Patents by Inventor Joseph Bradford
Joseph Bradford 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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Patent number: 11977086Abstract: Methods, systems and techniques for the accurate measurement breath-borne biomarkers are disclosed. Such methods, systems and techniques may be used for the purposes of detection and/or measurement in breath samples of biomarkers.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Hound Labs, Inc.Inventors: Michael Scott Lynn, Joseph A. Heanue, Samartha G. Anekal, Kevin M. Limtao, Kevin Bradford Dunk, Jeffrey A. Schuster, Jeffrey A. Stoll
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Publication number: 20240029664Abstract: A brake control system includes a display, a processor, and a light sensor. The processor controls brakes of a towed vehicle. The processor also controls a brightness of the display based on information received from the light sensor. The light sensor may include a light dependent resistor or a photoresistor. The processor selectively sets or adjusts the brightness of the display based on sensed ambient light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Chandrakumar D. Kulkarni, Joseph Bradford Wells
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Patent number: 11610556Abstract: A brake control system includes a display, a processor, and a light sensor. The processor controls brakes of a towed vehicle. The processor also controls a brightness of the display based on information received from the light sensor. The light sensor may include a light dependent resistor or a photoresistor. The processor selectively sets or adjusts the brightness of the display based on sensed ambient light.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HORIZON GLOBAL AMERICAS INC.Inventors: Chandrakumar D. Kulkarni, Joseph Bradford Wells
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Publication number: 20200039354Abstract: A brake control system includes a display, a processor, and a light sensor. The processor controls brakes of a towed vehicle. The processor also controls a brightness of the display based on information received from the light sensor. The light sensor may include a light dependent resistor or a photoresistor. The processor selectively sets or adjusts the brightness of the display based on sensed ambient light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Chandrakumar D. Kulkarni, Joseph Bradford Wells
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Patent number: 10250194Abstract: An envelope tracking scheme can be used, such as to modulate a supply node of a power amplifier circuit to improve efficiency. For example, a magnitude or amplitude envelope of a signal to be modulated can be scaled and used to drive a node, such as a drain, of the power amplifier circuit. An envelope tracking signal can be generated such as having a bandwidth that is compressed as compared to a full-bandwidth envelope signal. A peak-value “look ahead” technique can be used, for example, so that amplitude compression or clipping of the transmit signal is suppressed when the bandwidth-compressed envelope tracking signal is used to modulate a supply node of the power amplifier used to amplify the transmit signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Analog Devices GlobalInventors: Patrick Pratt, Joseph Bradford Brannon, Ronald Dale Turner
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Publication number: 20170262537Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for initiating playback of audio scripts that correspond to content such as books or songs. Verbal content can be captured via a microphone. The text of the verbal content can be assessed to determine whether an audio script specifies a sound effect that should be played at particular cue words within the content. The verbal content is assessed to determine whether a user reading aloud or singing a song has reached a cue word. When a cue word is reached, the sound effect can be played.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Samuel David Harrison, Mohamed Mostafa Ibrahim Elshenawy, Joseph Bradford Saunders, Benjamin Schwartz
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Publication number: 20170141736Abstract: An envelope tracking scheme can be used, such as to modulate a supply node of a power amplifier circuit to improve efficiency. For example, a magnitude or amplitude envelope of a signal to be modulated can be scaled and used to drive a node, such as a drain, of the power amplifier circuit. An envelope tracking signal can be generated such as having a bandwidth that is compressed as compared to a full-bandwidth envelope signal. A peak-value “look ahead” technique can be used, for example, so that amplitude compression or clipping of the transmit signal is suppressed when the bandwidth-compressed envelope tracking signal is used to modulate a supply node of the power amplifier used to amplify the transmit signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Patrick Pratt, Joseph Bradford Brannon, Ronald Dale Turner
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Patent number: 9184756Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a signal processing circuit that may comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and an output restriction circuit. The output restriction circuit may reduce the accuracy of the digital output of the ADC when signal content exceeds a pre-determined spectrum mask in an undesirable band. In one embodiment, the input signal spectrum may be actively monitored and when the input spectrum is inconsistent with an intended application, the output resolution may be restricted, for example, by truncating least significant bits (LSBs) of the digital output or adding digital noise.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.Inventors: Joseph Bradford Brannon, David Hall Robertson, James C. Camp, Carroll C. Speir
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Publication number: 20120114077Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a signal processing circuit that may comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and an output restriction circuit. The output restriction circuit may reduce the accuracy of the digital output of the ADC when signal content exceeds a pre-determined spectrum mask in an undesirable band. In one embodiment, the input signal spectrum may be actively monitored and when the input spectrum is inconsistent with an intended application, the output resolution may be restricted, for example, by truncating least significant bits (LSBs) of the digital output or adding digital noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Bradford BRANNON, David Hall Robertson, James C. Camp, Carroll C. Speir
