Patents by Inventor Robert L. Savoy

Robert L. Savoy 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: 5341133
    Abstract: A keyboard for an electronic device includes a first key having a touch surface which, in one mode, is responsive to pressing by a user's finger to indicate a selection associated with the first key, and an array of sensors exposed at the touch surface to detect, in another mode, the location where a finger is positioned on the touch surface as an indication of information to be conveyed by a user. The keyboard also includes a second key having an array of sensors which are exposed at a touch surface of the second key and which are sensitive to manipulations of a finger on the touch surface to provide signals used for switching the first key from the one mode to the other mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: The Rowland Institute for Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Savoy, J. Winfield Hill
  • Patent number: 4707247
    Abstract: A storage cabinet for storing in each of a number of stacked storage regions a boxed compact disk, a boxed compact cassette or a pair of unboxed compact cassettes includes a pair of opposed parallel side walls cantilevered from a rear wall and having stacked opposed pairs of protrusions defining a first storage region extending between the side walls for receiving a boxed compact disk or a pair of unboxed cassettes and each having a shelf spaced from the rear wall for defining a second storage region of width corresponding to that of a boxed compact cassette and depth less than the width of a boxed compact cassette for storing a boxed compact cassette so that it protrudes slightly beyond the free ends of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Savoy Leather Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Savoy