Patents by Inventor Clinton Leroy Tennill

Clinton Leroy Tennill 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).

  • Publication number: 20240161059
    Abstract: An enterprise inventory management system, and methods of use thereof, utilizing novel functionalities. The system includes a centralized global inventory database subsystem for cataloging a plurality of inventory items from a plurality of remote physical locations, each of the items identified by at least a unique identification code; and, a plurality of localized radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogator subsystems associated with a corresponding plurality of remote physical locations, wherein each of the localized RF interrogator subsystems is operative to read RFID tags associated with ones of the plurality of inventory items located at its associated physical location, wherein each of the RFID tags is programmed with at least a unique identification code for its associated item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Samuel Andrew Shaw, Curtis James Stankovich, Joel Robert Armstrong
  • Patent number: 11526839
    Abstract: Systems and methods to maintain inventory location data in an enterprise inventory management system, wherein the system includes a global inventory database subsystem for cataloging a plurality of inventory items, each of the inventory items identified in the database by at least a unique identification code and a physical location. The system, and related method, detects, using a motion detection subsystem, movement within a region between a first physical zone and a second physical zone; enables, in response to detecting movement, an RFID interrogator subsystem; identifies, utilizing the RF interrogator subsystem, any inventory items moving from the first physical zone to the second physical zone; and, reports, to the global inventory database subsystem, the identity of each identified inventory item, whereby the global inventory database system can update the physical location of each item from the first physical zone to the second physical zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Curtis James Stankovich, Dean Lee Frew
  • Patent number: 11373137
    Abstract: System and method for simulating the operation of an enterprise inventory management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Samuel Andrew Shaw
  • Publication number: 20200372442
    Abstract: An enterprise inventory management system, and methods of use thereof, including a global inventory database subsystem for cataloging a plurality of inventory items, each of the items identified by at least a unique identification code; and, a radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogator subsystem, the RFID interrogator subsystem operative to read radio RFID tags associated with each of the plurality of inventory items, wherein each of the RFID tags is programmed with at least a unique identification code for its associated item. The system provides functionality for improved single item identification/location, verification of shipping and receiving of inventory items, and inventory operations utilizing single or multiple RFID interrogators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Samuel Andrew Shaw, Curtis James Stankovich, Joel Robert Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20200372443
    Abstract: Systems and methods to maintain inventory location data in an enterprise inventory management system, wherein the system includes a global inventory database subsystem for cataloging a plurality of inventory items, each of the inventory items identified in the database by at least a unique identification code and a physical location. The system, and related method, detects, using a motion detection subsystem, movement within a region between a first physical zone and a second physical zone; enables, in response to detecting movement, an RFID interrogator subsystem; identifies, utilizing the RF interrogator subsystem, any inventory items moving from the first physical zone to the second physical zone; and, reports, to the global inventory database subsystem, the identity of each identified inventory item, whereby the global inventory database system can update the physical location of each item from the first physical zone to the second physical zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Curtis James Stankovich, Dean Lee Frew
  • Publication number: 20200374672
    Abstract: System and method for simulating the operation of an enterprise inventory management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Samuel Andrew Shaw