Patents by Inventor James Carish

James Carish 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).

  • System for carrying out and managing animal feedlot operations using coordinate acquisition techniques
    Patent number: 6032084
    Abstract: An animal feedlot management system is disclosed, wherein each feed delivery vehicle employed therein uses real-time virtual reality (VR) modelling and coordinate acquisition techniques supported upon an Internet-based (i.e., Cyberspace) communications platform in order to carry out various types of feedlot operations. Each feedlot vehicle has an on-board computer system which includes a VR subsystem, for accessing a VR database maintaining information representative of a VR model of the feedlot and the objects present therein (eg., tagged animals, pens, alley ways, feedbunks, buildings, vehicles, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Lextron, Inc.
    Inventors: Arlen Anderson, Michael Ackerman, Samuel Cureton, James Carish
  • System and method for uniformly delivering feed rations to the feedbunks of animal pens in a feedlot
    Patent number: 5878402
    Abstract: A system and method for uniformly delivering assigned feed rations to the feedbunks associated with animal pens. The system includes a feed delivery vehicle having a feed storage compartment and a scale. The function of the scale is to weigh the amount of feed in the storage compartment at sampled time intervals, and produce a first data signal indicative of the weight of the feed at these sampled time intervals. The vehicle also has a ground speed radar unit which measures the true ground speed of the vehicle at sampled time intervals as the vehicle travels alongside of the feedbunk, and produces a second data signal indicative of the vehicular speed at these sampled time intervals. A computer aboard the vehicle processes the first and second data signals along with information regarding the length of the feedbunk and produces a control signal as the vehicle travels alongside the feedbunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Lextron, Inc.
    Inventors: Sherman H. Brewster, J. Sam Cureton, James Carish, Michael A. Ackerman
  • Feedlot computer network installation for managing feedlot operations
    Patent number: 5867820
    Abstract: A computer network and method for feeding animals in a feedlot, in which discretion and direct control over the various suboperations of the feed ration assignment and delivery process are distributed among the individual operators in the system, while the feedlot manager is capable of indirectly monitoring the performance of the various suboperations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Lextron, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Sam Cureton, Michael A. Ackerman, James Carish
  • Method and apparatus for uniform delivery of feed ration along a feedbunk
    Patent number: 5636118
    Abstract: A system and method for uniformly delivering assigned feed rations to the feedbunks associated with animal pens. The system includes a feed delivery vehicle having a feed storage compartment and a scale. The function of the scale is to weigh the amount of feed in the storage compartment at sampled time intervals, and produce a first data signal indicative of the weight of the feed at these sampled time intervals. The vehicle also has a ground speed radar unit which measures the true ground speed of the vehicle at sampled time intervals as the vehicle travels alongside of the feedbunk, and produces a second data signal indicative of the vehicular speed at these sampled time intervals. A computer aboard the vehicle processes the first and second data signals along with information regarding the length of the feedbunk and produces a control signal as the vehicle travels alongside the feedbunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Lextron, Inc.
    Inventors: Sherman H. Brewster, J. Sam Cureton, James Carish, Michael A. Ackerman
  • Feedlot computer network installation and interactive method of using the same to assign feed loads and animal pen subsequences to feed delivery vehicles available at a feedmill in the feedlot
    Patent number: 5457627
    Abstract: A computer network and method for feeding animals in a feedlot, in which discretion and direct control over the various suboperations of the feed ration assignment and delivery process are distributed among the individual operators in the system, while the feedlot manager is capable of indirectly monitoring the performance of the various suboperations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Lextron, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Sam Cureton, Michael A. Ackerman, James Carish