Patents by Inventor William V. Cranston, III

William V. Cranston, III 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: 6354869
    Abstract: A connector is fastened to a central portion of a connector bracket adjacent a slot in a slotted bracket to provide a number of electrical circuits extending through the slot. A first end of the connector bracket is fastened to the slotted bracket by means of a screw. The central portion of the connector bracket extends inwardly along the slotted card bracket, adjacent the slot, which the central portion overlaps. An end tab of the card bracket, opposite the first end thereof, extends outwardly along a part of the slotted card bracket, which itself extends from an end of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William V. Cranston, III, Philip E. Grady, Jochem K. Koenig, John E. McCloskey, James J. Tout, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6138839
    Abstract: A card cage for holding expansion cards and filler panels within a computer system includes a ledge and a pivoted bar which is clamped in place adjacent to the ledge. A number of flexible portions of the pivoted bar clamp end portions of the filler panels and of brackets forming parts of the expansion cards against the ledge, so that these end portions are held in place while being electrically grounded. The bar is preferably pivoted about an axis extending parallel to the surface of the ledge and parallel to a slotted panel forming part of the card cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William V. Cranston, III, John Easton McCloskey, James John Tout, Jr., Frederick Charles Yentz
  • Patent number: D303958
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William V. Cranston, III, Randall W. Martin, Mark A. Young
  • Patent number: D304178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: William V. Cranston, III, Randall W. Martin, Mark S. Small, Mark A. Young
  • Patent number: D304323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: William V. Cranston, III, Randall W. Martin, Mark A. Young
  • Patent number: D373573
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jose P. Basco, William V. Cranston, III, Hunter T. Foy, Kendall A. Honeycutt, Allen R. Hood, Frederick C. Yentz