Patents by Inventor Claire Wickham Rivoir

Claire Wickham Rivoir 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 of calculating and displaying premium freight costs
    Patent number: 8078547
    Abstract: Methods for calculating and displaying premium freight costs are provided. The methods comprise the steps of: A) selecting a time period of interest; B) selecting all shipments occurring within the selected time period and indexing the shipments into a list; C) for each shipment in the list, evaluating whether the shipment was delivered in the optimal mode, optimal source, and/or optimal carrier, and if a non-optimal mode, source or carrier was used, calculating premium freight cost; D) if the premium freight cost is not negative, adding the premium freight cost to a lane for the non-optimal mode; and E) displaying the premium freight cost by lane on a computer screen. Information for carrying out the methods of the present invention is contained in various databases containing shipment data and optimality tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignees: Bayer MaterialScience LLC, Bayer Corporate and Business Services LLC
    Inventors: Sanjay K. Joshi, Marko Dodig, Dimitrios I. Sagias, Sean K. Ritchie, John A. Hertneky, Michael F. Burns, Ronald Gadzinski, Samuel W. Phipps, Claire Wickham Rivoir
  • Method of calculating and displaying premium freight costs
    Publication number: 20090037348
    Abstract: Methods for calculating and displaying premium freight costs are provided. The methods comprise the steps of: A) selecting a time period of interest; B) selecting all shipments occurring within the selected time period and indexing the shipments into a list; C) for each shipment in the list, evaluating whether the shipment was delivered in the optimal mode, optimal source, and/or optimal carrier, and if a non-optimal mode, source or carrier was used, calculating premium freight cost; D) if the premium freight cost is not negative, adding the premium freight cost to a lane for the non-optimal mode; and E) displaying the premium freight cost by lane on a computer screen. Information for carrying out the methods of the present invention is contained in various databases containing shipment data and optimality tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Sanjay K. Joshi, Marko Dodig, Dimitrios I. Sagias, Sean K. Ritchie, John A. Hertneky, Michael F. Burns, Ronald Gadzinski, Samuel W. Phipps, Claire Wickham Rivoir