Patents by Inventor Michael McLaughlin

Michael McLaughlin 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: 10482422
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, method, and apparatus to generate a merged record comprises a client server configured to generate a first report; and a recovery server configured to: receive the first report, the first report including first report information including at least one first descriptive term and a customer ID; match the at least one first descriptive term to one of a plurality of descriptive terms in a descriptive term list; determine if a weighted percentage associated with the matched at least one first descriptive term is greater than a predetermined weighted percent; match the at least one first descriptive term to at least one second descriptive term in at least one second report if it is determined that the weighted percentage associated with the matched at least one first descriptive term is greater than the predetermined weighted percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Chargerback, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Colodny, Michael McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20190340570
    Abstract: The invention provide for an item transport management system, comprising at least one server having a processor configured to, receive a pick-up request from a client device to pick up at least one package, the pick-up request including at least a departure location and at least one service request to service at least one item in the at least one package, and transmit a service shipping label to the departure location, the service shipping label being used to direct the package to a service location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Brian Colodny, Michael McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 10469127
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband communication and/or location system having a plurality of channels, each implementing a respective one of a plurality of predetermined codewords. Within each channel, one or more predetermined pulse repetition frequencies are defined. Within a single UWB system, more than two networks of transceivers may be co-located without mutual interference if each is assigned a unique combination of codewords and spreading factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Decawave Ltd
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Billy Verso
  • Publication number: 20190331781
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband (“UWB”) communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver having two antennas. An UWB signal transmitted by the transmitter is received at each of the antennas. By comparing the carrier phases of the received signals, the phase difference can be determined. From this phase difference and the known distance, d, between the antennas, the Cartesian (x, y) location of the transmitter relative to the receiver can be directly determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Gavin Marrow, Igor Dotlic
  • Publication number: 20190331782
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband (“UWB”) communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver having two antennas. An UWB signal transmitted by the transmitter is received at each of the antennas. By comparing the carrier phases of the received signals, the phase difference can be determined. From this phase difference and the known distance, d, between the antennas, the Cartesian (x, y) location of the transmitter relative to the receiver can be directly determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Gavin Marrow, Igor Dotlic
  • Publication number: 20190331780
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband (“UWB”) communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver having two antennas. An UWB signal transmitted by the transmitter is received at each of the antennas. By comparing the carrier phases of the received signals, the phase difference can be determined. From this phase difference and the known distance, d, between the antennas, the Cartesian (x, y) location of the transmitter relative to the receiver can be directly determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Gavin Marrow, Igor Dotlic
  • Publication number: 20190331783
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband (“UWB”) communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver having two antennas. An UWB signal transmitted by the transmitter is received at each of the antennas. By comparing the carrier phases of the received signals, the phase difference can be determined. From this phase difference and the known distance, d, between the antennas, the Cartesian (x, y) location of the transmitter relative to the receiver can be directly determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Gavin Marrow, Igor Dotlic
  • Patent number: 10337169
    Abstract: A stabilizer device for a work vehicle. The work vehicle having a first ground-engaging device having a first midpoint and a second ground-engaging device having a second midpoint. The first ground-engaging device and the second ground-engaging device configured to move the work vehicle along a surface. The stabilizer device comprising a mount coupled to the work vehicle between the first ground-engaging device and the second ground-engaging device. A stabilizer bar coupled to the mount. An actuator coupled to the mount and the stabilizer bar and configured to raise the stabilizer bar from a ground-engaging position to a stowed position. The stabilizer device extends to one of equal to and beyond the second midpoint in the ground-engaging position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Wylie C. Pfaff, Scott S. Hendron, Robert C. Moore, Martti Johannes Lampela, John William Krieger, Peter Fraser Falt, Michael McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20190188984
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method for monitoring lost items, includes a sensor device attached to the lost item, the sensor device configured to transmit a tracking alert signal, the sensor device having a first unique identifier; a portable computing device configured to receive the tracking alert signal when the portable computing device is located proximate the lost item; a location manager configured to determine the location of the portable computing device; and a recovery server configured to: determine and transmit a list of the at least one establishment to the portable computing device; receive a selection of one of the at least one establishment; transmit a return alert to the selected establishment; determine if the first unique identifier matches a second unique identifier stored in a database; and transmit a found notification to a client computing device if the first unique identifier matches the second unique identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Brian Colodny
  • Patent number: 10305540
    Abstract: In an RF system comprising a first transceiver (96) and a second transceiver (98), a first transmission, T1, by the first transceiver (96) allows the second transceiver (98) to determine two possible valid angles of arrival, ±?1, of T1. A second transmission, T2, from the second transmitter (98) to the first transmitter (96) containing ?1 and a bearing, ?1, of a known fixed anchor relative to the second transmitter (98), allows the first transmitter (96) to determine two possible valid angles of arrival, ±?2, of T2. From ?1, ?1, ?2, and a bearing, ?2, of the known fixed anchor relative to the first transmitter (96), the first transceiver (96) can determine the valid angle of arrival of T2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Decawave Limited
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Billy Verso
  • Patent number: 10177809
    Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. In one embodiment, the carrier recovery and timing recovery are performed using just the carrier loop filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DecaWave, Ltd
    Inventors: Ciarán McElroy, Michael McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 10177752
    Abstract: In a receiver facility in an ultra-wideband communication system, a dual-mode circuit adapted to operate in a selected one of three operating modes without changes in circuit topology: a calibration mode adapted to render the circuit substantially independent of circuit component mismatches; a frequency comparator mode adapted to indicate whether the frequency of a first periodic signal is larger or smaller than the frequency of a second periodic signal; and an early-late detector mode adapted to indicate whether the 1st rising edge of the first periodic signal arrived sooner or later than the 1st rising edge of the second periodic signal applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DecaWave, Ltd.
