Patents by Inventor Keith A. Petersen

Keith A. Petersen 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).

  • Publication number: 20200074549
    Abstract: A system includes a market data system configured to provide market data for commodity transactions. The system includes a facility data system configured to provide capacity data for facilities used for the commodity transactions. The system includes a processing system communicatively coupled to the market data system and the facility data system, the processing system including one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored on computer-readable data storage hardware, the instructions causing the processing system to: receive the market data from the market data system and the capacity data from the facility data system; and generate price information based on the market data and the capacity data. The system includes a user system communicatively coupled to the processing system and configured to receive and process the price information for presentation to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Haraburda, Andrew Lowdon, Keith Petersen, Eero Pikat, Xin Shi
  • Publication number: 20130060712
    Abstract: Fractionating and allocating a cost of delivery of a product to at least one customer from at least one plant where the at least one customer is at a first location and requires a first amount of product, and wherein the plant is at a second location and has a capacity to produce and distribute a second amount of product, the method comprising: obtaining, historical actual trip data; eliminating, outlier data to calculate cleaned trip data; calculating a fixed cost for delivery to the at least one customer; calculating a variable cost for the delivery to the at least one customer; calculating an actual fractional cost for the delivery of the product to the at least one customer: and calculating a predicted fractional cost for the delivery of the product to the at least one customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ali Esmaili, Sharad Kumar, Brian Keith Petersen, Catherine Catino Latshaw
  • Patent number: 7451673
    Abstract: An indexable pliers-type tool with selectable first and second jaw tool structures comprising opposing jaw elements having first and second portions with handles, the first portions defining a first tool structure, the second portions defining a second tool structure, the jaw elements are adapted to be pivotally moveable relative to each other about an axis, each handle has a handle aperture therein coaxial with jaw apertures, and a pivot pin is disposed axially through the jaw apertures and the handle apertures and is axially movable between locked and unlocked positions, wherein when the pin is in the locked position, the first or second tool structure can be used, and when the pin is disposed in the unlocked position, the jaw elements can be rotated for tool structure selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventor: Keith A. Petersen