Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Christopher L. Bernard, PLLC
  • Patent number: 6684432
    Abstract: A bed mattress system including a bed mattress apparatus, a security container having an interior portion, means for accessing the interior portion of the security container, and a moveable flap operable for covering the means for accessing the interior portion of the security container. The security container is operable for holding items disposed within the interior portion of the security container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Inventor: Don E. Owens, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6675127
    Abstract: Computerized systems and methods for managing the issues and risks associated with a project including an issue management module operable for creating, storing, and searching a plurality of issues, a risk management module operable for creating, storing, and searching a plurality of risks, a processor operable for manipulating information related to the plurality of issues and risks, and a communications network operable for communicating information related to the plurality of issues and risks to and from a plurality of remote users simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Robert LaBlanc, Mark Mitchell Kornfein, Vrinda Rajiv, Jeffrey Paul Norris, Tony Chishao Pan, Hui Gao
  • Patent number: 6671631
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing a viscoelastic property of a combinatorial library of materials including a plurality of full bridge devices operable for measuring a temperature-modulated elongation property of each of a plurality of combinatorial materials, wherein each of the plurality of full bridge devices comprises a plurality of strain gauges operable for measuring a temperature-modulated elongation property of each of the plurality of combinatorial materials, and wherein each of the plurality of combinatorial materials is disposed on a surface of the plurality of full bridge devices. The systems and methods also including an algorithm disposed within a computer, the algorithm operable for equating the temperature-modulated elongation property of the combinatorial materials with a thermal property of the combinatorial materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, William Guy Morris, Ronald Eugene Shaffer