Patents by Inventor Max Whitby

Max Whitby 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).

  • Publication number: 20110242007
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing graphics in an e-book page includes displaying an e-book page of an e-book on a display, wherein the e-book page includes an embedded moving image object, receiving a multi-touch user input via a multi-touch touchscreen associated with the display, wherein the multi-touch user input corresponds to a user input command to animate the moving image object, and animating the moving image object in place in the e-book page in response to the multi-touch user input. The embedded moving object may be one of a plurality of embedded moving image objects included in the e-book page and the method and apparatus may receive a plurality of multi-touch user inputs via the multi-touch touchscreen associated with the display, with each multi-touch user input corresponding to a respective user input command to animate a respective moving image object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Theodore W. Gray, Max Whitby
  • Publication number: 20090121183
    Abstract: Elongate phosphorus nanostructures, and methods of making them comprising the steps of forcing a phosphorus vapour and contacting said vapour with a metal catalyst under an inert atmosphere or under vacuum, at a suitable temperature are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventor: Max Whitby