Patents by Inventor Mark Bradshaw
Mark Bradshaw 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).
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Publication number: 20240086462Abstract: The present invention discloses a new method for analyzing, modifying, and distributing digital images and video in a quick, efficient, practical and/or cost-effective way. The method of processing video can take a different region or object and replace the pixels in the frames of the scenes that comprise the features and characteristics of the identified region or object with a different set of pixels. The replacement or other customizations of the frames and scenes lead to a naturally integrated video or image which is indistinguishable by the human eye or other visual system. In one embodiment, this invention can be used to provide different advertising elements into an image or set of images for different viewers, or to enable a viewer to control elements within a video and add their own preference or other elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: David M. Ludwigsen, Dirk Dewar Brown, Mark Bradshaw
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Patent number: 11853357Abstract: The present invention discloses a new method for analyzing, modifying, and distributing digital images and video in a quick, efficient, practical and/or cost-effective way. The method of processing video can take a different region or object and replace the pixels in the frames of the scenes that comprise the features and characteristics of the identified region or object with a different set of pixels. The replacement or other customizations of the frames and scenes lead to a naturally integrated video or image which is indistinguishable by the human eye or other visual system. In one embodiment, this invention can be used to provide different advertising elements into an image or set of images for different viewers, or to enable a viewer to control elements within a video and add their own preference or other elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: PANDOODLE CORPORATIONInventors: David M Ludwigsen, Dirk Dewar Brown, Mark Bradshaw
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Publication number: 20230339354Abstract: A charging system and method includes a controller that may obtain vehicle system characteristics and/or charger characteristics. The charging system may control a supply of electric power from one or more charging stations to one or more energy storage devices of one or more vehicle systems based at least in part on the vehicle system characteristics and the charger characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Venu Gupta, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar
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Patent number: 11796996Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a portable operator control unit (OCU). The OCU includes a housing, a power supply inside the housing, a controller inside the housing, and a wireless communication unit attached to the housing. The controller is configured to generate control signals for controlling a vehicle from an off-board location of the OCU. The wireless communication unit is configured to wirelessly communicate the control signals to the vehicle over an LTE network.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Derek K. Woo, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Tyler Listoe, Guillaume Mantelet, Earle Edie, Andrew McKay, Brian Lee Staton
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Publication number: 20230249351Abstract: A fastener system and method includes a controller having one or more processors that obtain image information associated with a tie plate. The tie plate includes one or more holes, and each hole is configured to receive a fastener. A fastener driving unit drives the fastener into at least one of the one or more holes. The controller controls movement of the fastener driving unit to move the fastener driving unit to a location corresponding to the at least one hole, and the controller controls movement of the fastener driving unit to drive the fastener into the at least one hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Huan Tan, John Michael Lizzi, Charles Burton Theurer, Balajee Kannan, Romano Patrick, Mark Bachman, Michael VanderLinden, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Norman Wellings, Eric Kuiper, Dan Derosia, Julio Payan, James Maki, Matthew Orvedahl, Ozan Emsun, Mark David
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Patent number: 11720113Abstract: A vehicle control system and method includes identifying a segment of a route where one or more first vehicle systems were operated manually instead of operated by one or more processors according to one or more trip plans during prior traversals of the segment by the one or more first vehicle systems. A segment plan is generated for traversing the segment under control of the one or more processors. The segment plan is generated based on how the one or more first vehicle systems were manually operated during the prior traversals of the segment. One or more second vehicle systems are controlled with the one or more processors to traverse the segment according to the segment plan.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies CorporationInventors: Dipankar Ghosh, James Glen Corry, William Cherrick Schoonmaker, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling
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Patent number: 11605227Abstract: The present invention discloses a new method for analyzing, modifying, and distributing digital images and video in a quick, efficient, practical and/or cost-effective way. The method of processing video can take a different region or object and replace the pixels in the frames of the scenes that comprise the features and characteristics of the identified region or object with a different set of pixels. The replacement or other customizations of the frames and scenes lead to a naturally integrated video or image which is indistinguishable by the human eye or other visual system. In one embodiment, this invention can be used to provide different advertising elements into an image or set of images for different viewers, or to enable a viewer to control elements within a video and add their own preference or other elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Inventors: David M Ludwigsen, Dirk Dewar Brown, Mark Bradshaw
