Patents by Inventor John Henry Linn

John Henry Linn 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).

  • Electronic tag including RF modem for monitoring motor vehicle performance with filtering
    Patent number: 6107917
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for communicating between a host and a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including an on board computer system having a bus for communicating with a plurality of motor vehicle systems. The apparatus includes an electronic tag having a transceiver for transmitting data to and receiving data from the host, a memory for storing bus requests and bus response data, a decoder for decoding requests from the host, a bus interface for reading data from and writing data to the bus, a controller and a filter. The bus interface extracts responses from the bus responsive to requests from the host. The responses may be stored in the memory. The controller is responsive to write requests from the host to transfer data to the bus interface and responsive to read requests from the host to transfer data stored in memory back to the host. The filter is operable to filter responses received from the bus and includes a filter database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Inventors: Curtis L. Carrender, John Henry Linn, James Lujan, Frank Kenneth Wunderlin, Jay Verner, Ross Berryhill
  • Electronic tag including RF modem for monitoring motor vehicle performance
    Patent number: 6061614
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for communicating between a host and a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including an on board computer system having a bus for communicating with a plurality of motor vehicle systems. The apparatus includes an electronic tag having a transceiver for transmitting data to and receiving data from the host, a memory for storing bus requests and bus response data, a decoder for decoding requests from the host, a bus interface for reading data from and writing data to the bus and a conroller. The bus interface for extracting responses from the bus responsive to requests from the host. The responses may be stored in the memory. The controller is responsive to write requests from the host to transfer data to the bus interface and responsive to read requests from the host to transfer data stored in memory back to the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Amtech Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Curtis L. Carrender, John Henry Linn, James Lujan, Frank Kenneth Wunderlin