Patents by Inventor Kenneth Victor Shail

Kenneth Victor Shail 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).

  • Item detection/inspection arrangement
    Patent number: 6504387
    Abstract: An item detection/inspection arrangement has at least four capacitor plates arranged together in at least two pairs of opposing or generally opposing plates to provide, in use, at least two intersecting electric fields, items passing through the fields, in use, producing respective signals/pulses dependent on the changes of capacitance for the pairs of plates, and processing for producing from the signals/pulses, detection/inspection data for the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Sparc Systems Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth Victor Shail, Stephen Adrian Tolputt