Patents by Inventor Edgar A. Secrest

Edgar A. Secrest 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: 5541846
    Abstract: Information to set up various audit procedures is input through an operator terminal (10) to an audit revision processor (120). The audit revision processor creates various audit points by creating an audit point identification and the various audit parameters including identification of an item on which the audit is performed, the nature of the defects sought by the audit, any test fixtures used in the audit, standards, dimensions, or tolerances against which the item is tested, and the like. Once a series of audit points are created, the operator uses a video monitor (12) and a mouse (14) in a point and shoot manner to identify a selected audit from an audit look-up table (40) which retrieves a corresponding audit point identification. The audit point identification is supplied to memories (42, 50, 60) which provide corresponding information for display on the monitor (12) and which provides an initial address information to a sampling matrix (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventor: Edgar A. Secrest