    Inventors: Marius-Gheorghe Neag, Mici McCullagh, Gavin Marow, Michael McLaughlin, Istvan Kovacs
  • Publication number: 20180339951
    Abstract: Fertilizer granules containing elemental sulfur and a hydrogel which expands or swells in the soil to more readily disperse the elemental sulfur surface throughout the soil, which increases the elemental sulfur surface area available for oxidation, and ultimately uptake of sulfur by the plant. The elemental sulfur and hydrogel can be added to a fertilizer composition as either an exterior coating or co-granulated with the base fertilizer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Jozefien Degryse, Roslyn Baird, Rodrigo Coqui da Silva
  • Patent number: 10140644
    Abstract: A system and method for the generation and presentation of candidate domain names are presented. The method includes receiving, by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network, a request to access or purchase access to a software application, the request being received from a user. Keywords associated with at least one of the user, a website of the user, and a business of the user are generated and a candidate domain name relevant to the keywords is generated. A user interface is displayed including the candidate domain name. The user interface enables the user to register the candidate domain name. A plurality of candidate domain names may be generated and organized into carousels or stacks according to a common theme. The candidate domain names may be displayed on a user interface and arranged thereon according to a relevance score of the domain name bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Tapan Kamdar, Garrett Matsudaira, Stacy Steinkuller, Nitin Gupta, Michael McLaughlin, Edward J. Karcher, III
  • Publication number: 20180331718
    Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: DecaWave, Ltd
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Dries Neirynck, Ciaran McElroy
  • Patent number: 10099624
    Abstract: A storage apparatus for a work vehicle where the work vehicle comprises an operator's station defining a floor, a seat assembly coupled to the floor, wherein the seat assembly is rotatable about a seat assembly pivot axis between a forward facing position and a rearward facing position. The storage apparatus comprises at least one drawer support coupled to a backside of the seat assembly, and at least one drawer slidably disposed with the drawer support where the drawer is movable between an access position and a storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Scott S. Hendron, Wylie C. Pfaff, Robert C. Moore, Martti Johannes Lampela, John William Krieger, Peter Fraser Falt, Michael McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20180290940
    Abstract: A granular fertilizer product having at least two sources of boron having different solubilities to tailor boron availability during the entire growing season of a plant, while reducing the risk of boron toxicity. A first source of boron can include a sodium-based or highly water soluble boron compound such as sodium tetraborate and/or boric acid, while a second source of boron can include a calcium-based boron compound such as colemanite (CaB3O4(OH)3.(H2O)) (e.g. when the carrier fertilizer is N- or K-based) and/or boron phosphate (BPO4) (e.g. when the carrier fertilizer is P-based). The solubility of the first source of boron is higher than the solubility of the second source of boron such that the sources of boron have different release rates into the soil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Jozefien Degryse, Roslyn Baird, Rodrigo Coqui da Silva, Kyle Freeman, Thomas Fry
  • Patent number: 10090879
    Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, a stream of estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise. The time of arrival of the first arriving path is developed from the stream of CIR estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Decawave, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Billy Verso, Tony Proudfoot
  • Patent number: 10084507
    Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Decawave, Limited
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Ciaran McElroy, Sinbad Wilmot, Tony Proudfoot
  • Patent number: 10075210
    Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. The phase of the carrier can be determined by accumulating the correlator output before it is rotated by the carrier correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Decawave, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gavin Marrow, Michael McLaughlin, Ciaran McElroy