Patents by Inventor Nancy Adinolfe

Nancy Adinolfe 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: 7299517
    Abstract: An apparatus for loading bikes and motorcycles from the ground to a higher elevation such as into a transport vehicle without lifting. The apparatus permits the user to walk the bike or motorcycle into up a vehicle on a foldable, for easy storage, arcuate ramp. The user holds onto the bike or motorcycle and walks up the ramp from behind the cycle in a first embodiment; or adjacent to the vehicle into the van or truck in a second embodiment. The second embodiment includes a series of spaced steps or U-rungs on one or both sides of the ramp. Both versions fold for easy storage and portability and both embodiments can be separated into two parts for easy linear storage if needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Inventor: Nancy Adinolfe
  • Patent number: 5180968
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for compensating for charging current at a working electrode of an electrochemical cell. And a method for measuring faradaic current at the working electrode. Includes measuring the current at the working electrode while a time-varying potential difference is applied between the working electrode and a reference electrode. And while the applied potential difference is held constant for a short time and the working electrode current is again measured, where this current is the faradaic current. The faradaic current is then filtered from the total current to determine the charging current thereby compensating for double layer charging current in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Assignee: Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Stanley Bruckenstein, Nancy Adinolfe