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).

  • Patent number: 11238382
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: Francis Gerard Graziano, Mark Baloga, Terry D. West, Paul Noll, Nicolas Henri Louis de Benoist de Gentissart, Karl Jahn Mead
  • Patent number: 6250029
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
  • Patent number: 6209273
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
  • Patent number: 6189270
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
  • Patent number: 6158178
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
  • Patent number: D689291
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
  • Patent number: D693163
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
  • Patent number: D707478
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
  • Patent number: D714068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
  • Patent number: D717554
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kapka, Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
  • Patent number: D718559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Ernest Rheault, Karl Jahn Mead
  • Patent number: D725638
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: William Kirk Hofman, Shawn Kerstan Littrell, Karl Jahn Mead