ALAN H GRANT
Optometry at Woodhollow Dr, Bethesda, MD

4657159, Apr 14, 1987

Aug 6, 1985

6/762827

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD

B67B 724

222 83

A container is provided which has a meniscus shape. A convex part is received in the pale of a user's hand, and a lid is forced into a concave region to dispense material stored in the concave region. An opening which is easily opened and closed for dispensing material is made by using a dispensing aperture and a projection. When the projection is forced into the aperture, the container is closed, and when the projection is removed, the aperture is opened to allow material to be dispensed. Manipulation of the projection is simplified by the use of a lever easily engaged by a user's thumb. Dispensing is accomplished by holding the device in a user's palm so that the convex part lies across the palm and the fingers engage the lid. Normal action of the user's fingers causes the lid to be squeezed inwardly from the bottom to the top to efficiently expel the stored material. The container may be manufactured as a single unit in an unfolded condition, and it is then only necessary to place material in the concave region and to fold the lid over the concave region to complete assembly.

D477156, Apr 6, 1999

Mar 6, 1998

D/084624

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD

1403

D14138

5500643, Mar 19, 1996

Aug 26, 1993

8/112195

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD

B41J 510

341 22

A one hand, QWERTY keyboard angles the rows of keys away from the top and bottom parallel axes of the keyboard so as to eliminate ulnar-deviation of the actuating hand. This permits the orientation of the device to be parallel to the frontal plane of the body. Further, by positioning one or more keys on a front vertical surface of the keyboard, the thumb can actuate these keys in a natural-grasping, prehensile movement towards the fingers. The keyboard operates in two basic function modes. In a first mode, textual letters and symbols are input and in a second mode, numbers or symbols as for mathematical or scientific calculation are input. Once the user has turned on the device, the user can either press the "L" portion of a switch for letter usage or the "N" portion of the switch for number usage.

6095416, Aug 1, 2000

Feb 24, 1998

9/028855

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD
Richard J. Gambino - Stony Brook NY

Privicom, Inc. - Chevy Chase MD

G06K 708

235449

An authorization card, such as a credit card, has a security feature. The authorization card generally has two operational states, a disabled state and an enable state. In the disabled state, which is the default mode of operation, access to confidential information stored on the card is denied. The card remains in the disabled state until a PIN code is entered on a keypad provided on the card. Once the card is enabled, access to the confidential information is permitted for a predetermined period of time, after which the card reverts back to the default disabled state. The security feature is implemented on a magnetic card, an electronic smart card, and passive electronic card.

4645096, Feb 24, 1987

Jun 1, 1984

6/616711

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD

B65D 3900, B65D 3914

222153

A unique combination of a neck having a back wall which extends above a front wall and a closure for sealing an opening in the neck is disclosed. The back wall has a lip which extends into the opening for engaging the closure. The closure is inserted into the opening such that a groove in its upper surface is engaged by the lip to prevent movement of the closure out of the opening. Removal of the closure is accomplished by depressing it into the opening slightly to release the lip from the groove, and then rotating it about the front wall. In one embodiment, the front wall includes a tamper-proof tab which must break away from the front wall when the closure is rotated during a removal operation. Several embodiments of the upper edge and groove are shown.

6129277, Oct 10, 2000

Aug 3, 1998

9/127812

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD
Richard J. Gambino - Stony Brook NY

Privicon, Inc. - Chevy Chase MD

G06K 500

235449

A portable card reader is designed to be carried in a wallet or purse. In a first embodiment, the card reader has an electromagnetic head that reads information from a magnetic strip of a card. In a second embodiment, information is read from the card by an array of Hall sensors. In both embodiments, the information read from the card is converted to a sequence of electronic bursts of predetermined frequency, preferably in the audible or ultrasound range. The sound signals are output by a speaker to the microphone of a telephone. The signal is then transmitted over the telephone lines to a remote receiver. The receiver then converts the sound bursts into signal pulses which can be read using the computer software of a conventional card reader.

D361991, Sep 5, 1995

Feb 14, 1994

D/018680

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD

D14114

D357911, May 2, 1995

May 4, 1994

D/022402

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD
Eugene A. Helmetsie - Spencer NY

Ergonomics, Inc. - Chevy Chase MD

D14115

4847901, Jul 11, 1989

Aug 15, 1988

7/232455

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD

H04R 121, G02B 702

379450

An attachment for a telephone comprises a block in the form of a wedge for securing two lenses to the rear surface of the telephone handset. The lenses are arranged such that the user of the handset can look through one of the lenses when the handset is held in either hand.

5339097, Aug 16, 1994

Mar 6, 1992

7/846710

Alan H. Grant - Chevy Chase MD

G09G 302

345168

A keyboard for a computer is used with the hands of a user disposed substantially in a prehensile position with the thumb opposed to the fingers in a grasping position. The keyboard includes a first slanting keyboard surface for locating keys to be activated by a user's left hand adjacent and sloping downwardly away from a second slanting keyboard surface for locating keys to be activated by a user's right hand. The first and second keyboard surfaces are joined at a peaked central edge forming a V-shape which slopes downwardly toward a user and laterally away from the user. Twelve numbered function keys are positioned in a circular array toward an outward end of the first keyboard surface. A keypad for locating numeric keys is positioned toward an outward end of the second keyboard surface. A cursor control unit on a front surface of the keyboard, below the space bar, is used for controlling the movement of a cursor and is operated by the thumb of the user in a direction transverse to the direction of operation of the keys.