Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Richards

Bruce A. Richards 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: 11964961
    Abstract: The present invention provides, in part, compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; processes for the preparation of; intermediates used in the preparation of; and compositions containing such compounds or salts, and their uses for treating D1-mediated (or D1-associated) disorders including, e.g., schizophrenia (e.g., its cognitive and negative symptoms), cognitive impairment (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Aaron Brodney, Jennifer Elizabeth Davoren, Amy Beth Dounay, Ivan Viktorovich Efremov, David Lawrence Firman Gray, Michael Eric Green, Jaclyn Louise Henderson, Chewah Lee, Scot Richard Mente, Steven Victor O'Neil, Bruce Nelsen Rogers, Lei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240118022
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and method of rapidly and efficiently cooling a liquid, wherein flow is induced via gravitational feed from a reservoir, through a cooling chamber, further in connection to a refrigerant source wherein said liquid exits through an inferior actuatable outlet and said refrigerant is released through an exit valve. Specifically, the present invention allows for the rapid cooling of an alcoholic liquid through contactless exposure a carbon dioxide refrigerant source whereby said liquid and refrigerant occupy separate, non-communicating chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Bert Douglas Montgomery, David Richard Garcia, Bruce L. Ludwig
  • Patent number: 11951258
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a plenum chamber pressurisable to a therapeutic pressure, and a seal-forming structure constructed and arranged to seal with a region of a patient's face surrounding an entrance to a patient's airways. The seal-forming structure is constructed and arranged to maintain the therapeutic pressure in the plenum chamber throughout a patient's respiratory cycle in use. The patient interface also includes a positioning and stabilizing structure configured to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on a patients head. The positioning and stabilizing structure includes a rear strap arranged to contact an occiput of the patient's head. The rear strap is constructed from a first material is arranged to contact a temporal region of the patient's head, and a second material arranged to contact the occiput of the patients head. The second material is silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Memduh Guney, Stewart Joseph Wagner, Jeremy McManus, Daniel Marc Weiss, Michael Kenneth Truscott, Nwe Oo Tha, Bruce Richard Davies
  • Publication number: 20230233787
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a frame assembly including connectors operatively attachable to headgear, a cushion assembly provided to the frame assembly and including a seal-forming structure structured to form a seal with the patient's nose and/or mouth, and an air delivery connector provided to the frame assembly and operatively connected to an air delivery tube for supplying the air at positive pressure along an air flow path. The cushion assembly is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the air delivery connector. The air delivery connector is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the cushion assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Amal Shirley AMARASINGHE, Ravikumar BALUCHAGI, Adam Francis BARLOW, Andrew James BATE, Emily Elizabeth BLANCH, David James BRAUND, Christopher Samuel CULLEN, Errol Savio Alex D'SOUZA, Bruce Richard DAVIES, Craig David EDWARDS, Christopher Andrew Wakeley GILL, Lachlan Richard GOLDSPINK, Thomas KIRBY, Kishore MARKAPURAM CHENGALVARAYAN, Holly Elizabeth MILLER, Lemmy NGA, Chia Ik TAN, Matthew Robin WELLS
  • Publication number: 20230125364
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a plenum chamber pressurisable to a therapeutic pressure, and a seal-forming structure constructed and arranged to seal with a region of a patient's face surrounding an entrance to a patients airways. The seal-forming structure is constructed and arranged to maintain the therapeutic pressure in the plenum chamber throughout a patients respiratory cycle in use. The patient interface also includes a positioning and stabilizing structure configured to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on a patients head. The positioning and stabilizing structure includes a rear strap arranged to contact an occiput of the patients head. The rear strap is constructed from a first material is arranged to contact a temporal region of the patients head, and a second material arranged to contact the occiput of the patients head. The second material is silicone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Memduh GUNEY, Stewart Joseph WAGNER, Jeremy MCMANUS, Daniel Marc WEISS, Michael Kenneth TRUSCOTT, Nwe Oo THA, Bruce Richard DAVIES
  • Patent number: 11613713
    Abstract: Systems and methods for crude oil separation and upgrading, which include the ability to reduce aromatic complex bottoms content in gasoline and higher-quality aromatic compounds. In some embodiments, aromatic complex bottoms are recycled for further processing. In some embodiments, aromatic complex bottoms are separated for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Robert Peter Hodgkins, Bruce Richard Beadle, Vinod Ramaseshan, Rakan Sulaiman Bilaus
  • Publication number: 20230006463
