Patents by Inventor Linda A. Floyd

Linda A. Floyd 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).

  • Patent number: 10147338
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a gas training system with a computing device or server coupled to a mapping component and a virtual leak detector. The virtual leak detector is configured to communicate at least one location or GPS position data. A trainee device or good is coupled with the virtual leak detector discoverable by the computing device or server. A coupled non-transitory computer readable medium can cause the computing device or server to retrieve a map and/or image from the mapping component representing an actual training area or location. Further, based at least in part on the location or GPS position data received from the virtual leak detector, the map or map image is displayed with a representation of the trainee device or good positioned based at least in part on the actual physical location of the at least one trainee device or good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian Trumbull, Linda Floyd, Chris Pickett
  • Publication number: 20160307468
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a gas training system with a computing device or server coupled to a mapping component and a virtual leak detector. The virtual leak detector is configured to communicate at least one location or GPS position data. A trainee device or good is coupled with the virtual leak detector discoverable by the computing device or server. A coupled non-transitory computer readable medium can cause the computing device or server to retrieve a map and/or image from the mapping component representing an actual training area or location. Further, based at least in part on the location or GPS position data received from the virtual leak detector, the map or map image is displayed with a representation of the trainee device or good positioned based at least in part on the actual physical location of the at least one trainee device or good.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Brian Trumbull, Linda Floyd, Chris Pickett
  • Patent number: 5454600
    Abstract: A personal identification label includes a child-friendly image, scene or illustration on an iron-on label. The image depicts scenes, such as a rabbit in a field, dinosaurs walking through the woods, a horse jumping over a wall, or a dalmatian in front of a fire truck, for example. In any of the scenes depicted on the label, a fingerprint receiving space is left blank on the label and is contained entirely within the depicted scene or image. This special fingerprint receiving area is designed to include a fingerprint of a child. Once the fingerprint of the child is placed in the specific fingerprint receiving area in the scene, image or illustration depicted on the label, the lines of the fingerprint form an image which visually blends into the overall scene, illustration, or image for example, printed on the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Inventor: Linda A. Floyd