Patents by Inventor Brian Burns
Brian Burns 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: 11938988Abstract: A cart and rack assembly for transporting a planar material includes a rack and a cart. The rack includes a frame coupled to a base. The frame has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has a first width, and the lower portion has a second width. The cart is configured to reversibly receive the base. The cart includes a guide member configured to guide either of the base or the cart into a predetermined position when the base is received by the cart. The assembly further includes a bracket having a first end and a second end which is configured to selectively secure the planar material to the assembly. The base has a series of apertures configured to accept the first end of the bracket. The second end of the bracket is configured to be selectively coupled with the upper portion of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: BBJ SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Brian Burns, Brad Burns, Jeff Erickson
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Patent number: 11780782Abstract: A method of preparing a unique foundry premix composition that has a low bulk density of 30-45 lbs/ft3 and contains fine particles with an average particle size of 85-100 ?m is described. The unique foundry premix composition is produced by using specially designed assemblies of mechanical equipment with improved efficiency so that the premix can be prepared at a site closer to a foundry. As a result, increase in premix density caused by handling and shipping across a long distance from a traditional premix manufacturing facility to a foundry can be suppressed; transportation cost can be saved; and safety would be of less concern. The use of the foundry premix composition to prepare a sand molding medium for casting molded articles is also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: IMERYS USA, INC.Inventors: Vic Lafay, Brian Burns
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Publication number: 20230211818Abstract: A cart and rack assembly for transporting a planar material includes a rack and a cart. The rack includes a frame coupled to a base. The frame has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has a first width, and the lower portion has a second width. The cart is configured to reversibly receive the base. The cart includes a guide member configured to guide either of the base or the cart into a predetermined position when the base is received by the cart. The assembly further includes a bracket having a first end and a second end which is configured to selectively secure the planar material to the assembly. The base has a series of apertures configured to accept the first end of the bracket. The second end of the bracket is configured to be selectively coupled with the upper portion of the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Brian Burns, Brad Burns, Jeff Erickson
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Patent number: 11613288Abstract: A cart and rack assembly for transporting a planar material includes a rack and a cart. The rack includes a frame coupled to a base. The frame has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has a first width, and the lower portion has a second width. The cart is configured to reversibly receive the base. The cart includes a guide member configured to guide either of the base or the cart into a predetermined position when the base is received by the cart. The assembly further includes a bracket having a first end and a second end which is configured to selectively secure the planar material to the assembly. The base has a series of apertures configured to accept the first end of the bracket. The second end of the bracket is configured to be selectively coupled with the upper portion of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: BBJ SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Brian Burns, Brad Burns, Jeff Erickson
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Publication number: 20220041517Abstract: A method of preparing a unique foundry premix composition that has a low bulk density of 30-45 lbs/ft3 and contains fine particles with an average particle size of 85-100 ?m is described. The unique foundry premix composition is produced by using specially designed assemblies of mechanical equipment with improved efficiency so that the premix can be prepared at a site closer to a foundry. As a result, increase in premix density caused by handling and shipping across a long distance from a traditional premix manufacturing facility to a foundry can be suppressed; transportation cost can be saved; and safety would be of less concern. The use of the foundry premix composition to prepare a sand molding medium for casting molded articles is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Vic LAFAY, Brian BURNS
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Publication number: 20210229720Abstract: A cart and rack assembly for transporting a planar material includes a rack and a cart. The rack includes a frame coupled to a base. The frame has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has a first width, and the lower portion has a second width. The cart is configured to reversibly receive the base. The cart includes a guide member configured to guide either of the base or the cart into a predetermined position when the base is received by the cart. The assembly further includes a bracket having a first end and a second end which is configured to selectively secure the planar material to the assembly. The base has a series of apertures configured to accept the first end of the bracket. The second end of the bracket is configured to be selectively coupled with the upper portion of the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Brian Burns, Brad Burns, Jeff Erickson
