Patents by Inventor Thomas L. McDaniel

Thomas L. McDaniel 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: 20090056633
    Abstract: The ant proof pet food bowl is designed to protect ants from getting into the pets food. It is a dual purpose food and water bowl. The food bowl has a short hollow post (nipple) underneath it. The short hollow post fits into a taller hollow post in the water bowl. This raises the food bowl up over the water bowl and allows the pet to eat and drink from the same bowl without the ants getting the food. Ants do not cross water so they cannot get into the food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas L. McDaniel, Gregory L. McDaniel, Carolyn J. McDaniel
  • Patent number: 6140941
    Abstract: A cashless toll collection system and method that detects vehicles using transponders for prepaid customers and cameras for casual or non-transponder equipped vehicles. The system has a plurality of roadside toll collectors, one or more toll transaction processors, and a revenue management system. Each roadside toll collector has a vehicle to roadside communications system that communicates with transponders disposed in transponder equipped vehicles and generates entry and exit transaction reports indicating the entry and exit locations and times of the transponder equipped vehicles. Each roadside toll collector has a plurality of license plate cameras that selectively provide video images of license plates of vehicles that are not equipped with a transponder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Douglas Dwyer, Stephen J. Feitelson, Jeanne M. Perales-Herdt, Gary S. Gallagher, Roger O'Connor, Thomas L. McDaniel, Edward Broad