Patents by Inventor Christopher M. Miller

Christopher M. Miller 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: 5842682
    Abstract: A quick disconnect has a first member having an outlet with at least one passageway, an umbrella valve movably attached within the outlet for sealing the passageway, and a second member having an inlet with at least one finger which releasably engages the passageway and displaces the umbrella valve when the first and second members are removably engaged, thereby unsealing the umbrella valve from the passageway and allowing open communication from the outlet to the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven M. Schennum, Reuben E. Oder, Christopher M. Miller, John J. Schwartz, Vernon S. Ping
  • Patent number: 5817240
    Abstract: A process for the treatment of an aqueous media having contaminants therein, comprising adding hydrogen peroxide to the aqueous media; and exposing the aqueous media to a catalytic environment for a time long enough to form usable reactive intermediates and short enough to prevent scavenging of the usable reactive intermediates formed. Also provided is a reactor for achieving the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Christopher M. Miller, Richard L. Valentine
  • Patent number: 5490249
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing software programs systematically explores valid call sequences using a collection of data with a software program comprising a collection of subroutine components. Instead of writing unit tests, the subject invention provides tools to develop precondition rules which systematically remove from the data collection, data which is syntactically incorrect for proper operation with the software program and then data which is semantically incorrect for the software program. The resulting reduced data collection is applied to the collection of components to generate output values which are then checked against postcondition rules to verify that the software program operated correctly. The test method and apparatus are implemented in object-oriented technology to allow test engineers to quickly and easily develop invariants, precondition rules and postcondition rules which are used to test the software program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Taligent, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher M. Miller
  • Patent number: 5390325
    Abstract: An object-oriented automated testing system and method tests program subroutines which operate on parameter data objects to generate results. Tests determine whether the subroutines meet design specifications provided by test engineers in the form of precondition objects and postcondition objects. The precondition objects comprise data invariant objects and functional precondition objects and are applied to a generated pool of candidate parameter data objects to check data syntax and data semantics, respectively before the parameter data is applied to the subroutines. Each parameter data object belongs to a predetermined data type and the precondition objects are written for generic data types and associated with each parameter data object during the testing process. The subroutines are run with the checked data by an automatically generated test program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Taligent, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher M. Miller
  • Patent number: D388705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher M. Miller, Vernon S. Ping, III, Steven M. Schennum
  • Patent number: D401703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Timothy J. Beechuk, Aram J. Irwin, Christopher M. Miller, Vernon S. Ping, III, Steven M. Schennum, Jonathan J. Schwartz, James W. Settelmayer, Jr.