Patents by Inventor Howard L. Terriss

Howard L. Terriss 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).

  • Calculator with a displayed commercial message
    Patent number: 5964823
    Abstract: A hand held calculator with keyboard buttons to display numbers on a screen as a display foreground, and a rearwardly disposed panel with an imprinted commercial message expressed in words/letters as a display background, in which although the foreground is over the background, a viewer is not confused because the numbers and letters are readily distinguishable from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Chase Marketing International
    Inventors: Howard L. Terriss, Marc Chase Weinstein
  • Message cube
    Patent number: 5883341
    Abstract: An article of manufacture having voice-recording and recorded voice-playback mechanisms having a cube external shape, which is disguised as a household decorative fixture, e.g. a photograph holder, and internally bounding an echo chamber, e.g. a volume of at least 60 cubic inches, such that there is sufficient clarity in the played back recording due to the use of the echo chamber to enable recognition of the voice, to thereby add to the gift value of the article of manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Inventors: Howard L. Terriss, Marc Chase Weinstein
  • Medicine container for indicating patient information
    Patent number: 5846089
    Abstract: A medicine container providing audible dosage instructions in a voice recognizable to the user, so that a user, even with a sight or like disability, can rely on voice recognition as providing verification of the accuracy and particular appropriateness of the dosage instructions to the user of the medicine container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventors: Richard C. Weiss, Howard L. Terriss