Patents by Inventor Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney 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: 20240194826Abstract: A semiconductor structure comprising: a semiconductor membrane, the semiconductor membrane having at least one amorphised area and an active area wherein the at least one amorphised area is adjacent the active area such that the at least one amorphised area exerts strain on the active area and a method of introducing strain into a crystalline semiconductor membrane by ion implantation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Steven Clowes, David Cox, Mateus Masteghin, Stephen Sweeney
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Patent number: 11317477Abstract: Disclosed is a heating device comprising a plate-shaped ceramic PTC resistor having a thickness, a front side, a back side and narrow sides, wherein the distance from the front side to the back side equals the thickness, and a first contact element and a second contact element, which are electrically contacting the PTC resistor. The PTC resistor is electrically contacted by the contact elements on opposite narrow sides.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbHInventors: Cian McCarthy, Thomas O'Carroll, Katherine O'Sullivan, Stephen Sweeney, Ivan Morris, Kevin Dukes
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Patent number: 11212316Abstract: Method and system embodiments for assessing control maturity in security operations environments are described. According to some embodiments, the method facilitates a nonintrusive, automated means to configure and detect security controls installed in an Information Technology (IT) environment. The system verifies that these controls function as expected over a specified period of time and then maps each security control to a cell in a matrix of operational functions crossed with asset classes. The system captures metrics for security control activity that are displayed in the matrix to facilitate an assessment of security control architectural maturity. The system automatically generates visual and textual reports that provide recommendations to improve cybersecurity by enhancing existing and adding new controls, specify a suggested timeline for introducing those controls, and document gaps in compliance.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Stephen Sweeney, Casey Corcoran, John Camp, Chris Wacker, Brit Wanick, Derek Gabbard
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Patent number: 10895403Abstract: An electric heating device for heating fluids, comprising a housing, inlet and outlet connection pieces arranged at inlet and outlet openings of the housing, respectively, a flow path in the housing through which the fluid to be heated flows leading from the inlet connection piece to the outlet connection piece, and an electric heating unit attached to the housing. The flow path comprises inlet and outlet chambers and at least two flow channels running side by side from the inlet to the outlet chambers. A separating wall separates two flow channels from one another. Each flow channel has an inlet section connected to the inlet chamber and defining an inlet flow direction and an outlet section connected to the outlet chamber and defining an outlet flow direction. The inlet connection piece is oriented in the inlet flow direction and/or the outlet connection piece is oriented in the outlet flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbHInventors: Xoan Xosé Hermida Domínguez, Stephen Sweeney, Cian McCarthy
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Patent number: 10889164Abstract: Flow heater comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a plate shaped heating insert that is arranged in the housing and defines a flow path from the inlet to the outlet. According to this disclosure the plate shaped heating insert comprises a first heating plate, a second heating plate, and a plate support arranged between the first heating plate and the second heating plate, wherein the first heating plate and the second heating plate are arranged on opposite sides of the plate support, and the first heating plate and the second heating plate each comprise a substrate plate carrying a resistive layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbHInventors: Cian McCarthy, Stephen Sweeney, Dara O'Carroll, Hermida Xoan
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Patent number: 10738493Abstract: Sheet material, for example for a swimming pool cover 12, comprises an upper layer 14 of mid-IR absorbing material and a lower layer 16, with bubbles 18, which absorbs visible light. The material passes at least 25% of radiation in the near-IR region, thus promoting heating of the water while suppressing growth of algae. Inorganic particles are used to block visible radiation and pigments are used to block mid-IR radiation.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Plastipack LimitedInventors: Timothy James Fielder, Peter Anthony Adlington, Remi Wache, Steven Kenneth Clowes, Stephen Sweeney
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Patent number: 10691955Abstract: A method may include receiving an image from at least one camera positioned within an aircraft cabin. The method may further include associating the image with a category and a corresponding probability value based on a predictive model. The method may include displaying an alert at a cabin crew station within the aircraft cabin when the probability value is greater than a threshold probability value. A system may include at least one camera positioned within an aircraft cabin, a cabin crew station, and a processor positioned within an aircraft avionics bay. The processor may be configured to receive an image from the at least one camera, associate the image with a category and a probability value based on a predictive model, and generate an alert at the cabin crew station when the probability value is greater than a threshold probability value.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: BOEING COMPANY, THEInventors: Bruno J. Correia Gracio, Stephen Sweeney
