Patents by Inventor James Walker Selway

James Walker Selway 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 and method for controlling a design process by specifying active variables and passive variables
    Patent number: 7433748
    Abstract: A system for controlling a design process having a first design sub-process and a second design sub-process, outcomes of one of the first and second design sub-processes being linked to outcomes of the other of the design sub-processes by a relationship between one or more first design sub-process variables and one or more second design sub-process variables. The system comprises a user configurable interface between the first and second design sub-processes, the interface allowing a user to the system to control the design process by specifying which of the one or more variables are active variables which can have their domains modified by at least one process within the sub-process to which the variable belongs and which of the one or more variables are passive variables which have their domains determined within allowable values by the domains of the other variable(s) in the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Amcor Limited
    Inventor: James Walker Selway
  • System and method for specifying elements in a packaging process
    Patent number: 6882892
    Abstract: A software system for specifying design of at least two links in a packaging chain includes first and second software modules for specifying designs of first and second links in the packaging chain. The software modules have respective parameters each of which should not normally be breached. A conversion system interconnects the first software module and the second software module to enable data representing the link in the packaging chain specified by either the first software module or the second software module to be recognized in the other of the software modules. A feedback system provides feedback when there is a breach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Amcor Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Francis Farrah, Peter John Filmer, Fiona Elizabet Hamilton, Mark Francis Nihill, James Walker Selway, Ernest Yuet Ning Shaw, Frederick Walter Van Den Hout
  • System for specifying design of a product or process
    Publication number: 20030083762
    Abstract: There is disclosed a software system for specifying design of a product or process, the system having a first software module 1a for specifying design of the product or process according to a first set of design criteria, and a second software module 16 independent of the function of the first software module la for specifying design of the product or process according to a second set of design criteria. The first set of design criteria and the second set of design criteria are different to one another. The first software module 1a has a predetermined parameter having a limit which should not normally be breached. Conversion means interconnects the first software module and the second software module to enable data representing the product or process specified by either the first software module or the second software module to be recognised in the other of the software modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Timothy Francis Farrah, Peter John Filmer, Fiona Elizabet Hamilton, Mark Francis Nihill, James Walker Selway, Ernest Yuet Ning Shaw, Frederick Walter Van Den Hout