Patents by Inventor Grover Owens

Grover Owens 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: 8094879
    Abstract: A tool including a frame that includes an aperture and a boundary marker disposed about the aperture. The boundary marker includes a first marker region disposed about the aperture and a second marker region disposed about the first marker region. The color of the first marker region is different from the color of the second marker region. The tool also includes a color correction scale disposed proximate to the aperture. The color correction scale has at least a first color correction region and a second color correction region. The color of the first and second color correction regions each have an LCh value of between L=73.5 C=15.3 h=55.6 and L=32.5 C=11.6 h=48.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karen Kalla, Patricia Alison LaFleur, Joseph Miller, Grover Owens
  • Publication number: 20110064307
    Abstract: A tool including a frame that includes an aperture and a boundary marker disposed about the aperture. The boundary marker includes a first marker region disposed about the aperture and a second marker region disposed about the first marker region. The color of the first marker region is different from the color of the second marker region. The tool also includes a color correction scale disposed proximate to the aperture. The color correction scale has at least a first color correction region and a second color correction region. The color of the first and second color correction regions each have an LCh value of between L=73.5 C=15.3 h=55.6 and L=32.5 C=11.6 h=48.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Karen Kalla, Patricia Alison LaFleur, Joseph Miller, Grover Owens
  • Patent number: 7856118
    Abstract: A method of product recommendation includes receiving an image taken of a tool, disposed against a target substrate and including a frame with an aperture in which the substrate is visible and a color correction scale disposed proximate to the aperture, the scale having at least a first color correction region and a second color correction region, the color of the first region being different than the color of the second region. The method also includes locating a color correction scale region of the image corresponding to the scale and a target substrate region of the image corresponding to the substrate visible in the aperture, analyzing the scale region to determine a color correction, correcting the image according to the color correction, extracting a set of substrate region values from the substrate region of the image, and generating a product recommendation according to the set of substrate region values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karen Kalla, Patricia Alison LaFleur, Joseph Miller, Grover Owens
  • Publication number: 20090196496
    Abstract: A method of product recommendation includes receiving an image taken of a tool, disposed against a target substrate and including a frame with an aperture in which the substrate is visible and a color correction scale disposed proximate to the aperture, the scale having at least a first color correction region and a second color correction region, the color of the first region being different than the color of the second region. The method also includes locating a color correction scale region of the image corresponding to the scale and a target substrate region of the image corresponding to the substrate visible in the aperture, analyzing the scale region to determine a color correction, correcting the image according to the color correction, extracting a set of substrate region values from the substrate region of the image, and generating a product recommendation according to the set of substrate region values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Karen Kalla, Patricia Alison LaFleur, Joseph Miller, Grover Owens
  • Publication number: 20060196100
    Abstract: A system and methods for dispensing multiple scents into the environment, and for providing scent-containing articles of manufacture are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Grover Owens, Pedro Rodriguez, Frank Kvietok, Eric Bartsch, Toan Trinh, Kevin Goodall, Stephen Paljieg
  • Publication number: 20060067859
    Abstract: Articles, systems and methods for dispensing multiple volatile materials into the environment, including but not limited to scents, are disclosed. Methods for providing volatile material-containing articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Grover Owens, Pedro Rodriquez, Frank Kvietok, Eric Bartsch, Stephan Bush, Brice Westring, Toan Trinh, Kevin Goodall, Stephen Paljieg, Carl-Eric Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20050209565
    Abstract: Improved microneedle arrays are provided having a sufficiently large separation distance between each of the individual microneedles to ensure penetration of the skin while having a sufficiently small separation distance to provide high transdermal transport rates. A very useful range of separation distances between microneedles is in the range of 100-300 microns, and more preferably in the range of 100-200 microns. The outer diameter and microneedle length is also very important, and in combination with the separation distance will be crucial as to whether or not the microneedles will actually penetrate the stratum corneum of skin. For circular microneedles, a useful outer diameter range is from 20-100 microns, and more preferably in the range of 20-50 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Vadim Yuzhakov, Faiz Sherman, Grover Owens, Vladimir Gartstein
  • Publication number: 20050147523
    Abstract: Articles, systems and methods for dispensing multiple volatile materials into the environment, including but not limited to scents, are disclosed. Methods for providing volatile material-containing articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Grover Owens, Pedro Rodriguez, Frank Kvietok, Eric Bartsch, Stephan Bush, Brice Westring, Toan Trinh, Kevin Goodall, Stephen Paljieg, Carl-Eric Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20050147539
    Abstract: A multiple scent-containing article of manufacture for dispensing multiple scents into the environment wherein a number of the scents in the article are related to each other is disclosed. In one variation, the scents are selected from a group of different types of scents. In another variation, certain of the scents, or all of the scents, can be related to each other in that they share a common theme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Christophe Laudamiel-Pellet, Grover Owens, Pedro Rodriguez, Frank Kvietok, Eric Bartsch, Toan Trinh, Kevin Goodall