Patents by Inventor Robert Lorentz

Robert Lorentz 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).

  • Methods of monitoring items or material from manufacturing processes
    Publication number: 20070057789
    Abstract: Methods of monitoring items and/or materials from a manufacturing process. One embodiment of the invention provides a method of monitoring items and/or materials from a manufacturing process using a plurality of RFID tagged containers, and a plurality of stations associated with different portions of the manufacturing process, where each station includes an RFID reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Hamerly, Barry Kostyk, Robert Lorentz, Robert Sainati
  • Item monitoring system and methods using an item monitoring system
    Publication number: 20060071774
    Abstract: An item monitoring system and method of using an item monitoring system. The present invention relates more particularly to an item monitoring system including a sensor, that senses a plurality of items in a first amount of space associated with the sensor and that senses both items containing metal and items containing no metal, a communications network, and a computer that receives information from the sensor through the communications network. The present invention also relates more particularly to a method of monitoring items to determine the number of items within a first amount of space associated with the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Katherine Brown, Catherine Behun, Kaileen Chen, David Erickson, Ronald Jesme, Orlin Knudson, Robert Lorentz, James McGee, Robert Sainati, Lucien Solefack, Justin Tungjunyatham, Christopher Yungers, Michael Hamerly, Scott Pearson
  • Item monitoring system and methods of using an item monitoring system
    Publication number: 20050190072
    Abstract: An item monitoring system and method of using an item monitoring system. The present invention relates more particularly to an item monitoring system including a sensor, that senses a plurality of items in a first amount of space associated with the sensor and that senses both items containing metal and items containing no metal, a communications network, and a computer that receives information from the sensor through the communications network. The present invention also relates more particularly to a method of monitoring items to determine the number of items within a first amount of space associated with the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Katherine Brown, Catherine Behun, Kaileen Chen, David Erickson, Ronald Jesme, Orlin Knudson, Robert Lorentz, James McGee, Robert Sainati, Lucien Solefack, Justin Tungjunyatham, Christopher Yungers