Patents by Inventor Kenneth R. Henderson

Kenneth R. Henderson 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: 5596502
    Abstract: A demand driven pull-through computerized decision support scheduling system-- The Cube System-- employing a CUBEBOOKING Program operating in near real time to load Jobs (a sequence of predefined process) in CubeCells at a Workspace in Time defined in a selected Cube World in response to demand placed on the Cube World by a customer order, which program allocates the best available resources to produce products (Product Resources) composed of materials (Material Resources on a Positive Bill of Materials) having Features (contained in a Negative Bill of Materials). The Cube System operates to keep track of alternate probable process paths by scoring systems and retains resource usage production history patterns as Prime Data to resolve conflicts between capacity-limited resources (Resource Contentions).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: SunOptech, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert E. Koski, Kenneth R. Henderson, Christopher R. Barlow
  • Patent number: 5550976
    Abstract: A highly secure, virus resistant, tamper resistant, object oriented, data processing system for depositing, withdrawing and communicating electronic data between one or more individual and/or networked computers comprising one or more computers for processing electronic data including one or more shared electronic storage devices for the temporary and/or permanent storage of said electronic data, each of said computers including custom configurable system programs for asynchronous depositing, withdrawing and communicating said electronic data to commonly shared electronic storage devices, and said programs permitting data archival, accountability, security, encryption and decryption, compression and decompression, and multi-processing capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Sun Hydraulics Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Henderson, Robert E. Koski, Christopher R. Barlow