Patents by Inventor William B. Brooks

William B. Brooks 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: 10779528
    Abstract: A waterfowl decoy support is provided which boasts the ability to provide support to existing flotation type waterfowl decoys for placement on a ground surface. The support is designed such that it is easily attachably removable to and from the keel of the flotation type waterfowl decoy. Moreover, when the waterfowl decoy support is attached to the decoy and positioned in the ground, the decoy support imitates the lower extremities of a live waterfowl animal, providing an authentic, highly effective waterfowl appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BB Waterfowl, LLC
    Inventors: William B. Brooks, Brandon L. Rexroad
  • Publication number: 20180125062
    Abstract: A waterfowl decoy support is provided which boasts the ability to provide support to existing flotation type waterfowl decoys for placement on a ground surface. The support is designed such that it is easily attachably removable to and from the keel of the flotation type waterfowl decoy. Moreover, when the waterfowl decoy support is attached to the decoy and positioned in the ground, the decoy support imitates the lower extremities of a live waterfowl animal, providing an authentic, highly effective waterfowl appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: William B. Brooks, Brandon L. Rexroad
  • Patent number: 5280580
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling system service requests such as disk change requests in a system containing a primary processor and at least one secondary processor, each of which has one or more processes running thereon. Requests originating from processes running on the primary processor are added directly to a primary queue and the corresponding processes suspended pending the completion of the requested system service, at which time the processes are resumed and the requests are purged from the primary queue. Each secondary processor manages a secondary queue of system service requests originating from processes running on that processor, which are suspended while the requests remain on the secondary queue. When a request is added to an empty secondary queue, a process on the secondary processor issues its own request to the primary processor, which is added to the primary queue, and suspends execution while awaiting a response from the primary processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Brooks, Mark A. Hoffstatter, Ronald S. Manka, Roger I. Miller