Inventor · Hanover, MD, US

Benjamin Funk

44Patents
14h-index
22Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: May 31, 2007 → Aug 3, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8712686B2 System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors Electricity 69 Active
US8688375B2 Method and system for locating and monitoring first responders Physics 55 Active
US8706414B2 Method and system for locating and monitoring first responders Physics 43 Active
US9733091B2 Collaborative creation of indoor maps Physics 39 Active
US9146113B1 System and method for localizing a trackee at a location and mapping the location using transitions Physics 33 Active
US8751151B2 System and method for localizing a trackee at a location and mapping the location using inertial sensor information Physics 29 Active
US9395190B1 Crowd sourced mapping with robust structural features Physics 25 Active
US8965688B2 System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors Electricity 22 Active
US9046373B2 System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors Electricity 18 Active
US9008962B2 System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors Electricity 18 Active
US9448072B2 System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors Electricity 16 Active
US9664521B2 System and method for localizing a trackee at a location and mapping the location using signal-based features Physics 14 Active
US10352707B2 Collaborative creation of indoor maps Physics 14 Active
US9671224B2 Methods resolving the elevation of a tracked personnel or assets Physics 14 Active
US9322648B1 Reducing elevation error with environmental pressure anomaly compensation Physics 10 Active
US9759561B2 Heading constraints in a particle filter Physics 7 Active
US11199412B2 Collaborative creation of indoor maps Physics 7 Active
US9983012B2 Crowd sourced mapping with robust structural features Physics 5 Active
US9823068B2 Reducing elevation error with environmental pressure anomaly compensation Physics 4 Active
US10012502B2 Methods resolving the elevation of a tracked personnel or assets Physics 4 Active
US8930163B2 Method for step detection and gait direction estimation Physics 4 Active
US11156464B2 Crowd sourced mapping with robust structural features Physics 3 Active
US9746327B2 Fusion of sensor and map data using constraint based optimization Electricity 3 Active
US9441973B2 Irregular feature mapping Electricity 3 Active
US10571270B2 Fusion of sensor and map data using constraint based optimization Electricity 2 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.