Patents by Inventor Dale A. Hunt

Dale A. Hunt 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: 20230003713
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to methods of screening a sample for cannabinoids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Dale HUNT, Rick BRENNER, Jian-Nong MA
  • Publication number: 20220207952
    Abstract: The invention provided herein generally relates to devices, systems, and methods for handling cash or quasi-cash items in such a way as to substantially eliminate employee theft, error, or difficulties in reconciling a record of transactions with a total amount of money in a cash drawer. The invention also provides devices, systems, and methods for cash-collateralized electronic banking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Dale Hunt, Ethelind Mizar
  • Patent number: 11315380
    Abstract: The invention provided herein generally relates to devices, systems, and methods for handling cash or quasi-cash items in such a way as to substantially eliminate employee theft, error, or difficulties in reconciling a record of transactions with a total amount of money in a cash drawer. The invention also provides devices, systems, and methods for cash-collateralized electronic banking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Cash Genius, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Hunt, Ethelind Mizar
  • Publication number: 20210327199
    Abstract: The invention provided herein generally relates to devices, systems, and methods for handling cash or quasi-cash items in such a way as to substantially eliminate employee theft, error, or difficulties in reconciling a record of transactions with a total amount of money in a cash drawer. The invention also provides devices, systems, and methods for cash-collateralized electronic banking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Dale Hunt, Ethelind Mizar
  • Publication number: 20190174738
    Abstract: A framework for validating resistance traits in seed varieties in planted crops and monitoring crop treatments applied in planted fields ensures that an herbicide is not used on a non herbicide-resistant crop. A user provides a recommendation for a selected herbicide, and the framework performs seed trait analytics by gathering seed variety information in planting data and seed resistance traits in the planted seed variety, as well as active ingredients and any specific amounts thereof in the selected herbicide. If the seed variety is resistant to the proposed herbicide, the verification framework outputs a recommendation to proceed with the application. If the seed variety is not resistant to the proposed herbicide, then the verification framework outputs a warning to the user of a risk with proceeding with the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: AARON DALE HUNT, PETER H. BRANDT, NISHAN MAJARIAN, SPYROS J. LAZARIS
  • Patent number: 10275731
    Abstract: A multi-year yield analysis in precision agriculture characterizes variables affecting crop yield to enable site-specific prescription mapping for a bounded field. Remotely-sensed imagery of the bounded field is incorporated as a replacement for, or in addition to, one or more of coverage data, uniformity data, age data, and weather data that comprise variables in the multi-year yield analysis. The multi-year yield analysis enables recommendations for variable-rate applications to the bounded field such as seeding, fertilizing, and applying crop treatments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: AGRIAN, INC.
    Inventor: Aaron Dale Hunt
  • Publication number: 20180012168
    Abstract: A multi-year yield analysis in precision agriculture characterizes variables affecting crop yield to enable site-specific prescription mapping for a bounded field. Remotely-sensed imagery of the bounded field is incorporated as a replacement for, or in addition to, one or more of coverage data, uniformity data, age data, and weather data that comprise variables in the multi-year yield analysis. The multi-year yield analysis enables recommendations for variable-rate applications to the bounded field such as seeding, fertilizing, and applying crop treatments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: AARON DALE HUNT
  • Patent number: 9563848
    Abstract: A multi-year yield analysis in precision agriculture characterizes variables affecting crop yield to enable site-specific prescription mapping for a bounded field for one or more crops in the field. The multi-year yield analysis enables recommendations for variable-rate applications to the bounded field such as seeding, fertilizing, tilling, and applying crop treatments. The multi-year yield analysis evaluates each of coverage data, uniformity data, age data, and weather data related to crop yield in the bounded field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: AGRIAN, INC.
