Patents by Inventor Jeff T. Stringer

Jeff T. Stringer 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: 20220180131
    Abstract: An intelligent three dimensional scanner system mountable on a movable machine, including three dimensional scanner, a camera, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to receive three dimensional point data from the three dimensional scanner, receive two dimensional image data from the camera, input the two dimensional image data to a machine learning model, which identifies objects in the two dimensional image data, fuse the three dimensional point data with the identified objects in the two dimensional image data in order to identify the objects in the three dimensional point data, and control a scan pattern to direct scanning resolution of the three dimensional scanner based on the identified objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Tod Andrew Oblak, Shastri Ram, Jeff T. Stringer, Sri Sekharan, Lawrence Andrew Mianzo, Mark Edward Hartman
  • Patent number: 5223968
    Abstract: A communications network grid having a matrix of nodes at which transmitters or receivers are connected to transmit and receive signals from any origin or destination. Each node utilizes first come only served control logic to retransmit the first received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Jeff T. Stringer, Charles W. Einolf, Jr.