Mark T Neebe, 62116 Oak Dr, Baltimore, MD 21228

7072937, Jul 4, 2006

Mar 19, 2002

10/099947

Mark T. Neebe - Catonsville MD, US
Bruce G. Chestnutt - Sykesville MD, US
Randall K. Neilson - Crownsville MD, US
Ann C. Schofield - Ellicott City MD, US
Cathryne I. Tondreau - Crofton MD, US

Northrop Grumman Corporation - Los Angeles CA

G06F 15/16

709203, 709202, 709221, 709222, 700241, 700242

A web-based common use terminal, e. g. a kiosk of an item delivery and retrieval system utilizing a web connection with one or more web servers for respective delivery service providers with any desired number of applications being separately run, depending upon the needs of a user. In a preferred embodiment, four discrete application including package pick-up, package exchange, buying postage, and club type delivery and pick-up of discrete items, are hosted while using the same system hardware.

7133743, Nov 7, 2006

Apr 8, 2004

10/819990

David J. Tilles - Woodstock MD, US
David J. Janos - Ellicott City MD, US
Mark T. Neebe - Catonsville MD, US
Bruce G. Chestnutt - Sykesville MD, US
Ann C. Schofield - Ellicott City MD, US
Randall K. Neilson - Crownsville MD, US

Northrop Grumman Corporation - Los Angeles CA

G07F 17/00

700242, 700237, 340569

An item delivery and retrieval system including a storage subsystem and a computer subsystem. The storage subsystem includes a secure enclosure having an item storage carousel including internal controller apparatus. The computer subsystem is embodied in internet web page based customized application software for implementing an application interface of selectively configurable ActiveX controls for providing user access, such as an employee of a delivery service company and/or a customer of the delivery service company and customer access to one or more storage bins located behind a set of normally closed doors, for providing access control to the bins, and for managing the location of the items in the storage subsystem. The doors are opened when proper identification is provided by the customer so as to permit retrieval of items located in specifically designated bin(s) or to return items thereto.

7195236, Mar 27, 2007

Aug 27, 2003

10/649337

Mark T. Neebe - Catonsville MD, US

Northrop Grumman Corporation - Los Angeles CA

B65H 5/00

271 2, 271149, 414403

In some embodiments, a system for automated loading of a side-by-side stack of thin objects to a feeder is provided. The system can include, e. g. : a) a transporter having a transport surface upon which a side-by-side stack of thin objects can be conveyed; b) a carrier, configured to carry a side-by-side stack of thin objects, over the transport surface; c) a pusher over the transport surface; d) the pusher and the carrier being movable relative to one another between a first position in which the pusher is inside the carrier behind a side-by-side stack of thin objects on the carrier and a second position in which the pusher is laterally displaced from the carrier, such that the side-by-side stack of thin objects on the carrier is laterally slid off of the carrier by the pusher.

7553119, Jun 30, 2009

Feb 23, 2007

11/678344

Matthew Gene Good - Marriotsville MD, US
Robert Lee Schlender - Baltimore MD, US
Thomas Anthony Hillerich - Louisville KY, US
Jacob L. Timm - Columbia MD, US
Charles Michael Miller - Seven Valleys PA, US
Mark Thomas Neebe - Catonsville MD, US

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Los Angeles CA

B65G 1/00
B65B 69/00
B65G 65/04
B65H 5/00

41433108, 271 2, 414404, 414405

An automated flats handling system is provided that includes mail shuttles, a tray unloading section, a quality control area, a shuttle tilter, a shuttle return section and a stacker/loader. The tray unloading section has a conveyor and unloads mail from a standard tray into one of the shuttles. The quality control area also has a conveyor and facilitates grooming the mail in the shuttle. The shuttle tilter tilts each shuttle prior to unloading the mail from the shuttle. The shuttle return section also has a conveyor and returns the shuttles to the tray unloading section. The stacker/loader cooperates with the shuttle tilter and unloads the mail from the shuttles, creates a mail stack from the unloaded mail, and loads a portion of the mail stack into an automation compatible tray.

7726460, Jun 1, 2010

Feb 23, 2007

11/709830

Mark Thomas Neebe - Catonsville MD, US
Thomas Anthony Hillerich - Columbia MD, US
Randall Keith Neilson - Crownsville MD, US
Robert Lee Schlender - Baltimore MD, US
Matthew Gene Good - Marriotsville MD, US
Jacob L. Timm - Ellicott City MD, US

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Los Angeles CA

B65G 37/00

1983461, 1983462, 4147959, 4147965

The present invention relates to a tray transfer system (TTS). This system is designed to automatically transfer trays of mail between dollies and conveyor belts. The TTS is an efficient method for shipping, moving, storing, loading, and unloading mail trays. It allows mail-processing centers to physically and temporally separate the process of sorting mail and the process of moving mail into automation compatible trays (ACT).

8142133, Mar 27, 2012

Feb 27, 2009

12/394599

Mark Neebe - Catonsville MD, US
Matthew Good - Marriotsville MD, US
Charles Miller - Seven Valleys PA, US

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. - Los Angeles CA

B65G 59/00
B65G 59/06

414796, 271 2, 4147979, 414404

A method and system for converting mail between trays in a multiple pass mail sorting system using a plurality of different tray types. Mail from a first type of tray is unloaded and stacked along with mail from other trays to form a large stack. The large stack of mail is then broken down into smaller stacks which are transferred to one of several outputs where the mail is loaded into different types of trays.

8284060, Oct 9, 2012

Oct 7, 2009

12/575104

Mark T. Neebe - Catonsville MD, US
Paul J. Speese - Doylestown PA, US
Randall Keith Neilson - Crownsville MD, US

Norththrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Falls Church VA

G08B 13/14

3405721, 700225

A system for managing a plurality of carriers in a mail sorting facility includes a server configured to create, implement and/or execute a sort plan, a plurality of terminals disposed on the plurality of carriers and each configured to send a wireless beacon signal and at least one gateway in communication with the server and configured to receive the wireless beacon signals from the terminals. The terminals preferably each include an alert mechanism. Preferably, the server is further configured to determine the location of a terminal based on the beacon signal transmitted by the terminals to the servers via the at least one gateway and configured to compare the location of each terminal to the location required by the sort plan and to activate the alert mechanism in any terminal determined to be in an incorrect location.

8642911, Feb 4, 2014

Oct 21, 2010

12/909257

Mark T. Neebe - Catonsville MD, US
Matthew G. Good - Marriotsville MD, US

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Falls Church VA

G06K 9/00

209584, 209583, 209606, 209900

A route enhanced mail sorting and dispatch system and method sorts mail based on carrier route and then arranges the mail into delivery point order in a single pass that accommodates both letter and flat format mail. Mail sorting based on carrier routes and arrangement into delivery point order is achieved through a plurality of route enhanced dispatch modules. Each dispatch module has upper and lower helical mail conveyors. The lower helical mail conveyor is linearly translatable and can moved to a plurality of positions. Mail sorted based on carrier route is held in the upper helical mail conveyor before being placed or dropped into an allocated position in the lower helical mail conveyor by a put away shuttle. The lower helical mail conveyor can then be rotated to dispatch the mail in delivery point order.