Denso Corporation

Balboa Instruments, Inc.

Brunswick Bowling & Billiards Corporation

Light Corporation

Infinitekey, Inc.

Twisthink, L.l.c.

Stryker Corporation

Brent Bouws

Kurosh Nahavandi

Clifford Edwin Lambarth

Warren Edwin Guthrie

Eric John Smith

Chad Conway Souke

Kurt Dykema

Thomas Alan Puvogel

Kent D Pilcher

Richard A Corrington

Christopher B Way

Michael W Steffler

David L Klamer

J Michael Ellis

Aaron Day

Joshua C Colvin

Dennis A Reed

Roland C Bouchard

Gary Morton

Jason Kneen

Lawrence F Leete, Iii

Pat Burel

Thomas J Doman

William C Schenck

Todd Gatto

Brian Bartley

Michael Mckee

A system and method for using a portable device to communicate with a vehicle to authorize one or more vehicle operations. The portable device may authorize the vehicle to unlock/lock doors, start the vehicle engine, or mobilize the vehicle, or a combination thereof. The vehicle may include a vehicle transmitter system with one or more transmitters disposed at various locations on the vehicle, and the portable device may be configured to monitor a communication strength between the portable device and the one or more transmitters of the transmitter system. Based on the monitored signal strength, the portable device may determine location information about itself.

System and method for communicating with a vehicle

A system and method for detecting light fixture failure and for enhancing energy efficient operation of multiple light fixtures. The system includes multiple light control modules and a gateway. The light control modules alert the gateway of a bulb or ballast failure based on light fixture power consumption. The light control module can indicate a sudden failure, a slow failure, a striating failure, a stuck relay failure and a start-up failure. The light control modules can include a photo-sensor and an occupancy sensor for measuring brightness and occupancy, respectively, in the vicinity of one or more light fixtures. The gateway can distribute operating instructions to the light control modules based on changes in the ambient temperature and based on the power consumption of nearby light fixtures.

Luminary control systems

A wireless mesh network where a portion of the nodes have reduced receive sensitivity. The negative effects of the density of the wireless mesh network, such as interference, are reduced when fewer nodes receive messages to rebroadcast. In an alternative embodiment, some of the nodes of the mesh network are configured to not rebroadcast even if they receive a message. A method for configuring a dense mesh network is also provided. As many nodes as possible are discovered and registered in the network. Node characteristics of those nodes are adjusted to reduce or eliminate the negative effects of the dense mesh network so that additional nodes may be discovered and registered.

Wireless mesh network

A method and apparatus for remotely monitoring a status of a spa installation includes transmitting status commands from a spa monitor to a spa installation over a communication link, and generating an alarm if status data is not returned via the link.

Remote spa monitor

A method and apparatus for remotely monitoring a status of a spa installation includes transmitting wireless status commands from a spa monitor to a spa installation over a wireless link, and generating an alarm if status data is not returned via the wireless link.

Remote SPA monitor

An RFID pin detection system includes bowling pins incorporating RFID tags and a pin deck incorporating reader antennas located in positions corresponding to the placement of the bowling pins. A controller energizes the reader antennas to activate RFID tags in those bowling pins that are in the pin-up position. The pin-up information is used in automatic scoring.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) pin detection system

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Holland, MI, United States of America

Brent Bouws