Inventor

Michael James Hartman

Inventor

Clifton Park, NY, US

Overview

66→

Patents

1992–2020

Patent span

Electricity

Primary field (CPC H)

Patents· 66 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

H04Wprimary

H04WWireless communication networks14%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication10%

H05BElectric heating8%

Y02BClimate change mitigation technologies related to buildings, e.g. housing, house appliances or related end-user applications7%

G01SRadio direction-finding6%

H04BTransmission6%

G01RMeasuring electric variables4%

F21VFunctional features or details of lighting devices or systems thereof4%

F21SNon-portable lighting devices3%

F21WIndexing scheme associated with subclasses f21k, f21l, f21s and f21v, relating to uses or applications of lighting devices or systems3%

PatentTitleYear

10,849,205Luminaire having a beacon and a directional antenna2020 10,750,420Intelligent heterogeneous wireless handoff2020 10,666,623Wired communications systems with improved capacity and security2020 10,509,101Street lighting communications, control, and special services2019 10,250,328Positioning system based on visible light communications2019 10,168,417Systems and methods for tracking location in industrial facilities2019 10,165,398Geofencing for wireless communications2018 10,070,265System for selective accuracy of an indoor positioning system2018 10,064,114Intelligent heterogeneous wireless handoff2018 10,057,727Indoor positioning system based on motion sensing augmented with beacons2018 9,974,146Commissioning method of lighting control system using visual light communication2018 9,967,716System for protected location beacon code generation2018 9,945,960Luminaire associate2018 9,949,347System and processes for commissioning indoor industrial lighting2018 9,744,178'Respirable agglomerates of porous carrier particles and micronized drug'2017 9,648,701'Multi-functional optical sensor for indoor lighting systems'2017 9,639,725'Tracking associate for factory and warehousing optimization'2017 9,621,265'Street lighting control, monitoring, and data transportation system and method'2017 9,622,324'Geolocation aid and system'2017 9,622,323'Luminaire associate'2017 9,563,889'Method and apparatus for secure wireless point of sale transactions'2017 9,560,720'Emergency vehicle alert system'2017 9,526,136'Electronic driver for an illumination device and method of operating thereof'2016 9,473,999'Intelligent heterogeneous wireless handoff'2016 9,452,139'Respirable agglomerates of porous carrier particles and micronized drug'2016 9,439,269'Powerline luminaire communications'2016 9,426,854'Electronic driver for controlling an illumination device'2016 9,420,674'System and method for monitoring street lighting luminaires'2016 9,369,260'Division free duplexing networks'2016 9,355,670'Increased spectral efficiency and reduced synchronization delay with bundled transmissions'2016 9,232,934'Systems and methods for communicating ultrasound probe location and image information'2016 9,130,747'Software radio frequency canceller'2015 9,100,307'Systems and methods for communicating ultrasound data by adjusting compression rate and/or frame rate of region of interest mask'2015 9,030,921'Increased spectral efficiency and reduced synchronization delay with bundled transmissions'2015 8,935,095'Safety system and device and methods of operating'2015 8,787,571'Wired communications systems with improved capacity and security'2014 8,688,046'Quiet spectrum harvester'2014 8,688,124'Handoff metric for multiple transmission technologies'2014 8,547,948'Antenna management system'2013 8,521,520'Handoffs between different voice encoder systems'2013 8,509,129'System and method for adjusting media access control parameters in a wireless network'2013 8,483,240'Piggyback networks'2013 8,423,196'Augmented distribution transformer and method of making same'2013 8,379,584'Generalized division free duplexing techniques for decreasing rendevous time'2013 8,340,833'Control distribution transformer and method of making same'2012 8,315,630'Handoff metric for multiple transmission technologies'2012 8,199,681'Software radio frequency canceller'2012 8,104,672'Security system, mobile security device, and methods of operating'2012 8,102,148'Augmented distribution transformer and method of making same'2012 7,903,631'Mesh-to-cluster protocol'2011 7,839,840'Method and system for routing traffic in a communication network'2010 7,756,064'Reduced complexity staged topologies for wireless communications'2010 7,756,063'Parallel wireless topologies'2010 7,756,062'Periodically reconfigured networks'2010 7,548,512'Methods and systems for prioritizing data transferred on a Local Area Network'2009 7,489,635'Routing cost based network congestion control for quality of service'2009 6,746,350'Practice hockey puck'2004 6,638,188'Practice hockey puck'2003 6,542,536'Spread spectrum communications with selectable data transfer rates'2003 6,411,678'Internet based remote diagnostic system'2002 5,903,594'Power line communications spread spectrum protocol'1999 5,664,093'System and method for managing faults in a distributed system'1997 5,291,431'Array multiplier adapted for tiled layout by silicon compiler'1994 5,159,598'Buffer integrated circuit providing testing interface'1992 5,119,378'Testing of integrated circuits including internal test circuitry and using token passing to select testing ports'1992 5,115,437'Internal test circuitry for integrated circuits using token passing to select testing ports'1992

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1992–2020Patents assigned to GEN ELECTRIC (51)· patent assignee history

1992–2020Based in Clifton Park, NY, US· patent location history

2003–2004Based in Charlotte, NC, US· patent location history

2012–2017Patents assigned to HARTMAN MICHAEL JAMES (18)· patent assignee history

2012–2017Patents assigned to HERSHEY JOHN ERIK (16)· patent assignee history

2012–2017Patents assigned to ZINSER RICHARD LOUIS (14)· patent assignee history

2012–2017Patents assigned to ROSS JOHN ANDERSON FERGUS (13)· patent assignee history

2016–2017Based in Millbrae, CA, US· patent location history

2017–2019Based in Niskayuna, NY, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
GEN ELECTRIC	51	1992–2020
HARTMAN MICHAEL JAMESself	18	2012–2017
HERSHEY JOHN ERIK	16	2012–2017
ZINSER RICHARD LOUIS	14	2012–2017
ROSS JOHN ANDERSON FERGUS	13	2012–2017

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Clifton Park, New York, US	56	1992–2020
Niskayuna, New York, US	6	2017–2019
Millbrae, California, US	2	2016–2017
Charlotte, NC, US	2	2003–2004