Patents by Inventor John D. Schmidt

John D. Schmidt 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: 4460999
    Abstract: A memory tester is disclosed for testing a matrix of memory elements, such matrix having spare rows and columns of memory elements to be used for repair of the memory under test. The memory tester tests the memory matrix under address control of a programmable pattern generator to derive failure data and stores the failure data in corresponding rows and columns in a second memory matrix. Failure data in the second memory is scanned by an error analysis circuit, under control of the pattern generator, first by row and when the number of failures in any row exceed the number of spare columns that row is flagged for replacement. Next, the columns of failure data are scanned and when the number of failures in any column exceeds the number of spare rows, that column is flagged for replacement. During the scan of the columns, previously flagged rows are masked such that failures which are to be repaired are not counted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: Pacific Western Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: John D. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4218676
    Abstract: In a method for chasing game, a set of portable sound generators are set out in the field in accordance with a predetermined pattern for chasing the game in a predetermined direction when the sound generators are actuated. Each of the sound generators has a clock associated therewith and means for setting the turn-on time to an accuracy of plus or minus at least a few seconds, such that precise timing of the turn-on time of respective ones of the sound generators is settable, as desired. The turn-on times are then set in accordance with the positions of the respective sound generators in the predetermined pattern so that the sound generators turn on in a predetermined sequence for chasing the game in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Inventors: Daniel A. Worsham, John D. Schmidt