Patents by Inventor Benjamin D. Bandt-Horn

Benjamin D. Bandt-Horn 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).

  • Device and user interface for visualizing, navigating, and manipulating hierarchically structured information on host electronic devices
    Patent number: 9829987
    Abstract: A defined class of input devices is disclosed, consisting of a graspable body in two forms. Both forms include a scroll wheel-style mechanism that functions as a button from multiple directions, both include an apparatus providing six degrees of gestural freedom in three dimensions, and both provide for the wireless transmission capacity of these inputs, user data, audio, and other communications for the purpose of carrying credentials among various host electronic devices, and for manipulating and navigating an associated user interface for hierarchy visualization of structured information to be displayed on those host devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Bandt-Horn
  • DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE FOR VISUALIZING, NAVIGATING, AND MANIPULATING HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED INFORMATION ON HOST ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20150205367
    Abstract: A defined class of input devices is disclosed, consisting of a graspable body in two forms. Both forms include a scroll wheel-style mechanism that functions as a button from multiple directions, both include an apparatus providing six degrees of gestural freedom in three dimensions, and both provide for the wireless transmission capacity of these inputs, user data, audio, and other communications for the purpose of carrying credentials among various host electronic devices, and for manipulating and navigating an associated user interface for hierarchy visualization of structured information to be displayed on those host devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Bandt-Horn
  • Device and user interface for visualizing, navigating, and manipulating hierarchically structured information on host electronic devices
    Patent number: 9007302
    Abstract: A defined class of input devices is disclosed, consisting of a graspable body in two forms. Both forms include a scroll wheel-style mechanism that functions as a button from multiple directions, both include an apparatus providing six degrees of gestural freedom in three dimensions, and both provide for the wireless transmission capacity of these inputs, user data, audio, and other communications for the purpose of carrying credentials among various host electronic devices, and for manipulating and navigating an associated user interface for hierarchy visualization of structured information to be displayed on those host devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Bandt-Horn