Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Kennedy
Bruce A. Kennedy 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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Patent number: 11959381Abstract: The present invention relates to a multipurpose drill system, the multipurpose drill system comprising: a drilling rig adapted to drive a drilling assembly; and two or more power sources, wherein at least one of the two or more power sources is a high pressure power source, wherein the drilling assembly is adapted to be in communication with either or both of the two or more power sources.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Intelligent Drilling Applications & Technology Pty Ltd.Inventors: Jeff William Branson, Warren Barry Fair, Steven John Payne, James Daniel Chomley, John Edward Kennedy, David Bruce Carnegie-Smith
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Patent number: 11204050Abstract: A flexible bracket for forming a joint assembly between two furniture members includes a fastener head seat, a first arm extending laterally of the fastener head seat in a first direction and a second arm extending laterally of the fastener head seat in a second direction. The first and second arms each have valley portions adjacent the fastener head seat and distal portions laterally outward of the valley portions. The valley portions are disposed below the plane of the fastener head seat while distal portions are disposed above the fastener head seat. The flexible bracket also includes a slotted aperture having a head receiving portion and a slot portion, the slot portion dimensioned to enable a head of a headed fastener to slide within the slot portion from the fastener head receiving portion to the fastener head seat without disengaging the slot portion. The first arm valley portion impedes the head of the headed fastener from exiting the fastener head seat.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Stance Healthcare IncInventors: Bruce Kennedy, Randy Price
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Publication number: 20190301503Abstract: A flexible bracket for forming a joint assembly between two furniture members includes a fastener head seat, a first arm extending laterally of the fastener head seat in a first direction and a second arm extending laterally of the fastener head seat in a second direction. The first and second arms each have valley portions adjacent the fastener head seat and distal portions laterally outward of the valley portions. The valley portions are disposed below the plane of the fastener head seat while distal portions are disposed above the fastener head seat. The flexible bracket also includes a slotted aperture having a head receiving portion and a slot portion, the slot portion dimensioned to enable a head of a headed fastener to slide within the slot portion from the fastener head receiving portion to the fastener head seat without disengaging the slot portion. The first arm valley portion impedes the head of the headed fastener from exiting the fastener head seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Bruce KENNEDY, Randy PRICE
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Patent number: 8677672Abstract: A bullet trap (1) is provided that connects to a muzzle end (5) of a weapon (3). The bullet trap (1) has a body (11) with a chamber (17) into which a bullet can be fired. The chamber (17) has a plurality of baffles (27) located one behind the other in an aligned series arrangement. The baffles (27) absorb kinetic energy of a fired bullet and enable the bullet to be trapped within the body (11). The baffles (27) have a thickness at a center of axis of travel of a bullet less than the thickness at a radially outwardly distant position to provide for a deformation at the center of a first of a series of baffles (27) before there will be engagement of a center of second and subsequent baffles (27).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Thales Australia LimitedInventors: Bruce Kennedy, David John Maloney, Trevor John Pearce
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Patent number: 8379100Abstract: The invention is a medical platform system that overcomes many of the shortcomings of current systems. The novel platform provides simultaneous image display and capture, network based wireless control, preferably by way of a web browser, and the capacity to acquire surgeon specific setting by way of removable storage devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Arthrex Inc.Inventors: Bruce Kennedy, David Selby, Daniel Wiley
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Patent number: 8285872Abstract: A router receives a transaction message. The router determines whether the transaction message may include an affinity indicating a preference regarding processing of the transaction message. The transaction message may be modified to include an identification of a server system to process the modified transaction message based on the determination of the affinity. The router may route the modified transaction message to a coupling facility. A notification message may be received from the coupling facility, where the notification message requests a server associated with or including the router to send a bid to process the modified transaction message. The router may send the bid to process the modified transaction message to the coupling facility. An authorization message, to process the modified transaction message, may be received from the coupling facility based on a timestamp of the bid.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Bruce Kennedy, Robert Mark Magid, Mark Neal Ziebarth
