Patents by Inventor Lyle E. Whelchel

Lyle E. Whelchel 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: 6377514
    Abstract: An acoustic/video processing stack of a plurality of substantially identical acoustic/video processing stacks is provided for attachment to a processing stack backplane and which together generate a VGA signal for display of a three-dimensional acoustic image. The acoustic/video processing stack includes a two-dimensional array of transducer elements, a companion chip block coupled to and adapted to transceive acoustic signals under a time-division multiplexed format through the transducer elements and to provide a portion of the VGA signal together generated by the plurality of acoustic/video processing stacks and a backing block disposed between the two-dimensional array and companion chip block and adapted to acoustically isolate the two-dimensional transducer array from the companion chip block, said companion chip block and backing block being of a size and diameter substantially the same as the two-dimensional transducer array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Q-Dot, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Linnenbrink, Charles S. Desilets, Marshall K. Quick, Thomas K. Bohley, Timothy G. O'Shaughnessy, Lyle E. Whelchel, R. Carver Anderson