Patents by Inventor Ian Robert Meier

Ian Robert Meier 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).

  • Publication number: 20160019731
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for measuring moving vehicle information. Moving vehicle information may be measured by a sensor configured to respond to one or more wheels of the moving vehicle, where one or more of the wheels change the characteristic impedance of the sensor at the wheel's contact location. An electrical time domain reflectometry signal processing system which is capable of measuring the change in the impedance of the sensor and converting the impedance change to a signal may be connected operatively to the sensor. A data-processing system receives the signal and extracts the moving vehicle information therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Randal Leroy HANSON, Michael David LOCKERBIE, Ian Robert MEIER, Tyler William HAICHERT
  • Publication number: 20160018252
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly includes a transmission-line assembly having an electrical transmission-line parameter configured to change, at least in part, in response to reception, at least in part, of a vehicular load of a moving vehicle moving relative to a vehicular roadway to the transmission-line assembly positionable, at least in part, relative to the vehicular roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Randal Leroy HANSON, Michael David LOCKERBIE, Ian Robert MEIER, Tyler William HAICHERT
  • Publication number: 20140291039
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly includes a transmission-line assembly having an electrical transmission-line parameter configured to change, at least in part, in response to reception, at least in part, of a vehicular load of a moving vehicle moving relative to a vehicular roadway to the transmission-line assembly positionable, at least in part, relative to the vehicular roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL ROAD DYNAMICS
    Inventors: Randal Leroy HANSON, Michael David LOCKERBIE, Ian Robert Meier, Tyler William HAICHERT
  • Publication number: 20020031113
    Abstract: A plurality of metallic telephone lines carrying both baseband POTS (plain old telephone service) and DSL (digital subscriber line) or ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) signals originate at customer premises and pass through a common field cabinet enroute to a telephone central office. Baseband POTS signals flow in an undisturbed manner through the field cabinet and maintain the normal, highly reliable, communication between the subscriber premises and the central office telephone switch. At the field cabinet, DSL/ADSL signals are removed from the metallic telephone line and are then communicated between the field cabinet and the central office using fiber optic broadband transmission. Fiber optic transmission increases the allowed distance between the ADSL transceiver located at the customer location and the respective ADSL transceiver located in the telephone central office.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: David E. Dodds, Oliver Cruder, S. Mark Labbe, Ian Robert Meier, Michael David Lockerbie