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Publication number: 20220289207Abstract: A vehicle sensor unit includes a communication device configured to communicate with one or more other sensor units, a controller of a vehicle system on which the vehicle sensor unit is disposed, and one or more sensors; a sensor configured to sense one or more characteristics of a vehicle on which the vehicle sensor unit is disposed; and a controller configured to determine one or more operating conditions of the vehicle based on the one or more characteristics that are sensed by the sensor. The controller is configured to control the communication device to communicate the one or more characteristics, the one or more operating conditions, or both the one or more characteristics and the one or more operating conditions. The communication device and the sensor are configured to be disposed onboard the vehicle that does not have an internal source of electric power.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Bret Worden
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Publication number: 20220266876Abstract: A system and method includes a first control system having one or more processors onboard a lead vehicle of a vehicle system that includes the lead vehicle and a remote vehicle. The second control system automatically restricts movement of the vehicle system based on a location of the vehicle system. The processors detect a signal instance of an operator actuating an input device, and communicate a vehicle information request message to the second control system. The second control system communicates a list of vehicle identifiers, that includes a vehicle identifier associated with the remote vehicle, to the processors. The processors communicate a wireless linking message, including a request to establish a communication link, to the remote vehicle based on the vehicle identifier associated with the remote vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Jared Klineman Cooper, Brian Joseph McManus, Frank Wawrzyniak, Ralph C. Haddock, III, Robert James Foy, James Glen Corry, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Todd William Goodermuth, Eugene Smith, Steven Andrew Kellner, Joseph Mario Nazareth, Brian William Schroeck, David Michael Peltz, Jeffrey Donald Kernwein, Daniel J. Rush, David Allen Eldredge
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Publication number: 20220260990Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a portable operator control unit (OCU). The OCU includes a housing, a power supply inside the housing, a controller inside the housing, and a wireless communication unit attached to the housing. The controller is configured to generate control signals for controlling a vehicle from an off-board location of the OCU. The wireless communication unit is configured to wirelessly communicate the control signals to the vehicle over an LTE network.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Derek K. Woo, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Tyler Listoe, Guillaume Mantelet, Earle Edie, Andrew McKay, Brian Lee Staton
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Publication number: 20220241975Abstract: A control system includes a task manager that can determine capability requirements to perform a task on the target object. The task has an associated series of sub-tasks, with the sub-tasks having one or more capability requirements. The task manager selects and assigns a first sequence of sub-tasks to a first robotic machine that has a first set of capabilities and operates according to a first mode of operation. The task manager selects and assigns a second sequence of sub-tasks to a second robotic machine that has a second set of capabilities and operates according to a second mode of operation. The task manager selects the first robotic machine based on the first set of capabilities and the first mode of operation of the first robotic machine, and selects the second robotic machine based on the second set of capabilities and the second mode of operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Huan Tan, John Michael Lizzi, Charles Burton Theurer, Balajee Kannan, Romano Patrick, Mark Bachman, Michael VanderLinden, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Norman Wellings
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Patent number: 11358615Abstract: A system and method includes determining, with a sensor assembly disposed onboard a first aerial vehicle, a direction in which a fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle, and determining an orientation of the first aerial vehicle relative to a second aerial vehicle based at least in part on the direction in which the fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLCInventors: Eugene Smith, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Ballesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico, Shawn Arthur McClintic, David Peltz
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Patent number: 11345378Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a controller that communicates between a first vehicle and a second vehicle and/or a monitoring device in a vehicle system. The controller determines a communication loss and, responsive to determining the communication loss, switches to communicating via a different communication path. The controller also determines an operational restriction on movement of the vehicle system based on the communication loss that is determined, obtains a transitional plan that designates operational settings of the vehicle system at one or more different locations along a route being traveled by the vehicle system, different distances along the route being traveled by the vehicle system, and/or different times. The controller automatically changes the movement of the vehicle system according to the operational settings designated by the transitional plan to reduce the movement of the vehicle system to or below the operational restriction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Scott William Dulmage, Brian Douglas Lawry, Wolfgang Daum, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Eugene Smith, Glen Paul Peltonen, Steven Andrew Kellner, Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Robert Thomas Oliveira, Jared Klineman Cooper
