Patents by Inventor Eric Bryant

Eric Bryant 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: 12553600
    Abstract: An underbed illumination system includes a sensor, one or more lights, and a controller. The sensor is mountable to an underside of a bed and has a field of view that extends to left, foot, and right sides of the bed. The one or more lights are configured to mount to the bed and output light downward from the bed. The controller is configured to detect a person with the sensor and operate the lights to output the light according to the detection of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Ergomotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan Visser, Cort C. Corwin, Eric Bryant
  • Publication number: 20250237375
    Abstract: An underbed illumination system includes a sensor, one or more lights, and a controller. The sensor is mountable to an underside of a bed and has a field of view that extends to left, foot, and right sides of the bed. The one or more lights are configured to mount to the bed and output light downward from the bed. The controller is configured to detect a person with the sensor and operate the lights to output the light according to the detection of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Jordan Visser, Cort C. Corwin, Eric Bryant
  • Publication number: 20250143476
    Abstract: An adjustable bed system includes a mattress and an adjustment mechanism. The mattress includes a head portion and a foot portion rearward of the head portion, and the head portion defines a cavity that is downwardly open. The adjustment mechanism includes a lower base formed of a planar substrate, an upper support formed of either a frame or another planar substrate that is movably coupled to the lower base, and an actuator operable to move the upper support relative to the lower base. The adjustment mechanism is positioned in the cavity and coupled to the mattress. When the actuator is operated, the adjustment mechanism moves the adjustable bed system between a flat and an inclined configuration. The mattress and the adjustment mechanism are configured to be positioned on a support surface with the adjustment mechanism having a higher coefficient of friction with the support surface than the mattress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ergomotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Cort Corwin, Hunter Totemeier, Eric Bryant
  • Publication number: 20250082522
    Abstract: An adjustable bed assembly includes a base frame, an articulating mattress support movably coupled to the base frame, and a support attachment assembly. The support attachment assembly includes a first linkage coupled to the articulating mattress support and a second linkage coupled to the first linkage and the base frame. The support attachment assembly includes a support attachment that may include a table top or a storage bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ergomotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Harris, Eric Bryant
  • Patent number: 11083810
    Abstract: A control panel having a variety of potential applications that utilize ultraviolet-C (UV-C) light as a means of disinfection. In one embodiment, a human/machine interface (HMI) panel, such as a touchscreen or keypad uses a dynamically moveable multi-reflector assembly using UV-C light to disinfect its touch surfaces. The goal of integrating UV-C disinfection with an HMI works to provide a safe and effective dose of UV-C light to the panel's surface for the purpose of reducing the number of active pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: GHSP, Inc.
    Inventors: Aghuinhue Umenei, Robert W. Rossien, Eric Bryant
  • Publication number: 20200215213
    Abstract: A control panel having a variety of potential applications that utilize ultraviolet-C (UV-C) light as a means of disinfection. In one embodiment, a human/machine interface (HMI) panel, such as a touchscreen or keypad uses a dynamically moveable multi-reflector assembly using UV-C light to disinfect its touch surfaces. The goal of integrating UV-C disinfection with an HMI works to provide a safe and effective dose of UV-C light to the panel's surface for the purpose of reducing the number of active pathogens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Bryant, Cort Corwin, Glenn Clapp, Lee Karner, Robert Roossien, David Baarman, Esai Umeni
  • Publication number: 20080017294
    Abstract: A primary carpet backing that is tuftable with carpet face yarn has a self-bonded or spunbonded or needlepunched nonwoven adhesive fabric needled or thermally bonded to a supporting fabric. The supporting fabric is a tuftable woven primary backing fabric comprising thermoplastic warp and weft yarns having substantially rectangular cross-sections. The nonwoven adhesive fabric comprises fibers or filaments of a thermoplastic resin having flow properties corresponding to a MI of above 30 g/10 min. as measured in accordance with ASTM D 1238 at 190° C. The nonwoven adhesive fabric also has a melting point at least about 20° C. less than a melting point of the thermoplastic of the yarns of the supporting fabric so that the nonwoven-adhesive fabric is capable of melting fully in a final product. The melted fabric can help secure pile to the backing in carpet applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: Propex Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Bailey, Edward Barkis, Eric Bryant, Hugh Gardner, Jack Godfrey, Kenneth Jones, Gregory Shelnutt
  • Publication number: 20070192864
    Abstract: A software system that transforms an original application into an STPM enabled application and runs the enabled application. At protect time, an anti-tamper tool accepts the original application, uses anti-tamper techniques to create a guarded application, creates a security wrapper according to a policy file, and wraps the guarded application to create the STPM enabled application. A trusted service provider is inserted at the entry point of the enabled application. A set of core services is made accessible to the enabled application through the trusted service provider. At runtime the trusted service provider creates a TSP thread and passes a security file to an STPM device driver implementing TPM functionality and protected by anti-tamper techniques. The TSP thread actively monitors the enabled application and interacts with the STPM device driver through the set of core services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Eric Bryant, Avni Rambhia, Mikhail Atallah, John Rice
  • Publication number: 20070127721
    Abstract: A method and system for hiding an encryption key. The method including creating a directed graph having a plurality of vertices and edges, including a source and a sink vertex. Each vertex has a vertex value. The source vertices have a common source value, and the sink vertices have a common sink value, the sink value being a function of the source value and the encryption key. Each edge has an edge value that is a function of r(in)?1 and r(out) where r(in)?1 is the functional inverse of the vertex value of the predecessor vertex and r(out) is the vertex value of the successor vertex. A message enters a source vertex; flows along a path from the source vertex to a sink vertex; and leaves the sink vertex, where the output message is an encrypted or decrypted version of the input message using the private encryption key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Mikhail Atallah, Eric Bryant
  • Publication number: 20050147787
    Abstract: Tufted carpet having good tuft bind and fuzz resistance comprising pile face yams, a backing fabric and an adhesive binder free of inorganic and latex materials. The adhesive binder comprises a thermoplastic fabric, which melts to secure the pile to the backing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Larry Bailey, Edward Barkis, Eric Bryant, Hugh Gardner, Jack Godfrey, Kenneth Jones, Gregory Shelnutt
  • Patent number: D1121466
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Inventor: Eric Bryant