Patents by Inventor Michael T. Wille

Michael T. Wille 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: 20020152270
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system by which customized quality computer-based training (“CBT”) can be presented over a global network such as the Internet with low development costs, low hosting costs, inexpensive class production, and high-quality audio-visual content. A student, having an active connection to the server from a remote client, enters the CBT website and registers as a new student by providing necessary pertinent information to the server host. Upon completion of the registration process, the student begins his or her interaction with the online computer-based training plan. The online plan includes digital images and digital audio that is compressed and transmitted from a host server to the student's computer via the Internet. Better compression provides for a more fluid viewing of the plan without sacrificing image or audio quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Richard W. McManus, Garry L. Struthers, Kyle G. Swinney, Rodney R. Dye, Michael T. Wills, William G. Bronske, Mark A. Waddle
  • Patent number: 6408315
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system by which customized quality computer-based training (“CBT”) can be presented over a global network such as the Internet with low development costs, low hosting costs, inexpensive class production, and high-quality audio-visual content. A student, having an active connection to the server from a remote client, enters the CBT website and registers as a new student by providing necessary pertinent information to the server host. Upon completion of the registration process, the student begins his or her interaction with the online computer-based training plan. The online plan includes digital images and digital audio that is compressed and transmitted from a host server to the student's computer via the Internet. The images and audio are taken from digital nondigital sources and converted to a digital format. The images for a plan are selected and compressed into an appropriate compression format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Iguana Training, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. McManus, Garry L. Struthers, Kyle G. Swinney, Rodney R. Dye, Michael T. Wills, William G. Bronske, Mark A. Waddle
  • Publication number: 20020034721
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system by which customized quality computer-based training (“CBT”) can be presented over a global network such as the Internet with low development costs, low hosting costs, inexpensive class production, and high-quality audio-visual content. A student, having an active connection to the server from a remote client, enters the CBT website and registers as a new student by providing necessary pertinent information to the server host. Upon completion of the registration process, the student begins his or her interaction with the online computer-based training plan. The online plan includes digital images and digital audio that is compressed and transmitted from a host server to the student's computer via the Internet. The images and audio are taken from digital nondigital sources and converted to a digital format. The images for a plan are selected and compressed into an appropriate compression format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Richard W. McManus, Garry L. Struthers, Kyle G. Swinney, Rodney R. Dye, Michael T. Wills, William G. Bronske, Mark A. Waddle
  • Publication number: 20020034720
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system by which customized quality computer-based training (“CBT”) can be presented over a global network such as the Internet with low development costs, low hosting costs, inexpensive class production, and high-quality audio-visual content. A student, having an active connection to the server from a remote client, enters the CBT website and registers as a new student by providing necessary pertinent information to the server host. Upon completion of the registration process, the student begins his or her interaction with the online computer-based training plan. The online plan includes digital images and digital audio that is compressed and transmitted from a host server to the student's computer via the Internet. The images and audio are taken from digital nondigital sources and converted to a digital format. The images for a plan are selected and compressed into an appropriate compression format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Richard W. McManus, Garry L. Struthers, Kyle G. Swinney, Rodney R. Dye, Michael T. Wills, William G. Bronske, Mark A. Waddle
  • Patent number: 4385812
    Abstract: An objective lens cover assembly for employment in a sterile or nonsterile disposable operating microscope drape. The assembly includes a housing adapted to frictionally engage the objective lens frame of the microscope, and to removably receive a lens cover in positive locking and sealing engagement therewith. The housing includes a circumferential flange for seating the lens cover, and a resilient peripheral portion extending downwardly from said flange for receiving the lens cover. The resilient peripheral portion includes resilient lens cover retaining means including a plurality of inwardly deflectable projections, each having a base face spaced from the circumferential flange to define lens cover retaining slots. When the lens cover is received in the housing, the lens cover deflects the lens cover retaining means outwardly to seat the lens cover in the retaining slots. The lens cover is disengaged from the housing by flexing the lens retaining means outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: Surgikos, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. Wille, Nicholas E. Sachuk