Patents by Inventor Charles Patterson

Charles Patterson 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).

  • Publication number: 20100037384
    Abstract: A bathing environment such as a shower or a tub, has a knee wall in a wall of the environment, a stanchion disposed across from the knee wall, and a bench supported by the knee wall and the stanchion so a user may slide across said bench into said bathing environment. According to an embodiment of the invention, the stanchion has a groove having a depth equal to a thickness of the bench for receiving the bench therein while maintaining a flush surface across the stanchion and the bench to allow a user to slide thereacross.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Victor Hoernig, Geraint Krumpe, Charles A. Patterson, Man Ki Yoo
  • Publication number: 20100037383
    Abstract: A bath environment, such as a shower or a tub enclosure, has an outer wall and an area built into the outer wall that extends out of the bath environment. The area supports a user so that a user may pivot thereon to enter into the bath environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Victor Hoernig, Charles A. Patterson, Geraint Krumpe, Man Ki Yoo
  • Publication number: 20100037385
    Abstract: A bath environment, such as a tub or shower, has a seat upon which a user sits, and a first panel, usually glass, for enclosing a first portion of the bath environment proximal to the seat. The first panel has a width roughly correlated to a width of the seat to allow a user easy access to the seat and to the panel to manipulate the panel. The invention also has a second panel for enclosing a second portion of the bath environment. The second panel has a hinge and a pair of partitions connected by the hinge so that the partitions pivot about the hinge to allow access to the bath environment distal from the seat. Also included is a stanchion that is disposed on and extends upwardly from an outer edge of the bath environment to a given height. The first panel has a length that extends downwardly from an upper region of the bath environment and ends at the height of the stanchion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Victor Hoernig, Charles A. Patterson
  • Publication number: 20100037390
    Abstract: According to the invention, a bathing environment, such as a shower or a tub, has an entry way that does not encumber entry or exit from a bathing environment. The bathing environment has a drain in the entry way so that the entry way remains substantially level so that a user encounters no threshold if entering or exiting said bathing environment. The drain has a channel in the entry way for collecting water that flows to it, and a cover over the channel. The environment has a floor that slopes gently to the channel so that water is directed to the channel for removal therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Victor Hoernig, Charles A. Patterson, Man Ki Yoo
  • Patent number: 7650714
    Abstract: The body of the fisheye device is sized to be supported around the fisherman's neck and rest against his chest. The body carries a convex lens, a spinner hook for engaging and holding a fishing hook with the eye free. A visual panel is in the line-of-sight beyond the spinner hook and carries a surface which is visually appropriate to aid in tying the line through the eye of the fishing hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Inventor: Charles A. Patterson
  • Publication number: 20090127189
    Abstract: A method for treating wastewater wherein the wastewater is introduced in prescribed doses of wastewater to a first treatment zone, establishing a negative pressure gradient using mechanical ventilation within said zone causing exhaust air flow to remove gases and promote evaporation in the zone. Excess wastewater passing through the zone is collected and reintroduced. The zone contains particulate material with a large wetted surface area covered in a microbiological slime layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Robert Maurice Charles Patterson
  • Publication number: 20090007330
    Abstract: An example shower assembly includes a base, a moveable spray head, a magnet, and a member attractable to the magnet. The magnet attracts the member to hold the moveable spray head relative to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: ALSONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel S. Genord, Michael Miller, Dominic J. Daunter, Julian Giggs, Victor Hoernig, Charles Patterson
  • Patent number: 7141031
    Abstract: The cervical collar has three principal pieces: a back panel, a main collar body, and a chin piece. The chin piece is permanently attached to the main collar body and is only attached at its ends to the main collar body so that the center portion of the chin piece can adjust to chin configuration. The back panel engages behind the neck and is tightened with respect to the main collar body to properly support the patient's head and protect the cervical spine. The chin piece adjusts to the patient's chin configuration because it is sufficiently flexible and only supported away from the chin area. Each of the pieces has a foam cushioning layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: W. G. Holdings, LLC.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Garth, Charles Patterson
  • Publication number: 20060246499
