Patents by Inventor Kent D. Howard

Kent D. Howard 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: 5379540
    Abstract: A sign assembly can be formed by attaching several modules together. Each module includes a lamp assembly for back lighting the sign display, and has walls with a plurality of dovetail grooves in their exterior surfaces. Double dovetail unions engage the dovetail grooves in abutting walls of a pair of modules to fasten those modules together. Other dovetail unions fill in exposed grooves or fasten a frame around the perimeter of the sign assembly. Each module has a wiring assembly with connectors at each corner so that adjoining modules can be electrically interconnected. This enables electricity to be externally applied to only one module of the assembly with the other modules receiving electricity directly or indirectly from that one module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: The Howard Company
    Inventor: Kent D. Howard