Patents by Inventor Tobias Brinkmann

Tobias Brinkmann 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: 11422636
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination of a computer keyboard and an extension unit for providing user input to a computing device, e.g. a computer, wherein the keyboard comprises: a housing; buttons and/or keys held by the housing; an electronic module accommodated inside the housing to convert engagement with a button or key into coded form and to transmit the coded form to the computing device as user input, wherein the extension unit comprises: a housing; a button and/or key held by the housing; an electronic module accommodated inside the housing to convert engagement with a button or key into coded form and to transmit the coded form to the electronic module of the keyboard for further transmittal to the computing device as user input, and wherein the keyboard and the extension unit are configured to releasably attach the housing of the extension unit to the housing of the keyboard at a plurality of different locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: 360 Service Agency GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Brinkmann
  • Publication number: 20210072838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination of a computer keyboard and an extension unit for providing user input to a computing device, e.g. a computer, wherein the keyboard comprises: a housing; buttons and/or keys held by the housing; an electronic module accommodated inside the housing to convert engagement with a button or key into coded form and to transmit the coded form to the computing device as user input, wherein the extension unit comprises: a housing; a button and/or key held by the housing; an electronic module accommodated inside the housing to convert engagement with a button or key into coded form and to transmit the coded form to the electronic module of the keyboard for further transmittal to the computing device as user input, and wherein the keyboard and the extension unit are configured to releasably attach the housing of the extension unit to the housing of the keyboard at a plurality of different locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Tobias Brinkmann
  • Publication number: 20210072839
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination of an input device for a computing device and a set of support elements, wherein the set of support elements includes at least two support elements, wherein the combination includes fasteners to fasten any number of support elements of the set of support elements to the input device, wherein the support elements are fastenable to the input device at a location on the input device to set a tilt angle of the input device, and wherein the set of support elements is configured such that a single support element can be fastened to the input device and such that a plurality of support elements can be fastened to the input device as a stack of support elements thereby allowing to set different tilt angles of the input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Tobias Brinkmann
  • Patent number: D783839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: COMMUNITY PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Gideon Clement, Samuel Durgin, Tobias Brinkmann, Gilbert Thomson
  • Patent number: D795441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Community Products, LLC
    Inventors: Gideon Clement, Samuel Durgin, Tobias Brinkmann, Gilbert Thomson
  • Patent number: D813401
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Community Products, LLC
    Inventors: Gideon Clement, Samuel Durgin, Tobias Brinkmann, Gilbert Thomson
  • Patent number: D975094
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Tobias Brinkmann
  • Patent number: D983198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventor: Tobias Brinkmann