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Patent number: 10906088Abstract: A method of forming a dry molding sand additive may include recovering a non-sand fraction from a foundry waste material and adding the non-sand fraction to a dry molding sand additive formulation to form a dry molding sand additive. Adding the non-sand fraction to the dry molding sand additive formulation may reduce the amount of fresh clay and carbon to produce the dry molding sand additive. A method of forming a molding sand additive may include recovering a waste molding sand additive composition having a clay or carbon content differing from a desired clay and carbon content, recycling the waste molding sand additive as a raw material in production of a fresh molding sand additive, and adjusting the amount of fresh clay or carbon added during production of the fresh molding sand additive to achieve the desired clay and carbon content.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: IMERYS USA, INC.Inventors: Victor Lafay, Jeremy Tibbs, Felicia Daniels, Brian Burns
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Publication number: 20200341114Abstract: An identification system includes a radar sensor configured to generate a time-domain or frequency-domain signal representative of electromagnetic waves reflected from one or more objects within a three-dimensional space over a period of time and a computation engine executing on one or more processors. The computation engine is configured to process the time-domain or frequency-domain signal to generate range and velocity data indicating motion by a living subject within the three-dimensional space. The computation engine is further configured to identify, based at least on the range and velocity data indicating the motion by the living subject, the living subject and output an indication of an identity of the living subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: SRI InternationalInventors: Girish Acharya, Douglas Bercow, John Brian Burns, Bradley J. Clymer, Aaron J. Heller, Jeffrey Lubin, Bhaskar Ramamurthy, David Watters, Aravind Sundaresan
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Patent number: 10815966Abstract: A platform may obtain reference data that is indicative of an expected orientation of a wind turbine at one or more past times and use the reference data to determine the expected orientation of the wind turbine at each such times. In addition, the platform may obtain measurement data that is indicative of a measured orientation of the wind turbine at each of the one or more past times and use the measurement data to determine the measured orientation of the wind turbine at each such time. Thereafter, the platform may determine an orientation offset for the wind turbine based on a comparison between the expected and measured orientation of the wind turbine at each of the one or more past times and then cause the orientation offset to be applied to at least one nacelle orientation reported by the wind turbine.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Uptake Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Burns, Benedict Augustine
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Patent number: 10635095Abstract: The example systems, methods, and devices disclosed herein generally relate to generating create a supervised failure model for assets in the given fleet that is configured to receive operating data as inputs and output a prediction as to the occurrence of a given failure type at the asset. In some instances, a data analytics platform may create and use an unsupervised failure model for a subset of the assets, use the respective unsupervised failure models to detect a set of anomalies that are each suggestive of a prior failure occurrence, from the set of anomalies, identify a subset of anomalies that are each suggest of a prior failure occurrence of the given failure type, and create the supervised failure model using failure data for the identified subset of anomalies.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Uptake Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James Herzog, Benedict Augustine, Brian Burns, Eric Hall, Tuo Li
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Publication number: 20190324430Abstract: The example systems, methods, and devices disclosed herein generally relate to generating create a supervised failure model for assets in the given fleet that is configured to receive operating data as inputs and output a prediction as to the occurrence of a given failure type at the asset. In some instances, a data analytics platform may create and use an unsupervised failure model for a subset of the assets, use the respective unsupervised failure models to detect a set of anomalies that are each suggestive of a prior failure occurrence, from the set of anomalies, identify a subset of anomalies that are each suggest of a prior failure occurrence of the given failure type, and create the supervised failure model using failure data for the identified subset of anomalies.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: James Herzog, Benedict Augustine, Brian Burns, Eric Hall, Tuo Li
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Patent number: 10178290Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for long-range facial and ocular acquisition. One embodiment of a system for acquiring an image of a subject's facial feature(s) includes a steerable telescope configured to acquire the image of the facial feature(s), a first computational imaging element configured to minimize the effect of defocus in the image of the facial feature(s), and a second computational imaging element configured to minimize the effects of motion blur. In one embodiment, the detecting, the acquiring, the minimizing the effect of the motion, and the minimizing the effect of the defocus are performed automatically without a human input.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: David Stoker, Cregg Cowan, Motilal Agrawal, Jan Edward van der Laan, John Brian Burns
