Patents by Inventor Bryan Smith

Bryan Smith 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: 20180211572
    Abstract: A device for dispensing pressurized air and/or tire sealant. The device includes a placard attached to a device housing and including a plurality of warning messages in different languages. Each of the messages is a repetition of a same or similar warning translated into each of the official languages of the localities where the device is to be sold or used. A mechanical fastener can be used to connect the placard to the housing so that the placard lies on and parallel to a top surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Mark T. Leuthe, Bryan Smith
  • Patent number: 9897515
    Abstract: A device includes a processor, a light emitter coupled to the processor, and a memory. The light emitter is configured to generate a first light to be provided to an optical fiber at a first time when a portion of the optical fiber has a first physical configuration and to generate a second light to be provided to the optical fiber at a second time when the portion of the optical fiber has a second physical configuration. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine a first estimated distance associated with a first location of the optical fiber based on the first light, determine a second estimated distance associated with a second location of the optical fiber based on the second light, determine a third estimated distance associated with a third location of the optical fiber based on the first estimated distance and the second estimated distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Bryan Smith
  • Publication number: 20170351821
    Abstract: A healthcare claims processing and decision support system and method are disclosed that allow for the pre-processing of the healthcare claims as well as a method to reduce much of this overhead and alerting the user to any errors that occur during the claims processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Theodore C. Tanner, JR., Colin E. Alstad, W. Bryan Smith, Denise K. Gosnell, Virginia C. Harrison
  • Patent number: 9835353
    Abstract: An energy recovery ventilator cabinet containing a plurality of enthalpy wheels. The enthalpy wheels are substantially perpendicular to a stream of forced air, allowing the air to pass through the wheels. The enthalpy wheels are also disposed such that portions overlap, allowing multiple enthalpy wheels to be disposed in a smaller space than if the enthalpy wheels were placed side by side. This arrangement has led to energy recovery effectiveness similar to that obtained by a larger, single enthalpy wheel, but has the advantage of using less space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Justin McKie, Eric Perez, Bryan Smith, Steve Schneider
  • Publication number: 20170238141
    Abstract: Reception and transmission from at least two sets of antenna ports on a high speed train are controlled, wherein the at least two sets of antenna ports are installed at different locations on the high speed train. This involves determining a velocity and the position of each of the antenna ports, and using these as a basis for determining a reception combining scheme and/or transmission scheme from the sets of antenna ports. Signals are transmitted and received from the sets of antenna ports in conformance with the determined reception combining and/or transmission scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Joakim Axmon, Bryan Smith
  • Publication number: 20170176049
    Abstract: A heating system retrofitted to be operable through multiple heat stages at a constant fuel-air mixture includes a tube heat exchanger having a plurality of burners, a combustion air blower (CAB) having an exhaust vent connected with the plurality of burners, the CAB operable at a first speed and a second speed, a first valve connecting a fuel source to a first subset of the plurality of burners, and a second valve connecting a fuel source to a second subset of the plurality of burners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Eric PEREZ, Steven SCHNEIDER, Bryan SMITH, John TRAN
  • Publication number: 20170176048
    Abstract: A modulating heating system includes a tube heat exchanger having a plurality of burners, a combustion air blower (CAB) having an exhaust vent connected with the plurality of burners, the CAB operable at a first speed and a second speed, a first valve connecting a fuel source to a first subset of the plurality of burners, and a second valve connecting a fuel source to a second subset of the plurality of burners, wherein the first and second valves each have a low fire rate and a high fire rate. The heat exchanger is operable through multiple heat stages at a constant fuel-air mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Steven SCHNEIDER, Eric PEREZ, Bryan SMITH, John TRAN
  • Publication number: 20160377315
    Abstract: A transition module for an energy recovery ventilator unit. The module comprises a frame having two opposing major surfaces with two separate through-hole openings therein. The module also comprises a self-sealing surface on one of the major surfaces and surrounding the two through-hole openings. One of the through-hole openings is configured to separately overlap with return air openings or supply air openings located in a first target side of one an energy recovery ventilator unit or an air handling unit and in a second target side of the other one of the energy recovery ventilator unit or the air handling unit. The other of the through-hole openings is configured to separately overlap with the other of the return air openings or the supply air openings located in the first and second sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Justin McKie, Eric Perez, Geoffrey Curtis, Bryan Smith
  • Publication number: 20160298869
    Abstract: An energy recovery ventilator unit. The unit comprises a cabinet housing a primary intake zone, a supply zone, a return zone, an exhaust zone and an enthalpy-exchange zone. The primary intake zone and the exhaust zone are both on one side of the enthalpy exchange zone. The supply zone and the return zone are both on an opposite side of the enthalpy exchange zone. The unit also comprises first and second blowers. The first blower is located in the primary intake zone and configured to push outside air into the primary intake zone and straight through the enthalpy exchange zone into the supply zone. The second blower is located in the return zone and configured to push return air into the return zone and straight through the enthalpy exchange zone into the exhaust zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Justin McKie, Eric Perez, Bryan Smith, Steve Schneider
  • Patent number: 9441843
    Abstract: A transition module for an energy recovery ventilator unit. The module comprises a frame having two opposing major surfaces with two separate through-hole openings therein. The module also comprises a self-sealing surface on one of the major surfaces and surrounding the two through-hole openings. One of the through-hole openings is configured to separately overlap with return air openings or supply air openings located in a first target side of one an energy recovery ventilator unit or an air handling unit and in a second target side of the other one of the energy recovery ventilator unit or the air handling unit. The other of the through-hole openings is configured to separately overlap with the other of the return air openings or the supply air openings located in the first and second sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Justin McKie, Eric Perez, Geoffrey Curtis, Bryan Smith
