Patents by Inventor Michelle Elizabeth Lustrino

Michelle Elizabeth Lustrino 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: 8549998
    Abstract: A portable apparatus to electromechanically emboss Braille patterns includes a user input, such as a six-key with spacebar keyboard, actuators that drive embossing pins via cam shafts coupled to servo or stepper motors, a tape advancing mechanism, and a cutting and scoring assembly. Three actuators, such as servo or stepper motors, may each be coupled to one shaft on which two or more cams drive two or more embossing pins for each row of two dots in the six dot Braille cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Inventors: Karina Nicole Pikhart, Wenxian Hong, Michelle Elizabeth Lustrino, Jennifer Hayden Rush, Jodie Zujone Wu, Sarah Shieh, Nicole Marley O'Keeffe, Josh Karges, Adelaide Sarah Calbry-Muzyka, Kwame Joel Hall
  • Publication number: 20100269716
    Abstract: A portable apparatus to electromechanically emboss Braille patterns includes a user input, such as a six-key with spacebar keyboard, actuators that drive embossing pins via cam shafts coupled to servo or stepper motors, a tape advancing mechanism, and a cutter and scoring assembly. Three actuators, such as servo or stepper motors, may each be coupled to one shaft on which two or more cams drive two or more embossing pins for each row of two dots in the six dot Braille cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Karina Nicole Pikhart, Wenxian Hong, Michelle Elizabeth Lustrino, Jennifer Hayden Rush, Jodie Zujone Wu, Sarah Shieh, Nicole Marley O'Keeffe, Josh Karges, Adelaide Sarah Calbry-Muzyka, Kwame Joel Hall