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to an emergency driver (10) and an intelligent module (20) for the emergency driver (10). An embodiment of the emergency driver (10) may include a digital communication interface (12), a DC power supply (14) and a controller (16). The digital communication interface (12) may be configured to receive an input signal (41) via a control bus (18). The DC power supply (14) may be configured to provide a DC output (45) to the control bus (18). The controller (16) may be coupled to the digital communication interface (12) and the DC power supply (14) and may be configured to control the emergency driver (10) to operate in a first operation mode. The input signal (41) received at the digital communication interface (12) may be a digital input signal when the emergency driver is operating in a first operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Longyu Chen, Bruce Richard Roberts, Taylor Apolonius Barto
  • Patent number: 11528201
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for enriching a packet of network traffic between a first computing environment and a second computing environment with telemetry information. Each computing environment can include a network device for enriching packets with telemetry information and parsing enriched packets. A source network device can select a packet of the network traffic for enrichment based on enrichment parameters and generate an enriched packet including payload information and telemetry information. A destination network device can receive the enriched packet and parse the enriched packet to separate the payload information and telemetry information. The destination network device can transmit transmission information to the source network device based on the enriched packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Bruce Richards, David James Goodell, Nandita Mathews
  • Patent number: 11516050
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for monitoring network traffic using traffic mirroring. According to some examples, traffic mirroring allows customers to monitor traffic at different sources within a VPC. For example, a source may be any Elastic Network Interface (ENI) in their VPC, including elastic network interfaces (ENIs) on virtual machine instances, Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateways, Load Balancers, VPC endpoints, Internal Gateways, Transit Gateways, and more. Filters can be utilized to determine the network traffic to mirror. A customer may also configure to monitor real-time traffic with a monitoring appliance of their choice. With traffic mirroring, data traffic may be identified and sent to one or more target devices. Customers may monitor traffic within a VPC for content inspection, forensic analysis, troubleshooting, record keeping, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anoop Dawani, Joseph Elmar Magerramov, Zachary Brandes, Apoorv Mittal, Bharadwaj Avva, Ryan James Schaefer, Kiran Venkat Sayeeram Karpurapu, Ajay Jha, Steven Bruce Richards, Richard H Galliher
  • Patent number: 11453624
    Abstract: A method for producing para-xylene (PX) includes introducing a C8 aromatic-containing composition to a xylene rerun column to separate the C8 aromatic-containing composition into a xylene-containing effluent and a heavy effluent and passing the xylene-containing effluent to a PX processing loop that includes a PX recovery unit operable to separate a PX product from the xylene-containing effluent, a membrane isomerization unit operable to convert a portion of the MX, OX, or both from the xylene-containing effluent to PX, an EB dealkylation unit operable to dealkylate EB from the xylene-containing effluent to produce benzene, toluene, and other C7? compounds, and a membrane separation unit operable to produce a permeate that is PX-rich and a retentate that is PX-lean. The permeate is passed to the PX recovery unit for recovery of PX, which the retentate is bypassed around the PX recovery unit circulated through the xylene processing loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Zhonglin Zhang, Sohel K Shaikh, Veera Venkata R Tammana, Raed H. Abudawoud, Bruce Richard Beadle, Hisham Tawfiq Bassam, Rakan Sulaiman Bilaus
  • Patent number: 11395387
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes a primary LED grouping (210,310), a switchable LED grouping (215), and a conduction path selector (240,340) configured to select a conductive path that places the primary LED grouping in electrical series with at least a portion of the switchable LED grouping, or bypasses the switchable LED grouping. The primary LED grouping have a first color temperature rating, and each respective LED subgrouping have a respective color temperature different from the first color temperature. Selection of one or more LED subgrouping results in the LED lamp emitting different color temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Jeffrey Benner, Bruce Richard Roberts, Kevin James Vick
  • Patent number: 11382554
    Abstract: A personal monitoring device has a sensor assembly configured to sense physiological signals upon contact with a user's skin. The sensor assembly produces electrical signals representing the sensed physiological signals. A converter assembly, integrated with, and electrically connected to the sensor assembly, converts the electrical signals generated by the sensor assembly to a frequency modulated physiological audio signal having a carrier frequency in the range of from about 6 kHz to about 20 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: AliveCor, Inc.
