Patents by Inventor Frank F. Stucki

Frank F. Stucki 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 for producing updated information on a tangible medium
    Patent number: 4377741
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing updated information on a tangible medium including a hand-held type instrument having an optical character reader to read present information on the medium, a programmable bus-oriented computing type network, spaced from the instrument, which stores and compares the updated information with the present information being read and which outputs control words corresponding to the updated information if the updated information is different from the present information, and an ink jet printer, included in the hand-held type instrument, which prints the updated information on the medium in response to the control words. The computing type network can include a micro-computing unit which can be a microprocessor, for example, and memory units which can be RAM, ROM, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1983
    Assignee: The Brekka Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas T. Brekka, Frank F. Stucki
  • Earth reference thin-film magnetometer compass exhibiting total tilt immunity
    Patent number: 3942258
    Abstract: A thin film compass apparatus utilizing a plurality of thin film magnetometers arranged in an orthogornal coordinate system to provide an earth reference compass having total tilt immunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Frank F. Stucki, James Herbert