Patents by Inventor Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro 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: 20050041201
    Abstract: The combination of a necklace having a pendant with an aperture, and a pair of eyeglasses having lenses and a frame. The eyeglasses have hinged temple bars, one of which is capable of extending through the aperture while the necklace is worn, to carry the eyeglasses with the pendant. The frame and/or the temple bars, and the pendant, are made of materials that are substantially identical in appearance, to provide identification between the necklace and the eyeglasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventor: Alan Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20020091606
    Abstract: A predictive automated routing system provides efficient and optimized securities trading. A User creates a personalized Best Execution Profile by selecting one or more statistical measures and by assigning respective weighting values to the selected statistical measures. The profile is transmitted to the User's broker/dealer at the time of or in advance of order placement and the broker/dealer stores the Best Execution Profile. The User-defined execution quality preferences, as indicated by the Best Execution Profile, are matched to the execution quality statistics for a plurality of market centers to determine which market center is most likely to execute the trade consistent with the User's trade execution quality preferences. Once a predictive match has been established, the order is automatically routed to the market center most likely to execute the trade consistent with the User-defined Best Execution Profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventor: Alan Shapiro
  • Patent number: 5727858
    Abstract: A universal drawer handle that includes a pair screws a pair of post portions, and a handle portion. The pair of post portions, are removably mounted to a conventional drawer front of a conventional drawer by the pair of mounting screws that have free ends that pass through a pair of conventional handle mounting holes in the conventional drawer front of the conventional drawer. The handle portion is slidably mounted to any desired position on the pair of post portions, so that the handle portion is free to slide relative to the pair of post portions and adjust for different spacings between different pairs of conventional handle mounting holes of different conventional drawer fronts of different conventional drawers so as to allow the universal drawer handle to be used to replace different sized drawer handles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Inventor: Alan Shapiro