Patents by Inventor George A. Wise

George A. Wise 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: 10113687
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a device that stabilizes a television to a dresser and a dresser to a nearby wall or stationary surface. The present invention comprises at least one wall mount and wall bracket, at least one television mount and television bracket, at least one dresser mount, and at least one at least one dresser plate. At least one television bracket connects a television or similar device to a dresser or similar object. The dresser mounting plate connects at least one television bracket and at least one dresser bracket to a dresser. At least one wall mount engages with at least one dresser bracket and secures the position of the dresser or similar object, and consequently the flat screen television or similar device to a wall. The present invention prevents the falling of both the television or similar device and the dresser or similar object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Inventor: George Wise
  • Publication number: 20180209580
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a device that stabilizes a television to a dresser and a dresser to a nearby wall or stationary surface. The present invention comprises at least one wall mount and wall bracket, at least one television mount and television bracket, at least one dresser mount, and at least one at least one dresser plate. At least one television bracket connects a television or similar device to a dresser or similar object. The dresser mounting plate connects at least one television bracket and at least one dresser bracket to a dresser. At least one wall mount engages with at least one dresser bracket and secures the position of the dresser or similar object, and consequently the flat screen television or similar device to a wall. The present invention prevents the falling of both the television or similar device and the dresser or similar object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventor: George Wise
  • Patent number: 8256365
    Abstract: A boat plug system for automatically sealing a boat. The boat plug system is mounted in a drain hole passing through the boat's transom and includes: a cylindrical-shaped plug; a ball valve assembly removably coupled within the cylindrical-shaped plug; and further comprising a ball, a sealing ball seat component having a frustroconical shape to receive the ball when the ball valve assembly is in the sealed position, and at least one screen; and a plug cap/tool further comprising a tool head on one side for removably coupling the ball valve assembly within the cylindrical-shaped plug and an opposite side of the plug cap/tool from the tool head is for sealing the cylindrical-shaped plug. Water may flow out of the boat's drain hole, but is substantially stopped from flowing from the exterior of the boat to the interior via the drain hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventors: George Wise, Thomas Brackett
  • Publication number: 20100300343
    Abstract: A boat plug system for automatically sealing a boat. The boat plug system is mounted in a drain hole passing through the boat's transom and includes: a cylindrical-shaped plug; a ball valve assembly removably coupled within the cylindrical-shaped plug; and further comprising a ball, a sealing ball seat component having a frustroconical shape to receive the ball when the ball valve assembly is in the sealed position, and at least one screen; and a plug cap/tool further comprising a tool head on one side for removably coupling the ball valve assembly within the cylindrical-shaped plug and an opposite side of the plug cap/tool from the tool head is for sealing the cylindrical-shaped plug. Water may flow out of the boat's drain hole, but is substantially stopped from flowing from the exterior of the boat to the interior via the drain hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: George Wise, Thomas Brackett
  • Patent number: 6615760
    Abstract: An automatically sealing boat draining device to be mounted in a hole passing through the transom of a boat, includes: a cylindrical housing with a drain hole; a ball valve assembly mounted within and removable from the drain hole; and a plug for sealing the drain hole. The ball valve assembly includes a ball, a sealing ball seat component, and a flow through ball seat component that are held within the drain hole by a retaining ring. A flow of water from the outer end toward the inner end of the drain hole causes the ball to seat in the sealing seat component and seal the drain hole. A flow of water from the inner end toward the outer end of the drain hole causes the ball to seat in the ball flow though seat component and permit the flow of water through the drain hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Inventors: George A. Wise, Thomas A. Brackett
  • Patent number: 4867437
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an attachment for a scanner apparatus which electrically scans the markings on the upper face of test score sheets. The attachment stacks score sheets in either a main hopper or a reject hopper with the sheets being stacked in either hopper in the sequence in which the sheets were scanned. Thus, the first sheet after having its upper face scanned is inverted and placed on the bottom of a hopper with the face surface directed downwardly. Each subsequent test score sheet is inverted and placed on the prior score sheet. When removed from either hopper, a stack of sheets can be inverted as an entirety, thereby establishing the faces of the score sheets in their original order. The stack can then be conveniently run back through the scanner or other apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: The Psychological Corporation
    Inventor: George Wise