Patents by Inventor Benjamin Robert Gardner

Benjamin Robert Gardner 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: 10061917
    Abstract: System and method of a single machine or cluster of machines acting as a single machine that simplifies and consolidates the hosting of appliances using virtualization, containers, and or any type of sandboxing to host virtual appliances, however, interconnecting these appliance nodes in a manner of having one centralized node acting as the security center, firewall appliance, and information distributer for not only the local virtual network(s), machines, appliances, but physical and foreign virtual networks which includes but is not limited to wireless connectivity and or whatever the current ubiquitous connectivity, as well as multiple sub-networks via single or multiple networking adapters; using these methods allows for a completely secure customized network environment with all the needed appliances for the intended use case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Inventor: Benjamin Robert Gardner
  • Publication number: 20160328556
    Abstract: System and method of a single machine or cluster of machines acting as a single machine that simplifies and consolidates the hosting of appliances using virtualization, containers, and or any type of sandboxing to host virtual appliances, however, interconnecting these appliance nodes in a manner of having one centralized node acting as the security center, firewall appliance, and information distributer for not only the local virtual network(s), machines, appliances, but physical and foreign virtual networks which includes but is not limited to wireless connectivity and or whatever the current ubiquitous connectivity, as well as multiple sub-networks via single or multiple networking adapters; using these methods allows for a completely secure customized network environment with all the needed appliances for the intended use case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Benjamin Robert Gardner
  • Patent number: 9456719
    Abstract: A universal flushing lever for a toilet that can be mounted on different areas of the toilet tank, during flushing action, triggers the closing of the toilet seat cover and or seat using magnetic fields. A magnet is attached to a universal flushing lever as well as the seat cover and/or seat. When the flushing lever is actuated it uses the magnet's fields to trigger the cover and/or seat closure. The magnets can be positioned to use the magnetic fields in two ways, repulsion or attraction individually or in conjunction. In the repulsion scenario, the magnets, one positioned on the flushing lever and one on the cover and or seat, once in proximity forces the closure of the adjacent cover and or seat. In the attraction scenario, the magnets, one positioned on the flushing lever and one on the cover and or seat, once away from proximity allows the closure of the adjacent cover and or seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventors: Erik Robertson Foster, Benjamin Robert Gardner
  • Publication number: 20150335216
    Abstract: A universal flushing lever for a toilet that can be mounted on different areas of the toilet tank, during flushing action, triggers the closing of the toilet seat cover and or seat using magnetic fields. A magnet is attached to a universal flushing lever as well as the seat cover and/or seat. When the flushing lever is actuated it uses the magnet's fields to trigger the cover and/or seat closure. The magnets can be positioned to use the magnetic fields in two ways, repulsion or attraction individually or in conjunction. In the repulsion scenario, the magnets, one positioned on the flushing lever and one on the cover and or seat, once in proximity forces the closure of the adjacent cover and or seat. In the attraction scenario, the magnets, one positioned on the flushing lever and one on the cover and or seat, once away from proximity allows the closure of the adjacent cover and or seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Erik Robertson Foster, Benjamin Robert Gardner