Patents by Inventor William Greener

William Greener 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).

  • Publication number: 20170081123
    Abstract: A personal watercraft (PW) lifting apparatus includes an elongate member having an adjustable, fixable length and having opposing distal ends and a gripping part, and a shaped end member fixedly or removable disposed on each respective distal end, each shaped end member having a shape adapted to engage a perimetal edge region or an external side region of the personal watercraft. A user can attach the appropriately shaped ends to appropriate regions of the PW; once secured, the user can then grasp two apparatus or two opposing holding regions of a single apparatus with both hands respectively, without having to turn or twist his/her wrists, enabling easier and more controlled lifting of the PW.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: William Greener
  • Publication number: 20160252720
    Abstract: A binocular-type viewing apparatus designed in such a manner that a user, wanting to view an object located at a distance above the viewer's horizontal line of sight, need only direct his/her view downward into the apparatus to view the elevated object. Thus the eyepiece component has an optical axis inclined downwardly and an objective optical component of the apparatus has an optical axis inclined upwardly. An optical structure is disposed between the objective and the eyepiece to redirect the image optical path from the objective optical component to the eyepiece component and into the viewer's eyes. The binocular may have a fixed deviated optical axis or a variably adjustable optical axis from in-line up to or exceeding 90 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventor: William Greener
  • Patent number: 9400380
    Abstract: A binocular-type viewing apparatus designed in such a manner that a user, wanting to view an object located at a distance above the viewer's horizontal line of sight, need only direct his/her view downward into the apparatus to view the elevated object. Thus the eyepiece component has an optical axis inclined downwardly and an objective optical component of the apparatus has an optical axis inclined upwardly. An optical structure is disposed between the objective and the eyepiece to redirect the image optical path from the objective optical component to the eyepiece component and into the viewer's eyes. The binocular may have a fixed deviated optical axis or a variably adjustable optical axis from in-line up to or exceeding 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Inventor: William Greener
  • Publication number: 20130286475
    Abstract: A binocular-type viewing apparatus designed in such a manner that a user, wanting to view an object located at a distance above the viewer's horizontal line of sight, need only direct his/her view downward into the apparatus to view the elevated object. Thus the eyepiece component has an optical axis inclined downwardly and an objective optical component of the apparatus has an optical axis inclined upwardly. An optical structure is disposed between the objective and the eyepiece to redirect the image optical path from the objective optical component to the eyepiece component and into the viewer's eyes. The binocular may have a fixed deviated optical axis or a variably adjustable optical axis from in-line up to or exceeding 90 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: William Greener
  • Patent number: 7672097
    Abstract: An electrical control device including an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit has a circuit protection component such as, e.g., a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI). The exemplary GFCI includes a TEST circuit activator and a RESET circuit activator, as well as a visual circuit status indicator indicia that is in an active (illuminated) state when the circuit is in a fault condition. The status indicator indicia is visually, physically, ergonomically or otherwise positively informatively associated with the TEST circuit activator and/or the RESET circuit activator. The positive informative association between the indicator indicia and the TEST circuit activator and/or the RESET circuit activator may be made by physical and/or visual boundaries or markings on a cover portion of the device or by integrally incorporating the indicia in the TEST circuit activator and/or the RESET circuit activator. The indicia may be a steady state or a blinking illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Pass & Seymour, Inc.
    Inventors: Fabien Striblen, Thomas N. Packard, William Greener