    Inventor: Aaron Dale Hunt
  • Patent number: 9277092
    Abstract: A configurable document server is described. In some embodiments, the configurable document server can enable administrators to set an option that prevents documents from being routed to users when the configurable document server experiences some types of errors. When the configurable document server determines that such an error condition exists, it may prevent the routing of the corresponding document. By preventing documents causing errors from being routed, the configurable document server enables administrators to improve the accuracy of document workflow and thereby improve productivity of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Jason K. Webster, Michael Riedel, Byron Dale Hunt, Jr., Treber Rebert, Jonathan Isabelle, William Robert Harman
  • Patent number: 9177454
    Abstract: A hard cover product with a pair of cover boards attached to an outer liner in spaced-relation to define a spine, with a thin-film ink-circuit security device printed on a laydown area, and having an inner liner. The laydown area can be defined in the spine, and the inner liner or an inner body attached to the cover boards conceals the printed security device from casual observation of its presence. The laydown area can be defined on a surface of a sheet laminated to another sheet to define one of cover boards. The laminated sheets sandwich the printed security device without a surface indication of the presence of the ink-circuit printed security device therein. In another aspect, the thin-film ink-circuit security device printed on a surface of the cover board is concealingly covered by the inner or the outer liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SmartGuard, LLC
    Inventor: Dale Hunt Nichols, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8924152
    Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring system and operational parameters on one or more pieces of machinery or equipment. The system can monitor the pieces of machinery or equipment in real time, i.e., the time delay between the taking of a measurement on a piece of equipment and its subsequent display in the system is within accepted standards, e.g., from about 1 second to about 1 minute depending on the type of measurement or data set being monitored. The system can also permit the tracking of the pieces of machinery or equipment and can enable the transfer, i.e., the sending and/or receiving, of information between the system and the pieces of machinery or equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: AgJunction LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Dale Hunt, Jeffrey Allen Dearborn
  • Patent number: 8897973
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the collection and processing of agricultural field data from a single location is provided. The system includes functionality to create workorders for the taking of samples at a predetermined location, transmit the sampling workorders to the equipment or operators at a job site, e.g., an agricultural field, and log the results of a completed sampling workorder. The system also includes functionality to transmit log data related to the taken samples to a laboratory and receive analysis information on the taken samples from the laboratory. The system then combines log data and analysis information on the taken samples for use in determining additional actions at the predetermined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: AgJunction LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Dale Hunt, Jeffrey Allen Dearborn
  • Patent number: 8797164
    Abstract: A hard cover product with a pair of cover boards attached to an outer liner in spaced-relation to define a spine, with a thin-film ink-circuit security device printed on a laydown area, and having an inner liner. The laydown area can be defined in the spine, and the inner liner or an inner body attached to the cover boards conceals the printed security device from casual observation of its presence. The laydown area can be defined on a surface of a sheet laminated to another sheet to define one of cover boards. The laminated sheets sandwich the printed security device without a surface indication of the presence of the ink-circuit printed security device therein. In another aspect, the thin-film ink-circuit security device printed on a surface of the cover board is concealingly covered by the inner or the outer liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: SmartGuard, LLC
    Inventor: Dale Hunt Nichols, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20140176331
    Abstract: A hard cover product with a pair of cover boards attached to an outer liner in spaced-relation to define a spine, with a thin-film ink-circuit security device printed on a laydown area, and having an inner liner. The laydown area can be defined in the spine, and the inner liner or an inner body attached to the cover boards conceals the printed security device from casual observation of its presence. The laydown area can be defined on a surface of a sheet laminated to another sheet to define one of cover boards. The laminated sheets sandwich the printed security device without a surface indication of the presence of the ink-circuit printed security device therein. In another aspect, the thin-film ink-circuit security device printed on a surface of the cover board is concealingly covered by the inner or the outer liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventor: Dale Hunt Nichols, SR.
  • Patent number: 8676620
    Abstract: A system and method for managing workorders from a single location is provided. The system includes functionality to create workorders, to transmit workorders to equipment at a job site, e.g., an agricultural field, and to log the results of a completed workorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: AgJunction LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Dale Hunt, Jeffrey Allen Dearborn
  • Publication number: 20130346129
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the collection and processing of agricultural field data from a single location is provided. The system includes functionality to create workorders for the taking of samples at a predetermined location, transmit the sampling workorders to the equipment or operators at a job site, e.g., an agricultural field, and log the results of a completed sampling workorder. The system also includes functionality to transmit log data related to the taken samples to a laboratory and receive analysis information on the taken samples from the laboratory. The system then combines log data and analysis information on the taken samples for use in determining additional actions at the predetermined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: AgJunction LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Dale Hunt, Jeffrey Allen Dearborn
  • Patent number: 8521372
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the collection and processing of agricultural field data from a single location is provided. The system includes functionality to create workorders for the taking of samples at a predetermined location, transmit the sampling workorders to the equipment or operators at a job site, e.g., an agricultural field, and log the results of a completed sampling workorder. The system also includes functionality to transmit log data related to the taken samples to a laboratory and receive analysis information on the taken samples from the laboratory. The system then combines log data and analysis information on the taken samples for use in determining additional actions at the predetermined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: AgJunction LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Dale Hunt, Jeffrey Allen Dearborn
  • Patent number: 8489291
    Abstract: A system and method for collecting soil samples is provided that permits a user to develop or generate one or more paths in an agricultural field to collect soil samples with each soil core collection point along the path being identified. The agricultural field can be divided into management zones having similar productivity and each management zone can have a path with the identified collection points to collect samples for that management zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hemisphere GPS LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Dearborn, Aaron Dale Hunt
  • Patent number: 8350705
    Abstract: A book product having an outer liner sheet defining spaced-apart opposing front and back covers, and a spine portion having a laydown area therebetween. A plurality of pages attached together on a spine side cooperatively attaches to the spine portion. A security device is disposed between the spine portion and the spine side of the pages in alignment with the laydown area for concealing the security device from casual indication of its presence and held after attachment of the bound pages to the outer liner during normal use thereof for book product purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Smartguard, LLC
    Inventor: Dale Hunt Nichols
  • Publication number: 20120318873
    Abstract: A book product having a sheet defining spaced-apart front and back covers and a spine portion therebetween having a laydown area that receives a signal responsive tag, and a book block of pages with an adhesive layer on a spine side that cooperatively attaches the pages together and attaches the book block to the spine portion concealing the signal responsive tag within a first thickness of the adhesive in the laydown area and the adhesive having a second thickness of adhesive in the non-laydown area of the spine, with the concealed signal responsive tag being responsive to a signal for inventory or security purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: SMARTGUARD, LLC
    Inventor: Dale Hunt Nichols, SR.