Patents by Inventor Charlie TERRY

Charlie TERRY 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).

  • Patent number: 12200326
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a camera apparatus. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base and a plurality of sensors. The mounting base is adapted to mount to a structure. The plurality of sensors includes an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus. The plurality of sensors also includes at least one of infrared sensors, sound sensors, and motion sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 12149832
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a camera apparatus. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base and a plurality of sensors. The mounting base is adapted to mount to a structure. The plurality of sensors includes an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 12081909
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a camera apparatus and a server. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base adapted to mount to a support beam of a cell tower. The camera apparatus also includes a plurality of sensors including an array of image sensors arranged and adapted to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view of at least a portion of the cell tower around the camera apparatus. The server includes a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to obtain a data from the camera apparatus including a plurality of images of the cell tower including equipment thereon, and display the data from the camera apparatus including the plurality of images of the cell tower including equipment thereon to a user in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 11875463
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a camera apparatus and a server. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base adapted to mount to a structure and a plurality of sensors including an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus. The server includes a network interface and a processor communicatively coupled to one another. The server also includes memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain a data from the camera apparatus including a plurality of images from the combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus, generate a model of the commercial location using the data, and display information from the model within images from the combined 360 degree view to a user while a user is viewing the images in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 10959107
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing and delivering a data package detailing work performed at a telecommunications site includes, subsequent to the work, performing data capture at the telecommunications site utilizing a plurality of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a satellite, a multiple camera apparatus, and a telescoping apparatus; processing the data capture to provide a close out audit package for the telecommunications site describing the work; uploading the close out audit package through a User Interface to a server; providing the close out audit package to one or more users via the server; and performing verification of the work via the uploaded close out audit package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Charlie Terry, Joshua Godwin
  • Publication number: 20200402318
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a camera apparatus and a server. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base adapted to mount to a structure and a plurality of sensors including an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus. The server includes a network interface and a processor communicatively coupled to one another. The server also includes memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain a data from the camera apparatus including a plurality of images from the combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus, generate a model of the commercial location using the data, and display information from the model within images from the combined 360 degree view to a user while a user is viewing the images in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Publication number: 20200404175
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a camera apparatus. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base and a plurality of sensors. The mounting base is adapted to mount to a structure. The plurality of sensors includes an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Publication number: 20200396422
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a camera apparatus and a server. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base adapted to mount to a support beam of a cell tower. The camera apparatus also includes a plurality of sensors including an array of image sensors arranged and adapted to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view of at least a portion of the cell tower around the camera apparatus. The server includes a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to obtain a data from the camera apparatus including a plurality of images of the cell tower including equipment thereon, and display the data from the camera apparatus including the plurality of images of the cell tower including equipment thereon to a user in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Publication number: 20200396361
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a camera apparatus. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base and a plurality of sensors. The mounting base is adapted to mount to a structure. The plurality of sensors includes an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus. The plurality of sensors also includes at least one of infrared sensors, sound sensors, and motion sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Publication number: 20200391882
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a plurality of camera apparatuses and a server. Each camera apparatus includes a plurality of sensors including an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view thereabout. The server also includes memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to determine a location for each of the plurality of camera apparatuses, display a map with an icon identifying the location of each of the plurality of camera apparatuses, and display images from the combined 360 degree view, in response to a selection of the icon of a corresponding camera apparatus by a user, from the corresponding camera apparatus selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 10856153
