Patents by Inventor Kevin R. Knapp

Kevin R. Knapp 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: 20240391194
    Abstract: A system to manufacture a tire includes one or more processors and one or more memories storing instructions executable by the one or more processors and causing the one or more processors to receive, from one or more sensors of one or more pieces of tire manufacturing equipment, one or more values corresponding to manufacturing of a tire, generate a matrix based on the one or more values, predict, via input of the matrix into a machine learning model, a value for a splice tolerance metric for the tire, determine, based on the value for the splice tolerance metric, a first parameter of a first piece of the one or more pieces of tire manufacturing equipment to adjust, and provide a command to adjust the first parameter of the first piece of equipment responsive to determining the value of the splice tolerance metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS TIRE OPERATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin R. Knapp, Anirban K. Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: D771968
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Cintas Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Bing, Kevin R. Knapp, David Mesko, Ryan Paul, Alan J. Pierquet, Sigurdur Witt