Patents by Inventor James R. Skorpik
James R. Skorpik 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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Publication number: 20210080570Abstract: Firearm discharge location systems and associated methods are described. According to one aspect, a firearm discharge location system includes a plurality of microphone devices individually configured to receive acoustic signals of a firearm discharge and to generate information regarding the received acoustic signals of the firearm discharge, a locator system configured to identify a plurality of locations of the microphone devices during the generation of the information regarding the received acoustic signals of the firearm discharge by the microphone devices, and processing circuitry configured to use the identified locations of the microphone devices and the information regarding the received acoustic signals of the firearm discharge to identify the location of the firearm discharge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Eric G. Gonzalez, Michael S. Hughes, Anton S. Sinkov, James R. Skorpik
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Patent number: 10741038Abstract: A system and method of detecting and analyzing a threat in a confined environment is disclosed. An audio board detects and analyzes audio signals which are then transmitted and analyzed to determine the location of a gunshot in a confined location and the type of firearm being shot.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: James R. Skorpik, Michael S. Hughes, Eric G. Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20190228629Abstract: A system and method of detecting and analyzing a threat in a confined environment is disclosed. An audio board detects and analyzes audio signals which are then transmitted and analyzed to determine the location of a gunshot in a confined location and the type of firearm being shot.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: James R. Skorpik, Michael S. Hughes, Eric G. Gonzalez
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Patent number: 10290195Abstract: A system and method of detecting and analyzing a threat in a confined environment is disclosed. An audio board detects and analyzes audio signals which are then transmitted and analyzed to determine the location of a gunshot in a confined location and the type of firearm being shot.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: James R. Skorpik, Michael S. Hughes, Eric G. Gonzalez
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Patent number: 10161833Abstract: Building environment data collection systems and methods are described. According to one aspect, a system includes a plurality of sensor devices which store different types of environment data, a base system comprising a plurality of interface devices configured to receive the environment data from the sensor devices, storage circuitry configured to store the environment data, and communications circuitry configured to implement communications, and a user interface apparatus comprising communications circuitry configured to communicate with the communications circuitry of the base system, a user interface configured to receive user inputs during installation of the sensor devices, and processing circuitry configured to control the user interface to generate the displayed information and to process the user inputs received via the user interface, and wherein different ones of the sensor devices are configured to generate the different types of environment data as a result of the user inputs.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Michael A. Hughes, James R. Skorpik, Michael R. Brambley, Eric G. Gonzalez, Yunzhi Huang
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Patent number: 10089845Abstract: A system and method of detecting and analyzing a threat in a confined environment is disclosed. An audio board detects and analyzes audio signals. A RF board transmits the signals for emergency response. A battery provides power to the audio board and the RF board. The audio board includes a microcontroller with at least one band-pass filter for distinguishing between a threat and a non-threat event and for measuring or counting pulses if the event is a threat.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: James R. Skorpik, Michael S. Hughes, Eric G. Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20170169686Abstract: A system and method of detecting and analyzing a threat in a confined environment is disclosed. An audio board detects and analyzes audio signals which are then transmitted and analyzed to determine the location of a gunshot in a confined location and the type of firearm being shot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: James R. Skorpik, Michael S. Hughes, Eric G. Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20160260307Abstract: A system and method of detecting and analyzing a threat in a confined environment is disclosed. An audio board detects and analyzes audio signals. A RF board transmits the signals for emergency response. A battery provides power to the audio board and the RF board. The audio board includes a microcontroller with at least one band-pass filter for distinguishing between a threat and a non-threat event and for measuring or counting pulses if the event is a threat.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2015Publication date: September 8, 2016Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: James R. Skorpik, Michael S. Hughes, Eric G. Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20160054910Abstract: Building environment data collection systems and methods are described. According to one aspect, a system includes a plurality of sensor devices which store different types of environment data, a base system comprising a plurality of interface devices configured to receive the environment data from the sensor devices, storage circuitry configured to store the environment data, and communications circuitry configured to implement communications, and a user interface apparatus comprising communications circuitry configured to communicate with the communications circuitry of the base system, a user interface configured to receive user inputs during installation of the sensor devices, and processing circuitry configured to control the user interface to generate the displayed information and to process the user inputs received via the user interface, and wherein different ones of the sensor devices are configured to generate the different types of environment data as a result of the user inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: Michael A. Hughes, James R. Skorpik, Michael R. Brambley, Eric G. Gonzalez, Yunzhi Huang
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Patent number: 7791480Abstract: A system comprises a valve; a plurality of RFID sensor assemblies coupled to the valve to monitor a plurality of parameters associated with the valve; a control tag configured to wirelessly communicate with the respective tags that are coupled to the valve, the control tag being further configured to communicate with an RF reader; and an RF reader configured to selectively communicate with the control tag, the reader including an RF receiver. Other systems and methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: James R. Skorpik, Stephen R. Gosselin, Joe C. Harris
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Patent number: 7683761Abstract: Methods to autonomously establish and utilize a network of active RF tags can include the steps of providing a plurality of active RF tags within a volume of interest, providing at least one data collection node, registering the active RF tags, populating a routing index stored in each tag's data storage device, and communicating data between the active RF tags and the data collection node according to the routing indices. The method can be implemented on a computer-readable medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Brion J. Burghard, James R. Skorpik
