Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Murphy
Stephen A. Murphy 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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Publication number: 20240115393Abstract: Shoulder joint implants are disclosed herein for use in shoulder reconstruction that are configured to facilitate the inclusion a central bone screw for augmented bone fixation. The implant can include a baseplate (or metaglene) configured to secure a glenosphere or other prosthetic component to the glenoid. To facilitate lateral or proximal insertion of a central bone screw through the implant, a throughbore defined along the central axis of the metaglene can be widened to accommodate the maximum diameter of the screw. To enable fixation of the glenosphere to the metaglene, a collet can be configured to engage the smaller diameter of a glenosphere coupling element and inserted into the central throughbore. The collet and the bone screw can be separate parts, thereby making insertion of the bone screw optional. Alternatively, the collet and bone screw can be integrated together to form a unitary construct.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Stephen J. Orphanos, Brian Otrando, William Murphy, Steven Reppucci
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Patent number: 11953704Abstract: A hologram display system is disclosed. An example system includes a hologram apparatus including a sheet folded along preformed creases into a frustum structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The frustum structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The system also includes instructions stored in a memory of a consumer device, which when executed, cause a processor of the consumer device to display, on a screen of the consumer device, holographic interactive content that is related to the hologram apparatus, detect interaction with at least one of the holographic interactive content or the hologram apparatus after the hologram apparatus is placed on the screen of the consumer device, and change the display of at least a portion of the holographic interactive content based on the detected interaction.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: VIRTUAL MARKETING, LLCInventors: Matthew Stephen Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
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Patent number: 11832700Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Adam Udy, Colby Jackson Higgins, Nicholas James Sardar, Richard Mathias, Stephen Murphy
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Publication number: 20230240425Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias, Nicholas James Sardar
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Publication number: 20230233911Abstract: A golf club head includes: a body including: a striking face having a lower leading edge and an opposite upper topline edge, and a sole extending rearward from the lower leading edge, wherein the striking face and the sole form at least part of an outer surface of the body; a weight chamber formed in the outer surface; and a weight including a heavy portion and a light portion, being positionable in the weight chamber with a first orientation, and being positionable in the weight chamber with a second orientation that is rotated from the first orientation about a first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Kyle A. CARR, Peter SORACCO, Stephen MURPHY
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Publication number: 20230191671Abstract: A tubing system with a coupler join positioned between and joining tubing segments. The coupler join is formed to reduce dead legs and hold up volumes within, and/or to reduce materials used to form, and/or to simplify the manufacturing process of the tubing system. The coupler join may be sized, shaped, configured, and/or dimensioned to join tubing segments, such as pre-formed tubing segments, in a streamlined configuration, such as to substantially correspond with the outer and inner diameters of the tubing segments. The tubing system and coupler join may be formed with a mold configured to form a coupler join securely coupling spaced apart ends of tubing segments to be joined together in a configuration which reduces dead legs and hold up volumes within the resulting tubing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Repligen CorporationInventors: Stephen Murphy, Christopher Bullock
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Publication number: 20230189959Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Adam Udy, Colby Jackson Higgins, Nicholas James Sardar, Richard Mathias, Stephen Murphy
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Publication number: 20230180907Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Nicholas James Sardar, Richard Mathias, Joshua Thomas Richards, Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy
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Publication number: 20230180908Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy
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Patent number: 11653737Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias, Nicholas James Sardar
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Publication number: 20230148724Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias, Nicholas James Sardar
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Publication number: 20230148723Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias, Nicholas James Sardar, Joshua Thomas Richards
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Publication number: 20230148725Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias
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Publication number: 20210011306Abstract: A hologram display system is disclosed. An example system includes a hologram apparatus including a sheet folded along preformed creases into a frustum structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The frustum structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The system also includes instructions stored in a memory of a consumer device, which when executed, cause a processor of the consumer device to display, on a screen of the consumer device, holographic interactive content that is related to the hologram apparatus, detect interaction with at least one of the holographic interactive content or the hologram apparatus after the hologram apparatus is placed on the screen of the consumer device, and change the display of at least a portion of the holographic interactive content based on the detected interaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Virtual Marketing Incorporated, d/b/a Fusion 92Inventors: Matthew Stephen Murphy, Jacob W. Beckley
