Patents Represented by Attorney James M. Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP Rashid
  • Patent number: 6157894
    Abstract: Liquid gauging system for liquid in a container includes a plurality of sensors; each of the sensors measuring a respective parameter of the liquid in the container and producing a sensor output related to its measured parameter; there being at least two sensors that measure different parameters of the liquid; and a processor that receives the sensor outputs and determines, based on the sensor outputs, a quantity of the liquid in the container; the processor determining the quantity by executing at least one sensor fusion algorithm that is based on a set of relationships between the measured parameters and the quantity. The gauging system can also include a data fusion process for determining quantity based on a plurality of quantity measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Alan Hess, Mark George Walker, Radoslaw Romuald Zakrzewski, Luis Carlos Rabelo, Robert Curtis North, Scott Robert Durkee