Patents by Inventor Adam Kirkpatrick

Adam Kirkpatrick 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).

  • Vocalization training method
    Patent number: 9564061
    Abstract: A method and software supporting the method that improves the perceived quality of a vocalist's and/or singer's spoken or sung tone by teaching how to self-lower the larynx and maintain the lower laryngeal position while vocalizing and singing. An exemplary vocal instruction method comprising instructing a vocalist to self-monitor electromyographic data during singing, the data provided from an electromyograph device, the device comprising electrodes attached to a skin surface covering the vocalist's larynx, translating the data to a graphic display indicating to the vocalist the relative tension or flaccidity of the vocalist's laryngeal depressor muscles, instructing the vocalist to perform at least one physiological and/or anatomical function sufficient to result in lowered real-time tension of the laryngeal depressor muscle assessed by the electromyo-graphic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Kirkpatrick
  • VOCALIZATION TRAINING METHOD
    Publication number: 20130177885
    Abstract: A method and software supporting the method that improves the perceived quality of a vocalist's and/or singer's spoken or sung tone by teaching how to self-lower the larynx and maintain the lower laryngeal position while vocalizing and singing. An exemplary vocal instruction method comprising instructing a vocalist to self-monitor electromyographic data during singing, the data provided from an electromyograph device, the device comprising electrodes attached to a skin surface covering the vocalist's larynx, translating the data to a graphic display indicating to the vocalist the relative tension or flaccidity of the vocalist's laryngeal depressor muscles, instructing the vocalist to perform at least one physiological and/or anatomical function sufficient to result in lowered real-time tension of the laryngeal depressor muscle assessed by the electromyo-graphic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Adam Kirkpatrick
  • Apparatus and method for improving an osmosis process
    Publication number: 20020008066
    Abstract: An osmosis or reverse osmosis process is improved by addition of a clathrate forming guest material in a solution to be purified. Addition of clathrate forming guest material to a solution to be filtered by reverse osmosis results in higher flow of permeate at lower pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Applicant: Earth Waters, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Adams Kirkpatrick, Gerald L. Brooks