Patents by Inventor Dennis M. Lanfear

Dennis M. Lanfear 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).

  • Technique for specifying the parameters of complex technical studies by using a decision tree
    Patent number: 6643660
    Abstract: The present specification, discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for specifying the design and execution related parameters of a technical study by creating and using a decision tree. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a decision tree is created that has interdependent decision nodes. One or more decision choices is associated with each interdependent decision nodes. The interdependent decision nodes are ordered in a hierarchical manner such. that a selection of one of the decision choices dynamically and functionally determines the manner in which a subsequent decision choice is affected. This embodiment of the present invention has utility for objectively defining study parameters and thereby substantially stream lining the design specification process for complex technical studies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Toxweb, Inc.
    Inventors: James Arthur Miller, Dennis M. Lanfear