Patents by Inventor Shawn O'Banion

Shawn O'Banion 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).

  • Battery drain analysis and prediction for wireless devices
    Patent number: 9286568
    Abstract: Technologies for wireless device battery analysis and prediction are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Asurion, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rhines, Cory Adams, Glen Tregoning, Heather Lee Wilson, Michael Ballou, Christopher Morgan, Nathanial Beck, Richard Reybok, Shawn O'Donnell, Lindsay Thompson
  • Flat panel image sensor and method of manufacturing thereof
    Patent number: 9269737
    Abstract: A flat panel image sensor includes a thin film transistor (TFT) and diode array, a conformal insulating layer on a top surface of the TFT and diode array, a planarized dielectric layer on a top surface of the conformal insulating layer, a first metalized via in the planarized dielectric layer and the conformal insulating layer to contact a metalized portion of the TFT and diode array, a second metalized via in the planarized dielectric layer and the conformal insulation layer to contact a diode portion of the TFT and diode array, and a passivation layer over the first and second vias and an upper surface of the planarized dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: DPIX, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn O'Rourke, Robert Rodriquez
  • Remotely waking a sleeping device using a wake configuration file
    Patent number: 9250685
    Abstract: Disclosures related to waking a sleeping device while minimizing active components needed to receive a remote wakeup request. In one aspect, devices having an RF tuner, may be configured to detect a digital or an analog signal variation or change in RF signal characteristics. Further, the variation or change may be interpreted as a wakeup signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn O'Malley, Whitney Blackmon
  • PHOTOSENSOR ARRAYS FOR DETECTION OF RADIATION AND PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20160013243
    Abstract: A multilayer structure for use in a photosensor. The multilayer structure includes a substrate, a thin film transistor comprising a metal oxide semiconductor channel and a photosensing element comprising amorphous silicon. The thin film transistor is electrically connected to the photosensing element, and the thin film transistor and photosensing element are on the substrate and separated by a hydrogen barrier structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: dpiX, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn O'ROURKE, Richard L. Weisfield, Byung-kyu Park, Bill Yao, Jungwon Park
  • Wing foil bearings and methods of manufacturing same
    Patent number: 9222509
    Abstract: A wing foil bearing may include one or more wing or tab foil layers. A tab foil layer may comprise a thin material with a two-dimensional array of tab shapes. A tab shape may be defined by a boundary of material separated from the thin material and having an integral edge and a free edge. Tab shapes may include one or more free-state bends relative to the thin material, forming a two-dimensional array of cantilever wings or tabs. Tab arrays may be one or more of various types or two-dimensional arrays, and a tab foil layer may include additional tab arrays and tabs. One or more tab foil layers may be engaged with a mounting surface layer and a counter-surface layer to form a wing foil bearing. Tab foil layers may be stacked and or nested, including partial nesting and complete nesting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Xdot Engineering and Analysis PLLC
    Inventors: Erik E. Swanson, Patrick Shawn O'Meara
  • Method of Temporarily Attaching a Rigid Carrier to a Substrate
    Publication number: 20150348935
    Abstract: Method for temporarily attaching a substrates to a rigid carrier is described which includes forming a sacrificial layer of a thermally-decomposable polymer, e.g., poly(alkylene carbonate), and bonding the flexible substrate to the rigid carrier with the sacrificial layer positioned therebetween. Electronic components and/or circuits may then be fabricated or other semiconductor processing steps employed (e.g., backgrinding) on the attached substrate. Once fabrication is completed, the substrate may be detached from the rigid carrier by heating the assembly to decompose the sacrificial layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Shawn O'Rourke
  • STEGANOGRAPHIC ACCESS CONTROLS
    Publication number: 20150347740
    Abstract: Various features described herein may allow an authorized user to provide a guest with access to a secured location through use of an encoded image containing steganographically encoded access information. The encoded access information may be recognizable by a security system, and the security system may grant access to the secured location when the encoded image is presented to the security system. The authorized user may request the generation of the encoded image on an authorized computing device, and the encoded image may be provided to the guest on a guest computing device. When a monitoring device associated with the security system captures the encoded access information, the security system may, for example, open a door at the secured location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn O'Malley, Mike Rosenwald, Brad Hein
  • T1R TASTE RECEPTORS AND GENES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20150322132
