Inventor · North Palm Beach, FL, US

Steven Nielsen

160Patents
38h-index
21Co-inventors
82Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 13, 2007 → Feb 8, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8260489B2 Methods, apparatus, and systems for acquiring and analyzing vehicle data and generating an electronic representation of vehicle operations Physics 290 Active
US7640105B2 Marking system and method with location and/or time tracking Physics 182 Active
US8473148B2 Fleet management systems and methods for complex event processing of vehicle-related information via local and remote complex event processing engines Electricity 125 Active
US8311765B2 Locating equipment communicatively coupled to or equipped with a mobile/portable device Physics 111 Active
US8612276B1 Methods, apparatus, and systems for dispatching service technicians Physics 85 Active
US8560164B2 Systems and methods for complex event processing of vehicle information and image information relating to a vehicle Electricity 78 Active
US8155390B2 Methods and apparatus for providing unbuffered dig area indicators on aerial images to delimit planned excavation sites Physics 74 Active
US8060304B2 Marking system and method Physics 71 Active
US8467969B2 Marking apparatus having operational sensors for underground facility marking operations, and associated methods and systems Physics 67 Active
US8612271B2 Methods and apparatus for analyzing locate and marking operations with respect to environmental landmarks Electricity 66 Active
US8361543B2 Methods and apparatus for displaying an electronic rendering of a marking operation based on an electronic record of marking information Electricity 65 Active
US8532341B2 Electronically documenting locate operations for underground utilities Physics 65 Active
US8612148B2 Marking apparatus configured to detect out-of-tolerance conditions in connection with underground facility marking operations, and associated methods and systems Physics 65 Active
US8463487B2 Systems and methods for complex event processing based on a hierarchical arrangement of complex event processing engines Electricity 64 Active
US8194932B2 Ticket approval system for and method of performing quality control in field service applications Physics 62 Active
US8290204B2 Searchable electronic records of underground facility locate marking operations Physics 61 Active
US8249306B2 Virtual white lines for delimiting planned excavation sites Physics 59 Active
US8218827B2 Virtual white lines for delimiting planned excavation sites Physics 58 Active
US8280631B2 Methods and apparatus for generating an electronic record of a marking operation based on marking device actuations Electricity 55 Active
US8589202B2 Methods and apparatus for displaying and processing facilities map information and/or other image information on a marking device Physics 55 Active
US8270666B2 Searchable electronic records of underground facility locate marking operations Physics 53 Active
US8977558B2 Methods, apparatus and systems for facilitating generation and assessment of engineering plans Physics 52 Active
US8577707B2 Methods and apparatus for overlaying electronic locate information on facilities map information and/or other image information displayed on a locate device Physics 51 Active
US8301380B2 Systems and methods for generating electronic records of locate and marking operations Physics 51 Active
US8290215B2 Virtual white lines for delimiting planned excavation sites Physics 51 Active

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