Patents by Inventor Ellen Martz

Ellen Martz 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).

  • Method and apparatus for generating television program guides with category selection overlay
    Patent number: 5694176
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an on-screen television program guide. The apparatus generates a main menu of a program guide, which includes program source information and program event information for a plurality of program sources, and further generates navigation menus for allowing a viewer to modify the program guide. The navigation menus are generated so as to over-write only a portion of the main menu of the program guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Jeff Bruette, Matthew Mohebbi, Ellen Martz
  • Electronic circuitry housing panel
    Patent number: D381637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Robert Sala Haider, Ellen Martz, Andrew Zoolakis
  • Remote control device
    Patent number: D383462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Ellen Martz, T. Paul Gaske, Andrew Zoolakis