Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8134462 | Self-contained sensor package for water security and safety Disclosed is a floating sensor system having a casing that encloses a microcontroller. The microcontroller includes a digital processor and a non-volatile memory. The casing also encloses a data bus that connects the microcontroller to an external environment sensor... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8106768 | Method of operating a self-powered home automation sensor device for detecting the existence of and/or for measuring the intensity of a physical phenomenon The method of operation applies to a self-powered home automation sensor device for detecting the existence of and/or for measuring the intensity of a first physical phenomenon, comprising a means of converting an effect of a second physical phenomenon into electric... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8089355 | Context-detected auto-mode switching An apparatus and method provide the automatic, self-configuration of a communication device to adjust to the user's environmental circumstances. Method includes creating a set of mode templates corresponding to a plurality of potential environmental circumstances an... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8063776 | Sensor data sharing The disclosed embodiments relate to a method for operating two or more mobile terminals in an interactive session. The mobile terminals are provided with one or more sensors. The data captured by the sensors is sent via a wireless connection to the other mobile term... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063775 | Energy management system An energy management system includes a control and uplink module adapted to selectively monitor and control at least one energy consuming device, the control and uplink module in communication with an electronic storage device and adapted to transmit data to the ele... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063774 | Non-toxic, biodegradable sensor nodes for use with a wireless network A sensor node for deployment in association with an earth surface has a biodegradable plastic housing, an electronic circuit board within the housing, and at least one battery for providing electrical energy to the circuit board. The circuit board has a non-toxic su... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8035512 | Integrated solution for sensor interface for monitoring the environmental parameters by means of RFID technologies Integrated device comprising: a microprocessor unit (1) which is interfaced to a program memory unit (2), a data memory unit (3), one or more integrated sensors (11), one or more external sensors (12) which may be either digitally ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026846 | Mobile radiation surveillance network A detection system and method having at least one detection unit, and a control center unit. The detection unit includes at least one sensor configured to generate sensor data correlated to sensed conditions, a locator for actively determining location data c... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7978067 | Intelligent container A system for remotely identifying, tracking, and monitoring transported goods includes a sensing and communications device (14) embedded in a shipping container (2). The sensing and communications device (14) includes onboard sensors (58,60,6... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961093 | Wireless sensor system and method The invention is a wireless sensor system coupled with sensors to non-invasively monitor external stimuli. By monitoring the outputs of sensors, the output data can be used to activate an alarm or logged for further diagnoses of human conditions. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7944352 | Remote sensing and communication system A remote sensing system and method for instrumenting the entries to manhole enclosures, in order to provide a platform and means for sensing environmental parameters within and around the enclosures and wirelessly transmitting those parameters to a distant site. The... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7916015 | System and method for monitoring environmental conditions A monitoring system and method for detecting environmental conditions is provided, the monitoring system including a sensing unit including a plurality of sensors for obtaining data related to environmental conditions, a controller interfaced with the sensing unit f... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916016 | Smart container monitoring system A remotely monitorable shipping container including a shipping container body having associated therewith at least one door and at least one door latch having a latch locking element arranged for locking engagement with a door mounted locking element, at least one w... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7902976 | Ionising radiation detector An assembly (13) for monitoring ionising radiation comprises a detector substrate (2) for generating electronic charge responsive to incident ionising radiation, the detector substrate (2) having an array of ionising radiation sense volumes (... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7880610 | System and method that provide emergency instructions The present invention relates to a system and method that provide emergency instructions to an individual. The emergency notification system includes a plurality of badges where each badge is adapted to be joined with an individual. The emergency notification system... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7872574 | Sensory enhancement systems and methods in personal electronic devices Disclosed are personal electronic devices (PEDs) having a sensory enhancement (SE) system for monitoring environmental conditions and detecting environmental events, for example but not limited to, changes in acoustic, thermal, optical, electromagnetic, chemical, dy... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868756 | Zone boundary adjustment method and system A zone shaping method and system. The method comprises receiving by a computing system from a sensory infrastructure transmitter attached to an object data associated with the first object. The object is located within a zone area. The computing system calculates a ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859405 | Wireless sensing device and wireless network sensing system A wireless sensing device includes a processing module, a wireless communication module, at least one sensing element, a power module and a power-monitoring module. The wireless communication module is electrically connected with the processing module to transmit or... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7808379 | Mode selectable field transmitter A selectable mode field transmitter is configurable to operate in one of a plurality of operating modes having different combinations of function, performance, and power consumption. The selectable mode field transmitter includes a housing, a sensor located within t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7777623 | Wireless sensor system A sensor system has a least one voltage generator for conversion of non-electrical energy to electrical energy. At least one energy store is connected downstream from the voltage generator. At least one voltage converter is connected to the energy store such that it... