Patents by Inventor Brian Drost

Brian Drost 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: 12585301
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for generating clock signals. The present implementations more specifically relate to generating multiple clock signals having different frequencies using a single piezoelectric resonator. In some aspects, a clock generator, including a piezoelectric resonator coupled to a voltage amplifier in a feedback network, may be operable in a high-performance mode and a low-power mode. When operating in the high-performance mode, the clock generator may produce a high frequency clock signal and a low frequency clock signal using the same piezoelectric resonator. In some implementations, the high frequency clock signal may be produced by a buffer amplifier coupled to an output of the voltage amplifier and the low frequency clock signal may be produced by a frequency divider coupled to the output of the voltage amplifier. When operating in the low-power mode, the clock generator produces only the low-frequency clock signal via the frequency divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: Aeonsemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Yunteng Huang, Adam Eldredge, Brian Drost
  • Publication number: 20240077905
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for generating clock signals. The present implementations more specifically relate to generating multiple clock signals having different frequencies using a single piezoelectric resonator. In some aspects, a clock generator, including a piezoelectric resonator coupled to a voltage amplifier in a feedback network, may be operable in a high-performance mode and a low-power mode. When operating in the high-performance mode, the clock generator may produce a high frequency clock signal and a low frequency clock signal using the same piezoelectric resonator. In some implementations, the high frequency clock signal may be produced by a buffer amplifier coupled to an output of the voltage amplifier and the low frequency clock signal may be produced by a frequency divider coupled to the output of the voltage amplifier. When operating in the low-power mode, the clock generator produces only the low-frequency clock signal via the frequency divider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yunteng Huang, Adam Eldredge, Brian Drost
  • Patent number: 10345352
    Abstract: A method of electrical system fault detection and location determination includes measuring a baseline time domain reflectometry (TDR) waveform along a wire path of the electrical system and obtaining an operating TDR waveform along the wire path. The operating TDR waveform is compared to the baseline TDR waveform to derive a difference TDR waveform, and a difference energy is calculated utilizing the difference TDR waveform. The difference energy is monitored over time for peaks in the difference energy and potential electrical system faults are identified via the peaks in the difference energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Drost, Howard A. Winston, Michael G. Mastrianni, Anthony Santo Maniaci, Andrew Palladino
  • Patent number: 10305587
    Abstract: A system and method of condition based maintenance of a fiber network includes a processor and memory having instructions that when executed cause the system to transmit an optical signal over a plurality of fiber links in the fiber network; receive a response signal in response to the transmitting of the optical signal; and determine one or more condition indicators in response to the receiving of the response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Myra Torres, Michael J. Moore, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Brian Drost, Maksim Bobrov
  • Publication number: 20180088004
    Abstract: A measuring system, method, and/or computer program that realizes physics-based relations between sensor readings to monitor for degradations and predict failures of power systems is provided. For example, the supply and return of fuel in a power system is provided by a fuel injection system. The fuel injection system responds to changes in loads and system conditions, such as to compensate for fuel loss due to fuel combustion, by continuously and instantaneously changing the fuel flow. This behavior by the fuel injection system creates characteristic signatures. These characteristic signatures are instantaneously detected and utilized by the measuring system, method, and/or computer program to detect healthy, degrading, failing, and failed mechanical conditions so as to monitor for degradations and predict failures of the power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick W. Kalgren, Brian Drost, Kenneth Gravenstede
  • Publication number: 20170264362
    Abstract: A system and method of condition based maintenance of a fiber network includes a processor and memory having instructions that when executed cause the system to transmit an optical signal over a plurality of fiber links in the fiber network; receive a response signal in response to the transmitting of the optical signal; and determine one or more condition indicators in response to the receiving of the response signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Myra Torres, Michael J. Moore, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Brian Drost, Maksim Bobrov
  • Publication number: 20170010314
    Abstract: A method of electrical system fault detection and location determination includes measuring a baseline time domain reflectometry (TDR) waveform along a wire path of the electrical system and obtaining an operating TDR waveform along the wire path. The operating TDR waveform is compared to the baseline TDR waveform to derive a difference TDR waveform, and a difference energy is calculated utilizing the difference TDR waveform. The difference energy is monitored over time for peaks in the difference energy and potential electrical system faults are identified via the peaks in the difference energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Drost, Howard A. Winston, Michael G. Mastrianni, Anthony Santo Maniaci, Andrew Palladino
  • Patent number: 8981860
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device configured as part of an oscillator. The MEMS device includes a mass suspended from a substrate of the MEMS, a first electrode configured to provide a first signal based on a displacement of the mass, and a second electrode configured to receive a second signal based on the first signal. The apparatus includes an amplifier coupled to the first electrode and a first node. The amplifier is configured to generate an output signal, the output signal being based on the first signal and a first gain. The apparatus includes an attenuator configured to attenuate the output signal based on a second gain and provide as the second signal an attenuated version of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Caffee, Manu Seth, Brian Drost