Patents by Inventor Darrell F. Glover

Darrell F. Glover 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).

  • Patent number: 12115930
    Abstract: A stealthy transmission shift interlock solenoid kill switch system includes a first stealthy user interface being located within the vehicle and further being configured to be stealthy and hidden from a vehicle driver's line of sight, a vehicle center console transmission gear shift knob configured to operate an automatic transmission gear position of the vehicle, a vehicle power interrupt feature, an automatic transmission shift interlock solenoid switch, a controller being operably coupled to the first stealthy user interface, a brake pedal of the vehicle, and the vehicle power interrupt feature. The controller is configured to manage an operating mode of the vehicle center console transmission gear shift knob and thereby prohibit power from reaching the automatic transmission shift interlock solenoid switch so that the vehicle center console transmission gear shift knob is prohibited from being displaced out of a park position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Darrell F. Glover
  • Publication number: 20110094524
    Abstract: A smoking apparatus for vaporizing a smoking product such as tobacco and herb products. The smoking apparatus is preferably made entirely out of glass. The smoking apparatus comprises a bowl at a first end that receives the smoking product through an open top end, a screen support area immediately below the bowl having one or more screen supports, a product support pellet that rests on the screen supports to support the smoking product, a hollow stem in fluid flow communication with the bowl to allow the user to draw vapor from the bowl and a diffuser removably received in the open top end of the bowl for diffusing heat across the smoking product to vaporize it. The diffuser has a diffusing element made out of the frit. No metal contacts the product, vapor or user. The smoking apparatus can be a pipe or an adapter for a water pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventor: Darrell F. Glover
  • Patent number: 5489486
    Abstract: A selectable connection battery housing apparatus includes a central wall assembly which defines a battery receiving region. A first housing cap assembly is selectively connectable to and removable from a first end portion of the central wall assembly, and a second housing cap assembly is selectively connectable to and removable from a second end portion of the central wall assembly. Each housing cap assembly includes a first surface which includes a first conductive strip adapted to connect to at least three first ends of three batteries retained in the battery receiving region inside the central wall assembly. The first housing cap assembly includes a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface includes a second conductive strip adapted to contact first ends of two of the at least three batteries and includes a third conductive strip adapted to contact a first end of one of the at least three batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Inventor: Darrell F. Glover