Patents by Inventor Mark Bryant

Mark Bryant 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: 8176574
    Abstract: Described herein are various protective helmets, including helmets designed for equestrian use. In one embodiment, an equestrian helmet (1) includes a front shell (2) and a rear shell (3). Shell (3) is moveable with respect to shell (1) to provide the helmet with two configurations. The first of these is an open configuration where the helmet is configured for receiving within the helmet or removing from the helmet a human head (4). The second configuration is a closed where shell (3) is releasably lockingly engaged to shell (2) for securely containing head (4) within helmet (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Voz Corp Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Mark Bryant, John Vozzo
  • Publication number: 20120046388
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid resin system including a liquid monobenzoxazine monomer and a non-glycidyl epoxy compound, wherein the weight ratio of the monobenzoxazine monomer to the non-glycidyl epoxy compound is in a range of about 25:75 to about 60:40. The liquid resin system exhibits a low viscosity and exceptional stability over an extended period of time making its use in a variety of composite manufacturing methods highly advantageous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: Huntsman Advanced Materials Americas LLC
    Inventors: Roger Tietze, Yen-Loan Nguyen, Mark Bryant
  • Publication number: 20110152453
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to 3,3?-bis(3,4-dihydro-3-phenyl-2H-1,3-benzoxazin-6-yl)-1(3H)-isobenzofuranone and analogues based on phenolphthalein, formaldehyde and a primary amine. Such compounds are, when cured to form polymeric networks, difficultly inflammable and resistant to high temperatures. Such compounds may especially be used in the production of printed wiring boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Huntsman Advanced Materials Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Tietze, Dave Orser, Yeflm Blyakhman, Mark Bryant, Bor-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 7963979
    Abstract: A provisional bone plate formed of an implantable plastic and having a length corresponding to the longest bone plate in a particular family of bone plates. The provisional bone plate includes a head contoured to match the head of a particular bone as well as a shaft for placement adjacent the bone shaft. The provisional bone plate includes a plurality of circumferential notches surrounding the elongate body or shaft of the bone plate. The circumferential notches are substantially transverse to a longitudinal axis of the bone plate and define frangible portions of the bone plate which can be removed from the distal end thereof to alter the length of the provisional periarticular bone plate to correspond to the length of the various bone plates in a family of bone plates. The provisional bone plate is constructed of a biologically suitable plastic, is radiographic, and melts at a temperature less than 200° Fahrenheit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Zimmer Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Phillips, Mark Bryant, Bradley T. Durcholz, Krishnakant K. Merchant
  • Publication number: 20110108012
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine (ICE) system (including methods and apparatuses) for managing combustion charge densities, temperatures, pressures and turbulence in order to produce a true mastery within the combustion chamber in order to increase fuel economy, power, torque and engine life while minimizing polluting emissions and noxious odors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Clyde C. Bryant, Mark Bryant
  • Publication number: 20100300442
    Abstract: A device for dispensing individual doses of powder from respective pockets of a disc-shaped carrier by outwardly rupturing a lidding foil by means of pressure on an opposite side surface, the device providing individual respective deaggregation flow paths for each pocket, split airstreams allowing improved entrainment of powder, a cam mechanism for outwardly rupturing the pockets, an indexing mechanism linked to the cam mechanism and a dose counter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Peter John Houzego, John Kelshaw Conway, Martin Douglas Pearl, Andrew Mark Bryant
  • Patent number: 7736365
    Abstract: A provisional bone plate formed of an implantable plastic and having a length corresponding to the longest bone plate in a particular family of bone plates. The provisional bone plate includes a head contoured to match the head of a particular bone as well as a shaft for placement adjacent the bone shaft. The provisional bone plate includes a plurality of circumferential notches surrounding the elongate body or shaft of the bone plate. The circumferential notches are substantially transverse to a longitudinal axis of the bone plate and define frangible portions of the bone plate which can be removed from the distal end thereof to alter the length of the provisional periarticular bone plate to correspond to the length of the various bone plates in a family of bone plates. The provisional bone plate is constructed of a biologically suitable plastic, is radiographic, and melts at a temperature less than 200° Fahrenheit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Zimmer Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Phillips, Mark Bryant, Bradley T Durcholz, Krishnakant K Merchant
  • Publication number: 20100144905
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for reclaiming plastics and cellulose materials for use in a variety of applications, including as alternative fuel sources. According to one embodiment of the invention, waste is received which includes cellulose materials and plastics. Such materials are sorted from other materials and the cellulose and plastic materials are shredded or ground and then blended together. The blended materials can then be fed to an energy converter, such as a combustion unit or a gasifier, where they are burned as fuel source or used to create synthetic gas. In other embodiments, the blended materials are heated or have a binding element added thereto. Such mixture is then compressed to form a desired shape or sized object, and that object can then be packaged, distributed or used. The blended object can be used as a fuel source, or as a building, sound attenuation, or insulation material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Reaveley, Mark Bryant
  • Patent number: 7712634
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing small quantities of particles, the apparatus comprises a hopper provided with a sieve at a bottom portion thereof, the hopper in use containing powder to be dispensed therefrom through the sieve, a support for the hopper, the support holding a portion of the hopper so that the hopper can in use be held above a container into which the dispensed powder is to be received, and at least one actuator for delivering impact energy to the hopper for causing powder to be dispensed through the sieve when the hopper receives the impact energy, wherein the at least one actuator is arranged to deliver impact energy to the hopper from different directions and/or at different locations on the hopper. There is also provided a method of dispensing small quantities of particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Pfizer Limited
    Inventors: Donald Bruce Atherton MacMichael, William Robert Charles Opie, Simon Mark Bryant, Imogen Gill
  • Publication number: 20100107829
    Abstract: A torque limiting driver for applying up to a maximum torque to an associated driven member. In one embodiment, the driver includes first and second rotatable members with proximal and distal ends. A torque limiting assembly may be operatively coupling the distal end of the first rotatable member with the proximal end of the second rotatable member. The torque limiting assembly may include a plurality of torque limiting devices that are arranged to sequentially uncouple the second rotatable member from a torque load applied to the first rotatable member when the torque load exceeds the preselected maximum torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: NEMCOMED, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Zimmerman, Mark Bryant, Diane Sung, Greg Stalcup, Ryan Schlotterback
  • Publication number: 20100059174
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to boroxine derived compounds, for example tripropargylboroxine, the preparation of said compounds and the use as flame retardant in polymeric resins, in particular in thermosetting polymeric resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: HUNTSMAN ADVANCED MATERIALS AMERICAS INC.
