Patents by Inventor James K. Beatty

James K. Beatty 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).

  • Electronic work instruction object oriented system and method
    Patent number: 6819965
    Abstract: The present invention involves a method and system for manufacturing documentation for standardizing product manufacturing in an enterprise. The system creates data records representing work instructions, stores the data records in a database and enables the system's users to search the database for specific data records to view, edit, re-use or copy. The data records include process design data having both a fixed (bit-mapped) graphical component and a modifiable (object-oriented) graphical component, and the system enables one group of users to view the fixed graphical component and another group of users to both view and/or modify the modifiable graphical component. In order to maintain control over edits made to data records, the system maintains a log of additions, changes or deletions made to the data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Kimball International, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Beatty, Dennis Thimling, Terence Walsh
  • Electronic work instruction object oriented system and method
    Publication number: 20040049307
    Abstract: The present invention involves a method and system for manufacturing documentation for standardizing product manufacturing in an enterprise. The system creates data records representing work instructions, stores the data records in a database and enables the system's users to search the database for specific data records to view, edit, re-use or copy. The data records include process design data having both a fixed (bit-mapped) graphical component and a modifiable (object-oriented) graphical component, and the system enables one group of users to view the fixed graphical component and another group of users to both view and/or modify the modifiable graphical component. In order to maintain control over edits made to data records, the system maintains a log of additions, changes or deletions made to the data records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: James K. Beatty, Dennis Thimling, Terence Walsh