MR. MICHAEL CHARLES WEST, MS, ATC, LAT
Medical Practice in Austin, TX

5831597, Nov 3, 1998

May 24, 1996

8/653589

Michael S. West - Austin TX
Jennifer S. Nyland - North Vancouver, CA
Mitchell G. Burton - Coquitlam, CA

Tanisys Technology, Inc. - Austin TX

G09G 500

345163

A computer input device is used in conjunction with a mouse input device. The computer input device of the invention comprises a body having a resilient layer covered by a surface layer textured throughout the entirety of the surface for operation of the mouse. A printed circuit card is incorporated in the body between the resilient layer and the upper surface layer and includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor pads. The card further includes electronic circuitry for operating the touch sensor pads to detect when a capacitive object, such as a fingertip, is in the proximity of a sensor pad. A touch need not apply force to register. The printed circuit card includes a guard ring pad surrounding the touch pads which detects the presence of the mouse over the sensor pads and indicates that any detected outputs from the sensor pads are not valid, but instead are due to the presence of the mouse. The mouse can operate over the entirety of the surface of the device without interruption, including over the capacitive sensor pads. The input device can be connected to a personal computer through a mouse port, a keyboard port, a universal serial bus or any other available port of the computer.

7629981, Dec 8, 2009

Nov 3, 2006

11/592821

Michael S. West - Austin TX, US

Overwatch Systems Ltd. - Austin TX

G09G 5/00, G09G 5/02, G06K 9/46, G06K 9/36, G06K 9/32, G06F 19/00

345592, 345589, 345606, 345643, 382203, 382283, 382300, 702 1, 702 54, 702 57

A mechanism for gathering information from one or more detectors to aid in a determination of a current location of one or more entities is provided. Embodiments of the present invention perform these tasks by plotting data provided by the detectors onto a grid corresponding to a geographical area monitored by the detectors and then analyzing the plot for overlapping results using graphical techniques. Where measurements overlap, data associated with those measurements is provided to an analysis module to predict location and velocity of the entities. Aspects of the present invention provide an initial prediction of location and/or velocity of an entity in order to reduce convergence time of the analysis module.

5933102, Aug 3, 1999

Sep 24, 1997

8/935468

Stephen J. Miller - Jonestown TX
Michael S. West - Austin TX

Tanisys Technology, Inc. - Austin TX

H03K 1796

341 33

A touch sensor switch that responds to touching, or even to the proximity of an object, is disclosed. The switch includes a number of capacitance elements, or touch pads, that produce an effective capacitance dependent upon the physical proximity of the object. A microcontroller under control of a program stored in a read-only memory causes its I/O port to set a transient voltage on each capacitance element as a logic level. Each transient voltage is at variance with the capacitive element's preferred voltage level. The program then reads the I/O port, and hence the logic levels of the capacitance elements, as the capacitive elements revert to their preferred voltage levels, and calculates the proximity of the object, or touching, from relationships among recorded signals. The circuit may also be embodied in an application specific integrated circuit.

6064948, May 16, 2000

Mar 2, 1998

9/033364

Michael S. West - Austin TX
Archer R. Lawrence - Austin TX
Paul R. Hunter - Austin TX
Jack C. Little - Austin TX

Tanisys Technology, Inc. - Austin TX

G01R 3126

702119

A tester for use with a device under test includes a processor, a signal timing editor to create representations of signal waveforms and associated times, and a test program executable on the processor that schedules events based on information from the signal timing editor. The test program schedules different delays for the events to compensate for variations in time delays between different signals coupled to the device under test.