Patents by Inventor Steven Vaughn

Steven Vaughn 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).

  • Publication number: 20140101079
    Abstract: A knowledge processing system that guides massive numbers of human agents and artificial agents to define, explore, and develop solutions for complex, problematic situations, that facilitates a seven-step process that proceeds from instance initiation, problem definition, problem exploration, approach selection, solution selection, to a time-sequenced action plan, and enables agents to subsequently modify process outputs and the action plan; a hybrid facilitation system in which machine and human agents jointly select the content and order of process steps and the system prompts that guide the problem-solving process; and an information-overload mitigation system which reduces the amount of information agents are required to process by means of natural language processing and graphical processing algorithms that characterize agent inputs and background materials, and identify, tag, sequester, and eliminate identical content and direct useful content to agent-defined points of application in the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventor: Steven Vaughn Deal
  • Publication number: 20100035698
    Abstract: Embodiments of swing angle retention and head movement prevention are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Kenneth T. Burns, Steven Vaughn
  • Patent number: 5468052
    Abstract: A sissy bar kit for post-manufacture installation on a motorcycle, which sissy bar kit includes a sissy bar and a support member for ready installation on a wide variety of existing motorcycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Inventor: Steven Vaughn