Patents by Inventor William O. Collins

William O. Collins 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: 9536255
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus the delivery of ready-to-cook foodstuffs, such as cookie dough eggs, in response to a consumer's order or selection. The system contemplates obtaining a consumer's order for ready-to-cook dough eggs, and storing consumer's order data in a memory of a point-of-sale computer system. The ordering data is then displayed on a point-of-sale system for fulfillment by a service associate, who assembles and packages the consumer's order in a carton in accordance with the order displayed. In the particular dough egg embodiment, the “eggs” are placed in numbered recesses in a clam-shell carton and an order fulfillment sheet is printed an attached. The order fulfillment sheet includes a listing of the variety of dough egg that has been placed in each of the numbered recesses in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Cole & Parks LLC
    Inventors: Donna Reeves-Collins, William O. Collins
  • Patent number: 3972125
    Abstract: A visual approach and landing system for aircraft including a basic slope indicator supported on or adjacent the ground in predetermined relation to a runway for visually indicating to a pilot the correct path which he should follow when approaching the runway together with supplementary warning devices to provide the pilot with a definite visual warning of a low approach and other indicating and warning devices also provided in the form of signs or symbols indicating to the pilot the direction he should look and fly ahead and upward from the approach or descent path defined by a slope indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Inventor: William O. Collins
  • Patent number: 3964015
    Abstract: A light system providing a visual indicator arrangement that is visible to an aircraft pilot to provide guidance during a runway approach segment and landing segment of the flight path of an aircraft. The system includes lighted indicators which define two inclined plane surfaces, the intersection of which forms a straight line which is precisely the correct path for the aircraft to follow in making its approach to the runway with the indicators being so arranged as to form lines which appear to the pilot to converge and intersect at an aiming point on the runway even though the point on the runway is not yet visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Inventor: William O. Collins
  • Patent number: 3934148
    Abstract: A light distributing assembly such as a direction lamp utilizing a fluorescent plastic member which is capable of emitting light from its ends or edges when a light source is impinged on its surface combined with a cylindrical dowel, rod, spherical ball, reflector or the like which will pick up a substantial portion of the light emitted from the end or edge and direct such light in a restricted direction while concentrating the light into a beam capable of use in many orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1976
    Inventor: William O. Collins