Patents by Inventor Fergal Tuffy

Fergal Tuffy 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).

  • Apparatus and method for non-contact sensing using temporal measures
    Patent number: 8229057
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a sampling circuit comprising at least one clock, a reference trace, a sensor trace adapted to be connected to a sensing element, and a device to measure a length of delay between a reference signal transmission time of a reference signal transmitting through the reference trace and a sensed signal transmission time of a sensed signal transmitting through the sensor trace, wherein the length of delay is determined by counting the number of burst tones occurring during the length of delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Intel-GE Care Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Terry Dishongh, Fergal Tuffy, Benjamin Kuris
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT SENSING USING TEMPORAL MEASURES
    Publication number: 20090097602
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a sampling circuit comprising at least one clock, a reference trace, a sensor trace adapted to be connected to a sensing element, and a device to measure a length of delay between a reference signal transmission time of a reference signal transmitting through the reference trace and a sensed signal transmission time of a sensed signal transmitting through the sensor trace, wherein the length of delay is determined by counting the number of burst tones occurring during the length of delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Terry Dishongh, Fergal Tuffy, Benjamin Kuris