Patents by Inventor Kurt Peter Scharnhorst

Kurt Peter Scharnhorst 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).

  • Magnetoresistance detector for crosstie memories
    Patent number: 4100609
    Abstract: A detector for non-destructive sensing of binary information at a selected location along a domain wall of a thin magnetic film strip. Voltages are applied across a set of contacts arranged along the margin of the strip and the value of the voltage measured at an arranged, centered contact indicates the presence or absence of a Bloch line-crosstie pair at that location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Leonard J. Schwee, Henry R. Irons, Wallace F. Anderson, Kurt Peter Scharnhorst, Albert D. Krall
  • Vacuum deposition method for fabricating an epitaxial PbSnTe rectifying metal semiconductor contact photodetector
    Patent number: 3961998
    Abstract: A junction photodetector employing Pb.sub.1-x Sn.sub.x Te in narrow film strips grown epitaxially on an appropriate substrate. An appropriate metal overlaps the film to form a metal-semiconductor contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Kurt Peter Scharnhorst, Richard F. Bis, Jack R. Dixon, Bland B. Houston, Jr., Richard W. Brown, Harold R. Riedl