Patents by Inventor Ryan J. Kuester

Ryan J. Kuester 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).

  • Card counter and method of counting cards
    Publication number: 20040178373
    Abstract: An automatic card counter (20) with a housing (22) with an open front with a card deck assembly (24) having a front opening to a card counting location and an underlying support for a stack (29) of cards (30) such as may be contained in a card box, such as plastic opaque, transparent or translucent credit cards, with an optical sensing system for detecting the edges of the cards (30) in the stack (29) to determine the number, or count, of the total number of the cards (30) in the stack (29) includes a light source (64) composed of an elongate string of a plurality of high intensity light emitting diodes directing red light rearward and downwardly away from the front card deck opening and along the entire length of the stack of cards through a window (96), a mirror (76) for simultaneous reflecting a complete image of the entire stack of cards downwardly and rearward to another mirror (100) that reflects the complete image rearward and horizontally to a lens system (108) with a relatively wide depth of field to
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Warren S. Graber, Ryan J. Kuester
  • Automated card counter and method of automatically counting cards
    Publication number: 20040178328
    Abstract: An automatic card counter (20) with a housing (22) with an open front with a card deck assembly (24) having a front opening to a card counting location and an underlying support for a stack (29) of cards (30) such as may be contained in a card box, such as plastic opaque, transparent or translucent credit cards, with an optical sensing system for detecting the edges of the cards (30) in the stack (29) to determine the number, or count, of the total number of the cards (30) in the stack (29) includes a light source (64) composed of an elongate string of a plurality of high intensity light emitting diodes directing red light rearward and downwardly away from the front card deck opening and along the entire length of the stack of cards through a window (96), a mirror (76) for simultaneous reflecting a complete image of the entire stack of cards downwardly and rearward to another mirror (100) that reflects the complete image rearward and horizontally to a lens system (108) with a relatively wide depth of field to
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Warren S. Graber, Ryan J. Kuester