Patents by Inventor Joseph A. Gangi

Joseph A. Gangi 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).

  • Retail point-of-transaction system, program products, and related methods to provide a customized set of identification data to facilitate a transaction using electronic coupons
    Patent number: 8225995
    Abstract: Retail point-of-transaction systems, program products, and related computer implemented methods to provide a customized set of identification data to facilitate a retail sales point-of-sale transaction which includes the use of one or more electronic coupons is provided. The retail point-of-sale system can include a computer having memory and configured to facilitate one or more transactions each of which include the use of one or more electronic coupons through a retail point-of-transaction terminal positioned remote from, and adapted to be in communication with, the computer. The computer can also include a set of instructions that when executed by the computer cause the computer to redeem one or more electronic coupons for one or more retail transactions responsive to a customized set of identification data provided by the computer responsive to a data profile derived from a set of personal data of at least one of a plurality of remotely positioned users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Inventor: Frank Joseph Gangi
  • Method for making optical devices from homopolymers
    Patent number: 6673275
    Abstract: An improved optical film having a continuous/disperse phase morphology and a method for making the same is provided. At least one of the continuous and disperse phases comprises a blend of homopolymers which are inter-reacted, as by transesterification. The resulting films exhibit a higher degree of birefringence for a given level of strain than analogous films in which the blend is replaced by a random copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard C. Allen, Susan L. Kent, Ronald J. Tabar, Elisa M. Cross, William Ward Merrill, Stephen A. Johnson, Peter D. Condo, Timothy J. Hebrink, Joseph A. Gangi
  • Optical device having continuous and disperse phases
    Patent number: 6654170
    Abstract: An improved optical film having a continuous/disperse phase morphology and a method for making the same is provided. At least one of the continuous and disperse phases comprises a blend of homopolymers which are inter-reacted, as by transesterification. The resulting films exhibit a higher degree of birefringence for a given level of strain than analogous films in which the blend is replaced by a random copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: William Ward Merrill, Susan L. Kent, Ronald J. Tabar, Richard C. Allen, Elisa M. Cross, Stephen A. Johnson, Peter D. Condo, Timothy J. Hebrink, Joseph A. Gangi
  • Optical device containing polymeric material domains having different degrees of randomness
    Patent number: 6627300
    Abstract: An improved optical film having a continuous/disperse phase morphology and a method for making the same is provided. At least one of the continuous and disperse phases comprises a blend of homopolymers which are inter-reacted, as by transesterification. The resulting films exhibit a higher degree of birefringence for a given level of strain than analogous films in which the blend is replaced by a random copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Susan L. Kent, Ronald J. Tabar, Richard C. Allen, Elisa M. Cross, William Ward Merrill, Stephen A. Johnson, Peter D. Condo, Timothy J. Hebrink, Joseph A. Gangi
  • Method of making multi-segmented chenille yarns on a crochet knitting machine
    Patent number: 6289700
    Abstract: Chenille yarns having a spaced dyed appearance of made by crochet knitting a chenille fabric having a plurality of parallel spaced warp yarns with which chain stitches are formed for securing weft yarns laid transverse to the warp yarns as each stitch is formed. Weft yarns of different colors are applied at different times to create a chenille fabric with differently colored sections. Slitting of the fabric in the warp direction between the parallel chain stitches yields individual multi-colored chenille yarns which can be used a flat yarns or twisted to form round chenille yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Inventors: Richard P. Gangi, Robert Joseph Gangi