Patents by Inventor Clifton C. Powers

Clifton C. Powers 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).

  • Multidirectional repeater for data transmission between electrically isolated and/or physically different signal transmission media
    Patent number: 5648984
    Abstract: In a signal transmission network, such as a data network, having a multiple access bus topology (12) in which many nodes reside and communicate over the same bus, and wherein electrically isolated and/or physically different signal transmission media (17,18,19) are encompassed by the bus (12), and wherein a common protocol is used across the entire network; a multidirectional repeater (10) repeats signals from any one of the signal transmission media to one or more of the other signal transmission media, thereby providing a contiguous logical bus across the different signal transmission media. The multidirectional repeater (10) uses logic transitions, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Alcatel Networks Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Kroninger, Clifton C. Powers