Patents by Inventor Kevin W. Nielson

Kevin W. Nielson 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: 9526333
    Abstract: A modular storage system employs flat-sided container modules that each have door/lid access on multiple sides thereof and are stackable atop one another in a stable manner by cooperating recesses and feet at the lid and bottom of the container module respectively. Securing clips can be employed to secure adjacent container modules together in various relative positions using pre-defined sets of clip-accommodating grooves in walls of the container modules. Accessories include a table-top module for creating a flat uninterrupted workspace atop a container module, a cooler tray insert for ice-cooled storage of food or beverage items within a container module, a vacuum sealed bag insert for collapsed air-tight storage within the container module, and shelving rack modules cooperatively stackable with the container modules for additional storage flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Inventor: Kevin W. Nielson
  • Patent number: 8505119
    Abstract: A garment belt features an elongated strap and a V-shaped closure member having first and second legs interconnected at joined ends thereof and diverging from one another away from the joined ends. The closure member is connected between effective ends of the strap to close the belt and form a waist loop being defined by the elongated strap, the V-shaped closure member and the connections therebetween. A garment to be worn about a wearer's waist features an open triangular notch depending into a waist portion of the garment from an upper boundary thereof on the front side of the garment. The belt, or a V-shaped accessory of similar appearance to its closure member, is wearable with the garment to provide a unique appearance, revealing an exposed triangular section of skin. The V-shaped closure or accessory may carry an ornamental jewelry piece suspended between the legs of the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Inventor: Kevin W. Nielson
  • Publication number: 20110271422
    Abstract: A garment belt features an elongated strap and a V-shaped closure member having first and second legs interconnected at joined ends thereof and diverging from one another away from the joined ends. The closure member is connected between effective ends of the strap to close the belt and form a waist loop being defined by the elongated strap, the V-shaped closure member and the connections therebetween. A garment to be worn about a wearer's waist features an open triangular notch depending into a waist portion of the garment from an upper boundary thereof on the front side of the garment. The belt, or a V-shaped accessory of similar appearance to its closure member, is wearable with the garment to provide a unique appearance, revealing an exposed triangular section of skin. The V-shaped closure or accessory may carry an ornamental jewelry piece suspended between the legs of the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: Kevin W. Nielson
  • Patent number: 6545669
    Abstract: Apparatus and process are provided for dragging or manipulating an object across a non-touch sensitive discontinuity between touch-sensitive screens of a computer. The object is selected and its parameters are stored in a buffer. The user activates means to trigger manipulation of the object from the source screen to the target screen. In one embodiment, a pointer is manipulated continuously on the source screen to effect the transfer. The object can be latched in a buffer for release on when the pointer contacts the target screen, preferably before a timer expires. Alternatively, the object is dragged in a gesture or to impinge a hot switch which, directs the computer to release the object on the target screen. In a hardware embodiment, buttons on a wireless pointer can be invoked to specify cut, copy or menu options and hold the object in the buffer despite a pointer lift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Inventors: Husam Kinawi, Kevin W. Nielson, Todd G. Simpson, James A. Malcolm
  • Patent number: 6331840
    Abstract: Apparatus and process are provided wherein an object can be manipulated between multiple discontinuous screens which form a single continuous virtual display. Each screen is touch or input sensitive to a pointing implement or device, and a physical discontinuity separates each of the screens from the others, this continuity being non-touch sensitive. First, a pointing implement contacts the source touch-screen to select the object, storing parameters in the computers buffer. The pointing implement is moved to the target touch-screen where the pointing implement contacts where the first object is to be dragged to; then the object is released from the buffer so that the first object is pasted to the target touch-screen. Preferably, when the object is touched at the source screen, a timer starts, and if the target screen is touched before timeout, the object appears at the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Inventors: Kevin W. Nielson, Husam Kinawi