Patents by Inventor Brad Ellis

Brad Ellis 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).

  • Patent number: 11651329
    Abstract: Provided herein are various embodiments of using machine readable technologies for the smart shipping of multiple products. An embodiment operates by receiving a request from a seller to ship a plurality of items that have been sold via an electronic marketplace. Information pertinent to shipping each of the plurality of items is predicted. A shipping company to ship the plurality of items is selected and provided the predicted information. A single machine readable code for shipping the plurality of items using the identified shipping company is determined based at least in part on the predicted information. A confirmation is received from the computing system of the shipping company responsive to the single machine readable code being scanned by a computing device of the computing system of the shipping company, the confirmation indicating that one or more of the plurality of items have been received by shipping company for shipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Brad Ellis, Dai Okabayashi, Robin Clark, Tadasu Isogawa
  • Publication number: 20220036303
    Abstract: Provided herein are various embodiments of using machine readable technologies for the smart shipping of multiple products. An embodiment operates by receiving a request from a seller to ship a plurality of items that have been sold via an electronic marketplace. Information pertinent to shipping each of the plurality of items is predicted. A shipping company to ship the plurality of items is selected and provided the predicted information. A single machine readable code for shipping the plurality of items using the identified shipping company is determined based at least in part on the predicted information. A confirmation is received from the computing system of the shipping company responsive to the single machine readable code being scanned by a computing device of the computing system of the shipping company, the confirmation indicating that one or more of the plurality of items have been received by shipping company for shipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: BRAD ELLIS, DAI OKABAYASHI, ROBIN CLARK, TADASU ISOGAWA
  • Patent number: 11182735
    Abstract: Provided herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for using innovative computer technologies to enable smart shipping of items sold from sellers to buyers. An embodiment performs operations that include: predicting shipping information for shipping an item associated with a first user to a destination designated by a second user, including determining a category of the item to identify similar items from a historical database; storing at least some of the shipping information in databases of an Internet site; and generating a machine readable code associated with the item or the shipping information, wherein a shipper uses information from scanning the code to access and retrieve the shipping information from the databases of the site using an application programming interface (API) of the site, and wherein the shipper uses the retrieved shipping information to ship the item to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: Brad Ellis, Dai Okabayashi, Robin Clark, Tadasu Isogawa
  • Publication number: 20200160266
    Abstract: Provided herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for using innovative computer technologies to enable smart shipping of items sold from sellers to buyers. An embodiment performs operations that include: predicting shipping information for shipping an item associated with a first user to a destination designated by a second user, including determining a category of the item to identify similar items from a historical database; storing at least some of the shipping information in databases of an Internet site; and generating a machine readable code associated with the item or the shipping information, wherein a shipper uses information from scanning the code to access and retrieve the shipping information from the databases of the site using an application programming interface (API) of the site, and wherein the shipper uses the retrieved shipping information to ship the item to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Brad Ellis, Dai Okabayashi, Robin Clark, Tadasu Isogawa
  • Publication number: 20190223612
    Abstract: A device for providing a kinetic input to a user includes a rockable bed frame. The rockable bed frame includes a top portion, a bottom portion, and a linear drive unit positioned between the top portion and the base portion to move the top portion and base portion relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Scott R. Wattereson, Darren C. Ashby, David E. Wrobel, Kelly Hathaway, Jared Willardson, Richard Brad Ellis, Luke Downs
  • Publication number: 20020077221
    Abstract: This particular invention includes an exercise system having (i) an upstanding support member; (ii) an exercise mechanism coupled to the upstanding support member, wherein the exercise mechanism is configured to support a user above a support surface; (ii) a base configured to be mounted on the support surface; and (iii) a movable coupler movably coupling the upstanding support member to the base, the movable coupler allowing movement of the upstanding member while allowing the base to remain stable on the support surface. One example of the exercise mechanism is a stationary exercise cycle that can move laterally in a side-to-side motion to generate a natural bicycle movement. This lateral movement exercise cycle can be a component of a virtual exercise system that employs additional visual display and media components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: William T. Dalebout, Brad Ellis, Richard O. Evans
  • Patent number: 5695435
    Abstract: A riding exerciser has a support member rotatably secured to a base at the front end of the base. Limb structure is also rotatably secured to the support member. The lower end of the limb structure has wheels which rotate on cams as the user operates between a first position and a second position. The machine may be reconfigured between a use configuration in which it may be operated between the first position and the second position and a forward configuration in which the handle and the support member are placed in general alignment with and proximate the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Dalebout, Richard Brad Ellis
  • Patent number: 5622527
    Abstract: A motivational exercise stepping machine has a pair of independently operable pivoting treadles for operation by a user's feet. Each treadle is connected to its own hydraulic cylinder device which provides resistance to downward movement of the treadle by a combination of fluid flow resistance and a biasing means. The treadle is biased upwardly by the biasing means. Fluid flow resistance is controlled to be less for upward movement than for downward movement of each treadle to permit the user to step at any desirable pace, yet motivate the user to maintain that pace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignees: Proform Fitness Products, Inc., ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Watterson, Brad Ellis, William T. Dalebout