Patents by Inventor Eric M. Wallace

Eric M. Wallace 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: 8254621
    Abstract: A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a users ear and retains the earpiece in its position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan
  • Patent number: 8249287
    Abstract: A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a users ear and retains the earpiece in its position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan
  • Publication number: 20120163617
    Abstract: A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a users ear and retains the earpiece in its position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan
  • Publication number: 20120039501
    Abstract: The earpiece includes an electronics module for wirelessly receiving incoming audio signals from an external source. The earpiece further includes a positioning and retaining structure comprising at least an outer leg and an inner leg, each of the outer leg and inner leg being attached at an attachment end to the body and attached at a joined end to each other. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure is substantially stiffer in one direction than in another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan
  • Publication number: 20120039500
    Abstract: A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a users ear and retains the earpiece in its position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan
  • Publication number: 20110216909
    Abstract: A headset including an earcup having a front opening adapted to be adjacent to the ear of a user, the earcup extending in a radial direction and an axial direction and defining an earcup volume; and a bellows cushion extending around the periphery of the front opening of the earcup and sized to engage the ear of the user, the bellows cushion comprising a plurality of folded segments located at an outer radial portion of the bellows cushion, and configured to be substantially compliant along an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Inventors: Roman Sapiejewski, Eric M. Wallace
  • Patent number: 6810808
    Abstract: A register device for insertion into a channel of a printing unit cylinder. The device includes a rod defining an axial direction and a pin support movable in the axial direction by the rod, the rod being movable with respect to the pin support in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction. A register pin is attached to the pin support. Also provided is a register device with a pin support, a register pin and shims for altering the position of the register pin on the pin support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Eric M. Wallace, Lev Zlatin
  • Patent number: D641737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin M. Krauss, David H. Pitcher, Julie E. Tierney, Michael E. Laude, Ian M. Collier, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Michael Monahan
  • Patent number: D645458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan
  • Patent number: D655693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan