Patents by Inventor Mark A. Mills

Mark A. Mills 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: 5701453
    Abstract: Logical schemas are used to allow an end user the ability to access and manipulate relational database data without knowledge of the structure of the relational database. A logical schema is first created specifying which tables are available to an end user, and the relationships between columns of those tables. The logical schema defines a structure for the data fields having a master level and a plurality of detail levels. An end user may manipulate the logical schema using a graphical interface to build customized forms, reports, and queries. An end user is not required to be familiar with a database query language, such as SQL, or the structure of the relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Informix Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Maloney, Brian D. Jackson, Kevin B. Mayfield, Mark A. Mills, Kent A. Tracy
  • Patent number: 4611358
    Abstract: The hand held device of the invention is adapted for cutting, reaming and bending tubing. The device includes as discussed above a bender body member having a tubing guide track, a bender bracket having a bender flange, a rotatable cutting wheel, and a reaming tool. The bender bracket is connected to the bender body member. The reaming tool is connected to the bender body member. The rotatable cutting wheel is supported by the body member. The bender flange is positioned above the tubing guide track so that tubing fed beneath the bender flange is held by the bender flange as the tubing is bent into the tubing guide track. The upper work surface of the tubing guide track is semicircular in cross section. The tubing guide track is arced. The bender flange has a tubing engaging portion which is semicircular in cross-section. A work portion of the tubing is positioned in the tubing guide track beneath the tubing engaging portion of the bender flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Inventors: Mark Mills, Darrell Mills
  • Patent number: 4112994
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire, particularly a motorcycle tire, having an aspect ratio of less than 65% and a rounded tread profile, the bias angle of the tire carcass plies being less than 22.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Dunlop Limited
    Inventors: Anthony Mark Mills, David Lyndon Buck
  • Patent number: D247431
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1978
    Assignee: Dunlop Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Mark Mills
  • Patent number: D247484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Assignee: Dunlop Limited
    Inventors: Claude Albert Hart, Anthony Mark Mills