Patents by Inventor Theodore Nelson

Theodore Nelson 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: 20260105510
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for substituing items for an order fulfillment system. A method can include receiving, by a server system, order information from computing device for picking up an order at a fulfillment location indicating multiple items. The method further includes receiving, by the computing device, substitution option information from the server system for at least a subset of the multiple items of the order. The substitution option information indicates one or more substitution options for each of the subset of the multiple items. The method further includes receiving, by the server system, a second communication from the computing device indicating a selection of a substitution option for at least one item of the subset of the multiple items, and changing a display of the computing device to display a confirmation option selection based on receiving the substitution confirmation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Cody Mehlhorn, Jathin Jayan, Theodore Nelson, Brian Andrade
  • Publication number: 20260038031
    Abstract: A network based order fulfillment systems having an improved user interface at both a customer device and at an order fulfillment location employee device. Both customer and employee devices can collect user input using unique user interface elements to elicit input from a customer in a retail environment on proper placement of items for an order in a vehicle. The unique user interface elements can be customized based on information specific to the user's vehicle. The elicited user input can be used to update a user interface of a second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Inventors: Theodore Nelson, Slade Baumann, Jathin Jayan, Syed G.H Mohammed, Andria Rambow
  • Patent number: 12469069
    Abstract: A network based order fulfillment systems having an improved user interface at both a customer device and at an order fulfillment location employee device. Both customer and employee devices can collect user input using unique user interface elements to elicit input from a customer in a retail environment on proper placement of items for an order in a vehicle. The unique user interface elements can be customized based on information specific to the user's vehicle. The elicited user input can be used to update a user interface of a second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Nelson, Slade Baumann, Jathin Jayan, Syed G. H. Mohammed, Andria Rambow
  • Publication number: 20240062138
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for managing and delivering orders having special items to customers at an order fulfillment location. A method can include receiving, at a user device in a group of user devices, information that causes the user device to display a first graphical user interface (GUI) including a list of orders for customers for fulfillment at a fulfillment location, presenting, at the user device and for each order in the list, an amount of time that the order has been scanned out of a hold location and awaiting customer arrival, receiving, at the user device, instructions to update the first GUI based on a determination, for each order in the list, that the amount of time for the order exceeds a first threshold amount of time, and presenting, at the user device and based on the instructions, the order in the list in a first indicia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Theodore Nelson, Slade Baumann, Jathin Jayan, Syed G. H. Mohammed, Andria Rambow
  • Publication number: 20230298087
    Abstract: A network based order fulfillment systems having an improved user interface at both a customer device and at an order fulfillment location employee device. Both customer and employee devices can collect user input using unique user interface elements to elicit input from a customer in a retail environment on proper placement of items for an order in a vehicle. The unique user interface elements can be customized based on information specific to the user's vehicle. The elicited user input can be used to update a user interface of a second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Theodore Nelson, Slade Baumann, Jathin Jayan, Syed G. H. Mohammed, Andria Rambow
  • Publication number: 20060278781
    Abstract: A mount for mounting a medical device to a support member. The mount includes a body member having a face to which a medical device can be attached, having a support member receiving first slot, and having a support member receiving second slot; and a fastener for fastening the body member to a support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Mar-Lin Medical, LLC.
    Inventors: Ronald Homra, Theodore Nelson, Ernest Wilson