Patents by Inventor Kirk J. Smith

Kirk J. Smith 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: 20020010033
    Abstract: A putter fitting method includes the steps of providing a golfer with a first putter assembled from a first set of components including a putter head, a hosel, and a shaft. The golfer aims the putter towards a target, and the alignment of the first putter with respect to the target is checked. Then one of the components is changed, and the golfer again aims the putter towards the target, and the alignment of the second putter with respect to the target is checked. The process of changing one of the components continues until a combination is found which allows the golfer to correctly aim the putter towards the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Christine L. Aoki, Kirk J. Smith, Harold J. Deming, James E. Hofmeister
  • Patent number: 5307272
    Abstract: A multi-sensor system (10) for detecting the presence of objects on the surface of the ground or buried just under the surface, such as anti-personnel or anti-tank mines or the like. A remote sensor platform (12) has a plurality of metal detector sensors (22) and a plurality of short pulse radar sensors (24). The remote sensor platform (12) is remotely controlled from a processing and control unit (14) and signals from the remote sensor platform (12) are sent to the processing and control unit (14) where they are individually evaluated in separate data analysis subprocess steps (34, 36) to obtain a probability "score" for each of the pluralities of sensors (22, 24). These probability scores are combined in a fusion subprocess step (38) by comparing score sets to a probability table (130) which is derived based upon the historical incidence of object present conditions given that score set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Millard T. Butler, Steven P. Cave, James D. Creager, Charles M. Johnson, John B. Mathes, Kirk J. Smith