Patents by Inventor Marlene T. Drost

Marlene T. Drost 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).

  • Patent number: 9026277
    Abstract: A method for reducing vibrations in an airframe of an aircraft includes determining, with a processor, information indicative of an initial error value between a desired vibration level and a measured vibration level in the airframe; determining, with the processor, an initial adjustment solution for the aircraft in response to the determining of the information for the initial error value; receiving, with the processor, information indicative of a flight response to the initial adjustment solution; combining, with the processor, disturbance signals indicative of vibration noise with the information for the flight response; determining, with the processor, a subsequent error value between the desired vibration level and a subsequent measured vibration level; and determining, with the processor, a predicted adjustment solution in response to the determining of the subsequent error value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Austin Fang, Steven P. Lozano, James N. Rozak, Marlene T. Drost
  • Publication number: 20150073627
    Abstract: A method for reducing vibrations in an airframe of an aircraft includes determining, with a processor, information indicative of an initial error value between a desired vibration level and a measured vibration level in the airframe; determining, with the processor, an initial adjustment solution for the aircraft in response to the determining of the information for the initial error value; receiving, with the processor, information indicative of a flight response to the initial adjustment solution; combining, with the processor, disturbance signals indicative of vibration noise with the information for the flight response; determining, with the processor, a subsequent error value between the desired vibration level and a subsequent measured vibration level; and determining, with the processor, a predicted adjustment solution in response to the determining of the subsequent error value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Austin Fang, Steven P. Lozano, James N. Rozak, Marlene T. Drost
  • Publication number: 20030227943
    Abstract: A system and a process for emulating a synchronous time-division-multiplexed (TDM) signal across a packet-oriented network by receiving a synchronous TDM signal, such as a SONET signal, at each of a number of processors, also receiving a number of signals from a time-slot decoder, each signal being associated with a respective processor, and processing the received synchronous TDM signal responsive to the received time-slot-decoder signal. Channel processing includes the storing, by at least one of the processors, the received data in a memory element associated with the at least one of the processors, and creating a packet conforming to a protocol of a packet-oriented network, such as internet protocol, MPLS, and asynchronous transfer mode, using the stored data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: LITCHFIELD COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Edward H. Hallman, Marlene T. Drost