Patents by Inventor Joshua Markell

Joshua Markell 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).

  • Switchable, oscillating near-field and far-field antenna
    Patent number: 10326204
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method of a switchable, oscillating near-field and far-field antenna that may be used in access control systems. A controller is coupled to a transceiver, wherein the transceiver comprises an antenna module that includes both a near-field antenna and a far-field antenna. The near-field antenna is a subset of the far-field antenna, and the controller is adapted to cause the antenna module to oscillate between a near-field configuration and a far-field configuration while, for example, scanning an RFID tag of a wireless asset and receiving one or more return signals from the RFID tag, in order to determine a location of the wireless asset based on the one or more return signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Derrick Pallas, Ian Snyder, Joshua Markell, Morgan Teachworth
  • SWITCHABLE, OSCILLATING NEAR-FIELD AND FAR-FIELD ANTENNA
    Publication number: 20180069311
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method of a switchable, oscillating near-field and far-field antenna that may be used in access control systems. A controller is coupled to a transceiver, wherein the transceiver comprises an antenna module that includes both a near-field antenna and a far-field antenna. The near-field antenna is a subset of the far-field antenna, and the controller is adapted to cause the antenna module to oscillate between a near-field configuration and a far-field configuration while, for example, scanning an RFID tag of a wireless asset and receiving one or more return signals from the RFID tag, in order to determine a location of the wireless asset based on the one or more return signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Derrick Pallas, Ian Snyder, Joshua Markell, Morgan Teachworth
  • Phone base for handset
    Patent number: D852770
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence Jared Baskett, Hyunsoo Lee, Ian Matthew Snyder, Joshua Markell, Jennifer Ouk, Nicholas James Kaoru Kawamoto, Matthew M. U. Cho