Patents by Inventor Eric Michael Jacobson

Eric Michael Jacobson 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).

  • Test instrumentation I/O communication interface and method
    Patent number: 6389491
    Abstract: A universal I/O interface is presented which allows communication with a number of different instruments independent of the underlying I/O configuration. The universal I/O interface is a set of Component Object Model (COM) interfaces that are independent of the underlying I/O bus and API. In addition, the universal I/O interface allows instrument data to be parsed and instrument commands to be formatted in a programming language independent way. In the preferred embodiment, the universal I/O interface comprises an ActiveX Automation Server that abstracts the APIs for various possible underlying I/O buses and vendor software libraries into a single universal I/O interface. This allows instrument application programmers to design applications that are universally supported on any number of instrument I/O buses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Michael Jacobson, Paul Faust