Patents by Inventor James A. L. Thomson

James A. L. Thomson 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).

  • CASE FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150280769
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a case for releasably securing a mobile communications device in a sealed environment. The case is adapted to enable the device to operate with mobile, wireless, cellular and satellite communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: James L. Thomson
  • Wind measurement system
    Patent number: 3984685
    Abstract: A system for remotely measuring vertical and horizontal winds present in discrete volumes of air at selected locations above the ground. A laser beam is optically focused in range by a telescope, and the output beam is conically scanned at an angle .theta. about a vertical axis. The backscatter, or reflected light, from the ambient particulates in a volume of air, the focal volume, is detected for shifts in wavelength, and from these, horizontal and vertical wind components are computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Inventors: James C. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Fletcher, William C. Cliff, Robert M. Huffaker, Werner K. Dahm, James A. L. Thomson, Thomas R. Lawrence, Michael C. Krause, David J. Wilson
  • Focused laser doppler velocimeter
    Patent number: 3984686
    Abstract: A system for remotely measuring velocities present in discrete volumes of air in which a CO.sub.2 laser beam is focused by a telescope at such a volume, a focal volume, and within the focusable range, near field, of the telescope. The back scatter, or reflected light, principally from the focal volume, passes back through the telescope and is frequency compared with the original frequency of the laser, and the difference frequency or frequencies represent particle velocities in that focal volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Inventors: James C. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Fletcher, James W. Bilbro, Werner K. Dahm, Ronald B. Campbell, Jr., Robert M. Huffaker, Harold B. Jeffreys, Albert V. Jelalian, Wayne H. Keene, Michael C. Krause, Thomas R. Lawrence, Charles M. Sonnenschein, David J. Wilson, James A. L. Thomson