Patents by Inventor Samuel Cureton

Samuel Cureton 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).

  • System for carrying out and managing animal feedlot operations using coordinate acquisition techniques
    Patent number: 6032084
    Abstract: An animal feedlot management system is disclosed, wherein each feed delivery vehicle employed therein uses real-time virtual reality (VR) modelling and coordinate acquisition techniques supported upon an Internet-based (i.e., Cyberspace) communications platform in order to carry out various types of feedlot operations. Each feedlot vehicle has an on-board computer system which includes a VR subsystem, for accessing a VR database maintaining information representative of a VR model of the feedlot and the objects present therein (eg., tagged animals, pens, alley ways, feedbunks, buildings, vehicles, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Lextron, Inc.
    Inventors: Arlen Anderson, Michael Ackerman, Samuel Cureton, James Carish