Patents by Inventor Fred Maier

Fred Maier 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).

  • Apparatus, systems and methods for online, multi-carrier, multi-service parcel shipping management
    Patent number: 8255337
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods providing a single system available over a global communications network for shipping management for each parcel from a plurality of parcels that each Shipper of a plurality of Shippers ships using any one of a plurality of services offered by any one of a plurality of carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Stamps.com Inc., iShip Inc.
    Inventors: David Allison Bennett, Lynn Shaindell Goldhaber, Paul Bilibin, Jinyue Liu, Charles D. Mentzer, Lory Elizabeth Krett, Scott Joseph Bean, Daniel F. Williams, Dennis Glavin, Stephen M. Teglovic, John M. Dietz, William W. Smith, III, Paul R. McLaughlin, Scott Meyer, Sean Hu, Harland Fred Maier, Jr., Gary Rhoe Ingram
  • Online, multi-carrier, multi-service parcel shipping management functional alignment of computer devices
    Patent number: 7827118
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer system for managing shipping of a plurality of parcels by a plurality of users using a plurality of carriers that functionally aligns each server computer device of a plurality of server computer devices so that each server computer device performs a plurality of activities in support of a primary function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignees: Stamps.com Inc., iShip Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Smith, III, Charles D. Mentzer, Paul R. McLaughlin, Harland Fred Maier, Jr.
  • Apparatus, systems and methods for online, multi-carrier, multi-service parcel shipping management
    Patent number: 7664651
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods providing a single system available over a global communications network for shipping management for each parcel from a plurality of parcels that each Shipper of a plurality of Shippers ships using any one of a plurality of services offered by any one of a plurality of carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: Stamps.com Inc., iShip Inc.
    Inventors: David Allison Bennett, Lynn Shaindell Goldhaber, Paul Bilibin, Jinyue Liu, Charles D. Mentzer, Lory Elizabeth Krett, Scott Joseph Bean, Daniel F. Williams, Dennis Glavin, Stephen M. Teglovic, John M. Dietz, William W. Smith, III, Paul R. McLaughlin, Scott Meyer, Sean Hu, Harland Fred Maier, Jr., Gary Rhoe Ingram
  • Apparatus for processing workpieces in the form of short-length elongate timber waste into usable timber
    Patent number: 4128119
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing short lengthed, elongate waste timber workpieces to usable timber beams of relatively long length includes a cutter device for cutting wedge-shaped tenons into the ends of the elongate workpieces, a gluing device for applying a thin coating of glue to the cut tenons on each end of each workpiece, and a press device for pressing the workpieces together such that the cut tenon ends of each workpiece is glued to the cut tenon ends of another workpiece to form a timber beam. A length-cutting device can be used to cut the timber beam into the appropriate lengths as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1978
    Assignee: Festo-Maschinenfabrik Gottlieb Stoll
    Inventor: Fred Maier