Patents Assigned to NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
  • Patent number: 10085632
    Abstract: A mobile workstation system includes a transport vehicle, a mobile workstation, and a deployment system. The transport vehicle includes a cargo volume. The mobile workstation includes: a wheeled carrier; a cabinet supported by the carrier, the cabinet defining at least one enclosed compartment and having selectively openable closures to provide access to the at least one compartment; and a plurality of operational components disposed in the at least one compartment. The mobile workstation is positionable in each of: a storage configuration wherein the operational components are contained in the at least one compartment with the closures in a closed position; and an operational configuration wherein the closures are open to provide access to the operational components and the cabinet forms a desk including a work surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    Inventors: Randy Dishong, Timothy Mark McLawhorn
  • Patent number: 10026221
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to an automation process method to generate a set of wetland predictive variables using Light Detection and Ranging (“LiDAR”) data within a geographic information system (“GIS”) software platform, according to some embodiments, and to model and predict wetland in ArcGIS platform using the generated variable set. The automatic process also can run analysis on and display of the predicted wetland. The process is built by developing modules and connection in GIS. The above mentioned processes are automatically run and may just be run by one-button press, or on click, or separate buttons press, or separate clicks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    Inventors: Sheng-Guo Wang, Libin Bai, Jing Deng, Meijuan Jia, Morgan Weatherford, LeiLani Paugh, Wenwu Tang, Mingzhi Chen, Shen-En Chen