Patents by Inventor James A. Benge

James A. Benge 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: 20220003568
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an application or a system and a method for finding/exploring areas, and specifically historical markers. The application alerts travelers to road-signs that list historical information. In addition to identifying them on a map, user input/output is adapted to accept user-input via spoken user commands, and for playing audio output to the user, the audio output comprising historical marker content and acknowledgement of audio commands. The functionality of the present invention includes a registration process, a data base of markers (i.e., a data), locating and navigating user to the nearest marker (i.e., navigating to a location). The user can add information to the selected marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: James Benge
  • Patent number: 5235830
    Abstract: A locking device for a storage container such as a tool box in which a hinged lid includes a pair of spaced detents depending to a latching configuration at their distal ends. Cooperating with the detents is a tubular conduit slidably displaceable and including slots in an upper surface in which to receive and secure the distal ends of the detents. A padlock for unlocking the box is received within a recess of the tool box providing exterior exposure to only the key end of the lock. Opening the padlock causes the lock body to eject partially outward of the tool box while forming a gap between the latching end of the lock shackle and the lock body. Secured to the conduit in the plane of the gap is a manually displaceable wing which when the lock is opened can be displaced into the gap to in turn displace the conduit and enable release of the detents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Inventor: James A. Benge