Daniel B Laughlin

US Patent:

6526339, Feb 25, 2003

Filed:

Sep 8, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/659443

Inventors:

Stanley M. Herzog - St. Joseph MO
Ronald A. Schmitz - Clarksdale MO
Ivan Eugene Bounds - St. Joseph MO
Randy L. Poggemiller - Easton MO
Stephen L. Bedingfield - Savannah MO
Patrick R. Harris - Lenexa KS
Daniel B. Laughlin - Kansas City MO

Assignee:

Herzog Contracting Corp. - St. Joseph MO

International Classification:

G05D 100

US Classification:

701 19, 701 50, 701207, 701213, 701214, 246127, 1053111, 221 92, 222482, 222129

Abstract:

A GPS controlled multiple source material application or ballast spreading system includes tracking the position of a plurality of ballast hopper cars using GPS derived coordinates and controlling the opening of multiple ballast doors to spread ballast on desired sections of track for railroad maintenance. The process involves tracking the current hopper loads, the opened or closed state of the ballast doors, and the concurrent amount of ballast which has been spread on the desired track sections.

US Patent:

7437997, Oct 21, 2008

Filed:

Mar 20, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/051958

Inventors:

Stanley M. Herzog - St. Joseph MO, US
Ivan E. Bounds - Lake Havasu City AZ, US
Timothy M. Beers - Turney MO, US
Steve Pete - Camden Point MO, US
Ron Schmitz - Clarksdale MO, US
Stephen L. Bedingfield - Savannah MO, US
Daniel B. Laughlin - Platte City MO, US
Joseph A. Kneib - Olathe KS, US

Assignee:

Herzog Contracting Corp. - St. Joseph MO

International Classification:

E02B 29/00

US Classification:

104 6, 104 2, 104 5

Abstract:

A method of efficiently delivering replacement railway ties for use in replacing ties that have deteriorated. GPS technology is used to obtain the GPS location of each tie that needs to be replaced. A tie train carrying replacement ties has a GPS monitor so that one or more ties can be unloaded at or near the location of each tie that requires replacement. A tie replacement crew can use a GPS monitor to locate each tie that requires replacement, and the crew can remove those ties and install a nearby replacement tie.

US Patent:

20050235864, Oct 27, 2005

Filed:

Apr 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/829746

Inventors:

Stanley Herzog - St.Joseph MO, US
Ivan Bounds - Lake Havasu City AZ, US
Timothy Beers - Turney MO, US
Steve Peter - Camden Point MO, US
Ron Schmitz - Clarksdale MO, US
Stephen Bedingfield - Savannah MO, US
Daniel Laughlin - Platte City MO, US
Joseph Kneib - , US

International Classification:

E01B001/00

US Classification:

104002000

Abstract:

A method of efficiently delivering replacement railway ties for use in replacing ties that have deteriorated. GPS technology is used to obtain the GPS location of each tie that needs to be replaced. A tie train carrying replacement ties has a GPS monitor so that one or more ties can be unloaded at or near the location of each tie that requires replacement. A tie replacement crew can use a GPS monitor to locate each tie that requires replacement, and the crew can remove those ties and install a nearby replacement tie.

US Patent:

55597149, Sep 24, 1996

Filed:

May 10, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/060094

Inventors:

Thomas B. Banks - Prairie Village KS
Daniel B. Laughlin - Kansas City MO

Assignee:

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated - Kansas City MO

International Classification:

G06F 1700

US Classification:

36447903

Abstract:

A vending machine for displaying and dispensing personalized products includes apparatus for sequentially displaying personalized products of a given type in accordance with prior viewing and sales of each personalized product. The machine includes an enclosure with selection means on the outside thereof and with storage and handling means on the inside thereof, all coupled to computer equipment which is on the inside of the enclosure. The computer equipment is programmed to facilitate a customer's creation from among designs of products of a given type by ranking each of the designs and thereafter sequentially displaying the designs in accordance with its ranking.

US Patent:

20150374267, Dec 31, 2015

Filed:

Jun 26, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/751248

Inventors:

- Schaffhausen, CH
Daniel B. Laughlin - Overland Park KS, US

International Classification:

A61B 5/11
A61B 5/00
G01B 21/00

Abstract:

Embodiments are disclosed to automatically reset tracked physical performance information determined based on motion data generated using a sensor configured to measure motion of a user wearing a fitness monitoring device by calculating, utilizing the motion data, a reset time when a period of inactivity within each of a plurality of consecutive sampling periods exceeds a threshold time period. The fitness monitoring device may determine, utilizing the motion data stored over an extended period of time, an approximated midnight time and adjust the reset time to equal the approximated midnight time. The fitness monitoring device may generate motion data to track a number of steps achieved towards a goal, which may represent a threshold number of steps to be taken over a period of time. Embodiments also include utilizing other sensor data, such as light intensity data, to determine when a user is likely asleep.