    Abstract: Systems and method for creating, modifying, and utilizing a virtual 360-degree view of a telecommunications site obtaining data capture from the telecommunications site, wherein the data capture comprises one or more of photos and video; processing the data capture to create a three-dimensional (3D) model of the telecommunications site in a first state, buildings, and constructions therein; importing the 3D model into modification software and adding one or more objects to the 3D model utilizing the modification software, wherein the one or more objects comprise one or more of geography, buildings, and constructions planned as possible additions to the telecommunications sites; creating a modified 3D model with the one or more objects and the 3D model in the first state such that the modified 3D model represents the telecommunications site in a second state; and utilizing the modified 3D model for one or more of planning, engineering, and installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, Jordan Bates, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 10827363
    Abstract: Systems and methods include obtaining data capture at a cell site utilizing any of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a satellite, a multiple camera apparatus, a telescoping apparatus, and a camera; creating a model of the cell site based on the data capture; processing the model to perform a plurality of measurements; utilizing the plurality of measurements to identify potential Passive Intermodulation (PIM) issues at the cell site; and displaying the identified PIM issues for mitigation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 10723483
    Abstract: Systems and methods using a lift tube with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) air traffic control system include staging one or more UAVs and associated cargo for takeoff; moving the staged one or more UAVs to a lift tube; and controlling the lift tube by the UAV air traffic control system to provide the one or more UAVs for takeoff, wherein the lift tube is a vertical structure disposed in a facility to raise the one or more UAVs from an interior position in the facility for takeoff outside of the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Charlie Terry, Joshua Godwin
  • Patent number: 10728767
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a three-dimensional (3D) model of a telecommunications site and performing an augmented reality add-in of equipment or structures therein include obtaining data capture of the telecommunications site utilizing a plurality of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a satellite, a multiple camera apparatus, and a telescoping apparatus; creating the 3D model utilizing the data capture; inserting currently non-existing equipment or structures in the 3D model; and performing engineering and planning for the telecommunications site utilizing the 3D model with the inserted currently non-existing equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Charlie Terry, Joshua Godwin
  • Publication number: 20200162936
    Abstract: Systems and methods include obtaining data capture at a cell site utilizing any of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a satellite, a multiple camera apparatus, a telescoping apparatus, and a camera; creating a model of the cell site based on the data capture; processing the model to perform a plurality of measurements; utilizing the plurality of measurements to identify potential Passive Intermodulation (PIM) issues at the cell site; and displaying the identified PIM issues for mitigation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Charlie Terry, James Perry, Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 10655634
    Abstract: A compressor wheel assembly for a forced induction device includes an impeller member and a plate member. The impeller member is formed of a polymer material, and includes a hub portion and a plurality of blades extending from an outer surface of the hub portion. The hub portion includes an outer peripheral portion formed therewith. The plate member is connected to the outer peripheral portion of the impeller member to be rotationally fixed thereto. The plate member being formed of a metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Taylor, Charlie Terry, Christian Ellis
  • Patent number: 10650582
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing and delivering a close out package detailing work performed at a telecommunications site includes, subsequent to the work, performing data capture at the telecommunications site through a plurality of techniques; processing the data capture to define a three dimensional (3D) model of the telecommunications site based on one or more objects of interest associated with the cell site components and noting the work in the 3D model; and incorporating the 3D model in a close out package and providing the close out package to one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Charlie Terry, Joshua Godwin
  • Patent number: 10625856
    Abstract: Systems and methods using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to supply one or more batteries include loading the UAV with the one or more batteries as cargo; causing the UAV to fly to a remote location; and at the remote location, inserting the one or more batteries in a battery system for powering thereof. The method can further include, at the remote location, retrieving a second set of one or more batteries from the battery system; and causing the UAV to fly back with the retrieved second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Charlie Terry, Joshua Godwin
  • Patent number: 10580199
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a three dimensional (3D) model of a telecommunications site for planning, engineering, and installing equipment utilizing data capture from a camera attached to a telescoping apparatus including positioning the telescoping apparatus at or near a cell tower and extending the camera at or near cell site components on the cell tower; obtaining data capture via the camera at one or more locations at or near the cell tower and at one or more angles relative to the cell site components; and processing the data capture to define a three dimensional (3D) model of the cell site based on one or more objects of interest associated with the cell site components in the data capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Charlie Terry, Joshua Godwin
  • Patent number: 10456906
    Abstract: A mechanical tower climber system for performing operations on a cell tower includes a body; a plurality of members disposed or connected to the body and each comprising one or more robotic hands; and a wireless interface and a processing device configured to receive commands from a remote operator; climb the cell tower based on the commands; and perform one or more operations on cell site components associated with the cell tower based on the commands and manipulation of the plurality of members and associated one or more robotic hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Charlie Terry, Joshua Godwin, Richard Murphy, Jordan Bates