Patents by Inventor Peter Joseph Mendel

Peter Joseph Mendel 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).

  • Scan Through Display and Methods of Using Same
    Publication number: 20170019543
    Abstract: An imaging device, including a panel having a privacy layer selectively configurable in a transparent state and an opaque state that blocks light from passing through the panel, and a display layer made of transparent material and positioned between the privacy layer and an outer surface of the panel, the display layer spaced from the privacy layer. A scanning device is disposed proximate to a surface of the privacy layer opposite the outer surface of the panel, for scanning an object positioned along the outer surface of the panel, wherein the controller operates the privacy layer in the transparent state and the display layer to not display image data in at least a first portion of panel such that the first portion thereof is transparent during the scanning operation for scanning the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Masahito Cho, Peter Joseph Mendel, Robert Henry Muyskens, Adam Randal Wiedemann
  • Printer
    Patent number: D439608
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel
  • Low profile printer
    Patent number: D458631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Pangburn, Peter Joseph Mendel, Jeffrey Ray Ehlert
  • Printer
    Patent number: D396053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn, Bernard Lee Wilzbach
  • Storage stand for an ink cartridge
    Patent number: D400374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Lexmark International Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn, William Hassell Beacham
  • Printer
    Patent number: D413352
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn, Bernard Lee Wilzbach
  • Printer
    Patent number: D431048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel
  • Printer
    Patent number: D432565
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn