Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David R. Deal
  • Patent number: 6456938
    Abstract: A personal owned palm-held device consisting of software executed on a palm-held personal computer (PC) saddled into and connected directly to a dGPS receiver such that an individual golf player may map a golf course by traversing its attributes, displaying said map and collecting golf play data for any golf course. In addition, the ability to upload and download golf course maps to an Internet web site shall reduce the need for subsequent users to repeat the effort of mapping the same course more than once. Also, downloadable courses will facilitate the use of the palm-held PC by users that do not have a dGPS attachment. When used without a dGPS attachment, ball locations will be determined manually by estimating the ball location with reference to visual salient course attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Inventor: Kent Deon Barnard
  • Patent number: 6418587
    Abstract: The invention is a cleaning tool housing assembly and a replaceable cleaning assembly. The manifold, in combination with a fluid intake element, also delivers fluid (under pressure through holes in the manifold located in a longitudinal channel) to a sponge. Two spaced apart fluid barriers are longitudinally disposed in the sponge. As fluid is introduced into the center of the sponge, between the fluid barriers, the fluid travels toward the opposite surface of the sponge. The fluid is prevented from traveling laterally due to the fluid barriers. As vacuum pressure, negative pressure, is exerted on the outer portions of the sponge (on each side of the fluid barriers), fluid is pulled back through the sponge, through the manifold and through the nozzles into the hollow housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Rug Doctor, L.P.
    Inventors: Roger Kent, Rodney D. Maddox, Frank Stephan, William B. Kennedy