Patents by Inventor Kenneth H. Gardner

Kenneth H. Gardner 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).

  • Publication number: 20120310906
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking the content of building information models. Embodiments include various computer-implemented methods for the tagging of BIM information, and for the monitoring of modification events involving BIM information. In addition, activities involving physical elements associated with BIM information are tracked. Providers of BIM content can tag content prior to distribution, enabling an internet-based service to track usage, enabling improved service to consumers of that BIM content. Designers can tag BIM content and BIM elements for tracking during the useful life of a building. Internet based messaging protocols can be used for communication between web services, client services and client applications. Monitoring and communication services function unattended. The system includes integration with BIM design applications, as well as stand-alone, end user system applications and browser interfaces. Analytic tools can be used to report on the tracking data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Dwayne Miller, Kenneth H. Gardner, Stephen J. Germano, James Chun, Daniel J. Ives
  • Patent number: 7168599
    Abstract: A platform receives at least two water bottles. A handtruck is configured to engage under a water bottle on the platform and carry it to the dispensing cabinet. In the handtruck, the water bottle is tilted so that the lowest corner of the bottle is directly below its neck. The handtruck engages and locks into the cabinet with the water bottle in proper, tilted position. A suction tube is dropped straight down into the bottle so that it reaches the lowest corner of the bottle. The suction tube carries a pump and discharge spout so that actuation of the pump causes dispensing of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Criswell, Kenneth H. Gardner
  • Patent number: 4879702
    Abstract: A wrist watch has a watch body and wrist band arranged to hold the watch body at the side of the wearer's wrist. In a preferred embodiment, this is achieved by providing the wrist band with a rigid portion, for example, where the watch body would lie in a conventional wrist watch, with a length sufficient to prevent rotation of the watch body around the wrist. In another preferred embodiment the watch body is incorporated in a resilient clip-on type band shaped as an elongate U.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Inventor: Kenneth H. Gardner
  • Patent number: 4781174
    Abstract: Heat rays of the sun are concentrated and focussed by means of a reflective and/or lenticular device at a focal point for the purpose of the cremation of corpses, and their reduction to ashes thereby, either as a system per se or in combination with various ancillary buildings, equipment and facilities, more particularly an auditorium structure for conducting a funeral service or the like and from which a corpse may be transferred to the focal point of the concentrating device preferably by elevating the corpse through an opening in the ceiling and/or roof of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Inventor: Kenneth H. Gardner