Patents by Inventor Karl Jahn Mead
Karl Jahn Mead 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).
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Patent number: 11984739Abstract: A system and methods including workstations for use in office spaces where the workstations include electrical couplers and power distribution systems for coupling portable and rechargeable batteries to the arrangements and delivering electrical charge to affordance devices where battery charging stations are located at different locations throughout a facility and alerts including nearest charging station with fully charged batteries are provided to employees at the stations when battery depletion thresholds are met or where batteries are automatically delivered to facility locations via automated robotic carts when needed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Bruce Smith, Bo Anderson, Karl Jahn Mead, Robert Scheper, Hyun Yoo, Michael Held, Justin Glen Beitzel
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Patent number: 11238382Abstract: A system comprising a database storing schedule information associated with different meeting spaces, at least a first threshold display located proximate at least a first meeting space, an employee tracking system, a processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving employee tracking information including locations and identities, determining the relative juxtapositions of employees with respect to the first threshold display, identifying content to be presented on the first threshold display based on identity of a first employee, a distance between the first employee and the display and the schedule information.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Francis Gerard Graziano, Mark Baloga, Terry D. West, Paul Noll, Nicolas Henri Louis de Benoist de Gentissart, Karl Jahn Mead
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Patent number: 6250029Abstract: A partition wall system providing for lay-in of cables, includes a plurality of interconnected panel sections. Each panel section has a base surface and a plurality of protrusions extending from the base surface and a plurality of covering skins. At least one of the covering skins is attached to each of the panel sections so that a passage is formed between the covering skin and the base surface of the panel section to allow the cables to travel through each panel section and between interconnected panel sections.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
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Patent number: 6209273Abstract: A partition wall system providing for lay-in of cables, includes a plurality of interconnected panel sections. Each panel section has a base surface and a plurality of protrusions extending from the base surface and a plurality of covering skins. At least one of the covering skins is attached to each of the panel sections so that a passage is formed between the covering skin and the base surface of the panel section to allow the cables to travel through each panel section and between interconnected panel sections.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
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Patent number: 6189270Abstract: A partition wall system provides for lay-in of cables. The system includes a plurality of interconnected panel sections and a plurality of covering skins. Each panel section has a base surface and a protrusion extending from the base surface. At least one of the covering skins is attached to each of the panel sections, forming a passage between the covering skin and the base surface of the panel section allowing the cables to travel between interconnected panel sections and through each panel section, in both horizontal and vertical directions. Interconnected panel sections may include first and second sheets of material, each sheet of material providing a base surface with a plurality of protrusions extending therefrom, wherein the first sheet of material is attached to the second sheet of material so that the base surface of the first sheet of material is substantially parallel to the base surface of the second sheet of material.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
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Patent number: 6158178Abstract: A partition wall system provides for lay-in of cables. The system includes a plurality of interconnected panel sections and a plurality of covering skins. Each panel section has a base surface and a protrusion extending from the base surface. At least one of the covering skins is attached to each of the panel sections, forming a passage between the covering skin and the base surface of the panel section allowing the cables to travel between interconnected panel sections and through each panel section, in both horizontal and vertical directions. Interconnected panel sections may include first and second sheets of material, each sheet of material providing a base surface with a plurality of protrusions extending therefrom, wherein the first sheet of material is attached to the second sheet of material so that the base surface of the first sheet of material is substantially parallel to the base surface of the second sheet of material.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1997Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
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Patent number: D689291Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
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Patent number: D693163Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
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Patent number: D707478Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
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Patent number: D714068Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
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Patent number: D717554Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
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Patent number: D718559Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
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Patent number: D725638Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: William Kirk Hofman, Shawn Kerstan Littrell, Karl Jahn Mead