Patents by Inventor Philip A. Vella

Philip A. Vella 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: 7409007
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for reducing adjacent channel power in wireless communication systems. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a system for digitally and adaptively pre-distorting a signal that includes applying a correction to the signal before it is applied to the input of an amplifier such that the correction is equal and opposite to anticipated distortion produced by the amplifier. Thus, the correction and the amplifier distortion cancel one another resulting in a system with an overall linear transfer characteristic. In these circumstances, the adjacent channel power is desirably reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Everest Johnson, Mark Thomas Leney, George Philip Vella-Coleiro
  • Patent number: 6721298
    Abstract: In a cable network for delivering a personal communications service (PCS) and cable television (CATV) service, return service applications, e.g., a pay per view service, are also provided on a return cable band provided by the cable network. In accordance with the invention, the return service applications utilize subbands unused by the PCS in the return cable band, thereby unaffecting the PCS. The broadband noise in the subbands normally accompanied by the PCS is filtered out using a tunable filter whose passband is adjustable to coincide with one of many PCS signal bands being used in the return cable band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: George Philip Vella-Coleiro
  • Patent number: 5336431
    Abstract: This application describes a composition comprising an alkali metal permanganate and a water soluble nitrate salt and a method of controlling the sulfide content and the odor of sulfur containing waste water by adding the composition of the invention to the waste water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: Carus Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Richards, Tyrone G. Goodart, Philip A. Vella, John R. Walton
  • Patent number: 5200092
    Abstract: This application describes a composition comprising an alkali metal permanganate and a water soluble nitrate salt and a method of controlling the sulfide content and the odor of sulfur containing waste water by adding the composition of the invention to the waste water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Carus Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Richards, Tyrone G. Goodart, Philip A. Vella, John R. Walton
  • Patent number: 4886653
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for producing an aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide and chlorine wherein the likelihood of autodecomposition of chlorine dioxide is significantly reduced or practically eliminated and, in the unlikely event that such CLO.sub.2 autodecomposition occurs, it is quickly detected and the process is automatically corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Olin corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Gasper, Philip A. Vella
  • Patent number: 4839152
    Abstract: A process for the production of an aqueous solution containing chlorine dioxide and chlorine, which comprises:(a) feeding to a reaction zone a first reactant stream comprising an aqueous solution containing an alkali metal chlorate and an alkali metal chloride;(b) feeding to said reaction zone a second reaction stream comprising an acid admixture of phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid, wherein the weight ratio of said phosphoric acid to said sulfuric acid as expressed as H.sub.3 PO.sub.4 :H.sub.2 SO.sub.4, is from about 1:16 to about 1:3;(c) mixing said first and second reactant streams in said reactant zone; said streams being fed into said reaction zone at rates sufficient to form a reaction product stream comprising an aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide and chlorine in said reaction zone; and(d) withdrawing the resulting aqueous reaction product stream from said reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventors: Philip A. Vella, Manfred G. Noack
  • Patent number: 3972037
    Abstract: A feedback loop coupled to a tuned circuit applies to an input of a comparator circuit arrangement a control voltage signal which is a function of the instantaneous current in the tuned circuit. The loop is employed to adjust the timing at which the comparator arrangement applies voltage-refresh pulses to the tuned circuit in response to a reference voltage signal supplied by an external clock. The timing at which the pulses occur is such that the current in the tuned circuit remains in phase with the reference voltage signal. Two like tuned circuits driven 90.degree. out of phase provide the rotating magnetic field characteristic of magnetic bubble, field-access memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
    Inventors: William Emil Hess, Jr., George Philip Vella-Coleiro