Patents by Inventor Lance E. Zuesse

Lance E. Zuesse 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: 6807560
    Abstract: A method for making written material available for browsing and downloading via the global computer network while discouraging unauthorized printing of that written material, wherein the method includes uploading to and making available from a server a salable file embodying the written material and uploading to and making available for browsing on the server a browsable file containing the written material, the written material having a colored background and contrasting text such that printing of the written material embodied in the browsable file consumes sufficient quantities of printer medium so as to discourage unauthorized printing of the written material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Inventor: Lance E. Zuesse
  • Patent number: 4183583
    Abstract: A support for maintaining the head in an upright position while the seat-occupant is seated in a reclining seat. One part of the support is a forehead-engagement means to resist forward movement of the head. Forehead pressure against this means is transmitted by connecting means to a back-plate positioned between the back of the seat-occupant and the back-rest of the seat. With the seat-back-rest partially backward-inclined, and the forehead inclined sightly forward to rest forward against the forehead-engagement means, there is a tendency for the back-plate to rotate forward at the top and backward at the bottom. At the top, it's resisted by the seat-occupant's back, resting backward against the back-plate; at the bottom, this rotational tendency is resisted by the seat-back-rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1980
    Inventor: Lance E. Zuesse
  • Patent number: 4161946
    Abstract: A support for maintaining the head in an upright position, as, for example, while resting or sleeping upright in a seat with a back rest. The support includes a forehead-engagement means to resist forward movement of the head. Forehead pressure against this means is transmitted to a nape-of-the-neck-engagement means, which is thereby pressed inwardly upon the rear of the neck. This pressure is then further transmitted by way of a chest-engagement means inwardly upon the sternum. Since the nape of the neck cannot move forward, and the sternum cannot move inward, falling forward of the forehead is precluded.Various ancillary support means can be added to supplement the basic head support. Thus, in some embodiments, the nape-engagement means is extended upwardly to provide an occipital support section which engages the rear of the head and is extended downwardly to form a posterior support section for engaging the upper rear portion of the wearer's back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1979
    Inventor: Lance E. Zuesse