Patents by Inventor Paul Kenneth Wolff

Paul Kenneth Wolff 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: 20110225098
    Abstract: A system and computer program product for communicating with a recycling user during recycling activities of a recycling vehicle, including: receiving recycling user information, associated with a recycling user via a web-based user interface, having a street address, contact information, a reward point total and recycling data associated with the recycling user; associating a unique identifier with the recycling user; periodically storing and updating the recycling user information in an account identified by the unique identifier in the database; converting the street address into a recycling user geographic coordinate; periodically receiving a recycling vehicle geographic coordinate associated with the real-time location of a recycling vehicle via a wireless network; comparing the received recycling vehicle geographic coordinate with the recycling user geographic coordinate and determining whether the received recycling vehicle geographic coordinate associated with the recycling user geographic coordinate
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: WM GreenOps, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Wolff, Anthony Joaquin Zolezzi, Paul Jerry Ligon
  • Publication number: 20100185506
    Abstract: A system and computer program product for managing an online recycling operation, including uniquely associating one or more recyclable products with unique identifiers and other product information stored in a database, receiving information associated with the one or more recyclable products, periodically storing and updating the information associated with the one or more recyclable products in the database, associating the unique identifier with a recycling user having user account information stored in the database, updating the reward point total based on an activity of the recycling user, communicating the product information and the user account information to the recycling user over a network, communicating rewards that are available in exchange for reward points to the recycling user over the network, and redeeming reward points upon demand by the recycling user over the network. Each recyclable product includes indicia that uniquely identifies the recyclable product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: WM GreenOps, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Wolff, Anthony Joaquin Zolezzi, Antonella Commiato, Paul Jerry Ligon, Rohith Kumar Anabheri Venkata
  • Publication number: 20100017276
    Abstract: A system, computer program product for managing and tracking recyclable products. The computer program product includes computer codes for uniquely associating one or more recyclable products with unique identifiers and other product information stored in a database, receiving tracking information associated with the one or more recyclable products, periodically storing and updating the tracking information in the database, associating the unique identifier with a recycling user having user account information stored in the database, updating the reward total based on a recycling activity of the recycling user, and updating the reward total based on a recycling activity of the recycling user. Each recyclable product includes indicia that is both a unique scannable identifier and a visual indicator that the recyclable product is recyclable. The visual indicator is arranged to encourage recycling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: WM GreenOps. LLC
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Wolff, Anthony Joaquin Zolezzi
  • Patent number: 6085916
    Abstract: A demountable hanger assembly, for mounting at various locations in a display panel, has a cylindrical socket of predetermined diameter, a magnet mounted within the socket; a hanger locating device mounted within the socket adjacent to the magnet; a hanger member having a cylindrical portion to make a snug sliding fit in the socket, the cylindrical portion at least being formed of a magnetically sensitive material, attracted to the magnet, a locating recess formed in the cylindrical member to interfit with the locating member in the socket; and a hanger extending outwardly from the cylindrical portion, the hanger member being demountable from and mountable in the socket by manually separating the cylindrical member from the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Seven Continents Enterprises Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivica Kovacevic, Colin Wendell Mathlin, David Fredrick Didur, Paul Kenneth Wolff, David Melbye, Sarah Katharine Barnes, Carol-Ann Ursa, Todd Christopher Langille, Stephen Kenneth Cox, Steve Singh
  • Patent number: D629992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: WM Greenops, LLC
    Inventor: Paul Kenneth Wolff