Patents by Inventor David D. Nelson

David D. Nelson 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: 20100070265
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically displaying regulations in a first language from a search in a second language under the invention, a regulation storage module is configured to store a regulation of a country and associated information in a first language in a database. A regulation search module is configured to search in a second language information in the database regarding a regulation in the first language. A display module is configured to display the regulation identified by the regulation search module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: David D. Nelson, Richard B. Nordgren
  • Publication number: 20040243391
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically displaying regulations in a first language from a search in a second language under the invention, a regulation storage module is configured to store a regulation of a country and associated information in a first language in a database. A regulation search module is configured to search in a second language information in the database regarding a regulation in the first language. A display module is configured to display the regulation identified by the regulation search module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: David D. Nelson, Richard B. Nordgren, Brandon J. Campbell
  • Patent number: 5877862
    Abstract: A cross-road motor vehicle exhaust gas analyzer uses tunable infrared laser differential absorption spectroscopy incorporating photon infrared detection to determine the absolute fractional absorption of a laser by the gaseous medium. Spectroscopic constants of the gaseous species of interest are applied to the absolute fractional absorption to calculate the pertinent absolute column densities. In addition to a laser that sweeps across one or more absorption line of an component of interest, the system of the invention includes a laser source tunable over an absorption line of a reference species; the calculated column density of the reference species is used to normalize the concentration of the component of interest to the fuel consumption rate of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Aerodyne Research, Inc.
    Inventors: David D. Nelson, J. Barry McManus, Mark Zahniser, Charles E. Kolb