Patents by Inventor Walter Caswell Reade
Walter Caswell Reade 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).
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Patent number: 8799113Abstract: Providing quality management by validating a bill of materials in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system and method for validating materials during manufacture of a product. Also disclosed are a method of validating that acceptable materials are being used on a machine during manufacture of a product, and one or more computer-readable media for storing a data structure representing a product specification in an event-based manufacturing system.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Binforma Group Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Amy Hancock Boyd, Gary Lee Goggans, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jolene Marie Meissner, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Scott Jeffrey Park, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reade, John L. Reynders, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Roger Dale Yosten
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Patent number: 7882438Abstract: Providing quality management and intelligent manufacturing with labels and smart tags in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer-readable media for storing, during a process, data associated with a material. Also disclosed are a method of collecting, storing, and reporting machine productivity, waste, and delay information on an event basis in a manufacturing system, a method of capturing and storing material history, a method of automating tracking of positions of components used in a process and correlating portions of a component with production problems, an improved inventory management system, and a method of tracking and recording actions of specific operators of a process performed by a machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Michael T. Price, Walter Caswell Reade, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Roger Dale Yosten
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Patent number: 7621026Abstract: A web for use in applying a functional material is provided. The web includes a layer that has a plurality of elevated regions. The layer defines a plurality of cavities such that the cavities are located between adjacent elevated regions. A plurality of depressed regions are located on the layer intermediate the elevated regions. The layer has a longitudinal direction and a longitudinal mid-plane defined therethrough. A plurality of functional material members are located in the cavities of the layer. The functional material members are adapted for adhesion of particles or surfaces thereon. The layer is extendable in the longitudinal direction so that the elevated regions are moved in a direction towards the longitudinal mid-plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Fung Jou-Chen, Thomas Harold Roessler, Daniel Lee Ellingson, Walter Caswell Reade
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Patent number: 7401728Abstract: Communication between machines in an event-based manufacturing system. In an event-based manufacturing system, material-specific data obtained for a material produced during a first manufacturing operation is used to govern a second manufacturing operation to decrease the likelihood of at least a delay event, a waste event, or poor quality of the product.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jon Ray Matheus, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reade, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Flynn Matthew Tiffany, Roger Dale Yosten
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Patent number: 7380213Abstract: User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, computer-readable medium, and display device for processing data stored in a database. The data includes automatically collected event-based production information records in a manufacturing system wherein each record represents an event and includes a timestamp, an event code, and a measure of cost or production loss associated with the event.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Michael Roy Pokorny, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Winnie Shi Mei Shun Hoo, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Charles Earl Markham, Jon Ray Matheus, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Walter Caswell Reade, Jose Andres Stambuk
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Patent number: 7331087Abstract: A web for use in applying a functional material is provided. The web includes a layer that has a plurality of elevated regions. The layer defines a plurality of cavities such that the cavities are located between adjacent elevated regions. A plurality of depressed regions are located on the layer intermediate the elevated regions. The layer has a longitudinal direction and a longitudinal mid-plane defined therethrough. A plurality of functional material members are located in the cavities of the layer. The functional material members are adapted for adhesion of particles or surfaces thereon. The layer is extendable in the longitudinal direction so that the elevated regions are moved in a direction towards the longitudinal mid-plane.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Fung Jou-Chen, Thomas Harold Roessler, Daniel Lee Ellingson, Walter Caswell Reade
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Patent number: 7221987Abstract: Analyzing an event chronology record to permit identification of periods of a production sequence that correspond to a high probability of failure. Systems and methods include receiving an event chronology for a particular machine in the production sequence and for a particular time interval. A reliability analysis system accesses process flow information to determine whether a particular event in the event chronology is related to a subsequent adverse event within a predefined event window.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Arthur Bett, Tanakon Ungpiyakul, Walter Caswell Reade, Michelle ReneƩ Irwin, Jeremy Brian Cannady, Babe Bedenbaugh
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Patent number: 7092777Abstract: A data integrity module and method for evaluating data in a process information database. A neural network generates statistical patterns for specifying patterns for the data being evaluated. A fuzzy expert rules base specifies rules for evaluating the data. A processor, responsive to the rules base and the statistical patterns, identifies suspect data in the process information database by evaluating the data according to the rules base and the statistical patterns. A modification system modifies the suspect data in the process information database.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Walter Caswell Reade, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, Melissa S. Klaips, Charles Earl Markham, Michael Roy Pokorny
