Patents by Inventor Gerald P. LaChapelle

Gerald P. LaChapelle 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).

  • Method and system for capturing, managing and disseminating manufacturing knowledge
    Patent number: 7010544
    Abstract: An independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes extracting design criteria from a data file and parsing criteria into elemental manufacturing building modules independent of the data file and storing the captured criteria data file. Additional manufacturing knowledge is then inputted into the meta-data file not contained in the data file by extracting manufacturing knowledge from a database housing manufacturing knowledge and incorporating this knowledge into data file which is capable of being translated to Numerical Control machine language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Vykor, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Alan Wallen, William Eric Ward, Gerald P. LaChapelle
  • Method and system for capturing, managing, and disseminating manufacturing knowledge
    Patent number: 6823342
    Abstract: A independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes extracting design criteria from a data file and parsing design criteria into elemental manufacturing building modules independent of the data file and storing the captured criteria data file. Additional manufacturing knowledge is then inputted into the meta-data file not contained in the data file by extracting manufacturing knowledge from a database housing manufacturing knowledge and incorporating this knowledge into data file which is capable of being translated to Numerical Control machine language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Vykor, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Alan Wallen, William Eric Ward, Gerald P. LaChapelle
  • Method and system for capturing, managing, and disseminating manufacturing knowledge
    Publication number: 20020188622
    Abstract: A independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes extracting design criteria from a data file and parsing design criteria into elemental manufacturing building modules independent of the data file and storing the captured criteria data file. Additional manufacturing knowledge is then inputted into the meta-data file not contained in the data file by extracting manufacturing knowledge from a database housing manufacturing knowledge and incorporating this knowledge into data file which is capable of being translated to Numerical Control machine language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Todd Alan Wallen, William Eric Ward, Gerald P. LaChapelle