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Publication number: 20120124237Abstract: A router receives a transaction message. The router determines whether the transaction message may include an affinity indicating a preference regarding processing of the transaction message. The transaction message may be modified to include an identification of a server system to process the modified transaction message based on the determination of the affinity. The router may route the modified transaction message to a coupling facility. A notification message may be received from the coupling facility, where the notification message requests a server associated with or including the router to send a bid to process the modified transaction message. The router may send the bid to process the modified transaction message to the coupling facility. An authorization message, to process the modified transaction message, may be received from the coupling facility based on a timestamp of the bid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Bruce Kennedy, Robert Mark Magid, Mark Neal Ziebarth
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Patent number: 8131872Abstract: A transaction message is received at a router. A determination is made whether the transaction message includes an affinity. The affinity indicates an administrator-specified preference regarding processing of the transaction message. When the transaction message includes the affinity, a server system to process the transaction message is identified based on the affinity and based on a system affinity of the server system. The system affinity specifies processing characteristics of the server system. The server system includes a set of servers. The transaction message is modified to identify the server system and routed to a message queue.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Bruce Kennedy, Robert Mark Magid, Mark Neal Ziebarth
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Publication number: 20110056364Abstract: A bullet trap (1) is provided that connects to a muzzle end (5) of a weapon (3). The bullet trap (1) has a body (11) with a chamber (17) into which a bullet can be fired. The chamber (17) has a plurality of baffles (27) located one behind the other in an aligned series arrangement. The baffles (27) absorb kinetic energy of a fired bullet and enable the bullet to be trapped within the body (11). The baffles (27) have a thickness at a centre of axis of travel of a bullet less than the thickness at a radially outwardly distant position to provide for a deformation at the centre of a first of a series of baffles (27) before there will be engagement of a centre of second and subsequent baffles (27).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: Thales Australia LimitedInventors: Bruce Kennedy, David John Maloney, Trevor John Pearce
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Publication number: 20090296711Abstract: A transaction message is received at a router. A determination is made whether the transaction message includes an affinity. The affinity indicates an administrator-specified preference regarding processing of the transaction message. When the transaction message includes the affinity, a server system to process the transaction message is identified based on the affinity and based on a system affinity of the server system. The system affinity specifies processing characteristics of the server system. The server system includes a set of servers. The transaction message is modified to identify the server system and routed to a message queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Bruce Kennedy, Robert Mark Magid, Mark Neal Ziebarth
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Publication number: 20090009615Abstract: The invention is a medical platform system that overcomes many of the shortcomings of current systems. The novel platform provides simultaneous image display and capture, network based wireless control, preferably by way of a web browser, and the capacity to acquire surgeon specific setting by way of removable storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2007Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Bruce Kennedy, David Selby, Daniel Wiley
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Publication number: 20060050144Abstract: A video recording and image capture device for documenting surgical procedures that includes a main board for executing a plurality of software, a multimedia interface operable to receive a video signal and process it into an MPEG layer stream, the video interface connected on a first bus to the main board, a hard drive to record an MPEG layer stream as a file, an optical media drive to write an MPEG layer stream as a file, the hard drive and the optical media drive operably connected on a second bus, the bus being vertically stacked and connected to the main board, and a touchscreen interactive for user control, connected to the main board on a second bus to control the video interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventor: Bruce Kennedy
