Patents by Inventor William M. Tomlinson

William M. Tomlinson 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: 20100151432
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a method of collecting user responses to questions over a network. The method includes receiving sets of data identifying a question and possible responses. The method includes sending one set of data for presentation of the question and possible responses and user selection of at least one of the possible responses. The method further includes receiving data identifying user selections of at least one of the possible responses of the set of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Andrew W. Torrance, William M. Tomlinson
  • Publication number: 20020107726
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a method of collecting user responses to questions over a network. The method includes receiving sets of data identifying a question and possible responses. The method includes sending one set of data for presentation of the question and possible responses and user selection of at least one of the possible responses. The method further includes receiving data identifying user selections of at least one of the possible responses of the set of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Andrew W. Torrance, William M. Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 4599680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a packaging arrangement for a spacecraft computer designed to conduct experiments in a hostile environment of outer space. The computer has high density packaging of very large scale integration (VLSI) circuits. Heat is removed by direct contact with each heat producing item in the computer, which direct contact is provided for most integrated circuit chips by a heat conductive plane located between the chips and a printed circuit board. From the heat conductive plane, heat is further removed through direct contact with a housing adapted for physical connection to a cold plate for heat conduction thereto. All heat producing elements are in physical contact with heat transferring devices to transfer essentially all heat to the cold plate. The housing and heat transferring devices eliminate unwanted electromagnetic interference and help reduce galactical radiation especially of the x-ray frequency type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventors: William C. Gibson, William M. Tomlinson, Eugene T. Goldstein, George A. Ferguson
  • Patent number: PP6349
    Abstract: A bougainvillea Torch Glow plant which is defined by a unique torch-like floral arrangement formed along the substantially upright branching of the shrub that is compact in its branching and has dense foliage with the flowers being borne in dense oppositely branched cymes, which are axillary and are borne in the axils of almost all leaves from near the apex of the branch to from ten to forty centimeters down the branch, giving the appearance of a cylindrical spike, and wherein the roots are much thicker and more succulent than typical for bougainvillea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Inventors: Jack D. Ingwersen, William M. Tomlinson
  • Patent number: D357210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Inventors: William M. Tomlinson, Richard M. Ray