Patents by Inventor Jonathan Bruce
Jonathan Bruce 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).
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Publication number: 20210402106Abstract: Therapeutic powder applicators and their methods of operation are described. In some embodiments, a first flow of gas may flow through a distal porous portion of a chamber containing a therapeutic powder. This gas may fluidize and entrain the therapeutic powder and flow the entrained powder through an outlet that is in fluid communication with the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Davol Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Bruce Trexler, Oliver Sowerby, Steve McLellan, Michael Herd, Charles Lowndes, Jon Jamin
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Patent number: 11132867Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, the software application graphically displaying animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels. A set of symbols may be selected, including first and second trigger symbols in a third position a fourth position, respectively, adjacent to one another. The embodiment may involve determining a third set of symbols identical to the second set of symbols except that: when the third and fourth positions are vertically adjacent on a particular reel, all symbols on the particular reel are wild, when the third and fourth positions are horizontally adjacent on a pair of adjacent reels, all symbols on the pair of adjacent reels are wild, (iii) when the third and fourth positions are diagonally adjacent to one another, a 2×2 grid of symbols are wild.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Fusion Holdings LimitedInventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Patent number: 11062553Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, where the software application involves graphically displaying, on vertical symbol display segments of the graphical display unit, animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels, and where each reel contains a respective plurality of symbols, subsets of which are displayable in a respective vertical symbol display segment corresponding to the reel. The embodiment may further involve selecting a first set of symbols defining respective positions of each of the reels, and causing the graphical display unit to display an animation that simulates spinning of the reels resulting in the vertical symbol display segments displaying the first set of symbols. The embodiment may further involve determining that the first set of symbols includes exactly one or two trigger symbols, and replacing each of the trigger symbols with a replacement symbol.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Fusion Holdings LimitedInventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Publication number: 20210011911Abstract: Techniques and structures for providing a multitenant environment having both a relational database and a non-relational database. A database query is received with at least one server computing device providing a multitenant environment having a relational database system and a non-relational database system, the database query in a format corresponding to the relational database system. The query is parsed with the at least one server computing device to find one or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system. One or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system are converted to one or more scans of the non-relational database system. Results from the query of the relational database system and results from the one or more scans of the non-relational database system are collected. The results from the query and the results of the one or more scans to a combined result are combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Jonathan Bruce, Eli Levine, Simon Toens, James Taylor
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Publication number: 20200405468Abstract: An implantable prosthesis and a method of attaching the prosthesis to a tissue structure disclosed. The prosthesis includes a body having a first side arranged to face the tissue structure having a defect and second side opposite the first side. One or more adhesive-filled pods are disposed on the first side of the body and selectively openable to supply an adhesive in between the tissue structure and the first side of the prosthesis body after the prosthesis body is positioned relative to the defect. The pods may be pierced, punctured, broken, and/or ruptured to supply the adhesive. A deployment device having a piercer may be used to puncture the pods.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan Bruce Trexler
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Publication number: 20200222165Abstract: A repair prosthetic for repairing a hernia is disclosed. In some embodiments, the repair prosthetic includes a patch body, a frame that assists in spreading the patch body from a reduced configuration to an expanded configuration, and a plurality of tethers attached to the patch body at locations between the frame and a periphery of the patch body. In various embodiments, the tethers can be tensioned to mitigate curling or creasing in the patch body to flatten the patch to facilitate attachment to tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Bruce Trexler, Augustus Felix, Tami L. Rathbun, Cameron Michael Correia, Tyler William Marshall
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Publication number: 20200219359Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, where the software application involves graphically displaying, on vertical symbol display segments of the graphical display unit, animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels, and where each reel contains a respective plurality of symbols, subsets of which are displayable in a respective vertical symbol display segment corresponding to the reel. The embodiment may further involve selecting a first set of symbols defining respective positions of each of the reels, and causing the graphical display unit to display an animation that simulates spinning of the reels resulting in the vertical symbol display segments displaying the first set of symbols. The embodiment may further involve determining that the first set of symbols includes exactly one or two trigger symbols, and replacing each of the trigger symbols with a replacement symbol.