Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm H. Michael Brucker
  • Internally braced straw bale wall and method of making same
    Patent number: 7461488
    Abstract: Systems and methods of internally bracing straw bales during construction of a straw bale wall using ladder structures that eliminate the need for external bracing and form a permanent part of the wall's internal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Integrated Structures, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy Gary Black
  • Methods and apparatus for controlling moisture in straw bale core walls
    Patent number: 7461486
    Abstract: A moisture control system for a straw bale core wall in which gravity fed moisture from the bales is collected in a sump at the foundation level and drained away, while an airspace is provided above the bale core to collect and direct away moisture of evaporation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Integrated Structures, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy Gary Black
  • Rice-based snack chip and method of making same
    Patent number: 7416755
    Abstract: A rice-based snack chip made from a dough including the dry ingredients of bumped rice kernels, long-grain pregelatinized rice flour, medium-grain course white rice flour and in which the bumped rice kernels are partially hydrated, bumped, partially dehydrated and fried as the chip is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Inventor: Richard Gorski
  • Data storage and retrieval system
    Patent number: 7356540
    Abstract: A user based computer system for information storage and retrieval in which information data items are stored in a persistent memory for later searching, retrieval and/or browsing and related in the memory by a frame system wherein the stored information includes primary information from outside the system and additional information derived from primary information and inherited from stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Inventors: David E. A. Smith, Anton R. Fleig
  • Food plate
    Patent number: 7284675
    Abstract: A plate formed from a generally rectangular flat sheet of flexible material that can be configured to be bowed both longitudinally and laterally to form a concave food holding area and a generally flat container-carrying area with a container-holding hole which permits both food and a beverage to be securely held in one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Inventor: Sun Hui Chang
  • Rice-based snack chip and method of making same
    Patent number: 7189424
    Abstract: A rice-based snack chip made from a dough including the dry ingredients of bumped rice kernels, long-grain pregelatinized rice flour, medium-grain course white rice flour and in which the bumped rice kernels are partially hydrated, bumped, partially dehydrated and fried as the chip is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Inventor: Richard Gorski
  • Adjustable sounding board for acoustical stringed instruments
    Patent number: 7183474
    Abstract: A tension adjustable upper sound board for an acoustical stringed musical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventor: Newcomb Barger
  • Processed garlic pieces
    Patent number: 7175870
    Abstract: A form of garlic and process for making same in which cloves of garlic are cut into bits, blanched or baked to reduce the strength of the garlic flavor and bitterness, and then fried to produce ready-to-use, crunchy, roasted flavor garlic pieces that can be conveniently stored and dispensed from a shaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: The Garlic Company
    Inventors: John Layous, Richard Gorski, Peter Mattson
  • Nursing enclosure
    Patent number: 7114191
    Abstract: A nursing enclosure which protects the modesty of a nursing mother and provides a nursing child with a defined enclosure separating it from the immediate environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Inventor: Charlotte Butler-Penenberg
  • Dynamic eye simulation mechanism
    Patent number: 7025655
    Abstract: A dynamic eye simulation mechanism in which an eye orb having a spherical surface has one area of that surface of a color simulating an eyelid and another area having a representation of an eye iris and surrounding sclera applied thereto wherein the orb is mounted for rotation relative to an eye aperture to simulate an eyelid closing and an eyelid blinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Folkmanis, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Chase
  • Marine catamaran platform
    Patent number: 7013819
    Abstract: A marine catamaran platform especially advantageous for small boats (in the three meter range) in which two substantially identical hulls are surmounted by superstructures that are joined by arced beams that lie in a plane that forms an acute angle of between 30° and 60° with a plane common to the hulls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Sanchez, Jean-Philippe Sanchez, Pierre Jagourd
  • Methods and apparatus for watermelon sizing, counting and sorting
    Patent number: 7004331
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for sizing watermelons by weight in which a conveyor belt carries watermelons from a loading station to a weigh station and finally to a discharge station where they are directed to one of several bins depending on their weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Timco Distributors, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Tew, Seth A. Hollyman, Richard A. McGaw, Timothy Colin
  • Methods and apparatus for watermelon sizing, counting and sorting
    Patent number: 7004330
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for sizing watermelons by weight in which a conveyor belt carries watermelons from a loading station to a weigh station and finally to a discharge station where they are directed to one of several bins depending on their weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Timco Distributors, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Tew, Seth A. Hollyman, Richard A. McGaw, Timothy Colin
  • Disposable container for use in fluid processing
    Patent number: 7004196
    Abstract: A flexible, disposable container used in fluid processing apparatus including flow control means to promote mixing of fluid within the flexible container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Stedim, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry F. Schubmehl, Patrick Lansky
  • Apparatus and methods for creating real-time 3-D images and constructing 3-D models of an object imaged in an optical system
    Patent number: 6891671
    Abstract: Dynamic aperture microscopy in which the portion of an objective aperture that passes light in an optical system that images an object is continuously changed to create motion parallax which continuously changes the angle from which the object is viewed to create a moving 3-D view of the object from which a 3-D model of the object can be constructed that can be seen or measured from any angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Inventor: Gary Greenberg
  • Apparatus and methods for creating real-time 3-D images and constructing 3-D models of an object imaged in an optical system
    Patent number: 6798570
    Abstract: A light microscope illuminator with a light source off the conjugate objective aperture allowing light beam shaping and modifying devices to be located at the conjugate objective aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Inventor: Gary Greenberg
  • Lotion applicator
    Patent number: D518597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventor: J. Erich Sommers
  • Food plate
    Patent number: D530155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Inventor: Sun Hui Chang
  • Lottery ticket scraper
    Patent number: D552316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Inventors: Jerald Bloch, Winston D. Di Russo
  • Water skimmer
    Patent number: D493589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Inventor: Floyd E. Porteous