Patents Assigned to Inventions, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6859962
    Abstract: A set of sheets includes an upper sheet with a top panel and a lower sheet with a bottom panel. In conjunction, the upper and lower sheets are sized, structured and configured to enclose a mattress. A waterproof panel is positioned between the upper sheet and the top of the mattress to protect the mattress from damaging exposure to moisture and liquids, including bodily fluids. In several embodiments, the upper sheet and waterproof panel are removable for washing and changing thereof while the lower sheet remains fitted to the mattress, thereby avoiding the need to lift or move the mattress when changing the sheets. The waterproof panel may be independently removable to selectively control air permeability of the sheets, and particularly the upper sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Worry Free Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Darlene Diak/Ghanem
  • Patent number: 6823543
    Abstract: A set of bed sheets includes a lower sheet sized and configured to cover the bottom portion of a mattress and an upper sheet sized and configured to cover the top portion of the mattress. First and second separable fasteners about the respective continuous edges of the lower and upper sheets are removably attachable to secure the upper sheet to the lower sheet in a manner which encloses the mattress. The upper sheet includes a top surface which is formed of a material to define a third separable fastener. A collection of accessories include a crib rail bumper, a head support wedge, body position rolls, an insulated baby bottle/cup holder and a liquid impervious drool pad. Each of the accessories is provided with a fourth separable fastener adapted for releasable attachment to the third separable fastener on the top surface of the upper sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Worry Free Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Darlene Diak/Ghanem
  • Patent number: 6786815
    Abstract: An apparatus for venting several rooms having exhaust fans through existing roof openings made for existing ventilation systems, including turbine ventilators, roof ventilators, ridge ventilators and hip ventilators. The vent apparatus has two side panels, a bottom and two end panels. The apparatus is mounted under the roof ventilation system, using horizontal mounting elements disposed on the top edges of the end panels and side panels. When a ridge ventilator or hip ventilator is used, the end panels are formed with slots for fitting around the ridge rafter or hip rafter. The apparatus is mounted under the ridge ventilator, using mounting elements disposed along the slots on the end panels to attach the vent apparatus to the rafter. Each circular opening in the body had a stub extending downwardly for attachment of an end of the venting hose, which is connected to the bathroom exhaust vent fan. Removable covers can be placed into unused openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hy-Tech Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Folsom
  • Publication number: 20040133434
    Abstract: An automated customer service system and method which maintains and uses a customer sensitivity profile to contact the customer in a manner, at a time and date, and at a location which are preferred by the customer. The automated customer service system also maintains and uses an agent qualification profile, in conjunction with the customer sensitivity profile, to automatically assign agents to the various campaigns. An agent qualification profile identifies any special skills or qualifications that an agent may possess, such as language skills, type of voice, efficiency, and type of call processing skills. The system administrator devises a strategy script based upon the customer sensitivity requirements and the agent qualifications. The strategy script determines which agents meet which requirements, and whether there are adequate agents to handle the requirements of concurrent campaigns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: Inventions, Inc.
    Inventors: Aleksander Szlam, James E. Owen
  • Publication number: 20040111310
    Abstract: Automatically accepting applications, and testing, training, certifying, assigning, allocating, controlling, and scheduling remote agents. An applicant (100) transmits an application to a remote agent center (RAC) (130) via a Communications Network (120). The application contains the person's profile, training, and experience. The RAC validates the skills via testing or third party confirmation, accepts the person as a remote worker, certifies the person's skill levels, and places the person in the remote worker pool. The remote worker can also obtain remote training on new or additional topics. The RAC evaluates the business demands of an external party, identifies remote workers with the needed skills who are available, and transmits the work at the appropriate time to the remote workers. The work is transmitted via or through the RAC. The external parties thus do not have to recruit, train, or test persons, or be concerned with staffing issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: Inventions, Inc.
