Patents by Inventor Gary Dotson

Gary Dotson 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).

  • Proximity Alert System
    Publication number: 20170080858
    Abstract: A proximity alert system includes a truck. A sensing array is coupled to the truck and the sensing array detects an object behind the truck when the truck is driven rearwardly. The sensing array emits an audible alarm when the sensing array detects the object. The audible alarm communicates a distance between the truck and the object. Thus, the sensing array inhibits the truck from striking the object when the truck is driven rearwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Gary Dotson, Darold Carter
  • Industrial automation emergency stop with state indictor
    Patent number: 9349546
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein include a system and a method. One embodiment provides an industrial automation system an emergency stop system configured to interrupt power to at least a portion of an industrial control system. The industrial automation system further includes a user perceptible indicator associated with the emergency stop system that in use provides an indication to a user of an operative state of the emergency stop system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Dotson
  • Raster engine with multiple color depth digital interface
    Publication number: 20050024381
    Abstract: An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a hardware cursor apparatus supporting dual scanned displays, programmatic support for multiple disparate display types, multi-mode programmable hardware blinking, programmable multiple color depth digital display interface, and programmable matrix controlled grayscale generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Dotson, Thomas Heidebrecht