Patents by Inventor Steven Mitchell Painter

Steven Mitchell Painter 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).

  • Systems and methods for managing railcar usage
    Patent number: 9849896
    Abstract: A system for managing the transportation of crude oil by rail includes a user terminal having a display screen and a processing system coupled to the user terminal through a communications link. The processing system is operable to generate a user interface on the display screen of the user terminal receiving input information from a user, including information indicating a loading facility for loading a selected set of railcars and an unloading facility for unloading the selected set of railcars. The processing system is further operable to forecast an arrival time for the set of cars at the loading facility and an arrival time for the set of cars at the unloading facility and display the forecasted arrival times at the loading and unloading facilities on the display screen of the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventors: Steven Mitchell Painter, Martin Andrew Schlenker, Robert Joseph Saylor, Michelle Rae Flanery, Brandon Jay Archambeau, Gregory Lee Palcich, Joshua Landon Gary, Vipin Gangadhar Kohale, Robert Wayne Lease, Caleb Mikel Peterson