Patents by Inventor Doug Stevens

Doug Stevens 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).

  • Patent number: 10881076
    Abstract: A calf creep feeder includes a panel fence positioned at each side of a feed enclosure. Each of the panel fences are selectively movable between a lower creep feeder position to an upper stowed position. A pair of torsion springs are secured to each of the panel fences to assist in raising the panel fences from their lower creep feeder positions to its upper stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Doug Stevens, Scott Stevens
  • Patent number: 9757734
    Abstract: A portable feed mill machine having a plurality of spaced-apart feed mills positioned on a wheeled frame such as a trailer. Any one of the feed mills may be taken out of operation for repair without the other feed mills being taken out of operation. The machine may have a plurality of mechanized devices rather than the feed mills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC.
    Inventors: Doug Stevens, Scott Stevens, Mark Penlerick, Dale Kumpf
  • Patent number: 9693534
    Abstract: A calf creep feeder includes a panel fence positioned at each side of a feed enclosure. Each of the panel fences are selectively movable between a lower creep feeder position to an upper stowed position. At least one coil spring is secured to each of the panel fences to assist in raising the panel fence from its lower creep feeder position to its upper stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Doug Stevens, Scott Stevens
  • Patent number: 8396755
    Abstract: A method of reclaiming products from a retail store includes passing a plurality of products through an object identification system, capturing images of the plurality of products with object sensors as the products pass through the object identification system, processing the images to identify an indicium for each product, transmitting the indicium for each product through a wireless communication network to a logic engine, sorting the plurality of products based on the indicia to produce a bundled lot of products, producing a unique identifier for the bundled lot, the unique identifier having a machine readable code, and communicating the unique identifier of the bundled lot and the indicia of the products in the bundled lot to an auctioneer for initiation of a direct-to-consumer auction for auctioning of the bundled lot directly to a group of bidders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Bracewell Bonner, Robert Edward Carmack, Titus Arthur Jones, Doug Steven Meiser, Christopher Dale Norris, Nathaniel Wellikoff, Michael John Zettler