Patents by Inventor Douglas F. Busch

Douglas F. Busch 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: 8659423
    Abstract: A wireless contextual prompting device provides contextual (context-aware) prompting in the home for applications such as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) monitoring, medication adherence, journaling, social messaging and coaching. The device combines the advantages of a small, wireless, battery-operated sensor that may be easily mounted at critical places in a person's daily routine with a low-power, high-contrast display panel that may be palm sized. The context may be displayed on the display screen as images, icons and/or text such that it is easy to interpret warnings by the young, elderly, or the language-challenged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Intel-GE Care Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Kuris, Steven M. Ayer, Frank C. Bomba, Douglas F. Busch
  • Publication number: 20120223835
    Abstract: A wireless contextual prompting device provides contextual (context-aware) prompting in the home for applications such as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) monitoring, medication adherence, journaling, social messaging and coaching. The device combines the advantages of a small, wireless, battery-operated sensor that may be easily mounted at critical places in a person's daily routine with a low-power, high-contrast display panel that may be palm sized. The context may be displayed on the display screen as images, icons and/or text such that it is easy to interpret warnings by the young, elderly, or the language-challenged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: Benjamin Kuris, Steven M. Ayer, Frank C. Bomba, Douglas F. Busch
  • Publication number: 20090184821
    Abstract: A wireless contextual prompting device provides contextual (context-aware) prompting in the home for applications such as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) monitoring, medication adherence, journaling, social messaging and coaching. The device combines the advantages of a small, wireless, battery-operated sensor that may be easily mounted at critical places in a person's daily routine with a low-power, high-contrast display panel that may be palm sized. The context may be displayed on the display screen as images, icons and/or text such that it is easy to interpret warnings by the young, elderly, or the language-challenged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Benjamin Kuris, Steven M. Ayer, Frank C. Bomba, Douglas F. Busch
  • Patent number: 4382606
    Abstract: A spray controlling system is provided for vehicles that includes, for a wheel-set, a splash guard and a side shield positioned at the rear and side of a wheel set, respectively. The guard comprises a panel having a plurality of rows of conical projections and a plurality of upstanding ribs formed on a wheel-facing surface thereof in a spaced parallel relationship. Both projections and ribs are disposed in an inverted-V configuration oriented on a vertical centerline of the panel with six rows of projections interposed between adjacent ribs. The projections are disposed closely adjacent in the rows to form water flow channels between rows and ribs with the ribs being about twice the height of the projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1983
    Assignee: Lancaster Colony Corporation
    Inventors: Robert E. Lightle, James R. Lockwood, Douglas F. Busch, Michael B. Mosholder
  • Patent number: D272336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Lancaster Colony Corporation
    Inventors: Robert E. Lightle, James R. Lockwood, Douglas F. Busch, Michael B. Mosholder