Patents by Inventor William T. Lawson
William T. Lawson 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).
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Patent number: 8984850Abstract: A harvesting system and method providing a row insensitive plant cutting and gathering capability, suitable for harvesting tall, stalky plants such as sweet sorghum, cane, and the like, in high volume, which also billet cuts the harvested plants. Multiple plants are cut simultaneously on a continuous basis at any locations across a header of the system, and the cut plants are gathered into a continuous overlapping flow having a vertical extent or thickness of several stalks or canes and their associated foliage. The flow is then vertically compacted into a mat of reduced thickness while being conveyed into a billet cutter, which cuts the stalks or canes into billets of a desired length and discharges the billets to a desired location, all while the harvester is moving through a field harvesting. The system can be incorporated into a conventional sugarcane harvester in place of conventional base cutters and row dividers.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: William T. Lawson, Malcolm J. Baker, Randall J. Clark
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Patent number: 8869029Abstract: Ergonomic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying medical record information obtained from various sources within handheld devices are provided. A GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions. A list of patient names is displayed within the first portion of the GUI, along with medical facility location information, means for indicating when new clinical data for a patient is available, means for removing patient names from the displayed list, and means for sorting the displayed list of patient names. A plurality of ergonomically designed GUI controls are displayed within the second portion of the GUI. Each of these GUI controls has a width that is between about 15% and 75% of a width of the display, and a height that is between about 15% and 75% of a height of the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Truven Health Analytics Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Mark Farnsworth, Jeffrey Keating
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Publication number: 20140174048Abstract: A harvesting system and method providing a row insensitive plant cutting and gathering capability, suitable for harvesting tall, stalky plants such as sweet sorghum, cane, and the like, in high volume, which also billet cuts the harvested plants. Multiple plants are cut simultaneously on a continuous basis at any locations across a header of the system, and the cut plants are gathered into a continuous overlapping flow having a vertical extent or thickness of several stalks or canes and their associated foliage. The flow is then vertically compacted into a mat of reduced thickness while being conveyed into a billet cutter, which cuts the stalks or canes into billets of a desired length and discharges the billets to a desired location, all while the harvester is moving through a field harvesting. The system can be incorporated into a conventional sugarcane harvester in place of conventional base cutters and row dividers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: CNH AMERICA LLCInventors: William T. Lawson, Malcolm J. Baker, Randall J. Clark
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Publication number: 20140074508Abstract: A system for providing medical providers with medical records accessible from a mobile terminal in one embodiment comprises reformatting the information in a medical record database to be used with large, ergonomic icons allowing easy transitions between pages of information in the medical record. Docking stations or wireless networks may enable the mobile terminal to access the medical records. Thus, the medical provider may have bedside access to the information in the medical records to make informed decisions about treatment regimens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Truven Health Analytics Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Matthew Cross, Travis Teague
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Patent number: 8548825Abstract: A system for providing medical providers with medical records accessible from a mobile terminal in one embodiment comprises reformatting the information in a medical record database to be used with large, ergonomic icons allowing easy transitions between pages of information in the medical record. Docking stations or wireless networks may enable the mobile terminal to access the medical records. Thus, the medical provider may have bedside access to the information in the medical records to make informed decisions about treatment regimens.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Truven Health Analytics Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Matthew Cross, Travis Teague
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Publication number: 20120296661Abstract: Systems and methods for managing health care billing and payment are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes defining a health care billing and payment plan for one or more employees and a health care provider. The employees may be employed by the same corporation. The method also includes providing identification cards to the employees. Further, the method includes using one of the cards to transact with the health care provider for health care service provided to one of the employees. The method also includes conducting a payment transaction between the corporation and the health care provider such that the corporation pays for the health care service in accordance with the health care billing and payment plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: INNOVADOC LLCInventors: William T. Lawson, JR., Chris Shoffner, Joseph M. Jenkins
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Publication number: 20110112865Abstract: A system for providing medical providers with medical records accessible from a mobile terminal in one embodiment comprises reformatting the information in a medical record database to be used with large, ergonomic icons allowing easy transitions between pages of information in the medical record. Docking stations or wireless networks may enable the mobile terminal to access the medical records. Thus, the medical provider may have bedside access to the information in the medical records to make informed decisions about treatment regimens.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: Thomson Reuters Healthcare Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Matthew Cross, Travis Teague