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Patent number: 10649444Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating minimal cut-sets for highly integrated large systems. The method includes receiving a system model (102) and a scenario (104), and obtaining a dependency array (300) from the system model (102) according to the scenario, with the dependency array (300) including at least one case (302). The method includes selecting a case (302) in the dependency array (300). The method includes querying a cut-set repository (110) to determine if a cut-set for a component (200) in the case (302) is already stored, and retrieving said cut-set; and if a cut-set is not stored, generating the minimal cut-set for the component (200). And the method includes computing a final cut-set list (112) by expanding the dependency array (300) using the cut-set for the component (200). The method improves the efficiency of cut-set generation applied to manufactured systems with great number of components.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Stephen Sweeney, Lars Fucke
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Publication number: 20190289676Abstract: Disclosed is a heating device comprising a plate-shaped ceramic PTC resistor having a thickness, a front side, a back side and narrow sides, wherein the distance from the front side to the back side equals the thickness, and a first contact element and a second contact element, which are electrically contacting the PTC resistor. The PTC resistor is electrically contacted by the contact elements on opposite narrow sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Cian McCarthy, Thomas O'Carroll, Katherine O'Sullivan, Stephen Sweeney, Ivan Morris, Kevin Dukes
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Publication number: 20190207981Abstract: Method and system embodiments for assessing control maturity in security operations environments are described. According to some embodiments, the method facilitates a nonintrusive, automated means to configure and detect security controls installed in an Information Technology (IT) environment. The system verifies that these controls function as expected over a specified period of time and then maps each security control to a cell in a matrix of operational functions crossed with asset classes. The system captures metrics for security control activity that are displayed in the matrix to facilitate an assessment of security control architectural maturity. The system automatically generates visual and textual reports that provide recommendations to improve cybersecurity by enhancing existing and adding new controls, specify a suggested timeline for introducing those controls, and document gaps in compliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: OPAQ Networks, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Stephen Sweeney, Casey CORCORAN, John CAMP, Chris WACKER, Brit WANICK, Derek Gabbard
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Patent number: 10326036Abstract: A device for guiding and absorbing electromagnetic radiation, the device including: absorbing means for absorbing the electromagnetic radiation; and a coupled to the absorbing means for guiding the electromagnetic radiation to the absorbing means, wherein the waveguide and the absorbing means are formed from a structure including a first cladding layer, a second cladding layer over the first cladding layer, and a quantum-well layer between the first and second cladding layers, the quantum-well layer being formed of a material having a different composition to the first and second cladding layers, wherein the thickness and the composition of the quantum-well layer is optimised to provide an acceptable level of absorption of electromagnetic radiation in the waveguide while providing an appropriate band gap for absorption of the electromagnetic radiation in the absorbing means.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Stephen Sweeney, Yaping Zhang
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Publication number: 20190077224Abstract: Flow heater comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a plate shaped heating insert that is arranged in the housing and defines a flow path from the inlet to the outlet. According to this disclosure the plate shaped heating insert comprises a first heating plate, a second heating plate, and a plate support arranged between the first heating plate and the second heating plate, wherein the first heating plate and the second heating plate are arranged on opposite sides of the plate support, and the first heating plate and the second heating plate each comprise a substrate plate carrying a resistive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Cian McCarthy, Stephen Sweeney, Dara O'Carroll, Hermida Xoan
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Patent number: 10180995Abstract: A failure-effect validation system includes an effects modeler configured to develop a cumulative effects model for failure modes of the complex system, and by which a model of the complex system is extendible to form an extended complex-system model. The effects modeler is also configured to develop search targets each of which includes logical expressions of notable hazards and other factors that contribute to the cumulative effects, such as crew workload, safety margin and/or physiological effects. A model analysis system is configured to perform an automated analysis using the extended complex-system model and search targets, and in which the automated analysis includes a graph search of possible states of the extended complex-system model to locate search targets. And the effects assessment system is configured to selectively generate a layout of failure analysis data including at least a portion of the extended complex-system model and results of the automated analysis.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: David H. Jones, Tyler J. Petri, Daniel J. Fogarty, Chad R. Douglas, Roger Nicholson, Lars Fucke, Stephen Sweeney, Ricardo M. Fricks, Kevin Nicholas King
