Patents by Inventor Michael E. Wheeler

Michael E. Wheeler 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: 11969249
    Abstract: Disclosed systems, methods, and products include a self-contained electroencephalogram (EEG) recording patch including a first electrode, a second electrode and where the first and second electrodes cooperate to measure a skin-electrode signal, a substrate containing circuitry for generating an EEG signal there-from, amplifying the EEG signal, digitizing the EEG signal, and retrievably storing the EGG signal in a programmatic fashion. The patch also comprises a power source and an enclosure that houses the substrate, the power source, and the first and second electrodes in a unitary package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Epitel, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis E. Dudek, Michael K. Elwood, John H. Fisher, Mark J. Lehmkuhle, Jean M. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 6749268
    Abstract: A pneumatic closing apparatus suitable for metering grain or other material gravity discharged by twin pendulum hopper doors from a hopper trailer. The closing apparatus includes a bidirectional pneumatic cylinder that operates a linkage assembly controlling the doors and a torsion spring which damps the pneumatic cylinder so that it is possible to meter the grain or other material. The torsion spring also resisting opening of the pendulum doors if the pneumatic cylinder loses pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Inventors: Michael E. Wheeler, Derek L. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 5662374
    Abstract: A dump body for mounting on a truck or trailer having a floor with a top surface and an underneath surface and a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal channels on the top surface with complementary ridges on the underneath surface extending to the rear edge of the floor. The floor being supported proximate its rear edge by an apron having a top surface that follows the contours of the underneath surface of the floor at its rear edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Wheeler Steel Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael E. Wheeler