Patents by Inventor Steven J. Clark

Steven J. Clark 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: 10885577
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to manage a retail space. In some embodiments, cubic product representations within the retail location are provided herein which represent the actual space and location of products within the store. Data for the retail space, such as blueprint, floorplan, and item modular data, can be merged and transformed into a central database to create the cubic product representations. Further, the cubic product representations within the retail location can be provided to users through a user interface, such as a web viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jon Parker, Steven J. Clark, Ian Townsend, Jyoti Prakash Malik, Kehinde S. Onadipe, John Wynn Plummer
  • Publication number: 20170364994
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to manage a retail space. In some embodiments, cubic product representations within the retail location are provided herein which represent the actual space and location of products within the store. Data for the retail space, such as blueprint, floorplan, and item modular data, can be merged and transformed into a central database to create the cubic product representations. Further, the cubic product representations within the retail location can be provided to users through a user interface, such as a web viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Jon Parker, Steven J. Clark, Ian Townsend, Jyoti Prakash Malik, Kehinde S. Onadipe, John Wynn Plummer
  • Patent number: 5953229
    Abstract: A computerized task scheduler for negotiating and scheduling resources with respect to various manufacturing tasks via computerized agent technology. A manufacturing-related customer asks a computerized uniform process broker for a bid on a manufacturing task by specifying the task and the time when it is to be completed. The computerized uniform process broker finds a computerized resource broker which will perform the assignment at the lowest cost within the requested time frame. The computerized resource brokers use the requested time frame and their respective current available resources to determine a working window in which they can perform the task and at what cost. The determination of resources by the computerized resource brokers includes calculating their respective percentage of total commitment based upon the interrelationship between the working window and the time it actually takes to complete the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
    Inventors: Steven J. Clark, H. Van Dyke Parunak
  • Patent number: 5292074
    Abstract: A rigid primary conduit directs fluid into an arcuate manifold. The arcuate manifold includes a concave surface having a plurality of spray nozzles directed into the manifold in fluid communication with the primary conduit to direct individual spray applications about the surface of an associated pool filter to enhance cleaning thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Inventors: Steven J. Clark, Evelyn J. Clark
  • Patent number: 5183102
    Abstract: A system for heating and cooling a building is disclosed. A watercooler and a cold-water pump continuously circulates cold water through a fire sprinkler piping system. A waterheater and a hot-water pump circulates hot water through a domestic hot-water piping system. A plurality of fan-coil assemblies located throughout the building may access either the cold water flowing in the fire sprinkler piping system or the hot-water in the domestic hot-water piping system. The fan-coil assemblies include a fan and a coil. Depending upon whether hot water or cold water is flowing through the coil, air circulated by said fan may be heated or cooled for climate control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: The Montana Power Company
    Inventor: Steven J. Clark
  • Patent number: 4870789
    Abstract: A Manufactured Building Adjustable Leveling and Support Device is a fabricated metallic structure attached by means to a non-metallic base or footing characterized by wood, composite plastic materials, concrete or mortar, which devise, when used individually or in conjunction with other identical devices or unrelated devices or structures, provides an adjustable means of leveling and supporting the mainframe chassis of any manufactured building whose mainframe consists of one or more mainframe beams characterized by metallic "I" beams, "C" channel or other such structural shapes running the length or width of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Inventors: Steven J. Clark, William C. Fields
  • Patent number: 4291234
    Abstract: Apparatus for generating electricity including a chamber with a top opening, anchoring mechanism for positioning the chamber in a body of water with wave movement, mechanism for generating an electrical current disposed within the chamber, and mechanism for transferring the electrical current from the chamber; the chamber including first and second sidewall sections spaced from each other over at least a portion of their surfaces, endwall sections connecting the sidewall sections, the sidewall sections and the endwall sections being connected to each other to form a substantially liquid tight chamber, the anchoring mechanism including mechanism for maintaining the first of the sidewall sections remote from the waves and fixed against movement from the action of the waves, the anchoring mechanism including mechanism for anchoring the second of the sidewall sections in the path of the waves while permitting the second sidewall section to be moved by the action of the waves, the generating mechanism including co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Inventor: Steven J. Clark