Patents by Inventor Bruce E. Ziegler

Bruce E. Ziegler 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).

  • Publication number: 20250059636
    Abstract: A process for producing a copper-beryllium alloy product. The process comprises preparing a base alloy having 0.15 wt %-4.0 wt % beryllium and having grains and an initial cross section area. The process further comprises cold working the base alloy to a percentage of cold reduction of area (CRA) greater than 40%, based on the initial cross section area, and heat treating the cold worked alloy to produce the copper-beryllium alloy product. The grain structure of the copper-beryllium alloy product has an orientation angle of less than 45° when viewed along the direction of the cold working. The copper-beryllium alloy product demonstrates a fatigue strength of at least 385 MPa after 106 cycles of testing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: MATERION CORPORATION
    Inventors: John E. GATEHOUSE, Michael J. GEDEON, Fritz GRENSING, Bruce D. SCHMECK, Jeffrey S. HOYER, Michael F. TYSON, Karl R. ZIEGLER
  • Patent number: 10749869
    Abstract: A system for changing roaming policy configuration on an authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) system. The system comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, and an AAA policy change application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the AAA policy change application launches execution of a plurality of instances of the automation script, monitors a progress of the instances of the automation script, compares the progress of the instances of the automation script to a time remaining of a predefined maintenance time window, where the AAA policy change application is configured to halt an in-progress update of roaming policy configuration on the plurality of AAA nodes based on the comparison of the progress of the instances of the automation script being insufficient relative to the time remaining of the predefined maintenance time window, and copies roaming policy files updated by the automation script to AAA nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: William P. Bryan, Nathan D. Canady, Maria G. Giron, Anthony E. Johnson, Phillip R. King, Erika J. Petzold, Aaron M. Phillips, Bruce E. Ziegler