Patents by Inventor Thomas H. Stanford

Thomas H. Stanford 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: 6003015
    Abstract: A new and improved video order confirmation method and system that is adapted for use with a point-of-sale terminal and an audio order confirmation station to facilitate customer throughput. The video order confirmation system and method includes a point of sales terminal for receiving order input information from an order taker in response to order requests from a customer, and a video confirmation order terminal to facilitate order confirmation by the customer. The order confirmation terminal includes a free standing terminal housing having a microprocessor and display unit mounted therein for translating order items entered by an order taker at the point-of-sales terminal, into pixel images indicative of the description of the item ordered, the quantity of the item ordered, the unit price of the item ordered, the total price of the item or items ordered, and the accumulated total of all items ordered at any given time during the order process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: HM Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao Ming Kang, Thomas H. Stanford, David W. Snyder
  • Patent number: 5784685
    Abstract: A base station for interconnecting via a wireless full duplex communication path, a plurality of stationary intercom unit stations with at least one portable transceiver unit. A page channel interface arrangement coupled to the stationary units and the base station interconnects the stationary units and the portable units with a common paging arrangement to enable all the users of the system to be alerted about messages to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: H.M. Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Stanford, David W. Snyder, Elden R. Davisson
  • Patent number: 5701356
    Abstract: The transducer support assembly includes a transducer secured to a U-shaped strap having a pair of chest engageable leg portions connected integrally to a curved neck engageable portion by a pair of twisted intermediate portions for engaging the body of the user. The chest engageable leg portions are adapted to fit over the shoulders and to lie substantially flat against the chest of the user. A wide portion of the neck engageable portion extends in overlying substantially continuous engagement with the neck or back of the user to resist the chest engageable leg portions from swinging away from the chest. A gripping material forms an underside surface of the strap to frictionally engage the user, thereby inhibiting the strap from moving relative to the body of the user. Another transducer support assembly includes a flexible U-shaped neck support having a chest engageable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: HM Electronics
    Inventors: Thomas H. Stanford, Farhad Noroozi Sahne, Thomas P. Riches, Robert O'Neill
  • Patent number: D438508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: H. M. Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Stanford, Elden R. Davisson