Patents by Inventor Leo J. Cotta

Leo J. Cotta 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).

  • Facsimile communications interface adapter
    Patent number: 4384307
    Abstract: A communications adapter for interfacing a transceiver and a line including a synchronous receiver-transmitter programmed by a controller to operate the receiver-transmitter in different data formats during a single frame transmission to or reception from a transmitter/receiver and including logic programmed by a controller for controlling the operation of a transmitter/receiver on a bit level to halt the transmitter/receiver during programming changes of format between and during a frame. For frame transmission to a transmitter/receiver, the receiver-transmitter is programmed for a first portion of a frame for a number of bits per character as a function of transmitter/receiver and line protocol and for second portion of a frame for a number of bits per character as a function of line protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: Inteq, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul T. Kuzmik, Leo J. Cotta