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Publication number: 20120072357Abstract: Methods, systems and computer-readable medium for enabling improved market value and sales price calculations are provided. In one case, a plurality of data sets are analyzed by a computer to derive a predictive equation. Each data set contains (a.) a sales price of a particular real property; and (b.) a plurality of quantitative parameters of qualities and conditions related to or descriptive of that particular real property. A human analyst then reviews the predictive equation and may modify the equation in light of the analyst's personal knowledge or research of a geographic area or neighborhood comprising the real properties of the data sets. The modified equation may only be applied to a geographic area associated with the human analyst. The invented method may be applied to forecasting and valuations in general, wherein a general valuation equation is computationally generated and an analyst modifies the equation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2010Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: BRADFORD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Jeffery Joseph Bradford, Mark Randall Linne
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Patent number: 7471229Abstract: An analog to digital converter system includes at least one stage for providing a first full precision, full latency output and a second output providing a less than full latency, less than full precision coarse level indicator signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2007Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: William George John Schofield, Joseph Bradford Bannon, Carroll Speir, Scott Bradsley
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Publication number: 20080201247Abstract: A system and method for using information technology to enable selecting candidates for a real property appraisal assignment from among a population of real estate appraisers. A database contains information about the appraisal history of each of the population of appraisers. A query engine accepts specifications concerning a subject property from a user. The use may direct the query engine to identify appraisers that have experience in appraising real properties located within a certain distance from the subject property. The user may specify that only appraisals performed within a certain time period may be counted as valid appraisal experience. The user may direct the query engine to count references of comparable properties that lie within the specified distance from the subject property in appraisals performed by an appraiser as valid experience in selecting and ranking appraisers for an appraisal assignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: August 21, 2008Inventor: Jeffery Joseph Bradford
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Publication number: 20080079808Abstract: A system and method for providing visual images of real property are provided. A 360-degree panoramic digital camera generates instances of photographic image data that are each recorded in a separate digital document. Each digital document further contains a location indicator of where the image data was captured. The documents may be organized into segments, wherein endpoints of each segment are associated with endpoints of other segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2006Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Ashlock, Jeffery Joseph Bradford, Richard Noel Brown, David Brian Moore
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Publication number: 20070290913Abstract: An analog to digital converter system includes at least one stage for providing a first full precision, full latency output and a second output providing a less than full latency, less than full precision coarse level indicator signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Inventors: William George John Schofield, Joseph Bradford Bannon, Carroll Speir, Scott Bardsley
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Patent number: 4592555Abstract: A sports game having at least two tubular poles divided into two sections, upper and lower. These two poles are used to support a flexible rectangular barricade.A flexible barricade is a rectangular shaped device with three windows, left side, middle, and right side. The rectangular barricade is supported by two iron rods at the base of each tubular pole. Anchor lines are secondary support for the barricade. The barricade assembly was designed to allow a flying object to fly through one of the three windows. It is also a point indicator that aids in the player's perception of a flying device thrown by his opponent.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1984Date of Patent: June 3, 1986Inventor: Joseph Bradford
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Patent number: 4284278Abstract: A flying toy of the boomerang type having at least three airfoils, or wings, equiangularly spaced about a central vertical axis and extending horizontally outward from a center portion. Each wing carries at its outer end an annular-shaped wing stabilizer having a circular, horizontally-disposed, outer edge whose diameter is approximately twice the horizontal width of the wing at the juncture of the wing and the wing stabilizer, and having a circular inner edge which is disposed in the same horizontal plane as the outer edge, and which defines a center opening through the stabilizer. The stabilizer has a convex top annular surface and a concave bottom annular surface extending between the inner and outer peripheries. During flight, the stabilizers serve simultaneously as airfoils, wing stabilizers, and a gyroscope for the flying toy.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1980Date of Patent: August 18, 1981Inventor: Joseph Bradford
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Patent number: 4238906Abstract: A flying toy of the boomerang type having two airfoil arms extending horizontally from a center portion. Each arm carries at its outer end a horizontally disposed, annular-shaped stabilizer having a horizontally disposed outer periphery whose diameter is approximately twice the horizontal width of the arm at the juncture of the arm and the stabilizer, and having an inner periphery which is disposed in the same horizontal plane as the outer periphery, and which defines a center opening through the stabilizer. The stabilizer has a convex top annular surface and a concave bottom annular surface extending between the inner and outer peripheries. During flight, the stabilizers serve simultaneously as airfoils, airfoil arm stabilizers, and a gyroscope for the flying toy.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1978Date of Patent: December 16, 1980Inventor: Joseph Bradford, Sr.