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Publication number: 20180195301Abstract: Sheet material, for example for a swimming pool cover 12, comprises an upper layer 14 of mid-IR absorbing material and a lower layer 16, with bubbles 18, which absorbs visible light. The material passes at least 25% of radiation in the near-IR region, thus promoting heating of the water while suppressing growth of algae. Inorganic particles are used to block visible radiation and pigments are used to block mid-IR radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Timothy James Fielder, Peter Anthony Adlington, Remi Wache, Steven Kenneth Clowes, Stephen Sweeney
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Patent number: 9703037Abstract: A device comprising: a substrate; a plurality of resonators on the substrate, each of the resonators of the plurality of resonators being resonant at a predetermined wavelength of electromagnetic radiation and at least some of the resonators being arranged to operate in different resonance orders; a waveguide on the substrate, the waveguide being coupled to the plurality of resonators for guiding the electromagnetic radiation to the plurality of resonators, wherein the resonance order of each resonator along the waveguide is optimized to maximize the coupling of light into the resonators.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Stephen Sweeney, Yaping Zhang
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Patent number: 9693394Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical heating device for heating the interior of a vehicle, comprising a plurality of PTC heating rods each comprising ceramic PTC heating resistors, heat sinks for transferring heat from the PTC heating rods to an air flow, and a holder holding the PTC heating rods. The PTC heating rods are connected in series to an NTC heating rod comprising at least one NTC resistor, wherein the NTC heating rod is held by the holder.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbHInventors: Stephen Sweeney, Anthony Maher, Katherine O'Sullivan
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Patent number: 9671285Abstract: A spectrometer comprises a substrate and a waveguide on the substrate, the waveguide including an elongate part and a tapered input for guiding electromagnetic radiation to the elongate part. The tapered input includes an input end for receiving the electromagnetic radiation and an output end coupled to the elongate part, the input end being wider than the output end. The spectrometer may further comprise a plurality of resonators coupled to the elongate part of the waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Stephen Sweeney, Yaping Zhang
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Publication number: 20170146983Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating minimal cut-sets for highly integrated large systems. The method includes receiving a system model (102) and a scenario (104), and obtaining a dependency array (300) from the system model (102) according to the scenario, with the dependency array (300) including at least one case (302). The method includes selecting a case (302) in the dependency array (300). The method includes querying a cut-set repository (110) to determine if a cut-set for a component (200) in the case (302) is already stored, and retrieving said cut-set; and if a cut-set is not stored, generating the minimal cut-set for the component (200). And the method includes computing a final cut-set list (112) by expanding the dependency array (300) using the cut-set for the component (200). The method improves the efficiency of cut-set generation applied to manufactured systems with great number of components.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Stephen Sweeney, Lars Fucke
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Publication number: 20170138633Abstract: An electric heating device for heating fluids, comprising a housing, inlet and outlet connection pieces arranged at inlet and outlet openings of the housing, respectively, a flow path in the housing through which the fluid to be heated flows leading from the inlet connection piece to the outlet connection piece, and an electric heating unit attached to the housing. The flow path comprises inlet and outlet chambers and at least two flow channels running side by side from the inlet to the outlet chambers. A separating wall separates two flow channels from one another. Each flow channel has an inlet section connected to the inlet chamber and defining an inlet flow direction and an outlet section connected to the outlet chamber and defining an outlet flow direction. The inlet connection piece is oriented in the inlet flow direction and/or the outlet connection piece is oriented in the outlet flow direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Xoan Xosé Hermida Domínguez, Stephen Sweeney, Cian McCarthy
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Publication number: 20160338149Abstract: Disclosed is a heating resistor comprising a body of a ceramic PTC resistor material with at least one face of the body coated by a layer of an NTC material. The combination of a PTC resistor and an NTC resistor limits the inrush current at the beginning of a heating process when the PTC resistor is still cold and therefore has a low electrical resistance. When the resistor is heated, the electrical resistance of the NTC resistor decreases while the electrical resistance of the PTC resistor increases. Thus, the electric current changes less until the PTC resistor reaches its critical temperature where its electrical resistance increases by several orders of magnitude. The lowering of electrical current at the beginning of the heating process is especially advantageous in applications that rely on a limited power supply, for example a car battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Stephen Sweeney, Anthony Maher, Katherine O'Sullivan