Patents by Inventor William R. Hewitt

William R. Hewitt 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: 6585554
    Abstract: A musical drawing assembly having a drawing board on which a person can draw. A sensor is adapted to sense drawing movement on the drawing board. A storage device stores accompaniment melodies each having a different succession of musical tones. The storage device stores instrumental melodies corresponding to different musical instruments and each having a different succession of musical tones. The musical drawing assembly also includes a device for selecting one of the accompaniment melodies, and a device for selecting a musical instrument that corresponds to one of the different musical instruments. A controller is configured to output the selected one of the accompaniment melodies to an output device during the drawing movement and to output one of the instrumental melodies that corresponds to the selected instrument to the output device in response to the drawing movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Hewitt, Daniel Dignitti, Jeffrey J. Miller, Martin Wilson
  • Patent number: 6116983
    Abstract: A remotely-controlled crib toy generates audio and/or video sensible output in response to user commands received by a remote control system. The nature and duration of the sensible output can be selected by the user. The sensible output is selected to be soothing to an infant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Long, Christopher Cimerman, James P. Meade, Charles D. Smith, James A. Bishop, Jr., Elisabeth Krisel, William R. Hewitt
  • Patent number: 4536108
    Abstract: The flute terminus or carry out of a microdrill is located spaced from cross-sectional changes of the drill and away from such areas of stress concentration and permits a slight flexing of the drill to compensate for standard production environment in efficiencies such as spindle runout, nonperpendicularity of drill to workpiece and workpiece material which is not homogeneous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Robert W. Saxton, William R. Hewitt, Jerome M. Nelligan