Patents by Inventor Steve Bruce

Steve 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).

  • Publication number: 20240181178
    Abstract: Vibrational powder applicators and related methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a vibrational powder applicator may include a powder storage chamber, a powder (e.g., a therapeutic powder) disposed within the powder storage chamber, an actuator operatively coupled to the powder storage chamber and configured to vibrationally agitate the powder when activated, and an outlet in fluid communication with the powder storage chamber. In some embodiments, a vibrational powder applicator may include a flow restrictor and/or a valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Davol Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Bruce Trexler, Nathan Stewart Cauldwell, Oliver Sowerby, Steve McLellan, Tom Etheridge, Michael Herd, Julia Allwright, Christopher Bowley
  • Patent number: 11923074
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for identifying those entities within a network that have the most influence on other entities within the network. A multi-relational network comprising links among a plurality of physicians is generated based on peer network data, wherein each link indicates a first physician that influences a second physician, and a weight of the influence. A decision by a treating physician of the plurality of physicians is decomposed, using a deep learning engine, into a magnitude of peer influence and a magnitude of control factor influence based on the multi-relational network and a plurality of control factors respectively. The magnitude of peer influence among one or more physicians in the multi-relational network is distributed among physicians in the multi-relational network based on the links each physician maintains with other physicians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: IQVIA Inc.
    Inventors: Ruoxin Li, Yong Cai, John H. Eichert, Jr., Emily Zhao, Yilian Yuan, Yanping Liu, Steve Eichert, D. Bruce West, William McClellan
  • Patent number: 10948271
    Abstract: A cold spark fire electronic eruptive apparatus characterized in that the erupting apparatus is comprised of an ejecting unit, an activation unit, a power unit, and a storage unit, wherein, the storage unit stores a cold fireworks material for discharge, the power unit is connected to the storage unit and also is connected with a heating unit, the power unit transmitting the cold fireworks material in the storage unit to the heating unit, and the heating unit activating the cold fireworks raw material, sending it to the air removal unit for eruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Zhou Xiaowen, Steve Bruce Freedman
  • Patent number: 10852105
    Abstract: A cold spark waterfall machine, which comprises an accelerating unit, a heating unit, a power unit, and a storage unit. The storage unit stores a cold fireworks raw material for discharging. The power unit is connected to the storage unit wherein the storage unit is connected with the heating unit, and the power unit transmits the cold fireworks raw material in the storage unit to the heating unit. The heating unit activates the cold fireworks raw material and sends the cold fireworks raw material to the acceleration unit. The acceleration unit causes the activated material to accelerate in a downward eruption, thus forming a waterfall of low temperature sparks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Zhou Xiaowen, Steve Bruce Freedman
  • Patent number: 10000916
    Abstract: For combination with a flush toilet water tank having a side wall, a pond water receptacle integrated with said tank side wall at the exterior of the tank, the receptacle opening upwardly, there being a water passage through the tank side wall, whereby pond water in the receptacle has a gravity determined top level at approximately the same level as water in the tank, and a removable cover extending over water in the receptacle, protecting against contaminated pond water gaining access to tank water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Inventor: Steve Bruce
  • Patent number: 9871988
    Abstract: The present application relates to an interconnect system for transmitting a stream of N-symbol data signals, which comprises a parallel data signal line bus, a line scrambler, a line de-scrambler and a defect detector. The defect detector is configured to detect one or more defective data signal lines. The line scrambler 110 is configured to accept an N-symbol data signal d having a sequence of data symbols in a predefined order and to output a permuted sequence d? of data symbols at its N output terminals oj. The line de-scrambler is configured to accept the permuted sequence d? of data symbols at its input terminal i?j, to restore the predefined order of the data symbols from the permuted sequence d? of data symbols; and to output the restored N-symbol data signal d comprising a sequence of data symbols in the predefined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Aubineau, Didier Christian Geffrotin, Michael Andreas Staudenmaier, Steve Bruce McAslan
  • Publication number: 20170362805
    Abstract: For combination with a flush toilet water tank having a side wall, a pond water receptacle integrated with said tank side wall at the exterior of the tank, the receptacle opening upwardly, there being a water passage through the tank side wall, whereby pond water in the receptacle has a gravity determined top level at approximately the same level as water in the tank, and a removable cover extending over water in the receptacle, protecting against contaminated pond water gaining access to tank water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventor: Steve Bruce
  • Publication number: 20170026605
    Abstract: The present application relates to an interconnect system for transmitting a stream of N-symbol data signals, which comprises a parallel data signal line bus, a line scrambler, a line de-scrambler and a defect detector. The defect detector is configured to detect one or more defective data signal lines. The line scrambler 110 is configured to accept an N-symbol data signal d having a sequence of data symbols in a predefined order and to output a permuted sequence d? of data symbols at its N output terminals oj. The line de-scrambler is configured to accept the permuted sequence d? of data symbols at its input terminal i?j, to restore the predefined order of the data symbols from the permuted sequence d? of data symbols; and to output the restored N-symbol data signal d comprising a sequence of data symbols in the predefined order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Vincent Aubineau, Didier Christian Geffrotin, Michael Andreas Staudenmaier, Steve Bruce McAslan
  • Patent number: 9423146
    Abstract: A device configured to control one or more components of an HVAC system. The device includes a display, a controller in communication with the display, and wherein the controller is configured to receive one or more user defined environmental settings. Further, the controller communicates with one or more environmental sensors, wherein the environmental sensors detect one or more environmental conditions. In addition, the controller is further configured to provide a visual indication on the display for the detected environmental conditions with respect to the user defined environmental settings. This visual indication includes one or more bounded region having an interior space indicative of user comfort level, wherein the bounded regions have one or more borders, and wherein the borders at least partially represent the user defined environmental settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Inventors: Bradley Steve Bruce, Daniel James Walter
  • Publication number: 20140277756
    Abstract: A device configured to control one or more components of an HVAC system. The device includes a display, a controller in communication with the display, and wherein the controller is configured to receive one or more user defined environmental settings. Further, the controller communicates with one or more environmental sensors, wherein the environmental sensors detect one or more environmental conditions. In addition, the controller is further configured to provide a visual indication on the display for the detected environmental conditions with respect to the user defined environmental settings. This visual indication includes one or more bounded region having an interior space indicative of user comfort level, wherein the bounded regions have one or more borders, and wherein the borders at least partially represent the user defined environmental settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Bradley Steve Bruce, Daniel James Walter