Patents by Inventor Clive D. Wickenden, executor

Clive D. Wickenden, executor 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: 4385299
    Abstract: An electronic navigation beacon, particularly for coastal navigation, in which an unmodulated carrier f.sub.c is transmitted from the first antenna of a pair of antennas, and a periodically modulated sideband f.sub.c .+-.f.sub.a is transmitted from both antennas, where f.sub.a is in the audio frequency domain. A cyclical RF phase variation is imposed on the sideband signal transmitted from the second antenna. The effect in space is that of a rotating radial having an audio frequency null, the periodic modulation providing the listener at a remote point with timing information enabling determination bearing as a function of the time of passage of the radial through the remote point relative to the start of rotation of the radial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: International Standard Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Charles W. Earp, deceased, Clive D. Wickenden, executor, Rolf Johannessen, Francis G. Overbury