Patents by Inventor Wayne Albright

Wayne Albright 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).

  • Closure for a weaning cup
    Publication number: 20050145636
    Abstract: A sipper cup (10) includes a valve (16), when the valve (16) is not deformed, the valve is in an “off” position, so that no substantial liquid flows, even if the cup is turned upside down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Wayne Albright, Aly Khalifa, Timothy Fletcher
  • Multi-functional I/O card guide
    Patent number: 5711677
    Abstract: A multi-functional I/O card guide snap mounts to a mother board and houses a slidably removable I/O card for interfacing the I/O card with the mother board. The card guide includes a snap mountable daughter card for bridging the connection between the I/O card and the mother board. The card guide serves as a guide for accurately and easily slidably interfacing the I/O card with the daughter card, and serves as a connector for interfacing the I/O card and daughter card with the mother board. The card guide provides alignment accuracy between the I/O card and the interfacing daughter card connector because of a short tolerance path therebetween and inherent coplanar accuracy. Advantageously, no custom parts are required like conventional high rise connectors, and no extra mounting space or hardware is required like conventional backplane connector systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Paul K. Mui, R. Scott Johnson, Bruce G. Johnson, Wayne A. Albright, Eric L. Bokman