Patents by Inventor Keith Kristiansen

Keith Kristiansen 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: 6005642
    Abstract: A light-in-weight portable television receiver or computer monitor has doors that close over its display screen, to facilitate it being transported by a child of nine or ten years of age. The display screen is substantially vertical during normal viewing. These doors have loudspeakers on their interior surfaces, which doors open out from the sides of the cabinet to space the loudspeakers further apart for better stereophonic sound reproduction. Console or hutch types of cabinets for television receivers can also employ left- and right-swinging doors over the display screen and include stereophonic loudspeakers in the doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edward Herman Meisner, Michael Patrick Ballone, Keith Kristiansen, John Flick Garrison, Allen LeRoy Limberg
  • Patent number: 5954216
    Abstract: A water cooler water bottle has a recessed handle angled to provide a natural lifting angle for a user, without bending the user's wrist. The handle is positioned adjacent the center of gravity of the bottle so that the center of gravity is substantially or directly under the handle when the user is carrying the bottle, and so that inversion of the bottle for insertion into a water cooler is easier. The side wall tapers smoothly into the handle and the recess so that during cleaning, cleaning liquid does not pool at the handle or the recess and remain in the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Great Spring Waters of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Meisner, Roland Charriez, Thomas Van Dyk, Keith Kristiansen
  • Patent number: 5675426
    Abstract: A light-in-weight portable television receiver or computer monitor has doors that close over its display screen, to facilitate it being transported by a child of nine or ten years age. The display screen is sustantially vertical during normal viewing. These doors have loudspeakers on their interior surfaces, which doors open out from the sides of the cabinet to space the loudspeakers further apart for better stereophonic sound reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edward Herman Meisner, Michael Patrick Ballone, Keith Kristiansen, John Flick Garrison, Allen LeRoy Limberg
  • Patent number: 5595228
    Abstract: A utility box for storing and/or carrying articles to a remote site has a base and a cover with a clamping vise incorporated as an integral portion of the cover. The base is a box-like structure defining a chamber for holding the articles and having a set of four pedestals which provide a supporting structure for the integral vise. The base further includes an integral pair of clamping feet which extend from two of the pedestals to form a surface which can be used to clamp the utility box to a relatively stationary surface. The cover is hingedly secured to the base and mates with a positioning rib extending from the base in order to locate and position the cover with respect to the base. The integral vise defines a worksurface and includes a stationary jaw and a movable jaw. The movable jaw is movable via a pair of threaded rods which are rotatably mounted to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Roberta S. Hall, Michael A. Loferski, Michael D. Dolson, Christopher Bennett, John B. Manson, Sr., Frank Basten, Colin Overy
  • Patent number: D374381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone
  • Patent number: D375834
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Roberta S. Hall, Michael A. Loferski, Michael D. Dolsen, Christopher Bennett, John B. Mason, Sr., Frank Basten, Colin Overy
  • Patent number: D378247
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Roberta S. Hall, Michael A. Loferski, Michael D. Dolson, Christopher Bennett, John B. Mason, Sr., Frank Basten, Colin Overy
  • Patent number: D380129
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Roger Q. Smith
  • Patent number: D382778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone
  • Patent number: D382780
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Roger Q. Smith
  • Patent number: D390218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Edward Herman Meisner, Michael Patrick Ballone, Keith Kristiansen
  • Patent number: D394407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Meisner, Keith Kristiansen
  • Patent number: D404649
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Great Spring Waters of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Meisner, Roland Charriez, Keith Kristiansen
  • Patent number: D405956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Meisner, Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Roberta Scheiner Hall, Michael A. Loferski, Michael D. Dolson, Christopher Bennett, John B. Mason, Sr., Frank Basten, Colin Overy
  • Mug
    Patent number: D421364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: The Thermos Company
    Inventors: Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Gary Grossman
  • Mug
    Patent number: D433599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: The Thermos Company
    Inventors: Keith Kristiansen, Michael Ballone, Gary Grossman