Patents by Inventor Jeffrey M. Becker

Jeffrey M. Becker 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: 9500736
    Abstract: A wireless sensor network is disclosed that comprises a plurality of wireless sensors and a wireless sensor base station. The wireless sensor base station sends a request to one of the wireless sensors requesting the location information for the selected wireless sensor. The wireless sensor determines its location using a location information determination method, associates its identity information with the location information, and sends the identity information and the location information to the wireless sensor base station. The wireless sensor continuously sends updated location information to the wireless sensor base station as the wireless sensor moves within the wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor base station displays the identity information and the location information of the wireless sensor on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Becker
  • Publication number: 20160017731
    Abstract: A compressor for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of rotating wheel assemblies, a plurality of static vane assemblies, and a case extending around the rotating wheel assemblies and static vane assemblies. The static vane assemblies include an inner band, an outer band, and a plurality of vanes extending between the inner and outer bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Becker, Michael C. Margetts, Benedict N. Hodgson, Danny E. McAdams, Rebecca M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7965182
    Abstract: A method for operating a failsafe-enabled wireless device is provided that includes monitoring a signal quality for a wireless signal between a failsafe-enabled wireless device and a controller. A determination is made regarding whether the signal quality is poor. A failsafe procedure is initiated when the signal quality is poor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Becker
  • Publication number: 20100026514
    Abstract: A wireless sensor network is disclosed that comprises a plurality of wireless sensors and a wireless sensor base station. The wireless sensor base station sends a request to one of the wireless sensors requesting the location information for the selected wireless sensor. The wireless sensor determines its location using a location information determination method, associates its identity information with the location information, and sends the identity information and the location information to the wireless sensor base station. The wireless sensor continuously sends updated location information to the wireless sensor base station as the wireless sensor moves within the wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor base station displays the identity information and the location information of the wireless sensor on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Becker
  • Publication number: 20090201150
    Abstract: A method for operating a failsafe-enabled wireless device is provided that includes monitoring a signal quality for a wireless signal between a failsafe-enabled wireless device and a controller. A determination is made regarding whether the signal quality is poor. A failsafe procedure is initiated when the signal quality is poor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Becker
  • Publication number: 20090107212
    Abstract: A sensor is integrated with a field instrument in a process control system. For example, the sensor can be at least partially housed in a housing of the field instrument. The sensor could also receive operating power from a power source in the field instrument. The sensor could further communicate using a wired interface and/or a wireless interface of the field instrument. Multiplexing techniques could be used to allow normal communications for the field instrument and information associated with the sensor. For instance, field instrument data and sensor data could be transmitted over different interfaces or multiplexed in time for communication over a single interface. Sensor data could also be included as at least one diagnostic or configuration variable along with the field instrument data. The field instrument could represent a gas meter associated with a gas distribution network, and the sensor could represent a gas sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Becker
  • Patent number: 6441134
    Abstract: A Candida albicans oligopeptide transport gene, OPT1, was cloned from a C. albicans genomic library through heterologous expression in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae di-/tripeptide transport mutant PB1X-9B. When transformed with a plasmid harboring OPT1, S. cerevisiae PB1X-9B, which did not express tetra-/pentapeptide transport activity under the conditions used, was conferred with an oligopeptide transport phenotype as indicated by growth on the tetrapeptide Lysyl-Leucyl-Leucyl-Glycine, sensitivivity to toxic tetra- and pentapeptides, and an increase in the initial uptake rate of the radiolabeled tetrapeptide Lysyl-Leucyl-Glycyl-[3H]Leucine. The entire 3.8 kb fragment containing the oligopeptide transport activity was sequenced and an open reading frame of 2349 nucleotides containing a 58 nucleotide intron was identified. The deduced protein product of 783 amino acid residues contained twelve hydrophobic regions suggestive of a membrane transport protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: The University of Tennessee Research Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Becker, Mark A. Lubkowitz
  • Patent number: 6080542
    Abstract: A plant peptide transport gene and its nucleotide sequence are disclosed. The gene may be used to confer herbicide resistance to plants, and to render plants resistant to insect pests. The invention also relates to plants that possess non-naturally occurring alleles of peptide transport gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Becker, Gary Stacey
  • Patent number: 5689039
    Abstract: A plant peptide transport gene and its nucleotide sequence are disclosed. The gene may be used to confer herbicide resistance to plants, and to render plants resistant to insect pests. The invention also relates to plants that possess non-naturally occurring alleles of peptide transport gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: The University of Tennessee Research Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Becker, Gary Stacey