Patents by Inventor Andrew L. Gale

Andrew L. Gale 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: 5146172
    Abstract: An identification module and identification determination circuitry are provided for the purpose of identifying an apparatus and electrically determining the identification number of that identified apparatus. The identification module comprises a plurality of resistive identification circuits which, in turn, each comprise a plurality of resistive elements selected to have resistive magnitudes that relate to each other by powers, or orders, of two. The identification determination circuit of the present invention places each of the resistive identification circuits in series with a resistor of known magnitude between two connection points to provide a voltage potential and a resulting current flowing through the resistive identification circuit. The invention also provides a means by which the input voltage can be determined and used to adjust the determined magnitude of the resistive identification circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Sundstrand Corp.
    Inventors: Kourosh Mehr-Ayin, William Conn, Luis M. Rivera, Andrew L. Gale, Phillip A. Marsh