Patents by Inventor Laura E. Moser

Laura E. Moser 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).

  • Modular and reconfigurable assembler system for autonomous in-space assembly
    Patent number: 11989009
    Abstract: Methods and systems to control stacked hexapod platforms for use as tools, which function with both high accuracy and high precision are provided. In some embodiments, the methods and systems include a convergence of modern control theory, and machine learning. Furthermore, some embodiments provide control algorithms to carry out autonomous in-space assembly operations using assemblers. Some embodiments provide methods and systems which combine long-reach low precision manipulators and smaller, high-precision assembler with interchangeable tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: James H. Neilan, II, Matthew K. Mahlin, John R. Cooper, Laura M. White, Benjamin N. Kelley, Matthew P Vaughan, Iok M. Wong, John W. Mulvaney, Erik E. Komendera, William D Chapin, Joshua N. Moser, Samantha H. G. Chapin
  • User-controlled electronic modification of operating system firmware resident in remote measurement unit for testing and conditioning of subscriber line circuits
    Patent number: 5504801
    Abstract: A remote test unit for testing and conditioning one or more telephone lines includes multiple electronically erasable flash memory banks, which contain respective versions of the operating system employed by the test unit's micro-controller. An operating system modification routine employed by the host processor of a remote site allows the functionality of the remote test unit to be selectively modified by electronically installing an upgraded or downgraded version of the operating system, or by electronically selectively activating or deactivating one or more operational features of the currently active operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Laura E. Moser, Edward K. W. Siu, Michael Kennedy, Onofrio Schillaci
  • Local/remote modification of electronically alterable operating system firmware resident in redundant flash memory of remote unit for testing/conditioning subscriber line circuits
    Patent number: 5452339
    Abstract: A remote measurement unit for testing and conditioning one or more telephone lines includes multiple electronically erasable flash memory banks, which contain respective versions of the operating system employed by the test unit's micro-controller. An operating system modification routine employed by the host processor of a remote site allows the functionality of the remote test unit to be selectively modified by electronically installing an upgraded or downgraded version of the operating system, or by electronically selectively activating or deactivating one or more operational features of the currently active operating system. A reset routine ensures that the operating system modification mechanism will only boot up the `correct` one of the two quasi-redundant systems available to the RMU's microcontroller after a system modification has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Edward K. W. Siu, Onofrio Schillaci, Michael Kennedy, Laura E. Moser