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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2015
Applicant:

The Chamberlain Group, Inc., Elmhurst, IL (US);

Inventor:

Alex Josef Bodurka, Chicago, IL (US);

Assignee:

The Chamberlain Group, Inc., Oak Brook, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A remotely configurable sensor and method for remotely configuring detection of a vehicle in a secured area for housing the vehicle are provided. The method includes providing a sensor in the secured area to detect the vehicle; wirelessly coupling a computing device to the sensor; displaying a configurable sensor setting on a display coupled to the computing device, the configurable sensor setting including at least one of the group consisting of a detection sensitivity, a detection duration, a threshold distance, a rate of approach, a detection rate when idle, a detection rate when active, a threshold distance for an active state, and a detection area; and saving a change to the configurable sensor setting at the sensor.


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