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Patent number: 7457785Abstract: A method and computer-based apparatus for monitoring the degradation of, predicting the remaining service life of, and/or planning maintenance for, an operating system are disclosed. Diagnostic information on degradation of the operating system is obtained through measurement of one or more performance characteristics by one or more sensors onboard and/or proximate the operating system. Though not required, it is preferred that the sensor data are validated to improve the accuracy and reliability of the service life predictions. The condition or degree of degradation of the operating system is presented to a user by way of one or more calculated, numeric degradation figures of merit that are trended against one or more independent variables using one or more mathematical techniques. Furthermore, more than one trendline and uncertainty interval may be generated for a given degradation figure of merit/independent variable data set.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2000Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Frank L. Greitzer, Lars J. Kangas, Kristine M. Terrones, Melody A. Maynard, Ronald A. Pawlowski, Thomas A. Ferryman, James R. Skorpik, Bary W. Wilson
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Patent number: 7362212Abstract: One technique of the present invention includes a number of Radio Frequency (RF) tags that each have a different identifier. Information is broadcast to the tags from an RF tag interrogator. This information corresponds to a maximum quantity of tag response time slots that are available. This maximum quantity may be less than the total number of tags. The tags each select one of the time slots as a function of the information and a random number provided by each respective tag. The different identifiers are transmitted to the interrogator from at least a subset of the RF tags.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Brion J. Burghard, James R. Skorpik
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Patent number: 7246522Abstract: A multiparameter acoustic signature inspection device and method are described for non-invasive inspection of containers. Dual acoustic signatures discriminate between various fluids and materials for identification of the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2006Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Aaron A. Diaz, Todd J. Samuel, Juan D. Valencia, Kevin L. Gervais, Brian J. Tucker, Leslie J. Kirihara, James R. Skorpik, Larry D. Reid, John T. Munley, Richard A. Pappas, Bob W. Wright, Paul D. Panetta, Jason S. Thompson
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Patent number: 7130583Abstract: Wireless communication devices and movement monitoring methods are described. In one aspect, a wireless communication device includes a housing, wireless communication circuitry coupled with the housing and configured to communicate wireless signals, movement circuitry coupled with the housing and configured to provide movement data regarding movement sensed by the movement circuitry, and event processing circuitry coupled with the housing and the movement circuitry, wherein the event processing circuitry is configured to process the movement data, and wherein at least a portion of the event processing circuitry is configured to operate in a first operational state having a different power consumption rate compared with a second operational state.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventor: James R. Skorpik
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Patent number: 7009181Abstract: Compact, OSL-based devices for long-term, unattended radiation detection and spectroscopy are provided. In addition, a method for extracting spectroscopic information from these devices is taught. The devices can comprise OSL pixels and at least one radiation filter surrounding at least a portion of the OSL pixels. The filter can modulate an incident radiation flux. The devices can further comprise a light source and a detector, both proximally located to the OSL pixels, as well as a power source and a wireless communication device, each operably connected to the light source and the detector. Power consumption of the device ranges from ultra-low to zero. The OSL pixels can retain data regarding incident radiation events as trapped charges. The data can be extracted wirelessly or manually. The method for extracting spectroscopic data comprises optically stimulating the exposed OSL pixels, detecting a readout luminescence, and reconstructing an incident-energy spectrum from the luminescence.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Steven D. Miller, Leon Eric Smith, James R. Skorpik
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Patent number: 6938488Abstract: An ultrasound inspection apparatus particularly adapted to examine containers (sealed or unsealed) containing a liquid or solid bulk material. The apparatus has an overall configuration of a hand held pistol with a front transducer contact surface that is positioned against a front wall of the container. An ultrasound pulse is transmitted from the apparatus to be reflected from a back wall of a container being investigated. The received echo pulse is converted to a digital waveform. The waveform is analyzed relative to temperature, travel distance of the pulse(s), and time of travel to ascertain characteristics of the liquid or other materials and to provide identification of the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Aaron A. Diaz, Brion J. Burghard, James R. Skorpik, Richard A. Pappas, O. Dennis Mullen, Todd J. Samuel, Larry D. Reid, Joe C. Harris, Juan D. Valencia, Jonathan T. Smalley, Chester L. Shepard, Theodore T. Taylor
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Publication number: 20040229613Abstract: Wireless communication devices and movement monitoring methods are described. In one aspect, a wireless communication device includes a housing, wireless communication circuitry coupled with the housing and configured to communicate wireless signals, movement circuitry coupled with the housing and configured to provide movement data regarding movement sensed by the movement circuitry, and event processing circuitry coupled with the housing and the movement circuitry, wherein the event processing circuitry is configured to process the movement data, and wherein at least a portion of the event processing circuitry is configured to operate in a first operational state having a different power consumption rate compared with a second operational state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2003Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventor: James R. Skorpik
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Publication number: 20040035208Abstract: An ultrasound inspection apparatus particularly adapted to examine containers (sealed or unsealed) containing a liquid or solid bulk material. The apparatus has an overall configuration of a hand held pistol with a front transducer contact surface that is positioned against a front wall of the container. An ultrasound pulse is transmitted from the apparatus to be reflected from a back wall of a container being investigated. The received echo pulse is converted to a digital waveform. The waveform is analyzed relative to temperature, travel distance of the pulse(s), and time of travel to ascertain characteristics of the liquid or other materials and to provide identification of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2002Publication date: February 26, 2004Inventors: Aaron A. Diaz, Brion J. Burghard, James R. Skorpik, Richard A. Pappas, O. Dennis Mullen, Todd J. Samuel, Larry D. Reid, Joe C. Harris, Juan D. Valencia, Jonathan T. Smalley, Chester L. Shepard, Theodore T. Taylor
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Patent number: 5906943Abstract: The present invention is directed toward monitoring a thermally driven gas evolving chemical reaction with an acoustic apparatus. Signals from the acoustic apparatus are used to control a heater to prevent a run-away condition. A digestion module in combination with a robotic arm further automate physical handling of sample material reaction vessels. The invention is especially useful for carrying out sample procedures defined in EPA Methods SW-846.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1996Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: James R. Skorpik, Michael G. Dodson