Patents by Inventor Christopher Eckman
Christopher Eckman 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: 12264011Abstract: This document generally describes warehousing systems that can, in certain instances, improve the efficiency of warehousing operations and improve utilization of available space in a warehousing facility. The warehousing system may be implemented in an automated warehouse, such as an automated cold-storage facility, that uses programmable equipment to automate tasks associated with warehousing operations, such as transporting inbound storage items to specified storage positions of storage racks in the warehouse and removing outbound storage items from storage so that they may be loaded onto trucks for delivery away from the warehouse.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLCInventors: Elliott Gerard Wolf, Christopher Eckman, Brian Gutschow
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Publication number: 20240317495Abstract: This document generally describes warehousing systems that can, in certain instances, improve the efficiency of warehousing operations and improve utilization of available space in a warehousing facility. The warehousing system may be implemented in an automated warehouse, such as an automated cold-storage facility, that uses programmable equipment to automate tasks associated with warehousing operations, such as transporting inbound storage items to specified storage positions of storage racks in the warehouse and removing outbound storage items from storage so that they may be loaded onto trucks for delivery away from the warehouse.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Elliott Gerard Wolf, Christopher Eckman, Brian Gutschow
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Patent number: 10815058Abstract: This document generally describes warehousing systems that can, in certain instances, improve the efficiency of warehousing operations and improve utilization of available space in a warehousing facility. The warehousing system may be implemented in an automated warehouse, such as an automated cold-storage facility, that uses programmable equipment to automate tasks associated with warehousing operations, such as transporting inbound storage items to specified storage positions of storage racks in the warehouse and removing outbound storage items from storage so that they may be loaded onto trucks for delivery away from the warehouse.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLCInventors: Elliott Gerard Wolf, Christopher Eckman, Brian Gutschow
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Patent number: 10375978Abstract: A blast cell system is disclosed that includes a plurality of bays that are spaced across the blast cell, arranged to hold items to be cooled, wherein each bay is separated from each other bay so as to prevent cross-flow of air from one bay to another bay; a plurality of louvers, each covering a different bay of the plurality of bays; one or more flow sensors, temperature sensors, or both positioned to sense conditions for each of the plurality of bays; and a controller programmed to modulate open-closed positions of each of the plurality of louvers separately from others of the plurality of louvers, so as to allow different volumes of cooling air to flow through each respective bay.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLCInventors: Alexander James Woolf, Alexander Zhang, Gabriel West, Elliott Gerard Wolf, Tony Caetano, Christopher Eckman
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Publication number: 20190210801Abstract: This document generally describes warehousing systems that can, in certain instances, improve the efficiency of warehousing operations and improve utilization of available space in a warehousing facility. The warehousing system may be implemented in an automated warehouse, such as an automated cold-storage facility, that uses programmable equipment to automate tasks associated with warehousing operations, such as transporting inbound storage items to specified storage positions of storage racks in the warehouse and removing outbound storage items from storage so that they may be loaded onto trucks for delivery away from the warehouse.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Elliott Gerard Wolf, Christopher Eckman, Brian Gutschow
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Patent number: 10259648Abstract: This document generally describes warehousing systems that can, in certain instances, improve the efficiency of warehousing operations and improve utilization of available space in a warehousing facility. The warehousing system may be implemented in an automated warehouse, such as an automated cold-storage facility, that uses programmable equipment to automate tasks associated with warehousing operations, such as transporting inbound storage items to specified storage positions of storage racks in the warehouse and removing outbound storage items from storage so that they may be loaded onto trucks for delivery away from the warehouse.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLCInventors: Elliott Gerard Wolf, Christopher Eckman, Brian Gutschow
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Publication number: 20190045817Abstract: A blast cell system is disclosed that includes a plurality of bays that are spaced across the blast cell, arranged to hold items to be cooled, wherein each bay is separated from each other bay so as to prevent cross-flow of air from one bay to another bay; a plurality of louvers, each covering a different bay of the plurality of bays; one or more flow sensors, temperature sensors, or both positioned to sense conditions for each of the plurality of bays; and a controller programmed to modulate open-closed positions of each of the plurality of louvers separately from others of the plurality of louvers, so as to allow different volumes of cooling air to flow through each respective bay.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Alexander James Woolf, Alexander Zhang, Gabriel West, Elliott Gerard Wolf, Tony Caetano, Christopher Eckman
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Publication number: 20180300435Abstract: This document generally describes simulating warehouse automation designs and evaluating the results of such simulations to optimize automated warehouse designs. Warehouse automation can be simulated, for example, to determine an optimal warehouse automation design given a variety of parameters that are specific to the warehouse, such as the expected customer inventory demands over time, the layout of the warehouse, and/or the specific automation features (e.g., machines) that are possible within the warehouse. Such warehouse simulations can be repeatedly run and warehouse automation designs can be modified to identify an optimal warehouse automation design that will, for example, maximize the efficiency of the warehouse by minimizing pallet place and pull times, minimizing truck load/unload times, and minimizing/eliminating failures during which the warehouse is not able to meet threshold performance metrics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Christopher Eckman, Elliott Gerard Wolf, Sudarsan Thattai, Shawn Merrill, Jammie Morris
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Publication number: 20180290831Abstract: This document generally describes warehousing systems that can, in certain instances, improve the efficiency of warehousing operations and improve utilization of available space in a warehousing facility. The warehousing system may be implemented in an automated warehouse, such as an automated cold-storage facility, that uses programmable equipment to automate tasks associated with warehousing operations, such as transporting inbound storage items to specified storage positions of storage racks in the warehouse and removing outbound storage items from storage so that they may be loaded onto trucks for delivery away from the warehouse.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Elliott Gerard Wolf, Christopher Eckman, Brian Gutschow
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Publication number: 20060127509Abstract: The invention features methods of reducing the level of a ?-amyloid (A?) polypeptide using an Cimicifuga extract. The invention also features methods of producing an active fraction from an extract of Cimicifuga. The invention further features a composition containing an active fraction of a Cimicifuga extract and an article of manufacture containing such a composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Christopher Eckman, Debra Yager, Sharie Haugabook, Abdul Fauq