Patents by Inventor W. Brewer

W. Brewer 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).

  • Patent number: 12228356
    Abstract: A grit blasting arrangement for cleaning chemical reactor tubes includes means for ensuring the grit blast nozzle is coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the tube to be cleaned. The grit blasting device for cleaning tubes spaced apart by upper and lower tubesheets. The grit blasting device includes a grit blast nozzle mounted on a positioning frame and projecting outwardly with an outlet directed into a tube opening during a cleaning operation. The device includes a plurality of stop pins mounted on the positioning frame designed to abut a tubesheet and to define an imaginary plane coplanar with the tubesheet. The plurality of stop pins when abutting the tubesheet prevent the outlet of the nozzle from extending into the tube causing a venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Tubemaster, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford L Johns, Dennis Patrick McAndrews, Stephen W Brewer
  • Publication number: 20240314407
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Publication number: 20240298568
    Abstract: An applicator including: a frame with hopper mounted thereon to hold and dispense a granule product, the hopper including an electronically controlled gate(s); a tank to hold a liquid product; a electronically controlled spray tip(s) to dispense the liquid product; a spray pump located between the tank and spray tip(s); an operator control interface for receiving input from an operator; a control coupled to the operator control interface, the electronically controlled gate(s), and the spray tip(s), where the control receives input, dispenses the liquid or granule product based on the input received from the operator control; where when the liquid product is dispensed, the control provides a signal to the spray tip(s) to regulate a flow of the liquid product, and when the granule product is dispensed, the control provides a signal to the electronically controlled gate(s) to regulate a flow of the granule product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: David Michael Cook, Stephen W. Brewer
  • Patent number: 12022167
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Patent number: 11904226
    Abstract: An open field game arrangement includes glowing targets and provides responses, such as lights and sounds, when the targets are hit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Off Course Productions, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Glen Peterson, Stephen W. Brewer
  • Publication number: 20240013238
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify users associated with device application usage. A disclosed example method involves obtaining demographics of persons to participate in a panel for an audience research study, identifying a set of applications to be monitored, providing devices associated with the persons in the panel with a meter to record usage of the applications and with a user-to-application associator, the user-to-application associator to define associations between the applications to be monitored and the persons associate with the device before the applications are launched, receiving data from a first one of the devices identifying a first one of the persons as a primary user of a first one of the applications in the set of applications, receiving data from the first device identifying usage of the first application, and associating the demographics of the first person with the usage of the first application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Patent number: 11798011
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify users associated with device application usage. A disclosed example method involves obtaining demographics of persons to participate in a panel for an audience research study, identifying a set of applications to be monitored, providing devices associated with the persons in the panel with a meter to record usage of the applications and with a user-to-application associator, the user-to-application associator to define associations between the applications to be monitored and the persons associate with the device before the applications are launched, receiving data from a first one of the devices identifying a first one of the persons as a primary user of a first one of the applications in the set of applications, receiving data from the first device identifying usage of the first application, and associating the demographics of the first person with the usage of the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Publication number: 20230115724
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Patent number: 11470403
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Publication number: 20220219062
    Abstract: An open field game arrangement includes glowing targets and provides responses, such as lights and sounds, when the targets are hit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Off Course Productions, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Glen Peterson, Stephen W. Brewer
  • Publication number: 20220144493
    Abstract: A bracket for securing a bucket. The bracket includes a longitudinal strip comprising a body with an upper end and a lower end. The upper end has a U-shaped hook extending downward toward a middle portion of the body with a length of at least about ? of a length of the body. The hook is spaced apart, biased toward and substantially parallel in relation to the body. The hook is configured to retain at least an upper portion of a bucket with the distal end of the hook projecting outward to form a tab. The lower end has a lip extending upward and away from the body for supporting a bottom of a bucket. The bucket is mounted onto the bracket by securing it to the lip and is retained on the bracket by the hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Charles W. Brewer
  • Publication number: 20220142043
    Abstract: An applicator including: a frame with hopper mounted thereon to hold and dispense a granule product, the hopper including an electronically controlled gate(s); a tank to hold a liquid product; a electronically controlled spray tip(s) to dispense the liquid product; a spray pump located between the tank and spray tip(s); an operator control interface for receiving input from an operator; a control coupled to the operator control interface, the electronically controlled gate(s), and the spray tip(s), where the control receives input, dispenses the liquid or granule product based on the input received from the operator control; where when the liquid product is dispensed, the control provides a signal to the spray tip(s) to regulate a flow of the liquid product, and when the granule product is dispensed, the control provides a signal to the electronically controlled gate(s) to regulate a flow of the granule product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: David Michael Cook, Stephen W. Brewer
  • Patent number: 11285373
    Abstract: An open field game arrangement includes glowing targets and provides responses, such as lights and sounds, when the targets are hit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OFF COURSE PRODUCTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Glen Peterson, Stephen W Brewer
  • Publication number: 20220065043
    Abstract: A ladder including sensors, a controller, and output signals to alert the user to operating conditions and to aid the user in the safe operation of the ladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: USS Veteran Services Company LLC
    Inventors: Clifford L. Johns, Steven W. Brewer, David Dingman
  • Publication number: 20220046333
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Publication number: 20210310756
    Abstract: A grit blasting arrangement for cleaning chemical reactor tubes includes means for ensuring the grit blast nozzle is coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the tube to be cleaned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Tubemaster, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford L Johns, Dennis Patrick McAndrews, Stephen W Brewer
  • Patent number: 11102558
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Patent number: 11027183
    Abstract: A climbing structure includes a support frame and a wall assembly. The wall assembly comprises a chain arranged as a loop with an array of climbing panels attached to the chain so as to maintain a configuration that rotates the climbing panels downward as the user climbs to achieve a continuous climbing experience. A lower shaft assembly includes a shaft that rotates based on an angle of the wall assembly. A sprocket is mounted to the shaft such that the shaft and the sprocket rotate independently to maintain tension on the chain as the climbing panels rotate downward. A cable hub assembly is rigidly attached to the shaft and secures a cable that is attached to the support frame. A disc braking system includes a disc rigidly attached to the shaft and a caliper mounted on bearing bolts such that the disc braking system fixes the angle of the wall assembly without affecting the continuous climbing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Brewers Ledge Inc.
    Inventors: George W. Brewer, W. Conant Brewer
  • Publication number: 20210158379
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify users associated with device application usage. A disclosed example method involves obtaining demographics of persons to participate in a panel for an audience research study, identifying a set of applications to be monitored, providing devices associated with the persons in the panel with a meter to record usage of the applications and with a user-to-application associator, the user-to-application associator to define associations between the applications to be monitored and the persons associate with the device before the applications are launched, receiving data from a first one of the devices identifying a first one of the persons as a primary user of a first one of the applications in the set of applications, receiving data from the first device identifying usage of the first application, and associating the demographics of the first person with the usage of the first application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Patent number: 10909551
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify users associated with device application usage. A disclosed example method involves obtaining demographics of persons to participate in a panel for an audience research study, identifying a set of applications to be monitored, providing devices associated with the persons in the panel with a meter to record usage of the applications and with a user-to-application associator, the user-to-application associator to define associations between the applications to be monitored and the persons associate with the device before the applications are launched, receiving data from a first one of the devices identifying a first one of the persons as a primary user of a first one of the applications in the set of applications, receiving data from the first device identifying usage of the first application, and associating the demographics of the first person with the usage of the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer