Patents by Inventor Daniel K. Wedding

Daniel K. Wedding 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: 10346786
    Abstract: A method for creating a score or value based on the difference between non-expert and expert usage based data. The score or value may be used in variety of situations such as assessing risk, training, operator classification, and identifying expertise level of an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen D. Lakowske, Donald K. Wedding, Jr., Daniel K. Wedding
  • Patent number: 10096905
    Abstract: A switchable Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) in which the switchable elements are Plasma-shells. Plasma-shells as described herein allow for control or ‘reconfiguration’ of the FSS electromagnetic (EM) properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee W. Cross, Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Edwin F. Peters
  • Publication number: 20170098893
    Abstract: A switchable Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) in which the switchable elements are Plasma-shells. Plasma-shells as described herein allow for control or ‘reconfiguration’ of the FSS electromagnetic (EM) properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Lee W. Cross, Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Edwin F. Peters
  • Patent number: 9559426
    Abstract: A switchable Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) in which the switchable elements are Plasma-shells. Plasma-shells as described herein allow for control or ‘reconfiguration’ of the FSS electromagnetic (EM) properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee W. Cross, Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Edwin F. Peters
  • Patent number: 9082072
    Abstract: A method for measuring volatility of usage based data. Usage based data are measureable parameters of a system and parameters in which the system operates in order to infer the manner in which the system is operated. The method allows for inferences regarding the operator or operators of the system and the environment in which it operates. This invention is described with reference to consumer automobiles and drivers in typical environments, primarily for application in the automobile insurance industry where measuring volatility to determine behavior. However, this method may be applied to other systems including commercial automobiles and trucks, motorcycles, all terrain automobiles, snow mobiles, water craft, air craft, space craft, assembly line operation, robotic devices, remote operational devices, and military automobiles. This method may also be applied to applications other than assessing risk including, but not limited to, marketing, profiling, sales, optimization, operations and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventors: Donald K. Wedding, Jr., Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding
  • Patent number: 9013102
    Abstract: Tiled substrates containing hollow gas filled plasma-shells for radiation detecting or sensing. The gas filled plasma-shells are placed on or within the surface of a substrate which may be a printed circuit board. Multiple substrates containing plasma-shells are tiled together edge to edge to form a self-supporting structure such as a dome or hemisphere for radiation detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 8823260
    Abstract: Electrode configurations for an AC or DC gas discharge plasma display panel (PDP) device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels that are defined by a hollow plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. Plasma-shell includes plasma-disc, plasma-dome, and plasma-sphere. The invention is described with reference to a plasma-disc. The plasma-disc has at least two opposing flat sides such as a flat top and flat bottom. Two or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each plasma-disc. At least one electrode is in electrical contact with a side of the plasma-disc that is not flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology
    Inventors: Oliver M. Strbik, III, Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding
  • Patent number: 8736166
    Abstract: A gas discharge device such as a plasma display panel (PDP) device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or subpixels. Each pixel or subpixel is defined by a hollow Plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. One or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each Plasma-shell. The Plasma-shell may include inorganic and organic luminescent materials including quantum dots that are excited by the gas discharge within each Plasma-shell. The luminescent material, including quantum dots, may be located on an exterior and/or interior surface of the Plasma-shell or incorporated into the shell of the Plasma-shell. Up-conversion and down-conversion materials may be used. The substrate may be rigid or flexible with a flat, curved, or irregular surface. In one embodiment, the Plasma-shell is in the geometric shape of a cube or cuboid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Butcher, Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 8685489
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a hollow gas-filled Plasma-shells for a gas discharge device. The Plasma-shell is located in or on a substrate within the device with a dome side or flat side facing the viewing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III, Daniel K. Wedding, Jeffrey W. Guy, Robert P. Wenzlaff
  • Patent number: 8618733
    Abstract: Electrode configurations for a plasma-shell gas discharge device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels that are defined by a hollow plasma-shell having at least one flat side and filled with an ionizable gas. Two or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each plasma-shell, at least one electrode being in contact with a flat side of the plasma-shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 8536985