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Patent number: 10685530Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, where the software application involves graphically displaying, on vertical symbol display segments of the graphical display unit, animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels, and where each reel contains a respective plurality of symbols, subsets of which are displayable in a respective vertical symbol display segment corresponding to the reel. The embodiment may also involve iterations of: selecting a set of symbols including a locking symbol when (i) the locking symbol was locked in place from a previous spin and has been used in fewer than 3 winning combinations, or (ii) the locking symbol was initially selected during the spin of the reels; and causing the graphical display unit to display an animation of the spin of the reels in which the instance of the locking symbol remains in place.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Pridefield LimitedInventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Patent number: 10664487Abstract: Techniques and structures for providing a multitenant environment having both a relational database and a non-relational database. A database query is received with at least one server computing device providing a multitenant environment having a relational database system and a non-relational database system, the database query in a format corresponding to the relational database system. The query is parsed with the at least one server computing device to find one or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system. One or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system are converted to one or more scans of the non-relational database system. Results from the query of the relational database system and results from the one or more scans of the non-relational database system are collected. The results from the query and the results of the one or more scans to a combined result are combined.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: salesforce.comInventors: Jonathan Bruce, Eli Levine, Simon Toens, James Taylor
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Patent number: 10636242Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, where the software application involves graphically displaying, on vertical symbol display segments of the graphical display unit, animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels, and where each reel contains a respective plurality of symbols, subsets of which are displayable in a respective vertical symbol display segment corresponding to the reel. The embodiment may further involve selecting a first set of symbols defining respective positions of each of the reels, and causing the graphical display unit to display an animation that simulates spinning of the reels resulting in the vertical symbol display segments displaying the first set of symbols. The embodiment may further involve determining that the first set of symbols includes exactly one or two trigger symbols, and replacing each of the trigger symbols with a replacement symbol.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Pridefield LimitedInventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Patent number: 10624729Abstract: A repair prosthetic for repairing a hernia is disclosed. In some embodiments, the repair prosthetic includes a patch body, a frame that assists in spreading the patch body from a reduced configuration to an expanded configuration, and a plurality of tethers attached to the patch body at locations between the frame and a periphery of the patch body. In various embodiments, the tethers can be tensioned to mitigate curling or creasing in the patch body to flatten the patch to facilitate attachment to tissue.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Tami L. Rathbun, Tyler William Marshall, Jonathan Bruce Trexler, Augustus Felix, Cameron Michael Correia
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Publication number: 20200051396Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, the software application graphically displaying animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels. A set of symbols may be selected, including first and second trigger symbols in a third position a fourth position, respectively, adjacent to one another. The embodiment may involve determining a third set of symbols identical to the second set of symbols except that: when the third and fourth positions are vertically adjacent on a particular reel, all symbols on the particular reel are wild, when the third and fourth positions are horizontally adjacent on a pair of adjacent reels, all symbols on the pair of adjacent reels are wild, (iii) when the third and fourth positions are diagonally adjacent to one another, a 2×2 grid of symbols are wild.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Patent number: 10522005Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, the software application graphically displaying animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels. A set of symbols may be selected, including first and second trigger symbols in a third position a fourth position, respectively, adjacent to one another. The embodiment may involve determining a third set of symbols identical to the second set of symbols except that: when the third and fourth positions are vertically adjacent on a particular reel, all symbols on the particular reel are wild, when the third and fourth positions are horizontally adjacent on a pair of adjacent reels, all symbols on the pair of adjacent reels are wild, (iii) when the third and fourth positions are diagonally adjacent to one another, a 2×2 grid of symbols are wild.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Fusion Holdings LimitedInventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Publication number: 20190110878Abstract: A repair prosthetic for repairing a hernia is disclosed. In some embodiments, the repair prosthetic includes a patch body, a frame that assists in spreading the patch body from a reduced configuration to an expanded configuration, and a plurality of tethers attached to the patch body at locations between the frame and a periphery of the patch body. In various embodiments, the tethers can be tensioned to mitigate curling or creasing in the patch body to flatten the patch to facilitate attachment to tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Tami L. Rathbun, Tyler William Marshall, Jonathan Bruce Trexler, Augustus Felix, Cameron Michael Correia