    Inventors: Aleksander Szlam, Karl A. Walder
  • Patent number: 6722679
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing assembly structured to be permanently or removably mounted on a bicycle or variety of other types of vehicles comprising an array of “squirt guns” more specifically defined by selectively operable nozzle assemblies. A control assembly is structured to operate one or more of the aforementioned nozzle assemblies and includes hand operated activating and positioning devices, remotely disposed from the nozzle assemblies and structured to accomplish concurrent or independent activation of the one or more nozzle assemblies and the selective positioning of at least one of the nozzle assemblies, such that streams of water may be directed outwardly from the vehicle in a variety of different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Time Design Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy P. Englert
  • Patent number: 6714188
    Abstract: An ergonomic mouse accessory that allows the user to easily manipulate the control buttons of the mouse with a variety of hand positions and varying movements, thereby reducing or eliminating repetitive strain injuries and increasing accessibility to those unable to operate a standard mouse. In one embodiment a sleeve is positioned over the front of the mouse and a click stick is secured to the sleeve so that the lower end of the stick contacts the mouse button while the majority of the stick protrudes above the sleeve. Striking the stick produces a lever and fulcrum action, wherein the connection of the stick at the point of contact with the sleeve acts as a pivot point and causes the lower end of the stick to depress the mouse button. A spring means can be used to return the stick to the fully vertical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: An Ounce of Invention, INC
    Inventors: William Zebuhr, Wesley Edwin Shattuck
  • Patent number: 6681683
    Abstract: A pan for cooking pancakes or eggs that allows for cooking and removal of the finished, cooked food product without the need for a hand-held spatula. The cooking pan includes a first cooking container having three circular cooking wells for cooking three pancakes simultaneously that is joined by a hinge to a flat cooking body having parallel handles that allow the device to be rotated 180 degrees. during the cooking process. A movable spacer can hold the lid partially open to allow steam to escape during cooking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Worldwide Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip D. Bart
  • Publication number: 20030196561
    Abstract: A pan for cooking pancakes or eggs that allows for cooking and removal of the finished, cooked food product without the need for a hand-held spatula. The cooking pan includes a first cooking container having three circular cooking wells for cooking three pancakes simultaneously that is joined by a hinge to a flat cooking body having parallel handles that allow the device to be rotated 180 degrees during the cooking process. A movable spacer can hold the lid partially open to allow steam to escape during cooking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: Worldwide Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip D. Bart
  • Patent number: 6631819
    Abstract: A baby bottle has a main body with an upper portion and a lower portion, and a neck provided with threads for removably attaching a standard nipple and collar thereto. An insulated structure of the main body includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and an air space between the walls for maintaining the liquid contents hotter or cooler for extended periods of time, while also preventing the formation of condensation on the outside of the bottle. Luminescent elements, such as shapes, letters or numbers, are applied to the outer surface of the inner wall to enhance visibility of the bottle and the level of the liquid contents in dark or low light conditions. In an alternative embodiment, the luminescent material is incorporated into the composition of the wall structure during the molding process. The lower portion of the main body is shaped for easy grasping by infants and toddlers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Worry Free Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Darlene Diak/Ghanem
  • Patent number: 6550374
    Abstract: A pan for cooking pancakes or eggs that allows for cooking and removal of the finished, cooked food product without the need for a hand-held spatula. The cooking pan includes a first cooking container having three circular cooking wells for cooking three pancakes simultaneously that is joined by a hinge to a flat cooking body having parallel handles that allow the device to be rotated 180 degrees during the cooking process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Worldwide Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip D. Bart
  • Patent number: 6539844
    Abstract: A pan for cooking pancakes or omelets that allows for cooking and removal of the finished, cooked food product without the need for a hand-held spatula. The cooking pan includes a first concave cooking container that is joined by a hinge to a flat cooking body having parallel handles that allow the device to be rotated 180 degrees during the cooking process. The final cooked food product can slide by gravity from the flat cooking body without a spatula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Worldwide Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip D. Bart
  • Publication number: 20020181398