    Abstract: We describe the novel use of a sugar-containing hydrogels as very highly porous, aqueous support material for the immobilization of oligonucleotides, peptides, proteins, antigens, antibodies, polysaccharides, and other biomolecules for sensor applications. The unusually large sizes of the interconnected pores allow large target molecules to pass rapidly into and through the gel and bind to immobilized biomolecules. An additional advantage of the sugar-containing hydrogels are their extremely low non-specific absorption of labeled target molecules, providing low background levels. State-of-the-art hydrogel materials do not have this type of homogeneous interconnected macroporosity, thus large target molecules cannot readily diffuse through them. In addition, they nearly always experience non-specific (background) absorption of labeled target molecules, limiting their usefulness in sensor applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Spector, David Stenger, Charles Patterson, Brett Martin, Paul Charles
  • Publication number: 20050112317
    Abstract: Ultraremovable adhesive is applied to a paper sheet to form therewith a liner sheet and the liner sheet is laminated to a cardstock sheet to form a laminate cardstock. The cardstock sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the liner sheet, to form cardstock cut lines that define at least in part perimeters of business cards (or other printable media). The outer face of the liner sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the cardstock sheet, to form liner sheet strips on a back side of the cardstock sheet. Some of the strips define cover strips covering some of the cardstock cut lines, and others of the strips define waste strips. The waste strips are then matrix removed from the back of the cardstock sheet. The resulting business card sheet construction is then fed through a printer or copier by the user and the desired indicia printed on the front sides of the business cards, while the cover strips hold the cards together as a unit sheet construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Brian McCarthy, Steven Weirather, Charles Patterson, Tony Scroggs
  • Publication number: 20050095387
    Abstract: Ultraremovable adhesive is applied to a paper sheet to form therewith a liner sheet, and the liner sheet is laminated to a cardstock sheet to form a laminate cardstock. The cardstock sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the liner sheet, to form cardstock cut lines that define at least in part perimeters of business cards (or other printable media). The outer face of the liner sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the cardstock sheet, to form liner sheet strips on a back side of the cardstock sheet. Some of the strips define cover strips covering some of the cardstock cut lines, and others of the strips define waste strips. The waste strips are then matrix removed from the back of the cardstock sheet. According to a preferred (dry laminate) embodiment the only liner sheet die cut is parallel to the leading edge of the sheet and forms a narrow leading edge liner strip which is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Brian McCarthy, Steven Weirather, Charles Patterson, Tony Scroggs, Sunjay Mohan, Patricia Cross
  • Patent number: 6869395
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism for attaching accessory devices to the distal end of an endoscope or catheter. The engagement mechanism comprises a bracing member (392) that engages a surface of the endoscope (20) and a ramp surface (360), which applies a gripping force to an opposing surface of the endoscope, preferably through a wedge member (372). The bracing member (392) may comprise an elongate element that extends partially into the working channel of the endoscope or may comprise an element that engages a portion of the total circumference of the outside surface of the endoscope. The ramp surface (360) is inclined at an acute angle from the longitudinal axis of the endoscope and preferably engages with a slidable wedge in a cooperative arrangement that serves to reduce the distance between the wedge (372) and the bracing member (392) as the wedge slides on the ramp to engage a portion of the endoscope therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward C. Page, Theresa Methot, Charles Patterson, Richard A. Clark
  • Patent number: D559945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Alsons Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Patterson, Victor Hoernig, Julian Giggs, Michael Miller
  • Patent number: D573237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: American Shower & Bath Corporation
    Inventor: Charles A. Patterson
  • Patent number: D573238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: American Shower & Bath Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Patterson, Victor Hoernig
  • Patent number: D588237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: American Shower & Bath Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Patterson, Victor Hoernig
  • Patent number: D588249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: American Shower & Bath Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Patterson, Victor Hoernig
  • Patent number: D588684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: American Shower & Bath Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Patterson, Victor Hoernig
  • Patent number: D592739
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Masco Bath Corporation
    Inventor: Charles A. Patterson
  • Patent number: D596279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Masco Bath Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Patterson, Victor Hoernig