Patents by Inventor Gary L. Shellabarger

Gary L. Shellabarger 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).

  • Compensating for surface movement of liquid product within one or more liquid product tanks during capture of height and volume data
    Patent number: 7197409
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer program products to compensate for surface movement of liquid product within one or more tanks during a liquid product book to physical reconciliation process. A plurality of measurement data at a plurality of times can be received. Each measurement data represents a volume of liquid product within the tank. The volume of liquid product represented by the measurement data can be compared against at least one predetermined volume identified as being unreliable. Following eliminating the measurement data that is unreliable, a sample mean and a standard deviation for the remaining measurement data are calculated and then used to filter the remaining measurement data by eliminating any measurement data that has a value plus or minus a predetermined number of the standard deviations from the standard mean for the second set of measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Flying J, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Hillam, Jon M. Scoleri, Gary L. Shellabarger