Kirwan
Brendan P. Kirwan, Cratloe IE
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20090205873 | DOWNHOLE TOOL BEARING SYSTEM CONTAINING DIAMOND ENHANCED MATERIALS - Downhole tool bearings are provided with diamond enhanced materials. The diamond enhanced materials comprise diamond grains in a matrix of tungsten or silicon carbide. A brazed diamond grit or diamond particles coated with a reactive braze may be utilized for bearing applications. Bearing rings formed at least in part with diamond enhanced material are installed on at least one of the bearing pin journal, the nose and the cone cavity. The bearing rings may be continuous rings or partial rings and attached to the journal pin or cone cavity. These may include thrust bearings, rollers, roller race, balls and ball races made of diamond enhanced material. These bearing surfaces also are formed at least in part with diamond enhanced material and attached to portions of the journal or cone bearing surfaces. | 08-20-2009 |
John E. Kirwan, Troy, MI US
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20100040919 | Fuel cell hydrocarbon reformer having rapid transient response and convective cooling - A catalytic hydrocarbon reformer comprising a catalyst concentrically disposed within a reformer tube surrounded by an annular flow space for air entering a fuel-air mixing zone ahead of the catalyst. The catalyst is sustained by minimal insulative mounting material so that most of the side of the catalyst is exposed for radial radiative heat transfer to the reformer tube for cooling by air in the annular flow space. The forward portion of the mounting material preferably is formed of a thermally-conductive material to provide radial conductive cooling of the entry of the catalyst to prevent overheating during catalysis. The incoming air flow is protected from heat exchange with hot reformate exiting the catalyst, allowing for convective cooling of the catalyst side and greater cooling of the catalyst face, thus increasing the working life of the catalyst while providing for rapid startup of the reformer and associated fuel cell system. | 02-18-2010 |
John M. Kirwan, East Longmeadow, MA US
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20100185289 | INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATION - An interbody fusion device is provided that includes an interbody cage, a fixation system and an actuation mechanism to deploy one or more blades. The cage acts as an intervertebral spacer and provides resistance to the compressive loads in the spinal column. The fixation system includes an anchor and a ramp. These components could be manufactured from various medical grade materials. | 07-22-2010 |
John M. Kirwan, Wilbraham, MA US
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20130110242 | Spinal Interbody Device | 05-02-2013 |
Kyle James Kirwan, San Francisco, CA US
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20150228000 | USER CONTROLLED MEDIA FOR USE WITH ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT SERVICES - A method for providing media for use with on-demand transport services is provided. A transport service is arranged for a user. The user is determined to have requested control over media to be outputted on an output device of the driver. A token of the user is identified and transmitted to the driver's computing device. In response to detecting that an event has occurred for enabling the user to control the media, the driver's computing device is enabled to output the media that is controlled by the user operating the user's computing device. | 08-13-2015 |
Laurence Kirwan, New York, NY US
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20160120691 | NORMOTHERMIC MAINTENANCE METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of maintaining advantageously stabilized homeostatic parameters through normothermic maintenance in particular in the peri-surgical environment is described. In particular, the method of advantageously applying insulative garments over a small but disproportionately effective percentage of the BSA in order to counter environmentally and surgically induced hypothermia. Further described is a method of maintaining normothermia using a disposable or re-usable, un-tethered, anatomically formed or substantially tube formed garment or plurality of garments preferentially configured to enclose the extremities and in particular the areas of the mammalian body which are the most effective loci of heat transfer. The method, whereby the positive heating attributes of the system may be augmented through the use of additional insulative garments, which garments may be disposed about the patient's body to achieve greatest benefit to both patient and surgical field. | 05-05-2016 |
Laurence A. Kirwan, New York, NY US
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20160088886 | GARMENT CLOSURE APPARATUS, SYSTEM & METHOD - A versatile garment ( | 03-31-2016 |
Laurence Anthony Kirwan, Norwalk, CT US
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20140358044 | Normothermic maintenance system and method - A normothermic maintenance system sand method for maintaining patient normothermia, during surgical intervention is disclosed. The invention will reduce patient morbidity during surgical intervention while beneficially expediting patient flow in the hospital environment. The application of heat, via advantageously independent systems and methods, is an objective of the invention which results in the improvement of the economics of surgical treatment by the use of either disposable or re-usable simple normothermic maintenance systems. | 12-04-2014 |
Lawrence T. Kirwan, Pembroke, MA US