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Publication number: 20060015008Abstract: A video recording and image capture device for documenting surgical procedures that includes a main board for executing a plurality of software, a multimedia interface operable to receive a video signal and process it into an MPEG layer stream, the video interface connected on a first bus to the main board, a hard drive to record an MPEG layer stream as a file, an optical media drive to write an MPEG layer stream as a file, the hard drive and the optical media drive operably connected on a second bus, the bus being vertically stacked and connected to the main board, and a touchscreen interactive for user control, connected to the main board on a second bus to control the video interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2005Publication date: January 19, 2006Inventor: Bruce Kennedy
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Publication number: 20050200698Abstract: A control unit is detachably coupled to a camera and receptive of the imaging data with a plurality of data processing instructions being stored on the camera and/or the control unit such that when the camera is coupled to the control unit, the plurality of data processing instructions transfer the imaging data from the camera to the control unit. The data processing instructions being field upgradeable with a portable upgrading module which may couple directly to either the camera and/or the control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2005Publication date: September 15, 2005Inventors: Marc Amling, David Chatenever, Bruce Kennedy, Barry Mirrer
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Patent number: 6539434Abstract: An UOWE is created to represent a message which is put out to the coupling facility. If it is a committed message and the PUT failed for some reason, the UOWE is flagged for “retry”. These retry UOWEs will accumulate over time. The retry logic analyzes each “retry” UOWE, extracts the log token from this UOWE, uses this log token to read a specific log record from the IMS log data set and attempts to put the committed message to the central facility again.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1998Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: IBM CorporationInventors: George Steven Denny, Gerald Dean Hughes, Michael Bruce Kennedy, Khiet Quang Nguyen
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Patent number: 6330686Abstract: During phase one of each protected conversation transaction, one or more messages are inserted. These messages are logged for recoverability. IMS system could crash before phase two of commit. When IMS restarted and eventually reached phase 2, it could vote to abort or commit the conversation. During IMS restart, the retry logic is used to put all protected conversation messages out to central facility with a specification that the first message segment be put on the staging queue using the recovery token as the queue name. If it is an abort request, all messages under the same commit scope identified by the recovery token, will be deleted. If it is a commit request, the first segment of all messages under the same commit scope will be moved to its appropriate ready queue with its actual queue name.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1998Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.Inventors: George Steven Denny, Gerald Dean Hughes, Michael Bruce Kennedy, Khiet Quang Nguyen
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Patent number: 6004998Abstract: Certain flavonoids, notably derivatives of flavone, chrysin and apigenin, together with dimers thereof such as amentoflavone, have been found to possess anxiolytic properties (i.e., anxiety reducing properties) without exhibiting a sedative effect. Novel compounds and pharmaceutical formulations are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1997Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: University of StrathclydeInventors: Bruce Kennedy Cassels, Federico Jose Dajas, Jorge Horacio Medina, Alejandro Constantino Paladini, Rodolfo Horacio Silveira
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Patent number: 5756538Abstract: Certain flavonoids, notably derivatives of flavone, chrysin and apigenin, together with dimers thereof such as amentoflavone, have been found to possess anxiolytic properties (i.e., anxiety reducing properties) without exhibiting a sedative effect. Novel compounds and pharmaceutical formulations are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: University of StrathclydeInventors: Bruce Kennedy Cassels, Federico Jose Dajas, Jorge Horacio Medina, Alejandro Constantino Paladini, Rodolfo Horacio Silveira
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Patent number: 4265486Abstract: Apparatus for the in-situ retorting of carbonaceous deposits includes a plurality of retorts connected to a common exhaust tunnel effectively free of broken shale into which products of the retorting are discharged. To allow simultaneous mining, rubblization and retorting of the in-situ retorts, the exhaust tunnel is provided with doorways between the retorts. Doors movable in the exhaust tunnel are adapted to seal against the doorways to prevent flow from retorts in which retorting is in progress to retorts under construction. A trench in the exhaust tunnel is provided for flow of liquid products produced in the retorting. A liquid seal under the doorways communicates with the trench to provide a passage for liquid flow past the doorways and to prevent upstream flow of gaseous products through the passage for the liquid flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1979Date of Patent: May 5, 1981Assignees: Gulf Oil Corporation, Standard Oil CompanyInventors: Anthony T. Durbin, Bruce A. Kennedy