    Abstract: A business has a main office (13) which has a controller (225), a plurality of telephones, a plurality of computers, a PBX and/or an ACD (216), and a plurality of corporate resources (220) such as servers, hosts, applications, databases, routers, gateways, switches, a voicemail system, an e-mail system, and facsimile servers. A user at the main office (13) has access to the various corporate resources and also has a portable communications device (10), such as a laptop computer, with which to place a call to the controller via a communications link (11) such as the Internet, to send user commands to and receive the resultant status, information, or operation, from, the controller, to access any of the corporate resources and data, and to make calls to and receive communications from outside parties (12). In addition, the user may create a personal profile which causes the controller to forward selected communications to him, via the Internet, wherever the user may be.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Aleksander Szlam
  • Publication number: 20020161896
    Abstract: A customer is transferred from a first Internet chat session on a first server to a second Internet chat session on a second server without the customer having to take any action whatsoever. The second server may be the same server as the first server or may be different from the first server and may be physically located in another city, state, country, or continent. When the need arises to transfer a customer chat to another agent (who may be on another server) the agent requests a transfer and a list of available chat sessions is provided (300) to the agent. If the agent requests a transfer of the customer to one of those available chat sessions then a determination (310) is made as to whether the proposed transfer is permitted. If the transfer is permitted and initiated by the agent, the agent's computer sends all the transfer information as well as a transfer command to the customers browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Applicant: Inventions, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam Wen, Bradley S. Birnbaum, Charles L. Warner
  • Publication number: 20020145624
    Abstract: A method for consolidating the information from multiple information sources so as to provide a uniform set of screens for an agent. All of the information sources are automatically linked in a coherent manner, which is defined by the user. The provision of an information item into a field automatically accesses user-specified information items from the various information sources. The user may combine and present the information from the various information sources in a uniform manner so that a given item of information always appears at the same location on the screen, and in the form desired, regardless of the original display format that is used by the information source. The station (10) receives (501) the initial information item and then sends (503) this information item to the sources specified by the information field, receives additional information items from these sources, and displays or presents the information items received in any desired media type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: Inventions, Inc.
    Inventors: Aleksander Szlam, James E. Owen
  • Publication number: 20020143878
    Abstract: A first computing device and a second computing device establish (101) a connection and the first computing device downloads (102) a mini-application which monitors for changed information on the first computing device, such as a new web page address or information entered into the field of a form displayed on the browser of the first computing device. Once the mini-application detects (103) such a change it sends (104) the information regarding the change to the second computing device. The second computing device then implements (105) that information by acting on or displaying that information, such as by going to the new web page address if the change was a new website, or by displaying the information in the appropriate field on the form displayed on the second computing device. The mini-application continues (106) to monitor for change on the first computing device until web collaboration is disabled (107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Inventions, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley S. Birnbaum, Arthur A. Lussos, Sam Wen
  • Patent number: 6431972
    Abstract: An apparatus for venting several plumbing pipes through existing roof openings made for existing ventilation systems, including turbine ventilators, roof ventilators, ridge ventilators and hip ventilators. The plumbing vent apparatus has two sides, a bottom and two removable end caps. End caps for use with a ridge ventilator or hip ventilator have slots for fitting around the ridge rafter. The apparatus is mounted in the roof opening made for the ventilation system, which is installed above it. When used with a ventilation system which has a ridge or hip rafter, the apparatus can be configured to have mounting flanges along the top of the sides for attachment to the roof decking, or can have mounting flanges along the slots on the end caps for attachment to the rafter. Each male adapter, which is inserted through an opening in the bottom of the apparatus, can hold the venting end of a PVC plumbing pipe. Removable covers are placed into unused openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Hy-Tech Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Folsom
  • Patent number: D473416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Worldwide Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip D. Bart
  • Patent number: D479647
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Mama's of Invention, Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Paura, Teri Seide, Catherine A. Paura
  • Patent number: D483611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Worry Free Inventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Darlene Diak Ghanem