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Publication number: 20180365299Abstract: Techniques and structures for providing a multitenant environment having both a relational database and a non-relational database. A database query is received with at least one server computing device providing a multitenant environment having a relational database system and a non-relational database system, the database query in a format corresponding to the relational database system. The query is parsed with the at least one server computing device to find one or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system. One or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system are converted to one or more scans of the non-relational database system. Results from the query of the relational database system and results from the one or more scans of the non-relational database system are collected. The results from the query and the results of the one or more scans to a combined result are combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Jonathan Bruce, Eli Levine, Simon Toens, James Taylor
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Publication number: 20180225926Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, the software application graphically displaying animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels. A set of symbols may be selected, including first and second trigger symbols in a third position a fourth position, respectively, adjacent to one another. The embodiment may involve determining a third set of symbols identical to the second set of symbols except that: when the third and fourth positions are vertically adjacent on a particular reel, all symbols on the particular reel are wild, when the third and fourth positions are horizontally adjacent on a pair of adjacent reels, all symbols on the pair of adjacent reels are wild, (iii) when the third and fourth positions are diagonally adjacent to one another, a 2×2 grid of symbols are wild.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Patent number: 10019866Abstract: Machines and methods are described for displaying a predetermined symbol and a set of symbols selected from a global symbol set. A first symbol position can be randomly selected for displaying the predetermined symbol, which can include a multiplier meter to display a multiplier value randomly selectable from multiple multiplier values. A second symbol position can be randomly selected for displaying the predetermined symbol after moving along a path from the first symbol position. The predetermined symbol can be displayed as part of a predetermined number of outcome events earned upon determination that a trigger event occurred. A server machine can select symbol positions, multiplier values and symbol sets and provide data indicating the symbol positions, multiplier values and symbol sets to a client machine. The client machine can include a display to display the symbol sets, and multiplier values within a predetermined symbol.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Pridefield LimitedInventors: Richard Vermaak, Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Patent number: 10000259Abstract: A suction anchor for a remotely operated vehicle comprising a frame attachable to a remotely operated vehicle, anchor cans beneath the frame beneath and connectable to a pump. In particular the anchor can be deployed as part of a method for sampling or measuring the seabed comprising the steps of attaching a frame to the remotely operated vehicle, the frame having one or more downwardly mounted anchor cans and a mast to which sampling and/or measuring equipment is attached, placing the anchor cans on an underwater floor, and, at least in partially, evacuating the cans of water embedding them in part into the underwater floor, sampling and/or measuring the underwater floor using the sampling and/or measuring equipment. It can be used to mount other sensor equipment requiring a stable platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: UTEC Geomarine LimitedInventors: James Edmunds, Jonathan Bruce Machin, Peter Gerard Allan
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Publication number: 20180122189Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, the software application graphically displaying animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels. The embodiment may involve determining that a trigger event occurred, and determining a number of spins of the reels, where a multiplier is set to an initial value. The embodiment may involve carrying out iterations of operations comprising: selecting a set of symbols associated with positions of each of the reels, where the multiplier is increased in response to any non-winning outcome, and the multiplier is reset to the initial value in response to a winning outcome; and causing the graphical display unit to display an animation that simulates a spin of the reels that results in displaying the set of symbols, and the win multiplier increasing when a non-winning outcome appears in the set of symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann
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Publication number: 20180122183Abstract: An embodiment may involve a software application executed on behalf of a client machine with a graphical display unit, where the software application involves graphically displaying, on vertical symbol display segments of the graphical display unit, animations that simulate spinning a plurality of reels, and where each reel contains a respective plurality of symbols, subsets of which are displayable in a respective vertical symbol display segment corresponding to the reel. The embodiment may also involve iterations of: selecting a set of symbols including a locking symbol when (i) the locking symbol was locked in place from a previous spin and has been used in fewer than 3 winning combinations, or (ii) the locking symbol was initially selected during the spin of the reels; and causing the graphical display unit to display an animation of the spin of the reels in which the instance of the locking symbol remains in place.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventor: Jonathan Bruce Wortmann