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Patent number: 7831449Abstract: A system for providing medical providers with medical records accessible from a mobile terminal in one embodiment comprises reformatting the information in a medical record database to be used with large, ergonomic icons allowing easy transitions between pages of information in the medical record. Docking stations or wireless networks may enable the mobile terminal to access the medical records. Thus, the medical provider may have bedside access to the information in the medical records to make informed decisions about treatment regimens.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2001Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Thompson Reuters (Healthcare) Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Matthew Cross, Travis Teague
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Publication number: 20080263477Abstract: Ergonomic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying medical record information obtained from various sources within handheld devices are provided. A GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions. A list of patient names is displayed within the first portion of the GUI, along with medical facility location information, means for indicating when new clinical data for a patient is available, means for removing patient names from the displayed list, and means for sorting the displayed list of patient names. A plurality of ergonomically designed GUI controls are displayed within the second portion of the GUI. Each of these GUI controls has a width that is between about 15% and 75% of a width of the display, and a height that is between about 15% and 75% of a height of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Mark Farnsworth, Jeffrey Keating
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Patent number: 7343565Abstract: Ergonomic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying medical record information obtained from various sources within handheld devices are provided. A GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions. A list of patient names is displayed within the first portion of the GUI, along with medical facility location information, means for indicating when new clinical data for a patient is available, means for removing patient names from the displayed list, and means for sorting the displayed list of patient names. A plurality of ergonomically designed GUI controls are displayed within the second portion of the GUI. At least some of the displayed information is responsive to user touching for displaying additional patient information.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: MercuryMD, Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Mark Farnsworth, Jeffrey Keating
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Patent number: 6895445Abstract: Docking stations for transferring data between handheld electronic devices and various data input/output devices are provided. A docking station includes a housing, an infrared (IR) signal emitter disposed within the housing, and one or more cradles formed within the housing. Each cradle is configured to removably receive a handheld electronic device therein and includes a floor and a first peripheral wall extending outwardly from the floor in a direction transverse to the floor. The first peripheral wall is permeable to IR signals. A second peripheral wall surrounds the first peripheral wall in adjacent, spaced-apart relationship such that the first and second peripheral walls define a peripheral area. The second peripheral wall comprises an IR-reflective inner surface. A cylindrical lens is positioned within the peripheral area and is configured to receive IR signals from an IR emitter and scatter the IR signals throughout the peripheral area.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: MercuryMD, Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Stanley S. Coe
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Publication number: 20030225939Abstract: Docking stations for transferring data between handheld electronic devices and various data input/output devices are provided. A docking station includes a housing, an infrared (IR) signal emitter disposed within the housing, and one or more cradles formed within the housing. Each cradle is configured to removably receive a handheld electronic device therein and includes a floor and a first peripheral wall extending outwardly from the floor in a direction transverse to the floor. The first peripheral wall is permeable to IR signals. A second peripheral wall surrounds the first peripheral wall in adjacent, spaced-apart relationship such that the first and second peripheral walls define a peripheral area. The second peripheral wall comprises an IR-reflective inner surface. A cylindrical lens is positioned within the peripheral area and is configured to receive IR signals from an IR emitter and scatter the IR signals throughout the peripheral area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2002Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Stanley S. Coe
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Publication number: 20030179223Abstract: Ergonomic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying medical record information obtained from various sources within handheld devices are provided. A GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions. A list of patient names is displayed within the first portion of the GUI, along with medical facility location information, means for indicating when new clinical data for a patient is available, means for removing patient names from the displayed list, and means for sorting the displayed list of patient names. A plurality of ergonomically designed GUI controls are displayed within the second portion of the GUI. Each of these GUI controls has a width that is between about 15% and 75% of a width of the display, and a height that is between about 15% and 75% of a height of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Mark Farnsworth, Jeffrey Keating
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Patent number: D454880Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2001Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Mercury MD, Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, David Scott DeVerter, H. Kurt Menke, Joseph Edward Jasinski, Kevin Owen Roughton, Sherry Sue Eckholm, Melanie Lyn Andres
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Patent number: D476659Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: MercuryMD, Inc.Inventors: Alan J. Ying, William T. Lawson, Stanley S. Coe