Patents by Inventor Howard P. Holdren

Howard P. Holdren 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).

  • Support for a muscularly challenged person
    Patent number: 6554234
    Abstract: A device for assisting muscularly disadvantaged persons and hypotonic individuals to perform a multiplicity of tasks. The device includes a hand grip and wrist support that is supported along two dimensions of travel by frictionless support surfaces, such that the task is performed with a gliding or fluid movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Inventor: Howard P. Holdren
  • Support for a muscularly challenged person
    Publication number: 20020158172
    Abstract: A device for assisting muscularly disadvantaged persons and hypotonic individuals to perform a multiplicity of tasks. The device includes a hand grip and wrist support that is supported along two dimensions of travel by frictionless support surfaces, such that the task is performed with a gliding or fluid movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventor: Howard P. Holdren
  • Universal coordinational support for assisting physically impaired individuals
    Patent number: 6062754
    Abstract: A device that assists the motor control of a physically impaired individual, allowing the person to do useful work by providing a coordinational support in all three orthogonal dimensions. The support has a linkage that can be manipulated in both the horizontal plane and the vertical plane. The device is easily assembled and disassembled by means of threaded elements that fabricate the linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Inventor: Howard P. Holdren