Patents by Inventor Carter Mealey

Carter Mealey 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).

  • Light shield
    Patent number: 10101005
    Abstract: A light shield that may be used to help prevent light contamination between VLC and non-VLC light sources (such as LEDs) in a light fixture. The light fixture houses a first LED segment that emits modulated light invisible to the human eye (i.e., VLC LEDs) and a second LED segment adjacent to the first LED segment and that emits un-modulated light (i.e., non-VLC LEDs). The light shield is positioned within the housing to separate the first and second LED segments so as to reduce the occurrence of the modulated light emitted by the first LED segment from mixing with the un-modulated light emitted by the second LED segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Carter Mealey
  • LIGHT FIXTURES AND/OR LIGHT FIXTURE INSTALLATIONS WITH DIFFERING VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES
    Publication number: 20180145749
    Abstract: Lighting installations having improved visible light communication capabilities. A lighting installation includes a plurality of LED segments. The plurality of LED segments comprises at least a first LED segment, a second LED segment, and a third LED segment interposed between the first LED segment and the second LED segment. The lighting installation is configured to drive the first and second LED segments so as to emit light in modulation patterns having VLC codes different from each other and to drive the third LED segment to emit un-modulated light. In this way, the third LED segment physically separates the first and second LED segments from each other and prevents intermingling of their emitted light so that a mobile device can easily detect the different VLC codes of the first and second LED segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Carter Mealey, Ashwin Michaelraj, Yenpao Lu, Vinod Kashyap
  • LIGHT SHIELD
    Publication number: 20180038573
    Abstract: A light shield that may be used to help prevent light contamination between VLC and non-VLC light sources (such as LEDs) in a light fixture. The light fixture houses a first LED segment that emits modulated light invisible to the human eye (i.e., VLC LEDs) and a second LED segment adjacent to the first LED segment and that emits un-modulated light (i.e., non-VLC LEDs). The light shield is positioned within the housing to separate the first and second LED segments so as to reduce the occurrence of the modulated light emitted by the first LED segment from mixing with the un-modulated light emitted by the second LED segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Carter Mealey