Patents by Inventor Brian Lee

Brian Lee 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).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATM INTEGRATED CARD FABRICATOR
    Publication number: 20230252437
    Abstract: Systems and methods provided herein may include a card replacement system. The system may include an automated teller machine in data communication with a server. The automated teller machine may include an input device; a processor; a replacement card storage containing at least one replacement card, wherein the at least one replacement cards may include a magnetic stripe and a chip; a magnetic stripe writer; a chip writer; and an embossing device. The processor may be configured to: receive a replacement card request via the input device; request replacement card information from the server; encode replacement card information onto the replacement card using the magnetic stripe writer and the chip writer; and emboss user information onto the replacement card using the embossing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Austen NOVIS, Eric LOUCKS, Brian LEE
  • Dynamic Four-Dimensional Contrast Enhanced Tomosynthesis
    Publication number: 20230240625
    Abstract: A contrast-enhanced digital tomosynthesis system with a source configured to emit penetrating particles toward an source, a positioning apparatus configured to position the source relative to the object and the detector, and an imaging system coupled to the source, the detector, and the positioning apparatus. The imaging system is configured to control the positioning apparatus to position the source and detector relative to the object, control the source and the detector to acquire the series of projection images, and construct a tomographic volume capable of exhibiting super-resolution morphology and contrast-enhancement arising from injection of an exogenous contrast agent from data representing the acquired series of projection images or a subset thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew D.A. Maidment, Brian Lee, Susan NG, Peter A. Ringer, Johnny Kuo, Raymond J. Acciavatti
  • Outdoor workout station
    Patent number: 11707662
    Abstract: A novel outdoor workout station includes a platform, an exercise structure, and a canopy assembly. The exercise structure is disposed on and fixed to the platform, and the canopy assembly is disposed over both the exercise structure and the platform. The arrangement of support beams of the platform corresponds to a footprint of the exercise structure. In a particular embodiment, the platform includes adjustable legs that facilitate the leveling of the platform. In another particular embodiment, the canopy assembly is mounted directly to the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samson Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Schroeder, David Lee Schroeder
  • System and method for sending, delivery or receiving of faxes, over a computer based network according to security or other protocols
    Patent number: 11706353
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes according to particular protocols are disclosed. Certain embodiments may receive a fax from a sender and determine if the ability exists to send the fax over a computer based network according to a particular protocol. If there is no destination associated with the fax number for the protocol the fax may be sent according to the fax number. If, however, there is a destination for the protocol associated with the fax number an attempt is made to send the fax to the destination according to the protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Lee Lennstrom
  • Drive and seal assembly for an electrophotographic image forming device
    Patent number: 11703777
    Abstract: An assembly for use in an electrophotographic image forming device includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. The housing includes a wall having an inner surface forming a boundary of the reservoir and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. A toner agitator is positioned in the reservoir and has a rotatable shaft. The shaft includes an end portion that passes through an opening in the wall. A gear is mounted on the end portion of the shaft outside of the reservoir and is rotatably coupled to the shaft. An annular seal encircles and is in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the shaft. The annular seal is positioned between an inner axial face of the gear and the outer surface of the wall. The inner axial face of the gear contacts the annular seal and presses the annular seal against the outer surface of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lester Boettcher, Brian Lee Hawes, David Lee Merrifield
  • Buoy with radiated wave reflector
    Patent number: 11692524
    Abstract: Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Moffat, Grzegorz Piotr Filip
  • TNAP LOCALLY ADMINISTERED FOR PROMOTING PERIODONTAL HEALTH
    Publication number: 20230201315
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for treating periodontal disease, peri-implantitis, or to preserve a tooth socket in a subject. These methods include selecting a subject with periodontal disease, peri-implantitis, or in need of tooth socket preservation; and locally administering into the periodontium of the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) polypeptide, or a nucleic acid molecule encoding the recombinant TNAP polypeptide. Methods are also disclosed for i) promoting alveolar bone regeneration in the subject; ii) increasing attachment of a periodontal ligament to a root surface of a tooth in the subject; iii) increasing cementum formation; and/or iv) increasing mineralization in a tooth in the subject. Pharmaceutical compositions are also disclosed that are of use in these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicants: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN, OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION, SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE, YALE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Martha J. Somerman, Nadine Laure Samara, Atsuhiro Nagasaki, Demetrios T. Braddock, Brian Lee Foster, Jose Luis Millan
  • TRAY SANITIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20230201399
    Abstract: Described herein is a tray sanitization assembly including a tray sanitization source positioned within a tray return system and configured to sanitize a baggage handling tray conveyed therethrough. Also described is a tray return system including a conveyor assembly including a conveyor for translating a baggage handling tray in a tray transfer direction, and the tray sanitization assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Lee BURES
  • Compute device housing with layers of electromagnetic interference shields, and devices and systems for the same
    Patent number: 11687129
