Patents by Inventor Andrew W. Mackie

Andrew W. Mackie 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).

  • Stackable child restraint for aircraft
    Patent number: 7011368
    Abstract: A child restraint for use with aircraft seats wherein the restraint is a one-piece shell-like body having integrally formed bottom and side walls that support the child and which permit nesting of the seats for compact storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Am-Safe Aviation
    Inventors: Thomas H. Barth, Andrew W. Mackie
  • System and method of decoding a packed representation of multiple parses
    Patent number: 6879950
    Abstract: A program, system and method for decoding a packed representation of multiple parses that creates an unpacked forest to be read by a semantic interpretation module from a packed representation is provided. The packaged representation includes at least one edgenode and each edgenode includes a substitution list. A current forest object is created and is replicated for each edgenode having a substitution list containing greater than one edgenode. Each replica of the current forest object is updated with one of the edgenodes from the substitution list. Each edgenode of the packed representation is traversed using a depth-first traversal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Mackie, William Thompson