Patents by Inventor Dwight Darling

Dwight Darling 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: 8221125
    Abstract: An electronically generated simultaneous display of the local time within multiple time zones in the world is adjusted to accommodate local time arising from Daylight Saving Time. A preferred modified south polar projection of the Earth which schematically depicts the Northern Hemisphere is divided into geographical time zones. Each geographic time zone is associated with a time marker that points to an adjacent time scale. Either the geographical time zones or the time markers are adjusted in order to correctly display the ongoing time changes resulting from the continuous observation of Daylight Saving Time in time zones of the world. As further features, a user may adjust the display to present a hypothetical time and the corresponding times experienced in different time zones around the world. A user may have a specific time zone highlighted by invoking data, such as a city name, a telephone area code or an address book contact reference, which is associated with specific time zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: World View Time Inc.
    Inventor: Dwight Darling
  • Publication number: 20110151415
    Abstract: An electronically generated simultaneous display of the local time within multiple time zones in the world is adjusted to accommodate local time arising from Daylight Saving Time. A preferred modified south polar projection of the Earth which schematically depicts the Northern Hemisphere is divided into geographical time zones. Each geographic time zone is associated with a time marker that points to an adjacent time scale. Either the geographical time zones or the time markers are adjusted in order to correctly display the ongoing time changes resulting from the continuous observation of Daylight Saving Time in time zones of the world. As further features, a user may adjust the display to present a hypothetical time and the corresponding times experienced in different time zones around the world. A user may have a specific time zone highlighted by invoking data, such as a city name, a telephone area code or an address book contact reference, which is associated with specific time zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: WORLD VIEW TIME, INC.
    Inventor: Dwight Darling
  • Patent number: 5054008
    Abstract: A device for determining the time anywhere in the world, simultaneously, relative to any selected geographical location. A circuit map is positioned over a frame and is rotatable in a clockwise direction relative to the frame, the map being a south pole projection of the world. The map rotates about the center point of the map corresponding to the south pole. Twenty-four evenly spaced first time zone positions are provided on the frame beyond the outer boundary of the map and together they define a circle which is outwardly concentric with the map. Twenty-four evenly spaced second time zone positions are provided on and around the perimeter of the map so as to define a second circle between and concentric with the circle defined by the first time zone positions and the map. Each first and second time zone position corresponds to a distint hour of a twenty-four-hour time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Inventor: Dwight Darling