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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155772 | Method and system for integrating a restriction object with a material object A method and system for integrating a restriction object with a material object is provided. A reference is generated between a material object and a restriction object. A restriction note is received from a supplier having a material restriction for a material in t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8086337 | Computerized system and method for generating a delivery bill of materials A computerized system and method for generating a delivery bill of materials (BOM) for use at a production facility. Input includes parts data identifying the parts used in the production process, delivery/process location data identifying areas on the production li... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8065654 | Computer aided design system for narrowing a list of candidate circuits based on a circuit search-range narrowing condition A computer aided design system is provided that includes a display, an input unit for inputting a circuit search-range narrowing condition, and a processing unit for, when a circuit topology of a circuit to be designed is changed, finding recommended circuits by sea... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8024059 | Method and system for determining a demand on a product variant using bill of material Disclosed is a method and system for receiving a product parts list containing parts for creating a product variant of a product and updating a bill of material with the parts and a selection condition to identify a part of the product variant. The method includes d... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014886 | Method and system for generating an assembly configuration A bill of material and a design layout are aligned to generate a configuration for a virtual vehicle. The bill of material includes a part number and usage associated with a part. The design layout includes a CAD model of the part. CAD models in vehicle position are... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7835813 | System and method for managing a product manufacturing process A method for managing a product manufacturing process is disclosed. The method includes the steps of downloading a bill of materials of the product from a first database according to a serial number and an edition of the product; downloading a production order from ... | 11/16/2010 |
| RE41476 | Multi-tiered structure for storing and displaying product and process variants A computer based system is provided that is capable of displaying component and process structures for configurable product classes stored in a data structure. Product classes in the data structure are represented by product nodes. Components, which are abstractions... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7606628 | Design and manufacturing management system, method, and program A drawing edit management unit of a design management server manages an E-BOM created from a CAD design drawing by storing the E-BOM in a E-BOM database, and notifies a manufacturing management server of design completion. A design change display processing unit cau... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7499766 | Associated systems and methods for improving planning, scheduling, and supply chain management The invention relates to systems and methods for improving planning, scheduling, and supply chain management. Embodiments of the invention can provide some or all of the following: improved systems and methods for determining an optimal lot size, improved systems an... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7471990 | Design and manufacture aiding apparatus and method The design/manufacture support system has a self company/correspondent parts number correspondence storing unit for storing the correspondence between parts numbers of self company and correspondent parts, a self company parts bill storage unit for storing a structu... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7444295 | Single level bill of material available to promise A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool wherein tool users work within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries establ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437688 | Element routing method and apparatus A method is provided for designing a system including an element, wherein the element connects a plurality of components. First, a system design including the plurality of components is established. A diagram associated with the system design is generated, the wirin... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7409254 | Data management system and trace system A design data management program directs a computer to perform a procedure of converting design data generated at a designing side to a data format applicable to a production side and transmitting the data to the production side, and a procedure of converting the da... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406358 | Kanban control cycle system Modeling a process chain includes mapping processes in the process chain to control cycles, defining states for the control cycles, and defining couplings between states in different control cycles such that a state change in one control cycle causes a state change ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398164 | Sensor network system, base station, and method to forward measured data The object of the invention is to facilitate the entry of a sensor node and the adoption of a protocol in the existing sensor network system effectively utilizing limited resources of radiocommunication. To achieve the object, the following are provided. A sensor no... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398130 | Ordering/order receiving system An MRP explosion portion calculates the amount of common and optional parts necessary for producing a forecasted sales amount of products. An amount correlated with actual results of received product orders is added to the amount of optional parts. The delivery amou... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7383526 | Cost-optimization method A method of controlling an optimal cost is proposed, which can be applied to a circuitry designing process for making electronic products, allowing a user in drawing a circuitry to choose elements of identical specification with different unit prices, thereby achiev... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369911 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing movement of work-in-process materials in an automated manufacturing environment Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing movement of work-in-process materials between processing units in an automated manufacturing environment are provided. A system includes a host system in communication with a work-in-process (WIP) material... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370009 | Extreme capacity management in an electronic marketplace environment A system (10) for managing a capacity extreme at a first entity (12) in a supply chain includes a planning application (36) that receives status data for at least the first entity (12) reflecting the capacity extreme at the first entity (... