Patents by Inventor Patrick C. Smith

Patrick C. Smith 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: 5630103
    Abstract: An electronic method for distributing printed media to subscriber stations for viewing on a personal computer and corresponding electronic distribution system is afforded by this invention. Mass distribution of newspaper or periodical magazine copy is made feasible by converting the copy into an electronic data flow stream format with sequentially represented computer files identified for reception, selection and extraction at a subscriber's computer system. This data stream then is transmitted en masse in this format over a narrow bandwidth transmission channel without filtering or logical processing for local area broadcast over a commercial FM broadcast station on a subcarrier frequency. There selected files are extracted at subscriber reception stations from the data flow stream and stored for interactive manipulation and viewing either as printed media or as an image on a PC viewing monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Inventors: Patrick C. Smith, Joel B. Aud, William D. Cotten
  • Patent number: 5613285
    Abstract: The process includes the sequential steps of supplying in a separated side-by-side parallel relationship to a yarn drawing apparatus first multifilament feed yarn and second multifilament feed yarn which are differently colored or colorable with respect to each other; drawing the first feed yarn and the second feed yarn in the yarn drawing apparatus while keeping the first feed yarn and the second feed yarn in a relatively parallel relationship and separate from each other; making a bundle from the first drawn feed yarn and the second drawn feed yarn by simultaneously imparting false twist to the drawn first feed yarn and the drawn second feed yarn without commingling the first and second drawn feed yarns; and texturing the bundle without commingling to make a nontwisted, noncommingled singles yarn displaying two distinct unblended colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Roy E. Chester, Andrew M. Coons, III, Hugh G. Harrelson, Jr., Willis M. King, George E. Potter, Carl D. Sanford, Patrick C. Smith, Melvin R. Thompson, Leonard C. Vickery, Jr., Jerry M. Whitfield