Patents by Inventor Mary Louis Dolan

Mary Louis Dolan 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).

  • Automated apparatus and method for consolidating products for packaging
    Patent number: 5749205
    Abstract: An automated apparatus for controlling the automatic packaging of contact lenses in a contact lens fabrication facility includes: a first robotic transfer device for periodically transferring a first predetermined amount of individual packages from an inspection station to an intermediate consolidation buffer and depositing the packages on the consolidation buffer; a control device for tracking and identifying each individual contact lens conveyed from the inspection station to the consolidation buffer and including memory and logic circuits for staring the identity of individual packages containing contact lenses that have been previously determined at the inspection station as being out of specification, and, generating a signal to enable the first robotic device to discard any individual package identified as out of specification; and, a second robotic assembly for periodically transferring a second predetermined amount of individual packages from the consolidation buffer to a second processing station, th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell James Edwards, Mary Louis Dolan, Svend Christensen, Borge Peter Gundersen, John Mark Lepper, Daniel Tsu-Fang Wang, Richard Wayne Abrams, Thomas Christian Ravn