Patents by Inventor Willard W. Case

Willard W. Case 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: 7956712
    Abstract: A correlated magnetic assembly for securing objects in a vehicle includes an object that incorporates a first field emission structure and a surface within the vehicle that incorporates a second field emission structure. The first and second field emission structures each include an array of field emission sources each having positions and polarities relating to a desired spatial force function that corresponds to a complementary alignment of the first and second field emission structures within a field domain. The object is attached to the surface of the vehicle when the first and second field emission structures are located next to one another and have a complementary alignment with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Cedar Ridge Research, LLC.
    Inventors: Larry W. Fullerton, Mark D. Roberts, Robert S. Babayi, Willard W. Case
  • Publication number: 20110018665
    Abstract: A correlated magnetic assembly for securing objects in a vehicle includes an object that incorporates a first field emission structure and a surface within the vehicle that incorporates a second field emission structure. The first and second field emission structures each include an array of field emission sources each having positions and polarities relating to a desired spatial force function that corresponds to a complementary alignment of the first and second field emission structures within a field domain. The object is attached to the surface of the vehicle when the first and second field emission structures are located next to one another and have a complementary alignment with respect to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Cedar Ridge Research, LLC.
    Inventors: Larry W. Fullerton, Mark D. Roberts, Robert S. Babayi, Willard W. Case
  • Publication number: 20040128747
    Abstract: A method of cooling a person by evaporation, comprising providing a liquid-retaining composite material, and a bladder that stores a liquid; hydrating said multi-layered composite with a liquid; and employing said multi-layered, liquid-retaining composite material as a garment or a flat sheet and evaporatively cooling said person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Scott Bumbarger, Willard W. Case, Nancy Keen, Steven Tanner
  • Patent number: 5579222
    Abstract: An improved system for administration of license terms for a software product on the network, having an arrangement, for tracking software product usage, with one of the computers acting as a license server. This arrangement permits the license server (i) to identify the current set of nodes that are using the software product, (ii) to handle license data concerning conditions under which usage of the software product is permitted at any given node, and (iii) to determine whether at any given time the conditions would be satisfied if a given node is added to this set of nodes. The software product may thus include instructions to interface with the license server to cause enforcement of the license terms. The improvement, in one embodiment, to the system includes a policy server database maintained on each node, containing data specifying conditions under which usage of the software product is permitted on the corresponding node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Intergraph Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey E. Bains, Willard W. Case