Patents by Inventor Richard N. Koch

Richard N. Koch 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: 9280893
    Abstract: This disclosure enables a respective user to show support to a person of interest. One configuration includes a network (e.g., phone network, Internet, etc.) configured to receive input from a respective user (e.g., family member, friend, etc.) and control a remotely located device. The remote device can be located at any suitable locations such as a gravesite of a deceased party, a hospital room in which a disabled patient resides, etc. Via input from a respective user, the respective user can control different functions of a remote target device such as audibly communicate one or more messages in a vicinity of the gravesite, control a remote device such as light source (such as a candle, light emitting diode, etc.), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Inventor: Richard N. Koch
  • Publication number: 20140211961
    Abstract: This disclosure enables a respective user to show support to a person of interest. One configuration includes a network (e.g., phone network, Internet, etc.) configured to receive input from a respective user (e.g., family member, friend, etc.) and control a remotely located device. The remote device can be located at any suitable locations such as a gravesite of a deceased party, a hospital room in which a disabled patient resides, etc. Via input from a respective user, the respective user can control different functions of a remote target device such as audibly communicate one or more messages in a vicinity of the gravesite, control a remote device such as light source (such as a candle, light emitting diode, etc.), etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventor: Richard N. Koch
  • Patent number: 4734063
    Abstract: Various methods and techniques for making barrel terminals are disclosed, all of which are based upon the initial formation of the terminal contactor strips as an integral flat sheet metal blank produced by a conventional stamping operation. The contactor strips may thus be maintained in a predetermined relationship with each other and manipulated as a unit through successive assembly steps well adapted to be performed by automated tooling.Several contactor strip blank configurations are disclosed, together with assembly methods for forming and assembling the blanks into completed barrel terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignees: Joseph J. Koch, Richard N. Koch
    Inventors: Joseph J. Koch, Richard N. Koch, Peter H. Vandekerkhof
  • Patent number: 4657335
    Abstract: A barrel terminal socket is constructed by forming a sheet metal blank with uniformly spaced, parallel, longitudinal strips integrally connected at their opposite ends to transversely extending webs. The blank is then formed into a cylinder, inserted into a close-fitting cylindrical sleeve and one end of the blank is fixedly secured to the sleeve. The opposite end of the blank is then rotated relative to the sleeve through a predetermined angle and then fixedly secured in its rotated position to the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: K & K Stamping
    Inventors: Joseph J. Koch, Richard N. Koch, Peter H. Vandekerkhof