Patents Represented by Attorney George E. Darby
  • Patent number: 7068971
    Abstract: The Inmarsat Capacity Expansion invention, in an embodiment to retrofit a standard Inmarsat-B mobile earth station (MES), combines standard MES equipment and functionality with an assembly containing a diplexer/switch and a digital signal processor, a second SCPC modem that has configurable modulation and error correction capabilities, control signals and paths, and related management and control software and hardware to enable the transmission and reception of standard service types and higher data rate services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Innovative Communications Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed Gomma Abutaleb, Jeffrey Richard Jacobson, Danny Edward McConnell, James C. Crichton, Glenn Stephenson, III
  • Patent number: 6798715
    Abstract: The Biomimetic Sonar invention ensonifies submerged objects, digitizes acoustic images reflected from the ensonified objects, and classifies and stores the digitized images using electronic processing derived from that believed to be used by Tursiops truncatus, the bottlenose dolphin. The invention also provides a probable identification of an ensonified object based on comparison of an ensonified object with templates in a library of acoustic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Neptune Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John B. Harmon, Whitlow Au, Paul Eugene Nachtigall, Herbert Lawrence Roitblat
  • Patent number: 6682909
    Abstract: The present invention provides truncated HCV E2 polypepides. The invention HCV E2 polypeptides lack the HVR1 region that provides immune protection against HCV. The present invention also provides immunogenic compositions of such polypeptides and the methods of use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Hawaii Biotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Eileen T. Nakano, David E. Clements, Tom Humphreys