Patents by Inventor Thomas Styles

Thomas Styles 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: 20080021894
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating a search for story-based media search criteria for use in searching for story-based works are disclosed. The method may include the steps of: facilitating a search for and receiving input from a user that specifies a first desired character type, a desired type of interaction between a first character and a second character in a work, and/or other story-based search criteria, and searching a work database, and identifying at least one of said plurality of works that has a first work character type, desired type of interaction, and/or other story-based search criteria that is substantially similar to the specified story-based search criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventor: Thomas Styles
  • Patent number: 5772135
    Abstract: A replaceable jaw face (10a-10d) for a jaw crusher for crushing rocks and the like comprises corrugations (c) the axes of which are inclined to the vertical such that there is a lateral phase shift of the corrugations between the upper and lower end edges (16,18) of the face. This configuration provides interchangeability of the jaw faces throughout the jaws of the crusher while maintaining the correct relationship between the corrugations of the jaw faces of the opposing jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Clyde Industries Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth Thomas Styles