Patents by Inventor Wayne A. Pickett

Wayne A. Pickett 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).

  • Publication number: 20230328118
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting presentation content based on user responses are described. Embodiments are configured to provide presentation content to a user from a host device, provide an interactive element in conjunction with the presentation content, collect response data from the user via the interactive element; and generate a customized document for the user based on the response data. Embodiments are further configured to provide the presentation content to a user through a website, and to customize the website based on the response data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Wayne Pickett, JR.
  • Patent number: 6546702
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to devices for encapsulating medicinal products and methods of using these devices to form the encapsulated product. More specifically, the present invention includes improved closing and/or ejection pins for use with a conventional capsule closing device. The closing pins may be hollow down a longitudinal interior diameter and may include a chamfered capsule contacting surface. The closing and/or ejection pins may be removably mounted to a pin plate and may be manufactured from a polymer. The pin plate may be attached to an actuation shaft in a non-rotational fashion, such as with a non-circular shaft profile and set screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Nutricia Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Wesley Wayne Pickett
  • Patent number: 5388818
    Abstract: A receive magazine configured to be positioned in a generally upright, vertical orientation for passively collecting a plurality of flexible sheets of media. The top wall of the enclosure has a collection door in the top wall of a light-tight enclosure allows sheets of media to be passively received within the magazine. A contoured plate is hinged along a hinge line near the collection door on a non-stacked side of the enclosure. The plate is planar near the hinge line and is non-planar at an end of the plate opposite from the hinge line. A biasing mechanism is positioned near the collection door for resiliently biasing the plurality of flexible sheets of media laterally toward the non-stacking side of the enclosure biasing the plate away from the non-stacking side of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Christopher J. Anton, Wayne A. Pickett