Patents by Inventor Gerd Kobal

Gerd Kobal 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).

  • Publication number: 20060272659
    Abstract: A modular smoking article, method of using same and smoking kit are provided in which a plurality of inner sleeve members have various sized compartments for receiving various mediums within a cigarette smokestream passageway. The inner sleeves are sized so as to individually be received within an outer sleeve which also receives a cigarette at one end and provides a mouthpiece at the other end whereby the cigarette may be smoked with a variety of different volumes of different mediums such as flavoring, filtering or taste mediums in the inner sleeve compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Gerd Kobal, Cindy Hayes, Andrew Livermore, Ashok Solanky
  • Patent number: 4681121
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for measuring sensory qualities, in particular for the measurement of analgesia in the monitoring of anaesthesia, in which substances in gas or vapor form which trigger the specific stimulus are passed in pulse form over the nasal mucosa by a stimulating device and electrical signals correlated with the stimulus are derived from the electro-encephalogram by means of a recording mechanism and analyzed as measured values, is to be improved with regard to the exclusion of interference values. According to the invention, this is achieved by causing the switching device to produce a continuous sequence of pulses and the assessment to be carried out by the assessment unit in an assessment window, the width of which corresponds with a predetermined number of stimulus pulses, it being possible to displace the assessment window over the number of stored signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Inventor: Gerd Kobal