Patents by Inventor Angela Wai-an Li

Angela Wai-an Li 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).

  • Time-locked network and nodes for exchanging secure data packets
    Patent number: 9813384
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting secure data packets through a node network. Unsecure data packets are received at a set of unsecure inputs and secure data packets are received at a number of secure inputs in a node in the node network. The secure data packets are authorized to be sent to a number of secure destination devices. The unsecure data packets are not authorized to be sent to the number of secure destination devices. The secure data packets and the unsecure data packets are integrated to form a number of output data streams based on a predetermined schedule. The number of output data streams is sent to a number of next nodes in the node network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Wayne R. Howe, Jeffrey H. Hunt, Angela Wai-an Li
  • Nanotube signal transmission system
    Patent number: 9086523
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting signals. An apparatus comprises a tube comprising a number of layers of carbon forming a wall of the tube. The number of layers of carbon has a number of optical properties configured to propagate an optical signal and a number of electrical properties configured to conduct an electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Wayne R. Howe, Jeffrey H. Hunt, Angela Wai-an Li
  • Devices for communicating optical signals and electrical signals over nanotubes
    Patent number: 9086522
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a device configured to communicate using an optical signal and an electrical signal through a connection to a tube comprised of a number of layers of carbon forming a wall of the tube. The number of layers of carbon has a number of optical properties configured to propagate the optical signal and a number of electrical properties configured to conduct the electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Angela Wai-an Li, Jeffrey H. Hunt, Wayne R. Howe
  • Nanotube Signal Transmission System
    Publication number: 20130322891
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting signals. An apparatus comprises a tube comprising a number of layers of carbon forming a wall of the tube. The number of layers of carbon has a number of optical properties configured to propagate an optical signal and a number of electrical properties configured to conduct an electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Wayne R. Howe, Jeffrey H. Hunt, Angela Wai-an Li