Patents by Inventor Michael W. Boyd

Michael W. Boyd 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).

  • Method and system for managing a program relating to a product
    Patent number: 10832182
    Abstract: A method for managing a program relating to a product, the program including a plurality of program requirements for performing a plurality of program tasks, includes: (a) establishing a location reference system for a representation of the product in three dimensions; (b) identifying a plurality of task-loci in a display; the display presenting the representation of the product according to the location reference system; each respective task-locus of the plurality of task-loci being associated with a respective program task of the plurality of program tasks; (c) characterizing each respective task-locus associated with an accomplished respective program task as a respective completed task-locus; and (d) accounting for accomplishment of the respective program tasks by accounting for the respective completed task-loci.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph F Floyd, Brent Louis Hadley, Patrick Jan Eames, Paul A Sesny, Quentin S Patterson, Stephen Paul Miller, Brian Lee Coker, Chul Y Park, Michael W Boyd
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A PROGRAM RELATING TO A PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20110087513
    Abstract: A method for managing a program relating to a product, the program including a plurality of program requirements for performing a plurality of program tasks, includes: (a) establishing a location reference system for a representation of the product in three dimensions; (b) identifying a plurality of task-loci in a display; the display presenting the representation of the product according to the location reference system; each respective task-locus of the plurality of task-loci being associated with a respective program task of the plurality of program tasks; (c) characterizing each respective task-locus associated with an accomplished respective program task as a respective completed task-locus; and (d) accounting for accomplishment of the respective program tasks by accounting for the respective completed task-loci.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: BOEING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE
    Inventors: Joseph F. Floyd, Brent Louis Hadley, Patrick Jan Eames, Paul A. Sesny, Quentin S. Patterson, Stephen Paul Miller, Brian Lee Coker, Chul Y. Park, Michael W. Boyd