Patents by Inventor Leon Schmidt
Leon Schmidt 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).
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Patent number: 9999828Abstract: The disclosed invention includes all embodiments for a mechanical shuffler comprising a generally planar base and a platform that is sized to receive a deck of unshuffled cards, the stack of unshuffled cards moves relative to a slot where the slot is sized to permit passage of a single card. With movement of a platform relative to a slot, a discrete burst of air is delivered to a stack of unshuffled cards, thereby pushing a single card through the slot and into an area where shuffled cards are to be delivered. It is contemplated that embodiments of the invention will include means for the delivery of a discrete amount of air in response to a computer signal, it is further contemplated that embodiments of the invention may include rollers that are engaged to spin and grip a card that is pushed through a slot by air.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Stealth CDS, LLCInventors: Travis L. Sines, Leon Schmidt, Bruce Weyrauch, Michael Denney, James Kesler, Philip Malthaner
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Publication number: 20180161664Abstract: The disclosed invention includes all embodiments for a mechanical shuffler comprising a generally planar base and a platform that is sized to receive a deck of unshuffled cards, the stack of unshuffled cards moves relative to a slot where the slot is sized to permit passage of a single card. With movement of a platform relative to a slot, a discrete burst of air is delivered to a stack of unshuffled cards, thereby pushing a single card through the slot and into an area where shuffled cards are to be delivered. It is contemplated that embodiments of the invention will include means for the delivery of a discrete amount of air in response to a computer signal, it is further contemplated that embodiments of the invention may include rollers that are engaged to spin and grip a card that is pushed through a slot by air.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Travis L. Sines, Leon Schmidt, Bruce Weyrauch, Michael Denney, James Kesler, Philip Malthaner
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Patent number: 9643078Abstract: The disclosed invention includes all embodiments for a mechanical shuffler comprising a generally planar base and a platform that is sized to receive a deck of unshuffled cards, the stack of unshuffled cards moves relative to a slot where the slot is sized to permit passage of a single card. With movement of a platform relative to a slot, a discrete burst of air is delivered to a stack of unshuffled cards, thereby pushing a single card through the slot and into an area where shuffled cards are to be delivered. It is contemplated that embodiments of the invention will include means for the delivery of a discrete amount of air in response to a computer signal, it is further contemplated that embodiments of the invention may include rollers that are engaged to spin and grip a card that is pushed through a slot by air.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Stealth CDS, LLCInventors: Travis L. Sines, Leon Schmidt, Bruce Weyrauch, Michael Denney, James Kesler, Philip Malthaner
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Publication number: 20100274527Abstract: A cooking timer having a microprocessor, a transistor, a display driver, a power source, plural user input buttons and alerts electrically interconnected with a visual display for selecting and displaying data for simultaneously cooking plural steaks with varying physical characteristics to differing doneness levels and ensuring all of the steaks finish cooking to the desired doneness levels at the same time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventors: Greg Ruff, Jeff Bendio, Leon Schmidt
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Patent number: 5420408Abstract: An automatic chemical analyzer utilizes reagents supplied in reagent bottles. The reagent bottles are labeled on their bottom surfaces with an identification label bearing a machine-readable identification code. The automatic chemical analyzer includes a reagent tray having a plurality of tray apertures therein which receive coded reagent bottles and which expose the bottom surface of each bottle for optical viewing of the machine-readable identification code. The analyzer further includes optical scanner means positioned below the reagent tray for reading the machine-readable identification code on the bottom surfaces of reagent bottles within the tray apertures. The tray apertures are selectively located over the optical scanner means so that the analyzer can identify the reagent bottle and the contents thereof.The identification label has a spaced pair of position reference dots defining and orienting a label area.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1994Date of Patent: May 30, 1995Assignee: Schiapparelli Biosystems, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Weyrauch, Norman Kelln, Leon Schmidt, Charles Butts, James Clark, Kelsey Loughlin, Gary Richardson
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Patent number: 5357095Abstract: An automatic chemical analyzer utilizes reagents supplied in reagent bottles. The reagent bottles are labeled on their bottom surfaces with an identification label bearing a machine-readable identification code. The automatic chemical analyzer includes a reagent tray having a plurality of tray apertures therein which receive coded reagent bottles and which expose the bottom surface of each bottle for optical viewing of the machine-readable identification code. The analyzer further includes optical scanner means positioned below the reagent tray for reading the machine-readable identification code on the bottom surfaces of reagent bottles within the tray apertures. The tray apertures are selectively located over the optical scanner means so that the analyzer can identify the reagent bottle and the contents thereof.The identification label has a spaced pair of position reference dots defining and orienting a label area.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1992Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Schiapparelli Biosystems, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Weyrauch, Norman Kelln, Leon Schmidt, Charles Butts, James Clark, Kelsey Loughlin, Gary Richardson
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Patent number: 5296911Abstract: A compact optical test system for a chemical analyzer comprises a light-proof enclosure formed by two joined side compartments. One includes control surfaces for accurately positioning optical elements along desired light paths. The other includes retaining surfaces to maintain the optical elements in a centered position across the parting line of the two compartments. A single light source is used for both absorbance and fluorescence polarization measurement purposes.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1992Date of Patent: March 22, 1994Assignee: Schiapparelli Biosystems, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Weyrauch, James Clark, Norman Kelln, Leon Schmidt
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Patent number: 5270210Abstract: The automatic chemical analyzer includes a turntable adapted to hold a plurality of disposable cuvettes. An optical system adjacent to the turntable can perform tests on the contents of each cuvette as they are rotated on the turntable. A sample/reagent tray is rotatably mounted about an axis parallel to the turntable axis. A common probe arm pivoted about a third parallel axis mounts a pipette that can be moved along an arcuate path intersecting a cuvette access station on the turntable and at least one container access station on the sample/reagent tray for transferring liquids as required by specific test procedures. A wash/alignment station is provided to facilitate flushing on the pipette between liquid deliveries. Combined within it is an alignment plate that checks the radial position of the pipette relative to the probe arm axis and the elevation of the pipette tip relative to the supporting instrument framework.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1992Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Schiapparelli Biosystems, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Weyrauch, Leon Schmidt, Dan Cutler