Patents by Inventor John William Stephens

John William Stephens 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).

  • Method and apparatus for tracking one or more plants and/or plant based products and/or tracking the sale of products derived from the same, utilizing RFID technology
    Patent number: 12026692
    Abstract: This invention is for tracking at least one plant. A method of this invention comprises: putting at least one seed or at least one stem in a corresponding at least one pot; positioning a corresponding at least one RFID tag with respect to the seed or stem in a manner, wherein the RFID tag comprises a RFID label and a strap; provisioning the RFID label; packaging a harvested material into a packaged product and attaching the RFID tag from the potted plant, or a product RFID tag that is associated with the plurality of tags to the packaged product; confirming a request for authorization by a RFID buy card; and after confirming ID information, transferring at least one product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: METRC LLC
    Inventors: Dilek Dagdelen Uysal, Jeffrey Lane Wells, John William Stephens
  • COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING ROOF ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20150178416
    Abstract: A set of instructions stored on at least one computer readable medium for running on a computer system. The set of instructions includes instructions for identifying line segments of a roof that is preferably displayed within a geo-referenced image, instructions for determining position, orientation and length of the line segments utilizing the geo-referenced image, and instructions for classifying, automatically, at least one of the line segments as one of a plurality of predefined roof elements utilizing at least one of the relative position and orientation of the line segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: John William Stephens, Frank D. Giuffrida, Stephen L. Schultz, Steve Adams, Yangdong Wang
  • Computer system for automatically classifying roof elements
    Patent number: 8977520
    Abstract: A set of instructions stored on at least one computer readable medium for running on a computer system. The set of instructions includes instructions for identifying line segments of a roof that is preferably displayed within a geo-referenced image, instructions for determining three-dimensional information of the line segments including position, orientation and length of the line segments preferably utilizing the geo-referenced image, and instructions for classifying, automatically, at least one of the line segments as one of a plurality of predefined roof elements utilizing at least one of the relative position and orientation of the line segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Pictometry International Corp.
    Inventors: John William Stephens, Frank D. Giufrrida, Stephen L. Schultz, Steve Adams, Yandong Wang
  • COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING ROOF ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20120101783
    Abstract: A set of instructions stored on at least one computer readable medium for running on a computer system. The set of instructions includes instructions for identifying line segments of a roof that is preferably displayed within a geo-referenced image, instructions for determining three-dimensional information of the line segments including position, orientation and length of the line segments preferably utilizing the geo-referenced image, and instructions for classifying, automatically, at least one of the line segments as one of a plurality of predefined roof elements utilizing at least one of the relative position and orientation of the line segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: John William Stephens, Frank D. Giufrrida, Stephen L. Schultz, Steve Adams, Yandong Wang