Patents by Inventor Chad Kelvin Thompson

Chad Kelvin Thompson 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).

  • Method, system, and computer readable medium for analyzing damage to a package in a shipping environment
    Patent number: 8095395
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing damage to a package to process a damage claim is disclosed. Each package contains one or more pieces of merchandise, internal packaging surrounding the merchandise, such as bubble sheets, and external packaging, such as an envelope or box. In accordance with the method of the present invention, the system is configured to determine the type of merchandise within a package, associate a fragility class with the merchandise, and determine the minimum packaging requirements for the merchandise by referencing one or more minimum packaging requirements matrices. Depending on the comparison of the package with the minimum packaging requirements, the present invention either approves or denies a damage claim for the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Cunniff, Patrick M. McDavid, Chad Kelvin Thompson, Susan Oliver Landstrom, Arthur Michael Pendowski
  • DAMAGE INPUT MATRIX REDESIGN
    Publication number: 20090083078
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing damage to a package to process a damage claim is disclosed. Each package contains one or more pieces of merchandise, internal packaging surrounding the merchandise, such as bubble sheets, and external packaging, such as an envelope or box. In accordance with the method of the present invention, the system is configured to determine the type of merchandise within a package, associate a fragility class with the merchandise, and determine the minimum packaging requirements for the merchandise by referencing one or more minimum packaging requirements matrices. Depending on the comparison of the package with the minimum packaging requirements, the present invention either approves or denies a damage claim for the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Susan Oliver Landstrom, Patrick M. McDavid, Chad Kelvin Thompson, Shawn Cunniff, Arthur Michael Pendowski