Patents by Inventor Dennis C. Simmons

Dennis C. Simmons 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).

  • Patent number: 11221038
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for creating hypermobile joints; hypermobile magnetic joints; super hypermobile joints; and super hypermobile, super magnetic joints. Joints can be simple magnetic, where one ferromagnetic element is a permanent magnet and the other is not; or super magnetic, where both are permanent magnets. Super hypermobile magnetic joints are created with two enclosures, joined magnetically and free to rotate around the other, with ferromagnetic elements inside the enclosures magnetized. As the moments of the magnetic domains of the enclosed magnetized ferromagnetic elements align parallel to each other inside each enclosure, as well as to the moments of the magnetic domains of the other magnetized ferromagnetic elements inside the other enclosure, the resulting magnetic attraction/attachment brings the enclosures together completing the joint. The frictional forces on the surfaces of the enclosures maintains the positions of the enclosures, and thus the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventor: Dennis C Simmons, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20180338419
    Abstract: Utilizing embodiments comprised of atomic structures with superior tensile strength and compressibility such as carbon fiber; wrapped, molded, fused, or applied to a flexible embodiment; provides an embodiment that can still flex, but with superior reliability and safety. Plastic/nylon and similar embodiments rotating around an axis have little tensile strength and break apart as they hit objects. Carbon fibers or like materials; fused, molded, or applied to a rotating flexible embodiment add strength, while allowing it to still flex. Fusing, molding, wrapping, or applying intertwined fibers asymmetrically cancel torques as centrifugal forces try to straighten these flexible embodiments, leaving it a stronger embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventor: Dennis C. Simmons, SR.
  • Patent number: 5465378
    Abstract: A preferred report generating system includes a computer (12) responsive to user-spoken inputs for selecting previously defined report material including text and graphics stored in memory respectively corresponding to the inputs, for activating other user inputs, and implementing corresponding computer commands. After receipt of preferred user-spoken inputs entered by way of a microphone (16) representing information needed for generating a report, the system compiles the report material corresponding to the user-selected inputs for generating the report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Compuspeak, Inc.
    Inventors: David T. Duensing, Dayle E. Phillips, Dennis C. Simmons