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7343212 | Item substitution in the manufacture of products A method for item substitution in a manufacturing process includes receiving an order for manufacture of a product and generating a first electronic bill of material for the product. The first electronic bill of material identifies multiple primary components to be ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333866 | Computer implemented management domain and method A computer implemented management domain for controlling the production of low volume advanced technology articles of manufacture is provided. The management domain includes an information library, an integrated manufacturing intelligence, and an interrogation netwo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321804 | Method for process-driven bill of material The present invention is directed to systems and methods for compiling production and planning information. In one embodiment, a system for planning the production of a product includes at least one database configured to store engineering information related to the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319911 | Production control apparatus and production control method Embodiments of the invention provide a production control apparatus and a method capable of reducing the management load and providing improved convenience. In one embodiment, a control unit assigns an identifier to each unit variation (or each candidate) for each u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308416 | Single level bill of material available to promise A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool wherein tool users work within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries establ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302443 | Parts list system which generates and manages a parts list simply and effectively A parts list system includes a CAD section and a parts list section. The CAD section generates a CAD figure of a part included in an apparatus based on design reference data, and extracts a part number of the part, configuration part numbers of configuration parts o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295896 | Automated part procurement and service dispatch A method for repairing an HVAC system is disclosed. The method includes monitoring a plurality of sensors positioned throughout the HVAC system and receiving data associated therewith, determining whether the data received from the plurality of sensors is within cor... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7280882 | Systems and methods for forecasting demand for a subcomponent Techniques for determining how to translate forecast sales data of at least one configuration of assembled product into a forecast schedule of subcomponents composing the assembled product is described. To this end, forecast sales data of at least one configuration ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280881 | Method and system for reducing lead-time in the packaging industry A system for integrating a packaging supply chain from a point that a digital contract proof is available through delivery of finished packaging materials to an end user, wherein said system comprises a computer system accessible for interactive communications with ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272575 | Method and system for facilitating service transactions A computer-implemented method and system for facilitating service transactions, both on-line and off-line, for transacting services driven by purchasers or by service providers. In particular, the invention makes services freely tradable as goods via standardizing m... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266518 | Spare parts inventory management A method for managing spare parts and tools for a manufacturing enterprise is disclosed. Historical demand values are statistically analyzed to determine optimal stocking levels for spare parts based upon required availability percentages, parts lead times, and the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251569 | Method and apparatus for determining material breakdown and product compliance Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing a product are disclosed. The product includes parts supplied by suppliers. Each part includes materials, each material includes substances, and each substance has a respective substance amount. A database... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248937 | Demand breakout for a supply chain A system (100) for demand breakout for a supply chain includes a memory (112) operable to store a plurality of orders (118) for at least one product. Each product may be produced using at least one precursor. The memory (112) is also oper... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243311 | Method and apparatus for supporting development of integrated circuit and a transactional business method involving contracting and licensing A technology for promoting distribution of IPs which constitute part of an integrated circuit is provided. An LSI maker concludes a contract for business alliance with an IP provider, acquires data on IPs from the IP provider, conducts layout, wiring, and verificati... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239995 | Multi-stage production A method includes simulating a token through a production process, the production process having a plurality of stages, determining whether the token may proceed from a first stage to a second stage in the production process, detecting event information as the token... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236844 | Web accessible real time system and software for agile and lean manufacturing The present invention is directed to Lean and Agile methods and their applications to manufacturing operations on production floors. A web assessable, modular, user modifiable, and graphically-enriched system and software is disclosed in this document. It provides r... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228192 | Method for manufacturing an item According to a first aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for manufacturing an item. The method comprises the steps of creating a build schedule; creating a first portion of the item for manufacture; causing the first portion of the item to pass in ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225038 | Method and system for checking consistency and completeness of selection conditions in a product configuration system Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for evaluating selection conditions associated with variants of components of a multi-component configurable product for consistency and completeness. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225040 | Method and system for reducing lead-time in the packaging industry A system for integrating a packaging supply chain from a point that a digital contract proof is available through delivery of finished packaging materials to an end user, wherein said system comprises a computer system accessible for interactive communications with ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216086 | Method and apparatus providing a supply chain management system useful in outsourced manufacturing A method is disclosed for automatically identifying and resolving one or more discrepancies in an outsourced manufacturing supply chain in which a plurality of supply chain partners participate. According to this aspect, information representing one or more supply c... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210103 | Printed book publishing system and management method for printed book publishing Printed book publishing system and method, for loading down data on a network according to a request from a terminal and for outputting the loaded data for publishing the printed book, comprising a management server which performs making a data server storing book c... | 04/24/2007 |