    Abstract: Newly identified mammalian taste-cell-specific G protein-coupled receptors, and the genes and cDNA encoding said receptors are described. Specifically, T1R G protein-coupled receptors active in taste signaling, and the genes and cDNA encoding the same, are described, along with methods for isolating such genes and for isolating and expressing such receptors. Methods for representing taste perception of a particular taste stimulus in a mammal are also described, as are methods for generating novel molecules or combinations of molecules that elicit a predetermined taste perception in a mammal, and methods for simulating one or more tastes. Further, methods for stimulating or blocking taste perception in a mammal are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Jon Elliot ADLER, Xiaodong Li, Lena Luukkonen, Shawn O'Connell, Sergey Zozulya
  • Optically encoded particles through porosity variation
    Patent number: 9181634
    Abstract: The invention concerns a particle having a code from a library of codes embedded in its physical structure by refractive index changes between different regions of the particle. In preferred embodiments, a thin film possesses porosity that varies in a manner to produce a code detectable in the reflectivity spectrum. An assay detection method uses such a particle and detects a spectral shift in the presence of an analyte. Additional embodiments are disclosed including additional features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Michael J. Sailor, Shawn O. Meade
  • Methods of screening T1R1/T1R3 receptors for compounds that modulate umami taste signaling
    Patent number: 9176130
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery that the T1R receptors assemble to form functional taste receptors. Particularly, it has been discovered that co-expression of T1R1 and T1R3 results in a taste receptor that responds to umami taste stimuli, including monosodium glutamate. Also, it has been discovered that co-expression of the T1R2 and T1R3 receptors results in a taste receptor that responds to sweet taste stimuli including naturally occurring and artificial sweeteners. Also the present invention relates to the use of hetero-oligomeric taste receptors comprising T1R1/T1R3 and T1R2/T1R3 in assays to identify compounds that respectively respond to umami taste stimuli and sweet taste stimuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Zoller, Xiaodong Li, Lena Staszewski, Shawn O'Connell, Sergey Zozulya, Jon Elliot Adler, Hong Xu, Fernando Echeverri
  • T1R TASTE RECEPTORS AND GENES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20150299293
    Abstract: Newly identified mammalian taste-cell-specific G protein-coupled receptors, and the genes and cDNA encoding said receptors are described. Specifically, T1R G protein-coupled receptors active in taste signaling, and the genes and cDNA encoding the same, are described, along with methods for isolating such genes and for isolating and expressing such receptors. Methods for representing taste perception of a particular tastant in a mammal are also described, as are methods for generating novel molecules or combinations of molecules that elicit a predetermined taste perception in a mammal, and methods for simulating one or more tastes. Further, methods for stimulating or blocking taste perception in a mammal are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Jon Elliot ADLER, Sergey Zozulya, Xiaodong LI, Shawn O'CONNELL, Lena STASZEWSKI
  • Method of preparing a flexible substrate assembly and flexible substrate assembly therefrom
    Patent number: 9155190
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of preparing a flexible substrate assembly. Other embodiments of related methods and structures are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AZ Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of AZ Acting for and on behalf of AZ State University
    Inventors: Jesmin Haq, Scott Ageno, Douglas E. Loy, Shawn O'Rourke, Robert Naujokaitis
  • GESTURE-CONTROLLED TABLETOP SPEAKER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150193193
    Abstract: A tabletop speaker system includes an amplifier, proximity and acceleration detectors, and a processor. The processor is operatively coupled to receive signals from the proximity and accelerometer detectors, and in response to the proximity and acceleration signals, activate various functions local to the tabletop speaker system to operate and control various behaviors or features of the tabletop speaker system. In this way, the tabletop speaker system can respond to user gestures for a very natural control interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Avnera Corporation
    Inventors: Manpreet S. Khaira, Shawn O'Connor, Frank Prestrelski, Patrick Allen Quinn, Richard Andrew Sorensen, Eric Sorensen
  • Detection of human T1R expressing cells
    Patent number: 9040247
    Abstract: Newly identified mammalian taste-cell-specific G protein-coupled receptors, and the genes and cDNA encoding said receptors are described. Specifically, T1R G protein-coupled receptors active in taste signaling, and the genes and cDNA encoding the same, are described, along with methods for isolating such genes and for isolating and expressing such receptors. Methods for representing taste perception of a particular tastant in a mammal are also described, as are methods for generating novel molecules or combinations of molecules that elicit a predetermined taste perception in a mammal, and methods for simulating one or more tastes. Further, methods for stimulating or blocking taste perception in a mammal are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: SENOMYX, INC.
