Inventor · Spokane, WA, US

Bryan Hunt

41Patents
16h-index
30Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 9, 1998 → Dec 5, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8641758B1 Method and apparatus for inserting a filled prosthetic bladder into a patient Human Necessities 54 Active
US8918229B2 Method and apparatus for 3-D accelerometer based slope determination, real-time vehicle mass determination, and vehicle efficiency analysis Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 46 Active
US9170913B2 Method and apparatus for 3-D acceleromter based slope determination, real-time vehicle mass determination, and vehicle efficiency analysis Performing Operations; Transporting 42 Active
US6195627A Method and system for instrumenting simulation models Physics 35 Expired
US9280435B2 Method and apparatus for GPS based slope determination, real-time vehicle mass determination, and vehicle efficiency analysis Performing Operations; Transporting 34 Active
US9527515B2 Vehicle performance based on analysis of drive data Physics 34 Active
US9384111B2 Method and apparatus for GPS based slope determination, real-time vehicle mass determination, and vehicle efficiency analysis Performing Operations; Transporting 33 Active
US6195629A Method and system for selectively disabling simulation model instrumentation Physics 33 Expired
US9412282B2 Using social networking to improve driver performance based on industry sharing of driver performance data Physics 32 Active
US6223142A Method and system for incrementally compiling instrumentation into a simulation model Physics 28 Expired
US6826732B2 Method, system and program product for utilizing a configuration database to configure a hardware digital system Physics 28 Expired
US6421761B1 Partitioned cache and management method for selectively caching data by type Physics 24 Expired
US8914184B2 Method and apparatus for matching vehicle ECU programming to current vehicle operating conditions Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 23 Active
US6202042A Hardware simulator instrumentation Physics 22 Expired
US9358986B2 Method and apparatus for changing either driver behavior or vehicle behavior based on current vehicle location and zone definitions created by a remote user Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 19 Active
US7162404B2 Method, system and program product for configuring a simulation model of a digital design Physics 18 Expired
US6212491A Automatic adjustment for counting instrumentation Physics 15 Expired
US9229906B2 Method and apparatus for matching vehicle ECU programming to current vehicle operating conditions Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 15 Active
US6430656B1 Cache and management method using combined software and hardware congruence class selectors Physics 13 Expired
US9292978B2 Method and apparatus for reducing data transfer rates from a vehicle data logger when a quality of the cellular or satellite link is poor Physics 12 Active
US9747254B2 Method and apparatus for matching vehicle ECU programming to current vehicle operating conditions Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 11 Active
US7080347B2 Method, system and program product for specifying a configuration of a digital system described by a hardware description language (HDL) model Physics 8 Expired
US7266489B2 Method, system and program product for determining a configuration of a digital design by reference to an invertible configuration database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US10289651B2 Method and apparatus for matching vehicle ECU programming to current vehicle operating conditions Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 6 Active
US6978231B2 Embedded hardware description language instrumentation Physics 5 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.