Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Factor & Partners, PLC
  • Patent number: 6416328
    Abstract: An interconnective and interrelational information system comprising at least one computer having an input member, an output member and an storage member. At least one of the at least one computers includes a managing structure, a data storage structure and a training structure. The managing structure manages at least one process. The data storage structure is associated with the process managing structure, and includes at least one item of data pertaining to the at least one process. The training structure facilitates the training of at least one employee to complete the processes identified in the process managing structure. The training structure interfaces with the process managing structure and with the data storage structure, to, in turn, obtain the necessary item of data from the data storage structure to provide training to the at least one employee for the at least one process. The invention further includes methods of managing processes and training employees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Inventor: John F. Callahan
  • Patent number: 6392783
    Abstract: An electrochromic device comprising at least one substantially transparent substrate having an electrically conductive material associated therewith, and an electrochromic medium which comprises a solvent, a cathodic material, and an anodic electrochromic material represented by the formula: wherein R1-R10 are the same or different and at least three of R1-R10 are the same or different and comprise a straight or branched alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, or aralkyl group containing approximately 1 to approximately 40 carbon atom(s), and/or a silyl or siloxyl group containing approximately 1 to approximately 40 silicon atom(s), wherein the carbon or silicon atom(s) may be a linking group to, or part of, one or more functional groups comprising nitrites; nitro constituents; sulfoxides; sulfonates; phosphonium constituents; phosphonates; phosphonites; ammonium constituents; viologens, including bipyridinyl constituents; carbonyls, including carbonates, carbamates; ketones; esters; and amides; ethers, inclu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Gentex Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Lomprey, Thomas F. Guarr