Patents by Inventor Jim Allen Colby

Jim Allen Colby 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).

  • Electronic Cutting Machine
    Publication number: 20160026168
    Abstract: An electronic cutting machine includes at least one housing to which a drive roller is coupled for moving a sheet to be cut in a first direction and a cutter assembly coupled to the housing and moveable in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Jeremy Burton Crystal, Jeffery V. Gubler, Clark L. Roper, James T. Davis, II, Jim Allen Colby, Daniel Torgerson, Alan Roming, Steven Bandis, Matthew Waibel, Robert Woldberg, Donald B. Olsen, Matthew L. Tuttle
  • Crafting apparatus including a workpiece feed path bypass assembly and workpiece feed path analyzer
    Patent number: 8657512
    Abstract: A method of operating a crafting apparatus. The method includes moving a workpiece along a first feed path for printing on the workpiece with a printer and moving the workpiece along a second feed path for cutting the workpiece with a cutter. The first feed path bypasses a workpiece mover of the cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Burton Crystal, Jeffery V. Gubler, James T. Davis, II, Christopher Kenneth Dodge, Jared D. Burton, Matthew B. Strong, Jim Allen Colby
  • System and Method for Providing Digital Content
    Publication number: 20120198545
    Abstract: A method of electronically displaying glyphs. The method includes receiving a glyph spacing, moving a first glyph toward a second glyph along an axis, identifying an intersection of a first axis coordinate of the first glyph with a second axis coordinate of the second glyph, and moving at least one of the glyphs along the axis to separate the first and second axis coordinates of the respective first and second glyphs by the glyph spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc.
    Inventors: George Willard Keenan, Jim Allen Colby, Matthew B. Strong, Daniel Torgerson, Garth Braithwaite, Daniel Hatch, Andrew Branch, Randall Wright, Sean Thayne, Emerson Tyler Wright, Jeremiah Stephenson, Mark Miles, Mac Sims