Patents by Inventor Harold F. Winters

Harold F. Winters 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).

  • Etching method employing radiation and noble gas halide
    Patent number: 4226666
    Abstract: A method for etching using radiation and a gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1980
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harold F. Winters, Brian N. Chapman
  • Etching method using noble gas halides
    Patent number: 4190488
    Abstract: A method for etching using a noble gas halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1980
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Harold F. Winters
  • Utilizing saturated and unsaturated halocarbon gases in plasma etching to increase etch of SiO.sub.2 relative to Si
    Patent number: 4162185
    Abstract: A method of plasma etching silica at a faster rate than silicon involves using a gaseous mixture containing an unsaturated halocarbon and a saturated halocarbon. The preferred halocarbon contains fluorine. A preferred embodiment is a gaseous mixture containing C.sub.3 F.sub.6 and C.sub.2 F.sub.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1979
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Coburn, Harold F. Winters
  • Plant named Hibiscus ‘Vulcan’
    Patent number: PP14348
    Abstract: An herbaceous perennial Hibiscus plant named ‘Vulcan’, of hybrid background, bearing numerous, large, partially sterile flowers of red-purple that remain expanded for at least one full day, and, with strong upright stems that resist lodging and bear large, lobed leaves basally and entire upper leaves of a medium green color. The plants are of ornamental value for the flowers and as plants for landscape plantings. The flowering period extends from mid-summer until frost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Inventor: Harold F. Winters
  • Hibiscus plant named `Sweet Caroline`
    Patent number: PP7608
    Abstract: An herbaceous perennial Hibiscus plant named `Sweet Caroline` having numerous broadly campanulate flowers of bright pink with petal edges ruffled and partially reflexed, buds of similar color having the exposed petal edge reflexed, and, upright plants branching apically with shallowly lobed basal and entire upper leaves of a medium green color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Inventor: Harold F. Winters