Patents by Inventor Robert Edward Carmack

Robert Edward Carmack 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).

  • Method of reclaiming products from a retail store
    Patent number: 8396755
    Abstract: A method of reclaiming products from a retail store includes passing a plurality of products through an object identification system, capturing images of the plurality of products with object sensors as the products pass through the object identification system, processing the images to identify an indicium for each product, transmitting the indicium for each product through a wireless communication network to a logic engine, sorting the plurality of products based on the indicia to produce a bundled lot of products, producing a unique identifier for the bundled lot, the unique identifier having a machine readable code, and communicating the unique identifier of the bundled lot and the indicia of the products in the bundled lot to an auctioneer for initiation of a direct-to-consumer auction for auctioning of the bundled lot directly to a group of bidders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Bracewell Bonner, Robert Edward Carmack, Titus Arthur Jones, Doug Steven Meiser, Christopher Dale Norris, Nathaniel Wellikoff, Michael John Zettler
  • METHOD OF RECLAIMING PRODUCTS FROM A RETAIL STORE
    Publication number: 20120209741
    Abstract: A method of reclaiming products from a retail store includes passing a plurality of products through an object identification system, capturing images of the plurality of products with object sensors as the products pass through the object identification system, processing the images to identify an indicium for each product, transmitting the indicium for each product through a wireless communication network to a logic engine, sorting the plurality of products based on the indicia to produce a bundled lot of products, producing a unique identifier for the bundled lot, the unique identifier having a machine readable code, and communicating the unique identifier of the bundled lot and the indicia of the products in the bundled lot to an auctioneer for initiation of a direct-to-consumer auction for auctioning of the bundled lot directly to a group of bidders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SUNRISE R&D HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Bracewell Bonner, Robert Edward Carmack, Titus Arthur Jones, Douglas Steven Meiser, Christopher Dale Norris, Nathaniel Wellikoff, Michael John Zettler