Patents by Inventor Kenneth Bryden

Kenneth Bryden 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).

  • Hybrid power plant
    Patent number: 8839621
    Abstract: A hybrid power plant is described in which a pressurized water nuclear reactor or a biomass-fueled power plant, which have a relatively low operating temperature, such as, is combined with a coal or other fossil fuel power plant having a higher operating temperature. Steam from the first plant is superheated in the second power plant to provide a hybrid plant with improved efficiencies and lower emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hybrid Power LLC
    Inventors: Roger Ferguson, Kenneth Bryden, Steve Corns
  • Hybrid Power Solar Facilities
    Publication number: 20100154417
    Abstract: A hybrid power plant is disclosed wherein a first power plant produces secondary steam of a first, relatively low temperature using a renewable source of energy such as geothermal or solar. The steam from the renewable source plant is passed through a solar power plant that has an operating temperature higher than that of the first temperature which results in superheating the first temperature steam to the higher temperature in the higher temperature solar power plant. Higher efficiencies are obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Roger Ferguson, Luke Shors, Kenneth Bryden, Steve Corns
  • Hybrid Power Facilities
    Publication number: 20100089059
    Abstract: A hybrid power plant is disclosed wherein a first power plant produces secondary steam of a first, relatively low temperature using a renewable source of energy such as geothermal or solar. The steam from the renewable source plant is passed through a fossil fuel power plant that has an operating temperature higher than that of the first temperature which results in superheating the first temperature steam to the higher temperature in the fossil fuel power plant. Higher efficiencies and reductions in emissions are obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Roger Ferguson, Luke Shors, Kenneth Bryden, Steven Michael Corns
  • HYBRID POWER FACILITIES
    Publication number: 20100089060
    Abstract: A hybrid power plant that combines a variety of renewable heat sources with a fossil fuel furnace system. Saturated steam generated by the renewable sources is routed through the fossil fuel fired furnace where superheat is added. The renewable sources would include geothermal, thermal solar, and biomass energy sources. Reductions in emissions per unit of power and cost per unit of power are obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Roger Ferguson, Steve Corns, Kenneth Bryden
  • Content preserving data synthesis and analysis
    Publication number: 20050149568
    Abstract: The invention includes methods for content preserving data synthesis. In one method, data is collected into a data domain. The data domain is decomposed into self-organizing parts. Each self-organizing part is described by a descriptor or algorithm. The method can be performed dynamically The algorithm used to describe each self-organizing part can be a weighted Voroni tessellation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Bryden, Daniel Ashlock
  • Creating realtime data-driven music using context sensitive grammars and fractal algorithms
    Publication number: 20050115381
    Abstract: Musical approaches are applied to the sonification of data. The musical approaches do not require directly mapping data to sound. Data is interpreted and transformed into sound through Lindemayer-systems or other methods. Where fractals are used in the interpretation and transformation of data to sounds the use of fractals provided needed phrasing to create a sense of forward motion in the music and to reveal a rich complexity in the details of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Bryden, Kristy Bryden, Daniel Ashlock
  • Footwear apparatus
    Patent number: 4059910
    Abstract: A sandal for wearing on the foot is provided having a plurality of elongated, wooden slats having their ends shaped to form the bottom of a sandal or shoe. The slats are held together by a flexible piece of material glued to one side thereof and a flexible sandal or shoe upper portion may be attached to the top of the flexible material holding the slats together to form a sandal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1977
    Inventors: Kenneth Bryden, Norman C. Barrett