Patents by Inventor Michael B. Graham

Michael B. Graham 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: 11950526
    Abstract: A product on demand nozzle assembly includes a chamber at least partially defined by an external wall and an array of vertically spaced nozzles. Each nozzle has an air inlet, an air and entrained product outlet extending from the external wall, and an entrainment zone between the air inlet and the air and entrained product outlet to receive a product therein to be distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Stanley R. Borkgren, William D. Graham, Terry L. Snipes, Elijah B. Garner, Robert T. Casper, Scott C. McCartney, Michael E. Frasier
  • Publication number: 20020098891
    Abstract: A system and method enables the development and deployment of tailored advertising-messages to consumers utilizing electronic media by integrating advertising messages and equity images into an electronic game, the actions of which are varied as the game is played, based upon the consumer's interaction with the game. The advertising messages are delivered, and useful data is collected, providing puzzles that are about, and centered around, the advertisements and commercial entity's brands themselves. The flow of the game may be based upon predefined rules set up by the commercial entity. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention resides on an Internet server and provides an on-line game to consumers accessing the server over the Internet; players provide certain demographic data before the gaming starts; then the commercial entity's brands and advertising messages are incorporated into the game based upon the players' answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Michael B. Graham, John A. Woffington, Steven P. Wolf