Patents by Inventor Thomas Wissman

Thomas Wissman 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: 5401019
    Abstract: A golf tool having a variety of uses includes a circular hole for checking the roundness of a golf ball. The hole may also be partially obstructed to prevent a ball from passing through the hole. Such capability, together with a snap permitting the attachment of the tool to the shaft of a golf club, allows the tool to be used to retrieve a golf ball from an inaccessible position. The tool also has two fingers, whose moderately sharp ends may be used to clean the grooves on the face of the head of the golf club, and to repair ball marks on golf course greens. The tool may be struck into the ground in an upright position using these fingers, and a flattened portion on top used to keep the hand grip of a golf club off of wet grass. A slot on the tool may be used to hold a cigarette, when the tool is in such an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Inventors: Thomas Wissman, David Bielicki
  • Patent number: 4437717
    Abstract: A device for supplying power to a printed circuit card when disposed in a rack mounted card cage, which has a plug maintained in the cage and coupled to leads connectable to a source of primary power (USA or European); a printed circuit card having a receptacle to provide a mating relationship with the plug and to provide power to the card; a backplane supported by the card, functionally separate from the receptacle for mating with an M-board maintained by the cage; with the plug providing primary power to the card via the receptacle, separate from the backplane and formed so as to allow for coupling even if slight misalignment of the plug and receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: Paradyne Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Korzik, Thomas Wissman
  • Patent number: D273189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Paradyne Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Korzik, Thomas Wissman, Richard Anderson, Jorge Suarez