Patents by Inventor Walter S. Carlson

Walter S. Carlson 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: 4250891
    Abstract: A finger tip sensitivity-testing instrument consisting of a tunnel-shaped track member used as a support for the hand and forearm of a patient, the track member having a longitudinal cavity slidably receiving a feeler bar which is formed on its top surface with surface profile structure varying progressively longitudinally in sensible magnitude. The patient's finger is received in a notch in the edge of the tunnel top wall so as to allow the finger to engage the surface profile bar as it is extended from the tunnel. Graduations are inscribed along the side margin of the feeler bar which represent specific increments of differential surface profile relative to the mouth of the tunnel. The feeler bar rests slidably on a spring-supported plastic thin plate, thus simulating a floating support surface for the feeler bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health, Education & Welfare
    Inventors: Walter S. Carlson, Shlomo Samueloff, Donald E. Wasserman