Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Seymour
Bruce A. Seymour 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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Publication number: 20240011583Abstract: A hose support assembly for supporting a hose. The hose support assembly includes a series of panels that are connected together by links. The assembly is adjustable between an extended orientation to support the hose, and a folded orientation for storage when not in use. The panels are configured such that the assembly supports the hose at a decreasing height above the ground to facilitate drainage of fluids in the hose.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Bruce Seymour Ferris, Kristin Schmidt
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Patent number: 11821551Abstract: A hose support assembly for supporting a hose. The hose support assembly includes a series of panels that are connected together by links. The assembly is adjustable between an extended orientation to support the hose, and a folded orientation for storage when not in use. The panels are configured such that the assembly supports the hose at a decreasing height above the ground to facilitate drainage of fluids in the hose.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: ETN Capital, LLCInventors: Bruce Seymour Ferris, Kristin Schmidt
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Publication number: 20230011225Abstract: A continuous dust accumulation monitoring system, device and method monitors and measures dust accumulation via an enclosure and a machine vision subsystem which can include a digital camera. A dirty optics detection subsystem monitors optical clarity and can invoke a cleaning assembly to help maintain clarity of optics for monitoring and measuring dust accumulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: George T. Armbruster, JR., Shane Diller, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Laurence E. Moulis, Viatcheslav Orlov, Alan Abul-Haj, Brent Roeder, Anthony Cosentino, Samuel DeFilipp
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Publication number: 20190043466Abstract: A sound masking device comprises a housing having an open end, a white noise generator within the housing, and a speaker to receive a white noise signal from the white noise generator and to emit a white noise corresponding to the white noise signal. The speaker is set back from the open end and positioned within the housing to emit the white noise toward the open end. The housing may comprise a shelf or shoulder around an inner surface of the housing located between the speaker and the open end.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: BRUCE MASTERSON, STANISLAV TODROMOVICH, JORDAN MORAN, JOSEPH B. NIEMANN, BRUCE SEYMOUR FERRIS, PAUL G. ROCKWELL, BRIAN J. TEAGUE
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Patent number: 9907410Abstract: A portable changing table comprises a flexible hanging support having upper and lower ends, a chamber adapted to receive and hold a child during diapering, and left and right support straps. The upper end of the hanging support has at least one hook for hanging the changing table during use. The hanging support is adapted to hang substantially vertically during use. The chamber is attached to the lower end of the hanging support such that the chamber hangs from the hanging support during use. The chamber comprises a floor, a rear wall having a bottom edge foldably attached to a rear edge of the floor, a front wall having a bottom edge foldably attached to a front edge of the floor, a flexible left side wall, and a flexible right side wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: 4DCM, LLCInventors: Brenda Lee Roberts Moosa, Mahnaz Moosa, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Catherine P. Barnes, Suzy Smithson, Eirikur Blumenstein
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Publication number: 20170197136Abstract: A timing device comprising a housing, a controller within the housing, and a shock sensor connected to the controller and within the housing. The controller receives a first signal from the shock sensor when the shock sensor detects a first shock or vibration. The controller receives a second signal from the shock sensor when the shock sensor detects a second shock or vibration. The controller starts a timer in response to receipt of the first signal. The controller stops the timer in response to receipt of the second signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventors: BRIAN B. MALONEY, ELIZABETH S. MALONEY, RICHARD V. ARENA, BRUCE SEYMOUR FERRIS
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Publication number: 20170156510Abstract: A portable changing table comprises a flexible hanging support having upper and lower ends, a chamber adapted to receive and hold a child during diapering, and left and right support straps. The upper end of the hanging support has at least one hook for hanging the changing table during use. The hanging support is adapted to hang substantially vertically during use. The chamber is attached to the lower end of the hanging support such that the chamber hangs from the hanging support during use. The chamber comprises a floor, a rear wall having a bottom edge foldably attached to a rear edge of the floor, a front wall having a bottom edge foldably attached to a front edge of the floor, a flexible left side wall, and a flexible right side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: BRENDA LEE ROBERTS MOOSA, MAHNAZ MOOSA, BRUCE SEYMOUR FERRIS, CATHERINE P. BARNES, SUZY SMITHSON, EIRIKUR BLUMENSTEIN
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Patent number: 9148510Abstract: A system for displaying information on multiple mobile devices whereby the information displayed for each device is determined by the device's physical location in relation to other devices physical locations. The information may be graphic, text, numerical or audible.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: MEA MobileInventors: Eamonn Walsh, Ian Anthony, Bruce Seymour
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Patent number: 9100588Abstract: A real-time image processing method and system has an output image framing technique which displays a live view image in an effective image area. The effective image area is a predefined portion of an overall composite image that forms the output image which can include at least one other image area, such as a logo, banner or other overlay image, and the effective image area is the maximum size automatically cropped from a source image of a digital camera based on an aspect ratio and orientation of the effective image in the predefined portion of the output image. The system displays the effective image on a view screen in real-time during a photo shoot in the same aspect ratio and orientation as the effective image area that is the predefined portion of the composite image without requiring any post-processing cropping or rotation of the image or camera rotation.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Inventor: Bruce A. Seymour
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Publication number: 20120184304Abstract: A system for displaying information on multiple mobile devices whereby the information displayed for each device is determined by the device's physical location in relation to other devices physical locations. The information may be graphic, text, numerical or audible.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Eamonn Walsh, Ian Anthony, Bruce Seymour
