Patents by Inventor Walter A. Bruehs

Walter A. Bruehs 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: 20240119084
    Abstract: A system configured to perform a forensic analysis of a file including: one or more processors; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system device to: receive one or more files for analysis; identify a file format for the file; determine whether the file format is a supported multimedia file; parse the file to separate structural elements from the file; generate a profile structural signature for the one or more files; a database including a plurality of profile structural signatures corresponding to known hardware and/or software; determining whether the one or more files matches one of the plurality of profile structural signatures; and providing an indication of an identity of the known hardware and/or software for the one or more files upon a determination that the one or more files matches one of the plurality of profile structural signatures. A method for performing a forensic analysis of a file is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel John Fischer, Bertram C. Lyons, Walter Bruehs
  • Patent number: 11809482
    Abstract: A system and method to perform a forensic analysis of a file including: one or more processors; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system device to: receive one or more files for analysis; identify a file format for the file; determine whether the file format is a supported multimedia file; parse the file to separate structural elements from the file; generate a profile structural signature for the one or more files; a database including a plurality of profile structural signatures corresponding to known hardware and/or software; determining whether the one or more files matches one of the plurality of profile structural signatures; and providing an indication of an identity of the known hardware and/or software for the one or more files upon a determination that the one or more files matches one of the plurality of profile structural signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Medex Forensics, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel John Fischer, Bertram C. Lyons, Walter Bruehs
  • Patent number: 5306528
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for coating a plurality of coating compositions onto a moving support while minimizing the time required to switch from one coating composition to a different coating composition. The method involves supplying a first coating composition to a hopper at a first flowrate. When the switch is made to an alternate coating composition, the alternate coating composition is supplied to the hopper at a second flowrate while coating composition is removed from the hopper at a third flowrate equal to the first flowrate subtracted from the second flowrate. After sufficient pumping the alternate coating composition is supplied to the hopper at the first flowrate and no coating composition is removed from the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Walter A. Bruehs