Patents Represented by Attorney Robert Ryan Quirk & Tratos Morishita
  • Patent number: 6072408
    Abstract: In a first embodiment, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is driven by a generator that provides a cyclic voltage having a sawtooth waveform. The VCO cyclicly provides a signal at a frequency that varies over a range that includes a frequency of a transmitted signal that causes a vehicular traffic signal light control system, of a type that has an inductive loop buried in a roadway, to provide a desired illumination of traffic signal lights of the system. The VCO is connected to a power amplifier that has its output connected to an antenna. In a second embodiment, a signal processor provides a train of pulses at a frequency of radiation from the inductive loop. The number of the pulses of the pulse train that are provided during a timing interval is stored by a counter. A digital to analog converter is connected to the output of the counter. After the timing interval, a signal is transmitted substantially at the frequency of radiation in response to the output of a VCO that is connected to the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Inventors: Chuck E. Baer, Gary Sunda
  • Patent number: D424949
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Inventor: Danny Young
  • Patent number: D425821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Inventor: Armand Lamont
  • Patent number: RE36739
    Abstract: A card game is played on a felt covered semicircular table top with player stations along its arcuate edge. Pairs of cards of a deck are dealt face up until a pair consists of two cards of unequal rank. The two cards are respectively designated a B card and a P card. Cards of the deck are thereafter dealt face up until a conclusion card is dealt that is equal in rank to either the B card or the P card. A player makes a color wager on the color of a card that is dealt face up, a HI/LO wager on the rank of the card that is dealt face up and a P/B wager on the rank of the conclusion card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Inventor: Teofilo Gutierrez