Patents by Inventor Anupam Pathak

Anupam Pathak 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).

  • Stabilizing hand grip system
    Patent number: 7563097
    Abstract: In a self-contained actively-controlled stabilization system within a hand-grip, all components are contained within the handgrip, and one generic handgrip can be attached to a variety of devices for a wide range of applications, thereby increasing portability, reducing weight and bulkiness, and decreasing complexity and application dependence. The handgrip includes a sensor, a controller and an actuator which preferably employs at least one shape memory alloy wire. The actuator drives a platform mechanism which may be configured such that the elevation and azimuth degrees of freedom are coupled or uncoupled. Direct, rotational and other platform mechanisms may be used with the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignees: Techno-Sciences, Inc., The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Christopher Lavigna, Diann Brei, Jonathan Luntz, Anupam Pathak
  • Stabilizing hand grip system
    Publication number: 20060194173
    Abstract: In a self-contained actively-controlled stabilization system within a hand-grip, all components are contained within the handgrip, and one generic handgrip can be attached to a variety of devices for a wide range of applications, thereby increasing portability, reducing weight and bulkiness, and decreasing complexity and application dependence. The handgrip includes a sensor, a controller and an actuator which preferably employs at least one shape memory alloy wire. The actuator drives a platform mechanism which may be configured such that the elevation and azimuth degrees of freedom are coupled or uncoupled. Direct, rotational and other platform mechanisms may be used with the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Christopher Lavigna, Diann Brei, Jonathan Luntz, Anupam Pathak