Patents by Inventor John Benjamin Heckman

John Benjamin Heckman 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: 9644972
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to tracking a vehicle on its journey. At predetermined reporting time intervals, the vehicle's location is determined using GNSS and a current vector is calculated based on a current location and an immediately preceding location. The difference between the current vector and the immediately preceding vector is then determined and this difference is stored in the data packet. The data packet is transmitted to the base station using a two-way radio data link at select predetermined transmission time intervals. The data in the data packet is encoded to minimize the number of bits needed to store each data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Inventors: John Benjamin Heckman, David Graham Powell, Gyles Panther
  • Publication number: 20160258757
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to tracking a vehicle on its journey. At predetermined reporting time intervals, the vehicle's location is determined using GNSS and a current vector is calculated based on a current location and an immediately preceding location. The difference between the current vector and the immediately preceding vector is then determined and this difference is stored in the data packet. The data packet is transmitted to the base station using a two-way radio data link at select predetermined transmission time intervals. The data in the data packet is encoded to minimize the number of bits needed to store each data point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: John Benjamin HECKMAN, David Graham POWELL, Gyles PANTHER
  • Patent number: 5812617
    Abstract: A synchronization apparatus in a selective call receiver comprised of a digital variable bandwidth phase locked loop with means to simultaneously detect the synchronization code word, means to generate a binary code from a register representative of lock quality, means to increment or decrement the lock quality register, means to sum the lock quality binary code into a phase error register, whereby the polarity of the sum is controlled by a phase comparison of the a local clock with the received data, and whereby the under or over flow of the phase error register determines the direction of a phase adjustment to the local bit clock generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Silcom Research Limited
    Inventors: John Benjamin Heckman, Gyles Panther