Patents by Inventor Jere S. Meserole

Jere S. Meserole has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multiple landing threshold aircraft arrival system
    Patent number: 9613537
    Abstract: A system and method for safe and effective implementation of approach procedures for guiding multiple aircraft of different weights approaching a single runway for landing, whereby lighter incoming aircraft will fly higher than heavier aircraft to avoid the wakes from the heavier aircraft, for the purpose of increasing the landing rate and, in turn, the number of aircraft that can land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Jere S. Meserole, Jr., Neil Planzer
  • MULTIPLE LANDING THRESHOLD AIRCRAFT ARRIVAL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170032683
    Abstract: A system and method for safe and effective implementation of approach procedures for guiding multiple aircraft of different weights approaching a single runway for landing, whereby lighter incoming aircraft will fly higher than heavier aircraft to avoid the wakes from the heavier aircraft, for the purpose of increasing the landing rate and, in turn, the number of aircraft that can land.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Jere S. Meserole, JR., Neil Planzer
  • Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices
    Patent number: 8376284
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices. One method includes directing a tracer from a first aircraft into a vortical flow generated by the first aircraft. The method can further include detecting a characteristic corresponding to the presence of the tracer directed into the vortical flow. Based at least in part on the detected characteristic, the method can include directing the flight of the first aircraft, or a second aircraft following the first aircraft, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Jere S. Meserole, Michael J. Dunn, Brian J. Tillotson
  • Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices
    Patent number: 7874522
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices. One method includes directing a tracer from a first aircraft into a vortical flow generated by the first aircraft. The method can further include detecting a characteristic corresponding to the presence of the tracer directed into the vortical flow. Based at least in part on the detected characteristic, the method can include directing the flight of the first aircraft, or a second aircraft following the first aircraft, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Jere S. Meserole, Michael J. Dunn, Brian J. Tillotson
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACING AIRCRAFT VORTICES
    Publication number: 20100133383
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices. One method includes directing a tracer from a first aircraft into a vortical flow generated by the first aircraft. The method can further include detecting a characteristic corresponding to the presence of the tracer directed into the vortical flow. Based at least in part on the detected characteristic, the method can include directing the flight of the first aircraft, or a second aircraft following the first aircraft, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Jere S. Meserole, Michael J. Dunn, Brian J. Tillotson
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACING AIRCRAFT VORTICES
    Publication number: 20100133384
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices. One method includes directing a tracer from a first aircraft into a vortical flow generated by the first aircraft. The method can further include detecting a characteristic corresponding to the presence of the tracer directed into the vortical flow. Based at least in part on the detected characteristic, the method can include directing the flight of the first aircraft, or a second aircraft following the first aircraft, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Jere S. Meserole, Michael J. Dunn, Brian J. Tillotson
  • Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices
    Patent number: 7686253
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices. One method includes directing a tracer from a first aircraft into a vortical flow generated by the first aircraft. The method can further include detecting a characteristic corresponding to the presence of the tracer directed into the vortical flow. Based at least in part on the detected characteristic, the method can include directing the flight of the first aircraft, or a second aircraft following the first aircraft, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Jere S. Meserole, Michael J. Dunn, Brian J. Tillotson
  • Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices
    Publication number: 20080035789
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracing aircraft vortices are disclosed. One method includes directing a tracer from a first aircraft into a vortical flow generated by the first aircraft. The method can further include detecting a characteristic corresponding to the presence of the tracer directed into the vortical flow. Based at least in part on the detected characteristic, the method can include directing the flight of the first aircraft, or a second aircraft following the first aircraft, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Jere S. Meserole, Michael J. Dunn, Brian J. Tillotson
  • Method for making an ion thruster grid
    Patent number: 5551904
    Abstract: Carbon-carbon grids for ion optics sets are thermomechanically stable under the extreme temperature changes that are experienced in ion thrusters. Screen, accelerator and decelerator grids are thermomechanically stable, lightweight, and resistant to erosion from ion sputtering and have extended lifetimes over conventional molybdenum grids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel E. Hedges, Jere S. Meserole, Jr., Michael E. Rorabaugh
  • Carbon-carbon grid elements for ion thruster ion optics
    Patent number: 5548953
    Abstract: Carbon-carbon grids for ion optics sets are thermomechanically stable under the extreme temperature changes that are experienced in ion thrusters. Screen, accelerator and decelerator grids are thermomechanically stable, lightweight, and resistant to erosion from ion sputtering and have extended lifetimes over conventional molybdenum grids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel E. Hedges, Jere S. Meserole, Jr., Michael E. Rorabaugh
  • Ion thruster with ion optics having carbon-carbon composite elements
    Patent number: 5448883
    Abstract: Carbon-carbon elements for ion optics sets are thermomechanically stable under the extreme temperature changes that are experienced in ion thrusters. The elements described include screen and accelerator grids and methods of producing such grids. The described elements are thermomechanically stable, lightweight, and resistant to sputtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jere S. Meserole, Jr., Daniel E. Hedges, Michael E. Rorabaugh