Patents by Inventor Edward A. Spitzer

Edward A. Spitzer 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: 20070168217
    Abstract: A system and method for managing a fleet of vehicles provides users of the system with improved functionality that may include features such as one-way rental activity tracking, user-configurable fleet definitions, monitoring vehicle eligibility for sale as a used vehicle on the basis of pre-existing agreements, the ability to designate fleet vehicles as flex vehicles, the ability to compare one subfleet's vehicle residual value estimations with another subfleet's vehicle residual value estimations, and the ability to monitor post-purchase events that may adjust a fleet vehicle's cost of continued ownership.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: THE CRAWFORD GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Weas, Mandar Pathak, David Moynan, Thomas Schuette, Edward Spitzer
  • Patent number: 4137764
    Abstract: The separation between aircraft approaching a common runway is minimized by measuring the existing wind conditions at a preselected point relative to the runway threshold and basing a prediction of the movement of wake vortices on the measured conditions. The prediction of vortex movement is based upon a vortex advisory algorithm prepared from a plot of wind conditions which predictably remove vortices from the flight path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Transportation
    Inventors: James N. Hallock, Edward A. Spitzer, William D. Wood