    Inventors: Roger Tietze, Dave Orser, Yefim Blyakhman, Mark Bryant, Bor-Sheng Lin, Ulrich Weidmann
  • Publication number: 20100042106
    Abstract: A cable tensioning apparatus and method are provided for positioning and tensioning a surgical cable to skeletal tissue or to implants. The invention is most applicable for securing surgical cable and/or orthopedic implants to bone in orthopedic surgery. A linearly translated drive rod attached to cable is driven by a friction drive to create tension on the surgical cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Mark A. BRYANT, Richard A. LANE
  • Publication number: 20090171398
    Abstract: A provisional bone plate formed of an implantable plastic and having a length corresponding to the longest bone plate in a particular family of bone plates. The provisional bone plate includes a head contoured to match the head of a particular bone as well as a shaft for placement adjacent the bone shaft. The provisional bone plate includes a plurality of circumferential notches surrounding the elongate body or shaft of the bone plate. The circumferential notches are substantially transverse to a longitudinal axis of the bone plate and define frangible portions of the bone plate which can be removed from the distal end thereof to alter the length of the provisional periarticular bone plate to correspond to the length of the various bone plates in a family of bone plates. The provisional bone plate is constructed of a biologically suitable plastic, is radiographic, and melts at a temperature less than 200° Fahrenheit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: ZIMMER, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Phillips, Mark Bryant, Bradley T. Durcholz, Krishnakant K. Merchant
  • Publication number: 20080289085
    Abstract: Described herein are various protective helmets, including helmets designed for equestrian use. In one embodiment, an equestrian helmet (1) includes a front shell (2) and a rear shell (3). Shell (3) is moveable with respect to shell (1) to provide the helmet with two configurations. The first of these is an open configuration where the helmet is configured for receiving within the helmet or removing from the helmet a human head (4). The second configuration is a closed where shell (3) is releasably lockingly engaged to shell (2) for securely containing head (4) within helmet (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2006
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: VOZ CORP PTY LTD
    Inventors: Mark Bryant, John Vozzo
  • Publication number: 20070179974
    Abstract: A system and method of providing prepaid/postpaid telecommunications services in a telecommunications network using a Rules Editor for provisioning rules for use by a Rules Engine operating as a software process separate from a telecommunications service Application is provided. The Rules can be provisioned in a variety of different manners including by the Service Provider and individual subscribers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, Andrew Wood, Justin Bayley, Mark Bryant, Andrew Porter
  • Publication number: 20060241633
    Abstract: A patella protector for protecting a patella of a knee during surgery including a platform being sized and shaped to be slid under the patella. The platforms includes at least one surface. The patella protector further includes a web with a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end is connected to at least one surface of the platform. The web terminates in a gripping element at the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Greg Stalcup, Mark Bryant
  • Publication number: 20050257204
    Abstract: A system and method are described for designing animated visualization interfaces depicting, at a supervisory level, manufacturing and process control information wherein graphical symbols in the visualization interfaces are associated with components of a process control/manufacturing information application. The system includes a graphical symbol library for maintaining a set of graphical symbol templates wherein the graphical symbol templates including a graphics definition including graphics and a reference to an application component type. The reference facilitates identifying candidate application components for creating an association between a graphical symbol instance created from a graphical symbol template and one of the candidate application components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Bryant, Michael Haedrich, Rashesh Mody, Scott Clark
  • Patent number: 6856476
    Abstract: A switching mechanism in an optical device for switching an optical component between defined positions. A retainer plate, which captures the optical component in a housing, includes detents for maintaining the optical component in a defined position, as well as a mechanical interference portion between detents for resisting the movement of the optical component between defined positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Demitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mark A. Bryant
  • Patent number: D560793
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Meridica Limited
    Inventors: Martin Douglas Pearl, Andrew Mark Bryant, Jonathan Hogwood
  • Patent number: D569967
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Meridica Limited
    Inventors: Martin Douglas Pearl, Andrew Mark Bryant, Jonathan Hogwood