Patents by Inventor James B. Golden

James B. Golden 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).

  • Automatic bird feeder
    Patent number: 5549075
    Abstract: An automatic bird feeder comprised of a storage container for feed, a hole or opening in the storage container for adding feed to the storage container, a feeder positioned above the storage container, a feed tube connecting the storage container with the feeder, the feed tube having a slot therein through which feed may enter the feed tube from the storage container, a drive unit, an augur or telescoping shaft located within the feed tube, wherein the augur or telescoping shaft conveys feed from the storage container to the feeder when the drive unit is activated, and an electronic sensor device in the feeder to detect the level of feed present in the feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Inventor: James B. Golden
  • Method and apparatus for automated processing of DNA sequence data
    Patent number: 5502773
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the processing of DNA sequence image data in real time is implemented using a series of linked neural network processors. As raw image data is received from a sequencing machine, it is buffered and then separately transformed in real time in the processors to enhance the signals indicative of the unknown DNA sequence. A fourth processor receives the transformed data and determines and reports the sequence indicating events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Clark Tibbetts, James B. Golden, III, Deborah L. Torgersen