Patents by Inventor Kenneth Edward Greiner

Kenneth Edward Greiner 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: 11874917
    Abstract: A device includes a viewfinder wheel with at least one viewfinder window, two or more code wheels rotatably coupled together with the viewfinder wheel about an axis, a plurality of characters, a plurality of code symbols, and a plurality of internal windows. The characters are spaced about a circumferential outer side of the viewfinder wheel and the code wheels. The code symbols are located in regions of a surface of each of the code wheels with each of the regions spaced out a different distance from the axis. The internal windows are in at least one of the code wheels adjacent the viewfinder wheel, wherein alignment of one of the characters of each of the viewfinder wheel and the code wheels at a key sequence location reveals through the viewfinder window and one or more of the internal windows a code sequence comprising a subset of the code symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Kenneth Edward Greiner
  • Publication number: 20220004620
    Abstract: A device includes a viewfinder wheel with at least one viewfinder window, two or more code wheels rotatably coupled together with the viewfinder wheel about an axis, a plurality of characters, a plurality of code symbols, and a plurality of internal windows. The characters are spaced about a circumferential outer side of the viewfinder wheel and the code wheels. The code symbols are located in regions of a surface of each of the code wheels with each of the regions spaced out a different distance from the axis. The internal windows are in at least one of the code wheels adjacent the viewfinder wheel, wherein alignment of one of the characters of each of the viewfinder wheel and the code wheels at a key sequence location reveals through the viewfinder window and one or more of the internal windows a code sequence comprising a subset of the code symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Kenneth Edward Greiner