Patents by Inventor William Eakins Ferguson, Jr.

William Eakins Ferguson, Jr. 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).

  • Attachment device and method for fastening electrical cable monitoring instruments to electrical cables
    Patent number: 7570045
    Abstract: The present invention is an attachment device and a method for fastening and removing an electrical cable monitoring instrument to an electrical cable. The attachment device comprises monitoring instrument sensor with opening for positioning electrical cable such that said electrical cable can be positioned to pass through the sensitive volume at least partially surrounded by said sensor, at least one elongated elastic member securely attached to said cable monitoring instrument such that, when elastically deformed to a shape characterized by high mechanical energy such that deformed elastic member allows said electrical cable access to and from the sensitive volume at least partially surrounded by said monitoring instruments sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: James G. Biddle Company
    Inventors: Gregory Robert Wolfe, William Eakins Ferguson, Jr., Andrew Paul Sagl, Jeffrey Lyn Stitt