Patents by Inventor Rita Ann Young

Rita Ann Young 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).

  • Patent number: 8458057
    Abstract: An automated cost accounting reporting method for interdepartmental data tracking related to the cost of a business meeting, comprising the steps of: identifying individuals attending a business meeting, collecting data about the individual participants at the business meeting from a storage data base and loading the data into a process module, timing the duration of each individuals attendance at the meeting, calculating the cost of the business meeting per business unit based on the number of individuals in attendance, generating one or more currency cost reports from the calculations, transmitting one or more reports to a particular business unit to be displayed, and displaying the reports on a computer screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Inventor: Rita Ann Youngs
  • Publication number: 20080254866
    Abstract: Method and corresponding apparatus for automated scoring, performance measurement/reporting and interactive entertainment and more particularly automated scoring for games, such as multiple basketball games and baseball, soccer, football, as well as other games with projectiles or other objects-of-interest. Generally players are automatically scored, their performance is measured and presented to them, entertainment devices are controlled and they are interactively entertained. One too many players can be entertained individually and/or as teams. Additionally, multiple games, of the same sport or different sports, can be played with this single method and apparatus. The method or apparatus may be utilized in conjunction with communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Randall Keith Young, Rita Ann Young