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Patent number: 8461851Abstract: A slotted TEM transmission line and an in-situ TEM transmission line are utilized to determine both complex permittivity and permeability of soil. The permittivity and permeability information may be used by underground sensing techniques such as GPR and EMI to enhance information from these techniques. The in-situ probe provides that both complex permittivity and permeability can be measured simultaneously over a broad frequency range without disturbing the soil conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: University of HawaiiInventors: Magdy F. Iskander, Hyoungsun Youn, Charles Amazeen, Brian Burns
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Publication number: 20120154536Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for long-range facial and ocular acquisition. One embodiment of a system for acquiring an image of a subject's facial feature(s) includes a steerable telescope configured to acquire the image of the facial feature(s), a first computational imaging element configured to minimize the effect of defocus in the image of the facial feature(s), and a second computational imaging element configured to minimize the effects of motion blur. In one embodiment, the detecting, the acquiring, the minimizing the effect of the motion, and the minimizing the effect of the defocus are performed automatically without a human input.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: David Stoker, Cregg Cowan, Motilal Agrawal, Jan Edward van der Laan, John Brian Burns
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Publication number: 20110169505Abstract: A slotted TEM transmission line and an in-situ TEM transmission line are utilized to determine both complex permittivity and permeability of soil. The permittivity and permeability information may be used by underground sensing techniques such as GPR and EMI to enhance information from these techniques. The in-situ probe provides that both complex permittivity and permeability can be measured simultaneously over a broad frequency range without disturbing the soil conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIInventors: Magdy F. Iskander, Hyoungsun Youn, Charles Amazeen, Brian Burns
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Patent number: 7697725Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for autonomous object tracking. In one embodiment, a method for tracking a moving object across at least a portion of a video signal made up of a plurality of image frames includes stabilizing the video signal by processing selected portions of selected image frames, detecting at least one movement in the stabilized video signal, and computing a location of the detected movement(s).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2006Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: John Brian Burns, Michael Eriksen, Carl Shapiro, Aaron Heller, Regis Vincent
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Publication number: 20060008737Abstract: A method for slowing the degradation of a polymeric container, the method including forming the polymeric container from a composition including a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Inventors: Carol Cole, Brian Burn, Timothy Hsieh, Jonathan Hack
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Patent number: 5845009Abstract: A system and method which identifies an object in an image. The system accesses a statistical model corresponding to a statistically identifying feature of the object and accesses a characteristic corresponding to a second identifying feature of the object. The system generates a value set from the image, the statistical model, the characteristic, and a geometric relationship. The value set indicates a likely location of the object in the image. The object is located using the value set.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1997Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Richard Lee Marks, John Brian Burns
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Patent number: 5828769Abstract: A method for recognition of an object in an image is provided, the method comprising the steps of: capturing in electronic memory multiple model images of the object; selecting from each captured model image multiple model image patches; encoding respective selected model image patches as respective sets of inner products of respective image patch data and a set of two-dimensional functions such that the respective sets of inner products include information useful in computing a pose estimate for the object; capturing in the electronic memory a current image; selecting from the captured current image multiple current image patches; encoding respective selected current image patches as respective sets of inner products of respective image patch data and the set of two-dimensional functions such that the respective sets of inner products include information useful in computing a pose estimate for the object; comparing respective current image patch encodings with respective model image patch encodings; identifyType: GrantFiled: October 23, 1996Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventor: J. Brian Burns
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Patent number: D1004888Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BBJ SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Brian Burns, Brad Burns, Jeff Erickson