Patents by Inventor Patrick Grady
Patrick Grady 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).
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Patent number: 11669861Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Deem, Inc.Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Publication number: 20230005015Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Publication number: 20220346198Abstract: A food processing machine for processing a food product includes a processing module having a housing with a sidewall, opposing end walls, and a chamber between the end walls and a conveyor extending through the end walls and the chamber and configured to convey the food product through the chamber. A microwave generating device is coupled to the sidewall and configured to generate microwave energy. A waveguide assembly is configured to receive the microwave energy, direct the microwave energy along a waveguide axis, and subsequently direct the microwave energy in a transverse direction that is transverse to the vertical direction through the sidewall and into the chamber such that the microwave energy heats the food products.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Alkar-RapidPak, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Michael King, Thomas John Hansel, Graeme Bunce, Thomas Paulson, Thomas Victor Sonntag, Craig R. Bonneville, Easten Lovelace, Shane Patrick Grady, Paul Christopher Buschkopf, Dalton Brian McGinness
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Patent number: 11443342Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Deem, Inc.Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Publication number: 20190180323Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Patent number: 10217131Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: DEEM, INC.Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Patent number: 9399280Abstract: This application is directed to a device for replacing a pocket door track without removing a section of the wall adjacent the track.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Inventor: Patrick Grady
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Publication number: 20160101507Abstract: This application is directed to a device for replacing a pocket door track without removing a section of the wall adjacent the track.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventor: Patrick Grady
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Publication number: 20160055523Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Patent number: 9117223Abstract: In one embodiment, method that can be performed on a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop (not just in terms of location but also in terms of activity). One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Deem, Inc.Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Patent number: 8543470Abstract: System and method for availability based on limited-time offerings and transactions. One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that, based on a set of known preferences and historic transactions with customers, culls from a customer database those customers most likely to close a transaction in a short time. The selected customers are notified of the offer, and the system processes the customers responses in a timely manner, and thus allow fleeting inventories to be sold off before they expire.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Rearden Commerce, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung
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Publication number: 20100023407Abstract: System and method for availability based on limited-time offerings and transactions. One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that, based on a set of known preferences and historic transactions with customers, culls from a customer database those customers most likely to close a transaction in a short time. The selected customers are notified of the offer, and the system processes the customers responses in a timely manner, and thus allow fleeting inventories to be sold off before they expire.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: REARDEN COMMERCE, INC.Inventors: Patrick GRADY, Mark ORTTUNG
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Patent number: 7599858Abstract: System and method for availability based on limited-time offerings and transactions. One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that, based on a set of known preferences and historic transactions with customers, culls from a customer database those customers most likely to close a transaction in a short time. The selected customers are notified of the offer, and the system processes the customers responses in a timely manner, and thus allow fleeting inventories to be sold off before they expire.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Rearden Commerce, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung
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Publication number: 20070150349Abstract: In one embodiment, method that can be performed on a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop (not just in terms of location but also in terms of activity). One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Publication number: 20040002387Abstract: A scanner/reader device is provided for use with a card having printed information and information stored on a computer readable medium. The device comprises a housing having a slot adapted for receiving the card with a plurality of pressure sensitive guide rollers adjacent the slot. An optical scanning unit is mounted within the housing for detecting the printed information and a chip reading unit is mounted within the housing for detecting the information stored on the computer readable medium. A logic board is mounted within the housing for controlling the rollers, the optical scanning unit and the chip reading unit and the device includes an output port for outputting information detected by the optical scanning unit and the chip reading unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2002Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventor: Daniel Patrick Grady