Patents by Inventor Mary Ann Phillips

Mary Ann Phillips 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: 20200148232
    Abstract: An issue reporting and detection system is discussed. A user can capture an image with a mobile device of an issue at a location in a facility. An application executing on the mobile device can receive an input associated with the image. The mobile application can transmit image and the input associated with the image to a computing system which can determine a location at which the image was taken in the facility. The computing system can transmit a command to a UAGV to navigate to the determined location of the facility where the UAGV can capture an image using an image capturing device coupled to the UAGV, of the reported issue at the location in the facility. The UAGV can transmit the image to the computing system to confirm the type of the facility issue based on the image captured by the UAGV. The computing system can transmit an appropriate alert after confirming the issue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Kenneth Morrison, Mary Ann Phillips, Aditya Reddy Cheruku, James Gosserand
  • Publication number: 20180114250
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for promoting store items at a retail environment that electronically pair an augmented-reality gaming application executed on a mobile electronic device with a shopping cart; determine a location of the shopping cart; establishing an electronic communication between the gaming application and the shopping cart during a shopping cart user's presence in the retail environment; receive data at the mobile electronic device pertaining to a store item promotion in response to determining the location of the shopping cart; and apply information regarding the location of the shopping cart to the gaming application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Mary Ann Phillips, Michael Morrison, Hang Reusch, Justin Reusch