Patents by Inventor Keith Shields

Keith Shields 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: 20160350850
    Abstract: Simultaneous, real-time, multi-option loan pricing and adjudication for automobile consumers is described herein. Through risk-quantification and pricing technology, auto loan contracts are generated on an entire vehicle set of any size for a consumer. Relevant predictive data is obtained about the shopper from credit bureaus, social media, public record, click-thru data, or the like. Based on data retrieved from physical and virtual vehicle lots and personal data of the consumer, a vehicle set of relevant options is provided to the consumer for selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Keith Shields, Samuel Miller
  • Publication number: 20060101416
    Abstract: A system for conducting performance analysis for executing tasks. The analysis involves generating a variety of trace information related to performance measures, including parallelism-related information, during execution of the task. In order to generate the trace information, target source code of interest is compiled in such a manner that executing the resulting executable code will generate execution trace information composed of a series of events. Each event stores trace information related to a variety of performance measures for the one or more processors and protection domains used. After the execution trace information has been generated, the system can use that trace information and a trace information description file to produce useful performance measure information. The trace information description file contains information that describes the types of execution events as well as the structure of the stored information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Charles Callahan, Keith Shields, Preston Briggs
  • Patent number: 6341430
    Abstract: Code block or code marking application, removal, and replacement templates and methods for use for code blocks and code markings that are used in conjunction with the guide path, guide line, and guide tracks used by automated guidance vehicles (AGVs), which are otherwise known as autonomous guidance, automatic guidance, and automatically or autonomously guided vehicles. Guide line code blocks are typically applied to the floor of a factory, warehouse, or other facility that employs AGVs, which can sense the guide lines and/or the code blocks for purposes of maneuvering payloads while navigating through the facility. The AGV code template includes a generally planar template substrate configured with corresponding control and alignment aperture patterns formed in the template that are offset from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Honda of America Mfg., Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony P. Carstens, Keith Shields