Patents by Inventor Thomas Connor

Thomas 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).

  • Publication number: 20220300664
    Abstract: An administrative control system for controlling access to one or more devices for one or more users. In at least some examples, the administrative control system utilizes an access control device (ACD) inserted into an electrical circuit to selectively control electricity (e.g., power or control signals) in an electrical circuit of one or more governed devices. In this regard, even closed devices may be subjected to control by the administrative control system. In turn, a policy regarding device use may be enforced across different devices and platforms to provide a comprehensive system for controlling access to governed devices. Further still, the system may monitor for one or more circumvention states to provide a responsive action or altering/notification in response to a circumvention state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: William Thomas Connors, Jared Jonathon Schiltz
  • Patent number: 10674736
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes new meat products and new processing and cutting techniques that more effectively utilize an animal carcass. A boneless rib-meat product and method of producing the same are disclosed. The boneless meat product includes two boneless rib-meat portions, each boneless rib-meat portion has an interior side. The interior side includes alternating raised surfaces and depressions. The two boneless rib-meat portions are positioned together in a stacked configuration with the interior side of each boneless rib-meat portion oriented toward and in contact with the other. The raised surfaces of each boneless rib-meat portion are offset with each other such that the raised surfaces of each boneless rib-meat portion are positioned within a corresponding depression of the other boneless rib-meat portion. The stacked boneless rib-meat portions are secured together via cooking to cause the boneless rib-meat portions to bind together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Tyson Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Naikang Kuan, Paul Thomas Connor
  • Patent number: 10660344
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes new meat products and new processing and cutting techniques that more effectively utilize the animal carcass. A method of forming a rib-meat product and one or more rib-meat products are disclosed. One rib-meat product includes a plurality of rib bones and a substantially cylindrically-shaped meat portion attached to a second end of each of the rib bones in the plurality of rib bones. The substantially cylindrically-shaped meat portion is a continuous piece of meat originally present on the plurality of rib bones. The substantially cylindrically-shaped meat portion includes a flap portion and a stationary portion, and the flap portion has been detached from each of the first ends of the plurality of rib bones and is substantially wrapped around a stationary portion at the second end to form the substantially cylindrically-shaped meat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Tyson Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Naikang Kuan, Paul Thomas Connor
  • Patent number: 10467063
    Abstract: Systems and methods enabling the automatic configuration of application environments in a clinical system are disclosed. An interoperability hub can be implemented within a clinical solution made up of a plurality of independent application environments. Each application environment may have an interoperability agent running on it which facilitates communication with the interoperability hub. Each agent running on a specific application environment is configured to look into that system and collect configuration information from that application environment that other systems in the solution require. The configuration information for an application environment can be sent to the interoperability hub and maintained. Further, if that application environment requires any configuration information from any other application environment, it can obtain that information from the interoperability hub and handle that information appropriately with respect to the application environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Provencher, Thomas Connor Liptack, Jordan Flores, Sachindranath Toutom
  • Patent number: 10182579
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes new meat products and new processing and cutting techniques that more effectively utilize an animal carcass. A method of forming one or more bone-in products and one or more boneless meat products from the same segment of carcass are disclosed. The bone-in meat products and boneless meat products are formed by dividing a carcass segment having at least three rib bones into a bone-in meat portion and a boneless meat portion. The bone-in meat portion has a portion of rib bones exposed and a generally cylindrically meat member spanning its length. The boneless meat portion may be a formed by enveloping the meat portion with a flap created from attached fat or skin of the boneless meat portion thereby forming a boneless meat product that is a continuous piece of material and generally cylindrical in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Tyson Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Naikang Kuan, Paul Thomas Connor
