Patents by Inventor Leslie D. Rustad

Leslie D. Rustad 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).

  • Environment-controlled transport unit
    Patent number: 6862499
    Abstract: The invention is directed to regulating the conditioned space of an environment-controlled transport unit by identifying the product being conveyed as cargo in the conditioned space of a transport unit. A user can identify the cargo by selecting it from a menu of cargo identifiers. Once the cargo is identified, an environment control system retrieves from memory environment-control parameters as a function of the identified cargo, and regulates the environment of the conditioned space based upon the environment-control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Thermo King Corporation
    Inventors: Joaquim Geraldo Cretella, Doyle G. Herrig, Leslie D. Rustad, Randal Gast, Richard W. Schmidt, Thomas A. Flanagan
  • User interface
    Patent number: D588250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Thermo King Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley K. Lohrding, William Maude-Roxby, Leslie D. Rustad, Thomas A. Flanagan
  • Temperature control system interface
    Patent number: D679789
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Thermo King Corporation
    Inventors: Fusu Thao, Leslie D. Rustad, Thomas W. Kampf, Timothy J. Olson, Thomas C. McCartney, James L. Artmann