Patents by Inventor Steve Allen Dixon

Steve Allen Dixon 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).

  • Television control system for universal control of hospital televisions
    Patent number: 6005486
    Abstract: A television control system for controlling different models of hospital televisions, has an input device for receiving an input from a person, and a controller for interfacing with hospital televisions. The controller generates control signal clusters reflective of the input, and the clusters include a plurality of sequentially-generated, individual control signals for specific operational functions of a plurality of different models of hospital televisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Hill-Rom, Inc.
    Inventors: Duane Patrick Fridley, Steve Allen Dixon, Vern Palm, Richard J. Schuman