    Abstract: There is disclosed a system, method, and apparatus for a truck or like vehicle wherein a power source is split and/or divided into a plurality of branch power lines and wherein there is data and power transmitted over the power lines to selected systems and/or subsystems. An intelligent isolation module is provided for selectively transmitting, blocking, and/or altering data and/or power on any branch, sub-branch, and/or selected segment of a branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel K. Wedding, Carol A Wedding
  • Patent number: 8513887
    Abstract: A plasma-dome plasma display panel (PDP) comprising a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels, each pixel or sub-pixel being defined by a hollow plasma-dome filled with an ionizable gas. Each plasma-dome has a flat side and an opposite domed side. One or more other sides or edges may also be flat. Two or more electrodes are in electrical contact with each plasma-dome. A flat or domed side of the plasma-dome shell is in contact with a substrate. The PDP may also include inorganic and organic luminescent materials that are excited by the gas discharge within each plasma-dome. The luminescent material may be located on an exterior and/or interior surface of the plasma-dome and/or incorporated into the shell of the plasma-dome. The plasma-dome may be made of a luminescent material. Up-conversion and down-conversion materials may be used. The substrate may be rigid or flexible with a flat, curved, or irregular surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 8410695
    Abstract: A gas discharge device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of gas discharge cells, each cell confined within a hollow plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. The device contains inorganic and/or organic luminescent materials that are excited by a gas discharge within each plasma-shell. The luminescent material is located on an exterior and/or interior surface of the plasma-shell and/or incorporated into the plasma-shell. Up-conversion and down-conversion materials may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology
    Inventors: Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III, Carol Ann Wedding
  • Patent number: 8400406
    Abstract: There is disclosed and claimed new and improved photoelectric sensing array system, method, and apparatus for large area IR touch screens to increase the resolution of the array, and to provide ease of manufacture and testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria Kurtz, Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding, Jeffrey W. Guy
  • Patent number: 8368303
    Abstract: Plasma-shells filled with ionizable gas are positioned on or within a rigid, flexible, or semi-flexible substrate. Each plasma-shell is electrically connected to one or more electrical conductors such as electrodes with an electrically conductive bonding substance to form an electrical connection to each electrode. The electrically conductive bonding substance may comprise a pad connected to the plasma-shell and/or an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III, Carol Ann Wedding
  • Patent number: 8299696
    Abstract: A gas discharge device comprising a multiplicity of hollow gas filled Plasma-shells located on a substrate, each Plasma-shell being wholly or partially made of a first luminescent material, an exterior portion of each Plasma-shell containing a second luminescent material. The first luminescent material comprises an inorganic material or a combination of organic and inorganic materials. The second luminescent material comprises an organic material or a combination of organic and inorganic materials. Both the first and second luminescent materials may be the same material(s). The combination of organic and inorganic materials includes mixtures, suspensions, dispersions, layers, and coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology
    Inventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 8278824
    Abstract: Electrode and electrode pad configurations for a gas discharge device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels that are defined by a hollow plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. The invention is described with reference to a plasma-dome, but other plasma-shell geometric shapes may be used including plasma-discs and plasma-spheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 8248328
    Abstract: Visual artifact reduction methods for a display including gamma corrections, error diffusion and/or dithering. The invention is described with reference to an AC gas discharge display (PDP) comprising a multiplicity of plasma-shells, but may be practiced with other display technologies. The methods of this invention are disclosed for use with a number of PDP structures and PDP electronic addressing architectures including ADS, AWD, SAS, and ALIS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology
    Inventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Jeffrey W. Guy, Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: 8198811
    Abstract: A gas discharge device such as a plasma display panel (PDP) device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or subpixels. Each pixel or subpixel is defined by a hollow Plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. One or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each Plasma-shell. The Plasma-shell may include inorganic and organic luminescent materials that are excited by the gas discharge within each Plasma-shell. The luminescent material may be located on an exterior and/or interior surface of the Plasma-shell or incorporated into the shell of the Plasma-shell. Up-conversion and down-conversion materials may be used. The substrate may be rigid or flexible with a flat, curved, or irregular surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology
    Inventors: Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
  • Patent number: D670238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology
    Inventors: Daniel K. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III, Jeffrey W. Guy