Patents by Inventor Eric Hawley

Eric Hawley 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: 7331292
    Abstract: An ordnance venting system has one or more adapters that separate the warhead section from other sections of a rocket, or submunition compartments within the warhead itself. The adapters structurally fail at given temperatures and pressures to reduce the danger of explosion from heat induced over-pressurization. By dividing the sections of the rocket with the adapters, the separate sections of the rocket become physically separated by the structural failure of the adapters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Steven S. Kim, Eric Hawley, Joni Johnson, Matt Nolder, John Luense
  • Patent number: 6676072
    Abstract: A rocket spin control system for a tube launched rocket has a fixed position nozzle on the rocket and a set of internally positioned torque ring inside of the nozzle that is anchored with erodible tabs. The tabs erode as the rocket exits the launcher. With the erosion of the tabs, the torque ring is free to rotationally move, which eliminates any torque imparted onto the rocket while retaining the torque ring with the rocket. This increases the reliability of rocket precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Inventors: Steven S. Kim, Eric Hawley
  • Patent number: 6327589
    Abstract: Searching a file in a format unsupported by a search engine by creating term-topic links with associated probabilities. A file is retrieved comprising a compressed HTML file or a webpage. The file is parsed to retrieve data associated with title tags and body tags. In addition, user queries are received so that the user may associate a query with the title data. Term-topic links are created by linking terms from the retrieved data and the query with a topic. Heuristics are then used to determine the probability associated with each term-topic link. Term-topic links having a term containing nouns are assigned a higher probability than verbs, verbs are assigned a higher probability than adjectives, and adjectives and adverbs are assigned the same probability. The term-topic links are trained by adjusting the assigned probabilities based on a user defined query and an associated target topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William John Blewett, David C. Gerlt, Eric Hawley, Charles G. Moore