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Patent number: 7794027Abstract: A lifting mechanism for a storage bin is positioned in a cabinet having a countertop. The lifting mechanism has a base adapted to be supported in the cabinet, a moveable member operably connected to the base, a support member connected to the moveable member, and a storage bin supported by the support member. The moveable member is moveable between a first position, wherein the storage bin is adapted to be positioned within the cabinet, and a second position wherein the storage bin is raised such that the storage bin is adapted to be positioned out of the cabinet. When the storage bin is raised, a top of the storage bin is adapted to be positioned proximate the countertop.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Newell Operating CompanyInventors: Melanie Calabria, Joseph Edward Jasinski, Kevin Owen Roughton, Sherry Eckholm, Brian Joseph Wismann, William Myles Riley, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Paul Gilbert Rockwell
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Patent number: 7735763Abstract: A pill crusher device and method including a base and a lid movable between open and closed positions with respect to the base. The base includes a pill cup holder for holding a cup with one or more pills therein. The cup may include a flange that is keyed to the cup holder to prevent the cup from rotating with the cup holder. A head protrudes from the inside surface of the lid and is shaped to nest within the cup either directly against the pills, or against a second cup placed in the first cup with the pills located between the two cups.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: First Wave Products Group, LLCInventors: Brian D Bell, Charles Kenton Akers, Sean D Anderson, William Riley, Bruce Seymour Ferris
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Patent number: 7624733Abstract: Dry powder inhalers for dispensing pharmaceutical grade formulations of inhalable dry powder include: an inhaler housing having a mouthpiece associated therewith; and a slidably extendable forward member that is movable between retracted and extended positions, held by the inhaler housing adjacent the mouthpiece. In the extended position, the forward member extends outward a distance beyond a forwardmost portion of the mouthpiece, and in the retracted position, a forwardmost portion of the forward member is positioned rearward of the forwardmost portion of the mouthpiece with an access portion of the mouthpiece accessible by a user.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Oriel Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: William Myles Riley, Sean Derek Anderson, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Paul Gilbert Rockwell
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Publication number: 20090072059Abstract: A pill crusher device and method including a base and a lid movable between open and closed positions with respect to the base. The base includes a pill cup holder for holding a cup with one or more pills therein. The cup may include a flange that is keyed to the cup holder to prevent the cup from rotating with the cup holder. A head protrudes from the inside surface of the lid and is shaped to nest within the cup either directly against the pills, or against a second cup placed in the first cup with the pills located between the two cups.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2007Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Brian D. Bell, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Sean D. Anderson, William Riley, Charles Kenton Akers
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Patent number: 7451761Abstract: Dry powder inhalers with a multi-dose dry powder package for dispensing pharmaceutical grade formulations of inhalable dry powder, include: (a) a blister package comprising a plurality of spaced apart sealed blisters thereon, each blister having a projecting ceiling and a floor defining a blister channel therebetween, the blister channel comprising a dry powder therein; (b) a movable blade cartridge holding a blade at a forward portion thereof; and (c) an extendable mouthpiece attached to the movable blade cartridge. In operation, a user pulls the mouthpiece outward and then pushes the mouthpiece inward to cause the blister package to advance to position a blister in a selected dispensing position in the inhaler and to cause the blade cartridge to move the blade across a blister ceiling held in the dispensing position in the inhaler to thereby open the blister held in the dispensing position.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Oriel Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Anthony James Hickey, Timothy Crowder, Jeffrey Alan Warden, Keith Arthur Johnson, Mark Ennis Ketner, Jay Kinsley Fording, Michael Duane Garten, William Myles Riley, Sean Derek Anderson, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Paul Gilbert Rockwell
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Publication number: 20080197044Abstract: Dry powder blister packages include sealed blisters with a piezoelectric active layer that flexes to vibrate the dry powder in a blister to facilitate active dispersion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Oriel Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Anthony James Hickey, Timothy Crowder, Jeffrey Alan Warden, Keith Arthur Johnson, Mark Ennis Ketner, Jay Kinsley Fording, Michael Duane Garten, William Myles Riley, Sean Derek Anderson, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Paul Gilbert Rockwell
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Patent number: 7377277Abstract: Dry powder blister packages include sealed blisters with a piezoelectric active layer that flexes to vibrate the dry powder in a blister to facilitate active dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Oriel Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Anthony James Hickey, Timothy Crowder, Jeffrey Alan Warden, Keith Arthur Johnson, Mark Ennis Ketner, Jay Kinsley Fording, Michael Duane Garten, William Myles Riley, Sean Derek Anderson, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Paul Gilbert Rockwell
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Publication number: 20070252804Abstract: A display control system for a multi-layer display system including at least one multi-layer display unit (6). A multi-layer display unit includes multiple stacked or overlapped display layers (1a, 1b, 1c, 14, 15) each adapted to render display elements (2, 16B, 17B, 18B) thereon for viewing through the uppermost display layer. The level of difficulty for a user to view an overlapped image differs depending on the colour, brightness or type of images (for example text-on-text) being displayed and also the layer in which the image is being displayed and whether the image is currently active. At least any overlapping portion of display elements from different display layers are adjusted (automatically or by a user) in order to improve the viewing experience for a viewer. Types of adjustment possible include moving the images within their display layer or to an alternative display layer or altering their visual properties (such as colour, brightness, contrast etc).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2004Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventors: Gabriel Engel, David Ferguson, Harnish MacLeod, Bruce Seymour
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Patent number: D577748Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: National Optronics, IncInventors: Tory L. Tingen, Sally C. Kocotas, Daryll Scott Evans, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Sean Derek Anderson
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Patent number: D606101Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: National Optronics, Inc.Inventors: Tory L. Tingen, Sally C. Kocotas, Daryll Scott Evans, Bruce Seymour Ferris, Sean Derek Anderson