Patents by Inventor Kevin R. Discoll

Kevin R. Discoll 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: 5557623
    Abstract: This invention relates to fault-tolerant real-time clock capable of withstanding n-faults, including Byzantine faults. In particular, the instant invention produces redundant clock signals which have low skew with respect to each other, operate with extremely high accuracy, and can be constructed without use of analog electric components, with the exception of oscillators. The present fault tolerant clock is composed of three types of electrical subcircuits coupled together: oscillators/counters, sequential edge voters, and regular voters. Each of these subcircuits can be duplicated and coupled appropriately as needed to form a clock mechanism tolerant of any number of faults in the clock circuitry while maintaining an extremely precise timing mechanism suitable for accurately integrating and differentiating signals with respect to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin R. Discoll