Patents by Inventor William D. Hess

William D. 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: 9646369
    Abstract: Concepts for presenting display features to a user of a system which comprises a display, an acquisition device, and a controller system. In various embodiments, the acquisition device is configured to capture image data of one or more items moving along a conveying mechanism and read item identifiers associated with each item. The system then associates or identifies display features with each item identifier and presents the captured image data with the display features presented on or near the image data of the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventors: David Ray Salzman, Paul Augustine Loubriel, Jonathan Gray, William D. Hess, Devang R. Vaidya, Carl M. Skonberg, Scott Alan Loverich, Duane Anderson
  • Publication number: 20150262348
    Abstract: Concepts for presenting display features to a user of a system which comprises a display, an acquisition device, and a controller system. In various embodiments, the acquisition device is configured to capture image data of one or more items moving along a conveying mechanism and read item identifiers associated with each item. The system then associates or identifies display features with each item identifier and presents the captured image data with the display features presented on or near the image data of the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: DAVID RAY SALZMAN, PAUL AUGUSTINE LOUBRIEL, JONATHAN GRAY, WILLIAM D. HESS, DEVANG R. VAIDYA, CARL M. SKONBERG, SCOTT ALAN LOVERICH, DUANE ANDERSON
  • Patent number: 6878896
    Abstract: The present invention reveals a sorting system for use in manual sorting, which presents a detached ephemeral display moving in a manner corresponding to the movement of the article, by which an article to be sorted can be quickly and easily identified. To accomplish its purpose, the device comprises: feed conveyors; a switching unit; optical readers positioned to capture destination indicia affixed to each article; a detached moving display which remains close to the article to be sorted and presents information representative of the article's destination location; a destination location which signals when a related article is approaching; and a controller capable of assigning destination locations and controlling display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark B. Braginsky, Peter R. Gluege, Robert H. Esslinger, William D. Hess
  • Publication number: 20040016684
    Abstract: The present invention reveals a sorting system for use in manual sorting, which presents a detached ephemeral display moving in a manner corresponding to the movement of the article, by which an article to be sorted can be quickly and easily identified. To accomplish its purpose, the device comprises: feed conveyors; a switching unit; optical readers positioned to capture destination indicia affixed to each article; a detached moving display which remains close to the article to be sorted and presents information representative of the article's destination location; a destination location which signals when a related article is approaching; and a controller capable of assigning destination locations and controlling display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Mark B. Braginsky, Peter R. Gluege, Robert H. Esslinger, William D. Hess
  • Patent number: 6352349
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for illuminating articles, such as parcels, moving beneath a camera on a conveyor belt. Multiple light sources are positioned alongside the conveyor to direct light angled downwardly and from the side of the conveyor. Each light source has an elongated lamp angled with respect to the surface of the article and a light directing device, preferably a Fresnel lens, positioned to receive light from the lamp and to direct the light toward the surface at an angle equal to or greater than forty degrees from an optical axis of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: United Parcel Services of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark B. Braginsky, Robert H. Esslinger, William D. Hess, Peter R. Gluege
  • Patent number: 5510603
    Abstract: A stationary optical scanning system for the decoding of a plurality of optically readable information bearing symbols encoded using at least first and second different optical codes, and for the detection of a plurality of optical targets having at least first and second different target configurations and target data signals representative of the differing target configurations, includes a single optical sensor for optically sensing the different target configurations and optical codes as objects affixed with the information bearing symbols continuously pass within a field of view and for generating the target data signals from the sensed field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Hess, Gregory P. Skinger