Patents by Inventor Jerry G. Adams

Jerry G. Adams 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).

  • Personal computer-based dynamic burn-in system
    Patent number: 4866714
    Abstract: An installation for the dynamic burn-in testing of a plurality of digital circuits, and/or microcomputer-controlled circuits, mounted in a burn-in chamber for testing includes a personal computer; power supply for the digital circuits, and a bilateral line of communication between the PC computer and each of the digital circuits; the PC computer interrogating separately, and at will, any of the digital circuits as to their status and capability of changing status while retrieving any indication of a critical testing condition from any digital circuit, to determine a failure-free burn-in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Jerry G. Adams, Robert P. Gibson, Denis A. Mueller