Nathan L Karstens from Overland Park, KS, age 42

Graphical Wind Guage
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US Patent:

20100026688, Feb 4, 2010
Filed:

Feb 25, 2009
Appl. No.:

12/392763
Inventors:

Nathan L. Karstens - Overland Park KS, US
Brian K. Feller - Olathe KS, US
Jon Josephson - Vancouver WA, US
Assignee:

GARMIN LTD. - Camana Bay
International Classification:

G06T 15/70
G06T 1/00
G08B 5/00
US Classification:

345473, 345418, 3408154
Abstract:

A wind gauge display apparatus comprising a control device and a reconfigurable display for displaying a first visual representation of a wind gauge if a wind angle is within a first range and displaying a second visual representation of the wind gauge if the wind angle is within a second range. The angles displayed on the reconfigurable display may be determined by input from a user. On the reconfigurable display, a location of a visual indicator of wind speed may be different in the first visual representation of the wind gauge than in the second visual representation of the wind gauge. The wind gauge display apparatus may also comprise a sensor for determining wind angle and wind speed.

Network Connected Marine Electronics System
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US Patent:

20180124557, May 3, 2018
Filed:

Jul 28, 2017
Appl. No.:

15/663176
Inventors:

- Schaffhausen, CH
Gregory J. Koch - Olathe KS, US
Nathan L. Karstens - Olathe KS, US
Veselin V. Georgiev - Olathe KS, US
International Classification:

H04W 4/02
G01C 21/20
H04L 12/28
H04W 36/32
B63C 11/42
Abstract:

A network connected marine electronics system has one or more marine electronic devices, a mobile software application for installation on a mobile communications device, and a remote cloud-based information system. Marine data on the user's mobile communications device can be synchronized with marine data on the user's marine electronic devices and vice versa using a wireless marine network onboard a marine vessel and without the need to connect to a remote server. Marine data on the mobile communications device can include marine data transferred to the mobile communications device from marine navigation devices on another boat of the user and can include marine data of other users in a user community who uploaded that marine data to the cloud-based information system and selected to share it with other users. The network connected marine electronics system enables definition of different user roles and permissions for different users.