Patents by Inventor William Howard Thomas, II

William Howard Thomas, II 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).

  • Automatically triggered video surveillance system
    Patent number: 8970703
    Abstract: A method is provided for supplying to an operator a video stream from at least one of a plurality of cameras that capture images. This includes connecting the cameras and a computer to a network and recording the images from each camera into a corresponding buffer accessible to the computer. Upon detecting a triggering event associated with an event-recording camera, further operations include responding to the triggering event by depositing the images from an event-recording buffer corresponding to said event-recording camera as the video stream into a reviewable memory, and retrieving the video stream from the reviewable memory for the operator. The operator is preferably one of a commander using a command workstation, a lethal response operator using a lethal workstation, and a non-lethal response operator using a non-lethal workstation. Also preferably, each workstation is assigned as one of a primary brain and failover brains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: William Howard Thomas, II, Vincent J. Vendetti, Robert L. Schroeder, Jr., Matthew A. Treier, Josef A. Koza, Mark DiGiovanni, Michael J. Lavery, Patrick A. Dezeeuw
  • Cooperative communication control between vehicles
    Patent number: 8874281
    Abstract: A method is provided for receiving sensor information by a plurality of motor vehicles with respect to sensor information regarding locations of objects; sharing the sensor information by the plurality of motor vehicles; displaying the shared sensor information on a user interface on each of the plurality of motor vehicles; and controlling the receiving, sharing, and displaying the sensor information with a software library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Shawn M. Kolodgie, Michael J. Lavery, Michael W. Lim, Nicholas E. McCready, Xavier Melendez, Ashley R. Noble, Ryan M. Ragsdale, Matthew Serbinski, William Howard Thomas, II, Brian Thomas McLintock
  • Cooperative communication control between vehicles
    Publication number: 20130282201
    Abstract: A method is provided for receiving sensor information by a plurality of motor vehicles with respect to sensor information regarding locations of objects; sharing the sensor information by the plurality of motor vehicles; displaying the shared sensor information on a user interface on each of the plurality of motor vehicles; and controlling the receiving, sharing, and displaying the sensor information with a software library.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Chief of Naval Research, Office of Counsel
    Inventors: Shawn M. Kolodgie, Michael J. Lavery, Michael W. Lim, Nicholas E. McCready, Xavier Melendez, Ashley R. Noble, Ryan M. Ragsdale, Matthew Serbinski, William Howard Thomas, II, Brian Thomas McLintock