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7764171 | Adjusting a communications channel between control unit and remote sensor The present invention provides apparatuses and systems for adjusting a communication channel between a control unit and a remote sensor. A system may include a control unit that controls an environmental unit and a remote sensor that provides data about an environme... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760084 | Redundant monitoring Methods, mediums, systems, and devices for redundant monitoring are disclosed. One method of providing redundancy in an environmental monitoring device includes combining a first sensor, one or more redundant sensors, and a plurality of control logic components; mon... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760083 | Burglarproof apparatus for an electronic machine A burglarproof apparatus, which is built in an electronic machine with a communication connecting port being electrically connected to an end of a communication cable and another end of the communication cable being connected to a communication device, includes a de... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7755481 | Disaster warning system A disaster warning system including a weather radio, a tornado acoustic signature detector combined with a smoke detector and a carbon monoxide detector. The disaster warning system includes a central control unit and peripheral alarm unit, which report the alarm si... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7733223 | Effectively documenting irregularities in a responsive user's environment A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for accepting user-response-indicative data and environmental-regularity-indicative data from an environment and configuring a distillation recording of the environmental-regularity-indicative dat... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7714714 | Systems and methods for situational feature set selection for target classification Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for improved signal processing within a remote sensor system. The system includes a detection component and a classification component. The detection component is adapted to detect an event. The classific... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710264 | Systems and methods for power efficient situation aware seismic detection and classification Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for improved signal processing within a remote sensor system. The system includes a detection component and a processing component. The detection component is adapted to detect an event and generate a sig... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710265 | Systems and methods for dynamic situational signal processing for target detection and classification Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for improved signal processing within a remote sensor system. The system includes a detection component and a processing component. The detection component is adapted to detect an event and generate a sig... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7688199 | Smoke and fire detection in aircraft cargo compartments A detection system may include at least one sensor located in an enclosable space, each sensor being configured to detect at least one environmental feature and provide a corresponding at least one environmental feature signal. The system may process the at least on... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7675414 | Methods and apparatus for an environmental and behavioral adaptive wireless communication device Methods, devices, apparatus and systems are provided for adaptation of a wireless communication device based on current environmental conditions, historical environmental condition patterns and/or historical usage patterns. In this regard, the device senses such env... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7667594 | Sensor that can be irreversibly changed A sensor of this comprises a receiving section that receives a signal that is sent from outside, a circuit whose impedance changes irreversibly in accordance with an environmental change, a measurement section that measures the impedance of the circuit in an event t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646297 | Context-detected auto-mode switching An apparatus and method is disclosed providing the automatic, self configuration of a communication device to adjust to the user's environmental circumstances. Method includes creating a set of mode templates corresponding to a plurality of potential environmental c... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646298 | Method for detecting changes in measurable conditions A method for receiving information on measurable conditions using at least one enterprise server and at least one remote terminal unit. The enterprise server is adapted to simultaneously handle multiple types of telemetry and multiple different protocols associated ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7598858 | Methods, apparatuses, and systems for monitoring environmental parameters within an enclosure An apparatus for monitoring environmental parameters within an enclosure includes a power source; a communication device electrically connected to the power source and attachable to a cover of the enclosure; and a sensor suspended away from the cover of the enclosur... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7589630 | Remote sensing and communication system A remote sensing system and method for instrumenting the entries to manhole enclosures, in order to provide a platform and means for sensing environmental parameters within and around the enclosures and wirelessly transmitting those parameters to a distant site. The... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7579947 | Industrial process sensor with sensor coating detection An industrial process sensor having a sensor component exposed to process fluid detects when the sensor performance has been degraded by a sensor coating buildup from the process fluid. A baseline statistical metric, such as standard deviation of the process paramet... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7567174 | Combination alarm device with enhanced wireless notification and position location features A device and method for determining and automatically transmitting a geographic location of a wireless alarm device during a potential emergency utilizing enhanced wireless communication and position location systems. In one aspect, a wireless alarm device includes ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561040 | Wireless probe system and method for a fueling environment A fueling environment is equipped with leak detection probes and liquid level probes. Each of the probes is associated with a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceivers send probe data to a site communicator wireless transceiver. To ensure that the site communi... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7554442 | Event-driven mobile hazmat monitoring A wireless sensor network for monitoring of a container includes a sensor disposed for monitoring of a container, at least one remote sensor interface, and a gateway. The sensor is configured to acquire data related to the container and communicate sensor data as a ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7545268 | Shielding detection system for cargo receptacles A shielding detection system for cargo receptacles includes an inertia test apparatus configured to detect mass and inertia data of a cargo receptacle. The inertia test apparatus provides an indication of the presence of shielding within the cargo receptacle. ... | 06/09/2009 |
