Patents by Inventor Doug Leigh MANCHESTER

Doug Leigh MANCHESTER 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).

  • Data device including OFN functionality
    Patent number: 11397835
    Abstract: A data entry device including a housing, data entry circuitry located within the housing, a keypad mounted in the housing and having a plurality of movable key elements which, when depressed, are displaced to at least a predetermined extent from a first location within the housing to a second location within the housing and Optical Finger Navigation (OFN) circuitry mounted inside the housing, being operative for sensing at least some of the plurality of movable key elements when depressed and displaced to at least the predetermined extent from the first location within the housing to the second location within the housing and providing a key displacement output indicating key displacement to the data entry circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: John Henry Barrowman, Doug Leigh Manchester, William Martin Johansen, Jr.
  • DATA DEVICE INCLUDING OFN FUNCTIONALITY
    Publication number: 20180173903
    Abstract: A data entry device including a housing, data entry circuitry located within the housing, a keypad mounted in the housing and having a plurality of movable key elements which, when depressed, are displaced to at least a predetermined extent from a first location within the housing to a second location within the housing and Optical Finger Navigation (OFN) circuitry mounted inside the housing, being operative for sensing at least some of the plurality of movable key elements when depressed and displaced to at least the predetermined extent from the first location within the housing to the second location within the housing and providing a key displacement output indicating key displacement to the data entry circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: John Henry Barrowman, Doug Leigh Manchester, William Martin Johansen, JR.
  • DATA DEVICE INCLUDING OFN FUNCTIONALITY
    Publication number: 20160026275
    Abstract: A data entry device including a housing, data entry circuitry located within the housing, a keypad mounted in the housing and having a plurality of movable key elements which, when depressed, are displaced to at least a predetermined extent from a first location within the housing to a second location within the housing and Optical Finger Navigation (OFN) circuitry mounted inside the housing, being operative for sensing at least some of the plurality of movable key elements when depressed and displaced to at least the predetermined extent from the first location within the housing to the second location within the housing and providing a key displacement output indicating key displacement to the data entry circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.
    Inventors: John Henry BARROWMAN, Doug Leigh MANCHESTER, William Martin JOHANSEN, JR.