Patents by Inventor Byron Whitlock

Byron Whitlock 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).

  • Monitoring vehicle parking occupancy
    Patent number: 10134275
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and systems for monitoring vehicle parking occupancy are disclosed. One method includes intermittently receiving, by a wireless node, a wireless signal from a vehicle sensing device, wherein the vehicle sensing device transmits the wireless signal upon sensing a change in vehicle occupancy of an associated parking location, wherein the wireless signal includes a vehicle sensing indicator, wherein the vehicle sensing indicator indicates whether the vehicle sensing device senses vehicle occupancy of the associated parking location, measuring a signal quality of the intermittently received wireless signal over time, correlating the measured signal quality of the intermittently received wireless signal over time with the vehicle occupancy indictor, and identifying errors in the vehicle sensing indicator based on the correlating of the measured signal quality of the intermittently received wireless signal over time with the vehicle occupancy indictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PNI Sensor
    Inventors: Andrew T. Taylor, Tyler Bryant, Yuan Zou, Byron Whitlock, Joseph F. Miller
  • MONITORING VEHICLE PARKING OCCUPANCY
    Publication number: 20180301027
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and systems for monitoring vehicle parking occupancy are disclosed. One method includes intermittently receiving, by a wireless node, a wireless signal from a vehicle sensing device, wherein the vehicle sensing device transmits the wireless signal upon sensing a change in vehicle occupancy of an associated parking location, wherein the wireless signal includes a vehicle sensing indicator, wherein the vehicle sensing indicator indicates whether the vehicle sensing device senses vehicle occupancy of the associated parking location, measuring a signal quality of the intermittently received wireless signal over time, correlating the measured signal quality of the intermittently received wireless signal over time with the vehicle occupancy indictor, and identifying errors in the vehicle sensing indicator based on the correlating of the measured signal quality of the intermittently received wireless signal over time with the vehicle occupancy indictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: PNI Sensor Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Taylor, Tyler Bryant, Yuan Zou, Byron Whitlock, Joseph F. Miller