Patents by Inventor Bertram Jeroen Broekhuijsen

Bertram Jeroen Broekhuijsen 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).

  • Measurement agent, a tag, a method for measuring, a method for serving measuring and a computer program product
    Patent number: 9261591
    Abstract: A measurement agent for measuring a distance from the agent to a tag may include a transmitter and receiver for transmitting and receiving radio wave signals. The agent is arranged for changing the agent transmitter from a particular state wherein the agent transmitter transmits a particular radio wave interrogation signal towards a further state determined by the agent wherein the agent transmitter transmits a further radio wave interrogation signal when a signal behavior of a received radio wave response signal changes. Further, the measurement agent includes a counter for determining a time period between transmittance of a first radio wave interrogation signal and receipt of a radio wave response signal having a predetermined signal behavior. The agent also includes a processor for computing a distance between the agent and the tag, based on the determined time period and a multiple number of radio wave interrogation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Peter Johan Kunst, Bertram Jeroen Broekhuijsen, Kristian Alexander Helmholt
  • MEASUREMENT AGENT, A TAG, A METHOD FOR MEASURING, A METHOD FOR SERVING MEASURING AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20120146836
    Abstract: A measurement agent for measuring a distance from the agent to a tag may include a transmitter and receiver for transmitting and receiving radio wave signals. The agent is arranged for changing the agent transmitter from a particular state wherein the agent transmitter transmits a particular radio wave interrogation signal towards a further state determined by the agent wherein the agent transmitter transmits a further radio wave interrogation signal when a signal behaviour of a received radio wave response signal changes. Further, the measurement agent includes a counter for determining a time period between transmittance of a first radio wave interrogation signal and receipt of a radio wave response signal having a predetermined signal behaviour. The agent also includes a processor for computing a distance between the agent and the tag, based on the determined time period and a multiple number of radio wave interrogation signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast- natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Peter Johan Kunst, Bertram Jeroen Broekhuijsen, Kristian Alexander Helmholt