Patents Represented by Attorney McGarry Bair

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  • Relative navigation system and a method thereof
    Patent number: 8352100
    Abstract: A method of providing a relative navigation system by projecting into space from a first object a grid that is repeatedly detected from a second object having a second relative reference frame associated with a second origin point on the second object and using range and attitude between the objects to adjust the attitude or range of at least one of the first and second objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lawrence William Stimac, Michael Steven Feldmann, Frank Saggio, III, Douglas Robert Nichols
  • Method for automatically flushing a bulk dispensing system in a cleaning appliance
    Patent number: 8246756
    Abstract: A household cleaning appliance includes a bulk dispensing system configured to receive a removable cartridge containing multiple doses of treating chemistry and configured to deliver a charge of treating chemistry from the cartridge to a treating chamber and a water supply configured to be selectively coupled to the bulk dispensing system to flush at least a portion of the bulk dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Hendrickson, Michael T. Dalton
  • Removable adapter providing a wireless service to removable consumer electronic device
    Patent number: 7980088
    Abstract: A modular system comprises an appliance, an adapter removably coupled to the appliance, and a consumer electronic device removably coupled to the adapter. The adapter can supply at least one wireless service between the adapter or the appliance and the consumer electronic device. The adapter can be removably coupled to a door of the appliance. A standardized service interface can couple with the adapter to supply the service between the appliance and the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas D. LeClear, Richard A. McCoy