Patents by Inventor Nathaniel Brian Martin

Nathaniel Brian Martin 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: 9043623
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment. A data communications method, including a) enabling a transmission of a wake signal from a host to a remote client through an isolator disposed at the remote client when the wake signal is asserted from the host at a host-portion of the isolator concurrent with a periodic enablement of a client-portion of the isolator by the remote client; and thereafter b) transmitting the wake signal from the host to the remote client through the isolator; c) controlling enablement of the client-portion responsive to the wake signal transmitted through the isolator; and thereafter d) disabling the transmission by deassertion of the wake signal at the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen
  • Patent number: 8970237
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen, Samuel Douglas Crowder
  • Patent number: 8861337
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen
  • Patent number: 8817892
    Abstract: A data communications system having a plurality of communication devices including a host having a first receiver and a second receiver; and one or more clients, each client including a transmitter coupled between a signal node and a transmitter node, the transmitter selectively transmitting a multistate signal from the signal node to the transmitter node; and a single conductor daisy-chain loop redundantly communicating each multistate signal from each the transmitter to both receivers, the single conductor daisy-chain loop electrically communicating each transmitter node to the receivers. A data communications method including a) transmitting selectively a multistate signal from each of one or more clients; b) communicating electrically each multistate signal to a first location on a host using a single conductor coupled to each the client; and c) communicating electrically each multistate signal to a second location on the host using the single conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen, Samuel Douglas Crowder
  • Patent number: 8819162
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen, Samuel Douglas Crowder
  • Publication number: 20130294529
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TESLA MOTORS, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen
  • Publication number: 20130294530
    Abstract: A data communications system having a plurality of communication devices including a host having a first receiver and a second receiver; and one or more clients, each client including a transmitter coupled between a signal node and a transmitter node, the transmitter selectively transmitting a multistate signal from the signal node to the transmitter node; and a single conductor daisy-chain loop redundantly communicating each multistate signal from each the transmitter to both receivers, the single conductor daisy-chain loop electrically communicating each transmitter node to the receivers. A data communications method including a) transmitting selectively a multistate signal from each of one or more clients; b) communicating electrically each multistate signal to a first location on a host using a single conductor coupled to each the client; and c) communicating electrically each multistate signal to a second location on the host using the single conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TESLA MOTORS, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen, Samuel Douglas Crowder
  • Publication number: 20130297954
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment. A data communications method, including a) enabling a transmission of a wake signal from a host to a remote client through an isolator disposed at the remote client when the wake signal is asserted from the host at a host-portion of the isolator concurrent with a periodic enablement of a client-portion of the isolator by the remote client; and thereafter b) transmitting the wake signal from the host to the remote client through the isolator; c) controlling enablement of the client-portion responsive to the wake signal transmitted through the isolator; and thereafter d) disabling the transmission by deassertion of the wake signal at the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TESLA MOTORS, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen
  • Publication number: 20130294222
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TESLA MOTORS, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen, Samuel Douglas Crowder
  • Publication number: 20130293251
    Abstract: A system and method for low-cost, fault tolerant, EMI robust data communications, particularly for an EV environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: TESLA MOTORS, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brian Martin, Ian Casimir Dimen, Samuel Douglas Crowder