  • Patent number: 8727840
    Abstract: A method of cutting a pork loin creating an anterior portion, a center portion, and posterior portion of a pork loin to provide pork products having enhanced value. The method includes cutting an anterior portion of a pork loin to form a first portion and a second portion, the first portion including a substantially intact spinalis dorsi and multifidus muscles, and a substantially intact longissimus dorsi in the second portion. The method also includes cutting a posterior portion of a pork loin in a manner that results in a substantially intact gluteus medius muscle such that the resulting pork product resembles a pork loin filet in appearance and shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Tyson Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Connor, Edward J. Yancey, II
  • Publication number: 20130288584
    Abstract: A method of cutting a pork loin creating an anterior portion, a center portion, and posterior portion of a pork loin to provide pork products having enhanced value. The method includes cutting an anterior portion of a pork loin to form a first portion and a second portion, the first portion including a substantially intact spinalis dorsi and multifidus muscles, and a substantially intact longissimus dorsi in the second portion. The method also includes cutting a posterior portion of a pork loin in a manner that results in a substantially intact gluteus medius muscle such that the resulting pork product resembles a pork loin filet in appearance and shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Connor, Edward J. Yancey, II
  • Publication number: 20100323946
    Abstract: This invention encompasses a light duty liquid detergent composition that includes a C14-C15 alcohol and alcohol ethoxylate sulfate surfactant blend as an efficient and effective foaming agent. The surfactant-based product may be a hand dishwashing liquid, a liquid skin cleanser or any type of cleaning or cleansing product based on surfactants. Specifically, the invention relates to a light duty liquid detergent composition with desirable cleansing properties and foaming capability including an anionic sulfonate surfactant, an amine oxide, a C14-C15 alcohol, and a C14-C15 alcohol ethoxylate sulfate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Connors, Gary Jakubicki, Gregory Szewczyk, Petra Archibald, Philip Anthony Gorlin
  • Patent number: 7214712
    Abstract: Selective MMP-13 inhibitors are isophthalic acid derivatives of the formula wherein: R1, R2, and R3 independently are hydrogen, halo, hydroxy, C1–C6 alkyl, C1–C6 alkoxy, C2–C6 alkenyl, C2–C6 alkynyl, NO2, NR4R5, CN, or CF3; E is independently O or S; A and B independently are OR4 or NR4R5; each R4 and R5 independently are H, C1–C6 alkyl, C2–C6 alkenyl, C2–C6 alkynyl, (CH2)n aryl, (CH2)n cycloalkyl, (CH2)n heteroaryl, or R4 and R5 when taken together with the nitrogen to which they are attached complete a 3- to 8-membered ring, optionally containing a heteroatom selected from O, S, or NH, and optionally substituted or unsubstituted; n is 0 to 6; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds are useful for treating diseases in a mammal that are mediated by MMP enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Nicole Chantel Barvian, David Thomas Connor, Richard Dennis Dyer, Adam Richard Johnson, William Chester Patt
  • Publication number: 20060292901
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system including a circuit board and several pluggable modules coupled to the circuit board. The several pluggable modules are insertable through side-by-side slots in an enclosure in which the circuit board resides. A first pluggable module is coupled to the circuit board via a first connector, while a second pluggable module is coupled to the circuit board via a second connector such that the second pluggable module is laterally offset from the first pluggable module. The first and second connectors are right angle connectors, and the second right angle connector is inverted relative to the first right angle connector. The first and second pluggable modules are I/O modules for transporting high speed differential signals, and wherein the first pluggable module includes several XFP connectors, and wherein the second pluggable module includes several SFP connectors. The second pluggable module includes several SFP connectors arranged on both sides of the pluggable module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Steven Sardella, Stephen Strickland, Bassem Bishay, Thomas Connor
  • Publication number: 20060264349
    Abstract: A light duty, liquid cleaning composition comprising: at least two different lauryol ethylene diamine triacetate, a zinc inorganic salt, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Connors, Robert D'Ambrogio, Bruce Nascimbeni
  • Patent number: D1014640
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1017705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1017706
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1017707
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1017708
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1017709
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1018681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1018682
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors
  • Patent number: D1019799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent Thomas Connors