Patents by Inventor John David Walker

John David Walker 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).

  • Patent number: 10835796
    Abstract: An athletic training net for receiving projectiles. The training net has a storage sleeve affixed to an upper end, wherein the storage sleeve includes a plurality of upper grommets at an upper end and a plurality of lower grommets at a lower end. The training net further includes a plurality of hook and strap fasteners, with each comprising of a strap secured to a structural member of a garage door and a hook for catching the plurality of upper and lower grommets. The training net has a training configuration and a storage configuration. In the training configuration, the hooks are received by the plurality of upper grommets and the net is vertically suspended form the garage door. In the storage configuration, the plurality of upper grommets remains suspended from the hooks, the net is enfolded in the storage sleeve, and the plurality of lower grommets is secured by the hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Walker Sports Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: John David Walker
  • Patent number: 10258852
    Abstract: An athletic training net for receiving projectiles. The training net has a storage sleeve affixed to an upper end, wherein the storage sleeve includes a plurality of upper grommets at an upper end and a plurality of lower grommets at a lower end. The training net further includes a plurality of hook and strap fasteners, with each comprising of a strap secured to a structural member of a garage door and a hook for catching the plurality of upper and lower grommets. The training net has a training configuration and a storage configuration. In the training configuration, the hooks are received by the plurality of upper grommets and the net is vertically suspended form the garage door. In the storage configuration, the plurality of upper grommets remains suspended from the hooks, the net is enfolded in the storage sleeve, and the plurality of lower grommets is secured by the hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Walker Sports Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: John David Walker
  • Publication number: 20170173430
    Abstract: An athletic training net for receiving projectiles. The training net has a storage sleeve affixed to an upper end, wherein the storage sleeve includes a plurality of upper grommets at an upper end and a plurality of lower grommets at a lower end. The training net further includes a plurality of hook and strap fasteners, with each comprising of a strap secured to a structural member of a garage door and a hook for catching the plurality of upper and lower grommets. The training net has a training configuration and a storage configuration. In the training configuration, the hooks are received by the plurality of upper grommets and the net is vertically suspended form the garage door. In the storage configuration, the plurality of upper grommets remains suspended from the hooks, the net is enfolded in the storage sleeve, and the plurality of lower grommets is secured by the hooks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: John David Walker
  • Patent number: 9623306
    Abstract: An athletic training net for receiving projectiles. The training net has a storage sleeve affixed to an upper end, wherein the storage sleeve includes a plurality of upper grommets at an upper end and a plurality of lower grommets at a lower end. The training net further includes a plurality of hook and strap fasteners, with each comprising of a strap secured to a structural member of a garage door and a hook for catching the plurality of upper and lower grommets. The training net has a training configuration and a storage configuration. In the training configuration, the hooks are received by the plurality of upper grommets and the net is vertically suspended form the garage door. In the storage configuration, the plurality of upper grommets remains suspended from the hooks, the net is enfolded in the storage sleeve, and the plurality of lower grommets is secured by the hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: WALKER SPORTS INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: John David Walker
  • Patent number: 7869908
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method of contemporaneously testing a respective system on-board each of a plurality of locomotives with a common user interface where the locomotives are in electrical communication with one another for transmitting electronic signals among the locomotives. An electronic signal may be transmitted to the plurality of locomotives instructing a respective on-board computer of each locomotive to synchronously engage a self-load sequence. An electronic signal may be transmitted to the plurality of locomotives instructing a respective engine of each locomotive to execute a testing sequence. Operating parameter data associated with the respective systems may be downloaded from each of the plurality of locomotives through the common user interface to a database engine to determine whether the downloaded operating parameter data is within acceptable operating limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: John David Walker
  • Publication number: 20030028811
    Abstract: A fingerprint authentication and communication system having a fingerprint sensor and reader that converts a fingerprint into a digital profile output, a plurality of databases for storing among other things fingerprint digital profiles, user ID's, and patient related medical information, software that determines whether a recently entered fingerprint digital profile is on the approved list for authentication, and telecommunication transceiver for communicating user selected actions over telephone lines, wireless channels and the Internet. The system is preferably concealed in a handheld product for physicians and allows medical professionals to initiate and perform a plurality of actions, such as ordering multiple prescriptions and lab tests, with a fingerprint induced command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: John David Walker, Dennis Deruelle, Gilbert Russell, Brian Wetzel, Timothy Yandell
  • Publication number: 20020052929
    Abstract: Software that manages and controls auxiliary browsers based on user inputs, related information and/or links on the Internet, and more particularly, a browser plug-in software that accesses correlating links or websites based on user inputs, manages and controls the location of auxiliary browsers, such as browsers that display banner advertisements on a host website, links to secondary Internet addresses available in the banner browser, and provides simultaneous viewing of information at the secondary Internet address and information related to the banner and its links in the auxiliary browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: John David Walker, Dennis Deruelle, Gilbert Russell, Brian Wetzel, Timothy Yandell