Patents Assigned to Techpower, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5164897
    Abstract: An automated method for selecting personnel which includes the step of selecting a first set of employees having qualifications matching a first job criteria from a first data file where the first data file includes a first plurality of records and each record includes a first job selection criteria, such as job titles, and a corresponding employee code. A second step comprises selecting a second plurality of employees having qualifications matching a second job criteria from a second data file which includes a second plurality of records wherein each record includes a second job selection criteria, such as industrial experience, and a corresponding employee code. In the preferred embodiment, a third selection is made from yet a third data file including records having a third job selection criteria, such as special skills, with a corresponding employee code. This results in three groups of selected records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Techpower, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil M. Clark, Gerald C. Crow, Kent Mueller, Michael Roloff, Scott Henkel, Allan W. Lehtinen
  • Patent number: 3947978
    Abstract: An answer card and an educational device are disclosed wherein a flexible card has answer selection points on a first side and at least one electrically conductive ink spot on the second side opposite a selection point. The electrically conductive ink spot acts as a switch when the selection point opposite the spot is pressed causing the electrically conductive ink to bridge an open-circuited educational device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Techpower, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil M. Clark, Douglas A. Messmer