Patents by Inventor Rick Seltzer
Rick Seltzer 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).
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Patent number: 12724158Abstract: An animal tracking system is provided which include various features that are enabled using satellite-based positioning systems, but further are enabled by fine accuracy position detection, such as may be made available through use of realtime kinematic (RTK) positioning or post-processing kinematic (PPK) positioning technologies. These include, for example, various usage techniques in terms of set up and use of virtual boundaries to define containment areas and or exclusion zones, and to both see historical animal positioning within a containment zone and determine likely animal behaviors based on such positioning. Additionally, fine-grained indoor location via radio frequency technologies, switchover among locating technologies, and power management techniques are described, as well as uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2024Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: Radio Systems CorporationInventors: Pete Moore, Marc Brush, Ben Prothro, Kenneth Wacasey, Rick Seltzer, Kaleigh Veca Smith
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Patent number: 12710551Abstract: An animal tracking system is provided which include various features that are enabled using satellite-based positioning systems, but further are enabled by fine accuracy position detection, such as may be made available through use of realtime kinematic (RTK) positioning or post-processing kinematic (PPK) positioning technologies. These include, for example, various usage techniques in terms of set up and use of virtual boundaries to define containment areas and or exclusion zones, and to both see historical animal positioning within a containment zone and determine likely animal behaviors based on such positioning. Additionally, fine-grained indoor location via radio frequency technologies, switchover among locating technologies, and power management techniques are described, as well as uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2024Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Radio Systems CorporationInventors: Pete Moore, Marc Brush, Ben Prothro, Kenneth Wacasey, Rick Seltzer, Kaleigh Veca Smith
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Publication number: 20250151697Abstract: An animal tracking system is provided which include various features that are enabled using satellite-based positioning systems, but further are enabled by fine accuracy position detection, such as may be made available through use of realtime kinematic (RTK) positioning or post-processing kinematic (PPK) positioning technologies. These include, for example, various usage techniques in terms of set up and use of virtual boundaries to define containment areas and or exclusion zones, and to both see historical animal positioning within a containment zone and determine likely animal behaviors based on such positioning. Additionally, fine-grained indoor location via radio frequency technologies, switchover among locating technologies, and power management techniques are described, as well as uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: May 15, 2025Inventors: PETE MOORE, MARC BRUSH, BEN PROTHRO, KENNETH WACASEY, RICK SELTZER, KALEIGH VECA SMITH
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Publication number: 20250155587Abstract: An animal tracking system is provided which include various features that are enabled using satellite-based positioning systems, but further are enabled by fine accuracy position detection, such as may be made available through use of realtime kinematic (RTK) positioning or post-processing kinematic (PPK) positioning technologies. These include, for example, various usage techniques in terms of set up and use of virtual boundaries to define containment areas and or exclusion zones, and to both see historical animal positioning within a containment zone and determine likely animal behaviors based on such positioning. Additionally, fine-grained indoor location via radio frequency technologies, switchover among locating technologies, and power management techniques are described, as well as uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: May 15, 2025Inventors: PETE MOORE, MARC BRUSH, BEN PROTHRO, KENNETH WACASEY, RICK SELTZER, KALEIGH VECA SMITH
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Publication number: 20250155584Abstract: An animal tracking system is provided which include various features that are enabled using satellite-based positioning systems, but further are enabled by fine accuracy position detection, such as may be made available through use of realtime kinematic (RTK) positioning or post-processing kinematic (PPK) positioning technologies. These include, for example, various usage techniques in terms of set up and use of virtual boundaries to define containment areas and or exclusion zones, and to both see historical animal positioning within a containment zone and determine likely animal behaviors based on such positioning. Additionally, fine-grained indoor location via radio frequency technologies, switchover among locating technologies, and power management techniques are described, as well as uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: May 15, 2025Inventors: RICK SELTZER, PETE MOORE
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Patent number: 10151843Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking a mobile subject based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) data, including a boundary test unit to evaluate a boundary violation according to the current actionable position and current actionable speed of the mobile subject relative to a predetermined boundary, wherein the current actionable position is a sum of a prior actionable position and a product of a degraded position difference and a position tracking coefficient, and a current actionable speed is a function of a prior actionable speed and a degraded speed estimate.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Radio Systems CorporationInventors: Scott McFarland, Keith Griffith, Rick Seltzer
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Publication number: 20160116602Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking a mobile subject based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) data, including a boundary test unit to evaluate a boundary violation according to the current actionable position and current actionable speed of the mobile subject relative to a predetermined boundary, wherein the current actionable position is a sum of a prior actionable position and a product of a degraded position difference and a position tracking coefficient, and a current actionable speed is a function of a prior actionable speed and a degraded speed estimate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Scott McFarland, Keith Griffith, Rick Seltzer
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Patent number: 9186091Abstract: Systems and methods of analyzing the distribution of weight of animals, including a base member, a plurality of sensor regions connected to the base member to respectively receive feet of the animal when the animal is standing, each sensor region having a plurality of sensors to generate signals indicative of weight applied by each foot to a respective sensor region, at least a portion of the sensors being located between the base member and the sensor regions and spaced apart proximate perimeter portions of each sensor region, and a control unit to generate an output indicative of the weight applied by each foot to the respective sensor regions based on an aggregation of the generated signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Litecure, LLCInventors: Christopher E. Mainini, Greg Gillis, Anita White, Darryl Millis, Erica Shoults, Jessica Morris, Rick Seltzer
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Publication number: 20130127658Abstract: A method, and an apparatus to perform the method, of tracking a mobile subject based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) data, the method including detecting motion of the mobile subject independently of the GNSS data with a motion detector, receiving the GNSS data and determining an actionable position and speed of the mobile subject, with an actionable position and speed unit, according to GNSS position and speed, detection results of the motion detector, and at least one of, or any combination of, GNSS solution metrics, GNSS signal metrics, or a prior actionable position and speed, and evaluating, with a boundary test unit, the actionable position and speed of the mobile subject relative to a predetermined boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: Radio Systems CorporationInventors: Scott A. MCFARLAND, Keith Griffith, Rick Seltzer
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Publication number: 20130018282Abstract: Systems and methods of analyzing the distribution of weight of animals, including a base member, a plurality of sensor regions connected to the base member to respectively receive feet of the animal when the animal is standing, each sensor region having a plurality of sensors to generate signals indicative of weight applied by each foot to a respective sensor region, at least a portion of the sensors being located between the base member and the sensor regions and spaced apart proximate perimeter portions of each sensor region, and a control unit to generate an output indicative of the weight applied by each foot to the respective sensor regions based on an aggregation of the generated signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Inventors: Christopher E. Mainini, Greg Gillis, Anita White, Darryl Millis, Erica Shoults, Jessica Morris, Rick Seltzer