Patents by Inventor Gary Shigeru Natsume

Gary Shigeru Natsume 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).

  • Handheld pipette
    Patent number: 7416704
    Abstract: This invention provides a hand held pipette which is ergonomically designed to reduce user fatigue and injury. The pipette preferably includes a nozzle extending downward at a selected angle from a point near the top of a base portion of the pipette, the base portion being grasped by the operator's hand, and may also include a hook extending from a second point near the top of the body portion which is angularly spaced from the first point, which hook extends over a portion of a user's hand to support the pipette thereon. The pipette is also designed to permits operation with the user's wrist and arm in a neutral position and minimizes local pressure points on the operator's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: VistaLab Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Scordato, Lou Ann Page, Kevin Costello, Sonya Schieffer, Gary Shigeru Natsume
  • Handheld pipette
    Publication number: 20020012613
    Abstract: This invention provides a hand held pipette which is ergonomically designed to reduce user fatigue and injury. The pipette preferably includes a nozzle extending downward at a selected angle from a point near the top of a base portion of the pipette, the base portion being grasped by the operator's hand, and may also include a hook extending from a second point near the top of the body portion which is angularly spaced from the first point, which hook extends over a portion of a user's hand to support the pipette thereon. The pipette is also designed to permits operation with the user's wrist and arm in a neutral position and minimizes local pressure points on the operator's hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Richard E. Scordato, Lou Ann Page, Kevin Costello, Sonya Schieffer, Gary Shigeru Natsume
  • Hybrid beverage container
    Patent number: 6082575
    Abstract: A beverage container is disclosed which includes a stackable cup and a stackable cover which have cooperating thread forms for selectively securing the cover to the cup in a substantially liquid-tight relationship. The cover has a beverage dispensing opening and a cap which is selectively operable to open and close the opening to prevent beverage in the container from being poured out of the opening and to selectively allow beverage to be poured or drunk from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrzej Skoskiewicz, Elisha Tal, Rickson Sun, Patrick Gilmore, Said Farha, Eileen Bravmann, Roby Stancel, Scott Stropkay, Axel Unger, Gary Shigeru Natsume, Robert C. Meyer, Adriana Colombo
  • Pipette
    Patent number: D460193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: VistaLab Technologies
    Inventors: Sonya Schieffer, Gary Shigeru Natsume
  • Pipette
    Patent number: D620602
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: VistaLab Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Scordato, Lou Ann Page, Kevin Costello, Sonya Schieffer, Gary Shigeru Natsume
  • Disc drive enclosure
    Patent number: D425034
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Trimm Technologies
    Inventors: Gadi Amit, Gary Shigeru Natsume