Patents by Inventor F. Gordon Foster

F. Gordon Foster 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: 4117834
    Abstract: A combination of modular devices in capsule form adapted to be worn on the person, as with a watchband or belt, for detecting and accumulating the occurrence of specific physiological events and to alert the wearer upon the occurrence of a predetermined number of such events. One embodiment comprises the combination of a motion detecting transducer, an accumulator incremented for 2.sup.n number of movements and a 4-digit light-emitting diode alerting-display module for providing a visual signal that an allowed number of events has occurred. A modified embodiment comprises the combination of a motion detecting transducer, a data accumulator incremented for 2.sup.n number of movements in a selected accumulation interval, and a multi-cell random-access-memory to which the contents of the accumulator are transferred and stored at the termination of each accumulation interval delineated by a timer module, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Inventors: Richard J. Mc Partland, F. Gordon Foster, David J. Kupfer