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20090175752 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTROSURGICAL FORCEPS WITH COMPOSITE MATERIAL TIPS - An electrosurgical forceps has at least the tip of one blade member formed of a composite material having aligned elongated particles of nickel interspersed in a matrix of silver particles. The tip can be provided as a tip member attached, such as by brazing, to the body of the blade member, or the entire blade member can be formed of the silver/nickel composite material. In another embodiment, the tip or blade member is formed of a dispersion strengthened silver or copper composite material. | 07-09-2009 |
20120073130 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTROSURGICAL FORCEPS WITH COMPOSITE MATERIAL TIPS - An electrosurgical forceps has at least the tip of one blade member formed of a composite material having aligned elongated particles of nickel interspersed in a matrix of silver particles. | 03-29-2012 |
Lloyd Kirwan, Nunda, NY US
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20120213908 | PEANUT BUTTER WITH AN ORGANIC STABILIZER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURE THEREOF - The present invention is directed to a novel organic peanut butter formulation and method for production. The peanut butter includes an organic palm oil stabilizing agent that reduces or prevents separation of oils from the peanut butter during storage. Peanut butter incorporating the palm oil, methods for manufacturing the peanut butter, and foods incorporating the peanut butter are also disclosed. | 08-23-2012 |
Michael P. Kirwan, Cambridge GB
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20150066367 | Automatically Generating Route Directions Based On Signpost Data - A method, system, and/or computer program product automatically generates route directions based on signpost data. A calculated route from an origin to a destination includes multiple decision points where a user has more than one option to take. Geo-stamped images of signposts located at each decision point from the multiple decision points are received, and one or more series of signposts is compiled, where each series has a common signpost content. Conflicts in any overlapping series are resolved by using a measure of relative density of signpost content, and one or more decision points of the calculated route are replaced with instructions referring to the common signpost content of the series of signposts. Geo-stamped images of signposts of the series of signposts having the common signpost content are then displayed in a motor vehicle. | 03-05-2015 |
20160112844 | METHOD FOR DETECTING MOBILE DEVICE CHARGING POINTS - As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for detecting charging points for mobile devices includes determining the current location of the mobile device, identifying a charging point proximate to the current location, determining the probable travel time to the identified charging point, and activating a power conservation mode if the probable travel time is greater than the remaining estimated battery life. The current location may be completely stationary or stationary relative to some sort of transportation. The method may determine the likelihood the mobile device will visit a charging point. The method may also identify a location as a potential charging point, and after multiple uses, the location may be confirmed as a charging point. Additionally, the method may remove inactive charging points from a list of charging points. A computer system, and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112957 | METHOD FOR DETECTING MOBILE DEVICE CHARGING POINTS - As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for detecting charging points for mobile devices includes determining the current location of the mobile device, identifying a charging point proximate to the current location, determining the probable travel time to the identified charging point, and activating a power conservation mode if the probable travel time is greater than the remaining estimated battery life. The current location may be completely stationary or stationary relative to some sort of transportation. The method may determine the likelihood the mobile device will visit a charging point. The method may also identify a location as a potential charging point, and after multiple uses, the location may be confirmed as a charging point. Additionally, the method may remove inactive charging points from a list of charging points. A computer system, and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein. | 04-21-2016 |
Peter Kirwan, San Diego, CA US
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20090006614 | Monitoring Web Service Transactions - Systems and methods for monitoring web service transactions include a monitoring server that is configured to monitor a web service transaction. The monitoring server allows a user to describe a sequence of web service requests that in combination define a web service transaction. The monitoring server sends out the web service requests in sequence to remote agents that are deployed in geographically diverse locations. The agents send the requests to the target web service and the results are provided back to the monitoring server. The monitoring server receives the results and then dynamically constructs the next request in the series based on the sequence of requests from the user and data from the response to a prior request. The dynamically constructed next request is then sent to remote agents for execution and the results are provided to the monitoring server. | 01-01-2009 |