Patents by Inventor Bryan Merckling

Bryan Merckling 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).

  • Publication number: 20250344036
    Abstract: A system and method for enabling a sensor attached to a moveable item to wirelessly broadcast data signals in an unrestricted area or zone while simultaneously ensuring that the sensor attached to the moveable item stops wirelessly broadcasting the data signals in a classified area or zone, where the sensor is configured to harvest ambient or other RF energy. The system and method include a barrier infrastructure for positioning in the unrestricted area or zone. The barrier infrastructure can include a first device configured to monitor the moveable item via the sensor, as it moves about in the unrestricted area or zone, and cause the sensor to deplete or dump all the ambient or other RF energy that the sensor has harvested if the moveable item is nearing or entering the classified area or zone, so that the sensor deactivates and therefore does not wirelessly broadcast data signals in the classified area or zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Taylor VEITH, Bryan MERCKLING
  • Publication number: 20140273834
    Abstract: A consumer may place a mobile device running an enabled application within a certain distance of an NFC spatial anchor and beacon that may first set the spatial anchor. The height and position of the mobile device may then be captured. An algorithm that combines accelerometer and gyro data may be used to continually track movement and angle shifts of the mobile device relative to the spatial anchor and a pre-mapped graphic, object and/or group of objects. While setting the spatial anchor, the anchor and beacon may provide metadata over NFC that may be used to generate an augmented reality experience. The mobile device may then generate a consumer experience that may augment or otherwise alter graphics or three-dimensional objects with a digital content overlay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Bryan Merckling