Patents by Inventor Ronald A. Shapiro

Ronald A. Shapiro 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: 20060282134
    Abstract: A photo-thermal therapeutic device having an outer housing that can be used to treat patients. A plurality of light emitting diodes and resistors are resiliently mounted in the housing. The resilient mounting of the diodes and resistors allow the device to conform and provide effective treatment of almost any surface of the body of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Ronald Shapiro, Richard Dunlap, David Sutton
  • Publication number: 20050277100
    Abstract: An e-learning game generator accesses a learning object repository, a learning object assessment object repository, and a video repository. The video repository includes scenes that are suggestive of success and failure of the student in answering questions from the learning object assessment objects. When a student answers a question correctly, the game generator selects a positive scene from the video repository and presents it to the student; when the student answers a question incorrectly, the game generator selects a negative scene and presents it to the student.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth Bagley, Blake Goulette, Pamela Nesbitt, Robert Pepper, Ronald Shapiro
  • Patent number: 4817049
    Abstract: A data logging device has a data memory unit (11) and a transducer interface unit (1). The data memory unit has an internal power source (12), an integrated circuit memory component (23) for storing data under the control of a microprocessor (18) in the memory unit, light emitting diodes (14, 21) for indicating the amount of data stored in the memory component and the power source state. A connector component (19) connects the memory component to receive data from the transducer interface unit. The transducer interface unit (1) has a plurality of ports (2) for connection of remote transducers and an analog to digital converter (5) for translating signals received from the ports into data signals which can be transferred to the memory component in the data memory unit through a connector component (9) connected to the connector component (19) of the data memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Datapaq, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander J. Bates, John R. Wells, Ronald A. Shapiro, Richard L. Tenney