Patents by Inventor Robert J. Hess

Robert J. Hess 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: 7059526
    Abstract: Method and identification system to keep track of individual pills dispensed to patients in a hospital by scanning a machine readable code assigned to each pill individually. The pills may be individually within single-pill containers. Inventory levels may be adjusted based on the scanning. Prior to dispensing the pills, a verification check may be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventors: Scott L. Sullivan, Robert J. Hess
  • Patent number: 6821595
    Abstract: A composite material panel having alternating layers of wood veneer with recycled or waste material. The layers are sandwiched together. The technique involves forming the composite material layer by layer and employing materials in each layer that are suited to satisfy requirements for specific kinds of construction. The layer of recycled or waste material is preferably flexible and has memory. Some examples include plastic straw, bars from plastic, tires or metal, balls from plastic or tires, sheet from plastic, tires or metal, air bubble cushioning from plastic. The metal is exemplified by aluminum and tin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Ecoem, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Philippe R. Murcia, Robert J. Hess
  • Patent number: 6799725
    Abstract: A pill imprinted with a micro barcode of encoded information pertaining to source identification and/or medical information pertaining to the contents of the pill. A device for reading the micro barcode on the pills and indicating what was read. The device may convey the pills in succession and sort them in accordance with the expiration date or type of medication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Inventors: Robert J. Hess, Scott L. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 6776341
    Abstract: A machine readable code on a label of a pill or imprinted directly thereon. The code may be used to track the identity of the pill for purposes of avoiding mix-up or trademark violations. The code has patterns whose resolution is too small for the unaided eye to discern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventors: Scott L. Sullivan, Robert J. Hess
  • Publication number: 20040143463
    Abstract: Certification of the cleanliness of a property with respect to the amount of waste wood remnants (deadwood) that are present on the property relative to the amount of healthy biomass tree species present on the property. Proof of the certification of cleanliness may be given to the owner or resident of the property where the certification took place. Such proof may be submitted so that the owner or resident of the property receives a monetary benefit. The submission may be to an insurance company, which lowers the premium to the insured for risk of loss. The submission may be to consummate the sale or purchase of air rights over the property that satisfy carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide emission levels that are set by domestic or international standards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Philippe R. Murcia, Robert J. Hess
  • Publication number: 20030157301
    Abstract: A composite material panel having alternating layers of wood veneer with recycled or waste material. The layers are sandwiched together. The technique involves forming the composite material layer by layer and employing materials in each layer that are suited to satisfy requirements for specific kinds of construction. The layer of recycled or waste material is preferably flexible and has memory. Some examples include plastic straw, bars from plastic, tires or metal, balls from plastic or tires, sheet from plastic, tires or metal, air bubble cushioning from plastic. The metal is exemplified by aluminum and tin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Philippe R. Murcia, Robert J. Hess
  • Patent number: 6283706
    Abstract: A portable apparatus that includes fan and a harness adapted to permit the fan to be hung from a harness in a self-supported position on the wearer and which permits relocation of the fan to vary the distance of the fan from the neck of the wearer. The harness includes a cord that is looped about the wearer's neck and which passes through an adjustable coupler, whose sidewalls are configured and arranged to deform in response to squeezing forces. In response to the sidewalls being squeezed, the adjustable coupler releases the cord to permit simultaneous relative movement of the adjustable coupler along the cord. In response to removal of the squeezing forces, the adjustable coupler resiliently returns to its undeformed condition, grasping the cord to prevent relative movement of the adjustable coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Atico International USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Harding Cochran, Peter T. Cobrin, Robert J. Hess
  • Patent number: 5992742
    Abstract: A machine readable code on a label of a pill or imprinted directly thereon. The code may be used to track the identity of the pill for purposes of avoiding mix-up or trademark violations. The code has patterns whose resolution is too small for the unaided eye to discern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Inventors: Scott L. Sullivan, Robert J. Hess
  • Patent number: 5425642
    Abstract: Capturing the attention of the audience by having them watch letters being arranged on a blackboard in what appears to be a completely random, jumbled manner as words germane to the topic of discussion are enunciated, and then seeing those letters combined, perhaps with a few filler letters, to spell out yet another word which also is germane to the topic of discussion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Inventor: Robert J. Hess