Patents by Inventor Walter N. Yap

Walter N. Yap 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: 8156895
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to an automatic self cleaning litter box. In accordance with one embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes a litter receptacle, a drive unit moveably coupled to the litter receptacle, and a sieve coupled to the drive unit such that the sieve possesses at least two degrees of freedom of movement relative to the litter receptacle and at least one degree of freedom of movement relative to the drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: United Pet Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Elif Caputa, Brooke Sloate, Michael John Otterman, Walter N. Yap
  • Patent number: 6320608
    Abstract: A surveillance camera assembly housing is releasably locked to a base for the housing. The base is installed on a ceiling or at another location remote from ground level. A removal tool head, in the form of a hollow cylinder, is provided at the end of a pole. Slots formed in the tool head engage ridges on the camera assembly housing. The assembly housing is twisted to release it from the base and then is brought to ground level while contained within the tool head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Walter N. Yap, Sergio M. Perez, Luis E. Anderson, David A. Haney
  • Patent number: 6015123
    Abstract: A mounting bracket permits mounting a camera base for a video surveillance camera to a variety of different support structures. The mounting bracket includes first and second outside corner panel sections for defining a concave right-angled structure to selectively be fitted to an outside wall corner, first and second planar panel sections for defining a substantially planar structure to selectively be fitted to a planar wall section, first and second inside corner panel sections for defining a convex right-angled structure to selectively be fitted to an inside wall corner, and first and second attachment panel sections to permit attachment of the camera base to the mounting bracket. The first and second outside corner panel sections are connected to the first and second planar panel sections, respectively, which in turn are connected to the first and second inside corner panel sections, respectively, which in turn are connected to the first and second attachment panel sections, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Sergio M. Perez, Walter N. Yap
  • Patent number: 5260853
    Abstract: An antenna housing comprising panels having lateral ends which are held together by interlocking end members which slidably engage the lateral ends. End caps engage the upper and lower parts of the lateral ends and end members to hold them together to provide an integrated, low profile aesthetically pleasing antenna housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Walter N. Yap, Howard M. Schenkel