Sheldon P Apsell

US Patent:

6651001, Nov 18, 2003

Filed:

Mar 18, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/106131

Inventors:

Sheldon Apsell - Newton MA

Assignee:

Micrologics, Inc. - Westborough MA

International Classification:

G06F16500

US Classification:

701213, 701 29, 701200

Abstract:

An integrated monitoring system for integrating and displaying the location of widely dispersed construction vehicle equipments at their respective sites together with the present location and recent track of respective maintenance vehicles for servicing the equipments, through the use of satellite positioning, wireless data communication and Internet facilities for determining such locations.

US Patent:

51310201, Jul 14, 1992

Filed:

Dec 29, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/458986

Inventors:

John P. Liebesny - Concord MA
Sheldon Apsell - Newton MA
John Mahon - Attleboro MA
Paul J. Bouchard - Concord MA

Assignee:

SmartRoutes Systems Limited Partnership - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

H04M 1108
G08G 109

US Classification:

379 59

Abstract:

A novel method, system and protocol for providing continually updated traffic (and other) information from a central station to preferably telephonically linked caller customers (though other communication links are feasible), involving enabling the caller to enter on the caller's keyboard a code for the particular zone for which a traffic information report is desired, and thereupon to receive a transmission of such report from the central station; and then, by further caller keyboard entries, requesting reports on additional specified zones--all on the same call--and further requesting from the station, by keyboard entry, automatic updating report(s) in the specified zone(s) in the event of significant changes in traffic information (including traffic incidents) during a predetermined time after the initial report.

US Patent:

48194620, Apr 11, 1989

Filed:

May 6, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/047198

Inventors:

Sheldon Apsell - Newton MA

Assignee:

Micrologic, Inc. - Watertown MA

International Classification:

B62H 516

US Classification:

70 14

Abstract:

A locking clamp for a wheel secured by external lug bolts to an axle of a trailer or other vehicle and having an inner annular hub peripherally surrounded by a tire, the clamp having, in combination, first and second interlocking L-shaped members, the first member comprising a chock as one leg and carrying a tubular bar the inner surface of which is to be juxtaposed against the rear of the tire, and the other leg of which extends inwardly of the inner tire side surface; and the second member comprising an L-shaped tubular bar the front leg of which is of cross-section less than that of the first member tubular bar in order to slide through the same and extend inwardly therebeyond, with the other leg extending parallel to the said other leg of the first member but across the outer side of the tire and carrying a hub disc adjustable to cover the wheel outer hub lug bolts and prevent access to the same; and means at the inward extension of the second member front leg for receiving locking means.

US Patent:

42700434, May 26, 1981

Filed:

Mar 13, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/020223

Inventors:

Larry K. Baxter - Lexington MA
Robert D. Cohen - Belle Harbor NY
Mark S. Ain - Newton MA
Sheldon P. Apsell - Nahant MA

Assignee:

Kronos Inc. - Brighton MA

International Classification:

G06C 1500
G06F 308
G06K 710
G06F 1512

US Classification:

235419

Abstract:

This disclosure is concerned with time-clock recording and computation that, through a novel clock track card and separate clock track and data channel optical reading, in cooperation with microprocessor calculation, storage and control, enables automating employee time and attendance and similar data in a format directly recordable on the card and also directly useable by payroll or other processing computers and the like.

US Patent:

42064490, Jun 3, 1980

Filed:

Jul 27, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/819464

Inventors:

Aaron A. Galvin - Nahant MA
Sheldon P. Apsell - Nahant MA
Daniel Crown - West Newton MA

Assignee:

American District Telegraph Company - New York NY

International Classification:

G08C 1512
G08B 1900
H03K 1320
H04Q 300

US Classification:

340505

Abstract:

A multiple sensor intrusion alarm system including a central controller which communicates with a plurality of sensors over a single, interconnecting cable. The controller periodically polls each of the sensors, and in response to this polling signal, each sensor returns a signal indicating its status. The absence of a return signal from a particular sensor indicates to the controller that the sensor is malfunctioning or has been tampered with. In a preferred embodiment, the interconnecting cable is a single, two-conductor cable. The controller may also be connected to an alarm panel or remote monitoring station to indicate the presence of an alarm condition.

US Patent:

49086294, Mar 13, 1990

Filed:

Dec 5, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/279775

Inventors:

Sheldon P. Apsell - Newton MA
Norval D. Stapelfeld - Brookline MA

Assignee:

Lo-Jack Corporation - Boston MA

International Classification:

G01S 502

US Classification:

342457

Abstract:

An improved vehicle or other object-tracking and location system, preferably, though not essentially, of national scope, wherein transponder or transceiver-equipped stolen or missing vehicles or other objects may be located and/or tracked, as by appropriately-equipped police direction-finding tracking vehicles, through homing-in on periodic transponder reply radio transmissions automatically activated by command activation signals broadcast on the same carrier frequency as the transponder reply signals and with encoded vehicle identification information that causes the intended vehicle transponder so to reply, and with provision for modifying the command signals to require an increased rate of periodic transponder reply signal transmission to assist homing-in on the selected vehicle. In a preferred mode of operation, the verification of whether the reportedly missing vehicle is thus transponder-equipped is preferably established by querying the FBI-NCIC computer system, which will provide the said coded vehicle identification information and automatically cause the appropriate sector or area to broadcast said command activation signals.

US Patent:

48189987, Apr 4, 1989

Filed:

Mar 31, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/847152

Inventors:

Sheldon P. Apsell - Newton MA
Norval D. Stapelfeld - Brookline MA

Assignee:

Lo-Jack Corporation - Boston MA

International Classification:

G01S 1380

US Classification:

342 44

Abstract:

An improved vehicle or other object-tracking and location system, preferably, though not essentially, of national scope, wherein transponder or transceiver-equipped stolen or missing vehicles or other objects may be located and/or tracked, as by appropriately-equipped police direction/finding tracking vehicles, through homing-in on periodic transponder reply radio transmissions automatically activated by command activation signals broadcast on the same carrier frequency as the transponder reply signals and with encoded vehicle identification information that causes the intended vehicle transponder so to reply, and with provision for modifying the command signals to require an increased rate of periodic transponder reply signal transmission to assist homing-in on the selected vehicle. In a preferred mode of operation, the verification of whether the reportedly missing vehicle is thus transponder-equipped is preferably established by querying the FBI-NCIC computer system, which will provide the said coded vehicle identification information and automatically cause the appropriate sector or area to broadcast said command activation signals.

US Patent:

62927248, Sep 18, 2001

Filed:

Oct 12, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/416604

Inventors:

Sheldon Apsell - Newton MA
Carlos A. Barberis - Haverhill MA
Thomas Alborough - Bellingham MA
George Shinopoulos - Manchester MA
Steven Rothman - Bolton MA

Assignee:

Micrologic, Inc. - Westborough MA

International Classification:

G06F16500

US Classification:

701 29

Abstract:

A novel method of and system for remotely monitoring location, status, utilization and condition of a widely geographically dispersed fleets of vehicular construction equipment, using the resources of satellite positioning and communication and Internet facilities, and processing and displaying such information for fleet managers and the like.