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Patent number: 10649619Abstract: A system, method and architecture of using context in determining a response to user interaction with a device, such context may be context of content being output by the device, the device's context, the user's content, or some combination of contexts. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a response may comprise a menu the content of which, e.g., one or more user-selectable actions or options, can be determined based on a determined context, or contexts, or a determination may be made to provide a response other than an option menu, which determination may be made based on a determined context or combination of contexts. As yet another alternative, a determination may be made to provide a response that includes a menu, the content of which is determined based on one or more determined contexts, and another response, such as an answer identified based on one or more determined contexts.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Christopher Chan, Maud Calegari, Stephen Murphy, Lu Ding, Maurice Rotta, Peter Levinson
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Patent number: 9711438Abstract: A semiconductor device has a substrate with a contact pad. A first insulation layer is formed over the substrate and contact pad. A first under bump metallization (UBM) is formed over the first insulating layer and is electrically connected to the contact pad. A second insulation layer is formed over the first UBM. A second UBM is formed over the second insulation layer after the second insulation layer is cured. The second UBM is electrically connected to the first UBM. The second insulation layer is between and separates portions of the first and second UBMs. A photoresist layer with an opening over the contact pad is formed over the second UBM. A conductive bump material is deposited within the opening in the photoresist layer. The photoresist layer is removed and the conductive bump material is reflowed to form a spherical bump.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: STATS ChipPAC, Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Li-Jen Lin, Stephen A. Murphy, Wei Sun
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Publication number: 20160200005Abstract: A method of operating a temperature-controlled K-mixer for thermally and kinetically regenerating vulcanized crumb rubber is provided. The K-mixer includes a chamber and a shaft provided with a plurality of blades. The method includes the steps of inserting a mixture of vulcanized crumb rubber and a lubricant in the chamber of the K-mixer; heating the mixture by rotating the shaft of the K-mixer until the temperature of the mixture has reached a devulcanizing or regeneration temperature; cooling the mixture by reducing the rotational speed of the K-mixer and by circulating a cooling fluid in the shaft and in channels of the blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: PHOENIX INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Sylvain Martel, Stephen Murphy
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Patent number: 9321190Abstract: A shaft assembly for use in a temperature-controlled K-mixer is provided, along with the mixer including the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly includes an inner hollow shaft defining an inner passage, and an outer hollow shaft coaxially surrounding the inner hollow shaft. An outer passage extends between the inner and outer hollow shafts. The shaft also includes a plurality of blades extending from the outer hollow shaft, for mixing the material. Each of the blades is provided with channels. The inner passage, the channels and the outer passage form a continuous flow path allowing a pressurized fluid to circulate within inner and outer hollow shafts and the blades, for controlling temperature of the shafts and the blades. The channels allow a flow of the fluid in the blades in an opposite direction of a rotational direction of the shaft assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Phoenix Innovation Technology Inc.Inventors: Sylvain Martel, Stephen Murphy
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Patent number: 9120244Abstract: Disclosed is a regenerated rubber, a method and an apparatus for obtaining regenerated rubbers from vulcanized crumb rubber, such as rubber from scrap. The apparatus is a thermokinetic mixer having the particularity to have an air tight stationary chamber with inner non-uniform surface. The method comprises the steps of raising the speed of the rotor shaft in order to increase a temperature of a mixture made of vulcanized crumb rubber and a lubricant, such as oil, until a devulcanizing temperature is reached; and reducing the temperature of the mixture to a lower temperature during a second period of time. The method of the invention is environmentally friendly or “green” since the regeneration method does not use chemicals, includes a shorter period of treatment at higher temperature avoiding the risks of rubber cracking and spontaneous combustion, and further allowing mass-production of regenerated rubber with lower energy consumption.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: PHOENIX INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Sylvain Martel, Stephen Murphy, Patrick Legault
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Publication number: 20150231800Abstract: A shaft assembly for use in a temperature-controlled K-mixer is provided, along with the mixer including the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly includes an inner hollow shaft defining an inner passage, and an outer hollow shaft coaxially surrounding the inner hollow shaft. An outer passage extends between the inner and outer hollow shafts. The shaft also includes a plurality of blades extending from the outer hollow shaft, for mixing the material. Each of the blades is provided with channels. The inner passage, the channels and the outer passage form a continuous flow path allowing a pressurized fluid to circulate within inner and outer hollow shafts and the blades, for controlling temperature of the shafts and the blades. The channels allow a flow of the fluid in the blades in an opposite direction of a rotational direction of the shaft assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: PHOENIX INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Sylvain Martel, Stephen Murphy