Patents by Inventor Nicholas D. Butcher

Nicholas D. Butcher 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: 11444704
    Abstract: A network device obtains data associated with transmissions received at one or more receive antennas from multiple transmit antennas located at different locations. The network device solves, based on the data and using an antenna transmission model, for unknown variables associated with the one or more receive antennas or the multiple transmit antennas to produce solution results that include solved parameters corresponding to the unknown variables. The network device modifies antenna profiles associated with the one or more receive antennas, in an antenna profile database, based on the solution results. The network device uses the modified antenna profiles to estimate a location of one or more of the multiple transmit antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher
  • Patent number: 11222213
    Abstract: One or more devices may detect an indication of relevant multiple images of an environment of a vehicle. The indication may include at least one of input from a user of the vehicle, a set of instructions, or a threshold measurement by a sensor. The one or more devices may mark the multiple images of the environment as relevant. The one or more devices may identify corresponding types of one or more objects shown in the multiple images. The one or more devices may determine whether the multiple images show an occurrence of an event with respect to the one or more objects. Detection of the event may be based on determining corresponding locations of the one or more objects in relation to each other or to the vehicle. The one or more devices may perform, based on whether the multiple images show the occurrence of the event, one or more actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D Butcher, Michiel Alain Hoorens Van Heyningen
  • Publication number: 20210266079
    Abstract: A network device obtains data associated with transmissions received at one or more receive antennas from multiple transmit antennas located at different locations. The network device solves, based on the data and using an antenna transmission model, for unknown variables associated with the one or more receive antennas or the multiple transmit antennas to produce solution results that include solved parameters corresponding to the unknown variables. The network device modifies antenna profiles associated with the one or more receive antennas, in an antenna profile database, based on the solution results. The network device uses the modified antenna profiles to estimate a location of one or more of the multiple transmit antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher
  • Patent number: 11018780
    Abstract: A network device receives first data associated with a first transmission received at a second antenna from a first antenna and stores the first data as a first antenna profile associated with the second antenna. The network device uses the stored first antenna profile for determining at least one first transmission characteristic associated with a third antenna transmitting to the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher
  • Patent number: 11003938
    Abstract: A device can identify a tracking device; identify, in an image or video and using a computer vision technique, a tracked asset or an identifier associated with the tracked asset, wherein the tracking device is to be used to track a location of the tracked asset; determine information identifying an association between the tracking device and the tracked asset based on identifying the tracking device and identifying, in the image or video and using the computer vision technique, the tracked asset or the identifier associated with the tracked asset; determine a link between the tracking device and the tracked asset based on the information identifying the association between the tracking device and the tracked asset; and store or provide link information that identifies the link between the tracking device and the tracked asset to track the location of the tracked asset using the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher
  • Publication number: 20210097302
    Abstract: One or more devices may detect an indication of relevant multiple images of an environment of a vehicle. The indication may include at least one of input from a user of the vehicle, a set of instructions, or a threshold measurement by a sensor. The one or more devices may mark the multiple images of the environment as relevant. The one or more devices may identify corresponding types of one or more objects shown in the multiple images. The one or more devices may determine whether the multiple images show an occurrence of an event with respect to the one or more objects. Detection of the event may be based on determining corresponding locations of the one or more objects in relation to each other or to the vehicle. The one or more devices may perform, based on whether the multiple images show the occurrence of the event, one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas D. BUTCHER, Michiel Alain HOORENS VAN HEYNINGEN
  • Publication number: 20200295852
    Abstract: A network device receives first data associated with a first transmission received at a second antenna from a first antenna and stores the first data as a first antenna profile associated with the second antenna. The network device uses the stored first antenna profile for determining at least one first transmission characteristic associated with a third antenna transmitting to the second antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher
  • Publication number: 20200167585
    Abstract: A device can identify a tracking device; identify, in an image or video and using a computer vision technique, a tracked asset or an identifier associated with the tracked asset, wherein the tracking device is to be used to track a location of the tracked asset; determine information identifying an association between the tracking device and the tracked asset based on identifying the tracking device and identifying, in the image or video and using the computer vision technique, the tracked asset or the identifier associated with the tracked asset; determine a link between the tracking device and the tracked asset based on the information identifying the association between the tracking device and the tracked asset; and store or provide link information that identifies the link between the tracking device and the tracked asset to track the location of the tracked asset using the tracking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Nicholas D. BUTCHER
  • Patent number: 10637591
    Abstract: A network device receives first data associated with a first training transmission received at a second antenna from a first antenna, the first data describing characteristics of the first training transmission, characteristics of the first antenna, and characteristics of the second antenna. The network device receives second data associated with a second training transmission received at a third antenna from the first antenna, the second data describing characteristics of the second training transmission, characteristics of the first antenna, and characteristics of the third antenna. The network device stores the first data within a database as a first antenna profile associated with the second antenna, and stores the second data within the database as a second antenna profile associated with the third antenna. The network device retrieves and uses the first antenna profile for determining at least one first transmission characteristic associated with a fourth antenna transmitting to the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Butcher