Patents by Inventor Jeff Bruette

Jeff Bruette 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).

  • WRAP FOR HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120024466
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to cover a perimeter of a hand-held electronic device with a wrap. The wrap provides the hand-held electronic device with a more pleasing appearance. The wrap also serves as an insulating cover over sections of the device's perimeter. Without the wrap, when the sections are gripped, signal quality in the hand-held electronic device can be reduced. The wrap also serves as a protective material on the device's perimeter reducing damage caused by foreign objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventor: Jeff Bruette
  • Method and apparatus for generating television program guides utilizing icons
    Patent number: 5828419
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an on-screen television program guide. The apparatus generates a program guide including program source information and program event information for a plurality of program sources. The apparatus also generates and displays icons adjacent the program event information that represent a match between content information for a program event and selection criteria entered by a viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Jeff Bruette, Matthew Mohebbi, Henry Forson
  • Method and apparatus for generating television program guides with category selection overlay
    Patent number: 5694176
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an on-screen television program guide. The apparatus generates a main menu of a program guide, which includes program source information and program event information for a plurality of program sources, and further generates navigation menus for allowing a viewer to modify the program guide. The navigation menus are generated so as to over-write only a portion of the main menu of the program guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Jeff Bruette, Matthew Mohebbi, Ellen Martz
  • Cellular phone wrap
    Patent number: D655700
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventor: Jeff Bruette
  • Continuous cellular phone wrap
    Patent number: D655701
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventor: Jeff Bruette