Patents by Inventor Bo Anderson
Bo Anderson 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: 11984739Abstract: A system and methods including workstations for use in office spaces where the workstations include electrical couplers and power distribution systems for coupling portable and rechargeable batteries to the arrangements and delivering electrical charge to affordance devices where battery charging stations are located at different locations throughout a facility and alerts including nearest charging station with fully charged batteries are provided to employees at the stations when battery depletion thresholds are met or where batteries are automatically delivered to facility locations via automated robotic carts when needed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Bruce Smith, Bo Anderson, Karl Jahn Mead, Robert Scheper, Hyun Yoo, Michael Held, Justin Glen Beitzel
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Patent number: 11956838Abstract: A system and method establishing control of affordances at a workstation. The method includes the steps of storing affordance preferences in a database for a plurality of portable affordance settings that may be present at a workstation, detecting a subset of affordances present within a first zone associated with the workstation, for each detected affordance in the subset, identifying an affordance setting in the database indicating a user preference, and automatically controlling settings of at least each of the detected affordances in the subset to match the user preferences for the detected affordances.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
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Patent number: 11690111Abstract: A system and method establishing control of affordances at a workstation. The method includes the steps of storing affordance preferences in a database for a plurality of portable affordance settings that may be present at a workstation, detecting a subset of affordances present within a first zone associated with the workstation, for each detected affordance in the subset, identifying an affordance setting in the database indicating a user preference, and automatically controlling settings of at least each of the detected affordances in the subset to match the user preferences for the detected affordances.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
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Patent number: 11330647Abstract: A system and method establishing control of affordances at a workstation. The method includes the steps of storing affordance preferences in a database for a plurality of portable affordance settings that may be present at a workstation, detecting a subset of affordances present within a first zone associated with the workstation, for each detected affordance in the subset, identifying an affordance setting in the database indicating a user preference, and automatically controlling settings of at least each of the detected affordances in the subset to match the user preferences for the detected affordances.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
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Publication number: 20200012403Abstract: A system and method establishing control of affordances at a workstation. The method includes the steps of storing affordance preferences in a database for a plurality of portable affordance settings that may be present at a workstation, detecting a subset of affordances present within a first zone associated with the workstation, for each detected affordance in the subset, identifying an affordance setting in the database indicating a user preference, and automatically controlling settings of at least each of the detected affordances in the subset to match the user preferences for the detected affordances.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
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Patent number: 10459611Abstract: A method and system for anonymously associating a workstation user's station control preferences with a workstation, the method comprising the steps of correlating anonymous user IDs with user preference sets in a database, obtaining input from a user at a workstation, comparing the user input to the anonymous user IDs to distinguish one distinguished user from other users without determining the identity of the user, accessing the user preference set associated with the distinguished user and controlling workstation affordances per the accessed user preferences while the user is located within a present zone proximate the workstation.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
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Patent number: 9921726Abstract: A method and system for anonymously associating a workstation user's station control preferences with a workstation, the method comprising the steps of correlating anonymous user IDs with user preference sets in a database, obtaining input from a user at a workstation, comparing the user input to the anonymous user IDs to distinguish one distinguished user from other users without determining the identity of the user, accessing the user preference set associated with the distinguished user and controlling workstation affordances per the accessed user preferences while the user is located within a present zone proximate the workstation.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
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Patent number: 6024121Abstract: A check valve having a valve housing with a pair of opposite end faces including an upstream end face and a downstream end face. The valve housing has a fluid passage extending axially therethrough between the upstream end face and the downstream end face. A first seating surface is formed within the valve housing around the fluid passageway and adjacent to the upstream end face. A seating ring is provided having a second seating surface adapted to engage the first seating surface when the seating ring is disposed in engagement with the valve housing. An o-ring is sized to reside between the first seating surface and the second seating surface when the seating ring and valve housing are placed in engagement to maintain the seating ring and valve housing in fixed relation to each other notwithstanding an outward axial biasing force thereon.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1998Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: Flomatic CorporationInventor: Bo Anderson
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Patent number: D1009046Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Bo Anderson, Hyun Yoo, Kristi Hooper, Douglas Dale Buyce
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Patent number: D1009047Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Bo Anderson, Hyun Yoo, Kristi Hooper, Douglas Dale Buyce