Patents by Inventor Edwin Boyd Osgood

Edwin Boyd Osgood 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).

  • Device employing a substrate of a material that exhibits the pyroelectric effect
    Patent number: 5153930
    Abstract: An article is manufactured from a substrate of a material that exhibits the pyroelectric effect by depositing a film containing a selected material in a first state over a front surface of the substrate. At least one electrode is formed on the film, portions of the film being exposed around the electrode. The exposed portions of the film are subjected to a treatment such that they are converted from the first state to a second state, in which the material has a resistivity that lies within a desired range of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Smiths Industries Aerospace & Defense Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. DuPuy, Harold R. Gilles, Edwin Boyd Osgood