Patents by Inventor Terry Boyd

Terry Boyd 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: 20070056340
    Abstract: A device to facilitate manipulating a key by persons having restricted finger and/or hand use that includes a key holding unit with a socket in one end thereof and means to removably secure a key to such unit. The device also includes a hand tool that has a hand grippable body portion with a rounded outer surface in which there is located finger engageable indentations. The indentations are spaced apart from one another around an outer peripheral portion of the body to facilitate gripping and turning the same. A shaft projects outwardly from the body a terminating in a rounded bullet like free outer end that facilitates inserting the same into the socket in the key holding unit. The shaft has a portion proximate the rounded end that is non circular in outline cross sectional shape that is matingly insertable into the socket in the key holding unit. For those having limited hand movement there is provided a reversible ratchet between the hey holding unit and the hand tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventor: Terry Boyd
  • Publication number: 20060097044
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for use by a consumer to enhance the consumer's shopping experience at a retail store previously visited by the consumer. The present invention provides a method of creating a personalized shopping list for the consumer, the method including the steps of obtaining a consumer's list items; obtaining item location information; and using the list items and the item information to create a shopping list containing the list items and the location within the retail store of store items one of the same as and similar to the list items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Terry Boyd, Phyllis Boyd