Patents by Inventor Keith Sherrill

Keith Sherrill 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).

  • Textile-based electrodes incorporating graduated patterns
    Patent number: 8443634
    Abstract: Textile-based electrodes incorporating graduated patterns include a fabric portion having non-conductive yarns and an electrically conductive region having electrically conductive yarn filaments. The electrodes can further include float yarns and can be configured in a textured or ribbed construction. When incorporated into a garment, the electrodes can be used to monitor biophysical characteristics, such as the garment wearer's heart rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Textronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Scheffler, Keith Sherrill
  • TEXTILE-BASED ELECTRODES INCORPORATING GRADUATED PATTERNS
    Publication number: 20110259638
    Abstract: Textile-based electrodes incorporating graduated patterns include a fabric portion having non-conductive yarns and an electrically conductive region having electrically conductive yarn filaments. The electrodes can further include float yarns and can be configured in a textured or ribbed construction. When incorporated into a garment, the electrodes can be used to monitor biophysical characteristics, such as the garment wearer's heart rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: TEXTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Sherrill, Kimberly Scheffler
  • Method of fabricating shirts from circularly knitted fabric and shirts produced thereby
    Patent number: 6550287
    Abstract: Shirts may be fabricated with a minimal number of sewn seams utilizing a first circularly knitted fabric tube forming a shirt body and a second circularly knitted fabric tube forming shoulder portions and sleeves by orienting the tubes essentially transversely to one another and sewing one axial end of the tubular fabric of the shirt body to a side portion medially along the length of the tubular fabric of the shoulders and sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Speizman Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Sherrill