Patents by Inventor Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman 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: 20100176953
    Abstract: An orientation system for a visually impaired user which includes a base station and a handset; said base station is attached close to an item that the user wishes to orientate themselves to; the base station is configured to emit a beam which is unable to penetrate solid objects and which has a centreline; the handset is configured to detect the beam and generate an output which the user can use to determine the edges of the beam and thus orientate approximately with the centreline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Darryl Mark Sherwood, Brevan Weiss, Laurence Peter Freeman
  • Publication number: 20080126235
    Abstract: An Investment System (Vehicle) invests or holds an ownership interest in real property, receiving income from the property for the benefit of the underlying owners in the Vehicle. The Vehicle offers fractional ownership interests to investors owning real property which are exchanged for an ownership in the Vehicle. Such exchanges obtain deferral of gains from appreciation in the value of the property, which would otherwise be taxable, by complying with the provisions of IRC section 1031. The Vehicle provides investors the ability to execute subsequent exchanges of ownership interests in the Vehicle, at the discretion of the exchanging owner, for a separate replacement property representing a more desirable investment. The Vehicle Sponsor facilitates such subsequent exchanges, via either a replacement investor that acquires the ownership in the Vehicle or by purchasing the exchanging owner's interest. Purchases could be financed using a liquidity facility or line of credit established for such purpose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Sullivan, Peter Freeman
  • Patent number: 7157059
    Abstract: A nitrate reduction device has a cadmium structure forming a plurality of longitudinal channels within a flow chamber, which may be formed by a plurality of wires. The device is used to reduce nitrate to a final nitrite product for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior
    Inventors: Charles Johnston Patton, Peter Freeman Rogerson
  • Publication number: 20050108084
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and processor instructions to determine a first direct cost associated with at least a partial implementation of a business decision, the first direct cost including at least one of productivity gains and losses, determine a second direct cost based on a non-implementation of the business decision, the second direct cost based on the productivity gains and losses, determine a first risk reduction associated with at least a partial implementation of the business decision, the first risk reduction based on a business relationship risk(s), determine a second risk reduction associated with a non-implementation of the business decision, the second risk reduction based on the business relationship risk(s), and, associate the business decision with a value, the value corresponding to a sum between differences of: (i) the first direct cost and the second direct cost, and, (ii) the first risk reduction and the second risk reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Sridhar Ramamoorti, Peter Freeman, Anurag Agarwal
  • Patent number: 6393411
    Abstract: A secure funds device for use with a computer system, such as a personal computer, for transferring funds, in response to a funds transfer request for amounts of funds from the computer system, to a funds receiver. One or more electronic cash devices store electronic funds and transfer funds in response to funds transfer request when authorized by an authorization signal. A processor is used for connecting the funds transfer request from the computer system to the electronic cash device and for transferring electronic funds from the electronic cash device to the computer system when the authorization signal is present. User control means, including for example a pushbutton switch and an LCD display, that is not accessible by the computer system is used for providing the authorization signal. The secure funds device has a secure interface that prevents the computer system from generating the authorization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Amdahl Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Leslie Bishop, Robert Peter Freeman