    Inventors: Jon Elliot Adler, Sergey Zozulya, Xiaodong Li, Shawn O'Connell, Lena Staszewski
  • Method of providing a flexible semiconductor device at high temperatures and flexible semiconductor device thereof
    Patent number: 8999778
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of providing a semiconductor device. The method can include: (a) providing a flexible substrate; (b) depositing at least one layer of material over the flexible substrate, wherein the deposition of the at least one layer of material over the flexible substrate occurs at a temperature of at least 180° C.; and (c) providing a diffusion barrier between a metal layer and an a-Si layer. Other embodiments are disclosed in this application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents
    Inventors: Shawn O'Rourke, Curtis Moyer, Scott Ageno, Dirk Bottesch, Barry O'Brien, Michael Marrs
  • SIP service wrap
    Patent number: 8924567
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for creating an intermediate layer between a SIP endpoint and a SIP service. The intermediate layer may operate to provide a greater flexibility in quickly adapting to customer requirements and/or requests of the SIP service that would, without the intermediate layer, have to wait for long release cycles and request changes directly from the SIP service. The intermediate layer provides a way of increasing the set of features provided to SIP endpoints around the SIP service without changing the SIP service itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Renato Simoes, Shawn O'Reilly
  • Wing Foil Bearings and Methods of Manufacturing Same
    Publication number: 20140376844
    Abstract: A wing foil bearing may include one or more wing or tab foil layers. A tab foil layer may comprise a thin material with a two-dimensional array of tab shapes. A tab shape may be defined by a boundary of material separated from the thin material and having an integral edge and a free edge. Tab shapes may include one or more free-state bends relative to the thin material, forming a two-dimensional array of cantilever wings or tabs. Tab arrays may be one or more of various types or two-dimensional arrays, and a tab foil layer may include additional tab arrays and tabs. One or more tab foil layers may be engaged with a mounting surface layer and a counter-surface layer to form a wing foil bearing. Tab foil layers may be stacked and or nested, including partial nesting and complete nesting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Erik E. Swanson, Patrick Shawn O'Meara
  • METHODS OF SCREENING T1R1/T1R3 RECEPTORS FOR COMPOUNDS THAT MODULATE UMAMI TASTE SIGNALING
    Publication number: 20140329255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery that the T1R receptors assemble to form functional taste receptors. Particularly, it has been discovered that co-expression of T1R1 and T1R3 results in a taste receptor that responds to umami taste stimuli, including monosodium glutamate. Also, it has been discovered that co-expression of the T1R2 and T1R3 receptors results in a taste receptor that responds to sweet taste stimuli including naturally occurring and artificial sweeteners. Also the present invention relates to the use of hetero-oligomeric taste receptors comprising T1R1/T1R3 and T1R2/T1R3 in assays to identify compounds that respectively respond to umami taste stimuli and sweet taste stimuli.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: SENOMYX, INC.
    Inventors: Mark ZOLLER, Xiaodong LI, Lena STASZEWSKI, Shawn O'CONNELL, Sergey ZOZULYA, Jon Elliot ADLER, Hong XU, Fernando ECHEVERRI
  • CAMOUFLAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140308475
    Abstract: A camouflage device includes a plurality of threads connected together to form a plurality of strips. The plurality of strips are connected to a hunting device using an attachment device. The strips are attached to the hunting device in overlapping rows to substantially cover the hunting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventor: Shawn O'Connor
  • Linguistic Expression of Preferences in Social Media for Prediction and Recommendation
    Publication number: 20140257795
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods and computer readable storage media for determining tags or labels from natural language expressions expressing a preference or choice, determining attributes from natural language expressions and other data, and predicting preferences from natural language expressions and other data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Shawn O'Banion