Patents by Inventor Max S. Liedl

Max S. Liedl 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: 20240009039
    Abstract: Absorbent articles comprising apertured regions and methods of manufacture and registration are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of registering webs comprises moving first and second webs in a machine direction, capturing a first image comprising a portion of the second web, filtering the captured first image to determine one or more regions of the captured first image having a light transmittance value greater than the transmittance threshold value, modifying the captured first image with a dilation morphological operation, determining a feature of interest, determining a first difference value comprising a difference in location between the feature of interest and a reference feature of the captured first image or the modified captured first image, adjusting a speed of the second web in the machine direction, and coupling the first web and the second web together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: Max S. Liedl
  • Patent number: 11498714
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for manufacturing products having custom graphic designed are disclosed. A method may comprise printing a first order identifier graphic on a substrate material, the first order identifier graphic associated with a first order for a first set of products, printing a first set of one or more graphic designs on the material, the graphic designs associated with the first order, combining the material with one or more product components to form the first set of products, each of the products of the first set of products being associated with the first customer order and at least one of the products of the first set of products comprising the first order identifier graphic, performing a print quality inspection on the print test graphic, and after determining the print test graphic failed the print quality inspection, culling each of products associated with the first order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Tim G. Dollevoet, Jeffrey R. Heller, Max S. Liedl, Steven T. Moore
  • Publication number: 20210237924
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for manufacturing products having custom graphic designed are disclosed. A method may comprise printing a first order identifier graphic on a substrate material, the first order identifier graphic associated with a first order for a first set of products, printing a first set of one or more graphic designs on the material, the graphic designs associated with the first order, combining the material with one or more product components to form the first set of products, each of the products of the first set of products being associated with the first customer order and at least one of the products of the first set of products comprising the first order identifier graphic, performing a print quality inspection on the print test graphic, and after determining the print test graphic failed the print quality inspection, culling each of products associated with the first order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Tim G. Dollevoet, Jeffrey R. Heller, Max S. Liedl, Steven T. Moore