Patents by Inventor Mitchell Butler

Mitchell Butler 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: 11022442
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for indoor mapping are described herein. The methods include providing an indoor map containing a current location of a user device, the indoor map having a containing exterior space, a contained interior space within the containing exterior space, and a linkage, the linkage having a coordinate transformation to project coordinates of the interior space onto coordinates of the exterior space. The methods also include receiving a point of interest, determining a path from the current location to the point of interest, the current location and the point of interest being in walkable areas, the path including a transition between the interior space and the exterior space, and providing instructions to navigate along the path, the coordinates of the interior space and the coordinates of the exterior space are referenced by either the instructions prior to the transition and the instructions after the transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MappedIn Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Paskaris, Erkang Wei, James Nathan Swidersky, Sarah Knight, Mitchell Butler
  • Patent number: 10636207
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) map of a facility is provided. The system has at least one processor and a memory having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform functions comprising: receiving a two-dimensional (2D) map of the facility; converting or importing the 2D map to a base map; generating or editing polygons on the base map, each polygon representative of a facility unit in the base map; generating one or more perspectives at one or more points on the base map to generate the 3D map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MAPPEDIN INC.
    Inventors: James Nathan Swidersky, Patrick Paskaris, Mitchell Butler, Erkang Wei, Zachary Sean Cregan
  • Patent number: 10156446
    Abstract: A facility wayfinding system is provided which includes an interactive public display device and a mobile device, running a mobile wayfinding application. The interactive public display device, which is situated at a first location within a facility, displays a facility map showing facility units, receives a user selection of a facility unit as a second location, and displays a route from the first location to the second location on the facility map. The mobile device also displays the facility map, displays a route from a start location to a destination location on the facility map, and updates the start location to the first location and the destination location to the second location by synchronizing with the interactive public display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: MappedIn Inc.
    Inventors: Hongwei Liu, Leander Lee, Mitchell Butler, Erkang Wei
  • Publication number: 20170284811
    Abstract: A facility wayfinding system is provided which includes an interactive public display device and a mobile device, running a mobile wayfinding application. The interactive public display device, which is situated at a first location within a facility, displays a facility map showing facility units, receives a user selection of a facility unit as a second location, and displays a route from the first location to the second location on the facility map. The mobile device also displays the facility map, displays a route from a start location to a destination location on the facility map, and updates the start location to the first location and the destination location to the second location by synchronizing with the interactive public display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hongwei LIU, Leander LEE, Mitchell BUTLER, Erkang WEI
  • Patent number: 9702706
    Abstract: A facility wayfinding system is provided which includes an interactive public display device and a mobile device, running a mobile wayfinding application. The interactive public display device, which is situated at a first location within a facility, displays a facility map showing facility units, receives a user selection of a facility unit as a second location, and displays a route from the first location to the second location on the facility map. The mobile device also displays the facility map, displays a route from a start location to a destination location on the facility map, and updates the start location to the first location and the destination location to the second location by synchronizing with the interactive public display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: MAPPEDIN INC.
    Inventors: Hongwei Liu, Leander Lee, Mitchell Butler
  • Publication number: 20140156186
    Abstract: A facility wayfinding system is provided which includes an interactive public display device and a mobile device, running a mobile wayfinding application. The interactive public display device, which is situated at a first location within a facility, displays a facility map showing facility units, receives a user selection of a facility unit as a second location, and displays a route from the first location to the second location on the facility map. The mobile device also displays the facility map, displays a route from a start location to a destination location on the facility map, and updates the start location to the first location and the destination location to the second location by synchronizing with the interactive public display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Hongwei LIU, Leander Lee, Mitchell Butler
  • Patent number: 6643788
    Abstract: One data stream is input to a radio frequency (RF) input terminal of a first receiver interface circuit, and the second bit stream is applied to an RF input terminal of a second receiver interface circuit. Each of the receiver interface circuits includes a Reed-Solomon frame synchronization, forward error correction and derandomizer module receiving the bit stream pattern from the RF terminal of the ground station. Following processing in the derandomizer module, the bit stream is input to a wide band frame synchronization module for synchronization on byte-aligned synchronization pattern at the beginning of each wide-band communications block frame. When synchronization has been established, the data frames are collected for transfer to a memory buffer module. Data buffered in the memory buffer module is direct memory access transferred by a VERSA Module Eurocard (VME) bus interface module to the satellite ground station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: John Mitchell Butler, Terry Neal McDonald, Tom Matthew Maggio, John Allen Armstrong, Brian Willard Leikam
  • Patent number: D871423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MAPPEDIN INC.
    Inventors: Mitchell Butler, Nicholas Jessop