Patents by Inventor Michael D. Frank

Michael D. Frank 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: 20240109487
    Abstract: A method for providing a post-event alert includes receiving sensor data, detecting, based on the sensor data, at least one vehicle event, and determining a severity value associated with the at least one vehicle event. The method also includes determining whether the severity value is greater than a severity threshold and, in response to a determination that the severity value is greater than the severity threshold, identifying at least one aspect of a vehicle that is potentially damaged. The method also includes determining a potential damage value associated with the at least one aspect of the vehicle that is potentially damaged, determining whether the potential damage value is greater than a potential damage threshold, and, in response to determining that the potential damage value is greater than the potential damage threshold, generating an alert indicating at least the at least one aspect of the vehicle that is potentially damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: MICHAEL R. STORY, ANDREW J. FRANK, WILLIAM D. BODEIS, PETER D. SCHMITT, JOACHIM J. KLESING, SAYEDMOHAMMAD HOSSEINI
  • Publication number: 20120047021
    Abstract: A system for promoting business leads for authors of literature to a consumer by a document service provider (DSP) that stores and manages the literature via the Internet, where the consumer has a computer device for accessing product information via the Internet at a website of a product service provider (PSP). The system includes at least one computer device operable to receive, via the Internet, profile information of the consumer from the PSP while the consumer is reviewing product information from the website of the PSP; identify, at the DSP, a corresponding document associated with a product being viewed at the website of the PSP by the consumer; present, on the consumer computer device, a lead promotional web page that includes an offer by the DSP to the consumer for the corresponding document; and deliver the corresponding document to the consumer in response to receiving an acceptance of the offer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Michael J. Borchetta, Michael D. Frank
  • Publication number: 20100088171
    Abstract: A method and apparatus fulfill a periodical subscription to a consumer, where the periodical subscription includes a predetermined number of issues and associated delivery dates. The method and apparatus receive a subscription order for a periodical having a plurality of issues deliverable to the consumer at a consumer premise; and generate a subscription order voucher for redeeming an interim periodical issue prior to the consumer receiving delivery of a first issue of the subscription at the consumer premises from a fulfillment house. The voucher includes authorization for a retail location to provide the interim issue of the periodical subscription to the consumer upon presentation. The subscription agent communicates subscription information associated with the consumer to the fulfillment house following one of redemption of the voucher by the consumer for the interim issue or a predetermined time having elapsed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Michael J. Borchetta, Michael D. Frank, David M. Rock