Patents by Inventor Gareth Ratcliffe

Gareth Ratcliffe 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: 20220285012
    Abstract: A system for enforcing occupancy for a facility includes client electronic devices, each associated with one or more individuals who have access to a facility, an access monitoring system, and a computing device in communication with at least a portion of the plurality of the client electronic devices and the access monitoring system. The system determines, for the facility, a health risk rating, a maximum occupancy, a risk-adjusted occupancy, an estimated occupant number, and determines, based on the risk-adjusted occupancy and the estimated occupant number whether one or more individuals need to exit the facility. If individuals need to exit the facility, the system identifies and notifies the individuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Gareth Ratcliffe, Matthew Dylan Coene, Raviteja Gunda
  • Publication number: 20150268898
    Abstract: A method of identifying a paper-intensive process may include receiving quantitative processing data associated with a production environment, receiving qualitative processing data associated with the processing activities in the production environment, and generating a visual depiction of the processing activities. The visual depiction may include at least a portion of the received quantitative processing data and the received qualitative processing data, and the visual depiction may illustrate at least one paper-intensive process, one or more of a most common purpose associated with the paper-intensive process and a most common fate associated with the paper-intensive process. The method may include presenting the generated visual depiction to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: NewField Information Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: James Jeffrey Duckenfield, Ian Robert Birch, Geoffrey Philip Hogg, Robert David Hoskins, Gareth Ratcliffe
  • Patent number: 9141316
    Abstract: A method of identifying a paper-intensive process may include receiving quantitative processing data associated with a production environment, receiving qualitative processing data associated with the processing activities in the production environment, and generating a visual depiction of the processing activities. The visual depiction may include at least a portion of the received quantitative processing data and the received qualitative processing data, and the visual depiction may illustrate at least one paper-intensive process, one or more of a most common purpose associated with the paper-intensive process and a most common fate associated with the paper-intensive process. The method may include presenting the generated visual depiction to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NEWFIELD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: James Jeffrey Duckenfield, Ian Robert Birch, Geoffrey Philip Hogg, Robert David Hoskins, Gareth Ratcliffe