Patents by Inventor Joel B. Harley

Joel B. Harley 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: 11909434
    Abstract: In an example, a system includes a plurality of acoustically coupled nodes. Each of the nodes includes a transducer, a communication circuit and a controller. The transducer is adapted to be mechanically coupled to a medium. The communication circuit is coupled to the transducer to send and receive acoustic signals via the medium according to at least one communication parameter. The controller is to adaptively configure the at least one communication parameter of the communication circuit based on an acoustic signal received from at least one other of the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, VIRTUAL EM INC.
    Inventors: Xinyao Tang, Soumyajit Mandal, Joel B. Harley, Tayfun Ozdemir
  • Publication number: 20230361803
    Abstract: In an example, a system includes a plurality of acoustically coupled nodes. Each of the nodes includes a transducer, a communication circuit and a controller. The transducer is adapted to be mechanically coupled to a medium. The communication circuit is coupled to the transducer to send and receive acoustic signals via the medium according to at least one communication parameter. The controller is to adaptively configure the at least one communication parameter of the communication circuit based on an acoustic signal received from at least one other of the nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Xinyao Tang, Soumyajit Mandal, Joel B. Harley, Tayfun Ozdemir
  • Patent number: 11569863
    Abstract: In an example, a system includes a plurality of acoustically coupled nodes. Each of the nodes includes a transducer, a communication circuit and a controller. The transducer is adapted to be mechanically coupled to a medium. The communication circuit is coupled to the transducer to send and receive acoustic signals via the medium according to at least one communication parameter. The controller is to adaptively configure the at least one communication parameter of the communication circuit based on an acoustic signal received from at least one other of the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, VIRTUAL EM INC.
    Inventors: Xinyao Tang, Soumyajit Mandal, Joel B. Harley, Tayfun Ozdemir
  • Publication number: 20220041187
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments related to coordinated monitoring and responding to an emergency situation at a building structure as a supplement to a traditional emergency response. In some embodiments, a system comprises a computing device that is configured to receive sensor data from a sensor network. The sensor network includes monitoring units that monitor various locations of an infrastructure. The computing device determines an occurrence of an emergency event at a location in the infrastructure using an anomaly detector model based at least in part on the sensor data. A hybrid mobile unit is instructed by the computing device to navigate to the location of the emergency event. The hybrid mobile unit is configured to provide mobile sensor data associated with the location to confirm the emergency event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Prabuddha CHAKRABORTY, Reiner DIZON, Christopher VEGA, Joel B. HARLEY, Sandip RAY, Swarup BHUNIA, Patanjali Sristi Lakshmiprasanna Sriramakumara
  • Publication number: 20210099196
    Abstract: In an example, a system includes a plurality of acoustically coupled nodes. Each of the nodes includes a transducer, a communication circuit and a controller. The transducer is adapted to be mechanically coupled to a medium. The communication circuit is coupled to the transducer to send and receive acoustic signals via the medium according to at least one communication parameter. The controller is to adaptively configure the at least one communication parameter of the communication circuit based on an acoustic signal received from at least one other of the nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicants: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Virtual EM Inc.
    Inventors: Xinyao Tang, Soumyajit Mandal, Joel B. Harley, Tayfun Ozdemir
  • Patent number: 10324068
    Abstract: A method performed by a processing device, the method comprising: obtaining first waveform data indicative of traversal of a first signal through a structure at a first time; applying a scale transform to the first waveform data and the second waveform data; computing, by the processing device and based on applying the scale transform, a scale-cross correlation function that promotes identification of scaling behavior between the first waveform data and the second waveform data; performing one or more of: computing, by the processing device and based on the scale-cross correlation function, a scale factor for the first waveform data and the second waveform data; and computing, by the processing device and based on the scale-cross correlation function, a scale invariant correlation coefficient between the first waveform data and the second waveform data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Joel B. Harley, Jose M. F. Moura
  • Publication number: 20140025316
    Abstract: A method performed by a processing device, the method comprising: obtaining first waveform data indicative of traversal of a first signal through a structure at a first time; applying a scale transform to the first waveform data and the second waveform data; computing, by the processing device and based on applying the scale transform, a scale-cross correlation function that promotes identification of scaling behavior between the first waveform data and the second waveform data; performing one or more of: computing, by the processing device and based on the scale-cross correlation function, a scale factor for the first waveform data and the second waveform data; and computing, by the processing device and based on the scale-cross correlation function, a scale invariant correlation coefficient between the first waveform data and the second waveform data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Joel B. Harley, Jose M.F. Moura