    Abstract: In some embodiments an apparatus includes a housing that defines an interior. The apparatus includes a first circuit board that has multiple integrated circuits (ICs). The first circuit board is disposed within the interior of the housing. The apparatus includes a second circuit board that has multiple ICs. The second circuit board is also disposed within the interior of the housing. The apparatus further includes a first electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield disposed about an IC from the multiple ICs of the first circuit board and not disposed about remaining ICs from the multiple ICs of the first circuit board. The apparatus further includes a second EMI shield disposed about the first circuit board and not the second circuit board. The apparatus further includes a third EMI shield disposed about the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Management Services Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Morgan, Brian Lee Yonker
  • Response prediction for electronic communications
    Patent number: 11687803
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein for performing sentiment analysis on electronic communications relating to one or more image-based communications methods, such as emoji. Message data may be received. The message data may correspond to a message that is intended to be sent but has not yet been sent to an application. Using a first machine learning model, one or more subsets of the plurality of emoji may be determined. The one or more subsets of the plurality of emoji may comprise one or more different types and quantities of emoji, and may each correspond to the same or a different sentiment. Using a second machine learning model, one or more emojis may be selected from the one or more subsets. The one or more emojis selected may correspond to responses to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Osborn, Eric Loucks, Joshua Edwards, George Bergeron, Kyle Johnson, Brian Lee
  • Wind-powered computing buoy
    Patent number: 11685478
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from waves that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoy's receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Moffat, Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson
  • Inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine
    Patent number: 11680554
    Abstract: A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Brian Lee Moffat, Daniel William Place
  • Genome sharing
    Patent number: 11683315
    Abstract: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne, Oleksiy Khomenko, Jeffrey Mellen, Marcela Miyazawa, Michael Polcari, Jack Tihon, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Roofing systems with improved wind performance of roofing tiles and methods of installing thereof
    Patent number: 11680410
    Abstract: This invention, in embodiments, relates to a roofing system comprising (a) a roofing substrate having a roofing surface, (b) a first roofing tile overlying the roofing surface, the first roofing tile having a front surface, a back surface, a top edge, and a bottom edge, and (c) a second roofing tile overlying the first roofing tile, the second roofing tile having a front surface, a back surface, a top edge, and a bottom edge. At least one sealant line is applied to (i) the back surface of the second roofing tile in an area that overlays the first roofing tile, (ii) the front surface of the first roofing tile in an area in which the second roofing tile overlays the first roofing tile, or (iii) both (i) and (ii). The at least one sealant line is configured to adhere the second roofing tile to the first roofing tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BMIC LLC
    Inventors: Ming-Liang Shiao, Brian Lee, Daniel E. Boss, Ramil Marcelo L. Mercado
  • Animal house ceiling vent bulb seal
    Patent number: 11680728
    Abstract: A ceiling vent assembly has a frame and a pair of louvers pivotably mounted in the frame such that each of the louvers pivots between an open position and a closed position. Each of the louvers has a pivot end, wherein the pivot end of a first louver of the pair of louvers is located adjacent to but spaced apart from the pivot end of a second louver of the pair of louvers. The ceiling vent has a sealing mechanism positioned in the space between the first and second louvers so as to press on the pivot ends of the first and second louvers such that the sealing mechanism reduces the flow of air through the space. When the first and second louvers pivot between the open and closed positions, the pivot end of the first and second louvers slide relative the sealing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: The GSI Group LLC
    Inventors: Srinivasan Narayanan, Arron Justin Cochran, Brian Lee Rieck, Nathan Robert Eversole
  • METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PAINT MIXING DEVICE AND/OR A PAINT APPLICATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230173522
    Abstract: A method for controlling a paint mixing device and/or a paint application device, a mobile digital terminal capturing a scene, in particular a project, via an interface for augmented reality, and a virtual coloring and/or material illustration being superimposed on the scene, wherein the virtual coloring is classified according to one or more technical or pre-specified color spaces, and a control statement for a paint mixing device and/or a paint application device is determined from the classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Lee FIDELER, Jeshwanth KUNDEM, Joseph W. KIEFFER, Jonathan BEATON, Mujo TALETOVIC, Thomas JELTSCH
  • Fluid applicator
    Patent number: 11666932
    Abstract: A fluid applicator configured to receive a pressurized fluid includes a pressure vessel configured to receive the pressurized fluid from a fluid delivery line. The pressure vessel includes a valve chamber configured to receive a valve assembly, a filter chamber configured to receive a filter assembly, and a fluid delivery line fitting configured to be coupled to the fluid delivery line. The fluid applicator further including a tip assembly coupled to the pressure vessel and configured to atomize the pressurized fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Lee Fideler
  • INERTIAL PNEUMATIC WAVE ENERGY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230167798
    Abstract: A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Brian Lee Moffat, Daniel William Place
  • CONNECTOR FOR PIPES
    Publication number: 20230167930
    Abstract: A pipe connector for connecting pipes that includes an elongate tubular body having an outer diameter, a sleeve disposed over the elongate tubular body, and a first wire ring. The elongate tubular body that has a groove formed on the outer diameter. The sleeve has a groove formed on an inner diameter that is spaced from a first end of the sleeve and is aligned with the groove of the elongate tubular member. The first wire ring is disposed within the groove of the elongate tubular body and within the groove of the sleeve such that the sleeve is coupled to the elongate tubular body by the first wire ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew James HEATON, Brian Lee DILLINGER, Jagtar Singh THETHY
  • Bow tie fidget device
    Patent number: D992045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Furka, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Lee Roderman