Patents by Inventor Tony Marinus de Rijk

Tony Marinus de Rijk 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).

  • Portable and dedicated compact disk read-write unit
    Patent number: 7272667
    Abstract: A portable CR-RW drive has a CD drive and spindle platform, a chargeable battery power source, at least one docking bay for docking a removable storage medium and a processor supporting firmware for enabling functions of the drive. In a preferred embodiment the drive is, in a portable fashion, used minimally to burn CDs from data stored on the removable storage medium using the battery as a power source and wherein no externally connected device is required to participate in the function of the drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: PNI Corporation
    Inventors: George Hsu, Tony Marinus de Rijk
  • Portable and dedicated compact disk read-write unit
    Publication number: 20040199687
    Abstract: A portable CR-RW drive has a CD drive and spindle platform, a chargeable battery power source, at least one docking bay for docking a removable storage medium and a processor supporting firmware for enabling functions of the drive. In a preferred embodiment the drive is, in a portable fashion, used minimally to burn CDs from data stored on the removable storage medium using the battery as a power source and wherein no externally connected device is required to participate in the function of the drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: George Hsu, Tony Marinus de Rijk