Patents by Inventor Anthony Rene Barringer

Anthony Rene Barringer 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).

  • Strobe desorption method for high boiling point materials
    Patent number: 7299679
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method for detecting substances, such as high boiling and low vapor pressure materials, using high energy radiation imparted by a suitable radiation source, such as a strobe or laser over a short time period. The radiation source causes the materials to vaporize. A system handling system is used in conjunction with a detector to detect the presence of the materials including explosives, explosive-related compounds, chemical warfare agents, drugs, toxic industrial compounds, and derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: ADA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Stanley Lovell, Patrick D. French, Anthony René Barringer
  • Strobe desorption method for high boiling point materials
    Patent number: 6895804
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method for detecting substances, such as high boiling and low vapor pressure materials, using high energy radiation imparted by a suitable radiation source, such as a strobe or laser over a short time period. The radiation source causes the materials to vaporize. A system handling system is used in conjunction with a detector to detect the presence of the materials including explosives, explosive-related compounds, chemical warfare agents, drugs, toxic industrial compounds, and derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: ADA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Stanley Lovell, Patrick D. French, Anthony René Barringer
  • Strobe desorption method for high boiling point materials
    Publication number: 20040157342
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method for detecting substances, such as high boiling and low vapor pressure materials, using high energy radiation imparted by a suitable radiation source, such as a strobe or laser over a short time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: John Stanley Lovell, Patrick D. French, Anthony Rene Barringer
  • Spectroscopic apparatus with balanced dual detectors
    Patent number: 4057734
    Abstract: A spectrometer having two photoelectric channels the outputs of which are compared in order to measure gas or liquid concentrations, and means for automatically balancing the photoelectric channels immediately prior to each successive measurement, said means including a reference source of radiation which is utilized for balancing both photoelectric channels, so that when a measurement of the gas or liquid is being made, both photoelectric channels as nearly as possible are effectively balanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Barringer Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Rene Barringer
  • Detection of concealed metalliferous deposits, hydrocarbons and explosives
    Patent number: 4056969
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for geochemical exploration for mineral, hydrocarbon and geothermal deposits in which particles which are contained in the very surface, or surficial layer of the earth, or of vegetation, or water are collected and analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Barringer Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Rene Barringer
  • Method and apparatus for transferring particles from one fluid stream into another
    Patent number: 3998734
    Abstract: Particles in a first fluid are transferred to a second fluid by confronting a stream of the first fluid with a stream of the second fluid in an enclosed region so that the particles will travel from the first fluid across said region to the second fluid by virtue of their momentum. The respective pressures of the first and second fluids is such that there is no appreciable mixing of the stream of the second fluid carrying particles with the first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1973
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Barringer Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Rene Barringer
  • Exploration method and apparatus utilizing atmospheric micro-organic particulates
    Patent number: 3985619
    Abstract: Exploration method and apparatus in which atmospheric particulates are collected, and wherein micro-organisms present in the collected particulates are analyzed for pre-determined elements or compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: Barringer Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Rene Barringer
  • Method and apparatus for collecting atmospheric samples in atmospheric geochemical prospecting
    Patent number: 3970428
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for airborne prospecting in which samples of atmospheric gases, vapors or particulates are collected and contemporaneously the atmosphere near where the samples are collected is monitored to determine whether the respective samples were uplifted by an updraft of air. Samples respectively collected during periods of updrafts are separated from the remainder of said samples, and the samples respectively collected during periods of updrafts are analyzed separately from the remainder of said samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1976
    Assignee: Barringer Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Rene Barringer
  • Remote sensing of marine hydrocarbon seeps
    Patent number: 3961187
    Abstract: A method of determining the presence of hydrocarbon seeps in the sea from an aircraft or other moving vehicle wherein an intense beam of light from an artificial source such as a laser is directed towards the sea and reflections and/or bioluminescence attributable to said beam occurring in the near surface of the sea are observed in the vehicle. Means is provided for discriminating between responses attributable to reflections from the surface of the sea and reflections and/or bioluminescence occurring below the surface of the sea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1976
    Assignee: Barringer Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Rene Barringer
  • Geophysical prospecting method utilizing correlation of received waveforms with stored reference waveforms
    Patent number: 3950695
    Abstract: A method of detecting conductive bodies in an area wherein a primary field having a complex waveform, such as a frequency modulated, rapidly swept signal is generated and is radiated toward the area. A receiving system is provided for sensing the primary and secondary fields. Computerized signal processing techniques are used to obtain the best match between the waveforms of the received signals and those of stored reference waveforms which correspond to responses of known conductive bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1976
    Assignee: Barringer Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Rene Barringer