US 12,440,997 B2
Systems and methods for assembling patterns and cutting and applying window films and paint protection films
James Yancy Farrow, St. Louis, MO (US); Catherine Delphine Williams, St. Louis, MO (US); Aaron Leslie Reeves, Hampshire (GB); Richard Anthony Dill, Penhook, VA (US); Darrell Lynn Reed, Chesterfield, MO (US); Bill Reimer, Clayton, MO (US); Jake Herberlie, Clayton, MO (US); James VanDernoot, Clayton, MO (US); Nick Mikulec, Clayton, MO (US); Jason Butler, Clayton, MO (US); and Becky Gandillon, Clayton, MO (US)
Assigned to Eastman Performance Films, LLC, St. Louis, RI (US)
Appl. No. 17/595,940
Filed by Eastman Performance Films, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/035908
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/247486, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/856,453, filed on Jun. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0227004 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. B25J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 11/0055 (2013.01) [B25J 11/0075 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for assembling a pattern and cutting and applying a film to a vehicle, the method comprising:
receiving a vehicle identification and obtaining the pattern associated with the received vehicle identification using pattern assembly instructions stored in a memory and executed by a processor;
modifying the pattern using pattern modification instructions stored in the memory and executed by the processor;
transmitting the pattern to a cutting machine, wherein the cutting machine is operable for cutting the film according to the pattern; and
transmitting installation instructions associated with the pattern to a mobile device that is adapted to be utilized by an installer/user and display the installation instructions proximate the vehicle,
wherein, when executed by the processor, the pattern assembly instructions are operable for correlating common pattern parts between vehicles predetermined to be in a common vehicle family, and
wherein the pattern assembly instructions are operable for incorporating into the pattern a prior installer/user edit to an associated and mapped pattern.