The Device Test, Printed Whole: Components Yes, Implants None

Item 6 · Town test · Instruments: Google Patents and the European Patent Office record, by inventor residence “New Carlisle, Indiana”

Lead: This test was run on the patent record itself, by inventor residence, and its result is the article. The distinction to state plainly first: a component is a part — a sensor, a transmitter, a control — that may end up inside other people's machines; an implant or medical device is a thing made to go in or on a patient. New Carlisle, Indiana, has the first kind in its patent record and, as searched, none of the second. The clearest hit: Daniel A. Heuer, of New Carlisle, Indiana 46552, co-inventor with Shannon Edwards of LaPorte of a “Pressure transmitter with hall effect sensor,” European application EP 1560013, filed 2 February 2005 on a 2004 U.S. priority, applicant Dwyer Instruments, Inc. of Michigan City, Indiana — an industrial pressure-measurement component, not a medical device. Earlier: Jerome D. Huener, of 33863 Early Road, New Carlisle, Indiana 46552, co-inventor on EP 0619568 (filed 30 March 1994), a diagnostic method and apparatus for a domestic appliance — a cooking-appliance control, diagnostic in name and household in fact. Older still, Emil C. Evancich of New Carlisle co-invented an electric heating unit assigned to a New Carlisle company (U.S. 2,915,615, 1959), and William E. Rose of New Carlisle patented a sign-printer in 1894 (U.S. 518,118). The Ohio trap was excluded by residence line, by name: Elvin K. Cable's diode rectifier (1964), Theodore L. Beach Jr.'s rear-vision mirror (1953), and Harlow B. Grow's aircraft propulsion patent (1951) are all New Carlisle, Ohio. No patent with a New Carlisle, Indiana, inventor residence for a medical implant, a surgical instrument, or an FDA-type medical device was found in the Google Patents / EPO searches run for this item. A searched negative, at full strength: inventors lived here and patented components; medicine's devices were not among them.

Sources:

1. European Patent Office, EP 1560013 A2, “Pressure transmitter with hall effect sensor”: inventor Daniel A. Heuer, New Carlisle, Indiana 46552; applicant Dwyer Instruments, Inc., Michigan City, Indiana; filing 02.02.2005, priority 02.02.2004.
2. European Patent Office, EP 0619568 A1, “Diagnostic method and apparatus for a domestic appliance”: inventor Jerome D. Huener, New Carlisle, Indiana 46552; filed 30.03.1994.
3. Google Patents: US2915615A (Leipold & Evancich, New Carlisle, Ind., assignors to Welcraft Products Co., New Carlisle, 1959); US518118A (William E. Rose of New Carlisle, Indiana, sign-printer, 1894).
4. Ohio exclusions, Google Patents: US3118102A (Cable, New Carlisle, Ohio); US2642244A (Beach, New Carlisle, Ohio); US2547936A (Grow, New Carlisle, Ohio).
5. Instrument note: residence searches on “New Carlisle, Indiana” + patent / inventor and on ZIP 46552 returned the records above and no medical implant or surgical-device patent; ZIP-only searching also returns false hits on patent numbers containing 46552, which were discarded by reading, not counted.