    Inventors: David Albert, Bruce Richard Satchwell, Kim Norman Barnett
  • Publication number: 20220155256
    Abstract: A capillary electrophoresis system includes a capillary reservoir. The capillary reservoir includes a capillary tip flow chamber configured to receive respective capillary tips and to conduct fluid past the capillary tips, and an electrode flow chamber in which an electrode is disposed and configured to conduct fluid past the electrode, the electrode flow chamber being separate from and in fluid communication with the capillary tip flow chamber. An ultraviolet (UV) light absorbance-based multiplexed capillary electrophoresis system includes a first enclosure and a second enclosure. The first enclosure covers a UV light source, and includes a slit. The second enclosure covers the first enclosure, a collimating lens, and a capillary window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Stebniski, Bruce Richard Boeke, Martin Chris Foster, Scott Stueckradt, Thomas J. Kurt
  • Publication number: 20220126049
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a frame assembly including connectors operatively attachable to headgear, a cushion assembly provided to the frame assembly and including a seal-forming structure structured to form a seal with the patient's nose and/or mouth, and an air delivery connector provided to the frame assembly and operatively connected to an air delivery tube for supplying the air at positive pressure along an air flow path. The cushion assembly is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the air delivery connector. The air delivery connector is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the cushion assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Amal Shirley AMARASINGHE, Ravikumar BALUCHAGI, Adam Francis BARLOW, Andrew James BATE, Emily Elizabeth BLANCH, David James BRAUND, Christopher Samuel CULLEN, Errol Savio Alex D'SOUZA, Bruce Richard DAVIES, Craig David EDWARDS, Christopher Andrew Wakeley GILL, Lachlan Richard GOLDSPINK, Thomas KIRBY, Kishore MARKAPURAM CHENGALVARAYAN, Holly Elizabeth MILLER, Lemmy NGA, Chia Ik TAN, Matthew Robin WELLS
  • Patent number: 11278201
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for measuring and monitoring biometric or physiological parameters in a user-friendly and convenient manner are disclosed. Relevant physiological parameters of the user may be measured as the user normally operates a computing device or other hand-operated or hand-held device. These parameters are measured using an accessory of the device such as a laptop case, a tablet computer case, a smartphone case, or a smart watch or smart armband. The accessory may include at least two or three electrodes for taking an electrocardiogram or other physiological parameters. The measured parameters are transmitted to the computing device. The computing device can be normally used while a physiological parameter monitoring and measurement application loaded onto the computing device operates in the background to receive the measured parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: AliveCor, Inc.
    Inventors: Euan Thomson, David E. Albert, Bruce Richard Satchwell, Nupur Srivastava, Iman Abuzeid
  • Patent number: 11278692
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a frame assembly (16100) including connectors operatively attachable to headgear, a cushion assembly (16175) including a shell (161800) and a seal-forming structure (16200) structured to form a seal with the patient's nose and/or mouth, and an air delivery connector (16600). The cushion assembly and air delivery connector are structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of each other. A static face seal and separate static diametric seal between the shell (161800) and frame (16100). A dynamic face seal and separate dynamic diametric seal between the air delivery connector (16600) and frame (16100). Separate claims (FIG. 6) to a frame assembly (16100) with upper headgear connector arms (16134) including at least one slot (6146) (claim 17) or flexible portions (claim 22) to form hinges structured and arranged to conform to varying facial profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Amal Shirley Amarasinghe, Ravikumar Baluchagi, Adam Francis Barlow, Andrew James Bate, Emily Elizabeth Blanch, David James Braund, Christopher Samuel Cullen, Errol Savio Alex D'Souza, Bruce Richard Davies, Craig David Edwards, Christopher Andrew Wakeley Gill, Lachlan Richard Goldspink, Thomas Kirby, Kishore Markapuram Chengalvarayan, Holly Elizabeth Miller, Lemmy Nga, Chia Ik Tan, Matthew Robin Wells
  • Patent number: 11267769
    Abstract: Systems and methods for hydrodearylation of a hydrocarbon feed stream comprising non-condensed alkyl-bridged multi-aromatic hydrocarbons, the method including supplying a hydrogen feed to the hydrocarbon feed stream comprising non-condensed alkyl-bridged multi-aromatic hydrocarbons; mixing the hydrogen feed with the hydrocarbon feed stream to saturate the hydrocarbon feed stream with hydrogen gas to create a hydrogen-enriched liquid hydrocarbon stream; passing the hydrogen-enriched liquid hydrocarbon stream to a hydrodearylation reactor without a separate gaseous phase of hydrogen; allowing the hydrogen-enriched liquid hydrocarbon stream to react in presence of a catalyst under specific reaction conditions to produce a product stream comprising a reduced concentration of di-aromatic compounds and an increased concentration of mono-aromatic compounds compared to the hydrocarbon feed stream comprising non-condensed alkyl-bridged multi-aromatic hydrocarbons; and recovering, from the hydrodearylation reactor, a p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Robert Peter Hodgkins, Bruce Richard Beadle, Vinod Ramaseshan
  • Patent number: 11235648
    Abstract: A truck bed assembly that is fuel efficient, aesthetically pleasing and unique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AERO-X TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Richard David Oliver, Bruce Richard Burman, Christopher Carl Dowdey
  • Patent number: D930550
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Michigan Vehicle Solutions
    Inventors: Richard David Oliver, Christopher Carl Dowdey, Bruce Richard Burman
  • Patent number: D937423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: AliveCor, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Albert, Simon Prakash, Bruce Richard Satchwell, Jonathan Beck