Patents by Inventor Robert H. Benson

Robert H. Benson 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).

  • Pull sheet for unloading loads from a container
    Patent number: 6663335
    Abstract: Apparatus for unloading a load from a container having a floor, includes a floor sheet placed on the floor of the container, the floor sheet having a top surface with a coefficient of static friction less than about 0.3. A pull sheet placed on the top surface of the floor sheet, the pull sheet having a bottom surface with a coefficient of static friction less than about 0.5. The pull sheet has a tensile strength sufficient to enable the pull sheet to be pulled from the container while maintaining the load on the top surface of the pull sheet to unload the load from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Benson, John A. Gentle, Robert J. Jeffries
  • Method, system and computer program product for internet-enabled, patient monitoring system
    Publication number: 20030036683
    Abstract: The present invention describes methods and apparatus useful in remotely modifying medical protocols by subgroups that are defined by specific database characteristics. In addition individual patient protocols may also be remotely modified. The method has application in medical databases containing the data collected by remote device monitoring of outpatients. These outpatients may be managed by one or more medical treatment or clinical research protocols or regimens involving pharmaceutical drugs, physiological data, educational content, and health status assessment or quality of life questionnaires. This method of mass customization of medical protocols, present in a medical database, is useful in efficiently monitoring and managing medical outpatients, through simultaneously instructing selected patient subgroups present in the database to make a change in their respective medical protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventors: Bruce A. Kehr, Robert H. Benson
  • Pull sheet for unloading loads from a container
    Publication number: 20020146307
    Abstract: Apparatus for unloading a load from a container having a floor, includes a floor sheet placed on the floor of the container, the floor sheet having a top surface with a coefficient of static friction less than about 0.3. A pull sheet placed on the top surface of the floor sheet, the pull sheet having a bottom surface with a coefficient of static friction less than about 0.5. The pull sheet has a tensile strength sufficient to enable the pull sheet to be pulled from the container while maintaining the load on the top surface of the pull sheet to unload the load from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Robert H. Benson, John A. Gentle, Robert J. Jeffries