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Patent number: 7032816Abstract: Providing communication between machines and feed-forward control in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer-readable media for communicating data relating to a material between machines during a process for feed-forward control. Also disclosed are an intelligent event-based manufacturing system including a process for converting a raw material to a product and a method of reducing the probability of waste, delay, or a quality defect in a process having process conditions for the manufacture of a product from a sequentially trackable raw material.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jon Ray Matheus, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reade, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Flynn Matthew Tiffany, Roger Dale Yosten
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Patent number: 7035877Abstract: Providing quality management and intelligent manufacturing with labels and smart tags in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer-readable media for storing, during a process, data associated with a material. Also disclosed are a method of collecting, storing, and reporting machine productivity, waste, and delay information on an event basis in a manufacturing system, a method of capturing and storing material history, a method of automating tracking of positions of components used in a process and correlating portions of a component with production problems, an improved inventory management system, and a method of tracking and recording actions of specific operators of a process performed by a machine.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Michael T. Price, Walter Caswell Reade, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Roger Dale Yosten
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Patent number: 6968250Abstract: A data integrity module and method for evaluating data in a process information database. A neural network generates statistical patterns for specifying patterns for the data being evaluated. A fuzzy expert rules base specifies rules for evaluating the data. A processor, responsive to the rules base and the statistical patterns, identifies suspect data in the process information database by evaluating the data according to the rules base and the statistical patterns. A modification system modifies the suspect data in the process information database.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Walter Caswell Reade, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, Melissa S. Klaips, Charles Earl Markham, Michael Roy Pokorny
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Publication number: 20030158795Abstract: Providing quality management and intelligent manufacturing with labels and smart tags in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer-readable media for storing, during a process, data associated with a material. Also disclosed are a method of collecting, storing, and reporting machine productivity, waste, and delay information on an event basis in a manufacturing system, a method of capturing and storing material history, a method of automating tracking of positions of components used in a process and correlating portions of a component with production problems, an improved inventory management system, and a method of tracking and recording actions of specific operators of a process performed by a machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Michael Roy Pokorny, Michael T. Price, Walter Caswell Reade, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Roger Dale Yosten
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Publication number: 20030150909Abstract: Providing quality management by validating a bill of materials in event-based product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system and method for validating materials during manufacture of a product. Also disclosed are a method of validating that acceptable materials are being used on a machine during manufacture of a product, and one or more computer-readable media for storing a data structure representing a product specification in an event-based manufacturing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Charles Earl Markham, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Amy Hancock Boyd, Gary Lee Goggans, John Harland Hise, Sheryl Annette Ihde, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Jolene Marie Meissner, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Scott Jeffrey Park, Michael Roy Pokorny, Walter Caswell Reade, John L. Reynders, Gregory Duncan Shaffer, Roger Dale Yosten
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Publication number: 20030150908Abstract: User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, computer-readable medium, and display device for processing data stored in a database. The data include automatically collected event-based production information records in a manufacturing system wherein each record represents an event and includes a timestamp, an event code, and a measure of cost or production loss associated with the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Michael Roy Pokorny, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Winnie Shi Mei Shun Hoo, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Charles Earl Markham, Jon Ray Matheus, Jamie Scott Mork, Kurt Sigurd Nygaard, Walter Caswell Reade, Jose Andres Stambuk
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Publication number: 20030149373Abstract: A data integrity module and method for evaluating data in a process information database. A neural network generates statistical patterns for specifying patterns for the data being evaluated. A fuzzy expert rules base specifies rules for evaluating the data. A processor, responsive to the rules base and the statistical patterns, identifies suspect data in the process information database by evaluating the data according to the rules base and the statistical patterns. A modification system modifies the suspect data in the process information database.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Walter Caswell Reade, Douglas Gordon Barron Barber, Paul D. Fuller, Melissa S. Klaips, Charles Earl Markham, Michael Roy Pokorny