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Publication number: 20220167133Abstract: A vehicle communication system includes a mobile server unit configured to be operably deployed onboard a first vehicle of a vehicle system. The mobile server unit includes an antenna, a transceiver, and a controller. The controller may control the transceiver to establish a wireless onboard private network with plural mobile client units that are located on other vehicles of the vehicle system, for wireless communications between the vehicles of the vehicle system, while the vehicle system is moving. The mobile server unit may establish the private network in coordination with other mobile server units that are onboard other vehicles in the vehicle system, such that a selected one of the mobile server units may be designated as a master server unit for overall control of the private network, and the other mobile server units are designated as subordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Tyler Listoe, Guillaume Mantelet, Earle Edie, Andrew McKay
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Patent number: 11332167Abstract: A system includes one or more processors, a communication device, and a positive train control (PTC) system. The one or more processors and communication device are onboard a lead vehicle of a vehicle system that includes the lead vehicle and a first remote vehicle. The PTC system is configured to restrict movement of the vehicle system based on a location of the vehicle system. The PTC system communicates a list of vehicle identifiers to the one or more processors. The communication device communicates a wireless linking message, which includes a vehicle identifier associated with the first remote vehicle, to the first remote vehicle. The communication device establishes a communication link between the lead vehicle and the first remote vehicle responsive to receipt of the wireless linking message at the first remote vehicle. The one or more processors remotely control movement of the first remote vehicle via the communication link.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Jared Klineman Cooper, Brian Joseph McManus, Frank Wawrzyniak, Ralph C. Haddock, III, Robert James Foy, James Glen Corry, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Todd William Goodermuth, Eugene Smith, Steven Andrew Kellner, Joseph Mario Nazareth, Brian William Schroeck, David Michael Peltz, Jeffrey Donald Kernwein, Daniel J. Rush, David Allen Eldredge
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Patent number: 11332174Abstract: A system is provided having a vehicle. The vehicle includes a chassis, and a first network bus extending from internally in the chassis to a first network port attached externally to the chassis at a first side of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a second network bus extending from internally in the chassis to a second network port attached externally to the first chassis at a second side of the vehicle. The first network bus has a first electrical configuration and the second network bus has a second electrical configuration that is different than the first electrical configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Patricia Sue Lacy
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Patent number: 11284233Abstract: A vehicle communication system includes a mobile server unit configured to be operably deployed onboard a first vehicle of a vehicle system. The mobile server unit includes an antenna, a transceiver, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the transceiver to establish a wireless onboard private long term evolution (LTE) network with plural mobile client units that are located on other vehicles of the vehicle system, for wireless communications between the vehicles of the vehicle system, while the vehicle system is moving. The mobile server unit may be configured to establish the private LTE network in coordination with other mobile server units that are onboard other vehicles in the vehicle system, such that a selected one of the mobile server units is designated as a master server unit for overall control of the private LTE network, and the other mobile server units are designated as subordinates.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Tyler Listoe, Guillaume Mantelet, Earle Edie, Andrew McKay
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Publication number: 20220083784Abstract: The present invention discloses a new method for analyzing, modifying, and distributing digital images and video in a quick, efficient, practical and/or cost-effective way. The method of processing video can take a different region or object and replace the pixels in the frames of the scenes that comprise the features and characteristics of the identified region or object with a different set of pixels. The replacement or other customizations of the frames and scenes lead to a naturally integrated video or image which is indistinguishable by the human eye or other visual system. In one embodiment, this invention can be used to provide different advertising elements into an image or set of images for different viewers, or to enable a viewer to control elements within a video and add their own preference or other elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: David M. Ludwigsen, Dirk Dewar Brown, Mark Bradshaw
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Publication number: 20220063689Abstract: System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Wolfgang Daum, Martin Paget, Daniel Rush, Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Ballesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico, Suresh Govindappa, Manibabu Pippalla, Sethu Madhavan, Arunachala Karthik Sridharan, Prabhu Marimuthu, Jared Klineman Cooper, Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Paul Kenneth Houpt, David Lowell McKay
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Publication number: 20220061304Abstract: A vehicle system with spray control is provided. The vehicle system includes a vehicle platform for a vehicle, a dispenser configured to dispense a composition onto at least a portion of an environmental feature adjacent to the vehicle, and a controller configured to operate one or more of the vehicle, the vehicle platform, or the dispenser based at least in part on environmental information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Mark Bachman, Michael VanderLinden, Norman Wellings, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling