Patents by Inventor Joanne Hayes

Joanne Hayes 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).

  • Method of limiting on-line access to select web site materials associated with a periodically published publication, to current publication subscribers only
    Publication number: 20060123006
    Abstract: A novel method of using mailing or delivery labels or the like of periodic publications to assign thereon preferably both, but at least one of, a single common name and pass code for all publication subscribers-in-good-standing for the period of that publication issue, for use to enable internet web site access to select or private materials in the corresponding web site of the publication, only to such subscribers-in-good-standing or other authorized persons, and only for the period of that publication issue—the common name and/or pass code being changed on the delivery label for subsequent issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventor: Joanne Hayes-Rines
  • Beverage can identification apparatus and method for reducing the spread of disease by limiting the chance of inadvertent drinking from an open can of another
    Patent number: 6053349
    Abstract: A technique for avoiding the risk of spreading communicable diseases in drinking inadvertently from another's open beverage can by applying distinctive user identification markers on the can top cover, positioned arcuately about the cover and identified by using the lever-opener also as an identification indicator through rotational alignment with and locking at a desired user's marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Inventors: Eugene S. Griggs, Jr., Joanne Hayes