Patents by Inventor David S. McFarland

David S. McFarland 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: 20090289480
    Abstract: An improved lightweight, portable and compact combination seat and serape' for travel ease and safety while traveling with a small child. The device is releasably attached to the telescoping handle upon wheeled luggage, is disposable in an unfolded position for use wherein it functions as a seat and when used as a serape' for travel safety is draped over the head and shoulders of the juvenile to be secured with the parent into the airline seatbelt, and when in its storage condition is separated from and compactly contained within the luggage for carry-on in an airliner or other public transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: David S. McFarland, Dale C. Sommers, Mary Evelyn Arnold
  • Publication number: 20030041036
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for providing to a plurality of users information obtained over a computer network, wherein each of the plurality of users each use a remote computer. The method includes allowing a plurality of users each to specify one or more investment preferences such that an investor profile can be created. A server creates a plurality of tasks from the plurality of investment preferences and uses these tasks to monitoring information about financial instruments, such as equities, by executing at least some of the plurality of tasks on user computers. The tasks send to the server information about the one or more financial instruments using task report messages. The server then takes the information and filters it and distributes the information about the financial instruments to the interested users based upon their respective investment preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Gioel Molinari, Jonathan Rothberg, Anthony Glaviano, Mathew Morton, Sergio Mendez, Diego Baron, David S. McFarland
  • Patent number: 5729213
    Abstract: A compact railroad/highway crossing motorist warning device comprising; a rail track mounted pressure sensor switch assembly which timely activates and deactivates a radio frequency transmitter beacon located upon the crossbuck at the rail crossing, the beacon transmits recordable audio and video signals and: a series of mobile sympathetic radio signal receiver units, for highway motor in vehicle and in locomotive application, the in motor vehicle receiver is hardwired to the motor vehicle and the in locomotive receiver has an event recording means attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Inventors: John S. Ferrari, David S. McFarland