Patents by Inventor Chuck Simpson
Chuck Simpson 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).
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Patent number: 11519747Abstract: A method for storing and providing pavement data related to a paved road area that includes paved roads formed by paved road portions that are each paved by a separate asphalt lot. The method includes providing a computer-based system that receives and presents pavement data related to pavement used in constructing the road. An as-built model provides a digital map of a location where the paved road area is located and is overlaid by a digital road model overlays that replicates the paved roads and includes user-selectable digital road segments for each of the paved roads. Each digital road segment corresponds to and is based on only one of road portions. A pavement data set is associated with each digital road segment and includes pavement data related to the asphalt lot used in forming the road portion. When a digital road segments is selected, corresponding pavement data is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Astec, Inc.Inventors: Mark Chambers, Kris Robertson, Albert Covington, Chuck Simpson, Lien Gangte, Naaga Kodiboyana, Mike Bass
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Publication number: 20220252419Abstract: A method for storing and providing pavement data related to a paved road area that includes paved roads formed by paved road portions that are each paved by a separate asphalt lot. The method includes providing a computer-based system that receives and presents pavement data related to pavement used in constructing the road. An as-built model provides a digital map of a location where the paved road area is located and is overlaid by a digital road model overlays that replicates the paved roads and includes user-selectable digital road segments for each of the paved roads. Each digital road segment corresponds to and is based on only one of road portions. A pavement data set is associated with each digital road segment and includes pavement data related to the asphalt lot used in forming the road portion. When a digital road segments is selected, corresponding pavement data is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Mark Chambers, Kris Robertson, Albert Covington, Chuck Simpson, Lien Gangte, Naaga Kodiboyana, Mike Bass
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Patent number: 10917473Abstract: A road sensor system for sensing data about a road surface and for providing that data, in real time, to data receivers. The system includes a communications network and a data control center that receives and transmits data via the communications network. Sensor assemblies include a housing that is implanted into the road surface, a sensor in the housing that collects sensor data related to an area local to the sensor assembly, and a communications module for communicating sensor data via the communications network from the sensor to the data control center for storage in the database. Sensor data received and stored is associated with location data for a location of the road surface where the housing is implanted. The data receivers receive sensor data or metadata derived from sensor data via the communications network.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Astec, Inc.Inventors: Mike Bass, Chuck Simpson, Kris Robertson, Mark Chambers
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Publication number: 20200292348Abstract: A system for tracking and presenting pavement data related to a paved road area. The system includes a computer-based mapping system configured to generate a digital map of a real-world location having a paved road area and a digital reconstruction of at least a portion of the paved road area that is overlaid onto the map. The reconstruction includes two or more different user-selectable digital road segments that each corresponds to a different portion of the paved road area and is defined by two or more geographic coordinates. For each digital road segment, a corresponding data set includes pavement composition information and other information, including the geographic coordinates that define the selected digital road segment. When a user selects a digital road segment, at least a portion of the pavement data set corresponding to the selected digital road segment is displayed to the user via a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Mark Chambers, Kris Robertson, Albert Covington, Chuck Simpson, Lien Gangte, Naaga Kodiboyana, Mike Bass
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Patent number: 10704210Abstract: An asphalt mix tracking system having a data collection system adapted to determine at least one characteristic of the asphalt mix, a data control system adapted to receive data from the data collection system, a lot tracking system adapted to track a lot of the asphalt mix, a truck tracking system adapted to track a truck, and a pavement injection system adapted to identify the lot of the asphalt mix. The preferred asphalt mix tracking system is adapted to substantially continuously track the asphalt mix from a mixing site to a paving site. A method for tracking an asphalt mix including determining the at least one characteristic of the asphalt mix, communicating the at least one characteristic of the asphalt mix to the data control system, transporting the asphalt mix from the mixing site to the paving site, and injecting an identification means at the paving site.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Astec, Inc.Inventors: Mark Chambers, Harold Crowe, Kris Robertson, Albert Covington, Wayne Hall, Jonathan Brown, Chuck Simpson, Lien Gangte
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Publication number: 20200195723Abstract: A road sensor system for sensing data about a road surface and for providing that data, in real time, to data receivers. The system includes a communications network and a data control center that receives and transmits data via the communications network. Sensor assemblies include a housing that is implanted into the road surface, a sensor in the housing that collects sensor data related to an area local to the sensor assembly, and a communications module for communicating sensor data via the communications network from the sensor to the data control center for storage in the database. Sensor data received and stored is associated with location data for a location of the road surface where the housing is implanted. The data receivers receive sensor data or metadata derived from sensor data via the communications network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Astec, Inc.Inventors: Mike Bass, Chuck Simpson, Kris Robertson, Mark Chambers
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Publication number: 20170335525Abstract: An asphalt mix tracking system having a data collection system adapted to determine at least one characteristic of the asphalt mix, a data control system adapted to receive data from the data collection system, a lot tracking system adapted to track a lot of the asphalt mix, a truck tracking system adapted to track a truck, and a pavement injection system adapted to identify the lot of the asphalt mix. The preferred asphalt mix tracking system is adapted to substantially continuously track the asphalt mix from a mixing site to a paving site. A method for tracking an asphalt mix including determining the at least one characteristic of the asphalt mix, communicating the at least one characteristic of the asphalt mix to the data control system, transporting the asphalt mix from the mixing site to the paving site, and injecting an identification means at the paving site.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Astec, Inc.Inventors: Mark Chambers, Harold Crowe, Kris Robertson, Albert Covington, Wayne Hall, Jonathan Brown, Chuck Simpson, Lien Gangte