Patents by Inventor Nicholas Lloyd Butts

Nicholas Lloyd Butts 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).

  • Publication number: 20230294121
    Abstract: A spray pattern monitoring system includes a spray sensor disposed proximate an outlet of a spray nozzle. The spray sensor has one or more optical sensors configured to emit directional light, such as laser pulses, towards the expected position of a liquid spray emitted from the nozzle. The spray sensor can detect the absence or presence of the liquid spray based on returns of the directional light to the optical sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Marshall T Bremer, Nicholas Lloyd Butts, Daniel R. Wood, JR.
  • Patent number: 11684938
    Abstract: A spray pattern monitoring system includes a spray sensor disposed proximate an outlet of a spray nozzle. The spray sensor has one or more optical sensors configured to emit directional light, such as laser pulses, towards the expected position of a liquid spray emitted from the nozzle. The spray sensor can detect the absence or presence of the liquid spray based on returns of the directional light to the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Marshall T. Bremer, Nicholas Lloyd Butts, Daniel R. Wood, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210016309
    Abstract: A spray pattern monitoring system includes a spray sensor disposed proximate an outlet of a spray nozzle. The spray sensor has one or more optical sensors configured to emit directional light, such as laser pulses, towards the expected position of a liquid spray emitted from the nozzle. The spray sensor can detect the absence or presence of the liquid spray based on returns of the directional light to the optical sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Marshall T. Bremer, Nicholas Lloyd Butts, Daniel R. Wood, JR.
  • Patent number: 8213321
    Abstract: A method and system monitor a communications network, e.g., a controller area network (CAN), and more specifically, an in-vehicle communications network, by maintaining a count of each type of error code and a histogram of all network messages seen by each of the controllers during a measurement period; and by determining a bus health index of the communication bus based upon a percentage of a given type of error to the total count of all errors during a measurement period. An individual controller or controller area network bus segment can be indicated as having a communications problem as a result of the health index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Lloyd Butts, Noel Wayne Anderson
  • Publication number: 20080186870
    Abstract: A method and system monitor a communications network, e.g., a controller area network (CAN), and more specifically, an in-vehicle communications network, by maintaining a count of each type of error code and a histogram of all network messages seen by each of the controllers during a measurement period; and by determining a bus health index of the communication bus based upon a percentage of a given type of error to the total count of all errors during a measurement period. An individual controller or controller area network bus segment can be indicated as having a communications problem as a result of the health index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Nicholas Lloyd Butts, Noel Wayne Anderson