Patents by Inventor Karl Brooks

Karl Brooks 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).

  • Patent number: 11883957
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle chassis (6) for checking and/or counting stock (4) in a warehouse (3) and configured for attaching to an autonomous indoor vehicle (9), with an extendable mast (11) comprising a first end (12) mounted onto the chassis (6) and an opposite second end (13) arrangeable at different distances above the chassis (6), and at least one scanner (2) arranged at the second end (13) and configured for checking and/or counting stock (4) in a shelve (5) of the warehouse (3) lateral to the vehicle (1). The invention further relates to an autonomous robot vehicle (1) comprising the vehicle chassis (6) and the autonomous indoor vehicle (9), whereby the chassis (6) is mounted onto the autonomous indoor vehicle (9) such that the autonomous indoor vehicle (9) and the chassis (6) are configured for autonomously moving the vehicle (1) in the warehouse (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Deutsche Post AG
    Inventors: Kent Rogers, Karl Brooks
  • Publication number: 20210247953
    Abstract: A system and method for manipulating and transmitting live media enables a user to collect and manage media inputs, especially audio, and simultaneously broadcast the resulting combination. Software would interface with current technologies to blend the input signals of both live and prerecorded data, or any audio or video data, into one, and then simultaneously broadcast the mixture. This would, in effect, allow the user to sing or speak simultaneously with playing music or any other audio being broadcasted. A short-range wireless network (Bluetooth) compatible cell phone or smartphone can therefore be used for “Karaoke” with any connected Bluetooth media output device or devices. Professionally, presentations of voice with music or other audio or presentation data could be simultaneously broadcast to external speakers or monitors. The device would further be able to alter audio/voice inputs to alter tone, volume, and general quality using readily-available equalizer technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Daren Karl Brooks
  • Publication number: 20210221612
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle chassis (6) for checking and/or counting stock (4) in a warehouse (3) and configured for attaching to an autonomous indoor vehicle (9), with an extendable mast (11) comprising a first end (12) mounted onto the chassis (6) and an opposite second end (13) arrangeable at different distances above the chassis (6), and at least one scanner (2) arranged at the second end (13) and configured for checking and/or counting stock (4) in a shelve (5) of the warehouse (3) lateral to the vehicle (1). The invention further relates to an autonomous robot vehicle (1) comprising the vehicle chassis (6) and the autonomous indoor vehicle (9), whereby the chassis (6) is mounted onto the autonomous indoor vehicle (9) such that the autonomous indoor vehicle (9) and the chassis (6) are configured for autonomously moving the vehicle (1) in the warehouse (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kent Rogers, Karl Brooks
  • Publication number: 20200289687
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ultraviolet light sanitation device for retail checkout counter conveyor belts with a UV-C light source, a housing, and a mount. The UV-C light source is internally positioned at an apex end of the housing opposite a treatment opening of the housing, where a conveyor belt of a retail checkout counter is exposed to the UV-C light source through the treatment opening in order to sanitize the conveyor belt through germicidal irradiation by the UV-C light source. The mount connects the housing to a retail checkout counter such that the treatment opening is positioned adjacent to the conveyor belt, either adjacent to an underside of the conveyor belt within a conveyor cabinet of the retail checkout counter, or external to and atop the conveyor cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kelsey Marie Riley, Daren Karl Brooks
  • Publication number: 20190389542
    Abstract: A boat netting system has a boat net that is particularly shaped to fit a boat in order to facilitate securement of cargo or other contents on the boat during storage or transit. The boat netting system may further enhance integrity and security of an existing boat cover by being placed over the existing boat cover. A net perimeter of the boat net is coextensive with a gunwale of the boat, and a plurality of fastening elements distributed about the net perimeter may be removably attached to the gunwale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventor: Daren Karl Brooks