Patents by Inventor Dean Wattles

Dean Wattles 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: 7851684
    Abstract: A string anchor bracket useful is mounted to the underside of a bridge plate for anchoring a guitar string to a guitar bridge. The anchor bracket has plurality of notches on an anchor bracket plate spaced apart by depending members that depend from the plate at its forward edge forming slots that lead to corresponding notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Inventors: Richard Anderson, Dean Wattles
  • Patent number: 7847170
    Abstract: A string anchor useful for anchoring a guitar string to a guitar bridge. The string anchor body has a body slot extending along the body side to the through hole. The body is adapted to receive the string enlarged end into the through hole at an anchor body top and through the through hole downward to outside of the anchor body bottom such that as the string adjusted such that its enlarged end is alongside the body and is pulled upward through the through hole and the slot, the string enlarged end is pulled against the anchor body and the bridge plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Inventors: Richard Anderson, Dean Wattles
  • Patent number: 7394005
    Abstract: A string or cable anchor useful for anchoring the string to a structure, and advantageously a guitar and other stringed musical instruments, typically has a cylindrical body and alternatively a frustum body with an axial bore therethrough ending in intersection with a second bore at an acute angle. The second bore is directed downward from the axial bore and opens at a body side, the body having a body slot extending partially along the body side through the body and through the acute angle from the body side to a body axis and the axial bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Anderson, Dean Wattles