Patents by Inventor Gregory Ellington

Gregory Ellington 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).

  • Delivery management system
    Patent number: 7457761
    Abstract: The method of managing the delivery of an order from at least one supplier to a respective delivery agent, and from the delivery agent to a respective buyer, given a requested order date and the respective buyers address, consisting of the steps including: determining a first potential arrival date of the order at a respective delivery agents location based on the order request date and the buyer's address; calculating the capacity of the delivery agent to ship the order based the first potential arrive date request; and finally, determining when there is sufficient capacity to ship the order to the buyer's address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Jay Smith, Terry Ray Stout, Jeffrey Allen Hume, Gregory Ellington