Patents by Inventor Charles Covington

Charles Covington 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).

  • Publication number: 20240100428
    Abstract: A method of navigating visual content includes establishing an interface template including a viewport; obtaining visual content data; identifying at least one focusable element in the visual content data; presenting a first portion of visual content in the viewport on a display device, wherein the visual content is based at least partially on the visual content data; indicating a first focusable element in the viewport with a visual indicator; and responsive to a user input, scrolling the visual content in the viewport when a second focusable element of the visual content is not present in the viewport in a navigation direction of the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Karlo Alexis REYES, Ryan Ashley MEDLIN, Efus RICHMAN, Ross Anthony MARSHALL, Raymond Charles DEAN, Kayla Louise COVINGTON, Brannon James ZAHAND
  • Publication number: 20070228210
    Abstract: A weight-on-gear sensor for use on an aircraft with landing skids having a bracket and a displacement sensor attached to the bracket is disclosed. The bracket has a center member connecting a first end member to a second end member. The center member has a centerline and the end members extend from the centerline of the center member. Mounting members extend along the centerline of the center member to facilitate attachment of the bracket to a cross tube. The displacement sensor connects the first end member to the second end member. The displacement sensor is parallel to, and offset from, the centerline of the center member so that when a bending moment is applied to the center member the first displacement sensor is either elongated or shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.
    Inventors: James Mast, Charles Covington, Paul Darden, William McKeown
  • Publication number: 20070146942
    Abstract: A system for detecting position that is capable of self-monitoring for connectivity faults. In one embodiment, the system comprises a transformer, an excitation potential source, a bias potential source, and a processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Covington, Grant Puckett
  • Patent number: 6001715
    Abstract: Bulk crystalline materials are annealed by introducing into them mechanical energy of sufficient intensity to create a large amplitude sound wave. The mechanical energy may be introduced into the material, for example, by laser ablation. Where the bulk crystalline material is a doped semiconductor, the process also electrically activates the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Charles Keith Manka, Jacob Grun, Billy Charles Covington, David William Donnelly