Patents by Inventor Steven G. Hansen

Steven G. Hansen 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: 8074947
    Abstract: A reconfigurable garden tool caddy device that is adapted for mounting to the handle portion of a long-handled garden tool, so as to provide the so equipped garden tool with two primary configurations of operation, namely: (i) a self-standing configuration, wherein its stand portion is arranged at a first angle with respect to the handle portion of the long-handled garden tool and supports the garden tool in an upright position at a second angle formed with respect to the ground surface of the garden; and (ii) a transport-work configuration, wherein the stand portion is disposed closely adjacent the handle portion of the garden tool and is releasably retained by a stand retainer structure so that the adapted garden tool can be transported between the garden and a tool shed or like shelter where garden tools are kept from the natural elements when not being used to work the soil of a garden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventors: James J. Cella, Steven G. Hansen
  • Patent number: 7421677
    Abstract: A method of reversing the tone of an image to be printed in a layer of radiation sensitive material formed on a substrate includes defining a lithographic problem, designing a patterning device, determining a first illumination arrangement and a radiation sensitive material process capable of printing a positive tone of the lithographic feature; and determining a second illumination arrangement capable of printing a negative tone of the lithographic feature with the radiation sensitive material process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Steven G. Hansen, Doug Van Den Broeke
  • Publication number: 20080093318
    Abstract: A reconfigurable garden tool caddy device that is adapted for mounting to the handle portion of a long-handled garden tool, so as to provide the so equipped garden tool with two primary configurations of operation, namely: (i) a self-standing configuration, wherein its stand portion is arranged at a first angle with respect to the handle portion of the long-handled garden tool and supports the garden tool in an upright position at a second angle formed with respect to the ground surface of the garden; and (ii) a transport-work configuration, wherein the stand portion is disposed closely adjacent the handle portion of the garden tool and is releasably retained by a stand retainer structure so that the adapted garden tool can be transported between the garden and a tool shed or like shelter where garden tools are kept from the natural elements when not being used to work the soil of a garden.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Steven G. Hansen, James J. Cella
  • Publication number: 20080083681
    Abstract: A reconfigurable garden tool caddy device that is adapted for mounting to the handle portion of a long-handled garden tool, so as to provide the so equipped garden tool with two primary configurations of operation, namely: (i) a self-standing configuration, wherein its stand portion is arranged at a first angle with respect to the handle portion of the long-handled garden tool and supports the garden tool in an upright position at a second angle formed with respect to the ground surface of the garden; and (ii) a transport-work configuration, wherein the stand portion is disposed closely adjacent the handle portion of the garden tool and is releasably retained by a stand retainer structure so that the adapted garden tool can be transported between the garden and a tool shed or like shelter where garden tools are kept from the natural elements when not being used to work the soil of a garden.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: James J. Cella, Steven G. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20040207829
    Abstract: A method of reversing the tone of an image to be printed in a layer of radiation sensitive material formed on a substrate includes defining a lithographic problem, the problem including a lithographic feature to be positively and negatively printed; designing a patterning device, the patterning device including a pattern, the pattern including the lithographic feature; determining a first illumination arrangement capable of positively printing the lithographic feature; determining a second illumination arrangement capable of negatively printing the lithographic feature; and switching the first illumination arrangement to the second illumination arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS, B.V.
    Inventors: Steven G. Hansen, Doug Van Den Broeke
  • Patent number: 4596643
    Abstract: Method of isomerizing an olefin by photoinduced catalysis utilizing COS and a photosensitizer therefor. The invention is particularly applicable for the isomerization of nerol to geraniol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventor: Steven G. Hansen