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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.

Patent No.:

US 11691687 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023

Filed:

May. 22, 2019

Solar wireless collector beacon (data hub)

Applicant:

4iiii Innovations Inc., Cochrane, CA;

Inventors:

Kipling William Fyfe, Cochrane, CA;

Ben Hilborn, Cochrane, CA;

Ken Fyfe, Cochrane, CA;

Assignee:

4IIII INNOVATIONS INC., Cochrane, CA;

Attorney:

Cozen O'Connor

Primary Examiner:

Bryce M Aisaka

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/35 (2006.01); H02J 50/00 (2016.01); B62J 45/20 (2020.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); G06F 16/909 (2019.01); B62J 50/22 (2020.01); B62J 43/30 (2020.01); B62J 45/40 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62J 45/20 (2020.02); B62J 43/30 (2020.02); B62J 45/40 (2020.02); B62J 50/22 (2020.02); G06F 16/909 (2019.01); H02J 7/35 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 40/244 (2013.01); H02J 50/001 (2020.01); H02J 2310/40 (2020.01);
Abstract

A solar wireless collector beacon (data hub) and associated method stores source data, received wirelessly from a data source, in a data buffer of the data hub. Sensor data is read from one or more onboard sensors of the data hub and stored as structural and/or environmental data in the data buffer. The environmental data is processed to determine an operating status of a vehicle being used with the data hub and an energy harvester of the vehicle is controlled to harvest energy from the vehicle based on the operating status. One or more of the operating status, the source data, and the environmental data is wirelessly transmitted from the data hub to an external device.

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