The slurry is pumped through a steam injection heater to form a mash. The heated mash enters into a stratified vessel that creates a stratified temperature profile from a first end to a second end. The stratified heating vessel allows the mash to flow from the first end to the second end without internal mixing. After retention within the mash coil, the wort is directed to a mash filtration unit. After filtration, the wort enters into a boil kettle and is heated using a second steam injection heater. The boil kettle includes a spray head that directs brewing liquor onto the wort to reduce foam within the boil kettle. Finally, the wort passes through a scraped surface sieve that removes particles from the heated wort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Hydro-Thermal Corporation
    Inventors: Sean O'Rear, James C. Zaiser
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ORDERED SETS OF ARBITRARY PERCENTILE ESTIMATES FOR VARYING TIMESPANS
    Publication number: 20180081629
    Abstract: A method includes interpreting a number of distributed data sets including resource utilization values corresponding to a plurality of distributed hardware resources, creating an approximation of a number of distributions corresponding to the distributed data set, aggregating the created approximations, and the aggregating includes weighting values determined from each of the distributed data sets, such that the aggregated approximations are representative of the distributed data sets. The method further includes creating a number of polynomial terms in response to the created approximations, thereby providing a utilization profile, and solving for a utilization percentile value within the aggregated approximations, where the solving is performed without reference to the distributed data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: William Kuhhirte, Yue Qiu, Sean O'loughlin
  • Estimating fractional chirp rate with multiple frequency representations
    Patent number: 9922668
    Abstract: An estimate of a fractional chirp rate of a signal may be computed by using multiple frequency representations of the signal. A first frequency representation may be computed using a first fractional chirp rate and a first score may be computed using the first frequency representation that indicates a match between the first fractional chirp rate and a fractional chirp rate of the signal. A second frequency representation may be computed using a second fractional chirp rate and a second score may be computed using the second frequency representation that indicates a match between the second fractional chirp rate and the fractional chirp rate of the signal. The fractional chirp rate of the signal may be estimated using the first score and the second score, for example, by selecting a fractional chirp rate corresponding to a highest score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: KnuEdge Incorporated
    Inventors: David C. Bradley, Yao Huang Morin, Janis Intoy, Sean O'Connor, Nick Hilton, Massimo Mascaro
  • IN-FLOOR TREADMILL ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20180064987
    Abstract: A treadmill assembly is provided that is located co-planar with a surrounding floor surface. An edge assembly is provided that spans a gap between the floor surface and the treadmill assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventor: Sean O'Mara
  • INTEGRATED FIBER CEMENT AND FOAM AS INSULATED CLADDING WITH ENHANCEMENTS
    Publication number: 20180044922
    Abstract: An integrated fiber cement and foam cladding system is provided that incorporates foam or similar light weight material to improve the insulation capacity of the cladding system. The system includes at least a fiber cement layer and a foam layer disposed on the backside of the fiber cement layer. The system improves the R-value of the building, a measure of the building's resistance to transferring heat or thermal energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Dawn Cole, George Elizarraras, Hui Li, Kevin O'Leary, Sean O'Leary
  • Endograft introducer and a capsule assembly for an endograft introducer
    Patent number: 9867729
    Abstract: A capsule assembly for an endograft introducer is disclosed. The assembly comprises: a capsule retriever having a plug portion and a tail portion, the plug portion having a lead-in surface, the tail portion having an elongate body extending proximally from the plug portion to an end stop feature receiver; a capsule tube having an end stop feature at a proximal end thereof and terminating in a distal end, the end stop feature and the end stop receiver arranged such that proximal movement of the capsule tube relative to the plug portion is limited; and a capsule cavity inside the capsule tube, a proximal end of a prosthesis being receivable in the cavity. The capsule tube is slidably movable with respect to the capsule retriever to a position in which the distal end of the capsule tube is adjacent to the lead-in surface of the plug portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Werner D. Ducke, David Ernest Hartley, David Sean O'Brien, Blayne A. Roeder
  • MEDICAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170361064
    Abstract: Apparatuses of the type broadly applicable to numerous medical applications in which it is desirable to insert one or more steerable or non-steerable catheters or similar devices into a working channel of an associated device, such as an endoscope, catheter, etc., or passageway of a patient, are disclosed. The apparatuses may include catheters having a dedicated guide wire channel and one or more of the following: viewing capabilities, a working channel, and auxiliary channels, such as insufflation/irrigation channels. The catheters may include a guide wire channel that is configured to provide the catheter or other device with rapid exchange capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: John B. GOLDEN, John (Sean) O. McWEENEY, Robert CASTOLDI
  • Shrink-wrap labelling of crustacean claws
    Patent number: 9834330
    Abstract: A labelling system includes a dispensing apparatus to present respective cut and opened sleeves of shrink-wrap label stock material for insertion of claws of crustaceans, and a heating apparatus to apply heat to the sleeves to shrink the sleeves around the claws. A related method includes inserting a claw of a crustacean into a sleeve of shrink-wrap label stock material, and applying heat to the sleeve to shrink the sleeve around the claw. Another method involves providing a dispensing apparatus to present respective cut and opened sleeves of shrink-wrap label stock material to receive claws of crustaceans, and providing a heating apparatus to apply heat to the sleeves to shrink the sleeves around the claws. A seafood product may include a crustacean having a claw, the claw carrying a shrink-wrap label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CLEARWATER SEAFOODS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Timothy Andrew Burke, Ben Garvey, Lee Babin, Gleb Sekretta, Louis-Phillipe Frederick Manuge, Sean O'Leary
  • Integrated fiber cement and foam as insulated cladding with enhancements
    Patent number: 9828776
    Abstract: An integrated fiber cement and foam cladding system is provided that incorporates foam or similar light weight material to improve the insulation capacity of the cladding system. The system includes at least a fiber cement layer and a foam layer disposed on the backside of the fiber cement layer. The system improves the R-value of the building, a measure of the building's resistance to transferring heat or thermal energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: James Hardie Technology Limited
    Inventors: Dawn Cole, George Elizarraras, Hui Li, Kevin O'Leary, Sean O'Leary
  • Bolt For Firearm
    Publication number: 20170328656
    Abstract: A pistol has a bolt with a surface that contacts the cartridge in the magazine to next be chambered. The bolt is mounted within the slide. As the bolt moves with the slide out of battery the surface exerts a force on the cartridge in the direction of motion of the slide. The force counteracts inertial forces on the cartridge imposed by recoil of the pistol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Sean O'Clair, Gary Zukowski
  • Brake torque plate
    Patent number: D801895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bowyer, Edward Hammer, Sean O'Brien
  • Shoe with laces
    Patent number: D805291
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Inventors: Alfred Brandin Vasquez, Jr., Sean O'Hare
  • Pistol
    Patent number: D814593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Smith & Wesson Corp.
    Inventors: Sean O'Clair, Brett Curry