  • Patent number: 9395097
    Abstract: An energy recovery ventilator unit. The unit comprises a cabinet housing a primary intake zone, a supply zone, a return zone, an exhaust zone and an enthalpy-exchange zone. The primary intake zone and the exhaust zone are both on one side of the enthalpy exchange zone. The supply zone and the return zone are both on an opposite side of the enthalpy exchange zone. The unit also comprises first and second blowers. The first blower is located in the primary intake zone and configured to push outside air into the primary intake zone and straight through the enthalpy exchange zone into the supply zone. The second blower is located in the return zone and configured to push return air into the return zone and straight through the enthalpy exchange zone into the exhaust zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Justin McKie, Eric Perez, Bryan Smith, Steve Schneider
  • Patent number: 9373137
    Abstract: A method for mapping transactions between a real world and a virtual world may include receiving information associated with a real world item at a virtual business object (VBO) controller. Information associated with a user is received at the VBO controller. In response to receiving by the VBO controller a decision to buy the real world item, the VBO controller generates a VBO, which includes the information associated with the real world item. In response to receiving at the VBO controller a decision not to buy the real world item, the VBO controller generates a VBO light, which includes the information associated with the real world item. Either the generated VBO or the VBO light is transmitted to a VBO inventory database associated with the user based on the user's information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Ronald Bokor, Andrew Bryan Smith, Peter Frederick Haggar, Daniel Edward House, William Bruce Nicol, II
  • Patent number: 9339566
    Abstract: A device and system is disclosed for sterilizing objects, commonly dental, medical, or veterinary instruments, by directing high velocity hot air into a container having pre-constructed plenums to direct, diffuse, and re-circulate the sterilizing agent uniformly throughout the chamber to effect sterilization of contained medical objects. More specifically, the invention employs high velocity hot dry air as the sterilizing agent, generating the heat and rapid airflow by means of a base unit. The high velocity heated air is forced into the medical instrument container where a removable air supply/return plenum directs the heated, rapidly flowing air uniformly throughout the container. During the sterilization process heated air temperature is maintained in the container by a continual re-circulating of exhaust air back to the base unit for re-heating and return to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Integrated Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Bryan Smith, Nelson Sigman Slavik, John Howland Hinman, Jeffrey S. Crane
  • Patent number: 9334267
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds of Formula I: (Formula I should be inserted here) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula I; and use of a compound of Formula I for treating specified cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel L. Flynn, Michael D. Kaufman, Lakshminarayana Vogeti, Scott Wise, Wei-Ping Lu, Bryan Smith, James R. Henry, Philip A. Hipskind, Sheng-Bin Peng
  • Patent number: 9324021
    Abstract: A method for avoiding non-intentional separation of avatars in a virtual world may include detecting a first avatar seeking to enter a first location and determining if a second avatar is related to the first avatar based on a first predetermined rule. The method may also include determining that the first and second avatars are seeking to enter the first location together. The method may further include determining whether to allow the first avatar and the second avatar to enter the first location based on a second predetermined rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Frederick Haggar, Brian Ronald Bokor, Andrew Bryan Smith, Daniel Edward House, William Bruce Nicol, II
  • Patent number: 9299178
    Abstract: Responding to gestures made by third parties in a virtual world by receiving a gesture from a first avatar directed to at least one second avatar. For at least one second avatar, a reply gesture may be selected that corresponds to the received gesture. The reply gesture may be output for communication to the first avatar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Ronald Bokor, Andrew Bryan Smith
  • Publication number: 20160086393
    Abstract: Systems and methods for customizable vehicle parameter sensing, recording, and utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Dean M. Collins, Bryan Smith
  • Publication number: 20160076969
    Abstract: A device includes a processor, a light emitter coupled to the processor, and a memory. The light emitter is configured to generate a first light to be provided to an optical fiber at a first time when a portion of the optical fiber has a first physical configuration and to generate a second light to be provided to the optical fiber at a second time when the portion of the optical fiber has a second physical configuration. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine a first estimated distance associated with a first location of the optical fiber based on the first light, determine a second estimated distance associated with a second location of the optical fiber based on the second light, determine a third estimated distance associated with a third location of the optical fiber based on the first estimated distance and the second estimated distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventor: Bryan Smith
  • Patent number: 9243974
    Abstract: A device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory operable to perform operations. The operations include determining a first estimated distance associated with a first location of an optical fiber based on first light detected by a sensor, where the first light is detected at a first time when a portion of the optical fiber has a first configuration, and determining a second estimated distance associated with a second location of the optical fiber based on second light detected by the sensor, where the second light is detected at a second time when the portion of the optical fiber has a second configuration. The operations further include determining a third estimated distance associated with a third location of the optical fiber based on the first estimated distance and the second estimated distance, where the third location is associated with a fault in the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Bryan Smith
  • Patent number: 9223399
    Abstract: Translating gestures made by one avatar to a second avatar in a virtual world by receiving an input from a first user representing an input gesture to be made by the first avatar to the second avatar. The input gesture is translated to generate at least one translated gesture for display. The translated gesture may be output for display as being made by the first avatar to the second avatar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Ronald Bokor, Andrew Bryan Smith, Daniel Edward House, William Bruce Nicol, II, Peter Frederick Haggar