Patents by Inventor Gene A. Long

Gene A. Long 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: 12274260
    Abstract: An agricultural application system can include a nozzle assembly positioned along a boom assembly and can be configured to selectively dispense an agricultural product therefrom. One or more sensors can be operably coupled with the boom assembly and configured to capture data associated with first and second application variables. A controller can be communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors. The controller can include a processor and associated memory. The memory can store instructions that, when implemented by the processor, configure the controller to receive the data associated with the one or more application variables and calculate the spray quality index. The first application variable can have a first scaling factor and a second application variable can have a second scaling factor. The second scaling factor may differ from the first scaling factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Scott Allen Long, Trevor Stanhope, Nathan Brooks, Monte Gene Weller
  • Patent number: 12207586
    Abstract: An agricultural application is provided herein that includes a nozzle assembly positioned along a boom assembly and configured to selectively dispense an agricultural product therefrom. One or more sensors can be operably coupled with the boom assembly and can be configured to capture data associated with one or more application variables. A computing system can be communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors and to a display. The computing system can be configured to receive the data associated with the one or more application variables; convert the one or more application variables to a scaled integer to determine a spray quality index; generate a geo-located application map of the scaled integer; and present the geo-located application map on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Scott Allen Long, Trevor Stanhope, Nathan Brooks, Monte Gene Weller
  • Publication number: 20110155627
    Abstract: A one-piece tray for shipping and then displaying articles in an upright position at a point of sale has a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, and opposite side walls and is made of corrugated board having a bottom liner, a top liner, and a fluted medium. A plurality of grooves extend across the width of the bottom wall in a top surface thereof to engage bottom edges of articles standing upright in the tray and hold them in position as other articles are removed from the front of the tray. The grooves are formed by cuts made through the top liner and a portion of the medium and crushed areas extending along one side of each cut, forming a rearwardly facing abutment at each cut for engaging bottom edges of articles to prevent the bottom edges from sliding forward in the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
    Inventors: John Robert Ballentine, Richard George Wachter, Sherwood Dean Kemp, Michael Gene Long, Melvin Scott Miller
  • Patent number: 7959007
    Abstract: A one-piece tray for shipping and then displaying articles in an upright position at a point of sale has a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, and opposite side walls and is made of corrugated board having a bottom liner, a top liner, and a fluted medium. A plurality of grooves extend across the width of the bottom wall in a top surface thereof to engage bottom edges of articles standing upright in the tray and hold them in position as other articles are removed from the front of the tray. The grooves are formed by cuts made through the top liner and a portion of the medium and crushed areas extending along one side of each cut, forming a rearwardly facing abutment at each cut for engaging bottom edges of articles to prevent the bottom edges from sliding forward in the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: International Paper Co.
    Inventors: John Robert Ballentine, Richard George Wachter, Sherwood Dean Kemp, Michael Gene Long, Melvin Scott Miller
  • Patent number: 4767338
    Abstract: The telephone interface includes a printed circuit board having input and output telephone receptacles connected to one surface of the printed circuit board and spaced apart from each other. The receptacles each have a plurality of pins connected to corresponding mounting plugs of the printed circuit board. A plurality of electrical traces extend along at least one surface of the printed circuit board and electrically connect the mounting plugs associated with the input receptacle to the mounting plugs associated with the output receptacle. The electrical traces are arranged in a predetermined pattern in which the pins of the input receptacle are connected to the pins of the output receptacle in a predetermined electrical circuit arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Inventors: Melburn W. Dennis, Gene A. Long