Patents by Inventor Paul Benjamin H. Collins

Paul Benjamin H. Collins 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: 20240085855
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device comprises a housing, a feedback device, a depth sensor, and a processing element. The feedback device is located in the housing and configured to generate a vibration. The depth sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of a current depth of the housing. The processing element is in electronic communication with the feedback device and the depth sensor. The processing element is configured to determine the current depth based on the signal indicative of a current depth and control the feedback device to generate the vibration in a pattern indicative of a rate of change in depth based at least in part on the current depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Benjamin H. Collins, Patrick M. Danko, Mark W. Gepner, Cody D. Jung, Daniel D. Jones
  • Publication number: 20230182875
    Abstract: A topside buoy system is disclosed for relaying a status of a diver between a monitoring station and a diver's wearable device and scuba tank pod. The communication may be carried by sonar signals underwater and may be transmitted by short-range communication methods through air. An application on the command station may display diver status information and may receive and transmit messages between the command station and the wearable device of the diver via the topside buoy. The diver location data may be determined relative to the topside buoy by determining a time delay of the sonar signal between the wearable device and the topside buoy, by a plurality of transducers configured to detect an angle from which the sonar signal originated, and a depth of the diver included in the sonar signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Michael R. Kleinigger, Patrick M. Danko, Paul Benjamin H. Collins, Christopher R. Koszarsky, Samantha E. Classen, Victor N. Snesarev, Young-hoon Kim, Christopher M. Kachur, James E. Corbett