Patents by Inventor Keith Snider

Keith Snider 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).

  • Devices, systems, and methods for optimization of data sets
    Patent number: 11481370
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a system for storing and managing hierarchical relationships in a data set. The data set has a plurality of nodes, including root nodes having trees and subtrees, the tree and subtrees including parent, sibling, and child nodes. Each node in the data set has bound values and the bound values of the root nodes are fixed and of equal width. The system further includes processor on a server constructed and arranged to execute a series of steps for optimizing the data set. The processor constructed and arranged to recalculate bound values for updated nodes, sibling nodes and associated subtrees when nodes are updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: R&D Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Snider, Satheesh Yadava, Christopher Van Oort
  • Locking ring for aluminum beverage cans
    Patent number: 4860896
    Abstract: A device for creating imaginative structures from used beverage containers and like cylindrical refuse having an annular belt member having a plurality of axially extending attachment means integrally formed on the outer surface thereof in spaced generally parallel relationship to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Inventor: Keith Snider